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percontaion-points · 3 years

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Raven King chapter 3

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Chapter 3

On Saturday morning Neil insulted Riko on national television. Kevin warned them Riko would retaliate the same day. The Foxes should have stayed together out of sight, but Allison and Seth went bar-hopping downtown with friends. Neil saw Seth right before they all split up. He remembered telling the upperclassmen goodbye before following Andrew south to Columbia. Four hours later Seth was dead.

I'm pretty sure that I said this when it happened in the first book, but like... Normal people don't go around and literally murder because of college sports. THIS ISN'T FUCKING NORMAL. WHY THE FUCKITY FUCK WOULD YOUR AVERAGE PERSON FEEL THE NEED TO HIDE SIMPLY BECAUSE THE GUY DOESN'T LIKE YOU?

If I had literally any faith that this series was good, it would come out that Riko and the Ravens had had nothing at all to do with Seth's death, and that Seth was just a junkie.

But the drama of having random yakuza relatives murder a rival college sportsball player for you!!!!!!

She knew Seth liked mixing drinks with his prescription pills. Neil saw Allison dig through Seth's pockets in search of the bottle. She'd come up empty and kissed Seth's irritation away.

Going back to this book's casual sexism, I completely and utterly adore how it was 100% the responsibility of Allison to ensure that Seth wasn't doing drugs. And not literally anybody else. Or even the fact that most universities now have strict anti-drug policies for athletes.

Nope! This is all on Allison!

But that was for one half, and now Andrew was expected to play a full game. The obvious answer was that Andrew would have to play with his drugs tonight whether he wanted to or not, but things were never that easy with Andrew.

I love how they're not only going against a court-ordered drug to not be given, but also putting Andrew's mental health as well as the safety of literally everybody around Andrew at risk... For a game.

Andrew said Exy was too boring to be worth his while.

I STILL DON'T KNOW WHY ANYBODY IS EVEN HERE. IF YOU HATE THE GAME SO MUCH, THEN JUST FUCKING LEAVE.

"Maybe you've noticed how much I let this team get away with," Wymack said. "I know what sort of people I've recruited, and I know some of them need a little help to keep an even keel. So long as no one gets hurt, no one gets caught, and no one is stupid enough to bring it onto my court, I don't care what you guys get up to in your free time. It's not my business because I don't want it to be my business."

Wymack meant the cracker dust party drugs and alcohol Andrew gave his group in Columbia. Neil wasn't sure what surprised him more: that Wymack knew what his defense line was into or that he let it happen.

For me, the most unbelievable part about this isn't that David doesn't give a shit about the drug abuse going on... it's the fact that the university doesn't care. A lot of universities now have drug policies (as well as “no pass, no play” rules) BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A HUGE GODDAMEND PROBLEM.

But I also remember that in the first book, it was painfully obvious that the author has never once attended an actual university because there were so many things wrong with everything she was describing...

Truth was Wymack picked them because he understood firsthand how much they needed another chance.

He says this, but at the same time, also allows the students to go out and do things like party and do drugs. How much could David possibly care about the students WHILE HE'S ALLOWING THIS TO CONTINUE?!

A few minutes later they were on the road. Neil watched out the window until the campus disappeared from view.

Chapter 3 summary: It's time for the next game. It's an away game, and they get out of their afternoon classes so that they can travel to the other university. As they're in transit from the actual university to the stadium, Neil thinks about how the team seems to have changed for the better now that Seth is gone, even though nobody will admit it. He also thinks about how Andrew is 100% convinced Riko had something to do with Seth's death, even as impossible as it sounds.

They get into the stadium, where they see Allison for the first time since Seth's death. She's in a catatonic state. The others walk on eggshells around her, except for Andrew, who doesn't seem to give a flying fuck. Coach talks about how they've come up with a plan for this game, although there's a lot of bullshit “technical” talk that is inherently meaningless.

But a big part of the plan tonight hinges on Andrew being off his medication. He normally is for the first half of the game, and then recovers while he takes his pills again for the second half. But he needs to be off for the entire game so that they can actually win tonight. Andrew threatens Kevin with his knife over some bullshit or another; I literally don't even care anymore.

Neil then takes the time to remind the reader about Kevin's background with exy. And then about Andrew's inability to focus properly while he's drugged up, but while he's sober, he literally doesn't give a shit about exy.

Neil leaves the locker room, where he finds David checking their rackets. Since this is an away game, they're all bringing their spares, and it would suck to have nothing to play with if one of them broke. David says a lot of stuff about how he knows about all of the drug abuse that's going on with the players, but as I said, all of it is inherently meaningless. David cares more about exy than the lives of the players, as evident by Seth's death.

David and Neil load up the rackets, and get onto the bus, where the others are waiting for them.

#All For The Game #The Raven King #chapter 03 #Neil Josten #Riko Moriyama #Seth Gordon #shitty people are shitty #do you even know how the world works?#HEADDESKING #Allison Reynolds #casual sexism #can we not #Aaron and Andrew Minyard #what the fuck #David Wymack #shitty adults are shitty #not one single fuck was found

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captainmazzic · 4 years

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Saw The Last Episode this morning so I can finally have a dash again, apologies to the dozen or so blogs I unfollowed earlier so I could cope

anyway

star wars spoilers under the cut for my hot steaming rotting carcass of an oPiNiOn

Okay so it was... an okay movie. It moved too fast and tried to do too much and introduce too many brand new characters that could have been used better, but. The parts I liked, I LOVED. The parts I didn’t... well let’s just say that Star Wars will be Star Wars, and there’s nothing I can do about that other than cherry-pick what I like and leave the rest for the vultures.

The number one thing that bothers me is mostly just... It’s kind of been a calling card of Star Wars that

1. villains can never survive their arc, and

2. any villain with a redemption arc (whatever THAT is) has to die at the end of it regardless.

The exceptions being Big Bad Clones Of the Big Bad, which might survive their first arc but ultimately all die in the end, What A Twist. That’s just... how Star Wars does things. That and its penchant for insisting that physical deformity or disability somehow always implies an inclination towards evil, and that is just utter fucking bullshit and it needs to STOP. With that and the villain death thing - mostly the villain death - it’s been like that since the OT, since the EU, since the RPGs and the comics and the novels and the video games. There’s been like, maybe two or three exceptions to the rule, and most of those are in the video games and the RPGs and so are ultimately up to user choice, but mostly those choices are often not the “official” “canon” ones anyway.

and it really bothers me, and it always has. It’s the number one reason I write fanfic, to fix the bullshit like this that they keep putting in Star Wars. Just... honestly would it have KILLED THEM to forcibly haul Hux away kicking and screaming so he could Face Justice or some other rationalizing bullshit you KNOW Poe and/or Finn is totally capable of, only for Hux to be awkwardly hanging around the perimeter of all the Celebratory Festivities at the end? That would have been liquid GOLD.

