Osbourne Family Portrait 9.0

Drew Crew video game headcanons

Nancy:

Nancy got a Wii for Christmas when she was young, which she loved and played regularly until she started getting into mystery solving. She still played the occasional Mario Kart with her family (she and Kate kicked ass while Carson is one of those parents who will never understand how to work a controller and ends up driving backwards half the time) but as she got more and more cases and became more popular, she just had less and less free time on her hands.

One day, she came home from a case to find her parents going ham on Just Dance, karaoke mode and all, and she acted like it was the cringeiest thing she’d ever seen. Truthfully, she thought it was cute that they were having so much fun together.

When her mother died, she left behind a ton of high scores on Just Dance and Mario Kart. The household eventually graduated to a Switch, but when the Drew Crew starts coming over a lot and they play on the Wii, Nancy inwardly hopes no one will ever break her mom’s high scores.

When Ryan comes to stay, he brings all his next-gen consoles and a whole library of games. Nancy isn’t interested in most of them (they’re usually really violent), but she often finds herself watching him playing late at night or over breakfast (she doesn’t ask if he got up early or if he’s been up all night). He’s very animated in his gameplay, and he and Nancy get fiercely competitive when he joins her in Mario Kart.

George:

The Fans never had that much disposable income for fun things, and game consoles are expensive, but that didn’t stop George’s sisters from begging for a Wii or an Xbox or a PlayStation at every birthday or Christmas. One day, George found a GameCube at a garage sale, reasonably priced (and in black, which George appreciated), and brought it home with a handful of cheap games. It was an old system even then, but her sisters were overjoyed.

It did not lead to the kind of wholesome family bonding time George was secretly hoping it might. Even years later, they are incapable of playing Mario Party 7 or Mario Kart without breaking into screaming matches or actual fistfights. They taught all their Animal Crossing villagers swear words and always make a point to sabotage each others’ homes. When they all play games at Nancy’s house, all hell breaks loose, but George still manages to be the most bloodthirsty. When they play Mario Kart, she’s going to get that trophy. And she doesn’t care if she puts Bess on the verge of tears in the process.

That damn GameCube probably did more harm than good in the Fan household, and George has almost sold it to pay the bills more times than she can count, but she can never bring herself to do it.

Nick

Nick was never super into video games. He always preferred going out and playing sports, and his mother never let him get a game console anyway, thinking video games might make him violent. But in Florida, he would sometimes hang out in his friends’ basements and play sports games like Madden, with the occasional Halo or GTA thrown in for good measure.

Casual hangouts like that are one of the things he didn’t realize he was missing until he starts hanging with the Drew Crew again. He loves seeing everyone go crazy over them and he’s proud of George’s mad skills.

When he becomes a part of the Fan family, he’s overwhelmed by her sisters’ insane playstyle. They show him no mercy in any game, of course, and the sisters unabashedly gang up on him every single time. He takes this as an opportunity to prove himself and decides he has to step up his game.

He’s still waiting for the day he actually beat them in anything (even after they ease up on him once they start accepting him), but when he does, it will be glorious.

Bess

Bess never had any video games in her early childhood, but when she became a con artist, she acquired (see: stole) a 3DS with New Leaf. She spent a lot of time riding in the car as she and Stephen went from city to city, and there were a lot of lonely nights in motel rooms that the little game made a lot more bright. She had it for almost two years and built the town into something really lovely when one night, Stephen broke it in a fit of rage.

She played some video games with the children she au pairs for in New Hampshire, and later plays with the Drew Crew at Nancy’s, but she’s not very good and she hasn’t had her own game system since the 3DS. For her birthday one year, Ace and Nancy go in on a Switch for her and she can finally play Animal Crossing again. She doesn’t get all the same villagers she used to have, but she chooses her new ones very carefully and treasures them all.

They are never allowed to leave, no matter how many times they ask.

Ace

Ace is a PC gamer, of course. In high school, he built his own gaming computer and spent a lot of time in the next few years playing first person shooters. Since he didn’t have any siblings or a lot friends, he liked to socialize using online multiplayer games. He gets harassed by trolls a lot, because he’s really good at it, and he made a habit out of hacking trolls out of their accounts when once his computer skills advanced to the illegal.

When he gets real life friends, only gets online late at night when he can’t sleep, but he’s less bothered by what random people have to say.

His favorite game, is Portal 2. He’s earned every trophy and knows the solution to every level by heart, but it still brings him comfort.

a very spoilery list of things about Return of the Thief

by Megan Whalen Turner

Okay FIRST OF ALL. That tagline on the back of the book was mean. I almost had a heart attack and dropped dead on the questionably clean carpet of a deserted Barnes & Noble when I picked it up. RUDE.

Second of all... it was SO GOOD. My non-spoilery summary would be that its a thorough blend of QoA and KoA.

“because history is written by the winners” REALLY

no i’m not over it. like yes I remembered the Erondites kid from Thick as Thieves but I almost died FIRST  

okay, can I just say. I am flabbergasted by how HAPPY this entire book was

yes it had the obligatory angst and tension and war but HONESTLY. a solid two thirds of it was pure shenanigans. and everyone is here together? and there’s no bitterness and underground resentment? and nobody is betraying anybody? and HERE WE ARE. FINALLY. AT THE POINT WE HAVE WORKED SO HARD TO REACH

i was sure Gen was going to die and if not he was going to lose everything he wanted and there was going to be some horrible bittersweet twist

BUT NO. 

INSTEAD, PURE UNADULTERATED HAPPINESS

MMMMMPGHFMMGJFMGHFMFHG 

I’M SO GRATEFUL?????????? I NEVER IMAGINED THIS DAY WOULD COME

anyway. on the same topic. Gen/Irene and Sophos/Eddis

YOU GUYS

THIS BOOK

PURE UNDERSTATED RELATIONSHIP GOLD OF THE MOST CLASSIC KIND

they are so in love

and the other relationships are SO GOOD. Gen and Eddis has always been one of my favorite dynamics and they are SO GOOD

they understand each other!!! they mock each others suffering!! they love each other!!! and also yell at each other!! amazing. fabulous. iconic

the only pairs that weren’t given its due was Gen and Sophos and Gen and Costis. Costis in general, was there far too little. And Sophos gets a few great, shining moments, but spends most of his time with Eddis

am I................................................... the only one who didn’t see Relius/Teleus coming

or was that surprising to everyone

too bad their names rhyme so unfortunately

I think in this book we truly see, in a way we have not yet been allowed to fully realize, that Eddisians are by nature fully feral

Like no wonder they did so comparatively well in a war against a more powerful nation, aside from their natural terrain advantages, each and every one of them is an absolute lunatic

Beating Gen to a bloody pulp in some arcane initiation ritual??

Chasing Gen through the palace for no reason????

That dude who implied they had done this a lot before and that it was also considered perfectly normal at home to STAB HIM WITH KNIVES IF POSSIBLE during this game??????

ALSO the window into Gen’s past. I don’t think we’ve ever been told upfront how dangerous and tenuous Gen’s position in Eddis was.

The little story in the back about the earring. EERIE.

The sheer writerly gall exhibited by MWT, honestly. First of all, our POV narrator just wakes up and tells us that he’s missed Sophos and Eddis’s wedding. Yeah, we’re just skipping that scene. Why describe it?

Not describing a SINGLE battle.

Me, weeping: Megan please I’m not smart enough to imagine it

MWT: then perish

Tossing in shocking sentences on purpose to make us think for a split second that Gen died. This happened at least three times.

Gen speaking sign language because of course he does

Pheris makes a very interesting POV character, especially given all the similarities he and Gen have

THE SCENE WHERE SOPHOS DROPS WATER ON GEN’S HEAD AND GEN ALMOST KILLS BOTH OF THEM. CHILDREN. and like, Gen deserved it.

“If he were more kinglike, we both know he wouldn’t be king.”

ALSO, Attolia in this? We get to see her PERSONALITY. we get to see her make JOKES. we get to see her being more of a person and more comfortable and more confident than I’ve EVER seen before. she is THRIVING, YOU GUYS

THEY ARE SO GOOD FOR EACH OTHER

I love the “Attolia and Eddis are really good at war since, after all, they were at war with each other not that long ago, so they are in charge while Gen and Sophos do who knows what down with the soldiers” dynamic so much

THE SCENE WHERE THE PENT AMBASSADOR KISSES ATTOLIA

Gen: >:O

The Pent:

Attolia: *sigh* RUN

MPGHFJGHG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LITERALLY was making the weirdest squeaking noise out loud. 

i cannot BELIEVE this happened. in the time of QoA no one would have DARED. i can’t believe Gen tried to knife him, and I can’t believe he MISSED, and i can’t believe Gen and Attolia spent the whole rest of the night in a pillow fort together. they’re so wholesome in a weird, evil way.

Gen abdicating the throne out of pure spite, and ATTOLIA SAYING SHE WOULD GO WITH HIM

We still don’t know why Gen is chronically ill!!!!!!!!!!!!

LITERALLY smiting Erondites with divine lightning l o l 

The Medes really decided that bringing Gen right into the heart of their camp and making him Really Mad was the smartest play. Amazing.

Did we know tattoos were an Eddisian cultural thing before this?? Did I just totally blank out on that??? Or was this new information?

Ion Nomenus can CHOKE

How like Gen to make “I can do anything I want” his entire creed and conveniently leave out the last part of his grandfather’s advice.

“When the king gives his heart, he gives it completely.”

MMMMMMMMMMMMMM THE BABIES

YEAH WE’RE HAPPY

“A king and his Thief” Y’ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CANT BELIEFV THEYRE ALL GOING TO LIVE AND BE ONE BIG FAMILY AND SO HAPPY FOREVER AND EVER

rec list for endhawks gems

as usual during this quarantine, i went through a challenging quest, searched through every single fic on ao3 about a single ship and made a rec list, ended up with around 25 works out of 630. nearly all of them should be free of explicit, problematic and triggering content besides one or two in the mature content sense. and i’ll note those down separately but i always suggest reading the tags before starting a fic regardless the rating, just so you know what you’re diving into. furthermore, there’s this author note at the end of a fic that i’ve found which pretty much sums up my feelings about a mess that’s called todoroki friggin’ enji:

“ I love Hawks and Endeavor together. They're a great dynamic, whether it's platonic or not. I'm a pretty open guy when it comes to shipping, and me and a certain lilviathan love going back and forth with dumb ideas about them.

And that's kind of where the contradictory feelings for the Flaming Garbage Man that is Endeavor kind of come from? Because I really do think he's a very interesting and well-developed character, but I also have a very strong urge to stab him at any given time.

I want to make his life miserable and hurt him, but I also want someone to sit him down and tell him that while he owes his family an apology, they do not owe him forgiveness. I want to see him grow. I want to see him face the repercussions of his actions and move forward. ”

—by Canarianyellow on archiveofourown.org

last notes; starred ones are my personal favorites, and i'm adding to this list as i go,, so look out for updates!! you can find a better formatted version of this list here on google docs.

that being said, here are the gems i found on a yet another holy quest:

Walk Alone by adastrad*

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 3.6K

Summary: You've lost your wings, you've lost your speed, and in the crowd ahead, you've lost him too. How do you know what name to call out when you don't even know what to call yourself?

as usual, kick-starting the list with one of the first fics i’ve read about them. we have some pretty good angst related to the latest manga chapters in our hands and a fascinating second person pov here. the ‘stream of consciousness’ style of wording kicks you right in the ribs, in a good way.

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It's Cold, I Don't Want To Be Lonely

by onlyatitagain

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 3.7K

Summary: When in the presence of Todoroki Enji, it was easy to feel warm and overwhelmed by heat in more ways than just physical. Hawks was very aware of the fire burning in his heart that roared to life whenever he was with his childhood hero, who was now his best friend. The relationship they had was special in the way of how close they had become, Hawks trusted the number one hero with his life and could always count on him no matter the circumstance.

What would happen if he said something and ruined that trust, the friendship they had built over months of knowing each other?

You should never play with fire, unless you want to get burned.

truly a beautiful hurt/comfort fic. enji’s characterization is gentle and might feel slightly OOC, but give it a chance. there is also some pretty cheesy couple stuff at the end and that might not be your cup of tea, just a heads up.

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Fallen by copper_leaf**

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 7.3K

Summary: Hawks’ attempt to infiltrate the League goes wrong.

Enji is the one he turns to.

both its part one and part two, this series can take my soul. literally 7K of sheer hurt/comfort, and a caring enji. hawks’ eyeliner is probably ruined by now. can i say this is probably the best fic i’ve read about them softness-wise? i can.

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Burning Embers by copper_leaf**

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 6K

Summary: Hawks wakes up, wingless, in Enji's arms.

the continuation of the fic above, here’s more content that will make you feel all mushy. a beautiful excerpt from it:

“It’s a flicker of light in the darkness, the last ember left in the heart that still has the power to bring all else to flame.”

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The Bird Who Swallowed a Star*

by angyhawks (Soll)

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 4.5K

Summary: Endeavor remembers Hawks' small hands, how they didn't burn as he danced on his palms.

How Hawks had whispered sweet nothing into his flames, words not important as his lips moved and his voice chirped.

He remember Hawks finding him, small and spent, and gifting him a feather to feed on.

