OKAY OKAY OKAY I KNOW THERE ARE SO MANY FANDOMS STARTING NOW, LIKE THE SINK FANDOM AND THE TREEHOUSE FANDOM AND THE BLANKET FORT FANDOM, BUT YOU ARE ALL MISSING ONE.
the annual scholastic book fair was the only reason i didn’t drop out of elementary school
Then maybe I shouldn’t reveal that for the twice-annual* “teachers only” Scholastic book sales held at the warehouses, homeschooling parents counted as “teachers” and were allowed to bring their children. I didn’t even go to elementary school and I was still able to look forward to a Scholastic book fair every year.
(The book sale was hugely discounted and let you examine the product before buying it, which is what made it worth looking forward to months in advance. We were also allowed to buy non-discounted mail-order books from Scholastic, with a new catalog sent to us…quarterly, I think it was. New catalogs were a much lesser excitement, but I looked forward to them a little too.)
*Though we generally only went to one per year.
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#my childhood #the nearest Scholastic warehouse was ~80 minutes’ drive away in Cinnaminson #we made a day of it #it was an Event #right up there with Dorney Park’s Halloween celebrations #and Storybook Land’s open-late nights every December #every ride and tree covered in lights #our own personal holidays
You think so? I mean, maybe it would make more sense if I actually watched the show rather than relying on pop-culture osmosis, but that situation seemed pretty reckless to me. Like, if my best friend/boyfriend/suchlike (truthfully) told me, basically, “I’ve cast a resurrection spell on you, but the price is that if we ever touch again you’ll die, and I can’t re-revive you”, I would cut all face-to-face contact immediately and would likely move away (to reduce the odds of running into them). Love’s nice and all, and we can still do stuff long-distance, but if one misstep means my death I wouldn’t take any chances.
(Mind you, I’m the sort of self-centred coward that Gryffindor-supremacists accuse of doing the will of Satan.)
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#Pushing Daisies #reply via reblog #self-preservation ftw #(when I say ‘doing the will of Satan’ I’m thinking of the ending of The Wizard’s Dilemma) #(which I read recently)
He did. Look at the source blog. It’s a series of faked pictures of the time machine’s destination board, one per day.
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#lying bastards #Back to the Future #one day I will actually watch those movies all the way through #despite how much trouble I have focusing on audio input for longer than about an hour #maybe I will watch each of them in multiple chunks
“So… your father tells me you’re a disappointment to the Empire…”
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#Star Trek #juxtaposition #I remember the time one of my non-geeky friends used ‘can speak Klingon’ to mean ‘hopelessly nerdy’ #my response was to start humming a Klingon drinking song #you know the one #with the River Skral running crimson red #that one #Mom started laughing but nobody else got it #(she thinks I should have sung it) #(but then you get into stage-fright issues) #(and I only actually know the words in English) #(guess I’m only *almost* hopelessly nerdy) #tag rambles
