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totallynotwaffle · 3 years

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you can go 900ft in one round in pathfinder 2nd edition now: a comprehensive(ish) guide

disclaimer: this post is actually incorrect in a few ways now, but i'm just gonna keep it up reguardless for now because i still love the image of a raging deer going as fast as a racecar

i think like 4 or 5 ppl who follow me will care about this, but i just have to share it.

okay so what will we need to Go This Fast? in terms of rulebooks, actually very very litte. the Core Rulebook and newly released Lost Omens Ancestery Guide are all we need to make the fastest creature alive.

as an additional aside, we kinda have to understand how bonuses/penalties work in pf2e. if you know, just skip this section

there's 3 different types of bonuses you can benifit from: circumstance, item, and status. where they usually come from isn't important to understand, but you can read this section of the rules if you really want to know. essentially, there's only really 3 ways we can benifit from these bonuses, as only the highest of each type applies. we can have a look at armour class to see how this works particularly well:

Seelah is a lvl 8 champion, wearing +1 full-plate and wielding a shield. she is expert in heavy armour, as such her proficiency bonus is 12. full-plate has a +6 item bonus to ac, however because of the +1 potency rune, that increases to +7. Seelah currently has an ac of 29 (10+19).

raising a shield grants a +2 circumstance bonus to ac. Lem a bard, casts inspire defence, granting Seelah a +1 status bonus to ac. Seelah now has an ac of 32.

now that we got that out of the way, it's build time. i'll explain the reasons for picking up certain interesting things individually

Someone to cast Haste on you

i mean, duh. an extra action to Stride is always sexy.

Class: Monk/Swashbuckler

as you might know, monks have this tendency in ttrpgs to just go fast for no reason, and in pf2e they are no different. At lvl 3, Monks gain Incredible Movement, which grants a 10ft status bonus to speed, which increases by 5ft every 4 levels, up to a maximum of a +30ft status bonus. Swashbuckers have a similar ability with similar scaling, however it is only active at full force if they have Panache. for the sake of simplicity, i will just be using Monks.

Ancestery: Elf Beastkin

Ancestery/General Feats: Nimble Elf, Fleet, Animal Swiftness

"what's so special about these feats" you might ask. i shall answer: they give an untyped bonus to speed. untyped bonuses are FUCKING HUGE. it literally lets us ignore the only 3 types of bonus/penalty clause, and lets us stack some speed easily. Nimble Elf and Fleet give a +5ft bonus individually, however Animal Swiftness is a bit different. essentially, we can either gain a +5ft bonus and your choice of a Climb, Swim, or Fly speed, or a +10ft bonus. naturally for this dumb hypothetical, we want the +10ft bonus, but this feat is what basically started this endeavour.

Class Feats: Barbarian Archetype & Druid Archetype, Advanced Fury; Furious Sprint, Basic Wilding; Wild Shape

finally, the things that actually let us go very fucking fast. Barb & Druid archetypes are prerequisites, we need to take them for Advanced Fury and Basic Wilding. Basic Fury is also a prerequisite for Advanced Fury, but we aren't tight on class feats, so you can take it whenever after taking Barbarian Dedication, but before level 20. reason being, Advanced Fury grants us a level 10 feat, Furious Sprint at level 20. what does Furious Sprint do? well, with 2 actions it allows us to Stride up to 5 times our speed, or up to Eight Times Our Speed with 3 actions. we want this ability.

however, the ace up our sleeve, the coup de grace of this loadout, the glue that ties this all together, is Deer.

yes, you read that right, fucking Deer.

Wild Shape is a sexy feat, basically giving u infinite casts of certain battle form spells as long as you have time to refocus. what we'll be using is the Heightened 2nd ability of Wild Shape, which allows us to transform into the forms listed in Animal Form. if you would like, you can read the spell for yourself and figure out why this is so important.

i'll give u a moment

did u find it?

your eyes are not deciving you. the deer form of Animal Form has a base move speed of 50ft.

let's fucking finish this dumb math equation now

Base Speed: 50ft (Animal Form: DEER)

Nimble Elf: +5ft (untyped)

Fleet: +5ft (untyped)

Animal Swiftness: +10ft (untyped)

Monk's Incredible Movement: +30ft (status)

this angry monk deer has a grand total of 100ft of movement!

now, we can finally Go Fast

Wild Shape into Deer

Have someone cast Haste on you

Get Angry (rage)

3 action Furious Sprint, going 800ft using only 3 actions

Stride again for 100ft bitch, ur quickened

We have just gone 900ft in 6 seconds.

That's 150 ft/s

or 102.273 mph

or 45.72 m/s

or 164.592 km/h

or 13.333..% the speed of sound.

about as fast as the fastest fast ball ever thrown in baseball (105.8 mph, 170.269 km/h)

that's 374% faster than Usain Bolt's top speed (27.33 mph, 43.99 km/h)

q & a

why did u do this?

i don't know. i also did how many archetypes you could fit into a character w/o variant rules at one point and it was just as weird.

why isn't item bonus used?

short story: Polymorph trait states the only bonuses that can change the statistics you gain are circumstance and status. longer story: originally, i was going to use elf's base movespeed of 30ft, because that was the ancestery i knew was fastest, so i searched for item & circumstance bonuses that would help us. i discovered Greater Boots of Bounding grants a flat +10ft item bonus to speed, excellent. however, then my seach for speed fell a bit flat. that is, until i asked a pf2e discord i was in for help, and they pointed out that Wild Shape could perhaps make us go very fast. that's where the Deer wild card came in (thanks ink on the discord btw <3). comparing the two, elf + greater boots of bounding gives us 40ft before the other feats, and deer form gives us 50ft before other feats. losing the 10ft item bonus is pretty worth it given that we also just gain another 10ft.

how can we go faster?

the one type of bonus i have still yet to mention, the titular circumstance bonus. there's a major and minor problem. the major problem: most circumstance bonuses to speed specifically target your overland travel speed, not good ol' stride speed. as such, they're basically useless unless you wanna go 11 miles per hour overland if you also take Form Control. while this is definitely an amazing constant speed, this doesn't exactly help with the fastest we can go. so we move on to the sadder minor problem: there is one (1) other way we can get circumstance bonus to speed: Tiller's Drive. while it looks good, unfortunately the way that Bellflower Dedication works is that you would have to stay within 60ft of the character with the archetype to gain the effects. as you would need about 16 characters with the archtype, each 60ft away in a straight line, i didn't include it in the calculation because it would've been really weird and confusing to explain. so currently, there is no good way to gain a circumstance bonus to speed, but if someone finds it we will be able to go Just A Bit Faster.

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makeste · 4 years

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BnHA Chapter 251: Help I Love a Manga Too Much

Previously on BnHA: Horikoshi answered the age-old question of “can the Todorokis ever be together for more than five minutes without lapsing into a daytime soap opera?” with a resounding “HAHAHAHA.” Fuyumi and Shouto sat down with Kacchan and Deku and told them all about their super-dead brother Touya, whose death -- and you’ll be shocked to hear this -- apparently had something to do with Endeavor. What exactly happened, though, we don’t actually know, because they didn’t tell us, because of course they didn’t. Anyway, so then Fuyu bid everyone farewell and they piled into the Endeavormobile and started to drive away. Except they didn’t get very far, because all of a sudden some guy was like “HEY ENDEAVOR I’VE KIDNAPPED YOUR SON, NATSUO” and Endeavor was like “!!!” and the guy was like “AND I’M GONNA KILL HIM, WHEEEE” and then the chapter ended. Anyway so we all agree this family is cursed, yes?

Today on BnHA: Ending, who really doesn’t have much depth to him beyond continuously screaming “SO ARE YOU GONNA KILL ME ENDEAVOR?? HUH?! COME ON AND DO IT! I FUCKING DARE YOU TO DO IT! COME ONNNNNNN”, keeps on doing that. After about three seconds, the Terror Trio gets bored of sitting around not kicking ass, so they explode out of the car to join in the action. Since they all have impeccable senses of narrative timing, they simultaneously choose this moment to figure out all that shit Endeavor was trying to teach them a few chapters ago, with the end result being that (1) Shouto uses Flashfire, (2) DEKU USES BLACKWHIP YESSSSS, and (3) Katsuki rockets himself at fucking lightspeed to save Natsuo in the nick of time. Then Endeavor wraps Natsu (and Katsuki lmao) in a big ol’ panicked dad hug, which fully destroys me, and the chapter ends! So that was pretty quick, actually, but it sure was intense!

lmao -- what?? -- are you --

ME, TALKING TO A FOREST WITCH: so you’re saying that once I peer into this cauldron, the spell will reveal the thing I love most?

WITCH: yeah basically

ME: [peers, sees this]

WITCH: ...

ME: ... I can explain

[wiping away tears] yep so anyways. that’s my son. that’s my boy. so handsome. and talented

anyways so I guess that answers the question of whether or not the kids are gonna get involved lol. the title presumably refers to the one week of winter break that they had, which was also their time limit to try and beat a villain before Endeavor. GEE I WONDER IF THEY WILL DO IT

so Ending, our friend from last week (who apparently isn’t the “Takami” guy he was monologuing about, so so much for that), says that even under the most extreme circumstances, heroes will never choose to kill someone. and god I am so tempted to say something snarky about real life law enforcement here. but you know what, I’m not even gonna go there because this is supposed to be my happy weekly manga reading time, and lord knows Horikoshi is good enough at fucking that up himself without me adding on to it

anyway, so Ending says that despite that principle, Endeavor chose to kill that Noumu at Fukuoka. so I guess he assumes this means Endeavor just doesn’t give any fucks nowadays and will just kill ANYONE, ANYTIME, WHENEVER! sound, logical deduction there! airtight fucking reasoning

anyway this guy actually sounds seriously depressed though, and yeah this is getting dark real fast you guys

a few people pointed out to me last week that this guy is manipulating the lines painted on the road, and that’s what his quirk is (and it was also pointed out to me that he shot himself up with something akin to Trigger before he got started, so presumably he’s hopped up on those quirk roids at the moment), and now that I know I can see it actually should have been really obvious lol. anyways so yeah, looks like he’s been busy. I’m sure the three buckos strapped into the back seat of this vehicle know when they’re beat, and will use this opportunity to just take a nap or something

honestly, I could have predicted this coming even without that thumbnail lmao

also is anyone else dying at Katsuki being all BOOM!! while Deku and Todo are just “BANG” further back by the car. just a slight difference in intensity, here. it’s subtle but you can spot it if you look real close

anyway if I were Ending, this right here would be the point where I said “OH SHIT” real loudly, and screamed and dropped Natsuo and turned and hightailed it out of there with my road stripes whipping out behind me in the wind like tin cans dangling from the back of a newlywed car

LMAO CHAUFFEUR ARMSTRONG IS ALL “YOU FORGOT THESE!” AND YEETING THEIR COSTUMES OUT AFTER THEM, AND FUCKING LOOK AT THIS SERIES OF PANELS OMG

Endeavor’s face is fucking SENDING ME, man, oh my god. the man has gone FULL SURPRISED PIKACHU, someone help me I can’t breathe dfklsk

