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In peacetime, the ruler grows their hair long. In war, they cut it short.

A ruler with long hair is held in great esteem, for defending the peace.

The traditional declaration of war is for the ruler to send their cut-off hair to the enemy ruler. The statement carries greater weight the longer the hair: to receive long hair says that you have angered one who is slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken.

Violent war-mongering leader frantically and aggressively tries to shave just a LITTLE hair off the top of their head into an envelope.

A faraway king receives a heavy wooden crate filled with a coil of the longest hair he has ever seen.

A despised ruler finds hundreds of pounds of cut-off ponytails at her castle entrance, each one belonging to her own people. 

A young emperor refuses to cut their hair and insists on trying to make peace with invaders. The enemy leader steps forward, draws their blade, and cuts the emperor’s hair themselves.

Hellen cuts her hair off and throws it in Cathy’s face at her son’s soccer scrimmage. 

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Where is my crossover AU where Peter Quill is on his way back to Earth and sort of accidentally rescues Mark Watney from Mars along the way

Quill: Hey guys, come take a look out the window! I think there’s somebody down there!
Rocket: So?
Quill: That’s Mars. No one’s SUPPOSED to be there.
Drax: Have the Terrens not yet achieved space travel?
Quill: I mean, BARELY. And it looks like he’s all alone down there, that can’t be right.
Gamora: Should we offer our assistance?
Rocket: Ah, leave him!

Quill: Hey buddy, you need a hand?
Mark: The fuck was in those fucking potatoes

Mark: Okay, I can accept the aliens, I can accept the green lady, I can accept the little dancing tree, I can even accept the raccoon, but can someone please tell me why the raccoon has GUNS?

Mark: *notices Quill listening to his Awesome Mix tape* Oh my God do you have music? Please tell me you have music.

Quill: Oh yeah! All the greatest hits of the 70s!

Mark: *anguished screaming*

Wasn’t Mark a botanist. Maybe he could do something to help groot do the groot thing better

Mark: *pokes at mini dancing Groot* Is this a tree? Is the tree MOVING? Does… does the treeHOLYSHITWHYISTHERACCOONPOINTINGAGUNATME

Rocket: That’s Groot, and you don’t touch him, you got that?

Quill: Sorry, man, Groot kinda died a little while ago and Rocket took it pretty hard. But he seems to be growing back fine.

Mark: …

Mark: You might want to repot him soon. I’ll be sitting here. In a corner. Away from the guns.

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Yes. We decided that the new companion was going to be non-white, and that was an absolute decision, because we need to do better on that. We just have to. … I think I had this baffling idea that if we just threw open each part to everybody, it would work out in the end. I put my faith, inexplicably, in the free market. I don’t know why, I of all people would do that! It doesn’t work. You can only cast for talent – you’ve got to cast the best person, every single time – but you’ve got to gauge where you’re looking for that talent. … Sometimes the nature of a particular show – historical dramas, for instance – makes diversity more of a challenge, but Doctor Who has absolutely nowhere to hide on this. Young people watching have to know that they’ve a place in the future. That really matters. You have to care profoundly what children’s shows in particular say about where you’re going to be.

Steven Moffat on the casting of Pearl Mackie and Diversity in the BBC (Doctor Who Magazine #500)
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