Endeavor wishes a feather had been his only offer.

//in which Endeavor is a fire demon, Hawks is once again tied to the ground, and wouldn't it be nice if they could kiss?

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Light by Caahs*

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 2.1K

Summary: Since he was a boy, Hawks gathered an eternal distaste for darkness, which was preserved until his most recent days. However, the blazing figure of Endeavor always came up like his warm source of light, illuminating the most obscure paths and clarifying the most difficult decisions.

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Emotions Are Hard, Love Even More So...

by aurora_whitlock

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 4.4K

Summary: Hawks and Endeavour at the end of a long week. Alone. Together. Its just some cute, fluffy bullshit basically. Warm your hurt little hearts.

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Cuff me to the truth of failure

by Not_A_Valid_Opinion

Rating: Gen

Word Count: 3.4K

Summary: The kid’s eyes are so wide, Hawks can see the entire silhouette of his wings in their reflection. “I want to be you.”

Shit.

“No, you don’t, kid,” he can’t help but promise, can’t stop the sadness in his eyes from flickering into view.

Hawks has dinner with Enji after a bad interview.

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Look at what amounts from the jump

(and I'm never coming down) by

Not_A_Valid_Opinion

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 3K

Summary: He stares at Endeavour with something close to regret, maybe closer to suspicion, but before Endeavour can catch the look it’s gone and replaced with a pursed lip and a glance at his phone. “I’ve gotta go. See you around, Enji.”

But the burly man stops him with his name. “Watch where you’re flying,” he says gruffly, though it’s different. It’s not an order. It’s not a request.

Whatever it is, Hawks takes it as a challenge.

Endeavour is worried about Hawks. Hawks doesn't know what to do with that information.

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You mesmerise me in red and gold

by Arayne

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 4.2K

Summary: Enji has never gotten to tell Hawks what's on his mind so he tries, in several ways, to make it clear how he feels.

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We've got a good thing going

by lehnsherry

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 3.7K

Summary: Enji is watching Shouto, so he notices the way his eyes snap to the kitchen doorway just before he hears the soft footsteps and the rustling of wings, and his heart jumps into his throat. He turns in his seat just in time to see Hawks walk in, eyes still closed and a hand scratching at his messy hair.

“Mornin’, babe, do you know where my -” Hawks breaks into a huge yawn, and then opens his sleepy eyes, and freezes in the doorway like Shouto used his power on him.

Enji’s mouth makes an involuntary sound of embarrassment, and Hawks flushes all the way down to his chest.

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As He Lived by uzumae*

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 2.3K

Summary: Hawks wants to imagine that he still has a place in a world he no longer belongs to.

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future hearts by rire

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 1.2K

Summary: When the rest of Hawks is putting on airs, it’s his wings that give him away.

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Break off a piece of your heart by kettleowl

Rating: Gen

Word Count: 890

Summary: The High-End incident, but they are actors who are too emotionally invested in their roles.

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to take a fall by rire

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 2.3K

Summary: “What’s with that look, Endeavor-san?” Hawks smiles. It doesn't reach his eyes. “Don’t worry about me, I’m fine. I got what I wanted, didn’t I? Now I’ve got more free time than I know what to do with.”

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A Thousand Flowers by adastrad*

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 440

Summary: "Let's hope the next time the cherry blossoms fall, we will all be smiling."

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#fantheflames by adastrad

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 54.9K

Summary: Todoroki Shoto accidentally, on purpose, and with great regret helps make Hawks/Endeavor happen.

this is wholesome. one hundred percent cheff kiss. peak comedy with a dose of stan twitter. actually a shouto-centric fic and more like an outsider pov of slight endhawks.

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This Gentle Earth by adastrad**

Rating: Gen

Word Count: 4.2K

Summary: Hawks buys a better excuse to keep visiting Musutafu, but damn it. Enji hadn't been looking to adopt.

guaranteed to melt your insides. enji ends up being a plant parent.

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The Winner Takes it All by adastrad

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 25.2K

Summary: Endeavor's eye is gone. He may say his injuries are his own responsibility, but it's Hawks' fault, isn't it? He will give Enji everything he can. His top secret mission will take the rest.

slaps the roof of the fic this baby right here is a shortcut for a brain burn. with a complicated storytelling and equally complex characterizations, which results in a slow but satisfying reading if you’re looking for a detailed story!! there’s seriously so much pining that it keeps you on your tiptoes until the end of it.

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Roasting the Roaster

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 3.7K

Summary:  Hawks gossips with the receptionist at Endeavor Hero Agency about what a dork the boss is, discusses Endeavor lookalike porn, and then ropes Shouto into lunch with Endeavor, whereupon Shouto just roasts his dad the whole time.

Can you roast a man who's already on fire? Apparently, yes. Yes you can.

(includes the hit single Did You Need Some Ice For That Sick Burn by Hawks, ft. Shouto Todoroki)

[Only tangentially related to the other fics in this series.]

slight crack fic for humor but it’s truly well-written. a shouto and hawks team up over endeavor was something i never deeply gave attention to yet it is gold and i need more of it. hawks writes a bop, endeavor’s whole agency thirst over the said man and everything leaves you with tears in your eyes from cackling at these dorks.

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the fics listed below the cut are rated mature or

explicit by the authors, and therefore contain sexual content:

Penumbra by Nicolefrickle

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 1.8K

Summary: Enji wants to touch Hawks' wings. Badly.

this one is rated mature but the theme is only minorly implied so i can say it is safe to read without worrying about the rating. more like a fluff fic with hawks being a happy birb.

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An Imperfect Cage by Crandberrycrush

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 55.5K

Summary: Hawks is an orphan, brought up in a charity school and thrust into the world at eighteen to work as a governor for the Todoroki family, a family that has more secrets than he can hope to unravel.

*A gothic romance based heavily on the novel Jane Eyre*

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Liquid Nitrogen by surveycorpsjean

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: 23.8K

Summary: Enji can't figure out why the hell Hawks keeps sleeping in his office.

the plot? the writing? the characterization? everything is perfect. i’m normally uncomfortable with this much amount of smut and debated if i should put this on the list or not, since it might consist of triggering content for some. please read all the tags beforehand starting this piece.

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Palindrome by Nicolefrickle

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 7.9K

Summary: Hawks doesn't realize just how much he needs Endeavor, or why it feels like he's still racing time.

//

A character study of Hawks with flashbacks and inner thoughts, heavy on the Endhawks, heavy on the hurt

I am. Not feeling very wordy right now, but I don't want to leave the conversation hanging, so there may be some incomplete thoughts or phrasings that don't make a lot of sense.

That story about E-Tion is so cute and funny! I can see why you chose him as your bias right then and there. I understand finding biases early and just always sticking with the one who first stuck out to you, but I usually take more time to find my biases, and the one who sticks out to me the most at first often ends up not being my bias. Like, the first member of Oneus who really stood out to me was Hwanwoong, but my biases are Leedo and Xion. I guess. Favorite stage presence and bias aren't always the same for me.

To get a little deeper into my Oneus biases, I first chose Leedo because he seemed like a solid, dependable sort of guy. He turned out to be much less chill than I initially assumed, but he still has that feeling of dependability and groundedness, and is also very funny and friendly. He has a little brother, and you can tell because he's responsible and dependable, but also when they worked with Na Haeun, he tried to convince her that you're supposed to wash cotton candy before you eat it. And then with Xion, I was initially drawn in by his sassy, "doesn't give a shit" attitude, and his hair and makeup and general look in No Diggity but what really cemented him as one of my biases was when I was watching their No Diggity era Weekly Idol episode and they all said that he takes care of them, listens when they need someone to talk to, and gives them advice when they need it, then shared stories like him ordering soup for Seoho when Seoho was sick, and that was back before Xion had even joined RBW, which means Xion spent his own money to buy soup for his brother's sick friend who he didn't even know.

I'm kind of leaning toward Yeonjun and Beomgyu as my TXT biases, Yeonjun mostly for that contagious confidence, and I can't quite explain why I'm leaning toward Beomgyu, but he seems cool.

I feel like this was still a pretty long ask, despite me saying I wasn't feeling very wordy, but I guess it's either no words or all the words with me - multi anon

No worries about having to have a long response!! Sorry for responding late!! I was pretty busy all day and away from my computer but I'm here now!! I feel like biases can be so subjective, like the person who fits into the bias position can get there in multiple different ways and there's so many definitions for those that are biases which make them so special lol was that too deep?

You're oneus biases sound so sweet!!! I can definitely tell that you're biases all seem to be dependable people! I really admire that!! Beomgyu really is just cool, no explanation needed.

For treasure I mentioned having like tiers of biases. For my top tier biases Junkyu really captured my heart because he was so effortlessly cute and funny. I thought about it a bit more today and I realized I tend to bias people who are like naturally funny, going back to that second gen. phrase 4D if you will. And Yoshi is just like so cool. He studied a LOT during treasure's predebut days so he can get his GED from Korea even though he's originally from Japan so HUGE props to him for taking his GED in a complete other language!! Also he likes to draw and cares a lot about his family!!! He's such a cute little bean I just want to support him. My second tier biases, Yedam is just amazes me. His talent is definitely what drew me to him and I just fell in love with his personality, again super hardworking and kinda shy but just the most wholesome!! Asahi is just a little weirdo. He doesn't fit in the conventional type for an idol, he could really care less about his image and is just there enjoying life. He composes music too!!!!! He really is just trying his best and enjoying each day as it goes by, that's the vibe I get from him. He's also from Japan!! Another bean I just want to support!!!

And Sam Kim too!! He's just so talented and cares a lot about his family (wow I like family oriented people lol) it's very evident from his songs!! He wrote one for his mom on his first album and it just gets me everytime!! He's originally from Seattle so you can really tell that he misses and loves his family so much!! He's also naturally funny and just super bright!! He has his own youtube channel and in one video he tried out nintendo switch sports and it was SUPER funny. He's just a fun person but he shows his emotional side through his music!! I think I covered all of my biases now...

i’ve been toying around with the idea of posting a fic rec list for a while, and finally decided that if i do, it might be nice to focus on newer and/or underrated fics in the fandom! some of my absolute favorites are on this list, and i highly suggest checking them out (and leaving the lovely authors some comments and kudos!)

this got pretty long, but it’s organized alphabetically by ship name (including gen) and then by length inside each ship!

blanky/little

Trysails by saltstreets  /  2k, t

“I know I can’t do much,” Blanky said, “but you can always talk to me. If you’re so inclined.”

A (very late!) offering for Tender Tuesday, "a friend in need".

okay!!!!!! okay!!!!! hear me out on this one!! this fic is wonderful. i’m a sucker for fics dealing with edward’s suffering during the worst of crozier’s captaincy, and this one is so good. blanky is so wonderful in this; i feel like his tender, kind side frequently gets overlooked in favor of his bigger, bolder attributes, and this fic truly delivers on everything i’ve been missing! it’s really gentle and sweet and i urge you to give it a read!!!!

bridglar

in the low lamplight by stelleri  /  338, g

It’s endless freezing rain outside, but the house is comfortably warm.

short and sweet! a really lovely little slice-of-life modern au

state of grace by aes3plex  /  860, m

He doesn’t mean to see it. He never does.

bridglar may be the most featured pairing, but this is told from irving’s pov and also contains irving/little and references to hickey/gibson. really sad, conflicted little peek into irving’s mind (and some nice, soft bridglar as well!)

passer iagoensis by greenery  /  3k, g

Night falls on the Beagle and Henry Peglar has just finished reading his very first novel.

Set in 1832.

this piece is so good!! it has some really beautiful (sad) foreshadowing of the franklin expedition, and is just... so soft, with some wonderful romantic tension!! and it’s funny! darwin and fitzroy are wonderful in this, and i’m always here for fic that deals with peglar learning to read (which this does!!!).

cracroft/crozier

the beggar’s opera by pyotr  /  990, e

for all of his usual anger and surliness it was almost fun to fluster francis, to rile him where he could not retaliate. sophia had spent all her life under the thumb of some man or another; she loved francis in part because she always had the upper hand.

sophia is my queen and that’s all i’ll say about that. seriously though, this piece is just... *chef’s kiss*

fitzconte

A Cheetah Never Changes His Spots by onstraysod  /  1.2k, m

Being the particular friend of James Fitzjames has its drawbacks, as Henry Le Vesconte learns during the expedition's first carnivale. But it also has its advantages, as Henry learns once the carnivale is over.

Written for Day 1 (A Special Disguise) of the 12 Days of Carnivale.

on beechey island, fitzjames reveals clio’s cheetah to the men. or... something like it! this piece is really a blast; fitzjames is in rare form, francis is glaring form the sidelines, and le vesconte is an absolute champ. and the ending is wonderfully witty and racy!

fitzier

wake me up, wake me up my darling by norvegiae  /  1.4k, g  /  mcd

James Fitzjames feels like a new man.

The old James Fitzjames lies on the cot in front of him, cradled by the man he wishes he could have had more time with.

set during 1.09, this fic is a really poignant, heartwrenching piece in which james comes to terms with the reality of his death, and of his life, as he watches francis grieve. very sad, and wonderfully written!

what the stars give us by WetSammyWinchester  /  1.7k, t  /  implied death

"They may know space, James, but you know what it means to truly fly."