AND WHAT ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO DO, CATCH THE BRIEFCASES AND THEN THEY’LL JUST MAGICALLY UNFOLD THEMSELVES OUT OVER THEM LIKE IN IRON MAN 2? actually, scratch that, that’s exactly what should happen. please do this. I promise I won’t even poke fun, I’ll just accept it unconditionally

LOL IT KEEPS GETTING BETTER HOLY SHIT

“911, what’s your emergency?” YES HELLO PLEASE HELP, I LOVE A MANGA TOO MUCH. “ma’am, that’s not a real emerg –” NO, LISTEN, YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND

Kacchan doesn’t even look back, he just reaches his hand out and knows exactly what Deku is doing without looking, and trusts his aim to be perfect. I’m so fucking weak for this teamwork I fucking sighed in real life you guys, it’s unbelievable

I can’t tell if this is Deku using “Shouto” the hero name, or if it’s now “Shouto” as in his actual name lol. because he’ll keep on using “Kacchan” no matter what, in any and all circumstances, so we can’t even use that to try and gauge lol. but anyway I’m choosing to believe it’s “Shouto” the name because they’ve now graduated to the next level of friendship after that dinner, and after Fuyu clasped his hand in both of her own and was all “I want you to know that I approve of the two of you together with all of my heart” or whatever it was she said, but it was basically that. so anyways yeah after that they’re now on a first name basis. YOU HEAR THAT, SHOUTO?

and then, with these bottom three panels, I know this is supposed to be all “click/bzzz/whrrr/other high tech costume-changing sounds” and it’s supposed to be a near-instantaneous costume change, presumably while still in motion because THEY’RE JUST BADASS BITCHES LIKE THAT, but like. in reality I pictured them all instantly grinding to a halt, and unclicking the locks on the briefcases, and Kacchan just giving his a shake to spill all the contents out haphazardly on the ground, while meanwhile Shouto is much more fastidious and respectful, and kneels on the ground and opens his case with both hands, and Deku is hopping around on one foot trying to drag his gloves on with his teeth while putting on his metal shoe-thingies, and the entire time Ending and Endeavor are just staring at the three of them like, “.....”

so anyway that’s what I choose to believe is actually happening. lastly, you also need to understand that pretty much this entire time, I’ve had the Powerpuff Girls theme playing in my head AT FULL INTENSITY on repeat, including during the part where they stop for five minutes to suit up. so there’s that, too

moving on!

TODOROKI SHOUTO, AFTER STOPPING TO CLICK OPEN HIS BRIEFCASE, RUMMAGING AROUND FOR HIS SHOULDER GUARD THINGS, LOOPING THEM OVER HIS ARMS, PAUSING TO WIPE THE SWEAT OFF HIS FOREHEAD, AND THEN FINALLY STANDING BACK UP: Natsuo!

lmao so anyway, now Endeavor is fully engaged in the fight once again, and thinking that Ending is “A FOOL” for letting himself get temporarily distracted by the interns’ shenanigans. but like. is he, though? seeing as he’s flat-out admitted to you that he wants to lose this fight? because he wants to die? did you hear that part? like, ??

so now there are some very intense closeups of Endeavor’s eye, and Natsuo’s face, and Endeavor’s feet

intense

(ETA: actually in hindsight of the hug, I fucking love this, because this is the moment where, right after he psychs himself up and is all, “now’s my chance!”, he sees Natsuo’s face and he sees the fear in his eyes, and all of a sudden he’s frozen in place, terrified of making a wrong move when his son’s life is at stake.)

-- oh snap, look who’s getting beaten to the punch!

do you guys remember that season 3 anime filler where Deku somehow beats Iida in a race and everyone just accepts it like that could ever actually possibly happen, like...?? if he can’t even keep up with Kacchan and Shouto, I hardly think he could pose a challenge to the guy who’s basically the Usain Bolt of heroes. but it’s not like that still keeps me up at night or anything. anyway!

so Ending here is giving the Todorokis a run for their money in the drama department, which is really saying something

okay, but what exactly is he supposed to do, then? you’re saying he should focus on killing you to save his son? so what, just like try to fry you and hope he doesn’t also hit Natsu? it seems to me like he has the same chance of success here whether he aims for lethal or nonlethal. so idk but go off I guess dude

oh damn, but in the meantime it looks like Todo is having some sort of badass awakening moment

YESSSSS SHOUTO UNLEASH THE INFERNO

(ETA: so Shouto just burned off his entire uniform, yes? boy you’d better keep that fire going now for modesty’s sake until you figure something out sob.)

lol so anyway I just had a flashback to Shouto’s fight against Tetsu back in chapter 205, and I realized that if Ending really wants to fight someone who absolutely doesn’t give a fuck, and will straight up kill a bitch with his quirk if they test him, then HERE’S YOUR GUY LMAO

now Ending’s saying “because you took your time...” and I have no idea where this is going, but I’ll take this as confirmation that they really did take a time-out for five minutes to gear up

oh damn

friendly reminder that gravity in BnHA tends to follow normal rules, unlike in most shounen manga. but even so, I’m finding myself hard-pressed to be concerned considering Kacchan and Deku are on the job. you’re gonna have to do better than that Ending my dude

wow is he shoving Natsu right into oncoming traffic?!

where the fuck did all these fucking cars come from out of nowhere like this?? the highway was like empty two minutes ago, geez

anyways now we’re seeing another “condense it!” panel, and is this one Bakugou??

I mean it looks like his gauntlet there, and I’m pretty sure Shouto was wearing sneakers in the panel earlier, and those obviously aren’t Deku’s shoes, so...!

YEPPPPPPPP

listen you judgey forest witch, I don’t need to justify myself to you, okay?? just!! I LOVE HIM END OF STORY

(ETA: and hey can we also just stop for a second and talk about how insanely fucking fast that was, though?? and Kacchan was fast to begin with -- remember how quickly he saved Jirou during the joint training arc. anyway so he’s basically moving at teleportation speeds now, and I’m here for it, and also terrified that he’s going to blow his fucking arms off at some point because holy fuck though.

also, once again I would like to express my gratitude for Horikoshi for once again giving Katsuki the big rescue moment, rather than having him go immediately for the bad guy. this is such an important thing to show. he’s really giving his all towards this “saving people” thing and trying his hardest and I’m so proud.)

and now it’s Deku’s turn to get to work!

that guy gripping his steering wheel for dear life has the most perfect expression I’ve ever seen, like that’s exactly the face I would be making in that situation. this chapter has had so many great facial expressions overall. I feel spoiled

[LUNGES TOWARD THE SCREEN IN ANTICIPATION!!] MOTHERFUCKER, ARE WE ABOUT TO SEE SOME BLOOP ALL UP IN THESE PAGES!?! PLEASE!!!!?

I FUCKING CAN’T WITH THIS BUILDUP?? THIS IS PAGE ELEVEN OF THE CHAPTER, AND I JUST KNOW WE’RE ABOUT TO END IT WITH A TWO-PAGE SPREAD ON THE NEXT PAGE. THIS HYPE IS TOO MUCH, I’M GONNA LOSE IT

OH SNAP NO IT WAS JUST A SINGLE PAGE!!

THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF BLACKWHIP YESSSSSS

lmao Ending looks so fucking shocked at being completely taken apart by these three kids with basically no effort. and I see that ice creeping up around him. oh, son. you tried

and then the last page is -- oh

I mean, Deku and Shouto being complete badasses (ETA: and I so wasn’t kidding when I said that Shouto will straight up murder a bitch omg), but then

aaaaand there goes my heart. hey would it kill you to give me a heads up before you just go and STUFF IT FULL OF FEELS like that?? like

just. Endeavor just ran up and gathered him up in his arms, and he’s holding him with this desperation that we’ve never seen from him before, and just... wow. it’s completely disarming and I’m almost at a loss for a coherent response. meanwhile poor Katsuki nearly got wrapped up in it as well due to proximity, but it’s not like it’ll hurt him to see this moment up close. I still have another essay I’m working on for you, you little honey badger

(ETA: on closer inspection it seems like poor honey badger actually has been fully included in the hug lmao. and at first I was thinking it was just the proximity as I said above, but you know what? if some punk kid flew in out of nowhere and saved my child’s life, you can bet I’d be wrapping them up in a bear hug too. so maybe it’s just the dad emotions getting the better of him. either way Katsuki you just gotta put up with it!)

anyways don’t mind me, I’m just sitting here thinking about how Endeavor has already lost a child (and yes I know, but like I said last week, I genuinely believe it was a tragic accident. to me that makes infinitely more sense than all of the darker/more sinister explanations. but anyways we’ll see eventually), and his family has been in shambles for so long and he’s been estranged from all of them (for good reason), and I think he finally even is coming to terms with that, and the fact that it may always be this way for him because of what he’s done. but to then almost have a second child taken from him, right before his eyes, and knowing that once again it would have been his fault, was apparently more than he could handle

and then, just the fact that he reacted in this of all ways. by openly showing tenderness and emotion, without even thinking about it, because he was so shaken up by the whole thing. this from Todoroki Enji, the most stoic, impassive, closed-off motherfucker to ever walk the earth! like, even after he clearly established that he was on the redemption path, he still never showed this kind of vulnerability. we’ve had a window or two into his thoughts and reflections, so we know he’s been experiencing remorse, and we could see it also during some of the quieter moments like him thanking Fuyumi or kneeling at the shrine for Touya. but I will tell you that I never for a moment could have imagined a scene like this. and I know it’s probably going to make some people angry because they feel like he hasn’t “earned” it or whatever. but I’ll be fully honest, at this point I’m kind of over feeling like I have to put a disclaimer every week explaining that yes, I like the Endeavor redemption arc lol. just, yeah. I like it. and anyway, so this was feels all over the damn place. fuck

(ETA: and I feel it’s worth adding here that even though Endeavor didn’t do anything to save Natsuo himself directly, it’s his guidance that enabled those three padawans to reach the next level so quickly. so in a way he did save his son: by finally moving past his self-centered mentality and taking these three kids under his wing and helping them grow. this wasn’t a victory he could have pulled off alone. but because he finally learned to see past himself, they were able to win the day and save Natsu.)

anyway, so now that all this has happened, I’m curious as to whether this is the end of this little arc! if so it’s much shorter than I expected. though obviously their internship is going to continue even after they head back to school, so it’s not like the action is just gonna come screeching to a halt. but maybe we’ll take a little break after this to catch up with the rest of 1-A, and maybe follow up with All Might to see who the great-great-grandfather of One for All is, oh snap

AND MAYBE A CERTAIN SOMEONE CAN HIT US UP WITH HIS THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ON WHAT HE LEARNED DURING THIS WINTER BREAK, AND WHETHER OR NOT HE TOOK AWAY ANYTHING FROM THIS THAT MIGHT STEER HIM A BIT MORE TOWARDS HIS NEW HERO NAME. THAT WOULD BE SPLENDID. JUST PUTTING THAT OUT THERE

and having said that, I don’t really have a clean way of ending this recap this week lol so just. uh. I liked it a lot, thank you, good night

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forever-dancing-in-a-daydream · 7 years

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Jack Maynard - Sick of this world.