And would it have KILLED THEM to have Force Healing, like, I dunno, NOT be some sort of zero sum bullshit? That’s not how it works! That’s not how any of this works! Both Rey AND REN should have survived! It’s drawing on the Force Itself, on the entire galaxy, not just your own personal life energy! *headdesk*

But I mean. I don’t want to focus only on the shit that bothered me. There’s lots I enjoyed.

1. FORCE SENSITIVE FINN. I will die on this hill

2. THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP oh my god I love the Finn/Poe/Rey dynamic they are PRECIOUS I honestly could watch a nine hour movie of nothing but banter and shenanigans and couch cuddles and I’d be so motherfucking HAPPY. Bonus points if Rose and Hux and Ren can just. Join in. I need a peoplepile STAT

3. TINY NEW DROID BABY oh no it’s cute

4. Finn’s hair is so fucking hot, y’all. I just. *fans self* is it warm in here?

5. Palps my man, r u ok. Like srsly. I just wanted to hold his gnarled up hands and make him take a nap, this man is Edgelord McDramaPants and I love/hate him so much. “I am all of the Sith” my dude my buddy my pal my friend, there are literally thousands of Sith standing around you, and no matter what you tell yourself you’re still like... average-powered compared to some of the Ancient Dark Edgelords of the Sith. I know you’re a megalomaniac but sit down eat a sandwich and chill, I’ll take you for a manicure

6. Speaking of thousands of Sith standing around -- FUCKING FINALLY SOME ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT BANITE SITH ARE/WERE UTTER BULLSHIT I mean there was the Lost Tribe of the Sith and plenty of others underground and on the downlow scattered around the galaxy in old canon, but it was nice to have it up front. Can u imagine the sort of response some of my own Sith would have to an invitation/summons to a place like Exegol by the likes of Palpatine it’d be hilarious

7. Rey’s little nose scrunch will never not be adorable

8. I really. really. enjoyed the atmosphere on Exegol. I am also an Edgelord DramaDarkerton and fuck if the vibes on that world didn’t give me shivers. I love it. I love everything about it. The foggy barren landscape, the giant stark monoliths, the depths of (not quite) abandoned temples and monuments, the jagged throne, the chanting hooded figures, even the flashing lightning that threatened to trigger a seizure BUT IT DIDN’T SO I WIN AHAHAHA *cough* so yeah I love all of that and I really wanted more more moremoremoremoreMORE GIMME *grabbyhands*

9. They didn’t do much but just the fact that the Knights of Ren were there made me happy. Kinda wished they’d been more like a Ride Or Die honor guard, so WELP I guess that’s what they are now in Sarc’s Canon and that’s the only canon that mAtTeRs lolololol

10. “I’M THE SPY!” I love you, you precious, fucked up little man, come here

Anyway. It was a much better movie than The Last Jedi, imo, but there’s still a LOT that needs cherrypicking. So I’m just blithely going to say this is What Actually Happened, In The Star Wars According To Sarc:

Hux gets dragged along with Poe/Finn/Rey, whining and complaining the entire time, on a bum leg, because you KNOW Poe shot him in the leg anyway even if he planned on taking Hux with him. Because why not, right? the dickwad asked for it, after all.

Snap goes EV because he ejected at the last possible second and ends up shaken and battered but otherwise alright DO NOT TAKE HIM AWAY FROM ME TOO

The Knights of Ren recognized Ren as their rightful leader and were properly Ride Or Die with him, a man needs his honor guard after all

Ren’s Force Healing does the trick but since it’s drawing on the power of the Force itself, and not some zero-sum personal life energy shenanigans, it doesn’t make him mysteriously keel over and Die For No Reason. He just passes out and Rey has to haul his heavy ass back to the ship by herself. He doesn’t hear the end of it for months.

Reunions are both full of celebration, relief, and grief for those who have fallen, and also full of lots of awkwardness and uncomfortable glances at some of our Intrepid Villains suddenly being thrust in with all the Good Guysᵗᵐ and trying to cope. But they make it out okay in the end. Our new group of Awkward Friends hold a vigil for Luke, Leia, and Han before leaving Ajan Kloss.

And the Millennium Falcon launches out with a crew of seven. Rey, Poe, Finn, Rose, Ben, Hux, and Chewie - not quite yet entirely comfortable with each other but learning that sometimes the unlikeliest of friendships can blossom even from within the most bitter of enemies.

The end ah yes that was a good movie glad I can ignore this weird thing called canon lalalala (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

#star wars spoilers #the rise of skywalker #the rise of skywalker spoilers #sarc watches star wars #sarc has opinions

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theliterarywolf · 4 years

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My mom recently got me Pokemon Shield for my birthday and I avoided anything related to it for the most part. So I got the story for the first time. It's an interesting concept with lots of potential that was hurt by shaky build up and wonky pacing that starts too slow and ends much too fast. The story was still entertaining enough, just not as much as gens 2-5 imo.

Pokemon Gen 8 as a whole seems to be summed up as ‘enjoyable enough, but so much wasted potential and misused resources’.

And, you know what? I’m going to talk about the story without putting it under a ‘read more’ because it has been enough time since its release:

There are so many story pieces in SwSh that could have come together to make a great narrative:

in Galar you apparently have to be sponsored in order to become a full-fledged Pokemon trainer, presenting the notion of Pokemon training being more commercial rather than a coming-of-age journey

there are NPCs who you can talk to who mention the constant stress of being a Gym and having to keep rank otherwise they lose everything

there’s the whole Arthurian legend set-up surrounding Zacian, Zamazenta, and the… freaky psychic deer legendary from the expansion-pass whose name is escaping me

there’s Hop’s personal growth

there’s Leon’s struggle with his identity

there’s Chairman Rose wanting to be one of those wealthy celebrity who saves the world from climate-change/energy crises by telling average working people to change their entire way of living while they themselves keep their flippant lifestyles (you know the ones)

there’s Oleana being hopelessly devoted to Chairman Rose because… Potatoes

there’s Marnie’s personal growth and her decision to take over her brother’s gym

there’s Piers’ ambition to show that you can be a strong trainer without having to rely on the crutch that is Dynamax

there’s Bede’s upbringing as an orphan and how he has to learn that he’s strong enough to be respected on his own without having to be taken advantage of by the adults around him

there’s Melony and Gordie’s whole dysfunctional family angle

there’s Opal’s whole arc of needing someone to take on the role she inherited from her mother because she’s literally getting old and is about to KEEL OVER

there were numerous opportunities to show that Chairman Rose had a point in his ludicrous goals; for example, the scene where you and Hop had to get off the train early? Instead of having it be because ‘lol, Wooloo are cute and cumbersome I guess’ have it be because of power-rationing or something

there was the whole fiasco of the game’s post-game campaign – which, while I will never reject a chance to say Fuck you Swordward and Shieldbert, I hate you so God damn much; how are you two this irritating? It’s like someone took Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband and cloned him with prime asshole settings – was still a good set-up of the notion: what makes true royalty? One’s actions or one’s inheritance?

