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* ;  ─  the mirrors surrounding you did as they were meant to, reflecting back a spitting image of JEON JUNGKOOK  -  but it’s clear something is wrong from the moment that a vision of GOING UNDER TREATMENT strikes you.  perhaps it was a passing daydream in the frenzy of the funhouse. you reassure yourself  -  you’re HAROLD “HARRY” OSBORN,  a TWENTY YEAR OLD UNIVERSITY STUDENT whose virtue lies in your + REVERENCE & + GENEROSITY, although you’ve been told that you tend to be quite - STUBBORN & - UNCERTAIN,  and you’re associated with UNANSWERED CALLS, ECHOING HALLWAYS, COFFEE-STAINED PAPERS by those around you.  suddenly,  however,  you’ve found YOUR JOURNAL on your person - was that always there? from the moment you leave the funhouse,  memories from your life in MARVEL COMICS / SPIDERMAN PS4 have begun to return - leaving whoever you had been before in the mirror’s reflection behind you.  you can almost hear CRYSTALISED by THE XX following in your wake. ( he/him / they/them &  nonbinary masc )

            tws:  death,  abandonment,  chronic  /  terminal  illness

ALUCARD  ----  long since abandoning his deadname,  harry has been known as harry for as long as he remembers,  or chooses to remember at least.  he’s lived in alucard all his life,  having been born  &  raised in a happy home up until he was eighteen before staying in the dorms for college.  he’s pursuing a degree in environmental law and has plans to become an environmental attorney.

THINGS TO NOTE  ----  

harry is nonbinary masc  !  please don’t misgender him.  in every thread;  i’ll tag his pronouns appropriately.  please use them.

harry is bisexual.

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CANON  ----  harry grew up in an initially loving household.  his mother with her teaching him how to bake and explaining her passion for environmental responsibility.  his father teaching him how to ride a bike and telling him how one day,  oscorp would be his to rule.  a mother who would live until she didn’t,  becoming something other than living,  alive in nothing but memories.  a  father  absent from chosen isolation,  after that.  a father with a cold stare and cold words.  he had grown up impossibly lonely with only impossible wealth to keep him company aside from his two best friends.  he did his best to be the good,  generous person that his mom raised him to be,  but he was never quite the same after her death.  a rare hereditary illness,  oshtoran syndrome,  that took away his mother in everything including physical, an illness that took away his father in everything but physical.  he went to university for environmental law,  graduated and went into getting an mba.  he tried to continue his mother’s legacy in environmental law,  her research stations,  but he had fallen sick. desperate for a chance to live,  lying to those he cared for to avoid them having to watch him die,  he went under an experimental cure.  the venom symbiote.

TAG DIRECTORY  ----

ii.  and i earned it back  /  abt.   about.

ii.  not completely helpless  /  beg.   starter .

ii.  free as a bird  /  vis.   visuals.

ii.  for the bonus round  /  ism.   musings.

ii.  how spectacular a move  /  int.   interactions.

ii.  i’ve got this on my own  /  aes.   aesthetics.

ii.  not knowing who you are  /  sol.   solos.

ii.  i know my way out  /  ask.   ask responses.

ii.  sins of the father  /  dyn.   harry osborn  &  his complicated emotions regarding norman osborn.

ii.  i won’t forget my family  /  dyn.   blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,  all of the people harry considers family.

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*  ;  —  welcome  ,  HAROLD  “  HARRY  ”  OSBORN  .  a  long  way  from  spiderman  ps4  +  marvel  comics  ,  huh  ?  hm  …  a  twenty  year  old  environmental  law  student  who  looks  like  JEON  JEONGGUK  —  could  be  worse  .  i  heard  you  were  at  PIZZA  PLANET  when  we  un  -  glitched  ,  &  you  (  started  crying  ]  .  still  the  giving  &  self  -  destructive  type  ,  that’s  why  [  stifiling  silence  in  an  empty  house  ,  steady  beeping  of  an  iv  monitor  ,  &  shadows  casted  in  a  quiet  room  ]’s  totally  your  vibe  .  the  memory  of  GOING  UNDER  AN  EXPERIMENTAL  CURE  is  hazy  ,  but  maybe  the  (  leather  -  bound  journal  &  a  laptop  full  of  your  research  stations’  data  )  waiting  for  you  at  the  pawn  shop’ll  bring  clarity  .  +  human  /  venom  host  ,  nonbinary  masc  [  he/they  ]  ,  bisexual  .