Request: 25 with jack? Maybe you could add mental illness or depression or something, thanks

Prompt(s): “I’m sick”

Requested: Yes

Warnings: Mental illness, suicide attempt.

A/N: I’m always here if anyone wants to talk about mental health, or anything at all xx Hope you like this xx P.s just want to say I’m not trying to romanticise mental illnesses!

Word Count: 902

Heres the prompt list requests are always open

but you can request an imagine without a prompt if you would like xx

Heres where you request x

Masterlist

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Jack stood on the rooftop staring down at the street bellow him. They were quite at the minute as it was half past midnight. He started down, thinking about how easy it would be to jump, to end it all. To end the pain, the empty and aloneness he felt. Even when surrounded by people he loved, he felt alone, isolated. He thought about what would happen if he jumped, would anyone notice? Would anyone really care?

Everything had been good, but like always the depression came crawling back. It made him feel useless, pointless, like he was a burden to everyone. He pushed everyone away including you, his girlfriend for almost 2 years now. You were always there to support him, help him get through his worst days when all he wanted to do was stay in bed and pretend he didn’t exist. But he believed you deserved better, he didn’t see how much you loved him, how much he meant to you, how your world was incomplete without him. All he saw was the fact it felt you had to be there to look after him, like he was weighing you down. But he knew he’d hurt you by pushing you away. So maybe it would be best this way,

if he just left this world.

You woke up randomly at half midnight, a bad felling in your gut. Like something terrible was about to happen. You picked up your phone to see you had a missed call from Jack. You immediately panicked. He hadn’t spoken to you in just over 2 weeks he was blocking you out of his life, pushing you away.

So many thoughts were racing through your mind.

Was he okay?

What was happening?

Where was he?

So you called him back straight away.

Jack stepped closer to the edge of the roof top and climbed on top of the wall that was bordering it.

“This is it” He whispered to himself.

“3...2..-”

His phone began ringing.

He pulled it out his pocket to see the your name on the screen and a photo of you two laughing, you both looked so happy. He missed the good old days.

He swiped his finger across the screen to answer the call.

“Jack?” Just hearing your voice was comforting to him.

“Y/n?” He said quietly trying to prevent you from hearing that he’d been crying.

“Jack are you okay? Where are you? Whats happening?” You babbled.

He looked at the down for a second before stepping of the wall and back onto the roof.

“I’m fine” He replied.

“No you’re not” You insisted “If you are fine why did you call me at midnight?”

He took a deep breath trying to keep himself calm.

“Y/n I-i” His voice cracked as tears slid down his cheek.

“I tried to kill myself.”

You were silent for a second, taking in this information, you wanted to go to panic mode, you wanted to cry, but you didn’t you stayed strong for him.

“DON’T MOVE I’m on my way” You stated before hanging up the phone and rushing out the door as quick a possible.

You did a 20 minute journey in just under 10 minuets. You were moving so fast, 1. Because you need to get to Jack as fast as possible, 2. So you didn’t give yourself time to think over everything, didn’t give yourself time to think about all the things you could have done that would have stopped him doing this.

You never ran, but you ran up the stairs to the rooftop faster than Usain Bolt.

“Jack!” You called out as you saw him.

He turned around and you saw his puffy red eyes and tear stained cheeks. He looked so hurt and broken.

You ran to him and threw our arms around him. He cried into your shoulder. You were so thankful he hadn’t done it,so thankful he was still here. You held him so tight, you never ever wanted to let. Never wanted to loose him.

You felt his body shake slightly as he cried. You hated seeing him like this, it hurt you so much.

“I’m sick y/n, I’m sick of life, I’m sick of this world, I’m sick of being here” He sobbed

His words broke you. You hugged him harder. It was becoming more and more difficult to hold back tears, but you knew you need to be strong for him

“Come on lets go down to your apartment and we can talk there” You said softly as you pulled out the hug.

You got Jack a blanket and made him a hot chocolate.

“So lets talks” You said as you snuggled under the blanket with him.

“I don’t want” He replied “I don’t want to talk about it, I want to talk about all the good things in live, all the things that make me want to stay in this words.”

So thats what you did. You sat under the blanket, talking about all your good memories and plans for the future. Eventually he opened up about how he was feeling and you sat having a deep conversation until you began falling asleep in his arms at around 3 am.

“I love you so much Jack” You mumbled sleepily.

“I love you too y/n” He said as he kissed the top of your head.

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kmp78 · 6 years

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"that does not make that description racist in any way!" Like I said, it's not racist. But it is a stereotype. Yes, the Finns danced naked in the street and that's great for y'all. And yes, it happens elsewhere as well ... But the Zimbabwe people aren't naked in the streets so why include that at all? Why not just say they are happy and dancing in the streets? Maybe the anon can come back and elaborate? I'm not the 1st anon and don't think I am being unreasonable asking these questions, am I?

Holy mother of god.

This is exactly why I used that supermarket banana example!

People are purposely LOOKING for racism and stereotypes a´la “OH! That´s so offensive, portraying a black guy eating a banana! We all know what that implying!” when in fact it´s just a guy eating a friggin´ banana!

And yeah, stereotypes DO exist and they are borderline racist - IF we want them to be.

Swedish men are all gay because they are über-metrosexuals, Russian women are all opportunistic hos who hunt for rich American husbands, Americans are all gun-toting fatties because DUH, Australians are all criminals, Norwegians are 2nd rate Swedes, French people only wear berets and munch on baquettes, the only good thing to ever come out of Turkey is kebab, Greeks all wasted their money and now whine that EU has to save their hairy asses, Italians are all mafiosos, Columbia is only known for cocaine, Chinese kill all their daughters, Zambians are... uh,... well I don´t know because is that even a country?, Mexicans are all wannabe-Americans, everyone in the UK has atrociously bad teeth, all Irish people are secretly leprechauns, Jamaicans are all Usain Bolt fast, Germans are all... well, you know..., Canadians are so forgettable they don´t even need to be mentioned, Austria are only ever remembered because it´s not Australia, Egyptians are not African OR Middle Eastern because neither area wants them, Swiss people never take a stand for or against anything (JL might be a secret Swiss btw) and Israel equals bomb.

Did I leave anyone out?

Sorry if I did, I´m just an ignorant racist after all.

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real-estate-virtual-assistants · 4 years

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Sales Development Representatives & How To Use Them Effectively

About 50 percent of the virtual professionals we place with clients are fulfilling clients’ sales development outcomes. That means about two thousand five hundred of the five thousand virtual professionals we have introduced to clients have been working in sales. Through that experience, we have garnered a lot of evidence about how best to prepare virtual professionals for sales — and we have created a concrete system to ensure that you have success with yours too.

Virtual professionals can help you and your business enormously when it comes to generating and converting leads, that is, taking a potential customer who may have an interest in your business, or even may never have heard of your business, and turning that lead into a warm opportunity. That warm opportunity would include a sales meeting, and if all goes well, a sales quote. Preparing virtual professionals to succeed with this out- come is one of my favorite things to do because the path to having your investment in sales development reps (SDR) pay off in terms of revenue is clear-cut and highly measurable from an outcome basis.

When I say pay off, I’m not speaking merely of an increase in sales. In business, I like a three-to-one return. If I’m spending $5,000 to put someone in place, I want to see a $15,000 return. Your top concern about onboarding a virtual sales team will probably be “How do I do this?” Well, you could just put someone in a seat and say, “OK, now go sell for me,” and ask that individual to be accountable for some metrics you have made up in your head. In fact, as an entrepreneur, your go-to mode is probably that you jump right in first and worry about the how later. That is classic entrepreneur behavior, and in general, it’s a great attribute. In this instance, however, I’d like you to resist that and reframe your thinking.

This is a situation in which having a concrete plan will pay off in real dollars. Think about onboarding an SDR as if you are running a relay race and you have a baton in your hand. You’re fully committed, and you’re killing it at Usain Bolt speed. As you approach runner number two, she holds out her hand expectantly to receive the baton. But instead of passing it to her, you throw it to her. It misses its mark, striking her in the head, and she stumbles. Not smart, right? You have just set up your talented teammate to fail. And that is the biggest mistake that people make when they hire VPs: They chuck the baton rather than smoothly hand it off. So, all you need is a recipe for a smooth handoff.

Have Bulletproof Scripts

Scripts are in the virtual professional’s arsenal. Here are the elements you should painstakingly document in written form for your new sales team members. Of course, the content will vary depending on the type of business you are in, but for the moment, I will give you examples based on what we use at MyOutDesk.

A Clear Elevator Pitch

Know your elevator pitch. The base formula for a good elevator pitch is “I serve [who] to do [what], so they [get this result].” Ours is: “We instantly scale growing companies with virtual professionals.” That is what we do at MyOutDesk, in a nutshell. The elevator pitch is such an important piece for you to craft and for your VPs to absorb. You all need to be on the same page as you communicate your company’s value, and once you have articulated this clearly and documented it transparently, your VPs will be able to advance that message. They will communicate it in exactly the way you would.

Know Your Value Proposition

This might seem a bit obvious, but many business owners think their value proposition is just that — obvious — and they fail to document it concretely for their virtual sales reps. Give them the information they need to be clear in their conversations about why your clients choose you. What is the benefit they see? We hear time and time again from our clients that they are overwhelmed, and alleviating that overwhelm is where we add massive value. They are so busy, and we are the “easy button” for finding talent to help them. There is no way they could find five people to interview in forty-eight hours…but we can. We have already vetted them. The MyOutDesk value proposition: “We provide indispensable VPs to growing businesses.” If you can articulate your value proposition clearly to your virtual professionals and have that in written form somewhere they can refer to, you are hitting one out of the park from the outset.

Have a Process for Handling Objections

When you give your virtual professionals your value proposition, you are giving them the ideal outcome. But you also have to prepare them for the challenges they’ll encounter. Document all the objections that a potential customer might have for your product or service, and your virtual professionals will wear it like armor in their conversations with leads. They will be ready to answer potential customers’ objections in a friendly way. Why might a customer say no? What answer could your virtual professionals give that might turn that into a yes? Help them to anticipate these issues.

Have a Positioning Document

A positioning document expresses how your product or service fills a need that competitors don’t, so this is a critical piece for a sales development rep to know. At MyOutDesk, our positioning document has expressions along these lines:

We have helped over five thousand clients grow their businesses.

We make sure that every virtual professional you interview is exceptional and MOD-certified because of our thorough vetting process.

We have been in this business for twelve years and built an industry around serving medium and small businesses.

We provide Market Force™ personality profiles to accurately match talent.

We provide medical benefits, microloans, vacations, and conferences for our virtual professionals.

MyTimeIn is our proprietary software that helps track outcomes and provides daily task oversight.

We have a Chief People Office in the United States that personally vets our virtual professionals.

Your partnership with us benefits our Charity Impact Movement (503c). We give away thousands of dollars every year to impoverished communities.