70s scifi (space program!!!) au. really great translation of the terror; the mood in this is so good!!! and the little flashbacks are fantastic. it’s pretty sad, but it hurts in a good way.

fitzrossier

Take Your Turn, Take A Ride by courfairyac  /  7.5k, e

Francis agrees to accompany his friend to a masquerade, and stumbles onto something quite unexpected.

In short: Festivities! Voyeurism! James in a dress!

listen... fitzrossier is my new weakness, and this is a really fun, hot, canon-universe (pre-expedition) au.

gen

salvation by scribomania  /  250, t

The Concordia brings them survival, but not salvation.

featuring hodgson and little, and jopson. for a survival au, this little piece hurts!!! it’s so short, but it packs a punch. really, really good.

but no one remembers yet by disastermovie  / 885, t

“From the mutilated state of many of the corpses and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource—cannibalism—as a means of prolonging existence.”

—excerpt from Dr. John Rae’s report on the fate of the Franklin Expedition to the Secretary of the Admiralty (written from Repulse Bay on July 29, 1854)

sad little epilogue concerning sophia and lady jane dealing with their grief

the weary world rejoices by disastermovie  /  1.3k, t

Fitzjames goes to his first Christmas party after the survivors are rescued. It doesn't go well.

this!!!! fic!!! i can’t even do it justice, it’s just so good. the slow build of james’s panic, the caroling and gaiety as a backdrop... it’s just so painful in the best way. i’m incoherent; pls just read it,

la belle dame sans merci by drowninglovers  /  1.7k, g

Nobody is quite sure who the first one to start making her clothing is, but one day she scampers over the shoulders of the ABs as they line up for lunch wearing a tiny shirt to match her pants. It’s nothing special, no fancy detail, navy blue like most everything else they wear. Whoever made it must have cared a great deal, to make sure it fit her perfectly.

this is incredibly fun!!! just some good, wholesome fic about boys dressing up their favorite lady. 10000/10 would recommend.

Come Here, Fellow Servant by whipstitch  /  1.9k, t

The sea is dangerous, but so too is the open sky. And in that case, Cornelius determines, a friend is an unexpected boon.

okay, i made a rule that i wasn’t going to include wips on this rec list,  but i had to put this guy on here. it could be read as a stand-alone, actually, which is what i used to convince myself to include it. peglar realizes that hickey has no fucking idea what he’s doing, and tries to help him, kind, caring sweetheart that he is. this is a really, really nice little piece—i love everything about it.

lie alone by greenery  /  2k, g

He turns the page. And maybe this is it. Maybe writing a letter to young Tom Hartnell is reason enough to leave the berth.

really nice oneshot featuring two good boys (hodgson & hartnell) and their wholesome status as pen pals

the crooked kind by darrenjolras  /  2.3k, m  /  non-consensual voyeurism

“You and I, Jopson,” Hickey says, and Jopson startles at those words alone, turns an affronted gaze his way. Hickey bathes in the glacial blue of it. Like being thrown overboard. “You and I aren’t so different, you know.”

Based on that Hickey/Jopson scene. You know the one.

the terror bingo fill: court martial

not totally gen, but also not really hickey/jopson? twisted, but very much in character; hickey is his delightful self in this, and his verbal sparring with jopson is very well done and quite fun to read!

gibson/hickey

Touch Her Not Scornfully by skazka  /  2k, e

Stolen moments down below.

this fic is just... really fucking good!!! it’s a fantastic look at the very early days of gibson & hickey’s relationship, and an intriguing little venture into billy’s head.

goodsir/mcdonald

And That is How it Starts by Intrepid_Inkweaver  /  1.2k, g

It starts with a handshake and a warm smile at their introduction at Greenhithe.

a really sweet, lovely canon-divergent piece. written in 2nd person pov. these two are just such a good, wholesome pairing and this fic really does them justice!!

hartving

let loss reveal it by disastermovie  /  1.6k, t  /  mcd

Tom could never quite see himself taking a wife.

this shit fucking hurts!!!!!!! it’s a beautiful glimpse at irving & hartnell’s relationship, told through hartnell’s introspection, and is written really, really well. also did i mention that it fucking hurts???

Lookout Blues by ClockworkCourier  /  2.1k, g

John and Tom Hartnell talk about the future while they wait on a new shipment.

hello??? 1920s au??????? the world-building is so tangible in this, even in such a relatively short piece. it’s a really lovely little conversation between the brothers, and i absolutely loved their little discussion of irving.

we’ll tak’ a cup o’ kindness yet by drowninglovers  /  6.3k, g

If this is to be the last time they interact (and it likely will), Tom wants it to be memorable.

survival au survival au!! tartnell runs into irving at john’s grave, and convinces him to stay with his family until new year’s. it’s kind of bittersweet, with some really great flashbacks (and discussions of said scenes!), and oh man is it soft!! just! really beautiful and tender, and the ending is just so cute!!!!!

hodgson/hickey

the chaos moves by itself by bluebacchus  /  1.3k, e  /  violence, mcd

Hodgson's mind cracks and the heavens flow in.

(Written for Day 7 of Halloween TerrorFest: A disquieting metamorphosis and posted separately because I don't want to taint my main post with borderline vore)

fair warning... this fic is fucked up, but in the best possible way! the religious imagery!!!! the philosophy!!!! just!! god.

hodgson/little

Allegro, B Flat Major by whalersandsailors  /  5.3k, g

George is freshly moved from his childhood home, ready to tackle the school year and his newfound independence all at once.

Too bad he's lonely, miserable, and homesick.

He turns to music when adulthood becomes unbearable, and when someone knocks at his door and leaves an anonymous note, George discovers another music lover not too far away.

have i mentioned i love george hodgson? because i love george hodgson. this fic is a beautiful modern au featuring our own georgie playing his way through his feelings (literally). the buildup to the reveal of george’s secret admirer is wonderful, and had me rooting for them from the start! really sweet, stunning fic for a pairing i’d never considered before!

joplittle

get out of the wind by Cicadaemon  /  1.6k, e

Edward Little is smitten with a certain bartender.

modern au. really lovely, wholesome, and happy; just what these boys deserve!

The Thylacine by Gigi_Sinclair  / 1.7k, t 

"Thylacines. That's what Sophia called them, all those years ago in Van Diemen's Land. Dogs with tiger stripes, cats with pouches. They stretch their jaws at him, as Francis struggles to sit. The movement makes his head spin. He pushes the discomfort aside. He has no time to entertain it; he must escape."

also features cracroft/crozier. this is a really clever, funny piece set during francis’s withdrawal; poor francis is a bit muddled in the throes of his fever, and gets caught up in a memory from van diemen’s land. i absolutely loved little and jopson’s reactions in this, and especially jopson and crozier’s conversation the next morning.

Prelude in D Major by scribomania  /  2.7k, t

Hodgson is very fond of the musical apparatus in Terror's great cabin; Edward is not.

For the Terror Bingo square "denial".

i’m a big big lover of terror lieutenant nonsense, and this fic absolutely delivers! just absolutely delightful.

When the Lights Go On Again by Gigi_Sinclair  /  4.1k, t

"Edward Little's ancestors were Naval officers, almost to a man. Nevertheless, from a young age, Edward's eyes turned to the sky rather than the sea.

He longed to fly, as high and as frequently as possible. In the Royal Air Force, he got his wish. He was happy there, thriving, rising in the ranks apace and doing what he always wanted to do. Then came the first of September, 1939."

wwii au. edward is a squadron leader in the royal air force, and jopson is a corporal working for group captain crozier. i’m weak for wwi and wwii aus to begin with, and this one is done beautifully. while it doesn’t hand-wave the trauma and heartbreak of war, it doesn’t hit you over the head with it either, and the result is a really soft, bittersweet, hopeful piece.

lozer

a lily for my love by whalersandsailors  /  3.7k, m

Solomon never thought that soul-signs were real, and the stories he heard about them made soulmates sound more like a prison sentence than any fairy tale romance. It is not until he finds a soul-sign on the skin of a very dear friend that he realizes their importance, as well as their undoing.

this piece is!!! beautiful!!! very poignant, and really had me feeling for solomon. i love what’s been done with the soulmark conceit—it’s not just a simple “we have soulmarks, we’re soulmates!!!’ au (which i’ll admit to enjoying too), but a really thoughtful take on the trope. the slow way tozer puzzles everything out is wonderful, and i love the glimpses we get into several of his friendships & relationships. 

morfin/weekes

to help you remember by whalersandsailors  /  1.2k, g

An anniversary, during which Weekes presents Morfin with a gift, and Morfin struggles to remember why.

do you ever just get clotheslined by a pairing you’d never even considered before? because that’s what this fic did to me

I read every single Emerald fic on FFN so you don’t have to

There are 66 fics with Emerald listed in the tags. 

First, I took out any fic that was either not in English or actually gameverse, leaving me with 38 fics-- though I will say, the Spanish fics look like they slap

After filtering out “everyone appears” fics (I skimmed them to make sure) I was left with 26 fics. (While I would like to include “everyone appers” fics, I do not have the time nor motivation to read 30,000 words of derring-do and melodramatic heroics seventeen times in a row for Emerald to show up, deliver 2 lines, shoot something, and leave)

From there, I sorted them into various categories based on whether Emerald was a BG character or not, whether the fic had romance, whether Emerald was actually PART of that romance, etc. Then, finally, I was ready. 

Below the cut are the reviews of all twenty six fanfictions!

Category 1: BG Emerald      Every fic needs side characters, whether to provide extra voices or comedic relief or just a foil for the MCs. These fics don’t feature Emerald in a huge capacity, but he’s there and that’s what matters to me. I came into this site expecting anything: third wheel Rald, wingman Rald, Im-only-here-to-complain-about-your-flirting-Rald... I found everything but! It seems the most cliche writers among us don’t like using the Emerald tag, bc the few Frantic-with-BG-Emerald fics with I did find turned out to be spectacular! I’m pleasantly surprised and impressed. 

1. That Special Someone - Team Cap      Cap is on this list like 30 times so get used to it. This fic is mostly about Ruby refusing to shut up about Sapphire and how much he loves her (and how Emerald finds it infuriating). The details of this fic are super cute and the way Ruby and Emerald interact added 3 years to my lifespan, so I highly recommend this one if you want a nice, relaxing read involving the Hoenn boys (dare I say best boys?). In short, read this fic and all of Cap’s other fics while you’re at it.

2. A Picnic - Team Cap      Oh look. It’s Cap again. This fic, surprise surprise, is also good, and while it’s a little more basic than the others (Emerald runs into Ruby/Sapphire at a park and they mess around), it’s still cute and I still love it! Not really much else to say here... but the fic is good and I recommend if you’re in for some light domestic reads. 

3. High Hopes and Checkered Skies - aromatisse      I’ll be honest: my general opinion of frantic fics with BG Emerald is... low. A lot of them shoehorn my poor boy into whatever the plot requires at the cost of his characterization but this fic really surprised me in the best way! This one features Sapphire bringing Ruby to a “special place” the two of them arguing, and Emerald having to patch things up (mature Emerald? I don’t believe it!!). I found this fic while making this list and immediately bookmarked it bc THIS SHIT GOOD FAM. Please read this. 

4. Alpha and Omega- Ruby and Sapphire's Thoughts - Shadoweevee70     Not much to say about this to be honest. It’s exactly what it says on the tin. No plot, no development, not even 500 words. Emerald has a line. I think two. 

5. Boundaries - Team Cap     This fic hurt my heart. Though it focuses on Wally’s one-sided crush on Sapphire, there’s a touch of Emerald in there acting as Wally’s emotional support buddy, which tells me that either Emerald has matured or Hoenn is just devoid of emotionally stable individuals. Regardless, this fic is heartbreaking and beautiful but contains very little Emerald, so therefore I have very little to review. In short... not a lot of Rald, but you should read it anyway. 

6. Summer Days - eonentity      Crystal and Silver go on a “date” and Gold + Emerald try and stop them. It’s cute, it’s honestly kind of creepy if you think about it, and it involves Emerald. While the premise is kind of sketch, the banter between Gold and Emerald is incredible and I really like the general progression of the plot (especially the ending!) This is a very cute fic if you’re looking for something simple to read. Highly recommend, utilizes Emerald as a character really well!

Category 3: MC Emerald (gen)       This... this is my bread and butter baby. These fics run the gamut from friendship to domestic to drabbles to angst and everything in between, but the gist of it is that it includes Emerald as a focus without pairing him off. Not to say this is my favorite category... but it is. I’m biased, sue me. 

1. Family Inclusion - Team Cap      They say to leave the best for last, but I disagree. You’ll realize pretty quickly that Cap is one of my favorite authors to appear in this tag, and this fic is one of her best! I’m focusing on Chapter 3 (that’s the part with Emerald) where he has to entertain a shiny baby Ralts while Ruby and Sapphire are away (everybody say awwww). The fic is stupid cute, and while it doesn’t really offer much in terms of character development or stakes, it’s the type of domestic fluff you can read over and over and still find just precious each and every time. Also... Emerald takes care of a baby pokemon how can you NOT love that. Seriously. Look at this. 