There were ALL of these story pieces… And Game Freak brought NONE of them to their full potential because they were too focused on getting Little Town Hero out (which was not worth it in the end) and just being able to say ‘Fuck it, it’s Pokemon; no one plays these games for their story!’

Except, uh, hi! I do! And it’s not like the mechanics of the game make up for it – Look. I liked the game just fine. But if I have an easier, more enjoyable time going back to Pokemon Moon – Vanilla!Moon, fuck Ultra Moon – on the 3DS rather than the first full-scale Pokemon RPG to be released on a home console… Someone fucked up somewhere.

Personally, I would have simply shrugged off the ‘Chairman Rose trying to stop the concept of Entropy’ angle altogether and just written a story for the game where all the gym leaders (aside from Piers because Punk isn’t dead) are garrish, rich celebrity trainers who have forgotten how to see Pokemon battles as anything more than pomp and circumstance and it’s only through being defeated by you that they’re able to remember how Pokemon used to bring joy to people… But that’s just me!

#Anonymous #replies

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ibuproffie · 5 years

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snr szn ~ advice for high school seniors

it’s not gonna be perfect, and that’s ok. high school movies tell us that senior year is this amazing time in your life where you have all these formative experiences that shape the course of your destiny or something, but in my experience this is not really the case. my senior year was somehow both excruciatingly slow and very fast, and it had ups and downs just like any other school year. so if your senior year isn’t a wonderful collection of instagrammable moments, don’t worry. everyone else is finding “senior season” a little underwhelming too, even the people who seem to be having the most fun. quite frankly, you shouldn’t want your senior year of high school to be the best year of your life.

college apps are important, but you don’t have to kill yourself over them. i know, i can say this because i just finished them, but it’s so true. applying to college is a horrible, tedious process that i’m going to attempt to break down in another masterpost. i went to a high school where people were fucking obsessed with getting into college, and it was sort of horrifying to watch people self-destruct over the process. even i (and i consider myself a fairly private, non-competitive, even-keeled person) went a little nuts towards the end. i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, there is no reason on god’s green earth to apply to twenty or more schools. it’s expensive (most application fees are 60+ USD), time-consuming, and stressful. the only reason i can even see why you might be doing this is if you qualify for a bunch of application fee waivers, but even then, it’s just stupid. most colleges make you write secondary essays in addition to the common or coalition app essay, and that doesn’t even factor in scholarship applications, interview prep, and keeping up with school on top of everything. the best thing you can do for yourself is pick around ten-ish schools that you’re actually serious about attending and skip the hassle. you will get into at least one college if you apply smart. trust me. the people i know who went ham with applications were miserable all the time (even the smartest ones) and most of them didn’t even get into their top choice schools. when you’re churning out 3+ essays every month, it follows that they’re not all gonna be winners. additionally, know that life will go on even if you don’t get into harvard. relax. you have an entire life ahead of you. even if it doesn’t work out exactly how you planned, good things take time, ya feel?

you’re still valid even if you don’t participate in every “senior activity” possible. “but it’s your last pep rally!!” “you HAVE to go to prom!!” “let’s go to every football game this season!!” no. just no. you’re really not gonna remember a lot of this stuff. if large crowds of ppl aren’t your thing, if you’re stressed or tired, if you don’t have the money (a lot of these “senior only” activities are EXPENSIVE expensive or at least they were at my school), or if you just have no interest in homecoming or whatever, IT’S FINE. you don’t have to justify this stuff to other people. i let ppl guilt trip me into doing a bunch of shit for our “last high school memories” or whatever and uhhh i didn’t always have a good time. for one thing, i’ve never had a shit ton of school spirit or whatever and two, being around crowds of ppl is pretty draining for me. the only “senior activity” i actually enjoyed was prom, but i knew ppl who skipped out on that and ya know what? i think they were ok. i never bought a yearbook. it’s fine. you should shape your senior year around what’s mentally/financially safe for you + and what you’re actually interested in, not what people expect you to do.

you don’t really have to do extracurricular activities this year, so don’t do anything you’re not truly passionate about. i stopped doing a lot of stuff like model un and science olympiad this year because i just wasn’t interested in them anymore. and i don’t regret it. to be blunt, you already have the lines on your resume filled by those activities if you’ve done them for a long time. so if you’re not feelin’ it, don’t waste your time. just do the things you wanna do. i did a lot of theater stuff last year and had a great time. it was super rewarding and i had a pretty good time with my castmates, and i was glad i had done that instead of more “academic” activities like scioly.

it’s ok to be unsure about your plans for the future. for some reason, this is the year, every adult in your life is gonna be like, “wHaT’s Ur MaJoR???” and “wHaT jOb Do YoU wAnNa HaVe wHeN u GrOw uP??” as a result, you can start to feel a lot of pressure around having an answer prepared, and if you are on the fence about what you wanna do with your life, you can feel like other ppl have their shit together a lot more and that you’re aimless and stupid. trust me, you’re not, though. i personally think it’s unfair that we expect 18 y/os, who in many ways are still kids, to have their whole life planned out. a lot is still liable to change even after high school, and I think you’ll be remiss if you don’t allow your dreams and ambitions to change with it. if you’re truly unsure about your plans but you know you’re going to college, i’d recommend making sure none of the places you’re applying to are going to lock you down in a major when you set foot on campus. i have friends who are going to large universities who have already basically declared a major, which to me seems like an odd system. if 4-yr college isn’t in the cards for you for whatever reason, try taking a year off, getting a job, or community college. a lot of ppl i know look down on ccs, but to my knowledge, community college can be a great start to figuring out what you wanna do with your life. you have time. don’t rush it.