These are points on which none of our competitors can compare. Anyone who tries to stack up against that will have a huge challenge, and the only way they can win is through offering a lower price and lower quality. MyOutDesk is the price leader and has the highest quality available, so this is exactly where I want our competitors to be (a lower-priced alternative). If they offer lower prices, we can say, “Look at all the value we have to help your business scale. If you are looking for the cheapest, that’s not us. If you are looking to scale effectively, while ensuring a great end product that gives value to your customers, we know how to do that.”

Have a System for Measuring Results

You and your sales virtual professionals will know you are scaling the business when you have clearly defined processes for measuring the following:

Leads received:This is the number one thing you must track. How many leads are coming into your business every single day, week, and month?

Number of calls: How many calls did your virtual professionals make to those leads?

Leads converted: How many of those calls went from being just a lead to an actual opportunity to sell?

Speed to lead: This is a metric that really matters. How much time elapses between when the lead comes in to when the call goes out, and does it convert successfully? For example, a lead might come in at 1:00, and they get a call five minutes later.

New clients/sales: How many new clients resulted from this process? This is the bottom line. Have a system in place that tracks all these things in a way that is easy for everyone to understand.

Avoid These Failure Points

What I have described so far are the things you need to do to be successful in scaling with your virtual SDRs. Based on my vast experience, I’d also like to give you come common pitfalls to avoid.

You don’t have enough leads: I like to have five hundred new leads a month, but your number will depend on what industry you are in and what your sales cycle looks like. I always like to have three to five salespeople behind our virtual SDRs. An SDR’s job is to convert a lead into an opportunity, right? And the salesperson’s job is to turn that opportunity into a client. It is important for the SDR to feel like he or she is on the same team with the salesperson, and vice versa. Having enough leads and enough salespeople allows you to test who is closing and who is not. We once had a client come to us because he was upset his team wasn’t converting enough leads. It turned out that the salesperson wasn’t immediately calling the leads once they got converted into an opportunity, instead letting them go for two or three days before calling. It’s very important that you have enough people and a measurement for speed to lead for both the VP and the salesperson here in the United States.

You aren’t doing daily and weekly meetings: I like a daily morning meeting with a little music and a little coffee, so everyone can talk about the wins. Everyone is talking about where their energy is and how they are feeling, and we are putting positivity out early in the morning so that feeling can be conveyed through the phones. Weekly meetings are for making commitments to sales and conversation goals.

You aren’t tracking conversations: Someone who is having forty or fifty conversations per day is going to have a different result than someone who is having ten. You want to set concrete goals for the number of conversations and share those in your daily and weekly meetings.

You don’t have activity-level measurements: Your system for measuring results should include everyone on your team. How many calls did each person make? How many times did each person try? How fast did each person handle the opportunities in front of him or her, and how often convert? These are important metrics to have for each individual.

You aren’t going after the 3Rs: As I mentioned in chapter 11, referrals, recommendations, and reviews are critical to your business. It is astounding how many businesses fail to harness the power of these three things. We chase them ruthlessly at MyOutDesk. In fact, we get referrals all the time from people who have never even done business with us. There is a woman in Texas who has sent us three or four clients. I had only one conversation with her, five years ago, and she hasn’t bought from us, but she keeps sending us people because I had a great conversation with her. If you aren’t pursuing the 3Rs with your team, you are miss- ing out. As you can see, my prevailing message about how to set up your virtual SDRs for success is communicate, communicate, communicate. Assume nothing, and document everything.

Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session today and find our how a MyOutDesk real estate virtual assistant can support you to boost your business with the highest quality virtual assistant services available!

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dan and phil play the sims 4 #39: a summary

danandphilgamesChildren impression of the iconic woman from the simpsons dan has no care for children and i relate "... not that you're children" dan says whilst phil is trying to speak dig yourself into a hole in your own time stop interrupting him you curly haired lumberjack wannabe i sound mocking but he actually looks bomb i love it they both do "don't talk about the words. the words just come, they mean nothing... like our lives" also just like the rebrand apparently briefing on the toddler stage the lack of skills is going to make me cringe phil watched the video back just to call dan out, what a guy they feign surprise that we're so observant the parp debate "... and other things i'm not particularly comfortable with you saying" "he's just dead in the bed" // "he's fine" phil recalls being in daycare and crushing trucks in sand with his friend owen.... okay boy can't wait for the abundance of original characters called owen in fics now dan just remembers a sandpit what kind of fancy ass daycares did you two go to i didn't have any of that shit i just remember all the girls except for me used to fight over the doll pram whilst i sat alone in the corner of the room attempting to read and being sad that i was there both their daycares were inside and they stank because 'everyone peed' .... again what kind of daycare did you two go to "even though we were three hundred miles and a couple of years apart... we had the same experience" // "essentially that sand came from the same place" i'm so done with these two and it's not even three minutes in "fill the bath with fruit loops" the toddler food glitch is so fucking annoying and seeing it in let's plays only annoys me more phil thinks the final bedtime story will be about a dragon "party miami dad with abs" "hey dan it's your ripped jeans, you just need to cut them off as shorts" // "oh my god, yes, and when i have abs i will wear a top like that" please stop talking over each other we're not even four minutes in yet this is going to be painful "that's kind of dragon, come on, give that to me" the latter of this sentence immediately triggered the 'it's not the first time he's said those words' sensor in my brain phil wants to change the miami dad outfit whereas dan literally screeched his argument to keep it phil feels pain in his own stomach watching a simulation on a screen do ab crunches the excitement over transformation of the day is cute what a cute thirty year old man you are "that reminds me, you should do transformation of the day, come on, i've been waiting" very contradictory but sure okay phil "time to sacrifice one of our children" the youtube comments are going to have a field day with that one aren't they "party dil's whacking out..." the draw phil naked music :(((( dan the materialistic man resurfaces the first singing interlude of the video "is it dab or usain bolt, scientists can't tell" "happy famalamies" "how does one cake" me on a regular basis honestly they both agree that blue confetti cake sounds 'birthday-ish' the artistic prodigy aspiration and the cheerful trait were chosen "dab - a ray of sunshine running through everyone's lives" "i'm like who is this thing in the house" phil lester english university degree holder lame science jokes from dan there supportive bf phil is back with a vengeance though don't you worry the game spawned him with bunny slippers nice "he's growing up before our eyes, dan" fanfic writers have fun "i'm gonna punch. and i'm gonna punch you, phil. because you're the only one here" // *phil leans away* "don't punch ME!" "amphibians need representation" cue the 'de-toddling' decor section "dinosaurs are still valid" phil was scared of space print bedding he had as a kid apparently it included the molester moon so i mean that's a thing he said and here's the creepy speaking in sync thing again. add it to the compilation videos "easy beans" a creativity table for children gave phil tingles the debate over whether or not to give him a tablet is really proving who will be the easygoing parent and who will be the disciplinarian (the majority of the fics were right) "you-you're gonna not give someone at school access to youtube? how can they make it through life without minecraft youtubers?" he was speaking from personal experience minus those last three words i see u howell phil wants him to draw a vehicle so dan chooses shapes domestics are on the horizon "yes this is danandphilcrafts, who's gonna be sacrificed to satan?" phil take that reference back before i shove it where the sun doesn't shine time to age up evan quick sidenote have you seen how many dabxevan fics there are bc wow there are a ton, not that i've read any but they're out there "see i went to cheese and you went to trapeziums... what does that mean, psychologically?" that dan needs to get his well-educated stick out of his ass and realise a block of cheese when he sees it "all this cake is making me so hungry, dan.." this whole cake talk is so domestic what the fuck is happening you just moved how are you still providing domesticity they're going to get deliveroo cake i'm surprised we didn't get a tweet about that crazy night apparently eliza is a milf according to dan even though phil says he isn't allowed to say it (make of that what you will, demons) daddy pancakes they're literally providing more weird fic prompts pls stop "tumblr's gonna go nuts. they have matching trackies" so we now know what tags dan stalks on tumblr red apparently reflects evan the science set is reminding phil of fallout yes i relate what a quality game this video took so long to summarise what the actual fuck but okay it's over it's just the buildup to the outro now "don't explode the universe with a chemistry set" wise words from phil there Daniel Howell - i guess these puns have to be daniel themed now AmazingCake

#this took so long i'm mad about it #gaming vid summaries

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I Finally Did The Thing

So, a while ago, someone who will remain nameless sent me some SB points (purporting to be proof that there is a plan in place for romantic SB) to get my brother’s reaction on them - as a writer and as a person who is frequently and hilariously pained. I’m not going to post the OP here, but I’ll sum up the points and give his reaction for the amusement of those who are interested. As this is long, it’s under the cut. (My husband gets in on this a time or two, as well.)

Point 1: Caitlin’s feelings for and attachment to Barry are the reason she wouldn’t leave town with Ronnie. Barry has been compared to Ronnie. Caitlin’s feelings for Barry superseded her feelings for Ronnie and her desire to stay could only be romantic.

My brother: “Sure. That holds up in a court of law. And you’re an attorney, you should know. It’s like what When Harry Met Sally said 20 years ago. Men and Women can’t be friends. Wait…almost 30 years ago. Jesus Christ.”

Me: “Did I just give you a midlife crisis? We just got started, here!”

Him: “A little. Carry on.”

Point 2: Everyman didn’t HAVE to kiss Cailtin, but he felt there was something between them, in the way Caitlin interacted with Barry. And she kissed back, so she has feelings for Barry.

Me: “That was a noise. How do you type that, do you think? Mmmfg?”

Him: “Maybe rrrrrr. Wait. ARE YOU WRITING THIS DOWN?”

Me: “…No.”

Him: “Okay.”

Point 3: Caitlin was unhappy when she saw the byline because it told her that she had no future with Barry. She probably married Ronnie because she realized she had no future with Barry because of the byline. It doesn’t help that Barry was pining after Iris the whole time.

Him: “What…what…how?”

My Husband: “Answer his questions in order, honey.”

Me: “In answer to your questions…I dunno!”

My Brother: “Okay, I’m following what you’re saying; I’m not following the crazy. I just – I kind of have Stockholm Syndrome right now. How far into the show are we?”

Me: “Season 1.”

Him: “Oh good.”

Me: “Do you not remember?”

Him: “I drink to forget. Carry on.”

Point 4: Cisco warned them about creating a causal nexus if they change time. Iris decided to date Barry to avoid the causal nexus.

Him: “WHAT THE FUCK IS A CAUSAL NEXUS?”

Me: “A creation of the show. Like a paradox.”

Him: “How…what?”

Me: “You’re going to have to come up with new questions. I’ve answered those.”

Him: “You DID NOT!”

My Husband: “I’m glad you’re laying it on his doorstep and not mine.”

My Brother: “No! Really! I need to know this! How is Iris loving Barry a paradox?”

Me: “Because she only does so because of destiny, I guess they’re saying?”

Him: “But how is…that doesn’t even have any relation to the show! To what the show has presented!”

Me: “You have to remove watching the actual show and I guess reason from this process.”

Him: “Oh is THAT what I have to remove?”

