Helix-rose - Fun Stuff 👍

Someday your hands will be old and wrinkled, the skin spotted and bunching over your knuckles. And a child will watch you make something. It's a simple task, you'll have done it a thousand times before. But to that child, the smooth, confident way your hands move will seem like impossible magic. You have to keep living.

Did you know you can play uno with normal playing cards? Just use the suits as colors, and they already have numbers. Assign the special powers like +2 or reverse to the face cards, and use the joker as a wild since it doesn't have a suit. My usual assignments are:

King: +4

Queen: +2

Jack: reverse

Ace: skip

Imagine an internet with only text and no images. Your online friends can never know what you look like. Tragic and dramatic.

Care to share with the class?

Making my little sister identify random Star Trek characters:

White Bread:

“If the computer ever doesn’t work, he sticks his finger in the socket and becomes the computer.”

“He hasn’t been outside in like, 80 years.”

“He cuts his own hair.”

Charles Xavier:

“He’s Captain Kirk’s father.”

“He comes onto the ship only for parent observation day, and he enjoys a good doughnut.”

Banana:

“He chose his name based on the color of his shirt. When you join the space, they let you pick a new name.”

“He works in the cafeteria, but everybody hates it because he only serves bananas.”

(This child has watched the original series. I don’t understand.)

Martha John:

“She used to be a nun, but she liked the space life instead, so she quit the sisterhood and joined the space.”

“White Bread cuts her hair too, with computer-like precision.”

“She hosts the ship’s karaoke party every Friday, and always opens with ‘My Heart Will Go On’.”

Darren:

“He’s the head of weapons” (said after I insisted that the ship has to have people with practical skills and not just party organizers.)

“When he joined, everyone thought he was so pretty they put his picture up everywhere.”

“He studies aliens but only the little ones.”

Winkle:

“They rescued Winkle from a bacon farm.”

“They give him a spray tan when he feels sad.”

“His job on the ship is he’s an emotional support animal, but he’s also a man.”

Sansha:

“What’s on her head?”

“Okay she studies space bugs, but when she flies around in space her visit only covers part of her face, so there’s bug debris.”

“She doesn’t like Winkle because he’s not a bug.”

“First name: He. Last name: Hears”

“He’s the professional ‘spakeup artist’ (space makeup artist). His job is to make them all look good.”

“Ears are in style right now.”

“His eyeshadow is on fleek.”

Dan:

“Just an ordinary man.”

“His part-time job is fixing the ship’s engines. His full-time job is being a footrest. He sits down and lets people rest their feet on him.”

“They’re not sure he’s human but don’t question him because he might have a deeper power.”

Lieclops:

“He lies.”

“He’s in charge of alien communications because he speaks a bunch of languages, but he only knows how to lie.”

“He has no eyes, only lies. That’s his motto. ‘All lies, no eyes’.”

Dayton Daily News, Ohio, June 3, 1926

A video is leaked of Batman deep into a lecture rant. Of course it has to be him repremanding any of the kids and teens he works with right?

Wrong. In the last second the camera pans to show Superman and some other Leaguers.

The Batkids uploaded the video.

The founding of the Justice League- part 1

It's an alien invasion, he'd thought. Just your run- of-the-mill alien invasion, he'd thought. He'd been wrong. That's why he was standing with some other oddballs, trying to stop it when they had never worked together before. Mondays, amirite?

***

Let's go back to the beginning.

Days like this always seem to start more normally than other days. In fact, it was quite a peaceful day all over the world- truces in wars, friends hugging after years of feuding, etc... until around 11 a.m. It was first noticed over Nigeria- some spaceships partially blocking the sun. Soon enough, they had spread everywhere in the world.

Earth was almost used to alien invasions at this point. They happened once or twice a month. Everyone trusted the superheroes to stop it.

There was a voice coming from the sky, which was never a good sign. "Surrender now," it said. "Earth is ours. You are too primitive to resist. We will conquer all."

The aliens were right about one thing- it quickly became clear that Earth was outmatched. The alien ships seemed to be resistant to, well, everything. Heat vision, big green hammers, just straight getting punched at mach 27.

Swish! Flash heard something behind him. He knew even before turning around who it was.

"Superman."

"Hi."

"... What are you doing in Central City in the middle of an alien invasion?"

"We need to work together."

"I... what? Oh! That does make sense. Wha-"

Before either of them had time to think, Batman was standing there. "Agreed."

***

"I'm not really the best at teamwork," Wonder Woman admitted.

"Me either, but we don't have a choice," Superman replied. "I guess we need a plan."

"I've got one," Batman said. "We find where things leave... They've got to exist. We go in through there and disable the ship. That's very simple."

"Nope," Superman denied it. "I've been up there. It's all liquidy. Stuff comes out through the wall like it's a blob. It doesn't let anything in, I know that from... unpleasant experience." He shivered a bit.

"So what if we hijack one of their weird little pod thingies and use that?" Green Lantern suggested.

"And how do you plan to get in? I saw a weirdly shaped thing they had to put in when I got up close to one." Flash countered.

Batman mentally facepalmed. Honestly, doing this with Robin would be easier...

"Like this?" Green Lantern asked, smiling. After a bit of deliberation and two bits of arguing, he had approximated the shape as a construct, and the Flash looked a bit flustered about forgetting who he was teaming with.

And now to find something to use it on...

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To be continued

How close are you with your friends?

Ma'am when we're apart at school the teacher asks us where the others are ✌️

All is right with the world

People are forgetting to get gifts. I keep forgetting it's Christmas. I dreamed that it snowed and all was right with the world. Where is my winter weather? Are my brand new snowboots for nothing at all? Do the sno-brums that are perpetually in my parents' cars and at every store mean nothing? Why can I see grass? Are the sleds waiting so patiently in the basement just meaningless hunks of plastic?

Where is MY December??? 😭

Do any of u have decent recipes that are like 5 ingredients (not including spices) and take 45 mins or less to prepare i gotta stop eating sandwiches for dinner