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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
lynnafred

Anonymous asked:

Hello!!! Do u have any more banana facts? I read ur post about the mass production and I was wondering what other things u know :0

Hi, anon! I’m so sorry for such a late response! (Thanks for the notif, tumblr, you dumb hellsite.) I think my favorite banana fact isn’t even related to the actual banana, and that is this:

Boston Fruit (later United Fruit, now Chiquita,) started using ships to bring bananas back to the US, they found they were operating at a loss bringing empty ships down to Central and South America to load their banana shipments. So, instead, they started charging the wealthy for the opportunity to “tour” and “see” these areas. They would pay Boston Fruit a fee, board and stay on their ships until they got to South American Boston Fruit-owned port cities, and take Boston Fruit owned railroads back to other port cities once they were finished with their tours. (Some tourists would take trains all the way back to the US.) Sound a little familiar?

The banana trade is the reason we have a cruise industry.

asks replies anon two sources for this info: Banana by Dan Koeppel and the Bananaland documentary sorry again for the late reply bananas Anonymous
gplusbfics

Deep Dish Nine story idea

I have a story idea I’ve been kicking around for a couple years and I can’t decide if I should do it.

The idea came up after I was in Berlin a couple years ago and visited the Stasi museum in the former East Berlin. I was familiar with the Stasi but that museum has some very powerful exhibits and you really got a sense of what a surveillance society the DDR was. Statistically the people if the DDR were the most surveilled society in history.

Anyway, after that I started thinking about the Stasi versus the Obsidian Order. Like, what would Garak think about the Stasi and their techniques? DDR society? The ubiquitous spying, wiretapping, people ratting each other out, keeping massive dossiers on individuals, etc.?

Pretty quickly a story idea evolved in my mind set in the Deep Dish Nine AU. My idea is a new guy moves in to the apartment building who’s a bookworm and opens a bookstore. He’s about Garak’s age but without much fashion flair, more frumpy. Julian or Garak meet him when he’s moving into the building. They also go to the store and get book recs. They know he’s German but he’s kind of spare about personal details. Eventually Garak susses out he’s from the former DDR. He then begins theorizing. Julian tells him he’s being absurd but it turns out that yes, this guy is ex-Stasi. I don’t picture him as an ex-interrogator, spy, or really nasty type, but more as a civil servant at the big office is Berlin. He avoids mentioning this for pretty obvious reasons. From this point on there is more story. (No, they don’t form a threesome or do anything sexual.)

Thoughts? Is it stupid? I’ve roleplayed it it and it works but I don’t know if it’s far-fetched.

deep dish nine ds9 deep space nine deep dish 9 garashir elim garak julian bashir
cosmictuesdays

cosmic-llin asked:

G and L for the fanfic asks!

G: Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order? 

Start to finish.

L: How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting? 

At least twice - once by myself when I’ve finished it, and once with a beta reader. Note I said “at least” because if it takes three or four rounds with a beta, then that’s what it takes.

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cumaeansibyl

My dear Wormwood,

It’s no use complaining to me about the rites of passage inflicted on junior tempters by the senior devils of the Earth. We invented hazing, after all; it only stands to reason that it is still practiced on those without the infernal sense to make themselves too dangerous to be trifled with.

The particular instrument of your education is one well known to me, though not by that name. You ought yet to recall your history courses well enough to know why (though Hell does not indulge in nostalgia) your tormentor remains a favourite of Our Father Below. You’ve fallen in with one of the few true innovators, and far from whining to me to use my influence against him – an impertinence noted for the record – you ought to appreciate being made useful for once.

The research department awaits a report on this new addition to the catalogue of ritual humiliations, this “swirlie.” Tell Crowley from me there’ll be a commendation in it if the next one teaches you to know your place.

Your affectionate uncle,
Screwtape

thegoodomensdumpster

Anonymous asked:

If you had to pick the best scene from GO, which one would it be?

Oh wow that’s a tough one. I’m gonna divide it into book, radio, and TV series because that’s the only way I can try not to be frustrated with my answer. (Also the ask say “best” but I’m gonna go with “my favorite” because it would be impossible to answer otherwise. )

From the book: the moment Aziraphale and Crowley hold hand at the end ( I KNOW it is very likely they are shaking hands instead of holding it, but I was already shipping hard at this point and not being a native english speaker but reading the book in english this is really the image it conjured in my head and I just can’t change it, it’s too late ). Not only is it super cute and I was sobbing from excess kawaï, but it was also the completion of Aziraphale’s character arc. It was him saying to Crowley “ I care about you, we might die right now, but if it’s by your side and if it’s for the world then it’s really not the worst that could happen to me”. It was him finally tearing down his internal wall, because Crowley had always been the one to reach out to him until this point, and Aziraphale had always been the one to end the encounters, and he rarely showed emotions and vulnerability, and even didn’t dare to show he cared about an awful lot of things, and it was him apologizing for saying earlier that Crowley was incapable of love, and it was him admitting he was wrong about Heaven, about a lot of things, it was him finally owning up his mistakes and being genuine and… ah, man, it just hit me hard.

From the radio show: I need to listen to it again but I’d say two scenes equally.
The full conversation about dolphins and the bird in the spaceship, because I just loved reading it but I cackled hearing it and I’m sad the full drunk conversation isn’t in the TV series so I’m mentionning it here. 
The other scene would be when Crowley is in his Bentley driving to Tadfield and hears the evangelist possessed by Aziraphale on the radio. It was a part of the book that had me in tears laughing, and I thought the way it was handled in the radio show with it being on the radio instead, Crowley listening to it and learning like that that Aziraphale was still alive was super smart. 
And a very honorable mention to the way Crowley screams Aziraphale’s name when he’s in the burning bookshop. I was at work when I listened to show for the first time and I had to stop the show and to stop working for five full minutes just to recover.

From the TV series: ….. OOOOH BOY. What to chose, what to chose.
I think it has to be one of the new additions. I could say the whole first part of the third episode but it would be quite cheating, wouldn’t it ? No… Actually, I think, my favorite scene would be the body swap at the end. I really appreciated that we got closure with Hell and Heaven regarding their position towards Crowley and Aziraphale’s wherabouts, it was the main thing missing from the book imo and I think that now thanks to that the story is fully fleshed out and very neat, a real complete work. 
And in that body swap scene, my favorite part will have to be everything involving Aziraphale-as-Crowley, with our favorite angel finally able to let his own full bastardery go as far as he wants, as well as showing through the way he interprets Crowley how much he admires him. Excellent acting performance on David Tennant’s part, like, WOW. I mean, I was wowing during the whole series at all the actors and actresses performances but that body swap was another level. And the final touch ? The little scrunched up nose that is so very Aziraphale at the end ? I officially died at that point.

good omens ask hey this ask was tough but i loved it thanks a lot for sending it !