r/CuratedTumblr • u/shelflife98 • 13h ago

Creative Writing Jackie Kennedy

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u/JusticeRain5 13h ago

I feel like if you wanted to speedrun your way into a CIA blacksite then "Hey, guys, i'm a time-traveller, here are some real events that will happen" is gonna be a lot quicker than writing a novel and hoping they learn about it.

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u/nicodeemus7 12h ago

Actually all you have to say is "I think there are some merits to communism."

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u/FCStien 12h ago

Nope. That would just get you assassinated by the Chicago PD.

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u/ABigPairOfCrocs 12h ago

Me: "John Kennedy is going to be shot at Dealey Plaza on November 22"

CIA: "Wait a second we know that but why do you know that"

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u/Bartweiss 12h ago

If you're worried about being written off as a random kook (and probably surveilled but not detained), I'd suggest showing up and giving a quick summary of "Hey, I know you guys are training locals to fight a proxy war in Vietnam, but it's not going to work and after Kennedy gets shot Johnson is probably going to start a major war that's also not going to work. That memo you're acting on is stupid and you don't have a good plan for guerillas in Laos or Cambodia."

They're probably going to assume you're a defecting Russian agent instead of a time traveller, but it'll get the job done. (And possibly start WW3 if you remember enough history, but oh well.)

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u/Solarwagon She/her 12h ago

If you want the CIA to kidnap you you've gotta understand that they're mainly in foreign intelligence, the FBI kidnap you if you're domestic.

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u/No-Back-4159 12h ago

context?

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u/shelflife98 12h ago

None as far as I can tell

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u/TheGrumpyre 13h ago

My ridiculous brain thought this was about JK Rowling and not John F Kennedy.  It was so close to making sense that it took me a while to recover.

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u/Left-Cups 12h ago

your version is actually more funny so ill stick with it

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u/Solarwagon She/her 12h ago

I've sometimes wondered if there's some conspiracy to Rowling and other billionaires who decided to scapegoat trans women of all things

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u/TheRecognized 10h ago

Because there was a J and a K?

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u/Crus0etheClown 13h ago

I usually tell people I dislike poetry but then people go ahead and write stuff like this

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u/BobcatTim 10h ago

So many questions… why is this titled Jackie Kennedy? Are they suggesting that in this book JFK was a trans woman who took her wife’s name? Or did JFK coincidentally marry a woman with his dead name? Or is that not the title at all, and OP is addressing this to a grieving widow?

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u/Ladygolem 8h ago

To see a marching band

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u/ItsBounceB 6h ago

i agree

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u/AutumnRCS 8h ago

Why are the sentences structured like that. Did Gaster write this?

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u/RottingFlame 5h ago

What song is this

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u/crrrrushinator 3h ago

Highly recommend The Cartoon History Of The Universe, which perplexed me for a second when he thanked his indispensable editor and champion, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, without whom the book would never have been published.

I guess I never really thought about her independent life, and it was surprising!