2. At the Amusement Park - Team Cap       Oh wow, another Cap fic I really like. What a surprise. I’m astounded /s. This fic focuses on Emerald’s dilemma of being short at a place where height restrictions mercilessly mock the vertically challenged and how he deals with it with the “help” of Ruby and Sapphire. Though there is background Frantic (which shouldn’t really come as a surprise), this fic mostly focuses on Emerald’s insecurities and his relationship with the trio. It’s introspective, it’s wholesome, I’ve read it six or seven times (I lost count). Regardless, it’s good, and like every other Cap fic on this list, I demand you read it. That is a threat. 

3. Frantic Fight - Puph17      Any fic that drops a line like “margarine is in vogue” within the first three lines is immediately propelled to my top ten fics of all time list and this is clearly no exception. Despite the name, this isn’t franticshipping, just Ruby and Sapphire bickering and Emerald / Wally being annoyed about it. This fic, hands down, is one of the funniest pieces of fanfiction I’ve ever read on this godforsaken site. I am begging you to read this fic, if not for Emerald with a megaphone for the sheet amount of laughter it will cause. This fic may not be deep but it sure as hell is hysterical. ... Well, what are you waiting for? Why are you still here? Go read the fic, we’re wasting daylight. 

4. Weird War - storm-aurora      This is another fic I think I’ve probably read a dozen times and refuse to get tired of. Emerald and Sapphire are having a paintball fight in Slateport market, and I literally could not ask for a better friendship fic. The writing is high quality, the characters are very accurate (altho bc this is fanfic it doesn’t matter all that much), the friendships feel real, they’re having a paintball war.... everything about this is ideal. This is the quality content I live for. Please PLEASE read this fic, you’ll be happy you did. Close this tab and go read it immediately for your sake and mine. 

5. Skydrop - ayasato      Not a lot of people write about Emerald. The ones that do, for whatever reason, seem to do it very, VERY well. This fic, which is so long it might as well be considered an epic, is probably the piece de resistance of Emerald friendship fics. While not as snappy or funny or domestic as some of the other fics in this list, it more than makes up for it with a beautifully built slowburn friendship between Emerald and Sapphire, my favorite take on his living situation I’ve ever seen, and enough introspection to make your high school English teacher swoon. This fic is a must for any Emerald fan, even if it takes like an hour to read in full. It may be long but it’s magnificent.

6. Croissant Kings - ayasato      The fact that this fic is discontinued is irrefutable proof that this is the timeline god abandoned. Emerald and Pearl running a croissant stand is quite possibly the single most absurd fic concept I’ve ever heard but... it works. Somehow? It works. This fic is perhaps, hands down, one of the most ridiculously entertaining concepts and executions I have ever seen in my life. Everything about it, from the setup to the writing to just Emerald being Emerald is so raw and so ridiculous that I smile fondly when I think of it. I wish there were more than 3 chapters, however...

7. Perfect - Micah Debrink      I’m gonna be straight with y’all: I don’t like this fic. I’m not too sure what the plot is, and it was certainly an interesting read, but not my cup of tea. It’s good, don’t get me wrong; the writing is mature, very well paced, and overall well-written, but something about the characterizations is just not vibing with me. Thus, I’m not gonna pretend I thought this fic was perfect (har har) but I will say it’s something you should give a try. I’m admittedly a very biased party, so maybe you’ll enjoy this fic more than I did. For sure give it a shot, because maybe you’ll like it more than I did. This ain’t my jam, but it’s quality preserves nonetheless.

8. Roost - ayasato      This is short and sweet and may have some Sapphire/Emerald crushing if you squint, but overall a fun read. Very short, very good, give it a shot. This author is very high quality and that’s that on that. 

9. One Day - Jian-Kenkoku      This is short yet again but has a super interesting (if poorly explained) premise: Emerald gets adopted by Gold / his mom! This short oneshot details his first day, and while it is a tad rushed, it gives me the Emerald family content I have been sorely lacking. Not sure if this is one of my “reread until my eyes bleed” fics, but it’s certainly worth the trouble of reading through! It’s very cute and I recommend!

10. Emerald: Lying to Himself - reminiscent-afterthought        Very poetic and extremely well-written, but less than 200 words. This fic took me thirty seconds to read and it feels like time well spent. Please read it, even if for the sole reason that it’s super short. It’s also a super poetic way to talk about the Emerald arc. 

11. Go Away Gold! - jayfeatherelle      Ah yes, the “little brother enlists the help of a prankster to keep apart his sister and her boyfriend” trope... This may be cliche, but it sure as hell was enjoyable! Emerald enlists the help of Meddler Blue (side note: where did this trope come from bc she never does anything in canon that would be qualified as meddling other than just messing with Red at any given opportunity). Anyway, this fic is adorable, has a lesson at the end (that surprised me), had a really mature conclusion, and gave me Blue / Emerald friendship I really didn’t know I needed. In short? This is a cliche done well. It’s predictable, sure, but that’s not a bad thing! If anything, it’s a great nostalgic read. 

12. What if: Emerald never met Crystal - LetEveryoneOveraRip        This fic stole the last little bit of hope I didn’t even know I still had. You thought it couldn’t get more violent or sad? You were wrong. Everyone dies. This fic made me sad for like 45 minutes and I feel emotionally manipulated. I guess I should have seen this coming. Not much else to say except that this fic made me really sad, which, of course it did, but I still feel cheated out of a happy ending regardless. 

13. Emerald Owner’s Guidance and Maintenance Manual - Pokerescue18    Nothing happens in this fic. It’s literally an instruction manual and it’s well written and all but also has no plot. It is quite literally what it says in the title, so perhaps this should have been obvious but even still, I was left confused after reading this. I think I need a nap. 

14. Through My Eyes - Kaith1    Relationship angst that hurt my heart. This is less than 400 words so again, took me only around a minute to leave but the emotional impact scarred me for life. Very well done! This fic details Emerald’s inner turmoil as Gold and Crystal get together and Emerald worries he’ll be abandoned again. While I do feel like Emerald hating the two of them for getting together is a little ehhh, this fic does a great job of showing why Emerald would be so upset about it and his inner motivations for being so hurt by it. While I don’t agree, the author made me “get it” a little more, and for that I say bravo! 

15. At the Fair - IanDonyer      This one is short and focuses on Emerald meeting a security guard at a Halloween fair kinda deal. It’s also one of the first Emerald fics on FFN, released far before the remakes even came out! While obviously it doesn’t contain much in terms of character development, it also was written with only the Emerald arc to go off of-- so I can easily overlook any character inconsistencies. That being said, this fic is really cute and uses the OC pov really well! If you’re looking for a blast from the past, check this fic out! 

Category 4: Emerald shipping fics      On the rare occasion where the blue moon hangs melancholy in the sky, the planets align, and starlight rains down from the heavens... someone ships Emerald with another character. Romantically. Not sure where the aversion to shipping him came from, but for whatever reason everyone prefers him single. These authors, these brave knights, they’re changing that. Hell yeah for romance. 

1. Left Out - RedCharmeleon       Not to be like “this fic is painfully straight...” but yknow. Emerald is upset at Gold/Crystal’s wedding because he’s the only single one and needs a girlfriend. There’s also a “what are you, gay?” joke in here, which soured my mood for the rest of the fic. I’ll be honest, I never really liked the “all male protag / female protag ships and then taking Silver, Pearl, and Emerald and pairing them off with OCs” deal, so I’m heavily biased against this fic, but the writing is decent and the plot is fine. If you enjoy this style of plot (everyone needs to be paired up, blushing galore, love at first sight, everyone acts like they stumbled out of a hallmark movie script) then this is the fic for you!

2. Glances - Diemerald      A collection of drabbles about Emerald and Wally becoming friends and falling in love. I’ve read it seven times now. While the plot is a tad disjointed because of the format, this author really NAILS Emerald’s character. Emerald (and Wally) show a lot of growth between the snippets and god it’s so beautiful I need more of it. Please read this fic. Tell your neighbors about this fic. This fic is fantastic. 

2. Revolvershipping Cuddles - Charmerruby     You’re never gonna guess what this one is about. It’s very cute but it’s literally just fluff. Very cute, like marshmallows. This is kinda short so there isn’t really much to say, but I will am starving for Emeruby content, so though this be but little, it be fierce. And fluffy. Did I mention cute? This fic is so filled with love my heart grew three sizes after reading it. I could keep calling it adorable, but I don’t think that’s productive. Spend the time reading this fic instead. 

3. Misunderstandings - Pokeluv101      Reading this was very weird because I know the person who made the OC the story is centered around. Reading even the names thrust me so violently back into my middle school days I can almost taste the edge. It’s very good, and I suggest giving it a read even if you’re not a huge dexholder/OC fan. Also tsun Emerald is good Emerald. 

4. Unexpected - Diemerald     A fic about Emerald and Yellow falling in love. Not exactly my cup of tea so I skimmed it but this author is really good so it’s a great fic, even if it’s not to my tastes. I suggest giving it at least a once over because this author worked hard and I respect them, even if this isn’t really... my thing. Check it out!

5. Big Changes - Aquatales     You know how I said I would read every Emerald fic? I lied. This one is about Emerald getting genderbent and immediately shipped with Wally against his will by his friends. Reading the summary gave me hives and I could not bring myself to read it in full.

Final Thoughts      While I’ll be honest and say that I did find some of the the cliche fics I was expecting, I was incredibly and happily surprised to discover that more often than not, the people who bother to publish Emerald fics really care about his character and publish some pretty high quality stuff, and that’s pretty damn cool. There are shipping fics, BG Emerald fics, MC Emerald fics, and most of them are pretty fantastic! Way to go spe fandom writers, you did my boy justice, all..... 10 of you.

I’m really annoyed with a particular woman-specific social dynamic. Something about the dynamics of social spaces that women end up in, means that we are not seen as individuals but as members of a broader group, even by other women. And we’re always being judged for our alleged moral hygiene. If we don’t know if a particular person is somehow Morally Suspect then we cover our ass by not getting too close to that person or fandom until the whole group has declared it acceptable.   I feel like a lot of the “not like other girls” dynamic speaks to this. I’m a person who spent a lot of time in this dynamic, who was the sole female member of lots of male gen X “Loser’s Club” groups and who worked in spaces dominated by geeky/nerdy males in the 90s. (It was different then. I wouldn’t want to do it now. Fuck, I’m not even sure I want to work with *other people* anymore, period.)   It’s not rejection of being a girl (unless you are, in fact, rejecting being a girl). It’s *wanting to be allowed to be an individual person* and not enjoying the dynamic where everyone in a group tries to gaslight you into 24/7 consensus. This is a mainstream social experience that a lot of women have in groups and it’s something that can be very, very painful for a person who is trying to protect their own selfhood and their own inner world.  One negative opinion of a woman by ONE PERSON is enough to reject a woman from a space - men are allowed to be individually wrong. If one person says a woman is canceled, she is canceled. Women often become afraid that association with the rejected woman will result in their own rejection so are forced to go along with it WHETHER THE OTHER WOMEN WERE IN THE RIGHT OR WRONG.   I’m not a fan of the kinds of spaces where men call each other “cuck” - but observe that when men insult each other in groups, it’s not as often a pile-on and there is often more allowance for the insulted party to stand their ground. There’s more tolerance of rough edges between people - “oh, that’s just Jason, nevermind him. He always says that.” In groups where men *do* call each other cuck, it doesn’t mean the men being called that are automatically kicked out, or that everyone is forced to side with the guy doing the calling. Groups of women are expected to pretend to like 100% of everything about each other in ways that groups of men aren’t. Men only expect to tolerate each other.  If you’re a woman and another woman in the in-group has a complaint or disagrees with you then you have to grovel to maintain your inclusion. And that’s what a lot of the “performative wokeness” strikes me as. And a lot of the CYA about likes and dislikes (”I realize this is problematic” without referencing how it’s problematic; “I don’t like EVERYTHING about her.”) Do you know how painful and fucked up it feels to know that at any moment a group only likes you *conditionally?*  Men (but in particular, middle class and wealthy white men) get to be individuals within the group and their every single life choice or preference isn’t politicized with regard to whether or not they’re conforming to the standards of the entire group. When a group of men acts conformist, we automatically bristle: the cultural association with act-alike dress-alike think-alike groups of men who enforce conformity, is with groups of bullies, or actual violent gangs, criminal groups, or militias. Groups of women are expected to be this kind of a thing by default, and to always look out for the Common Good, whatever that is. We’re not allowed any other passionate preference besides whatever political or social policing our group does. The same thing that when men do it, it’s gang-like, Nazi-like, or criminally adjacent.