getting sick of your school friends is normal. it sounds mean, but in my experience, it’s true. i mean you’ve gone to school with these people for 4 or more years now, and you’ve changed a lot. and that doesn’t mean you don’t like them and wish them well, but there can be days where you’re like “omg pls stop talking to me rn!!” especially in that lull after application season. don’t be mean to anyone ofc, but realize that feeling exasperated with your peers is just part of the process, and you’re not a bad person for wanting a little bit of space. in my experience, unless the issue is w regards to toxicity or people being generally shitty, ppl will be able to connect w each other much more normally after school is over.

you will get senioritis to some degree, but you have to push through it. it must be great to be one of those people who literally never stops working. but for the vast majority of us, some kind of senioritis will slap us in the ass after applications are done. you will have no motivation to do coursework but! remember that coursework needs to be completed! to be completely honest, once you’ve been accepted to college, you really only need to maintain a C average to not get rescinded, and i knew plenty of people who screwed around more than i did and they didn’t get their admission rescinded. but like, you don’t want to be one of those people who somehow fails a class because you don’t “feel like” doing the homework. you need to graduate, you need to hold onto your scholarship, and you need to maintain your accepted status. quite honestly, you need to kick ur own ass and make yourself work, whether that’s by turning down invites to hang out, or putting your phone in a different room. also, don’t be that person who’s playing iphone games in every class. your teachers will think you’re an asshole, and that’s really not the move.

you don’t have to take everyone’s advice. this is the year everyone wants to be an expert on adulting, whether that’s your peers or parents’ colleagues or school counselors. in the end, your are the only one who can decide what’s right for you based on your financial situation and what you are comfortable with. i’m not saying “don’t take anyone’s advice”, because i truly believe there are some people out there who have the means to help you succeed. but i think you should pick and choose because you’re about to be fed a deluge of information that may or may not be useful or relevant to what you want to do. for example, people told me that i was limiting myself by not applying to any ivy league schools or very many competitive universities, or that i should lie about my race on my application (!!) because of the bias against ppl of asian descent in college admissions (note: i actually wrote about my heritage in my common app essay so it wasn’t like it was some secret lmao), which were uhhh not helpful. do what feels right and don’t feel the need to humor ppl who don’t have your best interests at heart.

don’t compare yourself with other ppl. it’s natural to be a little jealous of peers who snag acceptances to prestigious colleges on full-tuition scholarships or land dream jobs/gap-year programs right out of high school. it’s a bit of an ugly feeling, but i’m not gonna sit here and say i didn’t wish i was one of those people at a point. that’s disingenuous in the extreme. it’s ok to be disappointed if everything doesn’t all work out, but at a certain point you need to accept what’s happening to you and make the very damn best of it. wallowing in self-pity just because your classmates are succeeding is just stupid. also, recognize that everyone’s ability to achieve their post-hs goals is wildly different based on their own circumstances. if you are less financially able to pay for college, for example, your opportunities are more limited than someone with a six-figure college fund. it’s quite frankly naive to assume that everyone shares your experience. be happy for people who do well. be happy for people who are proud of themselves. don’t try to take other people down because you’re feeling bitter. i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again-other people’s success is not your failure.

take time to do some much needed self care. senior year can be hectic, and it’s important to disengage from stressful situations. take a walk. watch a movie with your friends. take a long shower. don’t think you have to be “productive” all the time. you won’t be, and that’s ok.

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onepunchmiss · 5 years

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OPM S2e11 Live Blog

“The Varieties of Pride”

I left work an hour early just to watch the episode sooner and of COURSE I GOT STUCK IN TRAFFIC FOR AN HOUR because the universe BE LIKE THAT. But guys holy shit this is the second to last episode of the season. So much shit is about to go down. I’m eerily calm and concerning myself soooo uh without further ado I’mma WATCH

As always I’m watching from the perspective of someone up to date on the manga and web comic!

Ok so we’re picking up exactly where we left off, but I mean how could we not, really? And Garou still looks beautiful and I still cri evr tim KEK Glasses looks SO out of place like his fists arent even raised when everyone else is pointing a weapon ar Garou like dude?? Every time Garou laughs I gain a year of life btw, also god damn he’s really drawn SO WELL here, pls pls pls treat Genos with the same respect my bby boy pls

“Where are the S class heroes” oh dear be careful what you wish for…………………. asdfghjkl “any kid who heard you would be so let down” IDK GAROU ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT. ARE YOU. ohohohOH OH OH THE STAIRCASE!!! THE CRUEL STAIRCASE!! AH ok opening theme who it gon b this week

ASDFGHJKL A CHIBI GAROU IN THE OPENING IM IN LOVE

Oh no these flashbacks are going to be heartbreaking, but at the same time I cant not see a bunch of Geryuganshoops asdfghjkl ohhh oh no Garou no Garou is literally me I was that child this is personal and it hurts stopppp I just wanted Wile E Coyote to catch road runner once JUST ONCE I was SO that kid im- also what the hell kind of show is ‘Justice man’ why does the monster sound so sympathetic like, IM JUST TRYING TO STOP OCEAN POLLUTION TOO yall fuck just Justice Fire Kick me to the face too i guess

AAAAAAAAA IM SCREAMING GO MY BOY KICK ASS THIS IS LIKE THE EXACT MOMENT WHERE GAROU OFFICIALLY EARNED MY COMPLETE RESPECT IN THE FIRST PLACE THEY THINK THEY GOT HIM AND HES JUST LIKE WELL ACTUALLY FUCK YOU IMMA POWER UP BITCH AND I AM LIVING SEEING IT IN MOTION MY BOY asdfghjkl”like im not allowed to have one? talk about discrimination” son I love you THIS IS AMAZING THIS WHOLE THING IS AMAZING

BEHOLD the exact moment u shit ur metal pants, fool

IM JUST SCREAMING THIS WHOLE TIME I DONT HAVE WORDS THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ANIMATION IVE SEEN ALL SEASON JC STAFF DOESNT SUCK THEY JUST POURED 100% OF THEIR TIME INTO THIS FIGHT

WHOAH calm the fuck down there smiley face man?? I’m SO GLAD they made him look crazy a bit cause I honestly didn’t even notice him just nonchalantly suggest to kill him the first read through, holy shit fuck ?????

THIS IS JUST SO GOOD IM SCREAMING HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I WANT TO SCREENSHOT EVERY SINGLE FRAME ITS ALL SO GOOD

WHAT IS THIS

A GLASSES FLASHBACK

I THOUGHT IT WAS AN OMAKE OR???

