#flightsoffancyonpaperwings

[simplyghosting]

Soup for you 🍲

MMM delicious!! <3

[secret--psalms--saturn]

Heather, Lavender, Magenta, and Plum?

Heather- Do you like musicals? Which is your favorite?

I love musicals! oh gosh i think its a tie between phantom and les mis

Lavender- Describe your best friend(s).

My irl bestie is smart, lovely, kind, persistent and loves Jesus! Shes so patient and works hard at everything she does. She beautiful. I love her.

@flightsoffancyonpaperwings (you) is a gorgeous borb, funny, creative, a great friend, beautiful, and loves Jesus, trees, and birds!

@milkygastrobones is my nerdy christian friend that i could not possibly ask for more. I love her. She’s a servant of God and everyone around her. 100% swiss cheese melk. Could talk to her about anything and everything. She’s honest. 10/10 would recommend. Her laugh is contagious and hilarious

@simplyghosting is the sweet summer child friend. She works hard, does awesome sticky notes and hecka funny. trying her best. Always a friend when you’re in need and a shoulder to cry on. Edit: she also love Jesus

Magenta- If you were to make a time capsule, what would you put in it?

mmmm a drawing probably

Plum- If you could travel anywhere, where would you want to go?

Ireland, Germany, or back to rome

I’d also like to see my friends

[transcriptroopers]

Hiya! So, I have a futuristic story in which there are aliens who use a military system based primarily on Earth's (mainly U.S.) systems. My character is in charge of his own unit, regularly goes out into the field for, say, rescue missions, assist to planetary (foreign) defence, and destroying illegal research facilities. He also has the authority to issue commands to units other that his own, in the field. What is the most likely rank for him to be?

I’d like to just clarify a thing: soldiers can only issue commands to people in their own units. I mean, formally speaking. Sometimes higher ups will walk by and tell privates to start cleaning or something and we just have to do it because we don’t want trouble, but no one can just grab soldiers from unrelated units and make them do stuff Because Rank. At least, they aren’t supposed to. So as far as that’s concerned, there’s no rank for that. In a war zone, especially with limited communications, soldiers might team up with people from other units in order to complete their mission. Sometimes someone might fill in for or be sent over to assist your unit; I know we swapped mechanics sometimes if we needed hands. In that case it’s less about rank being important and more about mission necessity. War zones will almost always have some exceptions.But just like. You know. Generally speaking you can’t walk up to some random guy in uniform and be like “you’re working for me now” and expect it to work. One of the first things in the army we learn is that we do not leave our assigned place of duty without the proper authorization, so even if a colonel walked up to me and told me to go with him I’d still track down my NCO first. Anyway that was longer than I intended sorry.Other than lieutenants, officers aren’t typically spending a ton of time doing fields and exercises and such. They usually delegate missions in the field to an NCO and the appropriate sized unit to perform the mission. So especially if your guy regularly goes on field missions, especially to destroy buildings, I’m guessing he’s an NCO. Because it’s clear you’re intending for this person to have more power than the average NCO and yet you want them to actually attend the missions, I think a platoon sergeant E-6/E-7 (staff sergeant/sergeant first class) might be alright. They’d be a platoon sergeant in charge of between 30 - 50 people, which would be in a company consisting of about 100 - 200 people. Above them would be their first sergeant, an E-8, and their company commander, a captain, O-3. A SFC (sergeant first class) is considered a “senior NCO,” implying longevity and experience. They usually delegate down to squad leaders (of whom they’ll usually have three to five) but will often be in the field with their platoon. They might go on missions like you’ve described, although more likely they’d be sending someone else to do the hardest stuff. It’s just a fact of the army that the lower rank you are, the more you’re sent to do because there’s more of you and you’re more expendable. If your facilities are very specially dangerous missions, I probably wouldn’t bat an eye if a SFC went in the line of fire/ assaulting the building as well, whereas with a first sergeant I might give you a side-eye and wonder what he’s doing all the way out here when he’s got a whole ‘nother company to be looking after. Unless, you know, the entire company is there assaulting the same location and he needs to organize it. But usually it’s not that simple and I’m not sure you want to be working with 100-200 soldiers regularly.

It also wouldn’t be that unlikely for a SFC to use soldiers from other platoons. They’re all in the same company, but they’re different units, and platoon sergeants are usually cool enough that they’ll lend each other hands when needed. Plus people from other units would recognize the platoon sergeant and be more likely to fall right in if their leadership has failed. It’d be a little trickier if you went up another level because then a first sergeant would be looking at someone from another company, another beast entirely. Internal affairs within the company are easier. I’d be much more likely to trust and leave with another platoon’s SFC than I would be some random colonel I’ve never been before.I did say it’s reasonable for a lieutenant to frequently be in the field with their platoon, so your character could also be a first or second lieutenant, and the platoon sergeant will probably work closely with them so most of what I’ve said applies to them as well. But that rank implies incompetence and newness, so that might not be the air you’re going for. Up to you.

-Kingsley

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[scriptlawyer-blog]

Okay, so I have a character (15 yrs. old) who has lost both her parents. Her father to suicide when she was 8, and her mother to mysterious, but not investigated, events, (when she was 12.) My character has no close family left, (her grandpa is alive unable to care for her), and all her distant relations live in another country. She is looked after by her mother's close friend. Is it legally feasible for him to do so? Like paying for all of her food and shelter, being responsible for her health?

Yes, this is very feasible, common, and not at all unusual. Any person can be awarded custody of a child. When the mother died, if she didn’t have a will that specified who should take care of the child, and there were no immediate family members able and/or willing to take her, then child protective services would look for another family to take her in. People like close friends and neighbours, if they were willing to take her in, would be looked at seriously. 

If the mother left intentionally she may have sent the child to the friend before going, or the child might have gone to the friend when she found her mother gone. So long as the friend took her in willingly, and made sure she was well-taken-care-of, no one likely would question it.

It would probably help you a lot to look through my custody tag as well.

[simplyghosting]

Ghost olive :3c

Considering I dress like this half the time, you are not far off.

[secret--psalms--saturn]

✍Eden & ✍Hollie? :3c

im supposed to be doin hw

[secret--psalms--saturn]

Hey! :3c

1. First impression: This girl is nice, a bit timid (also excited i found someone who was a christian fantasy writer)2. Truth is: i never expected to be really close friends but im glad we are!!!! I love you :3c3. How old do you look: 16 lol4. Have you ever made me laugh: of coarse5. Have you ever made me mad: no6. Best feature: uhhhh UUUHHHH youre so adorable and your writing is great7. Have I ever had a crush on you: no8. You’re my: bff on the interwebz

[secret--psalms--saturn]

Poetry + Cliff, Wind, and Solitude

Thanks! I didn’t like where I was going so I just stopped there!

Send me “poetry” plus a few words for a hand written poem!