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  1. Summary

    War is the father of all things.


    - Heraclitus

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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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    It is not true that jockeys don't feel pain. We do. We just don't talk about it, even when our skeletons are torn out; we don't feel the pain until people say something hurtful like "why aren't there any horses," and then we have to take all of that toughness and try not to break down and sob, because we are bastards and bastards don't cry, because if bastards start crying even a little bit then they just end up laying on the floor drinking their full bodyweight in brandy, empty, pitied; not having any horses at all, the horseless men of the horseless world.

    Instead I said, "because when I put the menaces on people it works strangely well, because I'm so much smaller than them, and it makes them go, oh, look, he's so little and menacing, Gladys, give him a biscuit."

    Then I thought about it some more and added, "And then I keep the biscuit."

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    An abridged retelling of the 1965 Dick Francis novel “Odds Against.”

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    31 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    Till tender is far too fierce for us, winter is almost here for us. Or: two boys from Brooklyn and how they gave up their personhood. One to be turned into a propaganda piece, and the other into a weapon.

    But before they were tools belonging to sprawling superpowers, they belonged to eachother.

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    19 Apr 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 49

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    "You all right?" she asks, not really listening to whatever grunt he makes in acknowledgement. His stubble has got tidied up, his neck shaved so that it all looks like a halfway respectable beard. He's wearing a grey suit with a darker grey button-up she's never seen before, but it doesn't look fresh, exactly. It almost seems like—

    "No," she says, suspicion growing along with her grin as she watches him blush. It's a comprehensive one: starts at his neck — more visible now — and goes clear up to his hairline. His very messy hairline, even messier than usual. "Really?"


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    16 Sep 2023

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    Technically Q's name and personal details are classified and beyond the purview of field agents, but he's worked for Q branch for ten years and had gone by his actual name for eight of them. His identity is as much of a "secret" as his ineptitude at filing financial reports.

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    03 Jan 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 61

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    Just imagine what insurance would have to cover in the MCU. Then imagine Mayhem trying to sell it to you.

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    15 Jan 2022