             tws  :  death  ,  abandonment  ,  chronic  /  terminal  illness

BEGINNING  —  harry  doesn’t  like  to  remember  his  dead  name  .  the  name  he  chose  is  harold  osborn  ,  going  by  harry  for  everything  besides  standardised  test  taking  and  legal  documents  .  compromised  with  his  dad  and  earned  theopolis  as  his  middle  name  .  he  grew  up  in  an  initially  loving  household  .  his  mother  with  her  teaching  him  how  to  bake  and  explaining  her  passion  for  environmental  responsibility  .  his  father  teaching  him  how  to  ride  a  bike  and  telling  him  how  one  day  ,  oscorp  would  be  his  to  rule  .  a  mother  who  would  live  until  she  didn’t  ,  becoming  something  other  than  living  ,  alive  in  nothing  but  memories  .  a  father  absent  from  chosen  isolation  ,  after  that  .  a  father  with  a  cold  stare  and  cold  words  .  he  had  grown  up  impossibly  lonely  with  only  impossible  wealth  to  keep  him  company  aside  from  his  two  best  friends  .  he  did  his  best  to  be  the  good  ,  generous  person  that  his  mom  raised  him  to  be  ,  but  he  was  never  quite  the  same  after  her  death  .  a  rare  hereditary  illness  ,  oshtoran  syndrome  ,  that  took  away  his  mother  in  everything  including  physical  ,  an  illness  that  took  away  his  father  in  everything  but  physical  .  he  went  to  university  for  environmental  law  ,  graduated  and  went  into  getting  an  mba  .  he  tried  to  continue  his  mother’s  legacy  in  environmental  law  ,  her  research stations  ,  but  he  had  fallen  sick  .  desperate  for  a  chance  to  live  ,  lying  to  those  he  cared  for  to  avoid  them  having  to  watch  him  die  ,  he  went  under  an  experimental  cure  .  the  venom  symbiote  .  

MIDDLE  —  long  since  ditched  his  dead  name  for  a  different  name  .  the  full  name  attached  to  him  in  the  orphanage  was  harold  lyman  ,  continuing on  to  use  harry  as  a  preferred  reference  .  he  lived  here  his  whole  life  ,  having  went  to  the  high  school  and  was  accepted  to  blackwell  university  as  he  does  post  -  baccalaureate  research  in  environmental  science  and  finished  his  degree  in  environmental  law  .  

END  —  when  harry  un  -  glitched  and  got  half  of  his  memories  back  ,  he  understandably  freaked  out  .  he  doesn’t  remember  everything  ,  but  he  does  remember  the  basic  gist  of  what  his  life  was  like  .  he  broke  out  in  tears  at  the  realisation  that  he  hadn’t  just  been  abandoned  by  his  birth  parents  ,  but  that  in  his  real  life  ...  at  one  point  ,  they  were  a  happy  family  .  he  doesn't  quite  know  if  he  prefers  the  clean  cut  ties  of  a  full  abandonment  in  this  life  or  if  the  desire  for  even  a  semblance  of  what  a  family  was  like  in  his  original  life  would  have  been  enough  for  him  to  be  happy  because  he  doesn’t  remember  being  happy  with  that  .  he  fully  remembers  his  oshtoran  syndrome  ,  but  he  doesn’t  remember  the  venom  symbiote  .  as  far  as  he  knows  ,  they  were  still  using  gr  -  27  ,  aka  devil’s  breath  ,  as  the  main  cure  to  his  illness  .  he  does  not  know  that  he  is  currently  hosting  the  venom  symbiote  or  a  synthesised  version  of  it  .  of  course  ,  there  are  still  plenty  of  things  that  remain  foggy  to  him  .  he  no  longer  remembers  what  his  mother’s  face  looks  like  nor  does  he  have  any  positive  connections  or  memories  surrounding  his  father  .  as  far  as  he  knows  ,  they  aren’t  his  family  .  a  family  can’t  be  a  family  if  part  of  the  family  is  gone  ,  dead  ,  forgotten  ,  or  a  mix  of  the  three  .  