There was some screaming.

My Husband: “I was expecting more of, like, “How did expletive deleted they get expletive deleted out of the show?”

Me: “At least now we’re in season 2.”

My Brother: “Oh thank god we finally got there. I don’t think I could have stood much more of season 1.”

Point 5: Caitlin falling for Jay was probably her projecting her feelings for Barry onto someone just like him.

Him: “…What?”

Me: “Caitlin falling…”

Him: “No. I understand all the words you said in that sentence, but strung together, it doesn’t make any sense. I know I speak the language. I’m just kind of cocking my head confused. How is the fake Jay Garrick like Barry?”

Me: “THEY HAVE SPEEDSTER POWERS!”

Him: “…All right. Sure. Let’s move on. But…No. Didn’t the real Jay…she didn’t fall in love with the real Jay!”

Me: “No. He was Zoom. But he’s just like Barry. I guess.”

Him: “But…she didn’t fall in love with Reverse Flash.”

Me: “Well, she didn’t know her feelings yet!”

Him: “So she has a thing for people with speed?”

Me: “But Iris is the one who only loves Barry because he’s Flash. Caitlin only loves substitutes for Barry. And if she doesn’t love them, they aren’t substitutes for Barry.”

Him: “So why is she not fucking Usain Bolt?”

My Husband: “Because he’s black?”

My Brother: “Jesus.”

Point 6: The only real conversation between Caitlin and Iris has been about destiny - that Iris is destined to be with Barry and Caitlin doesn’t believe in destiny. This could be prophetic.

Him: “Because this show is all about the Bechdel test.”

Me: “Prophetic? But weren’t they saying the scene is about how Iris will be with Barry and Caitlin will, you know, not? So I guess that is prophetic. Were they trying to say ironic?”

Him: (whispering) “I don’t think this person knows. I’m just waiting to see where we go with this.”

Point 7: Iris told Barry her feelings when he was at his lowest point, having lost Caitlin. He needed emotional support, and Iris was there. Of course, the show can’t have Iris with Barry when Caitlin is around. Caitlin has to be entirely removed to give Westallen a shot. By the time Caitlin gets back, three episodes later, the damage is done and she’s already begun her transformation.”

Him: “Except she didn’t transform at that point. And there are a lot of scenes were Iris and Caitlin are together and Barry pulls Iris aside. WHAT THE FUCK SHOW IS THIS PERSON WATCHING?”

Me: “You’d think they’d at least watch the scenes with Caitlin in them. And note it has nothing to do with the fact that the only reason Barry talked to Caitlin as he did in Season 1 was because he couldn’t talk to Iris about his feelings for her. They used Caitlin as a stand-in FOR IRIS, and once he could talk to Iris, that was no longer needed.”

Him: “Is there more to this?”

Me: “Yes.”

Him: “Oh Jesus.” (weakly) “Okay…I need to go to the grocery store soon and get more alcohol.”

Me: “They’re ignoring that Barry didn’t go save Caitlin for those three episodes, too.”

Him: “They’re ignoring like 2/3 of plot of the show! We could have a longer conversation about what they’re ignoring than what they’re paying attention to. Let’s just take it for granted they’re ignoring shit, at this point.”

Point 8: Caitlin has always kept track of Barry’s love life, but they didn’t talk about it when he started dating Iris. Friends talk about that stuff. It was clear in episode 3.07 that she’s jealous.”

Him: “…I’m processing. Give me a minute. … Okay…I think what’s going on there, is that in that episode, Caitlin didn’t specifically say “it’s so great you’re together” but she wanted to kill everybody including the two of them. So…essentially, this is like saying Jack the Ripper should have said some of the people he murdered “but congratulations on your recent engagement. I mean, I’m going to kill you…but congratulations!”

Me: “Only if he wasn’t jealous…The only reason not to say that is if he’s jealous they’re engaged.”

Him: “…Sure.”

Me: “That’s what they’re saying.”

Him: “…Let’s just move on. This getting difficult for me. We’re clearly in season 3. Thank fucking god.”

Point 9: Barry is closest to Caitlin and brought her crying to the surface.

I ACCIDENTALLY SKIPPED THIS ONE! DAMN IT! I’m totally going to tell him tomorrow.

Point 10: Killer Frost didn’t have to kiss Barry but she did. There was no other reason for them to do it. “We’ve dissected that moment into hundreds of gifs and even rotated the pictures.” He responded. That may have been GG’s feelings for DP coming through. But he kissed back, and she didn’t have to kiss him.

Him: “…Yes, yes. Oh good, good. You’ve dissected the moment. That is the action of a sane person. That is something normal people do. TRUST ME. No, it’s the rest of the world. You’re okay, babe. MOST PROBABLY it was GG being in love with DP. Most probably. When else does an actor every kiss an actress?”

Me: “And also, I mean, he doesn’t kiss back.”

Him: “But even if he did. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT???”

Me: “Because it’s endgame and the only way to see it is to slow it down and enhance it to find these signs but it’s clear that it’s endgame.”

Him: “Well, I have a picture of me kissing an actress and it looks like I’m kissing her, but I’m not. She’s engaged to someone else. And I’m not interested in her that way. These people are obsessed with TV but fundamentally don’t understand how shows are made!”

Me: “Also forgetting that kissing is canonically her attack.”

Him: “That’s like saying that when Poison Ivy kissed Batman…they’re saying Uma Thurman really is in love with George Clooney. And that Poison Ivy has a thing for Batman. But with GG and DP. They’re saying that Uma Thurman and George Clooney are really in love.”

Me: “Maybe if you slow it down and dissect and rotate the pictures. Have you tried that?”

Him: “THAT IS NOT HOW ACTING WORKS!”

Point 11: We can tell Caitlin has feelings for Barry because she patches him up as Caitlin. “As Killer Frost, she shows that by ripping him to shreds (emotionally), stabbing him with an icicle, and kissing him to death (almost)…”

Him: “WOULD YOU JUST REREAD THAT LAST SENTENCE? WOULD JUST REREAD THE SENTENCE YOU JUST WROTE???”

Me: “I have talked to you about some of your exes. We can both agree that the only way to show love is to rip the other person to shreds emotionally, stab each other, and kiss each other to death.”

Him: “Well, that was in the 90s…it was a crazy time. I was wrong.”

Point 11, continued: THAT IS NOT FRIENDSHIP! Caitlin can’t accept that yet, but Killer Frost is helping her see that.

Him: “I would agree with that. That’s the first thing that I’m like…Rrrright. Remember that time I was possessed by a demon and I murdered everyone I knew? I think we can agree that wasn’t a friendly gesture. Also, patching him up isn’t friendship. It’s kind of her job."

As additional points, I reminded him of the following:

Caitlin froze Barry offscreen. The only way she could have done this is if she kissed him.

Him: “Definitely! Yup! This sounds like a sane theory. None of this sounds like China invented global warming crazy. None of this sounds like vaccines create autism crazy. This is legit.”

Barry saw her holding a baby and SB fans think he thought at first it was his. So we don’t know what will happen. SB IS ENDGAME!

Him: “…But…I mean…in…" (sigh) (sigh) "a…mmmg….let me sit down and collect…collect this thought…A…like…I…a…all right. Like…even…if you have in a dream…okay, all right, do people understand that in dreams, people…Like…like…like… All right.”

This seems to be the moment I actually broke him.

“Sure, man, sounds legit. … I got nothin’. Nothin’ more for you. I’m drained. This is…i…i…i…the last part, like, it’s not…yeah, if this were…a self-contained universe…but like, sure yeah, we don’t know who he’s going to end up with. All of this made me hurt.

Me: “But as a writer, would you say -?”

Him: “NO. To the answer you’re formulating. NO. NO NO NO. No. First of all, the ones they picked out…no. Just no. No. I mean, I wouldn’t rule out that they couldn’t do a sudden plot twist in a contained universe. But this isn’t and…no. No, no no! No! No is the answer to your question. NO! I …y-y-you’re really…you have…if…let me put it this way…if they did that sudden plot twist and I went back and saw foreshadowing…But…no…I wouldn’t be sitting there being like “I see this one coming you asshole.” That’s not how it works! Especially on TV. We’re pulling it out of our asses as we go, for the most part. In the case of most TV shows, they don’t write a season at a time, they’re just making it up as I go along.”

Me: “I’m curious. As a general audience member, because I’m so much closer to it than you are. If SB happened, would you be able to go back and rewatch and see it coming? Or would it be -?”

Him: “I’d think they pulled it out of their asses. That is pretty much pulled out of an asshole. They didn’t know what the fuck to do, so they said fuck it, throw the script out! But I’m also saying, I can kinda tell when I’m watching shows, how they’re made. If they’re made with an intent in mind or if they’re made up on the spot. And Flash is fundamentally a show made up on the spot. Season to season, they have a general idea of where this is all going. But I don’t think episode to episode they know exactly what the next episode would be. And I certainly think when they made the first season, they were just like “We’re making a show about a fast guy.” So it’s kind of a little inside baseball. You watch the pitcher and catcher and they obviously know what they want to do for the next nine innings, but they don’t necessarily know what the next pitch will be. You can see when they’ve mapped it out versus when they just kind of go with it. The Flash clearly has an idea of where it wants to go season to season, and the story they want to tell overall. They don’t necessarily have episodes planned out. But from what they’ve done, you can see the overall plan…it isn’t SB. So if they did SB, it would be like “Oh, they were just reaching…” I would totally assume that was an asspull. In a contained universe, they could change their mind and go there if they wanted. But as of right now, that isn’t a thing they’re moving towards at all. It’s an asspull. Is that…are we done?”

Me: “For now. I’ll have more next week, I’m sure.”

Him: “I’m…I’m gonna start drinking now.”

#my brother #sb stuff #real life #I broke him

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torentialtribute · 5 years

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City are changing the landscape like Australia’s great Test side

If, as expected, his team wins a second league title on Sunday, Pep Guardiola may have just beat his record shocks as a Manchester City manager for a year ago. Why? He doesn't even have the best team now.

Liverpool may be able to darken it, against each other. Liverpool has superior backrests, the excellent central defender of the season in Virgil van Dijk and two attackers with 42 goals in between.

The clearest strength of the city is their midfielders, as befits a manager who once said he would choose eleven if he could.

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If Manchester City closes the title on Sunday, it will

But even there, for the way Jurgen Klopp wants to play, his midfield is tailor-made.

Guardiola has Fernandinho, David Silva and Vincent Kompany approaching their mid thirties, he has complications at full back where his options seem worse and worse than those from Liverpool, she has Klopp n team where he wants them now.

Yes, any team, no matter how coherently planned, can always improve, but the two legs against Barcelona revealed a group at Liverpool who absolutely understands, believes in and can bear the strategy of their manager. It is not surprising that it is a city that is about to take a very early entry into the summer market with a move for Rodri of Atletico Madrid.

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Yet this is more powerful in midfield areas.

Yet this is the shadow of Liverpool's combined XI with the greatest power of Manchester City in midfield

Guardiola was right to compare his players to athletes who change the game, such as Tiger Woods and Usain Bolt, he could have thrown in the Serena Williams or the Australian cricket team of the Michael Slater was a good measure.