WHAT IS THIS

WHAT

OH MY GOD HIS VOICE?? IM,,, BABY NO AND SAITAMA??????????? WHAT THE FUCK AM I WITNESSING RIGHT NOW

AND THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT LIMITS ST O P

SADFHGJKLKJMHNGBFVCXCVBRGHNTYMJ<KUMJYNTBRVECWRVTBYUMIKMYNTBRVECVBTNYUMIYNTBRVECVRBTNYUM

I CANT BELIEVE THEY PUT THAT IN THERE WHAT THE SHIT FUCK

OH GOD

I THINK IM GONNA LITERALLY CRY THIS SCENE GETS ME EVERY TIME I READ IT LIKE I JUST REREAD IT THIS MORNING BUT-----

oh no its happening. im crying ok oh dear lord

I just…. love him so much … holy shit… ah the laugh, +1 more year life, and again oh no im becomming immortal ahhhh

ASDFGHJKL FUCK “YOU GOT ISSUES BROTHER” GODDAMNIT U READ MY MIND GAROU PLS

Oh my god. The voice sound effect here. just everything about this. Oh my god. I’m so shook holy shit shit ----- ‘Oh your still alive’ WELL ILL TELL U WHAT I AM LIVING RN SO YEAH oh no and Garous little slightly heartbroken hand gesture as Tareo screams and runs and then he just starts limping away gasping for water and then

ASDFGHUJIKL GENOS

WAIT CAN SOMEONE GIVE GAROU WATER FIRST THO

I DONT KNOW IF IM EXCITED OR HEARTBROKEN RIGHT NOW HELP the MUSIC is so INTENSE and GENOS LOOKS SO COOL IM SO FULL OF EMOTIONS AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IS CONFLICTING OH NO

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT THIS ANIMATION HOLY SHIT OH MY GOD OH MY GOD EVEN THE STILLS OF THE SMEAR FRAMES LOOK FUKKIN AMAZING GOD DAMNIT

wow ok saitama and king right ok gonna pause and give my heartrate a second to come down holy shit. I’m gonna watch and rewatch this episode 2000000 times I know it oh my god. phew. ok. ok. moving on

Saitama just keeling over and SCREAMING is me 24/7 HOLY- omg I’m dying thank you opm for being a glorious mix of BADASS and PEAK COMEDY ASDFGHJKL WHAT IS THAT FACE SAITAMA this is so good. How long have they been there playing games anyway?? Aww King being concerned for Genos’s safety thats so sweet?? Also Saitama worrying very subtly I love them so much I cri

AH THERE GOES MY HEART RATE AGAIN OK asdfghjkl THE watchdog Man movements!!! LOOK!! SO !! COOL!! Ouch ok I love seeing Garou smile but not while pinned to a tree like that no nope I dont like it not one bit oh no

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

THERE IT IS THERE IT IS THERE IT IS THERE IT IS OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD NGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ohhey its flowey undertale

ASDFGHJKL OK Genos looks so cool I just IM so GLAD im just so happy I cant Also IM LOVING ANIME GAROU WITH THE RED its just SO GOOD phew phew asdfghjk just EVERY SINGLE SHOT OF GAROU IS SO PERFECT EVERY. SINGLE. ONE

BANG ASDFGHJKL BANG OH MY GOD I WAS SO CAUGHT UP I FORGOT wtf this music is so funky i love it??? Holy crap???

This looks soo good I am alive I am living is this the thrill of life ?? ? Oh my god. This music is killing me this is so intense, I don’t want it to end here. Bang is also drawn SO BEAUTIFULLY here everyone in the whole episode is WAIT

WAIT

I DO NOT REMEMBER THIS FLASH BACK

THIS IS NEW

OH NO

ASDFGHJKL GODDAMNIT SOURFACE

One, Murata, JC, why did you do that. that was cruel. It hurts. i wasn't prepared. I mean im never prepared but like ESPECIALLY not for that just tear my heart out just tear it out i dont even need it please just JUST

oh no, you cant end the episode like that

please come back

wh-what about my favorite dopey bird man

please

wha

what am I looking at what is this end card “The wiping of the disciple’s butt” is that really how thats translated?? What a fukkin roller coaster

So this was by far my favorite episode of the season to date. I know a lot of people were worried about the animation quality and just overall quality JC staff has been putting out thus far, but I think it’s clear why the rest of the season has been average majority of the time. They spent. All the time. And budget. on. This. Episode. Every Character looked beautiful. The animation was fluid, not too blurry, not too flashy, well paced, and with high quality art. I just. Oh my god. I’m in denial right now that the season only has One episode left. Just 24 minutes more. Until WHO KNOWS when. Whos gonna cry with me next week? pls im gonna need like 100 shoulders my weak heart. ahh shitttttt

Side Note: DID YALL HEAR ABOUT THE OPM GAME COMING OUT??? I swear I JUST had a conversation with @joyandeggs last week about how they could make a game and what it should/could/would entail, AND LO, I HAVE BEEN BLESSED

June 2019 is a BLESSED month for me regarding OPM the past few weeks have been an OVERLOAD

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fantroll-purgatory · 6 years

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Luscin Guisep

(Well, here we go! Alternian Troll #2! I’ve known roughly what I wanted to do with her since the moment I started writing her, but something has gone awry along the way, but I can’t place what? Submitting this through Mobile, so hopefully everything will stay in place.)

I dunno- reading through this, I felt like she has a really solid character! I’ll see if I can’t figure out what’s bugging you, but I can already tell it’s an ephemeral thing that’s tough to pin.

Universe: Alternia!

Name: Luscin Guisep

Luscin is really just the first six letters of Luscinia, which is a genus of smallish passerine birds, containing the nightingales and relatives, which is a sly reference to the fact that visually I based her off of Florence Nightingale. Guisep as a reference to Guiseppe Mercalli, the man who first coined the term “Vulcanian Eruption”, of which was suggested during Scoria’s review.

Age: Roughly 7 Sweeps, likely a tad bit older than 7.

Theme/Story: Have you ever met someone who seemed to be just surrounded by ghosts? Meet Luscin. She’s someone at one end fascinated by death, and someone who fears it in equal measure. For a purpleblood, she seems remarkably stable- quiet and serene, even. But that’s something of a facade. Due to intense self control (bordering on pathologic) and an overwhelming desire to right the wrongs of the past and present, Luscin tries her best to be everything that a Purpleblood shouldn’t be: a healer, a caregiver, a friend. She wants to change the society she lives in, starting with herself.

I think what you might need to pull together this theme, the Florence Nightingale reference, her purpleblooded nature, and her self restraint might be… a little more theology? That’s a weird suggestion, but Purplebloods are some of the only trolls with see with an actual explicit church/religious sense and Florence Nightingale wrote a lot about religion, religious reformation and acceptance, and mysticism.

