#[ i always thought he was in his 40s ]
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something something, the symbolism of how Stan and Ford were only able to see eye to eye when they were wearing one another’s clothes.
something about Ford in Stanley’s clothes, staring at his mirror image in his, and finally seeing Stan for who he has always been— a hero. who saved his family with his bare hands simply because of how much he loved them. a hero who has been protecting that family since he was a child and hasn’t ever stopped. Something about it finally clicking to Ford in that moment.
#gravity falls#stanley pines#stan pines#stanley pines you will always be famous#stanley pines meta#stanford pines#gravity falls meta#ford pines#i don’t even fully know what i mean here except that it’s hitting me hard in the chest#and if you think about it#stanley had been wearing ford’s suit for years#thirty years#ford never thought anyone understood him but stanley has ALWAYS understood him#but it took ford until that moment#i think#to finally see his brother clearly#not for any lack of love for him#but i think probably just because of his own blindness and self preservation that resulted in a lot of self centeredness#ford didn’t take a lot of time to look out into the world#he was too internally focused#for understandable reasons#but it meant he failed to see stanley clearer than his surface perception of him#that got clouded and muddled over the years#i’d argue that they perfectly understood one another as children#but then ford felt betrayed and he closed himself off#and limited stanley to the hurt he caused in one moment#and held onto that too tight#not to mention then bill’s influence#and 40 years apart from one another#anyway
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something that makes me sad is when people tell me the healthy communication in my writing is "unrealistic."
like guys this is how me and my partner talk with eachother... I'm writing from personal experience...
#like it's sad both on the front of 'dehumanizing my real life'#but also on the front of 'you deserve to have healthy communication in your life'#like if you think this is unrealistic it means more than likely you havent experienced someone being patient and understanding with you#and that makes me very very sad#I'm sorry#also it's just rude to tell me my writing is unrealistic LOL like hey#real people talk all kinds of ways. shut up#I've been told it's also in part cause they always understand their own feelings when theyre talking#but I'm like...#theyre like mid 30-early 40 and theyre immortal and theyre going through a lot of shit#I feel like theyve thought about it a lot#also the comic takes place over the course of a year so far#we're seeing the big moments and the fun mysteries#so#its about grown men who love eachother#sorry that they think about what they want to say before they say it#also as if adam isnt constantly wrong and steve isnt constantly pushing shit down#he's only JUST RECENTLY starting to share his emotions as they come up#instead of pretending theyre not there and letting things boil over#I think people just THINK theyre communicating way too clearly because their partner#who loves them#is listening and responding with kindness#like..#idk I have a lot of thoughts about this#would LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE for this to spark a discussion#and especially for it to cause people to reread a little more critically#and perhaps even introspect on their own ideas of communication standards#I've been with my partner for 10 years. this is how we talk to eachother
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Stupid loser loses hearing at loud concert and relates it back to comfort character
#HE WOULD THOUGH#always invisioned him partially losing his hearing in his 40s and having to wear a hearing aid#maybe from an accident on site?#it’s a bit of an adjustment but will helps him anyway he can#hes a lil nervous abt wearing it at first but kinda owns it eventually#like YEAH that’s my hearing aid you can shove it!!#snail weigh in I need your thoughts pronto😋#chuckie sullivan#chuckwill#good will hunting#reposting cause why not
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One of the coworkers I actually likes turned out to be a Taylor Swift fan. Another coworker dared him to try and convince me her new album was good.