They have changed the numbers, adjusted success in their field. Results that were once considered solid or even impressive in a Premier League campaign are now potential shortcomings.

Watching city settling for nothing less than three points at Old Trafford is like seeing Slater send the first soft ball of the day in a test that matches the boundary.

Once he did that, and he did it regularly, the numbers in Cricket Test were never the same. The rest of the world had to score as Australia or fall behind.

We credit Twenty20 and the short-form game for the offensive test that we now see, but Australia started the trend up to ten years before that version of cricket was even invented

Until last year, A scoreless draw away at Old Trafford, Stamford Bridge or Anfield was considered a good piece of work. No longer.

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City Slickers and Slickers, If Liverpool had won the victory in February in Manchester United, the city would do so now, they would now be a front runner are in the competition.

There is never a game where a title is decided. If Liverpool fails this season, there are eight games that were drawn or lost, one of which could have made the difference. It is clear that City's defeat in January and the draw on Anfield are the biggest.

That's what City has done: their own campaign is only ruthlessly consistent that one mistake in every game, no matter how small, can be crucial.

Who could have imagined Liverpool escaping the lead by eight minutes in November to join Arsenal, could it be so important?

Fast forward to now, and the Alexandre Lacazette equalizer is what put Liverpool in second place.

Guardiola has changed the concept of winning in the English game.

Benjamin Mendy has hardly played this season, Kevin De Bruyne has not played any games recently. was fit to start only 11 Premier League games and the loss of Fernandinho for more than a month at the end of February and after that for the title run should have been more significant.

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Yes, city has power in depth.

Yes, cities have power in depth. Yet they have no midfield creator in De Bruyne's class; no one who can freely repeat the role of Fernandinho.

Yet without them, he has done so far at the most pressurized stage of the season and maintained what is now a 13-game

There are numerous clubs that have a head start have on their rivals in terms of resources, team depth, investments – Manchester United

11 records were broken when City won the competition last season and more and more were tumbling, whatever Sunday games are there

City is already the first team since Preston in 1888-89 and 1889-90 defeated all their league opponents in successive seasons. But for Preston this meant that you defeated 11 clubs twice – for City, 19 – and Preston didn't have to deal with some of the little things that would sometimes frustrate City, such as crossbars

Nothing has been won yet , of course. If what we've seen this week is an indication, something can happen in Brighton and probably also. But even if the season includes one final turn and City is denied the title, their influence on our game remains undeniable.

The only reason why a second club is chasing the number of points in the high 90s is because the City has demanded that is the norm required to win the competition.

It won't always be – it can't be – but the levels at the top of the Premier League are better than ever – and result in

We couldn't find this information. don't hear so much from Mario Balotelli this week on the subject of & # 39; the world's greatest soccer players.

Earlier, after the Lionel Messi show during Barcelona & 3-0 victory over Liverpool, Balotelli wanted to participate in the long-running and meaningless debate on individual supremacy.

& # 39; For the love of

But many did – and negative. [Bewerken] [voeg lijst toe] Not Messi at Juventus No. 7 anymore, & I posted on Instagram.

It is a fight as the Portuguese Euro 2016 victory over Messi and its not a big tournament win with Argentina.

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Lionel Messi and Barcelona's misfortune in Anfield on Tuesday should not be at the expense of his genius

Both men are great football players. That they are also different in style and personality should increase our appreciation, not let us choose sides.

John Peel once said that naming the favorite album or group is like selecting the favorite limb. So it's with Messi and Ronaldo. Why choose?

The disaster that came over Messi and his team in Anfield on Tuesday must not be at the expense of his genius. It was a single game, a single performance, and it still took all Liverpool's power to control him.

Messi remained by far the best player in Barcelona, even in defeat. It is therefore best to keep him from blame and hope that it could unfold a little respect for the much-maligned & # 39; No 7 or Juventus & # 39; from Balotelli and his fellow travelers.

Messi, for all his talent, could not drag a faded Barcelona team to European success, but that is exactly what Ronaldo did for three years, just before he left Madrid. View them now. A little appreciation is certainly necessary?

It was a privilege to witness the achievements of two extraordinary talents, but why should I not leave it there? We might as well decide that there should be a preference for the Liverpool or Tottenham comeback this week. Can't we enjoy both? Football is meant to be fun, not Sophie's Choice.

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[Voetbalfans zouden zowel Messi als Cristiano Ronaldo moeten plezieren] In addition to the £ 4 million they spent in vain on their anchor tenant, West Ham, the London Legacy Development Corporation has also £ 100,000 transferred for acquiring a communication strategy – presumably advising how you can avoid being nailed to unnecessary legal disputes

This would not be bad if the LLDC had no communication team that annually Earned £ 260,000. Perhaps there are some stories beyond the wisdom of even the most inventive spider doctor.

A company that makes losses of £ 22.7 million – while in a legal fight with their most consistent and lucrative source of income – probably fits into that category. Indeed, the new Tottenham stadium has now started for top assessments, how long can the LLDC leaders and their various weapons for stadium management survive?

Every month, news about a different sport, a different potential income stream, abandons the stadium

Meanwhile, many years of maladministration have recently been sold at Tottenham and have been chosen as the location for the European club final of rugby in 2021.

what should have been an iconic location in East London in the bad relationship. It will cost much more than £ 100,000 to buffer the talents of the geniuses in the LLDC.

Police investigate Carl Benjamin, the UKIP candidate in the European elections, who thought it was acceptable to joke about whether or not Labor Labor member Jess Phillips was dismissed – although she was confronted on the street by a random male stranger who blamed her for being upset

If you want to know the level of daily intimidation of women in the public eye, remember that Karren Brady, time after time once, she says: she would have been involved in football if she had known the abuse she would get.

& # 39; Curses have been spit upon me, sung abusive and rejoiced at me – by phone, on paper and later on social media. Really, knowing what I know now, I don't think I would have taken the trouble, & she wrote in January.

Brady is the self-proclaimed first lady of football. Certainly, she is one of the most successful female sports managers in the country, with the reputation of being a flint-negotiating negotiator and not easily dismissed. If she even thinks she can miss it, we have really descended far from the garden.

Karren Brady says she would not have gone into football if she knew the abuse she

Tottenham has really tampered with the perfect end.

Even if Manchester City won the title, Liverpool could claim the Champions League against Ajax. That would mean that we must deny Spurs after their incredible European journey.

[Immortals]

You can also remember the driver during the club's victory parade takes a wrong turn in Norwich city center and that their open-top bus eventually along the A11 dual carriageway at 70mph, with Bassett and his entire team freezing half dead in the headwind.

This week, the very real players of the very real Norwich City see trying to give their own bright yellow open

Failed, they completed the journey instead on a bright red City Sightseeing bus . This is why satire is dead.

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] The players from Norwich City were seen trying to push their open roofs after it broke

Since the royal baby arrived on the day of Vincent Kompany & 30-yard screamer around Manchester City to put it on the edge of the title, a trick with the name Archie Harrison seems to have been missed Prince Vince – seriously, what's wrong with you people

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The Greatest Comic Cover of All Time

How do you pick ‘The Greatest Comic Cover Of All Time’? It’s hard. The first covers that came to mind were a couple of Jim Steranko Nick Fury covers. Two of my favourite artists are Jack Davis and Mick McMahon, but it was hard to pick one of their covers that stands head and shoulders above the rest. I thought about my favourite covers of recent years, Rian Hughes majestical Iron Man covers, but they're a set and it's difficult to isolate just one. So which cover is The Greatest Of All Time? Well, for me maybe it's one that features The Greatest Of All Time. Maybe it has to be something that fascinated me as a child, something glamorous and American and unobtainable like Sea Monkeys or Hostess Twinkies. Something epic, iconic, a cover that not only depicts two of the worlds greatest heroes going toe to toe but also features the Beatles, The Jackson 5, but also Sonny and Cher. And if there are any other comics covers that feature a cameo by Kurt. Goddamn. Vonnegut then I've managed to miss them. So...my submission for the Best Cover Ever? Ladies and gentleman: feast your eyes on the supersize Superman vs. Muhammad Ali cover by Neal Adams.

I only ever saw adverts for it in DC comics but how I used to hope it would turn up in a Hull newsagent when I was a kid. It never did. But the possibilities boggled my mind. ( If The Last Son Of Krypton could fight Ali, did that mean Batman could take on Evel Knievel? How about today? Ghost Rider Vs Bradley Wiggins? The Flash Vs. Usain Bolt? ) I finally got my hands on a copy when I was in my early twenties and I moved into our studio, Detonator. Unlike other unobtainable delights from the ads in the back of US comics ( yes, I'm looking at you, Sea Monkeys and Hostess Twinkies), my adult self was not disappointed. As Superman and Ali prepare to trade blows, Neal Adams and Dick Giordano depict a watching crowd packed with a galaxy of 70's stars, real and fictional. Batman, the Beatles, Christopher Reeve, the Harlem Globe Trotters, Lois Lane, robot decoy Clark Kent as well as various DC staffers are all assembled ringside to witness the Battle of the Century.

It's a great composition topped nicely with logos for each hero, but, what I still love now, is the crowd of likenesses. After doing thousands of likenesses in my book Hellraisers, I know just how punishing that kind of workload can be, but Adams, after an original layout by Joe Kubert, spent hours drawing the faces of the great and the good, and also kept up an impressive strike rate of Ali likenesses in the interior pages. ( Apparently, DC asked permission from everyone portrayed. ) Like Ali himself said ' I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and got into bed before the room was dark.' Just how fast is that? Faster than a speeding bullet...? I'm not going to spoil the ending...

This originally appeared on the Forbidden Planet blog, a brilliant resource curated by writer and critic @richardbruton Big thanks to Richard for asking me to contribute. The original intro as it appeared is below: ‘This week, it’s the turn of JAKe, the artist of the graphic novel Hellraisers for SelfMadeHero, which is just being released in the US. Right now. Go buy. (Amazon, Waterstones, Foyles, Hive) His other work includes a brilliantly different chapter in Nelson, How To Speak Wookiee and How To Speak Droid with R2-D2 for Lucasfilm / Chronicle Books. He is also the author of The Mammoth Book Of Street Art for Constable & Robinson. But for now... here’s JAKe’s fantastic pick for Best Cover EVER? and a wonderful write-up as well…’

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QUICK CHAT w/ Jamaica's Shantell "Shanz" Hill on Women + Sports + Media!

QUICK CHAT w/ Shantell “Shanz” Hill

Shantell “Shanz” Hill

This week our team had a little Quick Chat with the beautiful Shantell “Shanz” Hill of Jamaica. Shanz holds a Masters of Science Degree in Entertainment business (Full Sail University, FL), as well as a Bachelor’s of Science Degree (Hons.) in Hospitality and Tourism Management (UTECH, Jamaica), majoring in Food Service Management. Shanz is currently the only female marketing manager in Caribbean Premiere League and holds the title as Head of Marketing and Brand Communications for the Jamaica Tallawahs.