In my spaces that are mostly male there are disagreements all the time and men simply stay out of them. (But of course there are also some bad trade-offs.)  Look how the media portrays it, groups of guys are always individuals within the group (and the “Loser’s Club” and “Power of Friendship” dynamic of Gen X and Elder Millennial childhood friendship tropes, is a male-dominated trope that usually only has one token girl). The sole woman in a Loser’s Club 80s or 90s group is always different only in being “not like other girls” somehow but she’s never really characterized any more deeply than that. The guys have unique interests and talents that are rejected by the world at large, and unappreciated, that will save the day. It’s only in relatively recent media (particularly in comedy!) that you get to see groups of women who act like individuals within the group. There was no female “Loser’s Club” in 80s-90s media. Groups of girls were always portrayed as a clique with internally conformist standards and it was aspirational to be accepted by the group.  I could be wrong about this, mind you, and I’ll eat my hat (figuratively speaking) if I am. I’m sure that there is probably all kinds of granularity to this and I’m talking about the “Karen” dynamic, but the thing is, the “Karen” dynamic exists for us in allegedly non-conformist spaces too. I’m not saying that all disagreements must be tolerated: we can have bottom lines and BOUNDARIES. That’s part of having an actual sense of self. But this is part of how I feel like women aren’t allowed a sense of self until our 40s. I don’t know how or why this is. It’s interesting to me that it’s suddenly much more okay for us to have boundaries and a sense of self at this age but consider that younger women so often consider older women cold and mean, (I guess that at this point what’s different is that I no longer really care what All Women Everywhere think of me? And I’m no longer looking for a group to belong to. The shape of my life changed drastically in middle age and most of my social identity is around family and very long standing found-family, so I’m not trying to fit into some group of people I really don’t know very well. So much of our whole early life seems to be about a quest for the right group from which to crowdsource our identity, and an awful fucked up tap dance on eggshells to make sure we’re not seen around or with the wrong people, or doing the wrong things. Men are seen as safer as individuals but threatening and potentially an enemy army, as conformist groups. People aren’t as afraid of lone men as they are of groups of men. Women are seen as actively antisocial and opposing the social order and all that is Good and Wholesome if we are seen as apart from a group, people are historically afraid of individual women (we might all be witches or something idk? But also, individual women seem to always pose a mate-poaching threat or a bad-influence-on-the-kids threat.  BTW if I’m wrong and you think I’m wrong and cuss me out for writing this, I’m fine with that. *Shrug* I can’t please everyone. When you’re over 40, you’ll feel the same way and a sense of profound peace will enter your life that never was there before.

Journal Entry #1: Draw My Life

           I would like to think that I’ve always been a reflective person even my childhood memories are full of solitary moments, me left alone to my perceptions and creations. I find it almost addicting going back to my childhood memory of playing in our sandy garden alone. This reflective peculiarity will prove valuable to me in the later years up to the present. It helped me grow and develop my definition of my identity, although more of identities. It brought me to the world of self-help books, journaling and constant self-evaluation. My days are full of questions and ambiguous answers to life. This time a year ago, I have decided to write them into journals. My journal typically starts with a question and continues freely, most of the time irrelevantly, to where writing takes me and it may be observable in this entry. I hope not. It is also written as if it is someone else’s so I can be more objective and harsh on myself.   

           Ever since I arrived here in NCR, I haven’t written anything yet so this will serve as my first entry. I literally write in journal notebooks, but I have discovered that I can use technology, prove myself as a gen-Z and use the softcopy format a.k.a. “.docx” and even “.txt”.

           I have filled three different journal notebooks ever since I started a year ago. Although majority of my writing are on my laptop now, I still write on paper and my fourth journal notebook is almost halfway filled with whatever this mind encounters. Journaling is a very soothing and liberating process for me.

           This is how I journal now, and I’d like to call it “E-journal” as if putting an E in the beginning of any word makes it sound better. I typically write anything I can think of and anything that intrigues me. Although, my writings are hindered by my writing skills because I don’t know a lot about forming sentences, using punctuation and selecting words from a narrow and shallow vocabulary. I love English because I think it is a very creative and inclusive language but sadly, I’m not that good yet to create and enjoy it to its fullness.  

I think I am exposing myself too much already but what’s life without a little vulnerability. I personally have struggled with vulnerability and insecurity. This basically became the story of my high school life and pretty much of my life because I can hardly remember events before high school. Peer pressure got the best of me and it made me do things I would regret but I can do nothing about so let’s move on.  

This is the grade 7 me, too naïve about the world around him and on the things about to come. He feels very insignificant and is peer pressured a lot. He has grown and he’s very different now but it humbles him to know where he started. Reminiscing how we grow through time always lead to smiles. 

“Beast”

In high school is where you find inevitable to be grouped to the same people with the same interests. For our group named “BST”, we found each other through sports and cutting classes to play sports. They saw and guided my growth from the one on the picture above to who I am today. The day after graduation transforms high school friends to lifelong family.

“Megs”

           Megs is the Bisaya term for friends. This my wholesome and nerdy squad. It may seem contradicting belonging to two squads with different nature but it’s not. I found that one squad completes and balances the other so that I stay right in between my academics and my passion. I am not swallowed by academics nor do I sacrifice my future for playing sports.

“Do your thingsss”

I have loved a few things and formed a few passions in my life and this picture shows it all.

The Wipcap, official cap of Fliptop which is the Philippines’ Rap Battle League and is the last Rap Battle League in the world, for my love of the hip-hop and culture.

The rifle for my love of service and to my three years membership of our school’s CAT.

Kyrie 5 “Husky” shoes for my passion in The Game and my homage to passionate players.

“Orchid in a bottle” for my love of biology, laboratory work and simple science.

The Innovators book for my love of technology, great people, great work and cooperation.

 This is the product of my six years in high school. When I heard we were allowed one creative shot for our yearbook, this image of me popped into my mind. I have unconsciously viewed myself this way and I can say this has been my self-image as a product of my high school life. High school has been productively transformative for me. It gave me the chance to redefine myself through reflection. I have known myself deeper. This probably is the most “me” picture of my life.

 I believe that a man is defined by how he uses much of his time. This is where majority of my time goes and majority of where my self-concept comes from. These are my mentors and my hobbies.

THE HIP-HOP CULTURE

“BLKD”

A UP-Diliman graduate Fliptop pioneer who is considered now a Legend and the best lyricist of the game. He takes pride in his timeless content, intricate flow and crafty use of rap elements like anagrams, personals, quadruple meanings, metaphors and bars. These are a few of his lines.

“Tanggap ko kung wala ako sa top 5 niyo, nasa Top 5 ako ng nasa top 5 niyo”

He may not always be the fan favorite, but he surely is feared among fellow emcees.

“Kaya kong magpaka-street, magsalit ng pa-slang

Kasi pen-game ko perfect, sa iyo pass lang

Puro galaw wala namang puntos, puro pass lang

Ako puro tirang sharpshooter na pumapaslang”

A quadruple meaning of the homophones paslang/pass lang with street, school, basketball and battle references.

“Hindi titulong pangdakila tinutukoy ko pangratrat

kapag sinabi kong si Bonifacio ay ginamitan ko ng Gat”

Personals spat in a game against Marshall Bonifacio referencing the Bonifacio vs Rizal argument through the “gat” double meaning as a pistol and as Jose Rizal.

 BASKETBALL

“The Alchemists”

This was taken after our exhibition game. I have only known basketball in high school and from that day onward I still have the same passion from when I started. The summer after my first year, I then enlisted to a basketball camp. All the free time I have after that we then spent playing the game. I am very passionate about the game. Although I don’t play as often as I once did, deep inside is the same fire.

DOTA

“The Internationals 2019 bracket”

The internationals more commonly known as “TI” is the most prestigious and largest tournament in e-sports. It’s prize pool is crowdfunded by the Dota 2 community and is now at US$33 million. Today is actually the first day of the main event. I have played Dota 2 for 4000 hours already, all on the internet cafe. I know I shouldn’t be “that’ proud about it but it’s not all negative. I know that I have developed some of my skills and besides, I don’t play anymore in fact I only had 30 games last year. The best part about ti9,The Internationals 2019, is that there is an all-Filipino team in the upper bracket, TNC. They are representing the Philippines and all the Filipino players. They have cemented their name along with the best teams worldwide and now they have the chance to win The Aegis of the Immortal, the trophy of the champions ever since 2010.

“TNC Predator”

This is our team fighting for the Aegis of the Immortal.

The SCIENCE of LEADERSHIP            

“The Golden Circle”

This is a concept by Simon Sinek in his book “Start with Why”, one of the first books I have read and reread. I love the book as much as the man who wrote it. It demonstrates the difference between good and great leaders based on their conduct. Good leaders lead from the outside in starting from what they do, how they do it and why they do it making the “what” aspect clearest for their followers. Great leaders do the opposite, they talk most of the time about why they do it and they assure that this be the clearest aspect for their disciples. It is even manifested in their advertisements. TiVo is a good television company with good leaders. One of their advertisement says “We can pause, forward and rewind your favorite shows for you”, focusing more on the what. Apple, a great company with a great leader - Steve Jobs, would have an advertisement that would sound like “The ones crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who actually do”. This advertisement doesn’t even mention any of their products but it does mention why they make their products and it being clear to their followers is one of the reasons why people line up for hours in Apple stores to get their new Iphones even if they can buy it without hassle the week after. 

I love leadership and cooperation especially the the value they bring to the world. It has brought us movements to question what the world is doing, great products and most of all it bring faith back into humanity. This interest in leadership forced me to read leadership, business, self-help and personal development books. You’ll find a lot of these people in these.

Another fascinating aspect of this circle is its accordance to the layers and structures inside our brain. The “what” represents the prefrontal cortex which is responsible for, you guessed it, what we do. The “how” is where the limbic brain starts representing the basal ganglia - responsible more on how we conduct thing. Lastly, the “why” represents the primitive amygdala which answers all the question to why we do and it sets out our priorities from food, reproduction and finding meaning. 

SERVICE of the CAT

 “Legions of Pisay”

We are the Legions of Pisay, a club created and organized by students. Our advocacy is the Citizenship Advancement Training. We trained volunteers, we serve the student body as manpower for events and we are directly under the disciplinary officer in imposing the laws of the school. My three years of service in the CAT is all about service. We arrange the venues, direct the audience and clean up after the event. We are the first to prepare and the last to clean. All of this for service. In three years, we have created a bonding from all the sacrifices we’ve made together for the student body. I have served and I hope soon I will be able to serve again. 

INTERSECTION OF TECHNOLOGY and PASSION

“Steve Jobs”

Steve Jobs. The great man Steve who founded apple at his parents’ garage with Woz, brought great products to the world, exiled by the very company he founded, created another company “NeXT”, created Pixar, sold NeXT and himself to Apple and saved apple from oblivion. This is how I simplify the life of Steve. He founded Apple, Apple kicked him, out but Apple bought him back just to save themselves and to bring back their visionary. I am a total fanboy. He has nothing but passion. He gave his all even his health for the world to enjoy great products and to bring us great experience. He placed a thousand songs in our pocket when all there was is a Walkman through iPod. He didn’t commercialize his software. He created the best animation movies. He thought he can change the world, he did. Apple is now US$1Trillion in valuation and in fact if it were a country it would’ve been the 27th richest. We don’t know when we will get another Steve or another Apple but I’m sure it’s trying to change the world with passion.  

MOVIES and The NERDWRITER

Evan Pushack aka “The Nerdwriter” creates videos about everything he can think of but mostly about people, art and movies. We share the same interest and his youtube channel has become a haven for me. I indulge in his content. With this platform he tries to help people. His K.I.N.D. “Kids In Need of Desks” video raised US$3 million for the school children of Africa. That’s worth 62 000 desks in 4 000 classrooms. He himself is struggling to make money from his videos but he never forgets to help. The world needs more of these people and those who can’t be them can at least support their causes.

I really talk a lot and mostly not about myself as much as my self-concept which is hugely not about me at all. I like talking about topics I love and consequently they become intertwined with my self-concept.

I don’t remember much before my high school life and I don’t rely on them so much for my self-image.  As far as I can remember these are where my personal life revolves around, outside the relationships I’m keeping and building. These are where most of my time is spent. I like that I have a lot of mentors and passions. I can and have tried doing these for consecutive hours without getting even bothered. I hope that I would be able to keep most of these. 

I have probably crafted, maybe stolen, my self-image around these people and activities. If they crumble, so as my self-image. They have contributed a lot to my ever-expanding self-concept as well as to the self I strive to be. 

Knowing about people is my thing. Writing about them fuels me. I like to write more about people especially those who touch me. If I’d be given another chance to draw my life, I would still make this kind of piece.  

credits/follow:@dotesports @startwithwhy​ @cultofmac @nerdwriter1@danicamarie

 p.s. reading this entry proves how much i need to improve on the canon of disposition

omgcp fanfic starter pack!

hi y’all! we here at omgficrecsplease have put together a quick, little check please! fanfic starter pack! all fics are sorted by pairings and we hope you enjoy! and be sure to check out all the recs we have posted here! have a wonderful day y’all! :D

Jack/Bitty

A Little Bit Closer by marswithghosts

E | 107,963 | Summary: Eric Bittle's To-Do List:

1.) Frame Masters in Library and Information Science diploma and send to Mama, because she never understood the lack of sleep and abuse of caffeine, but she sent cookbooks and money for good chocolate, bless her. 2.) Throw away every last highlighted article, graded paper, and syllabus, because they are no longer needed, thank the sweet Lord. 3.) Promote the library's new periodic reading series, because it wasn't the capstone project for nothing. 4.) Harass Boston Bruins star Jack Zimmermann into taking a picture for @BPLWestEnd to promote the reading of his new children's book, Jacky's Bad Days. 5.) Do not ogle Boston Bruins star Jack Zimmermann's ass. 6.) Fail step five. Repeatedly.

