#( finals )

[actuallyfig]

literally me and my finals start tomorrow

dear professor i cant seem to lock in. its so over

[sexypeople-contests-2025]

I just finished finals, you know what that means

[syscoursebrackets]

THE FINAL ROUND.

Sorry for the absence -- I just couldn't figure out the best way to ring this bracket in. The final round -- the real determiner, once and for all, on who the BEST syscourser is...

No more bells and whistles. No more competitions. No more beating around the bush.

Get in your votes for either @thecircularsystem or @freezingcoldsystemtakes!

May the best syscourser win.

[yen-sids-tournament]

Silent Characters Final: Phineas Fletcher v Magic Carpet

Ferb Fletcher: Phineas and Ferb (2007-15, 25)

Coolest main character in the show that needs no words to show off his skills and whimsy

Magic Carpet: Aladdin (1992)

Magic carpet is so important if he wasn't there straight up Aladdin would've died horrible deaths multiple times. He is also so cute and funny. He expresses so much emotion through just body language, he's such a sweet silly lil guy extra picture below cut extra picture below cut

[okayto]

#am I a grad student or am I a dark entity whose chains are weakening. who can say.

soon...soon I will be FREE

[gaslightgatekeepgirlbosscombat]

Final Round

Propaganda under the cut

Miss Piggy

She is the queen of Girlbossing. She lies to get what she wants, and keeps out any she thinks isn't worthy of what she has to offer. She is perhaps the original Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss.

GLaDOS

I mean, obviously.

[hemlocketrove]

bugs dealing with deadlines

(yes for those that already asked, you can use them as icons but please credit me in your bio or somewhere LMAO)

[porcupine-girl]

An important message to college students: Why you shouldn't use ChatGPT or other "AI" to write papers.

Here's the thing: Unlike plagiarism, where I can always find the exact source a student used, it's difficult to impossible to prove that a student used ChatGPT to write their paper. Which means I have to grade it as though the student wrote it.

So if your professor can't prove it, why shouldn't you use it?

Well, first off, it doesn't write good papers. Grading them as if the student did write it themself, so far I've given GPT-enhanced papers two Ds and an F.

If you're unlucky enough to get a professor like me, they've designed their assignments to be hard to plagiarize, which means they'll also be hard to get "AI" to write well. To get a good paper out of ChatGPT for my class, you'd have to write a prompt that's so long, with so many specifics, that you might as well just write the paper yourself.

ChatGPT absolutely loves to make broad, vague statements about, for example, what topics a book covers. Sadly for my students, I ask for specific examples from the book, and it's not so good at that. Nor is it good at explaining exactly why that example is connected to a concept from class. To get a good paper out of it, you'd have to have already identified the concepts you want to discuss and the relevant examples, and quite honestly if you can do that it'll be easier to write your own paper than to coax ChatGPT to write a decent paper.

The second reason you shouldn't do it?

IT WILL PUT YOUR PROFESSOR IN A REALLY FUCKING BAD MOOD. WHEN I'M IN A BAD MOOD I AM NOT GOING TO BE GENEROUS WITH MY GRADING.

I can't prove it's written by ChatGPT, but I can tell. It does not write like a college freshman. It writes like a professional copywriter churning out articles for a content farm. And much like a large language model, the more papers written by it I see, the better I get at identifying it, because it turns out there are certain phrases it really, really likes using.

Once I think you're using ChatGPT I will be extremely annoyed while I grade your paper. I will grade it as if you wrote it, but I will not grade it generously. I will not give you the benefit of the doubt if I'm not sure whether you understood a concept or not. I will not squint and try to understand how you thought two things are connected that I do not think are connected.

Moreover, I will continue to not feel generous when calculating your final grade for the class. Usually, if someone has been coming to class regularly all semester, turned things in on time, etc, then I might be willing to give them a tiny bit of help - round a 79.3% up to a B-, say. If you get a 79.3%, you will get your C+ and you'd better be thankful for it, because if you try to complain or claim you weren't using AI, I'll be letting the college's academic disciplinary committee decide what grade you should get.

Eventually my school will probably write actual guidelines for me to follow when I suspect use of AI, but for now, it's the wild west and it is in your best interest to avoid a showdown with me.

[xtaleunderverse]

This old art predicted this exact moment.

[animatedtext]

[overworkedblorbobattle]

Overworked Blorbo Battle Final Poll!

[shinypokemonpolls]

Finals

[ID: Two images of shiny pokemon. On the left is minior who is black with multi colored triangles. On the right is Sylveon who is blue with pink accents. End ID]

[thedungeonbat]

Worked for ~5h so far.

-Summarised 2 novels

-finished notes on economic theories

-currently taking notes on the EUs economic market

(-> ended up with ~7h in total and somehow managed to catch up on everything I didn’t do yesterday??)