You could give her some measure of interest in a reformed church. One that’s more open, accepting, kind, and that has a future focused on progress instead of destruction? As a reference to Nightingale’s criticism of how the English church was utilized as a tool to worsen the oppression of the poor, she could be critical of how the Mirthful Messiahs are used by the subjugglators as a tool to keep the lowbloods “in place”.

And she could rely on religious introspection and meditation as a way to keep herself calm. …Sometimes. Mostly. Those moments could provide some interesting opportunities for terrifying communication with the dead moments, too. Or little mental wanders into the astral plane.

Strife Specibus: Lanternkind

Luscin doesn’t like to fight, but when she has to, that Purpleblood malice comes out in all its unholy glory. She’s terrified of herself when she does it, and she hates herself all the more when she uses her lantern either to bludgeon someone to death, or use its uncanny light to lure someone into her Lusus’ jaws, but she’s surprisingly good at it.

Fetch Modus: Plague Modus

You ever play one of those pathogen Flash games? The ones where you try and breed a super disease (or make zombies, etc.) and take over the world? That’s Luscin’s modus in a nutshell. In order to get anything out, she needs to wait until that part of her Modus has been infected enough to eject the item. Each item has its own parameters for what kind of disease it would theoretically be, and that means its own infection rate. She often spends hours agonizing, waiting for whatever item she mistakenly put in to be available again.

Blood color: Purple

Unlike her Dancestor, Luscin doesn’t seem to be a Purpleblood at all. She’s too… nice. Too prone to patching up wounds, too focused on the plight of the less fortunate. But, what lies behind that painted face of hers lies a girl stressed to the point of breaking, who’s been trying her damndest to live to higher ideals. Truly, she’s a purple blood who’s single-minded devotion is to be the best person she can be.

When she snaps, clear out! Girl’s a walking emotional hydrogen bomb.

Symbol and meaning: As Purpleblooded Doom players who dream on Derse, the Guisep girls both claim the sign of:

CAPRIMINI, the PERILOUS!

Trolltag: Much like one of her good friends, Luscin uses two different Trolltags, each for different purposes.

tediferousGlimmer [TG]

This is her main account, that she keeps colored purple. “Tediferous” means “bearing a torch” which while a literal reference to the fact that she swings a lantern around, is an in-character reference to her own Ancestor. Not a reference that anyone gets besides herself, of course, but she thinks she’s clever. While “Glimmer” is another light reference (girl really likes her lantern), I really thought of it as a reference to Longfellow’s “Santa Filomena”

“Lo! in that house of misery

A lady with a lamp I see

Pass through the glimmering gloom,

And flit from room to room.”

Which is in itself a sort of a reference to Florence Nightingale, once again. Also the word just sounds good. Fun word.

tenebrousTelesthesia[TT]

Much like one of her closest friends, Luscin has a specific interest in the heretical cult of the Signless/Sufferer, and she uses this hemoanon account when trying to dredge up info on the movement to better formulate her own opinions. “Telesthesia” is defined as abnormal impression of objects beyond the senses, which is a direct in-character reference to her hearing/seeing ghosts everywhere. “Tenebrous” is “dark, shadowy, obscure” as a reference to the kind of lore she’s looking for- ancient and outlawed revolutionary plans.

I love these both a whole lot!

Quirk:

[TG] On her main…. Luscin has a habit of…. Ominously putting ellipses after her thoughts… she thinks it makes her sound mature…. But it mostly just makes her sound really… passive aggressive… Sometimes, whenshesreallynervousshellforgettoputspaces and WHEN SHE FLIPS OUT SHE PUTS ALL PRETENSE ASIDE AND JUST YEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[TT] She actually uses the Sufferer Sym69ls correctly, and tries her best not to lapse into her habits… but it’s hard… y’know?

Special Abilities (if any): As a Doom player who actually embraces her aspect, Luscin can and does hear the voices of the dead (a la Sollux). She doesn’t actually know that that’s what causing it, and so believes that she’s under the Calciner’s Curse, suffering for deeds her Ancestor did. This drives her nuts and doesn’t do anything useful yet, but it’s fun.

As a Purpleblood, Luscin’s psychic powers are twofold, though they share a similar root. Both involve causing people to see ghostly hallucinations of her, though what they cause varies. In the first type (which she uses when hunting for her lusus) the image of her acts as a will-o-wisp, enticing whoever is unlucky to see it to follow it, usually to their doom. The second form causes the ghostly image of her to plague the victim, usually causing them to do whatever it is she’s been nagging at them to do. Neither of her purpleblood abilities force people to do anything, they just make doing what she wants to seem like a better alternative.

Poor girl having to put up with all this. I do like that she’s got these abilities that surround her in this torment as well as doing things like passively causing death and passively tormenting others…

Lusus: Luscin’s pretty sure she inherited her Lusus from her Ancestor, and she hates every minute of it. This is Alternia, so killing people to feed your Lusus is a well respected part of high society, but she hates every second of trying to feed this hell volcano-ocean-beast thing, somewhere between Salamander and Leviathan, which lives beneath the once-active volcano on which she makes her Hive. Really, her life would be a lot easier if the thing would just keel over and die already, but she’s not going to get that lucky any time soon.

Interests: Medicine and Pathology, Looking Ominous, Funerals and Death Customs, The Signless Cult, Failed Rebellions Against The Condesce

Funerals aren’t common on Alternia at all, to the point of being almost unheard of. Did she happen across some online information about it? Or just happen to locate some old ancient information about funeral practices while scouring the Rebel Web? I guess it’s not important, I just wanted to comment on it.

I do like these interests a Lot for a doom player, tho. And re: the stuff I mentioned earlier, maybe she could have a marked interest in lowblood folk religion? Trying to study the kind of regional theologies that pop up in various lowblood communities and introspection about how it relates to her own world experience?

Appearance: As much as it embarasses her, Luscin has a big love of fashion. Admittedly, her tastes are less “fashion forward” and more “young Victorian widow”, but it’s considerably more than your average troll. She’s a big fan of dramatic veils and long layered skirts, all in black. She wears her symbol in the center of her chest, as is custom. The wrought-iron lantern glows with an eerie green-red light, a reference to the two people she built it with. Her horns are long and curl down the ends, which makes wearing actual veils a problem, but she tries anyway just for the drama of it all. It’s hard to find her hair behind all of the black, truth be told, but it’s cut into a wavy, mid-length bob kind of thing that she barely keeps up with. Like many Purpleblooded trolls, Luscin paints her face, ringing her eyes with purple and using the usual grey and white paint to create an exaggerated skull design.

Neat, we’ll draft her up at the end like usual!