Ice Crew Please! by rosepetals42  

T | 61,433 | Summary: Jack Zimmermann was drafted first by the Providence Falconers when he was eighteen years old. He is good at hockey. Very good. His team won the Cup his second year and now, in his third year, they are looking good. Jack should be on top of the world. And some days, he manages to convince himself he is.He’s not, of course.

Enter the Ice Crew.

AKA: The Ice Crew AU

maybe i'm waking up by idrilka

M | 157,904 | Summary: It’s almost funny. All he ever wanted was to play hockey, to play in the NHL, to win the Cup. This—Samwell, the team, the Haus—was supposed to be just a detour, but now it feels more like a destination he failed to realize he’s already reached.

(Or: Jack signs with the Falconers, graduates, and leaves. It's the hardest thing he's ever done. What comes after is even harder.)

self reflection by sinspiration

T | 29,218 | Summary: Bitty is in Annie’s, bent over his textbooks and wondering, not for the first time, why he decided to take French as a language (oh yes, it’s because so many old recipes are written in French, he’s going abroad there to study food history, can’t wait for the summer; half of fall and then winter semester until he goes, but that doesn’t help him now does it), when he hears someone clear their throat. “Excuse me, is this seat taken?” Oh boy. Eric doesn’t even bother lifting up his head. “Sorry, not a girl and not interested.”

Something Like This by emmagrant01

E | 285,748 | Summary: Jack thought his first year in the NHL would be 100% about hockey, but the reality is so much more complicated. (AU where the Goodbye for the Summer comics didn’t happen, because I had already written 80K words of this. But just because it’s canon doesn’t mean we can’t still enjoy long, angsty, get-together stories, amirite?)

Alternate summary, courtesy of Dracavia: What if Bad Bob didn't say anything at graduation?

Nursey/Dex

a service i can render by miastree

T | 73,484 | Summary: (11:48) Hey Bits are you free on Saturday? I want to go and see a movie or something (12:09) damn right im free (12:09) this is america

Dex wonders if the person that keeps ceaselessly texting him at all hours is at all interested in legitimate conversation or if his life is, genuinely, that boring. He keeps replying anyway, because for some reason, the appeal of a clumsy, nosy, ex-hockey-playing ballet dancer that types in all lower case happens to be greater than he first thought.

Standing right outside my door by eleanor_lavish 

M | 5,594 | Summary: “I’ve been doing holidays alone for years, bro. I mean, I spent more holidays at Andover than in New York.”

Dex’s fingers tighten on the steering wheel. He kind of really hates Nursey’s parents right now, even though he’s never met them. He wants to yell at Nursey about this ridiculous chill he has going on, about how it’s fucked up, ask how he’s not just pissed off all the fucking time, but he looks over and Nursey’s eyes are still closed, and he’s curled in on himself in the seat. “Yeah, well. Not this year,” he says firmly.

I Know I Am, But What Are You? by sysrae

E | 19,322 | Summary:  “I need you,” says Dex, “to be my fake date at my family Christmas. Please.”

“Cool,” says Nursey, mouth operating on Chill Autopilot while his higher brain functions come to a screeching halt. “I can do that.”

Bitty/Jack/Kent

touchy subject by applecrumbledore 

E | 49,578 | Summary: Bitty finds a photo booth strip and almost doesn't recognize Jack because he's not sure he's ever seen him grin off-ice before, and his hair is so long it curls around his ears, and he's so, so young. It takes Bitty a few long seconds to realize the boy he's kissing is Kent Parson, with the same backwards cap and everything.

I Watched It Begin Again by jacksbits (fragilehuge)

E | 19,979 | Summary: Kent hits on a stranger at a party. Except the party is at Jack’s house and the stranger is Bitty. It’s not Kent’s smoothest move.

Infinity, Plus One by SummerFrost

E | 75,577 | Summary:  Eric Bittle hoped to find a lot of things at Samwell University, but being caught in the cross-fire between his surly captain, Jack Zimmermann, and his friendly-but-moody alternate captain, Kent Parson, was certainly not one of them.

Ransom/Holster

Five Things Adam Birkholtz Learns in HDFS 332: Healthy Couple Relationships by EllyAvon

T | 6,079 | Summary: HDFS 332: Healthy Couple Relationships is just the night class Holster is taking with Lardo to fulfill one of his core requirements. He doesn't expect it to drastically change his life.

OR: The Weirdest Healthy Relationships PSA Ever.

OR: Wholesome Holsom

In a Different Frame by sunfair

E | 4,853 | Summary: Holster is determined to become somebody's boyfriend. Too bad he's kind of an idiot. He figures it out, though.

someone as good for me as you by astrolesbian

T | 7,056 | Summary: “So tell me,” Justin’s mother says, all business, “is your boy going to propose?”

“What, Jack?” Justin says, and doesn’t really think much of it, because his mother eats up the details of Jack and Bitty and JackandBitty like Holster eats up rom-coms.

His mother sighs, and he can practically hear her rolling her eyes. “No, baby, I meant Adam.”

Shitty/Lardo

Exeunt, Pursued By Heteronormativity by psocoptera

M | 35,786 | Summary: Shitty Knight takes a post-graduation road trip. Four friends, six thousand miles, two tents, several embarrassing photos, a giant rabbit, three cops, and a bear.

Jack/Kent

It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken by garden of succulents (staranise)

E |  33,373 | Summary: Making it through the draft is just the beginning.

Kent and Jack are on different teams at opposite ends of the continent. They're living up to huge expectations. They're not supposed to show pain. And not everything they do to get by is precisely healthy.

Fortunately, they're not totally alone.

right on time by leetlebird

T | 49,428 | Summary: Eric Bittle doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to dating, but even he’s embarrassed for himself when he starts flirting on Tinder with a guy who has a weird cat obsession, abs so perfect they border on trashy, and DL in his profile.

Eric Bittle also hates the office finance guy, Kent Parson, more than is probably healthy to hate one of your coworkers.

These two things are in no way related.

Or, the You’ve Got Mail AU that had to be written.

didn't ask for you by Mizzy

M | 24,702 | Summary: Kent Parson has well over ninety-nine problems. He has a chronic potty mouth, a sneaking suspicion he may be an actual idiot, a narcissistically-named cat with gas issues, too many sisters... the list goes on.

Kent Parson has more than ninety-nine problems and Jack Zimmermann — freshly, resentfully and recently traded to the Las Vegas Aces — is definitely one of them.

Gen

Chime Hours by MarquisdeHockey (SpacePunkStevie) (note: it’s tagged for ships but it’s firmly gen)

M | 54,811 | Summary: Back in Montreal, not long before the draft, Jack had died. But only for a bit.

The witch he'd met there had very kindly saved his life, so he was inclined to forgive him any small oversight. For instance, the lack of instruction manual or, perhaps, the fact that he'd neglected to mention Jack's new psychic powers.

So he kept his head down. Played hockey. Tried to navigate old friends and new teammates. And, occasionally, he'd have to go and stop a death he'd seen coming like he was some sort of conscientious banshee. What he absolutely didn't want to do was to solve any mysteries or delve any deeper into the whole magic... thing.

Series

Best Laid Plans by Euphorion

E | 18,596 | Summary: "Dude," said Holster, his eyes huge, "that's so sad. We gotta get them together."

"This isn't a romcom, Holtzy," Ransom said, patting his arm. "I'm sure that's not what Shitty had in mind."

"Actually," said Shitty, "that's exactly what I had in mind. And I've got a plan."

Thoughts on PnF Season 3

I’ve actually finished Phineas and Ferb season 3 a few days back, and am now in the middle of season 4. All in all, WOW! I’m really impressed at how they ramped up the quality of the episodes. While season 2 episodes ranged from ‘okay to great’, season 3 episodes turned it to ‘great to amazing’.

Besides the increase in animation quality, they’re also playing around with the formula a lot more. Like how some episodes Candace never even tries busting the boys, or even joining them, or the episode focusing on other characters.

It’s also neat how other characters have bits of development. Like Norm being a complete sweetheart. or some of the Fireside girls being differentiated, or even Jeremy and Stacy. It’s honestly kind of a bummer that Jeremy and Stacy don’t get to appear more in future episodes when they’ve been more prominent at the start of the season.

Monty as the newest addition to the show is alright. He fills the niche of competent human agent in O.W.C.A. I like him a lot more when he’s not being developed as Vanessa’s love interest (though I think Monty and Carl are cute together)

Also, remember me mentioning season 2 had a lack of adult jokes due to S&P meddling? Well, never mind that for season 3 lol.

Some brief thoughts on other episodes under the cut:

Canderemy:  Stacy’s got a point that Candace does bring up Jeremy a lot when she’s not trying to bust the boys. It’s totally a friend thing for her to mess with Candace by pretending she doesn’t know the two were joined though.

Candace Disconnected: The true millennial or gen Z horror story: Your phone’s broken and you have no way to replace it...unless you have genius siblings to make you a new one.

Magic Carpet Ride: Lawrence being so accepting of the way the boys defy the laws of physics and just enjoying spending time with the kids is so dang wholesome. Also, wow, Doof’s backstory here is just painful after watching Gravity Falls. While Doof is similar in a lot of ways to Stan, here we see that he’s in the same position as Ford where a very important project of his got ruined by his brother’s carelessness. And then Roger spent twenty years restoring Doof’s painting... Just. OUCH. If Stan and Doof met, this would prolly be one thing they’d have an argument about.

Phineas and Ferb Interrupted: I love that Linda spends time willingly with Candace this episode because she wants them to bond. Also Perry’s face when he realizes Doof’s Inator hit PnF was priceless, especially how this is one of the few times Perry doesn’t mess around to bust Doof because of the boys being in trouble.

A Real Boy: I think of this more as a dark comedy. I’m thinking the reason Doof doesn’t treat Norm right is prolly a mix of Doof not being too attached to his Inators since it gets destroyed all the time, and him designing Norm to look kind of like Roger makes Doof more predisposed to be mean to Norm.

Escape from Phineas Tower: Gotta love the moment of PnF asking the others if they want to go to the death trap tower and them going “Yeaaaaah, nope!”.

Ferb Latin: Seriously, Linda and Lawrence alone in the Sensory Deprivation Tank? How did this get past the censors?

A Phineas and Ferb Family Christmas: This episode works as a half-loving/half-mocking tribute to tacky network-mandated Christmas specials. The best joke is getting a Celebrity Guest Star to sing a song and never letting them sing anything.

Tri-Stone Area/  Doof Dynasty / Excaliferb / Phineas and Ferb and the Temple of Juatchadoon: Just bundling these together as a bunch of specials that are loving homages to different types of shows/genres. It’s cool how well PnF work with just about any genre.

Monster from the Id:  Candace being a neurosis and anxiety-riddled mess in her mind is so relatable. Also this is one of the few episodes we get hints of Candace and Buford being unlikely friends.

The Remains of the Platypus:  What. The. Fuck. This remains the most insane PnF episode ever. It’s GREAT!

Meapless in Seattle: Knowing that this was just a bunch of unrelated scenes made for a fake trailer that went on to be a full episode is awesome. I bet the creators had a hell of a time trying to come up with a series of events that would stitch the entire thing together.

Delivery of Destiny: Now this is a pretty cool concept, basing the entire episode around one of the regular folks in PnF-land. I do feel sorry for poor Paul, sticking with a job he doesn’t feel hot about (even if he did get some new perspective to appreciate it)

The Mom Attractor: While Candace gave the idea to create something that will bust the boys, it’s really heartwarming how it ended in a small party for Linda with Candace getting the credit. Also Lawrence is such a good dad, when Candace asked him what Linda liked he immediately said Candace, Phineas and Ferb.

Cranius Maximus: I was wondering if Buford would keep up the characterization and never give Baljeet a wedgie again after the events of ‘Bully Bromance Break-Up’. Technically, he doesn’t actually do it to Baljeet but to his death machine. And I suppose if you tried to destroy the entire world after you go on a power trip from a brain-enhancing device, the threat of a wedgie is probably kind of deserved. But yeah, it looks like Buford has dropped giving Baljeet wedgies!

Sipping with the Enemy: Man, Perry is an absolute friend this episode, covering for Vanessa like that. Also hipsters being treated as cool folks is hilarious considering what people think of hipsters nowadays.

Tri-State Treasure: Boot of Secrets:  Fun as the A-plot was, I do feel sorry for Candace going through all that trouble to get the memorabilia she wanted, only for The Mysterious Force to screw her over in the end. Seriously, OUCH.

Doofapus: This has to be up there as one of the “this is so wrong” episodes. Doof turning himself into a platypus was bad enough, but then Candace got turned into a friggin’ puddle. By comparison, Buford keeping life-sized moulds of all his friends is tame. Also hey, Buford considers Candace his friend!

Where's Perry?: I’m a huge sucker for Perry being so caring to PnF so this episode hit me right in the heart. Just one big awwwwww. Also, Evil Carl’s biker outfit is so fab~ Also scarily competent. This is what, the second or third time another character got turned evil and proved WAY more competent at it than even Doof? And yeah, Carl STILL being an unpaid intern for all his services is pure evil. Doof Was Right!!!

