Weapon idea: a retro-causality pistol, loaded with bullets made of justification. When you fire it at someone, it changes history to provide a reason for you to have shot them.
Finally, you’ve killed the man who murdered your wife. But was she dead before you pulled the trigger? You will never know.
I don’t think I was even married before I shot them. I probably shouldn’t tell my kids that they’re just a metacausal byproduct of finding an excuse to shoot someone; that’s a hell of an existential crisis to inflict on a child.
When someone changes their URL and I don’t recognize it anymore but they still post the same stuff it’s like my friend mysteriously disappeared the day before I met my new friend who looks suspiciously like my old friend wearing Groucho Marx glasses
the second best thing about minecraft is that you can kill people with fireworks fired from a crossbow. the best thing about minecraft is that you can kill yourself with your own fireworks gun trying to do this if you’re not wearing armor with a high enough protection level.
Seriously, the easiest way for a time-traveler to make present-day money completely untraceably would be comicbooks.
Go buy yourself a US 10c coin from 1935, which will apparently set you back around $8.50; set your time machine for New York, April 18th 1938; walk up to a newsstand and buy a copy of Action Comics #1 with your dime.
Come back to the present, send the comic off to be professionally graded, tell everyone you found it in a yard sale, sell it at auction, and congratulations: your $8.50 is now $3.25 million.
Repeat with Detective Comics #27, Amazing Fantasy #15, etc.
Hell, if you don’t wanna draw attention to yourself, just pick less expensive comics! Need $600 quick? Go to February 1991, pick up New Mutants #98 for a dollar, and a Deadpool fan will take that off your hands really quick.
Comics are mass-produced, so history won’t miss a copy or two going missing; basically untraceable once sold; and can easily be claimed as something you found in a yard sale or charity shop.
“Garry Marshall’s granddaughters watched the tapes of actresses auditioning for the role of Mia. They confided in their grandfather he should hire Anne Hathaway, because she had good Princess hair.”
you can literally never go wrong with having diners in your story regardless of its genre. like they’re false beacons of hope, they’re safe havens for the lost and unwanted, they exist as a bridge between worlds, they’re haunted by the memories of all the people who have been there before, they’re both cozy and eerie, and they’re literally always there. every town has a diner. every town knows what those flickering red lights mean. and stories about diners never fail to fuck severely.
27th June 2023
Reblogged From coffeetothepeople
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