Society: Capitalism and the free market is great because it lets customers CHOOSE who’s the best company and then that company makes all the money while lesser companies have to improve or die.
Millenials: *boycott companies that benefit off exploitation of people and natural resources*
The woman who walked into my office was dressed to kill. Her heavy combat boots thudded across my hardwood floor, leaving damp footprints on the new finish. I winced.
“For future reference,” I said between gritted teeth, “Use of the doormat is free of charge.” Did that count as ‘antagonizing potential clients’? I didn’t think so, but my shrink might disagree. Oh well – what I didn’t admit during a session couldn’t hurt her, though it might lose me a paycheck.
“I’m looking for someone,” said the woman brusquely, folding her arms over her chest and staring down at me. “Heard you might be able to help me.”
“That is the sort of thing I get paid to do, yeah.” I eyed the gun at her hip. “You, uh… looking for someone in particular?”
She didn’t smile, but she reached into her coat pocket and withdrew a thick envelope. “My cousin,” she said, and dropped it heavily on my desk. “Hasn’t been heard from in six months.”
I picked up the envelope and opened it – carefully, so as not to rip the paper. Old habit. There were photos inside, perhaps twenty, glossy and well-preserved. I spread them across my desk like a pack of cards, focusing on what seemed to be the most recent ones.
“Well?” asked the woman after a moment. “What do you think?”
I let the photograph I was examining fall from my fingers. “Your cousin is hot,” I said, shrugging.
The look that flashed across her face was dangerous enough that my hand automatically drifted to the handle of the drawer where I kept my own gun. “I thought you were supposed to be the greatest private detective in this part of the country!” she hissed.
“Greatest? Maybe – but I think you misheard,” I said. “I’m certainly the gayest detective in these parts, private or otherwise. And I need a touch more to go on than some cute Polaroid selfies.”
It’s Very Good™ and I really feel like the best version of myself when I take long sips from it while maintaining steady eye contact.
Whenever I think of the Dark Forest battle in The Last Hope I always end up thinking about what would have happened if Snowfur encountered Thistleclaw again.
Honestly, I think she would end up kicking his ass, but she would probably be a little taken aback at first since, although she knew he obviously wasn’t in Starclan, it might not have really hit her until that point.
Also added Whitestorm, since he wouldn’t have tolerated Thistle fighting against the clans either. And if Snowfur caught him fighting her son? Oh boy
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when i grow up i want to be a library goblin. i get paid to wander the shelves and be discovered curled up and reading in unlikely places, perhaps hissing if i am interrupted in the middle of a good part. why would a library pay for this service you ask? because it will add to the ambiance next question
I love this….those kids are geniuses…and do they actually know how to play/tongue/bow the instrument they were playing in that video? Not doubting them or anything it just looked like they swapped instruments….
Ok, as the person in the blue shirt on the left, I can explain what is going on here.
On the far left, you see a clarinetist playing a broken cello. She does not know how to play the cello. (Nor does that cello have any intention of being played.)
My friend and I are collectively playing a frankenstein of an instrument that I like to call the “Eb bassooninet.” It’s an Eb clarinet with a bassoon bocal attached. It sounds like a dying duck.
The bassoonist in the middle is the only one playing a normal instrument normally.
Second from the right, you see a clarinetist playing half a clarinet.
Finally, on the far right you see a clarinetist playing a Bb clarinet that is pulled out so far at every joint that it approximates an A clarinet.
The best part about this video is that everyone is actually a really accomplished musician, not that you’d guess it xD
au contraire, this is the kind of thing ONLY accomplished musicians are fucking weird enough to come up with
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