About 5 minutes into the discussion he ended it with "I don't want to talk to you about Taylor Swift anymore"
#neither he nor the person who dared him knew how much of a hater i am#he's in his mid-40s btw. his excuse for being a taylor swift fan was that he once ordered a record from a different band and got sent one of#hers accidentally. so he listened to it and thought she was pretty decent#pointing out that her music style always changes to match what sells at that point in time is what made him end the convo
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caved and watched the first 5 episodes of hotd and rn all i gotta say is i wouldn't even wish the fate of being a high ranking offical's daughter/wife in the GoT universe onto my worst enemy godddd
#YES I'M MAD LATE AND I SAID I'D WATCH IT A YEAR AGO....PLANS CHANGE STUFF HAPPENS but i always kept it on my mind#my least faves so far....otto and the cole guy.#not the biggest fan of daemon either rn. well it's more like whyyyy does he love to cause problems on purpose#all of this probs subject to change except otto i'm so glad viserys called him out on essentially pimping out his daughter#my thoughts on rhaenicent omfg........not for the weak and ik it's only gonna get worse#other thoughts. mysaria. lowkey queen i cannot blame her for getting a bag when she's just been screwed over#v interesting how even viserys is nottt above the system that allowed him to be king and HAS to take a wife + have kids#bc of his fucking council...and chooses alicent which i gasped at even tho ik it was coming obvi#like it was either her or his 12 y/o cousin when he's like. pushing 40??? mid 30s??? idfk#ick all around tho poor alicent her wearing that green dress. a statement. damn.#rhaenyra they can never make me hate you...never...am i always gonna be happy with her actions.no. am i gonna defend her. probs#srsly tho it's her birthright to be queen bottom line. i liked her seeing the white stag that was nice#rip to laenor's bf he did notttt deserve that at all ik cole thought he was being blackmailed and was mad paranoid atp but bro#imagine watching your secret lover die on your arranged marriage night if i was laenor u would have to drag me to that altar#um tldr i like it i'm scared acting supurb i like the tidbits at the end where they explain everyone's actions#hotd#my text
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One day I'll draw the ieytd cast with all the flower imagery i want
#i think. i think the fact that we all draw the characters so colour coordinated contributes heavily to this#i have SOOO many fucking thoughts you have no idea#specifically some starstruck ones I've had for like a year but blahblahblah im always thinking about them at least a little#it's my fucking that old man yaoi you can pry it from my cold dead hands#but also ughhh i hate the canon ages like SIDE NOTE#okay these tags are abt to go in a wildly different direction basically i am no longer yapping about florography#likeeee prism being 40 canonically makes it weird for me prism is more like. 45-47 for me and reggie is probably like 50-52#juniper also like i know a lot of people say mid 20s but for me?? he's like 37 and DESPARATE not do have a twink death#and then phoenix is probably around the same age as jj??#idk just working off the main 4 guys (to me) i guess but idk ive always had mild issues with the fact prism is canonically 40#it's just. naur.......nuhuh......................#i digress reggie being in his 50s is weirdly important to me and i have NO idea why. maybe I've just been jn this fandom for a while#<- been here on and off since before first class from ieytd 1#i more or less discovered there was a fandom in 2022 tho but sighs. ive been here a WHILE.....#at the very most j was here before seat of power i remember watching a playthrough of that when it released#but in terms of first class my memory gets deeply spotty but thats being a system for ya wayyyyyyyy#wow this ramble went in like 17 directions jf you're still here thank you??????????? why??? /lh#[words words words]#ughh anyways 🤩🤩 ieytd and flowers yeah it's intrinsically linked to me#idk might redesign them all surrounded by flowers but also i literally do not have the time for that <- just started art college
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So I ordered what I thought was one figure to repaint, yet I’ve ended up with 3 of the same. As nice as that is I don’t know what I’m meant to do with a total of four.
