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[maxkirin]

So, let me guess– you just started a new book, right? And you’re stumped. You have no idea how much an AK47 goes for nowadays. I get ya, cousin. Tough world we live in. A writer’s gotta know, but them NSA hounds are after ya 24/7. I know, cousin, I know. If there was only a way to find out all of this rather edgy information without getting yourself in trouble…

You’re in luck, cousin. I have just the thing for ya.

It’s called Havocscope. It’s got information and prices for all sorts of edgy information. Ever wondered how much cocaine costs by the gram, or how much a kidney sells for, or (worst of all) how much it costs to hire an assassin?

I got your back, cousin. Just head over to Havocscope.

((PS: In case you’re wondering, Havocscope is a database full of information regarding the criminal underworld. The information you will find there has been taken from newspapers and police reports. It’s perfectly legal, no need to worry about the NSA hounds, cousin ;p))

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[writing-prompt-s]

Assassins

“Below are selected prices that are paid to professional assassins by criminal organizations and drug cartels for a contract hit.

In Australia, the median price to hire a hit man is $13,610 (9,800 Euros), with the price going up to $83,000 (60,000 Euros) based on the task.

In Mexico, the cost for a low level assassin is $208 (150 Euros), and up to $20,832 (15,000 Euros) for a higher profile target like a police chief.

The prices paid in Argentina are between $3,749 (2,700 Euros) to $5,555 (4,000 Euros) per hit.

Government statistics in Spain state that 40 assassinations take place each year, with prices for the hit ranging between $27 (20 Euros) to $69,000 (50,000 Euros).”

So cheap! I always thought things like this would cost more than $1 million…

[writer-wannabe-needs-inspiration]

This is super useful to know!

[writing-prompt-s]

and not just for writing!!

[ladybugseatppl]

@katherine-rose

[katherine-rose]

HOLY FUCK

HOW MANY HOURS HAVE I WASTED TRYING TO FIND HEROIN PRICES ON THE INTERNET WHAT A GREAT DATABASE

[midnight-spectrum-again]

I needed this

[rheevalka]

Actually useful. Sometimes incognito isn’t enough.

[candycorncandle]

For my leverage geeks-

@jack-the-bear @what—i-dated-a @cheshasleverage @letsstealsomethiefjuice @no-stabbing-wednesdays @theforcedfamilyjob @thieves-never-say-die @leverage-ot3

[drunkbeefstudio]

I will forever love the scene of Snape protecting the Golden Trio from Remus. He's about to tell them off but quickly goes into protector mode, making sure they're behind him as he faced the same beast that almost killed him when he was a teen and had no one to protect him.

[clawedandcute]

One reason I love Rose Tyler is she had this raw, "illogical" compassion. No one had to tell her to do the right thing or throw herself in front of someone else to protect them; she just DID IT. Instinctively. Because it was the thing to do. She was a normal girl, raised by a normal mom who did her best, and when the pedal hit the metal, she always did the right thing. Bravery was a habit. She was born to slay dragons.

[iraffiruse]

[kingsleyyy-deactivated20160914]

i swear it would be easier to explain if someone looked over my shoulder and saw me watching porn than to explain some of the posts on my damn dashboard…this being one of them

[realbandofbrotherslittlesister]

@daniexa I FOUND IT!!!

[medic981]

Un-find it!!!!

[mayday396]

Oh this Hellsite makes things Better

[thinkiamgonnabeanon]

How can I get my posture like this ? Please help. I’m so bad a hip thrust dancing 😂😂😂

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[thinkiamgonnabeanon]

Yess. Be proud of Pride

[blasphemy-no-repentance]

TIMEY WIMEY???

OH MY RASSILION THIS IS CANON YALL

[thinkiamgonnabeanon]

She wrote the book ‘how to haunt the narrative’ 🤭🤭

[marcywu67]

Everything is timepetals if you try hard enough…

[weavemama]

daily reminder that there is absolutely nothing normal about being expected to waste a majority of your life at a corporation to survive instead of indulging in better life experiences ✨

[ralfmaximus]

In the 1960s it was a common speculation that by 1980 the typical work week would consist of 4 days. And by the year 2000 we’d be working no more than 3 days a week.

Because of computerization, automation, and better efficiencies in workflow.

Guess what happened instead?

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[ngalitzine]

DOCTOR WHO | 1.13

[thinkiamgonnabeanon]

My OTP. My hearts

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Les dances à travers le monde

[apollosdrunkenmixup]

my favourite thing about this is some are very traditional dances integral to that country/culture; and some are one individuals favourite move

and he approaches all of them with enthusiasm and a surprising amount of skill

[sani-86]

Watching this makes me happy

[thinkiamgonnabeanon]

There are some good things in the world

[dxvduni]