SCRIBBLED  IN  THE  MARGIN  —  

DESPERATE  TO  CONNECT  ,

adopted  parents  /  siblings  ;  a  two  for  one  because  they’re  kinda  related  !  if  any  of  you  want  an  adopted  child  or  sibling  ,  harry’s  here  if  you'd  like  a  well  -  meaning  and  well  -  behaved  familial  tie  who’s  just  trying  to  do  their  best .

friends  ;  whether  it  be  childhood  friends  ,  family  friends  ,  good  /  bad  influences  ,  confidants  ,  casual  friends  ,  best  friends  ,  etc  !  give  this  lovely  one  some  friends  ,  he  will  absolutely  spoil  you  in  words  of  affirmation  constantly  . 

crushes  ;  (  m/f/nb  )  ,  past  crushes  ,  mutual  crushes  ,  fleeting  crushes  or  unrequited  ones  !  it's  unrealistic  for  harry  to  not  have  had  someone  in  his  life  he  either  had  a  crush  on  or  had  a  crush  on  him  .

exes  ;  (  m/f/nb  )  ,  previous  relationships  that  ended  amicably  or  horribly  ,  it’s  entirely  up  to  you  .  whether  because  they  fell  out  of  love  ,  weren’t  in  love  enough  ,  or  even  something  about  them  as  people  just  didn’t  match  .  

classmates  ;  people  that  harry  has  gone  to  school  with  ,  is  seeing  at  blackwell  university  ,  etc  .  this  one’s  general  on  purpose  !  they  could  have  been  lab  mates  ,  study  partners  ,  seatmates  stuck  in  a  general  ed  ,  so  on  .

TAG  DIRECTORY  ,

ii.   and  i  earned  it  back   /   abt.     about  . ii.   not  completely  helpless   /   beg.     starters  . ii.   free  as  a  bird   /   vis.     visuals  . ii.   for  the  bonus  round   /   ism.     musings  . ii.   how  spectacular  a  move   /   int.     interactions  . ii.   i've  got  this  on  my  own   /   aes.     aesthetics  . ii.   not  knowing  who  you  are   /   sol.     solos  . ii.   i  know  my  way  out   /   ask.     ask  responses  . ii.   sins  of  the  father   /   dyn.     harry  osborn  &  his  complicated  emotions  regarding  norman  osborn  . ii.   i  won't  forget  my  family   /   dyn.     blood  of  the  covenant  is  thicker  than  the  water  of  the  womb  ,  all  of  the  people  harry  considers  family  .

“  but  maybe  devil's  breath  is  what  i  need  .  little  bit  of  bad  to  do  a  lot  of  good  .  ”

Laying out the Yankees’ payroll situation for 2019

The Free Agent Semi-Flop [2018 Season Review]

(Mike Stobe/Getty)

No later than one week from yesterday, the 2018 World Series will end and the 2018-19 offseason will begin. The Yankees have more heavy lifting to do this winter than I think they would like. Blame injuries (Didi Gregorius, Jordan Montgomery) and poor performance (Sonny Gray). The rotation will be a “focus point.” Don’t sleep on the infield and even the bullpen too.

We don’t know how much the Yankees will spend this winter and we don’t know their payroll limit for next season. The Yankees reset their luxury tax rate this season and Brian Cashman indicated he has to seek approval from Hal Steinbrenner to exceed the luxury tax threshold next year. We know the Yankees can support a $240M payroll. They did it just last year. The franchise could almost certainly support a payroll much higher than that. They choose not to. C’est la vie.

Since the Yankees are counting pennies these days, I figured I’d be good to lay out the payroll situation for this offseason and next season. The Yankees operate in the world of the luxury tax. They’re more concerned with luxury tax hits than actual salary, so this is an estimate of the luxury tax payroll. Here’s what the Yankees have on the books for next season:

Masahiro Tanaka: $22.14M

Giancarlo Stanton: $22M

Jacoby Ellsbury: $21.86M

Aroldis Chapman: $17.2M

Arbitration-Eligibles: $45.1M (projected)

Pre-Arbitration-Eligibles: $13M (estimated)

Miscellaneous: $15M (estimated)

That all adds up $156.3M and that, in theory, covers the entire 40-man roster. In reality, it doesn’t even cover the 25-man roster because the Yankees aren’t going to plug three kids making the minimum behind Tanaka and Luis Severino in the rotation. I mean, they could, but I’d bet against it. The luxury tax threshold jumps to $206M next year, so, based on this, the Yankees have $49.7M to spend this winter. That’s a lot! Let’s talk out the payroll.

1. Wait, only four guaranteed contracts? Really? Really. I was shocked. The Yankees shed Brett Gardner ($13M), David Robertson ($11.5M), CC Sabathia ($10M), J.A Happ ($4.32M) Neil Walker ($4M), Lance Lynn ($2.03M), and Andrew McCutchen ($1.26M) this offseason. They’re all free agents. Tanaka, Stanton, Ellsbury, and Chapman are the only remaining guaranteed contracts on the books. Pretty wild. That’ll of course change once the Yankees start signing free agents and making trades. Those guys becoming free agents have to be replaced.