Road to Danville: Perry and Doof are the best of friends. Seriously, Perry doing the chestbump and pointing at Doof made me teary-eyed. Also, it’s been pointed out that Perry and Phineas did the same thing in PnF: Across the 2nd Dimension, so it just highlights how important Doof is to Perry as well. Also Doof is an amputee with titanium arms. ...What?!

This Is Your Backstory: Despite being a clipshow episode, the fact that Doof gets defeated by being reminded of his friendship with Perry had me smiling.

Blackout!: This was actually just a merely Great episode. It just SEEMS worse only because the past few episodes preceding it were all pretty fantastic. I really liked how setting the entire episode in a blackout was pretty much an excuse for the artists to take it easy and not have to do much work haha.

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• A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • A central claim of the Bush administration’s foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. – Timothy Garton Ash • A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. – Friedrich Nietzsche • A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. – Robert Benchley • A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking. – James Madison • A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. – Spike Milligan • A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. – Robert Graves • Absence – that common cure of love. – Lord Byron • Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. – Douglas Horton • Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness of Providence. And if we did but consider that there lies upon God no obligation of justice or gratitud to reward any of our duties, it would cure our murmurs (Gen. 32:10). – John Flavel • All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. – Sophocles • All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary. – Friedrich Nietzsche • Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. – Lord Byron • An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. – Benjamin Franklin • And even if you didn’t fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack. – Jonathan Tropper • And I’m going to work as hard as I can… for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we’ll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I’d like to think I’m going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! – Jim Valvano • And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine. – Mort Kondracke • As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. – • As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious. – Marcel Proust • As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can’t afford it. That is my goal. – Montel Williams • as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure – Niccolo Machiavelli • At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure. – James Howard Kunstler

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In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure. – Sarah Vowell • Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. – John Dryden • But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day. – Dan Lipinski • But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater? – Paracelsus • But love’s a malady without a cure. – John Dryden • CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes. – Bob Lutz • Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. – Henry Ford • Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals – With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. – Clare Boothe Luce • Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. – Henry Ward Beecher • Cure for writer’s block: blow something up(in the story) – Scott Westerfeld • Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. – Hippocrates • Cure the symptoms, cure the disease. – Michael Crichton • Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you. – Miguel de Unamuno • Diabetes is a disease that’s had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure. – Izabel Goulart • Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can’t they, unless they kill you while they’re trying to cure you. – Agatha Christie • Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth…. Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage. – Herman E. Daly • Even though I’m not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now. – Terry Fox • Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. – Arthur Conan Doyle • Every need brings in what’s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. – Rumi • Every need brings what’s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the marvelous answer appears. – Rumi • Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same – hardihood. Give them raw truth. – John Jay Chapman • Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. – Jean de La Fontaine • For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect. – Thomas Hobbes • Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. – Edmund Burke • God’s wounds cure, sin’s kisses kill. – William Gurnall • Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun. – Sinclair Lewis • Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn. – William Penn • Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge. – Paramahansa Yogananda • Grief is itself a medicine. – William Cowper • hate is a virus, revenge its only cure! – Eric Jerome Dickey • He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. – Thomas Fuller • Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But there remains to be mentioned a positive advantage . . . I allude to the circumstance of uniformity in the time of elections for the House of Representatives. It is more than possible, that this uniformity may be found by experience to be of great importance to the public welfare; both as a security against the perpetuation of the same spirit in the body; and as a cure for the diseases of faction. – Alexander Hamilton • How does one cure the soul? Through the senses – Oscar Wilde • I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions for a fatal hemorrhage. The system will never change because our starting point is flawed. The secular view of man can neither give the grandeur that God alone can give, nor can it see the evil within the human heart that God alone can reveal and cure, for atheism implicitly denudes each individual of the grand image God has imprinted upon His creation. – Ravi Zacharias • I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. – Robert Fulghum • I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let’s put on the girls. – Jacqueline Cochran • I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth’s follies – thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. – D. H. Lawrence • I can’t stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don’t believe that everything that’s wrong with the world has a cure. – Jonathan Franzen • I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer. – Mary Ann Mobley • I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. – Jim Doyle • I don’t know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure. – Jared Leto • I don’t mind being an advocate for weed. It’s not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be legalized. You can make all kinds of stuff out of hemp. I think the cure for cancer’s probably in cannabis-who knows? – Method Man • I don’t think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer. – Cindy Crawford • I find myself frequently depressed – perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions. – Charles Spurgeon • I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want it to cure the society of voting for Donald Trump. – Pat Steir • I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.- Alfred Hitchcock • I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person. – Audrey Hepburn • I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. – Robert M. Sapolsky • I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum. – Thom Yorke • I see the cure is not worth the pain. – Plutarch • I think every bowl game is exciting, but when you get to play in a bowl game that represents a cause that the Cure Bowl represents, I think that’s an honor. – Scott Frost • I think on the efficiency level, not only the distribution level, capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues as Churchill attributed to democracy: It’s the worst system except for any other. And I think that’s right, but it cannot be thought that some unmitigated belief in free markets is a cure even from the efficiency point of view. – Kenneth Arrow • I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent. – Abraham Lincoln • I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. – Mother Teresa • I’m addicted to your allure and I’m fiending for a cure. – Christina Aguilera • Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. – Honore de Balzac • If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. – Marcel Proust • If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? – Letty Cottin Pogrebin • If I could get every single cancer genome sequence that has been sequenced; if I could ever put it in one repository, we have the capacity to do a million billion calculations per second. We’ll be able to find out more in 10 minutes more than it would take 10 Nobel laureates 10 years to find out about the patterns of cancer and the cures for cancer. – Joe Biden • If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they’d be playing the theme song from ‘Three’s Company’. – John Ritter • If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion. – Richard John Neuhaus • If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague…. It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents. – Mike Huckabee • If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry? – Matthieu Ricard • If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure. – Astley Cooper • If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer • In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics – unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times! – Steven Pinker • In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism. – David Brin • In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.- Philip Larkin • In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. – Roger Bacon • It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. – Thomas Jefferson • It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people’s manners, but drowning would help. – Mark Twain • It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred. – Euripides • It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey’s brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: ‘It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.’ – John Dewey • It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it. – Obafemi Awolowo • It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. – James Madison • It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it’s deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists. – Friedrich Nietzsche • It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me. – Bela Lugosi • It’s all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story. – Don DeLillo • Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat… Never take yourself too seriously. – Og Mandino • Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. – Maimonides • Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. – Karl A. Menninger • Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life. – Joseph B. Wirthlin • Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent. – Rumi • Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. – Louise Hay • Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.- Benjamin Franklin • Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. – Michael J. Fox • More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. – Ron Kind • Movies are fun, but they’re not a cure for cancer. – Warren Beatty • Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine. – George D. Prentice • My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go round and see babies born and cadavers cut open. This fascinated me, but I could never bring myself to disciplining myself to the point where I could learn all the details that one has to learn to be a good doctor. This is the sort of opposition: somebody who deals directly with human experiences, is able to cure, to mend, to help, this sort of thing. – Sylvia Plath • My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me. – Bela Lugosi • My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. – Victor Borge • My wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures. – George Washington • No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty. – Charles Caleb Colton • No other method in this world is able to cure/rectify the demons that exist within human beings in this world – only nature and the animal kingdom, but you also have to bring through your participation and diligent application in facing the demons within. – Timothy Treadwell • Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.- Dodie Smith • Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. – Oscar Wilde • Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure. – Ross Macdonald • Nowhere is it more true that “prevention is better than cure,” than in the case of Parasitic Diseases. – Rudolf Leuckart • Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. – Abraham Cowley • Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it… Get plenty of sleep. – W. C. Fields • One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.- Josh Billings • Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’ That’s something you might remind your New Age friends who’ve gone gaga over ‘holistic medicine’ and ‘alternative Chinese cures. – Anthony Bourdain • Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. – Joseph Campbell • People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we’re the same way. – Billy Corgan • People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change. – Anthony de Mello • People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people’s boats. It’s a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability. – Randy Wayne • Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. – Nicolas Chamfort • Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body. – Charles Caleb Colton • Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, ‘There is no Cure for this Disease.’ – Hilaire Belloc • Posterity has never made the grave’s embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of. – Yasmina Khadra • Precaution is better than cure. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Prevention is better than cure. – Desiderius Erasmus • Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure – Karl Kraus • Red is the ultimate cure for sadness. – Bill Blass • Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs. Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases! – Patch Adams • Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller • Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. – Jane Austen • She frowned at him. ‘You are in love with solitude.’ ‘Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? – Meg Rosoff • She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it’s why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe. – Sara Paretsky • Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.- Carl Jung • Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat. – Seneca the Younger • Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot “cure” without curing the gift at the same time. – Stephanie S. Tolan • Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. – Jean Rostand • Sometimes my need to love hurts– myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain…To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I’ll live. – Jon Krakauer • Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.- Henri Nouwen • Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases. – Tom Allen • Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision – Toyotomi Hideyoshi • The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. – Voltaire • The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else’s. – Goodman Ace • The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option. – Tavi Gevinson • The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. – Napoleon Bonaparte • The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it. – Michel de Montaigne • The canter is a cure for every evil. – Benjamin Disraeli • The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. – Carl Sagan • The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot • The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. – Isak Dinesen • The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker • The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.- J. Edgar Hoover • The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression. – Alexander Berkman • The degree of polarization that currently exists in Washington is such where I think it’s fair to say if I presented a cure for cancer, getting legislation passed to move that forward would be a nail-biter. – Barack Obama • The disease is painless; it’s the cure that hurts. – Katharine Whitehorn • The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. – Ashley Montagu • The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. – Thomas A. Edison • The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. – Thomas Jefferson • The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition! – John Owen • The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life – this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot. – P. J. O’Rourke • The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better. – Thomas Jefferson • The only cure for a real hangover is death. – Robert Benchley • The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. – H. L. Mencken • The only cure for grief is action. – George Henry Lewes • The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired. – George Bernard Shaw • The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. – William James • The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior. – Temple Grandin • The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That’s what antitrust is all about. – Charles James • The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Tom Wolfe • The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed. – Charles Spurgeon • Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world! – Vincent Klyn • There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure. – Bernard Baruch • There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg – Mary Tyler Moore • There are two reasons for drinking wine…when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it… prevention is better than cure. – Thomas Love Peacock • There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana • There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity. – George Santayana • There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life. – Loni Anderson • There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.- Reinhold Niebuhr • There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history. – Frank B. Kellogg • There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.- Will Durant • There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.- Dwight D. Eisenhower • There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. – P. G. Wodehouse • There is still no cure for the common birthday. – John Glenn • There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. – Sylvia Plath • There’s something to be said for useless days. You know, those days when you have nothing to do and all day to do it … Trust me, a beach and a bottomless drink may not cure the world’s problems but it can really get your head in the right place. Those are my favorite kind of days. – Kenny Chesney • These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere. – John Banville • They say even death can’t cure an idiot. -Ririn – Tite Kubo • Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming… If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree. Or a woman with a science degree. – Bill Bryson • This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. – Stendhal • This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat… The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread. – Gro Harlem Brundtland • Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable. – Hippocrates • Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. – John Tillotson • Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris. – Paula McLain • Time is an herb that cures all Diseases. – Benjamin Franklin

• ‘Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. – George Washington • Tis not always in a physician’s power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. – Ovid • To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better. – Richie Ashburn • To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. – Joan Didion • To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. – Margaret Thatcher • To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we dont deal with the causes we will never be safe. – Peter Yarrow • To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst. – Charles Caleb Colton • To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another. – Ovid • Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with. – Pico Iyer • Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn’s disease. – Mary Ann Mobley • Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. – Carl Jung • Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future. – Henry Taube • We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer • We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. – Thomas Browne • We are a caring nation, and our values should also guide us on how we harness the gifts of science. New medical breakthroughs bring the hope of cures for terrible diseases and treatments that can improve the lives of millions. Our challenge is to make sure that science serves the cause of humanity instead of the other way around. – George W. Bush • We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not. – William James • We can endure neither our vices nor their cure. – Livy • We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior. – William J. Clinton • We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. – Bill Watterson • We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect – placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases. – Matthieu Ricard • We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure. • What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?- Paracelsus • When thinking won’t cure fear, action will. – W. Clement Stone • When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.- Henri Nouwen • When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what’s wrong. – Mahalia Jackson • Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won’t cure a cold. – Jerry Vale • Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? -Horace • Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore. – Charles Spurgeon • Work cures everything. – Henri Matisse • Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. – Marge Piercy • Worry is spiritual short sight… Its cure is intelligent faith. – Paul Brunton • Yes, he’s like a rash for which there’s no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin every pleasurable experience. He should have been named Herpes rather than ZT. Or maybe just Herpes Z, since he’s a very special irritant. (Arik) – Sherrilyn Kenyon • Yes, she is.” He looks at me, his face carved in pain. “She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we’re really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic’s not a cure. It just postpones what’s coming.” My eyes fill up with tears. “But I love her,” I say, because that is reason enough. – Jodi Picoult • You can die of the cure before you die of the illness. – Michael Landon • You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you’ll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again… my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers’ jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people’s countries, foreign workers. – Lee Kuan Yew • You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn. – Milton H. Erickson • You’re a disease. And I’m the cure. – Sylvester Stallone • You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that. – Samuel Beckett • You’ve got to have some adversity and learn from it. I’m working hard, but I didn’t expect a cure in one day. You learn. You move on. You hold your head up. You go on to the next day. – Chuck Knoblauch

