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ozymandias271:

itsbenedict:

joyceanfartboner:

realtalk make a pact w/ me if i ever am like “yo im caught in a time loop” please believe me i promise i wont ever use it as a prank either like ive been watching a lot of tv shows and movies w/ fucking time loop plotpoints where one character knows it and if i ever become that person i want to not have to constantly prove it to them. just take it on honest that a magic or something happened.

aight so here’s my policy on this for anyone in this situation: i’ve come up with a passphrase ahead of time that you can tell me to indicate that you’re in a time loop. on the first time around, you’re going to have to actually prove you’re timelooping to me, but as soon as you do so, i give you the passphrase, and you can use that to cut to the chase on subsequent loops. 

your passphrase can also be used to easily identify versions of yourself from the future!

#everyone should have a passphrase #a simple step to prepare for a wide variety of SFnal plotlines

*nod* I have a passphrase, good back to about age fourteen. Also an (unrelated) Standard Thought for use on people claiming they can read my mind, to make sure I can think of something other than the obvious, easily guessable stuff like “I hope they can’t read my mind; that would be pretty privacy-invading if they could do that”. (I suppose I could use the first passphrase as the second (not the other way ‘round), but that’s not how it’s worked out.)

I also have a “your memory’s been erased” signal that past selves can leave for me to find. Several, in fact, to cover a range of time and materials needed.

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#maybe it’s the Girl Guide in me #(or the Girl Scout) #(I’ve been both)

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queen-of-troy:

May: Has anyone seen Coulson? I can’t find him anywhere.

Skye: Hang on.

Skye: *clears throat*

Skye: CAPTAIN AMERICA IS THE WORST MOST BORING AVENGER

*pounding feet*

*door explodes open*

Coulson: WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY

Skye: Found him

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#MCU #Agents of SHIELD #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I’m not actually part of this fandom #but I’ve picked up enough to get this joke

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epsilontucker:

You know, the Meta was a human being? He had to get food? Where do you think he got it? You think he ransacked Freelancer’s salad bar before he went on his rampage or what? what about after that? Did he buy it? Where’d he get the money? Did he do some mercenary work before he started hunting down freelancers?

Where did he sleep? 

You work at a grocery store on some random outer-colony planet. There is a seven foot tall bald person who has been scarred to shit standing in front of you. His eyes are red and ringed with darkness. He has possibly never slept in his life. There are several carts behind him. He is purchasing an entire aisle of beef jerky. You say ‘have a good day’. He responds with a grunt that sounds like gravel being put through a woodchipper. You don’t know what he is going to do with all that beef jerky. You don’t want to know.

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#Red vs Blue #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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comparativelysuperlative:

ilzolende:

taymonbeal:

animate-mush:

bibliophile1887:

tinyhouseplant:

why does america write the date wrong and why don’t they feel bad about it.

I suspect animate-mush knows the real reason, she knows everything, really. But personally, I think it’s because of the way we say the date. We say “April twentieth, two-thousand fifteen“ not “twentieth April…”. Which isn’t to say that we never say it that way. But it’s rare. So, we write it 4/20/15. Because that’s how we say it.

I actually don’t know why, but if I had to speculate I’d say it either just happened to be codified differently in two different places and times with no particular communication between them OR it was a deliberate choice by Noah Webster et al. to distinguish us from Britain enacted at the same time as all the other spelling reforms.

The botanist I worked for actually didn’t let us write number/number/number for dates because you could never be sure which convention the collector was using.  I will use the American convention when I do number/number/number, but if I write out the month I will typically put the date first, because having letters separate the two groups of numbers is more aesthetically pleasing  to me, and also then I don’t have to write the little superscripts.  But then, I also cross my sevens and my <z> s, and I used to cross my zeroes as well, so I do have a number of European conventions in my handwriting anyway, picked up from my mother, who picked them up from her mother, who was Italian and came by them naturally.  But it was really sloppy physics writing that made me cross my zs so as to distinguish them from 2s.

So the short answer after all of that anecdotal rambling is I really have no idea, but I would expect that any appeal to either order being more “natural” or “logical” is just plain wrong.

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When I sign things or name folders of photos or otherwise can choose, I say 2015 Apr 20 (spacing/abbreviations vary). Otherwise MLA.

I like “Written on this the twentieth day of April in the Year of Our Lord MMXV.“ Preferably attached to something as inconsequential as possible, like a cat photo.

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #look dates are very important to me okay #(tagging it that because that’s what I tagged the last thing about date ambiguity)