capeandcowl | 16 ➴ [voice]

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† kate bishop | hawkeye

16 ➴ [voice]

There are three days, seventeen hours and eighteen minutes until the start of the Olympics. [A beat.] Not that I'm counting or anything. It's almost comforting to see the games go on despite the wars and chaos all around us. It's a reminder that we can put our differences aside and compete in the truest and purest way imaginable, without prejudice or anything. It's just for the love of the sport.

On my must watch list is archery, fencing, shooting, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, and the track and field events. I'll be Tivo-ing the judo and boxing, maybe the soccer, too.

Who else is excited? I can't be the only one with Olympic fever!

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You're talking to a girl with a photographic memory and telescopic vision, here. I know all about my body.

To, not about. I never saw you use a sight.

That's because I don't need one. But I'm not too proud to reject something that could save my butt in a pinch.

I'm not rejecting it in combat. I'm saying it's not good sportsmanship.

Sure it is. Everybody has the exact same advantage. It's fair across the board.

[Ugh. Point.]

Guess I'm just old fashioned then.

There's nothing wrong with nostalgia.

And there's a reason people have done things the same way for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Thousands, really.

But now there are other factors. Like the need to break world records and make it suitable for TV audiences.

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