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• A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • A central claim of the Bush administration’s foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. – Timothy Garton Ash • A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. – Friedrich Nietzsche • A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. – Robert Benchley • A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking. – James Madison • A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. – Spike Milligan • A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. – Robert Graves • Absence – that common cure of love. – Lord Byron • Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. – Douglas Horton • Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness of Providence. And if we did but consider that there lies upon God no obligation of justice or gratitud to reward any of our duties, it would cure our murmurs (Gen. 32:10). – John Flavel • All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. – Sophocles • All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary. – Friedrich Nietzsche • Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. – Lord Byron • An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. – Benjamin Franklin • And even if you didn’t fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack. – Jonathan Tropper • And I’m going to work as hard as I can… for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we’ll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I’d like to think I’m going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! – Jim Valvano • And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine. – Mort Kondracke • As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. – • As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious. – Marcel Proust • As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can’t afford it. That is my goal. – Montel Williams • as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure – Niccolo Machiavelli • At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure. – James Howard Kunstler

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In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure. – Sarah Vowell • Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. – John Dryden • But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day. – Dan Lipinski • But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater? – Paracelsus • But love’s a malady without a cure. – John Dryden • CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes. – Bob Lutz • Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. – Henry Ford • Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals – With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. – Clare Boothe Luce • Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. – Henry Ward Beecher • Cure for writer’s block: blow something up(in the story) – Scott Westerfeld • Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. – Hippocrates • Cure the symptoms, cure the disease. – Michael Crichton • Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you. – Miguel de Unamuno • Diabetes is a disease that’s had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure. – Izabel Goulart • Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can’t they, unless they kill you while they’re trying to cure you. – Agatha Christie • Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth…. Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage. – Herman E. Daly • Even though I’m not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now. – Terry Fox • Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction. – Arthur Conan Doyle • Every need brings in what’s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. – Rumi • Every need brings what’s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the marvelous answer appears. – Rumi • Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same – hardihood. Give them raw truth. – John Jay Chapman • Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. – Jean de La Fontaine • For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect. – Thomas Hobbes • Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. – Edmund Burke • God’s wounds cure, sin’s kisses kill. – William Gurnall • Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun. – Sinclair Lewis • Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn. – William Penn • Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge. – Paramahansa Yogananda • Grief is itself a medicine. – William Cowper • hate is a virus, revenge its only cure! – Eric Jerome Dickey • He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. – Thomas Fuller • Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But there remains to be mentioned a positive advantage . . . I allude to the circumstance of uniformity in the time of elections for the House of Representatives. It is more than possible, that this uniformity may be found by experience to be of great importance to the public welfare; both as a security against the perpetuation of the same spirit in the body; and as a cure for the diseases of faction. – Alexander Hamilton • How does one cure the soul? Through the senses – Oscar Wilde • I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions for a fatal hemorrhage. The system will never change because our starting point is flawed. The secular view of man can neither give the grandeur that God alone can give, nor can it see the evil within the human heart that God alone can reveal and cure, for atheism implicitly denudes each individual of the grand image God has imprinted upon His creation. – Ravi Zacharias • I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. – Robert Fulghum • I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let’s put on the girls. – Jacqueline Cochran • I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth’s follies – thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. – D. H. Lawrence • I can’t stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don’t believe that everything that’s wrong with the world has a cure. – Jonathan Franzen • I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer. – Mary Ann Mobley • I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. – Jim Doyle • I don’t know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure. – Jared Leto • I don’t mind being an advocate for weed. It’s not as bad as tobacco, alcohol or firearms, for that matter. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be legalized. You can make all kinds of stuff out of hemp. I think the cure for cancer’s probably in cannabis-who knows? – Method Man • I don’t think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer. – Cindy Crawford • I find myself frequently depressed – perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions. – Charles Spurgeon • I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want it to cure the society of voting for Donald Trump. – Pat Steir • I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.- Alfred Hitchcock • I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person. – Audrey Hepburn • I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. – Robert M. Sapolsky • I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum. – Thom Yorke • I see the cure is not worth the pain. – Plutarch • I think every bowl game is exciting, but when you get to play in a bowl game that represents a cause that the Cure Bowl represents, I think that’s an honor. – Scott Frost • I think on the efficiency level, not only the distribution level, capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues as Churchill attributed to democracy: It’s the worst system except for any other. And I think that’s right, but it cannot be thought that some unmitigated belief in free markets is a cure even from the efficiency point of view. – Kenneth Arrow • I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent. – Abraham Lincoln • I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. – Mother Teresa • I’m addicted to your allure and I’m fiending for a cure. – Christina Aguilera • Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. – Honore de Balzac • If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. – Marcel Proust • If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? – Letty Cottin Pogrebin • If I could get every single cancer genome sequence that has been sequenced; if I could ever put it in one repository, we have the capacity to do a million billion calculations per second. We’ll be able to find out more in 10 minutes more than it would take 10 Nobel laureates 10 years to find out about the patterns of cancer and the cures for cancer. – Joe Biden • If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they’d be playing the theme song from ‘Three’s Company’. – John Ritter • If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion. – Richard John Neuhaus • If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague…. It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents. – Mike Huckabee • If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry? – Matthieu Ricard • If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure. – Astley Cooper • If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer • In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics – unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times! – Steven Pinker • In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism. – David Brin • In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.- Philip Larkin • In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. – Roger Bacon • It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. – Thomas Jefferson • It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people’s manners, but drowning would help. – Mark Twain • It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred. – Euripides • It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey’s brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: ‘It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.’ – John Dewey • It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it. – Obafemi Awolowo • It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. – James Madison • It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it’s deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists. – Friedrich Nietzsche • It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me. – Bela Lugosi • It’s all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story. – Don DeLillo • Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat… Never take yourself too seriously. – Og Mandino • Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. – Maimonides • Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. – Karl A. Menninger • Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life. – Joseph B. Wirthlin • Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent. – Rumi • Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. – Louise Hay • Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.- Benjamin Franklin • Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. – Michael J. Fox • More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. – Ron Kind • Movies are fun, but they’re not a cure for cancer. – Warren Beatty • Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine. – George D. Prentice • My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go round and see babies born and cadavers cut open. This fascinated me, but I could never bring myself to disciplining myself to the point where I could learn all the details that one has to learn to be a good doctor. This is the sort of opposition: somebody who deals directly with human experiences, is able to cure, to mend, to help, this sort of thing. – Sylvia Plath • My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me. – Bela Lugosi • My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. – Victor Borge • My wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures. – George Washington • No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty. – Charles Caleb Colton • No other method in this world is able to cure/rectify the demons that exist within human beings in this world – only nature and the animal kingdom, but you also have to bring through your participation and diligent application in facing the demons within. – Timothy Treadwell • Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.- Dodie Smith • Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. – Oscar Wilde • Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure. – Ross Macdonald • Nowhere is it more true that “prevention is better than cure,” than in the case of Parasitic Diseases. – Rudolf Leuckart • Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. – Abraham Cowley • Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it… Get plenty of sleep. – W. C. Fields • One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.- Josh Billings • Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of ‘medicine.’ That’s something you might remind your New Age friends who’ve gone gaga over ‘holistic medicine’ and ‘alternative Chinese cures. – Anthony Bourdain • Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. – Joseph Campbell • People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we’re the same way. – Billy Corgan • People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change. – Anthony de Mello • People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people’s boats. It’s a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability. – Randy Wayne • Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. – Nicolas Chamfort • Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body. – Charles Caleb Colton • Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, ‘There is no Cure for this Disease.’ – Hilaire Belloc • Posterity has never made the grave’s embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of. – Yasmina Khadra • Precaution is better than cure. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Prevention is better than cure. – Desiderius Erasmus • Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure – Karl Kraus • Red is the ultimate cure for sadness. – Bill Blass • Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs. Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases! – Patch Adams • Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller • Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. – Jane Austen • She frowned at him. ‘You are in love with solitude.’ ‘Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? – Meg Rosoff • She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it’s why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe. – Sara Paretsky • Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.- Carl Jung • Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat. – Seneca the Younger • Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot “cure” without curing the gift at the same time. – Stephanie S. Tolan • Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. – Jean Rostand • Sometimes my need to love hurts– myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain…To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I’ll live. – Jon Krakauer • Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.- Henri Nouwen • Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases. – Tom Allen • Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision – Toyotomi Hideyoshi • The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. – Voltaire • The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else’s. – Goodman Ace • The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option. – Tavi Gevinson • The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. – Napoleon Bonaparte • The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it. – Michel de Montaigne • The canter is a cure for every evil. – Benjamin Disraeli • The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. – Carl Sagan • The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot • The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. – Isak Dinesen • The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker • The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.- J. Edgar Hoover • The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression. – Alexander Berkman • The degree of polarization that currently exists in Washington is such where I think it’s fair to say if I presented a cure for cancer, getting legislation passed to move that forward would be a nail-biter. – Barack Obama • The disease is painless; it’s the cure that hurts. – Katharine Whitehorn • The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. – Ashley Montagu • The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. – Thomas A. Edison • The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. – Thomas Jefferson • The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition! – John Owen • The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life – this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot. – P. J. O’Rourke • The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better. – Thomas Jefferson • The only cure for a real hangover is death. – Robert Benchley • The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. – H. L. Mencken • The only cure for grief is action. – George Henry Lewes • The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired. – George Bernard Shaw • The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. – William James • The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior. – Temple Grandin • The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That’s what antitrust is all about. – Charles James • The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Tom Wolfe • The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed. – Charles Spurgeon • Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world! – Vincent Klyn • There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure. – Bernard Baruch • There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg – Mary Tyler Moore • There are two reasons for drinking wine…when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it… prevention is better than cure. – Thomas Love Peacock • There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana • There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity. – George Santayana • There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life. – Loni Anderson • There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.- Reinhold Niebuhr • There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history. – Frank B. Kellogg • There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.- Will Durant • There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.- Dwight D. Eisenhower • There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. – P. G. Wodehouse • There is still no cure for the common birthday. – John Glenn • There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. – Sylvia Plath • There’s something to be said for useless days. You know, those days when you have nothing to do and all day to do it … Trust me, a beach and a bottomless drink may not cure the world’s problems but it can really get your head in the right place. Those are my favorite kind of days. – Kenny Chesney • These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere. – John Banville • They say even death can’t cure an idiot. -Ririn – Tite Kubo • Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming… If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree. Or a woman with a science degree. – Bill Bryson • This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. – Stendhal • This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat… The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread. – Gro Harlem Brundtland • Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable. – Hippocrates • Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. – John Tillotson • Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris. – Paula McLain • Time is an herb that cures all Diseases. – Benjamin Franklin

• ‘Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. – George Washington • Tis not always in a physician’s power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. – Ovid • To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better. – Richie Ashburn • To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. – Joan Didion • To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. – Margaret Thatcher • To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we dont deal with the causes we will never be safe. – Peter Yarrow • To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst. – Charles Caleb Colton • To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another. – Ovid • Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with. – Pico Iyer • Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn’s disease. – Mary Ann Mobley • Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. – Carl Jung • Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future. – Henry Taube • We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer • We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. – Thomas Browne • We are a caring nation, and our values should also guide us on how we harness the gifts of science. New medical breakthroughs bring the hope of cures for terrible diseases and treatments that can improve the lives of millions. Our challenge is to make sure that science serves the cause of humanity instead of the other way around. – George W. Bush • We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not. – William James • We can endure neither our vices nor their cure. – Livy • We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior. – William J. Clinton • We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. – Bill Watterson • We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect – placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases. – Matthieu Ricard • We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure. • What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?- Paracelsus • When thinking won’t cure fear, action will. – W. Clement Stone • When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.- Henri Nouwen • When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what’s wrong. – Mahalia Jackson • Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won’t cure a cold. – Jerry Vale • Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? -Horace • Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore. – Charles Spurgeon • Work cures everything. – Henri Matisse • Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. – Marge Piercy • Worry is spiritual short sight… Its cure is intelligent faith. – Paul Brunton • Yes, he’s like a rash for which there’s no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin every pleasurable experience. He should have been named Herpes rather than ZT. Or maybe just Herpes Z, since he’s a very special irritant. (Arik) – Sherrilyn Kenyon • Yes, she is.” He looks at me, his face carved in pain. “She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we’re really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic’s not a cure. It just postpones what’s coming.” My eyes fill up with tears. “But I love her,” I say, because that is reason enough. – Jodi Picoult • You can die of the cure before you die of the illness. – Michael Landon • You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you’ll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again… my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers’ jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people’s countries, foreign workers. – Lee Kuan Yew • You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn. – Milton H. Erickson • You’re a disease. And I’m the cure. – Sylvester Stallone • You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that. – Samuel Beckett • You’ve got to have some adversity and learn from it. I’m working hard, but I didn’t expect a cure in one day. You learn. You move on. You hold your head up. You go on to the next day. – Chuck Knoblauch

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