#tag ramblings#ahead as always#sooooo#match makers Zarbon specifically#I already own the base figure but give I can get him so cheap I bought what I thought was a listing for one to repaint#need something in his manga colours#and I want a break from rerooting doll hair#I just don’t know what I’m meant to do with four of the same figure in total#one I bought months ago just to have and as I said a second to repaint#le sigh#will likely delete later#just excuse my random rambles#fun times#my boyfriend will think I’ve gone mad when he gets back from work 😂#this isn’t even the first time this has happened which makes it funnier to me#like a year ago I bought what I thought was one copy of a card and ended up with like 40#🫠#Blissy life update I guess albeit a boring one
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do not let the leafs fans fool you, no one in the history of mankind has suffered more than sharks fans
#clapping and cheering for joe pavelski as if i'm not 3 seconds away from tying a cinderblock around my neck and jumping into the pool#how long until they pull out the ol' chart of players with the most playoff goals without a cup#and its thornton pavelski marleau couture#that one is always a classic#idk if its still true. i hope so. we deserve that#lest we remember the reason we DONT have him is (1) evander k*ne's contract that ???? yeah and (2) doug wilson thought he was too old#mind you that was the same doug wilson that signed jumbo and marleau at age 40#whatever though like its fine its super fine i mean its fine#erik's gonna leave this offseason too but you know. at least noah gregor got his fucking hat trick#its fine. love california hockey :)
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I alluded to this in tags awhile ago but like. IK continuity doesn’t work this way and when things shifted from kooky and silly 40s stuff with psas scattered to like dark brooding whatever we’re supposed to take it as like either time passing with some hand waving to personalities or ‘it was always like this for them trust’ but thinking about dick specifically going from holy galloping grasshoppers Batman to dealing with Bruce in spyral and shit is so so so sad I can’t articulate it well rn but like everyone kinda agrees the shift happened after two face and jason but like no dick saw it all he saw it while it happened he saw Bruce taking tim to baseball games and then gaslighting him at 16 he saw the man who’d take care of a random baby on the fly threaten to send his youngest son back to the league he saw the man who helped usher in a new era of young heroes treat Steph like shit he saw the man who inspired hope for a future in civilians heroes and enemies alike take advantage of cass’ suicidal thoughts and separation from her own humanity he saw everything and he just has to. Deal. To everyone else this is just Bruce and ppl like Tim and cass justify it to an extent bc they love him and get exasperated and when Dick is angry but how couldn’t Dick be angry? That’s his dad and he’s being so fucking mean and idk I’m rambling
#i promise this is better thought out on the daily Im so so tired rn autocorrect is saving me#and It’s like the lighthearted era of the 40s smacking someone across the face into shit like throwing him into Jason’s memorial#like It’s not even whiplash bc it’s always happened it’s just. aaruhdsjak#and this is why I hate the entire thing where Bruce does nothing and it’s ALL terrible writing like#they had Superman doing corporal punishment bro idk#and not saying that’s good or necessary today I’m just saying unfortunately for Bruce Stans literally everyone is shaped by his behavior#It’s why they’re so fucked to eachother too#like the reason perfect dad bruce who’s only issue is miscommunication is annoying bc u#sets up every following issue tk ve of the same vein#he and Jason DONT have genuine morality clashes that usually end up violent and beLetha#near lethal bc they’re both secure in their own righteousness#It’s ‘they need to talk and Jason needs to call alfie and gl#go to Sunday brunch and Bruce needs to be okay with killing the really really bad ppl :(‘#like no bro sorry they’re not as wishy washy as u 🙄#that’s a joke#Im not saying bruxe should hit his kids I’m just saying when he does it’s not automatically the writer doesn’t know him#they might know him all too well actually#also it’s just the way it’s framed for me sorry I think Conflict is interesting#so bruce growing up (at 60 lmao) and dick just having to deal with it is sooo#like idk IK dc is trying to happy family Damian and Bruce rn but to me Bruce DID get somewhat better but Damian can’t ades#address tough shit without feeling luke he’s dragging it and rlly he should be grateful they’re turning a blind eye tk his mistakes so he#goes along with it#pretend the soulless ‘i hate you bc I’m insecure and secretly think ur my favorite Drake!’ is actually#‘i know the role I need to play in order to keep things smooth and if u#i talk to any of you genuinely I’ll explode and also you’ll hate me and also I think I’ll hate you I think I already do so’#that’s my coping#and thats for me personally like this entire post Is how I personally like to see it#i like happy go lucky batfam in microdoses except WFA y will not be forgiven for what u did to Duke#also for the og post I have a whole thing about how Bruce’s attempt to separate the man and the mask causes him to do crazy shit to his kids#but diff time THATS just how I get my middle between incorrect quotes bruce and dudebro bruce tbh
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i can’t believe hal didn’t grow up poor, i’m gonna be sick
#I THOUGHT HE WAS ONE OF US#he’s so often homeless and unemployed in his adult life that i forget that his family raised him on military shmoney#i should’ve realized smth was up when he grew up with 2 brothers and they all had their own rooms#unbelievable… and the fact that barry had to be more frugal in his childhood…#not that i think the allen’s were low income they did pretty decently growing up in the suburbs-ish#im just thinking abt his worn down shoes and how he was only allowed to get One comic book at the store#so i’m thinking that they had extra money to spend but not that much#the idea that hal grew up with more money than barry is literally boggling my mind#and ik it’s not the same now as adults but HAL. YOU’RE LITERALLY ALWAYS ASKING BARRY TO SPEND MONEY ON YOU.#making the working class man pay your rent when you’re literally friends with billionaires. unbelievable.#this is all lighthearted and probably 40% headcanon btw#i’m just astounded by the fact#hal jordan#green lantern#barry allen#the flash#dc#danbles
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just was curious, if it's ok to ask, do you have any headcanons about flywheels + his interactions with the rest of the scavs!! im so curious to find out what kind of person people think he was/is...
I THOUGHT I HAD WRITTEN SOME DOWN, i had SEVERAL thoughts, but i can't find them (i've been looking for over an hour) but all i've found is a little blurb/ramble about the scavs post-flywheels' death, which, hey, for the hell of it, i'll put it under a read more
how do you think the scavengers grieved flywheels' death? do decepticons have different practices for mourning a fallen comrade than autobots, was the scavengers taking parts from him their own way of mourning him, of giving him some sort of a send off? does krok occasionally tell someone to pair off with him when scavenging, before remembering that flywheels isn't there anymore, did misfire save a bit of flywheels' inner most energon for when krok woke up, does spinister ever miss having to fix flywheels after he got stuck midtransformation due to not getting enough space before he lied and something got caught, does crankcase miss having some company when he's piloting the wap, as flywheels was great company, is fulcrum ever haunted by the presence of flywheels and what happened to him because he was the reason the djd showed up on clemency
#hayden answers#i swear. i had so many flywheels thoughts. and i cannot find where i wrote them dOWN#because he's such an interesting character and what info we get from the comics is SO LITTLE like#why was he put on the list. what did he do that made tarn want to kill him. why was he working at grindcore#when did he convert to neoprimalism. who was he closest to in the scavengers if any#its just!!!!#we needed more flywheels content i honestly feel like when they got to the flashbacks in mtmte 48 they were like#''hm. what decepticon would our readers possibly recognize that we could add in here'' and they picked the guy who died 40 issues earlier#because honestly ? with how little info we got it isnt really in line with his character to be there#tho ig it is a war and thus you cant always do things you want to do
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I love how in Siegfried's SC3 endings you can interpret it either as him finally finding peace on his own (Input ending) or his father's spirit ACTUALLY saves him from the Nightmares and he's able to find peace through that (Non-input ending) and both are equally valid
God i love these games
