Men unload cargo from a C-82A at Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Airlift, 1948
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1948 Fairchild C-82A Packet Flying Boxcar N9701F at the Hagerstown Aviation Museum.
https://hagerstownaviationmuseum.org/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_C-82_Packet
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🐺🌵 82 Wahya Way
Here resides the lovely, Ayizan Vex (our BACC founder). It's very barebones, and has only the essentials, but she has enough. Well... enough to live off the land(?).
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� -- ; "Query to main branch: did we happen to lose anyone in an, uh...pizza-related quantum distortion recently?"
"...Additional query: pizza-related? We're not repeating that attack again, are we?"
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I remember being surprised when I first read LOTR in high school and discovered that Faramir “only” lives to the age of 120. Despite his Númenóreanness and the emphasis it gets in the text, there are actually a couple of Ruling Stewards who lived as long or longer—the Steward Hador remains the longest-lived of the Ruling Stewards with a lifespan of 150 years.
But the older I get, the more the concept of Faramir living to 150 seems like it would be more of a curse than a blessing.
Okay, I hate math and I’m bad at it, so maybe I got some numbers wrong, but:
Tolkien nowhere suggests that Éowyn shares Éomer’s (relatively) long life of 93 years. But if she did live that long, Faramir would survive her by more than ten years. If she has a more typical lifespan of 80 years, Faramir would outlive her by more than twenty years. If Faramir lived as long as Hador, it would be more than fifty years.
On top of that, Tolkien is pretty clear that the lifespans of the Dúnedain were not renewed and would continue to dwindle. In Gondor, Denethor and Faramir are special exceptions to the general trend. So it strikes me as pretty likely that Faramir and Éowyn’s children would have shorter lifespans than Faramir’s—at most, theirs would probably be in line with the later Stewards, so maybe late 90s. Quite possibly shorter. Even in canon, it’s possible for Faramir to have a child who dies of old age before he does himself. Give him another 30 years and it’s a certainty.
As it is, Faramir outlives his brother-in-law Éomer, King of Rohan (eight years his junior) by some 19 years. He outlives his cousin Elphir, Prince of Dol Amroth (four years his junior) by 15 years, and Elphir’s son is only 13 years from his own death when Faramir dies. We don’t know the death dates of Elphir’s siblings, Erchirion, Amrothos, and Lothíriel, but it’s certainly possible (even probable) that Faramir also outlived one or more of them, given the usual lifespans of the House of Dol Amroth.
That’s in canon. If he then lived for 30 more years ... :(
So these days, I do think 120 years works well: it’s long enough to reflect Faramir’s peculiarities (and to add an appropriately bittersweet tang to things), but not so long that it starts to seem cruel.
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like it’s been a few years since highschool but instinctively i still use the 7-point grading scale my school district used. so when i see a grade that’s low i go oh fuck a c. but it’s not a c. it’s a b.
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skz dream adventures with mary: i dreamt JISUNG was my brother ?! and as the recurrent theme in my dreams lately we had someone chasing us that wanted to kill him 🥲 he thought he was cool and bought a bike and some other expensive things like the rich fool he is. he went home and everything was gone except the bike, he goes out on his bike (which was neon green btw with like black flames LMAO) to try to find out who did it and that's when my my spidey senses start tingling bc something's fishy, so i try to run all the way to where he is so i can tell him to be careful or whatever, and when im a few blocks behind him i see there are explosions happening near him, i try to run faster to get him off the bike but i was not fast enough... 😔 next i know im in school with SEUNGMIN, he was a grade below me but we ended up in the same grade bc i took a year to mourn the death of my brother 🥲
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