The Raven Queen (and a tiny Vax!) from Episode 47 of CR1:
“… you slow and come to a stop before this extremely prominent glowing weave, this infinite tapestry in all directions. You are uncertain of the meaning of this moment when a large cold hand reaches past your shoulder and grasps a thread right before your face, this singular glowing thread, pulsing with light like a heartbeat. You follow the arm over your shoulder, and glance up directly into the massive form of the Raven Queen: porcelain face like a mask, long jet-black hair, her body encasing you like a physical cage. Your eyes follow the arm back to the thread that she carries between her massive fingers. She tugs it, ever so gently, and it causes waves to ripple through the tapestry into infinity. Her voice fills your mind, both calm but cold.
“This is you, my champion. You are fate-touched. The choice is yours. Rebirth or ruin. Maker or martyr. Conqueror, tyrant, or nothing.”
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It used to be that paper currency was backed by gold and silver for its value. A 10$ paper note would be redeemable for 10$ worth of gold or silver following the gold or silver standard. Currently our bills are fiat money which means they are not backed by any tangible item. They’re just based on the strength of the economy. The economy can fluctuate so it makes the actual value of a bill unstable. These Mcdonalds coins, however, would be a currency that are redeemable for a Big Mac. This would make them a technically more stable currency as they are always have the value of a Big Mac they can be redeemed for.
This is absolutely true. And in addition, I’d like to add something.
The value of money over centuries is determined by the buying power of the currency. meaning that if you look at a dollar in the 1850′s, compared to the dollar now, you’d see that the older dollar had more buying power. Some of the highest paid workers in the silver mines made $4 per day. The buying power of the dollar has steadily dropped.
However…the buying power of these coins is always going to be a Big Mac. Which means that no matter what time has or will pass, it’s worth whatever normal currency it takes to buy a Big Mac.
So, if the Big Mac is currently $1.99, but in fifteen years runs $5.00…that McDonald’s coin will have gained buying power, when all other currencies have lost it.
I needed to draw this screencap of Sam and Liam as Clair and Allison from Laura’s one-shot, ‘The Club of Misfits’, that aired today! Had so much fun drawing these gals ❤
‘In the center of Bebelplatz, a glass window showing rows and rows of empty bookshelves. The memorial commemorates the night in 1933 when 20,000 “anti-German” books were burned here under the instigation of Goebbels. There’s a plaque nearby that says something like “Where they burn books, they will also burn humans in the end.” ’
Interesting but rarely mentioned: most of the content burned that night came from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (institute for the science of sex) headed by Magnus Hirschfeld. The institute and Hirshfeld himself were some of the first to openly campaign for the right to have sex with someone of the same gender, the right to transition if you did not identify with your birth sex and for the general acceptance of queer people. The team had already performed the first SRS operations in Germany and in addition, the institute advocated sex education, contraception, the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and women’s emancipation. Photographs of the night of the book burning are plastered across history books world wide, but the queer movement that was destroyed that night often goes unmentioned.
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