Personality: If you don’t know her well (and let’s face it, she doesn’t want anyone knowing her well), Luscin seems to be something of a doormat. She’s very quiet, almost timid, and she doesn’t make a big impression. Of course, this is all a side effect of her intense repression. She overdoes it a lot, trapping herself in her own head. Even to her friends, Luscin is known as the kind of person who you can talk to all day and yet hear very little from. She likes to be a listener, she likes to be the kind of person her friends can rely on to be stable, and sober, and rational. It takes a lot to get going, but oh boy, once you get her going, there’s no stopping her. Only her closest friends have ever witnessed what happens when you put a purpleblood’s aggression in a can and shake it until explodes. They don’t like recalling the stories.

Had she any kind of self confidence, Luscin would be a meddler because she is always thinking of other people. She has a very deeply buried trickster streak, that sometimes surfaces when she needs to hunt for her Lusus. Whenever she really gets into a hunt, her mental discipline starts to waver, and when either her or a friend is in physical danger, it all goes to hell and out comes the cackling madwoman wielding a lantern. She’s absolutely disgusted with herself every single time it happens, and every failure to keep her cool just adds another level of stress for her to deal with.

Luscin’s prone to going on long, poetic rambles about the nature of troll and society and nature and whatnot, which comes off as really pretentious but comes from a place of sincerity. If there’s one thing that Luscin’s doing at any given moment, it’s thinking way too hard about things that are out of her control.

I… love her. I like the idea of her purpleblood nature taking over during the hunt and she hates it and feels guilty. Someone free her.

Ancestor: The Calciner [Scoria Guisep, The Heir of Doom]

The woman who last wore Luscin’s symbol was an infamous highblood. They say she lived at the center of a volcano, walked on lava and ate fire for fun! They say she once rode into battle on a sea monster who devoured an entire ship whole! These tales are probably exaggerated. But from what Luscin has learned, there are a few things that are certain. The Calciner lived up to her name- she hunted Lowbloods for sport, chasing them with flames and bludgeons, relishing in their torment before feeding their corpses to her Lusus. As a purpleblooded troll, she relished every second of power she had, and lived up to the Alternian ideals as much as anyone could. There were two specific lowerbloods that she found herself fond of, but they both became swept up in the Signless’ cult. While her heart was almost swayed by the woman she loved, her bloodlust got the better of her, killing one of the two and then she forced herself into a duel to the death with the other. Nobody got out of that event alive.

Luscin believes that she has been cursed with the Calciner as an Ancestor. She swears that the feels the ghosts of all the people she killed surrounding her at all time. No amount of light from her lantern can drive these shadows away. To her, the only way to quiet the shades of the dead (and her conscience) is to undo the harm her Ancestor caused, one day at a time. Luscin believes that while one does inherit the baggage of their Ancestor, they are not fated to become them. All it takes is a bit of intense focus and a desire to change.

Title: Sylph of Doom

Unlike practically any of her contemporaries, Luscin is kind of… already there growth-wise. She doesn’t need a huge challenge to her personality in order to grow into a better person or a better friend. She needs someone (or, in this case something) to push her into actually making the first step. Part of what makes Doom so agonizing of an Aspect is that there is inherently a threshold element to it- you can’t have Death without it. Rage is the destruction, the breakdown. It ends what is before. Void is what lies beyond Doom- nothingness and room to grow. But Doom? Doom takes a player and says “look upon this: it is gone, and it shall not be again”.

And, really? That’s the wakeup call Luscin needs all on its own. The final, the inevitable has surrounded her this entire time. As a Sylph, the potential is there for her to become all she ever could be. She may not be a healer of the sick, but of the dying? The dead? Therein lies her potential. It’s a sobering kind of potential, but there’s nobody better equipped to handle that than her.

I’ve been debating Maid for her as well, as they’re similar classes but I’m unsure which would be best (if either of these at all) to fit Luscin’s odd “semi angel of Death” theme going on here. Witch might also be an option for her? The Pele girls are just a “?????” of classes at all times.

I find this funny because Witch/Maid/Sylph are the ones I struggle with ALL the time, too. I like Maid for the Made of Doom pun as it relates to her, but… I think Luscin might benefit best from a Witch role? Because it is the active changer and I think that might be good for her. Doom is also about systems and structures- it relates to the state of things and their inevitable sputtering out. So her interest in rebellion could easily be reflected in her being a Witch. She wants to actively manipulate and change and shape.

That would also make her inverse Seer of Life, would allow her to have the passive understanding of the importance of life. That undercurrent of its importance, that understanding and knowing that there is something, something, something that could grow and change, something that could be better. And than she uses that knowledge to shape and change the nature of death, of demise, of the end, and of all the things that lead there.

Land: The Land of Hydrangeas and Strings

The sound of a singular string on a koto being plucked rings as Luscin’s feet hit the rough earth, her hive having crumbled into basically nothing in the transition. The sky is a stormy brown, and every path is overgrown by massive bushes,almost heart shaped leaves in dark green frame the horizon- panicle and globular shape inflorescences wave in the breeze, their colors varying even on the same plant. So much for that soil acidity.

Spiders weave webs somewhere in the dense undergrowth, and their eight legs make them masters of the koto, and the harp, and sometimes even the lyre. The sound of eerie, inhuman music haunts her every moment. They say Orpheus played his lyre for Hades, king of the dead, in exchange for the soul of his beloved. She knows in her soul that something is waiting, at the place where all of the roads meet, where all of the sounds of the spiders and the wind combine finally into a perfect harmony.

Luscin fears she might not have the strength to ask of it what she must.

You always have such good planet descriptions I Love this.

Dream Planet: Derse

In a manner that mirrors her Dancestor, Luscin can’t take anything regarding her caste, her planet, and her society lying down. To Luscin, her Ancestor did enough damage as it is that’s lasted until now. Everything to Luscin is a battle, even if she doesn’t realize it consciously. Dersites rebel, and what rebellion is more real than denying your own blood?

Perfect!

Hair: I know you said she doesn’t keep up with it much, but I decided to keep it relatively tame just so it wouldn’t pull too much attention. It still has some scraggly ends, but... maybe having neat hair is a sign of not keeping it together on Alternia? I mean, Equius the sweaty mess has straight hair so who knows.

Eyes: I kept them the same as Scoria’s, but made them less half-lidded, because it seems like dancestors often share eye shapes!

Mouth: I gave her a smaller frown, but I kept a few teeth I stole right from the Scoria sprite poking out there.

Makeup: I did the purple rings around the eyes and then did some frowny eyesockets in grey. I gave some wavy cheekbone lines, but I didn’t add anything else because I didn’t want it too cluttered.