#soul calibur#siegfried schtauffen#bro's just a creacher i rotate in my brain all day#and i just love how alot of his stuff can be interpreted as either being real or purely in his mind#also when i get off work tonight i wanna draw him as an icewing#or icewing/mudwing hybrid#i love the combo of beautiful and bulky#which he definitely is#(i refuse to believe he's only 110lbs until 5 where he gains like 40#there's no way bc bro wouldn't be able to wield his giant ass sword)#i always thought of him as being very heavy (bc muscles are quite heavy) but apparently not until 5.#.does he really get some meat on him#anyways yeah i love him even tho i constantly call him a little bitch (affectionately but also he just is)
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Facing my fear of movie theaters by going to the first showing of the day sgdggdgd
I think I'll be the only person there which would be awesome tbh
AND I dont have to break my streak of having seen every hunger games movie in theaters :D I'm excited man
#marquilla#first one i saw with my friend from middle school and her weird ass family sgdgdgdggd second and third was with my ms/hs best friend who#also loved the books (we would have 'arguments' over what character was the best cough cough finnick cough cough which drove my dad insane#listening to every single time we would pick her up to come over (40 min drive one way atgagagsg)#and the last one i saw with my first boyfriend who really didnt have any thoughts one way or the other ab the books but he DID think gale#was better than peeta which lead to an 'argument' in the parking lot while we were looking for his moms car sgdgdggdgd we both#agreed that finnick was better though sgdggdg#and by arguments i mean they were those goofy 'my fav is better than YOURS' debates you have with friends that are always in good fun#now this time im going alone bc i really wanna see it and mom didnt read the book yet/isnt really interested (more like eh ill get you the#dvd when it comes out and we can watch it) this is my first time going by myself though which is kinda exciting sgdgd#did you know you can order food ahead of time and have it delivered to your seat?? thats wild to me#id feel so awkward doing that especially since it's probably just gonna be me today shhdhdhdhd
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Six of Crows x Unwind
Kaz vers 1: Parents died before he or Jordie could ever be signed up for unwinding— though their parents would’ve never anyways. However upon meeting Pekka, he was somehow able to sign off on their unwinding forms (having strings he could pull, able to get money for this, etc). They were getting shipped off when Jordie and Kaz tried to escape. Jordie didn’t make it, and sacrificed himself for Kaz to escape, where he was on the run ever since. A few years later, he caught Pekka now having Jordie’s hands.
Kaz Vers 2: (Aka another au outcome of this) His parents did end up signing off on his and Jordie’s unwinding— or even just Kaz’s. Jordie helps him escape and they flee to the city to disappear. However, Pekka was a parts pirate, and he manages to trap them. Kaz is able to get away but Jordie doesn’t. Same outcome as before.
Jesper: He was never signed off to be unwound, of course, but after the loss of his mother and never able to sit still, he was sent to Ketterdam (as before). However he starts to get involved with runaways, and eventually gets mistaken for one anyways. Parts pirates begin to target him, and he loves the thrill of being on the run. So, he joins the ranks of the unwind-runaways, despite never being one himself.
Inej: Once she is kidnapped and taken to Ketterdam, and then further sold to Haleen, she is still made to work for her. However, Haleen has already signed off on Inej’s unwind papers the day they met, and was waiting to submit the papers until Haleen (ugh.) saw fit. However, Kaz knew of this practice and, as in canon, payed off her indenture and her unwind form so it wouldn’t be submitted. Plot twist: eventually Haleen submits it anyways, leading to Inej becoming a runaway as well. Of course, not even parts pirates dare to target her.
Nina: She was actually storked, having gone to house to house. She was passed around until finally she landed at the doorstep of a Ravkan military official. They took her into a home until she was revealed to be a heartrender, where she was then placed into the Ravkan army. She would not be unwound unless she failed to serve Ravka— abandoning or betraying them. This was never an issue to cross her mind until she was kidnapped by Fjerda and thought to be dead. She and Matthias have their storyline, and instead of her accusing Matthias of being a slavor, she accuses him of being a false parts pirate— somebody who takes kids not meant to be unwound and unwinds them. Though in doing so, this reaches Ravka who then fr does sign her unwinding form and she hides in Ketterdam hoping they don’t catch wind of that.