[mcyt-builds-contest]

Pandora's Vault

Builder : Awesamdude

Series : DSMP

Propaganda : its so big. Its so so big. Look at a map of the dsmp. Its just a black void bigger than l'manburg was. You look at it and you just know it's something terrible. the obsidian walls, lava, the iron. It's just there. In the middle of the ocean. It does not fit in and its scary. the AMOUNT of redstone and functions it go is AMAZING. the only way to enter is through a portal that then leads u to the nether and has to be manually activated again by the warden. So to enter you literally NEED the wardens permission. All the bridges and all the door. It's so fucking cool man what can I say. The amount of security. the lore that happened inside pandora as well. Pandoras arc was the best arc of the whole of dream smp and I stand by that. There is so so much to unpack. Sam and Dream could have just built some shitty obsidian box and called it a prison, but no they made PANDORAS VAULT

Bonus : it's a very big prison and now it's containing way too many peeps

Pearlescentmoon's Alien Landscape

Builder : Pearlescentmoon

Series : Hermitcraft Season 9

Propaganda : It's so pretty. The terraforming is gorgeous. The alien plants are stunning. She put diamond blocks and purpur into the build and it looks good. Everything about it is stunning, including the alleyway/abandoned human civilization area. | Took around 2 years to make, regarded as the best hermitcraft build yet, fully detailed and equipped with awesome redstone stuff (flickering lights, doors, custome music discs and more!) The landscape is 100% man made, all the trees and plants are all custom built and the land was terraformed to perfection. AND it has awesome lore: a lost human civilization being investigated by a curious alien. Also it's so cool mojang put it on the bedrock market place

Taglist!

@10piecechickenmcnugget @choliosus @biro-slay @betweenlands @xdsvoid

[amie-777]

the time has arrived that i write for domesticated Simon

TW: mentions of cutting/dieting (loosing weight)

MDNI

That man has a buzz. It is convenient; no waiting 'till his hair is dry after a shower; easy styled in the mornings; and he looks slutty.

Already stretching the army regulations with his mask, he is required to have his facial hair shaved. Cut down to his skin, so you help him shave it. Every time Price calls, it's trimming time.

You straddle his lap in the bathroom, bent over his jaw to reach the small stubbles. This is what he earns himself; time with you right before getting deployed.

On the mission there are usually long waiting hours, spent eating awful food or playing cards with the cheater Kyle or he'll remember you; how your hair tickled his ear, how your fingers stretched his skin to reach stubborn hair. How you massage some cream into his scarred cheeks and how you press a kiss to his temple climbing down from him.

He honors it. If he were to die out here, he would at least have something to hold onto. Smelling the remnants of your scent, feeling your nimble fingers on his skin.

Ghost's muscles sit heavy on his bones. Meant to fuel him, lift him and his teammates. An absolute beast out in the field. But can’t resist his sweet tooth, whatever you bake and cook, he devours it.

Imagine him having to cut back some weight before a deployment, it's better for his safety to put on a bit more strength. So as a good girlfriend wife you suffer with Simon.

No cookies, icecream, crisps anything. You two mealprep and up your protein, eat loads of veggies and throw longing glances at the chocolate.

It is late at night, when you awake. Patting the cold space besides your side of the bed to confirm that Simon once again is out of bed. Hearing the crustles from the kitchen you go to investigate, finding Simon stuffing his face with his favorite crisps. There is chocolate sauce stuck to his lips and the folded carboard box of cereals lies guilty on the counter.

Stemming your hands at your waist and staring at him.

"I's no' wha' i' looks like, luv."

“Maybe we have to incorporate a balanced diet.” You chuckle and join him eating.

When Simon returns from deployment everything is too loud. It is why you unplug the lamp on your nightstand (it buzzes) and you lower the volume of the TV. You let in fresh air and don't wash the sheets. Lay out some clothes and prepare a light meal.

He comes through the door and it is like everytime. He is in shabbles, duct tape holding him together. Nicks on his body and blood seeping from the holes. There is gun greese residue on his hands, MRE’s stuck behind his molars and that awful grainy granola bar from Soap in his pocket, pokes his thigh. Suddenly he is there, standing in the doorway. “Luv.” You let him arrive, let him take off his muddy shoes and let him drop the bags by the door.

You massage the eyeblack away; use a make up removal that doesn't trigger his sensitive skin, and you wash him under the warm shower. Cup a hand to collect the water and rinse off the longer hair, careful not to let it drip onto his face. For the new wounds you apply a wound healing cream that doesn't sting his nose. Turn him so he doesn’t see himself in the mirror, help him dress.

And then you let him rest, as long as he needs to.

Simon felt worthless being this craddled. But he has been fighting for far too long, and it feels so good to nuzzle in your neck. Let himself feel how his heart slows down. What he doesn’t let you do is feed him, he will be babied but not to this degree. And the food you give him is filling, not upsetting his stomach, and absolutely giving him back his appetite.

If you keep going like this, luv? You’ll be married twice at least.

Thank youu for reading. (I have the gut feeling that this is awful and that I haven't done Simon justice yet.)