17 QUICK QUESTIONS with SHANZ

Tell us about where you’re from. I am from the bustling town of Old Harbour, St. Catherine (Jamaica). Spent my childhood between the community of Old Harbour Bay then Marlie Mount.

Who or what inspired you to become involved in media? Media happened in three stages for me.

Stage 1 Whilst in university (University of Technology, Kingston Jamaica) a friend who had his own cable had an event – Carnival.. maybe Fashion Week I believe … and his host could make it, at the start he asked if I could host and after a few minute Richard had the mic in my hand and the camera in my face.

Stage 2: My second entry was in 2009, I was 23 years old – I stared a Public Relations and Social Media Marketing Agency, after 6 months in Big Yard Music Label recruited me and parters to manage the digital and PR affairs of its then roaster ( Christopher Martin, D- Major, Shaggy and Cecile etc). I stayed in the industry through the years, expanding in my participation.

Stage 3: On- Air (FAME 95FM) and TV (RE TV) personality for in the RJR GLEANER Group, in 2017 six months after joining the group as the Digital Brand Manager for Radio Services, the general manager of Radio – Dr. Dennis Howard called me in a meeting and advised me that I will be having my own show, he told myself and the program manager to banister a concept- this gave birth to IN Da Mix; it allowed me to talk about food, fashion, technology, moves and events – all the things I loved. Being both on Radio and TV gave me a perfect platform for expand the entertainment awareness for lifestyle conversation as well as to display my passion for soca and entertainment events.

3. How and when did you started in sports media? Sports Media ..Hmm I would say sports Marketing! I have been around sports all my life my family is a Pro- Sports family. Dad, uncles, cousins and brothers all played football and those who can’t play are sports photographers or markets (haha me).. I played Basketball in high school – Old Harbour High, that afforded me sporting scholarship to UTECH where I never suited up for Knights in basketball but did two seasons from then in football ( yes i was the Goal Keeper – No. 6 is still my number) and also for my faculty SHTM. But I actually started in track and field ( spent a little over 10 years with athletics in an informal way, supporting brands like Adidas and Puma). However my formal entry came in 2016 (I has migrated back to Jamaica from the USA, post my Masters of Entertainment Business Degree from FullSail), and took a meeting with the former owners ( Ron Parikh and Manish Patel ) of the Tallawahs Franchise. The meeting was to manage the party stand given my background, however I left the meeting with an offer to become the Head of Marketing for the Tallawahs, which I accepted in a heart beat.. why not!

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4. What sport(s) do you enjoy covering most? Wow … I’d be very biased and say Cricket, well more specially CPL T20 . The tournament is amazing, the energy and opportunity to showcase our young and aspiring talents, our county, culture and caribbean makes me truly happy. CPL attracts 11 Million eyes annually and growing through our leadership in the digital space and diversity of teams, so having that power to influence makes it enjoyable.

5. Name 3 of your favorite athletes. Wow that’s like asking a mom to say who is her favourite child … Hmmm

let’s see -Thierry Henry (formally of Arsenal) Usain Bolt, Oshane Thomas (I am beyond excited about his future as a fast bowler.

6. Do you believe that there is gender equality in Caribbean sports? Gender equity and inclusion has A LOT more room for growth, I am seeing small steps both on the field and off but I’d say we have about 70% room for added growth. Even in cricket I am looking forward to seeing more women both participating as well as in roles of leadership so as to support the growth of the sport. When I love at CPL our stadium is at 45 % female fans and social media has a higher ratio which means women are fans who will later become administrative support, which can become leading roles sooner than later.

7. Which female media personalities currently inspire you? I would have to – Debbie Harris (both on and off screen), Trsihana McGowan and Karren Madden (Girls Sports Club) … oh wait Alexis Jordan she did a great job with Fan View on CPL this year.

8. Favorite Recording Artist? Oh My gosh ..asking me to pick my favorite child! Let me break the rules and give you a few whom I am excited to grow beyond the region:

Christopher Martin, Kes, D’Yani (super talented), Voice, Tosh Alexander, Kim Nain, Khalia, Naomi Cowan ..my list is never ending, oh and Jada Kingdom. Keep a tab on those names.

9. Favorite Movie? I am a hopeless romantic so I’d say Pretty Woman and Happily Ever After (50/50..haha)

10. Favorite Country to visit? Oh wow Normally i’d say London because of its rich culture and family but Thialand stole my heart last year. – Chang Man is now my home away from home if ever it was to be so.

11. Single or Taken? Single legally (…no ring yet) however my heart is currently occupied.

12. If your personality was a smoothie; what would be the ingredients? Easiest question … I’d say make this smoothie yours too!

1/4 cup FOSKA Oats (yes the brand quality is important), 1 Banana, Tsp Flax Seed, 1 Slice Mango, Ice Cubes, 1 Scoop of iceCream, 1 Tblspn of Peanut or Chocolate Chip Cookie, 1/2 Cup Water and or Milk to texture you see fit.

13. What can be done regionally to get more women involved in sports media? Wow so much more lets start with a Sports Marketing – Elective in CAPE or UWI. Get females into the mindset of moving from fans to FAMS (Female Agent Momigers ..yup I made that up. Women are built in nurturers and women are passionate, why not groom them to express to two essential qualities alongside management skills (which we know is one of the highest in the world). I want to see more women on the slide lines, marketing, presidents, board members on sports not just business and not just because they are “WOMEN” because they are capable and they can influence consumers.

14. Identify what lessons you’ve learned so far in the sports industry. I have so many lessons wow I could write a book, but I being hard-working and communicating well is by far the best quality you can have not just in business, or sports but in life. Knowing how to communicate effectively and in timely manner illuminates 90% of issues that can make your careers more difficult. Once you master effective communication both written and oral then honesty, resilience and reliability are key to making your efforts a success.

15. Name 3 Caribbean islands you’d love to visit? So easy … Cuba, Barbados (still can’t believe I haven’t visited) and Anguilla,

16. What do you like to do outside of sports? Music & Food (my Bachelors is Food and I Certified in Baking Technology … yup i am an unofficial executive chef ..lol) I am as much passion for each as I do for media and sports.

17. What’s the best career advice you can give to someone looking into getting into the industry? Be Passionate about every task, be honest in everything you do, work harder thank you planned to and most importantly listen more than you’d like to.

#Shanz #cpl #Cricket #Full Sail University #jamaica #Shantell Hill

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Balm of hurt minds

The title of this piece refers, of course, to the Bard’s description of sleep, which, forgive my snootiness, but I feel compelled to post in full, “ Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.” Well, sleep or beer, I suppose both apply. But, I did manage to get many hours of sleep in last night, thanks to my psychiatrist increasing the dosage on a few things, and/or reaching the maximum human limit of exhaustion and my body simply shutting down.

Anyway, after 10-11 hours of what Wodehouse once described as “the d. and d.,” I felt infinitely better than I have at any point in the last week or so. I almost felt too good. Don’t get me wrong, I still feel like the world’s worst flu/hangover, my head hurts a lot, and I’m still up shit creek without a paddle, but I do feel like my mind and body are in the same zip code. Which can improve your outlook dramatically.

Then I took the steroids. I realize I was previously skeptical of this drug (decadron, to be exact), because it tends to make me aggressive and give me a gurgly tummy. HOWEVER, there are a few factors at play here to consider. The first is that Radiation Oncologist heard my pleas, and started me on a much, much lower dose than the standard decadron. Also, Radiation Nurse gave me a much better briefing about the prilosec (that’s not what I was given to counteract the decadron, but I’m not inclined to go rooting through my pill drawer to figure out what I’m taking). A brief aside - and this is definitely worth knowing if you plan on getting cancer - I’ve read cancer patient accounts about chemo and using zofran, and still having massive nausea and vomiting. I was told - repeatedly, and emphatically by the pharmacist who explained what I was putting in my body - that zofran, while absolutely superb at preventing nausea (as I can attest), isn’t very good at ending it, so I should take it at least an hour before my death pills (I mean, chemo). Solid advice that’s worked well for me thus far. In a similar fashion, when given a briefing on the decadron, and the prilosec, they told me to take the prilosec well before the decadron, and take decadron with food. I interpreted that as, “prilosec goes in the morning pill slot, decadron in the lunch slot; make sure you get lunch on a regular basis.” It’s also worth noting that I am getting way, way, way below the standard dose of steroids (I guess all that complaining about side effects made an impression on Radiation Oncologist)(it pays to whine frequently and loudly)(that is the major take-away from this sordid tale).

So. Ten hours of sleep. Start the day with some coffee and assorted cancer patient medications. Light lunch. More cancer medications (that’s going to be a theme throughout these tales), including the steroids. Folks, I take back every bad thing I ever said about decadron. I went from “pretty good” to “immune to the ravages of the universe” within an hour. And, sure, there were a few side-effects, like some minor tummy gurgles, but nothing as terrifying as I remember from my previous experiences (which involved taking the prilosec and decadron at the same time)(and a much higher decadron dose, let’s not recall)(and certainly nothing as terrifying as the nightly minor-unpleasantness of the death pills). But, for the most part, I’m back, baby. Now, I’ll admit that moving at Usain Bolt speeds (yes, I was pretty much sprinting around the gym this afternoon) and feeling clearer-headed than previous weeks does not a complete come-back make. Also, ironically, there’s a decent chance my zeal and enthusiasm in the gym might’ve led to some muscle strain, but, fortunately, I have steroids to take the edge off that)(which will make me irritable and drive me to the gym, where I will further injure myself because I’m temporarily impervious to pain, which will require more steroids, etc. until I wake up Barry Bonds. I did ask Radiation Nurse about that possibility (of unwittingly injuring myself under the influence of anti-inflammatory agents), and she didn’t think it would be a major problem. Oddly enough, she was more alarmed by the fact that I’m still going to the gym; I guess cancer patients are given mind-boggling amounts of drugs that enable them to live mostly-normal lives so they can wallow at home. Don’t get me wrong; I love a good wallow, as everyone who reads this knows, but if something’s going to kill me, it’ll be the actual brain cancer. And, as far as I know, barbells are not linked to cancer progression (I also realize she’s more worried about increased intracranial pressure, but what she doesn’t know is that I have been given many, many, many graduate-level bedside seminars by attending residents and nurses, because I did have ICP issues with Surgery #1 and Surgery #3)(what they also don’t know is that my first neurosurgeon - whose skill still remains above reproach, even though I aged out of his capable care - thought so little of ICP as an indicator in a clinical setting that he showed me how to increase it and set the machines off). The bottom line - and I’m almost angry it took me half of he initial radiation course to figure it out - is that if you’re feeling even slightly off - about anything - talk to your physicians, they’ll have a pill (or two)(or three) that will enable normal activities. A word of warning with that endorsement; I would only take that approach with top-rated physicians; you don’t want Dr. Earl at Bill’s Gas and Pharmacy to start randomly giving you prescriptions. Yes, that’s a little elitist, but I also worked as an EMT; you would be absolutely amazed at how bad things have to be before the system takes steps to correct itself.