Matthias: Much like the situation with Nina, once he joins the Fjerdan army, he must work hard and prove himself to keep him from being unwound. This, he is able to do, until he is put into Ketterdam prison. While there, they sign his unwinding form for a few months out (they are really backed up, I imagine) until the Crows break him out. He is given the option to be freed from that unwinding form (ruled as a mistake) if he helps them break into the Ice Court. After he does so, and that whole plot happens, Fjerdan still has ability to sign an unwinding form for Matthias. They do so, and he becomes a runaway.
Wylan: The threat of being unwound has always loomed over his head. His own father constantly threatening to sign the form— even going as far as to keep a copy of the signed form framed on Wylan’s wall to remind him that it could be sent out anytime. However, eventually, Van Eck starts to go around and tell people that he was actually raising Wylan to be a tithe instead— something Wylan never found out until too late. He was sent off one day, only to discover that he was actually heading off to his own unwinding. He escaped, much like he did in the books, and flees to Ketterdam under a new name. He learns from the other Crows that nobody had blinked an eye at his disappearance as they all believed he was tithed and unwound. He only becomes a runaway once it’s learned that he is alive by Van Eck, who hires parts pirates to specifically try and capture Wylan to unwind him.
#unwind#six of crows#crossover#grishaverse#I just be crossing things over#idek if any of this works#somebody write this because I can’t#take the funny thoughts in my head#okay but imagine if people didn’t like Wylan or trust him because they still thought he was a tithe#and they think he would happily be unwound#but in fact that’s not it at all#imagine Pekka specifically requested to have Jordie’s hands….#which is like#Kaz always wearing gloves parallel with Pekka having his brothers hands#or an au where Kaz breaks into the unwinding chamber to save Jordie only to see his brother in bits#lmao#or what if Kaz needs to get a replacement part without his control and he gets a part of Jordie…#I cannot be having these thoughts wtf#also chapter 40 is just Matthias getting unwound btw#Inej nearly gets unwound in crooked kingdom when she’s kidnapped#LMAO THEY UNWIND ALBY#that last tag was for Kassel btw
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Banger duo him and his reaper throw Uldren in Aberration hell love it there
Jolyon look at that funny little blue area oh nevermind that blue area look at that red one we should totally go down there we should swim in that pink water over there
And then he vomits his lungs out and dies before he can reach the water that wouldve also lead to a very horrible death
Uldren just belongs there aberration is his home he can have a little base on those cliff platforms he can just glide around the map with his rock drake and hed have an army of ravagers for absolutely no reason i know you cant tame nameless but hes got one and its just the leader of the army he gets all of his shoulder pets killed because yeah i dont really have a reason for that either it just happens
He spawned in and the first thing he did is wrestle a sheep and mount it like a horse
I already mentioned Jolyon so Jolyons here now too hes his tribemate hed just be like wtf is this guy doing while Uldrens off doing whatever and Jolyons just tryna make them weapons and clothes and stuff then Uldren leads a spino or something over to Jolyon and they both die for the 100th time until they finally actually manage to get shit done and they finally come to have that cliff base and everything
About the shoulder pets theyre all Jolyons shoulder pets he has a lot of them he really loves them and hes all happy. Up until you find out your tribemate got half of them killed and now hes suddenly pregnant with a reaper and Jolyon is like "your what." And hes freaking out and absolutely horrified as is Uldren and they just try to figure shit out then like timeskip one day Jolyon just hears the most painful disgusting gut wrenching scream hes ever heard come from Uldren and then he rushes over to him and Uldrens stomach is just ripped open blood spilling all over the place while this little alien abomination crawls out of him and starts running all over the fucking place and then it charges Jolyon and starts eating his face or something. After all of that Jolyons just like fuck this shit I cant do this anymore and Uldrens just out here struggling to care for this abomination of a child he has but he pulls through hes a little traumatized but he cares about his kid and when he grows up they go on little adventures Jolyon just absolutely wants nothing to do with the reaper tho he got ptsd from seeing all that even tho Uldren is literally the one that birthed it
Dragging Jolyon over to the surface and they both get burned alive the moment they step on it