severus snape vs james potter

when it comes to severus snape and james potter; one character was inspired by an autistic man who taught chemistry who often enlivened his chemistry classes with songs about science and about a sinister wizard.  a very skilled photographer, quite a good cartoonist and comic writer. an active sjw. a feminist. a socialist. a man who wasn't ashamed of his autism. a husband who practically worshipped his wife and believed it was the duty of man to worship women, more or less literally. was vehemently against patriarchy. a professor who hired a disabled woman as his lab assistant (who happens to be harry potter author's mother) despite resistance, then fought relentlessly for improved disability access for her and have a accessible lavatory made for her. repeatedly martyed himself fighting his employers and knowingly getting himself into trouble and stress, in order to champion the cause of child-centred learning. loved reaching and teaching the less able students. a much re-elected local councillor (labour) and protected his constituents. even when he was dying of cancer he drove around checking up on the safety of constituents (two women and a man) whom he knew to be in danger from violent exes. a local historian, who personally rediscovered one of the lost wonders of britain, and had a scientific paper published on it. he was also an expert on astronomy.  he did all while at the same time, dealing with the collapse of his first marriage, chronic insomnia, workplace bullying from senior staff because of his educational views and mockery, physical bullying from students for being odd. the second character, meanwhile, was reportedly based on two different men. one was an estranged father who married his secretary less than two years after his wife died and was allegedly involved in a secret cannabis operation. the other was an abusive and violent husband who openly admitted he did not regret hitting his wife, withheld the author’s original scripts while threatening to burn them and even kept the house key hostage to stop his wife from leaving. the first man i mentioned was john nettleship. and james potter was not based on john nettleship. and that fact, honestly says plenty on its own.

[thelostprojector]

FUCKING YES YES YES!!!! Man never have I been more happy about my choice of favourite character. Wdym the man behind this character is a bloody brilliant man?! AND A GREAT ONE TOO (A FEMINIST??!! LIKE YES BABY!)

[pirateeverything]

i've seen it written that james character and story was originally written before Rowlings husband became abusive, hence why in the earlier books snape and james are described as rivals. it's really only in POA that snape says that james was a bully that needed 3 friends backing him up before attacking him {which isn't entirely true, sirius was back-up, pettigrew was a cheerleader, and lupin tried not to watch}. the marauders are also a later addition to the story, orginally it was a muggle that told on were to find the potters, not sure how much that affected the story.

so james character ironically becomes first an idolized version adults tell a child, which is based of a woman being love bombed. and then we see the true colours of said man later on. and then you've got nettleship, who ironically will be remembered for decades because rowling just didn't like him.

[dxvduni]

i love this! it genuinely saddens me that jkr wanted to write him off as “evil” simply because he was sarcastic, bitter as a teacher — when, at the time, he was apparently dealing with a messy divorce and chronic insomnia, things she didn’t even know about. and then she kept projecting the friendship john had with her mother — who, btw, was the lab assistant i mentioned earlier — into this whole “unrequited lifelong love” narrative, when in reality that man absolutely worshipped his wife and family and was only trying to be a good friend and mentor to jkr's mother.

lily is inspired by jkr's mother.

[my-dailydreams]

[guerrillatech]

[huntresslittlered13]

let her be everything because she is everything. (insp.)

[gzltheduck]

The Presence of Absence

I’ve been reading some twelverose and had to think back on a scene, at the very beginning of season 10, when he was guarding the vault at that university. You know the one where the camera pans across his office desk and we see a photo of Susan and River?

I remember how people made edits of Rose‘s photo on his desk and all, and while it did annoy me (and others) that Rose – arguably a very important person to the Doctor, considering the positive impact on him, post-Time War – was missing, back then, I think now, I see her absence differently.

Rose‘s presence post-Doomsday/Tentoo is most felt with her absence. The Doctor (from 11 onwards) doesn’t talk about her and we get less references[1] but, perhaps inadvertently, the absence of a mention or reference becomes the reference itself.

The Doctor carries his deepest grief and feelings within himself. He almost never mentions, displays or shows any reminders because it a) the reminders hurt and b) it feels way too vulnerable to have people see he has experienced loss and pain. That he cares and that it breaks his hearts.

So, I think the specific absence of Rose has more to do with the fact that the Doctor carries her reminder (her presence) everywhere he goes. He doesn’t need a physical object (though it happens on occasion)[2] because Rose had such an impact on him that, in the quiet moments, whenever he sees or hears something that reminds him of her, he pauses for a moment; he remembers and then he tucks it away again. It’s quiet, it’s reflective and it’s private.

Linda Nochlin[3] once said the absence in a painting is as much or even more revealing than the presence of people or objects.

"[…] we are haunted by certain absences in the painting. […] once we become aware of them, they begin to function as presences, in fact, as signs of a certain kind of conceptual deprivation." (Nochlin, The Imaginary Orient, 1983, p.35.)

It’s only when you look at what’s missing you’re able to see the bigger picture. Applying this to the absence of Rose while highlighting the presence of others (here River and Susan) it becomes clear that – bearing in mind the Doctor as the private/closed off person he is – she’s as present as ever.

- 🦆

(Yes, I love rose, sue me lol. It goes without saying that the presence of absence can be applied to other companions but it just hits different with rose u know?)

Further notes:

[1] Which isn’t to say none: Like Eleven’s mention about being her tutor, once, the glass rose and the rose doll, Kazran’s question about one last day with one’s beloved, oh and of course the TARDIS voice interface. And with Twelve it’s the yellow roses in his pilot ep and the mention of wanting to share a (long) life with another person in that ep with Lady Me – "That happens, I believe".

[2] Have you noticed that Rose’s references are almost never an image of herself or a direct verbal mention? It’s rather visual or verbal associations/implications, so like either somebody says something or a situation arises that parallels the Doctor and Rose‘s experiences or we have representative objects (glass rose, doll, actual roses) that clue us in.

[3] The same art historian btw, who wrote the famous essay "why have there been no great woman artists?", an essay I might add that is still shockingly relevant, and she published it in the 70s.

[blueboxtraveller]

THE DOCTOR GETTING TOUCHY WITH ROSE BECAUSE IT’S BEEN A WHILE

[thinkiamgonnabeanon]

Lmao. He's like Jack does all the time Rose but still lemme give you a hug

[bigandlong]

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

[jae-felidae]

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.