Outfit: I based it vaguely off an outfit I saw Florence Nightingale wearing when I googled her. White neck ruffles and the rest in black. I had the skirt go down just far enough to cover her feet. No visible leggies here.

Thank you for sharing her! I love her... A Lot.

-CD

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ongames · 7 years

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5 Ways I've Prepared Myself For Non-Retirement

I am 67 and continue to work full time. Believe it or not, this is by choice ― and I don’t believe that I’m alone in the decision to pursue non-retirement.

Lots of people approach retirement expecting that there will be some specific event to trigger their departure from the workplace. They frequently look to the calendar for guidance, something I was once guilty of doing myself. When I was 50, I told myself I would work until 55. When I was 55, I moved the needle to 60. No surprise that 65 came and went too.

So when will I stop work? When it stops being fun. When I find something I want to do more. When my dependent children are launched and move out. When I win the lottery. Or maybe never. I have simply learned to embrace my non-retirement.

According to the U.S. Census, the average retirement age in the United States is about age 63 ― an age at which you wouldn’t be eligible yet for Medicare benefits and if you planned on starting to collect Social Security, you would earn less in benefits.

But that’s beginning to change: More Americans ages 65 and older are working than at any time since the turn of the century, Pew Research Center found in an analysis of employment data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. In May 2016, 18.8 percent of Americans ages 65 and older were working, compared to just 12.8 percent in May of 2000, Pew found.

For some, the savings lost in the recession makes the idea of retiring today tougher. For others, it’s the knowledge that we are living longer and healthier and don’t really want a 20- or 30-year retirement. And still others look at the turmoil in the world and question their own willingness to travel as they once expected they might. An AARP study found that one-third of baby boomers are shunning international travel out of safety concerns.

But just because you aren’t going to retire doesn’t mean you shouldn’t prepare. Here are five of the smartest things I did in preparation for my non-retirement:

1. I keep getting regular health checkups.

It’s not aging that worries me, it’s unhealthy aging. I can honestly say that at the first sign of serious illness, I’m taking my second medical opinion and hitting the road. I rely on my regular health checkups to tell me when that will be.

While I’m not in total agreement with Ezekiel Emanuel who famously published in the Atlantic that he plans on dying at age 75, I get where he’s coming from. By 75, you’ve pretty much been as productive a member of society as you’re going to be. Your kids and grandkids love you or hate you. You’ve made your mark on the world, and at a point somewhere ― I’d push it to 82 myself ― you are more likely to become a burden and be miserable than you are to distinguish yourself in any other way. So why keep on keepin’ on?

2. I stopped thinking I have to retire.

I’m tired of people asking, “Do you really want to spend your last day on Earth at work?” Well yes, I suppose some of us do. The thing about that question is the answer can change literally at any minute. No, I would not want to be a 45-year-old who keeled over at my desk clutching my heart. But nor would I want to be the 85-year-old whose weekly calendar contains little besides medical appointments.

3. I take frequent work breaks.

I work for a great company that gives me a generous amount of time off. I take multiple vacations where I disconnect and travel to exotic places. I also take some days where I stay home and just lose myself in a book or binge-watch. I use my paid volunteer days to give back to my community. When I’m sick, I’m encouraged to stay home and I do precisely that.

I cherish my job and cherish my time away from it even more. But I likely wouldn’t cherish that time off if I was “off” all the time.

Here’s a reality: Retired people get bored. A lot. I have to laugh when I read an article that suggest they find a second career to keep busy. Why not just stay with their first career?

4. I accept that retirement isn’t a “use it or lose it” thing.

While “use it or lose it” is applicable to many parts of aging, it’s just not the case for retirement. Just because I don’t want to leave my job today, the option to leave it tomorrow will still be there. It doesn’t go away.

That, in and of itself, is very empowering. I know I can walk out the door whenever and if-ever I want. Now what did Janis Joplin say about freedom being just another word for nothing left to lose? Non-retirement is about using our freedom to choose.

5. I learned to silence the ageists.

There is a popular myth that suggests baby boomers should leave the workforce in order to “make room” for unemployed millennials. It’s untrue ― and ageist.

The workplace does not hold an infinite number of jobs. Economies expand and shrink. The goal is to create enough jobs so that everyone who wants one can have one.

To exclude a segment of the population that is still capable of working and being productive because of age is a prejudiced act: Try recasting that sentence with we need to “make room” for unemployed men or unemployed white people and you can see how prejudiced and logically false it sounds.

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5 Ways I've Prepared Myself For Non-Retirement

I am 67 and continue to work full time. Believe it or not, this is by choice ― and I don’t believe that I’m alone in the decision to pursue non-retirement.

But just because you aren’t going to retire doesn’t mean you shouldn’t prepare. Here are five of the smartest things I did in preparation for my non-retirement:

1. I keep getting regular health checkups.

2. I stopped thinking I have to retire.

3. I take frequent work breaks.

I cherish my job and cherish my time away from it even more. But I likely wouldn’t cherish that time off if I was “off” all the time.

Here’s a reality: Retired people get bored. A lot. I have to laugh when I read an article that suggest they find a second career to keep busy. Why not just stay with their first career?

4. I accept that retirement isn’t a “use it or lose it” thing.

5. I learned to silence the ageists.

There is a popular myth that suggests baby boomers should leave the workforce in order to “make room” for unemployed millennials. It’s untrue ― and ageist.

The workplace does not hold an infinite number of jobs. Economies expand and shrink. The goal is to create enough jobs so that everyone who wants one can have one.

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5 Ways I've Prepared Myself For Non-Retirement

I am 67 and continue to work full time. Believe it or not, this is by choice ― and I don’t believe that I’m alone in the decision to pursue non-retirement.

But just because you aren’t going to retire doesn’t mean you shouldn’t prepare. Here are five of the smartest things I did in preparation for my non-retirement:

1. I keep getting regular health checkups.

2. I stopped thinking I have to retire.

3. I take frequent work breaks.

I cherish my job and cherish my time away from it even more. But I likely wouldn’t cherish that time off if I was “off” all the time.

Here’s a reality: Retired people get bored. A lot. I have to laugh when I read an article that suggest they find a second career to keep busy. Why not just stay with their first career?

4. I accept that retirement isn’t a “use it or lose it” thing.

5. I learned to silence the ageists.

There is a popular myth that suggests baby boomers should leave the workforce in order to “make room” for unemployed millennials. It’s untrue ― and ageist.

The workplace does not hold an infinite number of jobs. Economies expand and shrink. The goal is to create enough jobs so that everyone who wants one can have one.

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