2. What about Gardner’s option? Yeah, don’t forget about this. Gardner’s contract includes a $12.5M club option with a $2M buyout for next season. It’s a $10.5M decision. I really have no idea what the Yankees will do. Declining it seems like an easy decision given his second half — even if the Yankees want to bring Gardner back, they’d be able to do so at a lower salary than the option, right? — but the Yankees love love love Gardner. Wouldn’t surprise me to see them pick it up, honestly.

Anyway, as far as the luxury tax goes, the Yankees have already been taxed on the $2M buyout. It is guaranteed money and it was lumped into the average average value of Gardner’s contract these last few years. Declining the option has no luxury tax impact next year. The $2M has be paid to Gardner, but it doesn’t get charged to next season (or this season). It’s already been taxed. Here’s what the Collective Bargaining Agreement says about the option being exercised:

Article XXIII(E)(5)(b)(ii): Potential Adjustment to Payroll Notwithstanding subparagraph (b)(i) above, if the Player ultimately does not receive the Option Buyout, then for the Contract Year covered by that option, no portion of the Buyout shall be included in any Club’s final Actual Club Payroll. In addition, any Club whose final Actual Club Payroll in a previous Contract Year had included that Buyout (or a portion thereof) will receive a deduction (in the full amount of the Buyout included in previous Contract Years) in its final Actual Club Payroll in the Contract Year covered by that option.

In English, that means Gardner’s luxury tax hit for next season would be $10.5M should the Yankees pick up the option. They get to subtract out the $2M buyout from the $12.5M salary because they’ve already been taxed on it. Got it? Good. I’m leaving Gardner out of the 2019 payroll estimate right now because he’s technically not under contract for next season.

3. What about Sonny Gray? He’s a goner. Brian Cashman couldn’t have made it any more clear at his end-of-season press conference. Gray will get traded this winter, he’ll go somewhere else and pitch well, and the Yankees won’t care one bit. The organization’s frustration with Sonny was almost palpable this year. Cashman, Aaron Boone, Larry Rothschild … they’re all over Gray. They’ll trade him this winter and won’t look back.

MLBTR projects a $9.1M salary for Gray next season and that is included into the estimate above because, well, he’s on the roster. He hasn’t been traded yet. Once the Yankees trade Sonny, we’ll circle back and adjust our 2019 payroll estimate. There’s a pretty good chance the Yankees will take back salary in a Gray trade (it might even be a payroll neutral trade) so shedding that $9.1M might not be as cut-and-dried as it may seem.

4. Where’d you get $13M for pre-arb players? I based it on this year’s payroll. According to our math, the Yankees spent $8,889,531.81 on pre-arbitration players and $3,904,834.64 on miscellaneous players (Shane Robinson, David Hale, etc.) this year. I added those two numbers together and rounded up. See how easy that is?

In all seriousness, I’m comfortable assuming next season’s pre-arbitration players will cost a similar amount as this year’s. The league minimum doesn’t increase much ($545,000 to $555,000) and the Yankees had a ton of injury call-ups throughout the year. That last part is important. This estimate includes minor league salaries and injury call-ups and September call-ups and all that. We don’t have to set aside anything for that. To use my favorite Boone-ism, it’s all baked into the cake.

5. What are those miscellaneous costs? The Yankees paid $6M to players no longer on the Yankees this past season. They paid $5.5M of Brian McCann’s salary and they paid half the $1M bonus Chase Headley received when he was traded. That $6M is off the books now. At the moment, the Yankees do not owe any money to players on other teams.

That $15M estimate for miscellaneous expenses is tied up in two things: Stanton’s award bonuses and benefits. Every club chips in toward player benefits and this year that amount was $14,0444,600. That counts against the luxury tax and the number increases a little each season. Stanton has $325,000 in potential bonuses in his contract and those also count against the luxury tax payroll. Add the bonuses with the increased benefits expenditure and you get $15M or so.

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Based on all that above, the Yankees have about $50M to spend this winter before hitting the $206M luxury tax threshold next season. It could be more depending on the Gray trade and it could be less depending on Gardner’s option. Hal could always approve a higher payroll as well and I hope he does because there are some premium free agents out there. The Yankees have money and the window ain’t getting any more open. If they’re not going to exceed the luxury tax threshold now to sign some top free agents, when will they?

The Free Agent Semi-Flop [2018 Season Review]

Source: https://bloghyped.com/laying-out-the-yankees-payroll-situation-for-2019/