Luna says: it’s Friday!!!! She is our most vocal Educational Great Horned Owl. You can also hear the Ospreys in Rehabilitation in the background. ———————————————-
So in lore, vampires have this trait that I’ve almost never seen used, and that’s the fact that vampires are OBSESSED with counting things. Like, the Count on Sesame Street was almost certainly created specifically as a vampire because of this piece of lore.
Like, I read this vampire book years and years ago that explained that a surefire way to protect yourself from vampires getting into your house was to spread a ton of seeds on your doorstep–poppy and mustard seeds were particularly recommended for the purpose. Basically, if you suspected someone to be a vampire, all you had to do was drop a sackful of seeds on the ground in front of them.
If they didn’t immediately start counting them, they were not a vampire. However, if they WERE a vampire, they’d be seized with the urge to count all the seeds and they would not budge from that spot until they knew how many seeds there were in total. The point was to keep them there until the sun came up and killed them, because if they hadn’t counted all the seeds by sunrise they wouldn’t be able to leave. Presumably you could just go about the rest of your evening as normal, though no word on whether it’s possible to make them lose count and start over.
Having remembered this piece of lore, I want fewer stories about brooding tortured Edward Cullen-esque vampires. I want to start seeing more stories about math nerd vampires.
Vampire accountants who are an honest company’s best asset and a corrupt company’s bane because they are frighteningly accurate with the accounts and will not hesitate to blow the whistle on a CEO scamming money because fuck you for making the numbers wrong.
Vampire cashiers that don’t need to look at the register screen because they already mentally calculated your total. 10-items-or-less vampires who know goddamn well you have 20 items in that basket and NO, you cannot just slip in with the rest.
Vampire math tutors who are constantly in high demand and have to hold lotteries to see who gets to be tutored by them.
MATH NERD VAMPIRES
If anyone would like the term for this, it’s arithmomania.
“But sir, he’s a vampire!!!”
“Vampire or not, he’s the best damn accountant we have here, and i’d let him drink my blood before i fire him!”
“still less of a leech than Matt in legal. Fuck matt”
Okay but also, vampires as drug dealers- a profession that requires extremely quick, extremely accurate counting. “You’re 5 dollars short.” “There’s 50,000 dollars in there at least, how the fuck did you count that fast-” “Pay up or I will drink you like a slurpee.”
President
Trump told the White House counsel in the spring that he wanted to
order the Justice Department to prosecute two of his political
adversaries: his 2016 challenger, Hillary Clinton, and the former F.B.I.
director James B. Comey, according to two people familiar with the
conversation.
The lawyer, Donald F.
McGahn II, rebuffed the president, saying that he had no authority to
order a prosecution. Mr. McGahn said that while he could request an
investigation, that too could prompt accusations of abuse of power. To
underscore his point, Mr. McGahn had White House lawyers write a memo
for Mr. Trump warning that if he asked law enforcement to investigate
his rivals, he could face a range of consequences, including possible
impeachment.
The encounter was one of
the most blatant examples yet of how Mr. Trump views the typically
independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his
political enemies. It took on additional significance in recent weeks
when Mr. McGahn left the White House and Mr. Trump appointed a
relatively inexperienced political loyalist, Matthew G. Whitaker, as the
acting attorney general.
It is
unclear whether Mr. Trump read Mr. McGahn’s memo or whether he pursued
the prosecutions further. But the president has continued to privately
discuss the matter, including the possible appointment of a second
special counsel to investigate both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Comey,
according to two people who have spoken to Mr. Trump about the issue. He
has also repeatedly expressed disappointment in the F.B.I. director,
Christopher A. Wray, for failing to more aggressively investigate Mrs.
Clinton, calling him weak, one of the people said.
…
It
is not clear which accusations Mr. Trump wanted prosecutors to pursue.
He has accused Mr. Comey, without evidence, of illegally having
classified information shared with The New York Times in a memo that Mr.
Comey wrote about his interactions with the president. The document contained no classified information.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers also privately asked the Justice Department
last year to investigate Mr. Comey for mishandling sensitive government
information and for his role in the Clinton email investigation. Law
enforcement officials declined their requests. Mr. Comey is a witness
against the president in the investigation by the special counsel,
Robert S. Mueller III.
…
Mr.
Trump repeatedly pressed Justice Department officials about the status
of Clinton-related investigations, including Mr. Whitaker when he was
the chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to a
person with direct knowledge of the conversations. CNN and Vox earlier reported those discussions.
#??? – On rare occasion, an Eevee can be affected by more than one environmental factor, and reacts to grow into a new, rare evolution. It is virtually unheard of to find Empatheon naturally in the wild; rather, they can be found among Trainers and families as life long companions. An Eevee will only evolve into a Psychic/Fairy type when it has been raised from a young age by an individual with whom it has built a strong relationship of trust, affection, and friendship – and has not been exposed to any conflicting stimuli. They exude an intoxicating aura from the gem on their chest that weakens feelings of hostility and anxiety, as well as heightens endorphin production. As a result, they are known to be excellent emotional support Pokemon. Empatheon are able to sense the intentions anyone who draws near, and will use their psychic abilities to viciously attack any opponent who wishes harm to their loved ones. Though they are not typically fighters at heart, they are very capable in battle, and are unfleeting in their protection of those they care for.
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