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New England Comes up Small in Miami

By Michael Vallee

On a night when the Patriots were out-played, out-hit, out-coached and out-classed it’s instinctual to react. Is the defense overrated? Are they now doomed against Pittsburgh? Is Brady finally showing his age late in the year? It’s the easy and obvious thing to do. If you see a guy get his ass kicked in a fight, then someone asks you if you think he will win his next fight. It’s hard to look at his bloodied face and answer “Yes.” It’s just human nature. But don’t fall into that trap. Sure, New England was dominated for virtually all four quarters, on both sides of the ball and all along the trenches, but in the grand scheme of things the Patriots’ deceptively close 27-20 loss to Miami means absolutely nothing.

Monday night’s Patriots game was what I call a typical NFL “exception to the rule” game and for all predictions and projections going forward it should be ignored. That’s right, ignored. Forget it, wipe it from your mental hard drive, erase it from your DVR, in the immortal words of Donnie Brasco, “Fuggetaboutit”. Over the course of a long NFL season these “exception to the rule” games will crop up from time to time. They are games where the two teams behave so wildly different from everything we know about both of them that it defies logic. It would be like turning on your TV and hearing Phil Simms say something coherent.

Does anyone remember that the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 30-9 in Pittsburgh? And did it matter? Hell no, the Jaguars lost at home the following week by double digits and the Steelers went on to win eight straight. Does anyone remember the lowly Chicago Bears beating the Carolina Panthers 17-3? And the fallout? None. The Panthers won four of their next five and the Bears lost five in a row. How about the Baltimore Ravens beating the Miami Dolphins 40-0, week 8. Did this spur the Ravens to great things and ruin the Dolphins season? Not really, the Dolphins went on a little slide but here we are six weeks later and both teams are hovering around .500. These games happen all the time and the results, while shocking, determine very little about either team.

The Patriots certainly have their own history with these games. In fact, they played the ultimate “exception to the rule” game opening night when they were shellacked at home by the Kansas City Chiefs, 42-27. A harbinger of things to come? Hardly. The Chiefs have gone .500 since and the Patriots won 10 of their next 12.

The ultimate example of this came in 2014 when those same Chiefs destroyed the Patriots 41-14 in the now infamous, “They’re not good anymore game”, a quote from Trent Dilfer that illustrates just how easy it is to overreact to these results. But we all remember what happened, the Patriots won their next seven games and finished 13-2 over their final 15, culminating in yet another Super Bowl title. Illustrating that not only are these games not an indicator of future results, they might actually help the team on the losing end. These surprising lopsided defeats can be both humbling and galvanizing, resulting in a team sharpening its edge and rallying around the negative publicity.

Another famous example from the Belichick era was the 31-0 beatdown New England suffered at the hands of the Buffalo Bills week 1 of the 2003 season - the game now known as the “Lawyer Milloy game”. Following that humiliating defeat the Patriots won 16 of their next 17 including the Super Bowl and the Drew Bledsoe Bills finished the season with a record of 6-10.

These games are by no means a new phenomenon. In 1994 the eventual Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers lost at home 40-8 to the lowly Philadelphia Eagles. It was as big an ass-whooping as the score indicates. The Impact? The Niners went 13-1 to close out the season and were later named one of the 20 greatest teams in NFL history. The Eagles finished the season on a 3-8 spiral costing charismatic head coach Rich Kotite his job. In 1979 the always terrible Cincinnati Bengals beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 34-10. The Bengals finished with a record of 4-12, the Steelers finished the season with their 4th Super Bowl title.

We know these games happen but the perplexing question is why? There are a variety of potential reasons.

-Looking ahead: It happens at every level of football. It’s human nature. When you have a crucial game in two weeks it’s easy to look past the shitty opponent you’re playing that week. Patriots vs Pittsburgh is the most important regular season game of the 2017 NFL season. Both teams have had it circled for weeks, Tomlin outright admitted that. This was a classic spot to start looking ahead on the schedule.

-Motivation: This game meant little to New England. Beat Pitt and you are the number one seed, lose and you’re not. Same exact stakes if they had beaten Miami. Additionally they had easily defeated Miami just two weeks earlier. For the Patriots this game was a big giant yawn. For Miami this was their Super Bowl. Not only was it essential they win to have any semblance of a chance to make the playoffs but this was their chance to save what is likely a lost season. A chance to avenge a chippy loss at Gillette and register a signature win to build on for next season.

-Division rival: Division games have typically been a breeding ground for big upsets. One reason might be the emotional component fueled by the familiarity of a division foe. Simply put, these teams know each other too well to be intimidated and the close quarters of the division generally fuels hatred. A team that is motivated, fueled by hate and not easily intimidated is in a perfect mindset to pull an upset. This is one of the reasons why you see so many upsets, including dominating upsets like Monday night, in division games.

-Injuries/Suspensions: I love it when people say, “Injuries are no excuse”. Actually, they are the opposite of that, they are a great excuse. If the Packers lose a close game and their fans say they lost because Aaron Rodgers is hurt, isn’t that a perfectly valid statement? A fact, really. Obviously it’s not an excuse you ever want to hear from the actual team because a team wallowing in self-pity is not a team that’s going to win a lot of football games. But it’s a perfectly legit reason for a team to have a bad night. The Patriots defense was decimated up front and their offense was without Gronk, one of its best players and it’s emotional spark plug. Gronk’s value to an Edelman-less offense can’t be overstated. Gronk makes everything work. He helps the passing game, he helps the running game and he draws defenders away from his teammates. He exudes a confidence that is infectious. Almost any game the Patriots play without Gronk and Edelman is a game they can lose.

-The X-Factor: This final category encapsulates all the random unforseen landmines that can pop up during an NFL season. The “Lawyer Milloy game” we mentioned earlier is a perfect example. Nobody, including the entire Patriots locker room, could have envisioned that New England would cut one of its starters and team leaders on the eve of the 2003 season and that he would sign with the team they were playing week one. Last Monday the Patriots were playing their fourth road game in five weeks including a two-week high altitude trek through Denver and Mexico City. That would wear on any team. Compounding the problem, that fourth game was being played in a stadium that has been a proverbial house of horrors for New England. That’s a bad spot for any team.

For those of you keeping score at home, that’s five boxes checked for the Patriots. Any one of the above five factors could trigger an “exception to the rule” game and the Patriots were dealing with a perfect storm of all five. You could argue that the most surprising thing about Monday night was not the final score but the size of the point spread (New England -11).

Whatever the reason for the 2017 Dolphins suddenly looking like the 1972 Dolphins and the Patriots looking like some cheap impostor, it is irrelevant. None of it matters now. The Patriots have what amounts to a winner-take-all game in Pittsburgh and if they take care of business the road to the Super Bowl goes through Foxboro. If not, the Patriots have to find a way to win a big road game in the playoffs, something they haven’t done in over a decade. Either way, come Sunday afternoon you can expect a much better effort from the defending champs than what you saw Monday night, as they put yet another “exception to the rule” game in their rearview mirror.

Game Notes

-Catch me if you can: Did you see Kenyan Drake run past Elandon Roberts like Usain Bolt running past a mailbox. What’s that going to look like when it’s Le’veon Bell? I imagine Belichick is hard at work in his lair trying to solve that quandary.

-Show me the money: It was another tough game for Butler who has seemed out of sorts for much of the season. Then after the game he had an odd moment where he retweeted a graphic showing how effective Jay Cutler was against the Patriots’ blitz. The retweet was then un-tweeted (de-tweeted?) and Butler would later call the whole thing a “misunderstanding”. Normally a guy in a contract year plays his best football, something the Patriots might have been banking on when they didn’t give him a contract in the offseason. As a general principle that might be correct but for this player New England might have played this one wrong. Butler has not been himself all year and you have to wonder if it’s because of the money.

-Cutler’s numbers against the Patriots’ blitz: 16-20, 186 yards, two TDs, QB rating: 138.8

-Staying Power: A lot of panic talk swirled around the NFL after Brady’s lousy performance, with much of it centered around his stamina. Last year Brady had the benefit of a four-game deflategate vacation to keep his legs and arm fresh for the playoffs. This year with Brady playing a full slate of games some have been speculating that his body might not be up to the task. Maybe it’s something worth monitoring but it seems a little premature to express concern for a guy that is the current favorite to win the MVP.

-Tommy Two times: Monday night was the first time in 30 games that Brady has thrown two interceptions in a game. The first pick was a bad decision but the second interception was a spectacular play by cornerback Xavien Howard who closed late to rob Brandin Cooks of a big gain.

-Jordan Richards whiff on a 3rd down sack pretty much sums up his entire sorry career with New England. A terrible draft pick.

-Mastering the master: It’s something we haven’t said often in the last 17 years but Adam Gase completely out-coached Bill Belichick monday night. Gase took away the middle of the field for New England’s receivers, effectively pressured Brady with well timed blitzes and repeatedly found creative ways to get the ball to his playmakers.

-If the Patriots lose to the Steelers and the Jaguars beat the Texans, the Patriots will be the number three seed.

-Jimmy G to the rescue: If New England wants to crawl out of that three seed and re-secure a first round bye they might need some help from an old friend. The Jaguars travel to San Francisco week 16 to face the undefeated Jimmy Garoppolo.

-Jay Cutler still sucks.

-Planes, trains and automobiles: The NFL didn’t do the Patriots any favors with the scheduling. A lot of people don’t know this but it is rare for a team to be on the road for Monday night football then on the road again the following week. In fact, it has only happened three time in the last two years and the results are not pretty. Teams in that spot are 0-3 the last two years, losing by an average margin of 15 points.

-The Patriots are an inexplicable 20-6 with Gronkowski out of the lineup.

-Felix and Oscar: I love MNF play-by-play guy Sean McDonough, and analyst Jon Gruden has his moments, but they are broadcasting’s odd couple. Whenever they’re together on screen it feels like both of them are really uncomfortable which, for the viewer, is like watching one of those really awkward scenes from an episode of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’.

-Yankee doodle dandy: Speaking of Gruden, his high praise of the military during the game followed by the proud declaration, “It’s great to be an American” felt awfully scripted.

-Arrested development: Interesting move by the Patriots to sign WR Kenny Britt off the scrap heap. Britt is a tall fast receiver that can take the top of the defense and last year registered a career high 1002 yards receiving. He also continues New England’s tradition of acquiring a late-season derelict for the playoffs as Britt has had numerous run-ins with law enforcement. The signing also required a change of heart from Bob Kraft who shot down the very idea of signing Britt when the Patriots hosted him for a visit three years ago, “We won’t be signing him. That won’t happen”, said Kraft at the time. My favorite nugget from his arrest record is that he was arrested at a car wash. What could possibly happen at the local Scrub-a-dub that would have you leaving there in handcuffs? To Britt’s credit he has been clean since 2013.

-Trick or treat: No update on disgraced Dolphins coach Chris Foerster, who resigned in October after a video surfaced that he sent to an alleged hooker showing him proudly snorting some yayo. It was a regrettable moment for all involved but at least it produced some classic Halloween costumes.

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