Uldren and Jolyon have both spent days making a trap and a ballista turret and they knock out tame a karkinos and once its up he convinces Jolyon to mount it with him and then Uldren just fucking murders anything thats near the river just pouding the poor dino on the ground and Jolyon looks heavily concerned about Uldren the whole time he doesnt say anything tho
they can chill and hang out at their base just sitting on a balcony enjoying the view id imagine their base is somewhere where the blue zone is visible because that area is so pretty and yeah they just hang out and sit down and take in the view maybe Jolyons crafting something and Uldrens just talking with him and its peaceful as hell they also prolly hang around those massive trees in the blue zone that just like pop out of the ceiling and into the ground they hang out at the top of em they set up camp start a fire they sit down cook some meat while they lean back onto their rock drake Jolyon could decide to bring his bulbdog and you know lil guys hungry and goes over and eats the hell out of Uldrens meat skewer
#Uldren Sov#Just randomly thought about ark aberration i really love this map my favorite after valguero#He got a little too excited and forgot his hazmat suit when he went into the red zone.#I literally dont understand how any of the survivors even manage to give birth to and raise a reaper its horrifying#Aberration doesnt always have to be brutal it can be pretty nice#Im really bored lmao sorry most people are at school and im suspended#I didnt expect to write so much shit holyyy nobody reading all of that#Wtf how is it 3:24 it was just 2:40 a second ago#I could prolly take a few screenshots on the weekend
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Back when I was teaching Japanese college students, I remember escorting some of my students back to their dorms from a burger place one of the other mentors invited them to late at night (he ditched them there and I was mad about it because they didn't know the area well).
While we were walking back, I was expressing my disappointment and saying it was inappropriate for that mentor to invite them out without walking them back since it was late at night and it wasn't a great part of the city, but after a few minutes I apologized to them saying something like "I know most of you are grown adults and I don't want you to think I see you as helpless children, but I do want to make sure you get home safely," and one of them said in the kindest most sincere voice, "We know. You are like a Japanese mother."
And I was just like *voice cracking* "Cool" and walked them the rest of the way back to their dorms, then walked to the bus with my face buried in my hands.
#i talk#My favorite student also said I reminded him of his mother (who he'd spoken of very highly the entire trip) and I was like#*VOICE CRACKING* ''OH. THANK YOU.''#Man I love all those students so much#That was right before one of the worst periods of my life#but I remember the time I spent with them so fondly#One of them was a 40 year old woman who was so surprised I knew who Kaito was when I saw him on the background of her computer#and she was like ''That is Miku's boyfriend'' and I was trying my best not to burst into giggles because she said it so seriously#My favorite student was an absolute sweetheart. When I said goodbye to him and the rest of my students I burst into tears while going home#All of the Pokemon nerds and I played Pokemon Go together and it was so fun#I mostly spoke English with them because I wanted to make sure they were getting enough practice#but I did speak Japanese with them for funzies sometimes (esp. if they were having trouble understanding something)#but I have a tendency to use casual speech and when I found out one of my students was older than me#(one who I always used casual speech with)#I was like WHOOPS. Well. Oh well#he thought it was funny but I guess technically it was fine since I was his mentor / teacher#He was a very serious guy but he was always very nice#Though the one day I wasn't there he got into a fight with another student because they were rude to him#but you know. it happens#anyways. All of them were so sweet#I almost cried saying goodbye to my elementary school students too when I finally decided to swap jobs#The little Mexican boy and girl I taught came up to me and silently hugged me so tightly and cried and cried and cried#and I almost started crying too#agh#I love kids I love college students#aghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. education is such a tough field to work in and the pay sucks and you're constantly overworked#but I loved my students so much. I still love them. I hope they're all doing ok#I remember when the Orange Idiot got elected one of the students who was planning to study abroad here messaged me#and I asked him if he still planned to come study here and he said yes because ''I believe the good people outnumber the bad''#I think about that all the time
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