#College Dive

[athleticperfection1]

LSU Diving

[fieriframes]

[My baby's taking me home. My baby's taking me home. My baby's taking me home. My baby's taking me home. My baby's taking me home. My baby's taking me home. My baby's taking me home. My baby's taking me home. My baby's taking me home. My baby's taking me home.]

[wildfire072]

Studly Italian Diving Champion, Stefano Belloti. Freaking gorgeous.

[lovely-v]

just hit me that carl from phineas and ferb was in college. i can't believe i'm literally carl

[sygneth]

I have always admired people who could write one fic or draw a comic for years because I am living in a constant fear of not finishing what I have started. Not in a 'maybe something terrible will happen to me' way, but simply knowing myself and that after a couple of months or years, I will catch a new fixation and finishing the old story will become hard. And yeah sure, I have heard people say "You don't have to finish if it doesn't interest you anymore" or "It's your art and you decide what it will be about" and I fully agree, but I still love those old things I came up with you know? I still love these characters and I want their stories to be told, but at the same time there already are new characters with new stories in my head and I want to tell them too.

[elenitrack]

Ally Blumenfeld (Iowa State)

[danganphobia]

laios calling toshiro ' princess ' enlightened me btw. theres so many good bits of the fic but like . thts so cute. i need to shake him around.

that was so self-indulgent of me lol but toshiro explaining folklore to laios meanwhile he looks like he could be one of those beautiful princesses laios sees in edo period illustrations himself is the painful irony here. i don't think toshiro sees highly of himself - so when laios gives him princess treatment it makes him feel very dizzy.

i love them so bad.

[queer-ecopunk]

College move out dumpster haul time!

Three water bottles (of my preferred shape), many hangers, good quality tongs, a canvas, hanging shoe organizer, two sweatshirts, and a flannel

5 bowls, 4 plates, some sealed pasta and fruit snacks, an organizer bin, a pair of boots (not my size but good quality, for friends or donation), and two pans with lids

Two mirrors in great condition, a whiteboard, and some generic but nice wall art

Two books (there were more that were severely water damaged), a pocket knife, a hand carved spoon holder, sewing kit, and bracelets that read "I <3 boobies!"

It's abhorrent how much clothes we saw thrown out this year. Unfortunately, a lot of them were left out in the rain all day yesterday and so were no longer in good quality to be donated. What was nice is that a lot of other people were also diving this year, so a lot more goods were being saved including a very nice kitchen cart that I wanted but couldn't fit in my car.

[cruel-hiraeth]

everything i know about nero i learned against my will

[athleticperfection1]

[captainnightflare]

Character Dive of Wednesday Addams, The conflict of Purposeful Miscommunication

So I had a college assignment about conflict and the questions ranged from the problem to the resolve. I choose the character Wednesday Addams as the subject of this because quite frankly she was the first to come to mind. If you guys would like to discuss this further I'm more than happy to (I literally rewatched Wednesday for the 4th time for this assignment to make sure I covered my bases :) please enjoy) P.s. I also just wanted to write about Wenclair :3

What is one example of a conflict situation you have seen in films, television shows, or books?    I live by the old saying, ninety percent of problems are caused or indirectly caused by miscommunication. There is so much truth to that statement. One of my favorite conflicting scenes in media came from the Netflix show Wednesday. The show follows Wednesday Addams, from the Addams Family, as she navigates through her journey of murder mysteries happening around the school and newly discovered abilities.     Wednesday is an interesting character to say the least, she’s portrayed as this very stoic and standoffish girl. Deeming emotions as nothing but a liability. While we follow the strange murders of a monster, we see Wednesday get increasingly driven to solve who is behind them. She’s stubborn and prideful, not wanting to let anyone have a one up on her.     Where this all comes to a head and where a lot of her inner conflict begins is when she tricks her roommate, Enid, into going to investigate a house that might have some clues. Both girls get ambushed by the monster while investigating, nearly getting killed. Obviously, Enid is angry by the events. Sparking an argument between the two, Wednesday not seeing the problem as they both made it out alive, causes Enid to snap at her. Telling her that she has tried so hard to be her friend, support her, stick up for her, and be there for her when she needed someone, but Wednesday is never going to understand that. So, Enid leaves, telling Wednesday that if she wants to be alone so badly, she can be alone.    

How could you apply restorative practices in the situation?    Luckly for Wednesday she does begin to see her mistakes, even if she is very reluctant about it in the beginning. Enid, luckily being the more emotionally inclined girl that she is, does go out of her way to still check on Wednesday. Knowing that the stoic girl tends to sulk in her solitude, more so now a days with that monster coming around. Although both are still angered with one another they we can see that being away from each other is getting to them.     The girls up to this point have built a friendship between them, a trust that quite frankly Wednesday isn’t used to. That’s why it takes her almost losing another person close to her to realize that she needs people in her life. She cries, something she hasn’t done for years because that fear became so real then. She does care about the people in her life, she is just very reluctant to let them in. At one point the girls do resolve their issues, Enid taking the first step after hearing of the unfortunate events. She moves back in with Wednesday and the two talk about their differences as individuals, contrasting each other but do accept one another as friends. Slowly taking down those invisible barriers, one duct tape at a time.        

How could being vulnerable, having an open mind, and considering others help with navigating the conflict identified in the situation?    In this instance we had a case of purposeful miscommunication, which is equally if not arguably worse than accidental miscommunication. The root of the problem though comes from a seed of mistrust in people that the person of target had no fault in. And that is just life sometimes, we carry bad experiences with us into new stages of our lives and hurt the people that try to help us. Having the chance to be vulnerable though and open to new ideas of repair with the right set of people could be a solution for the miscommunication.     This idea does tie back to opening that wound of mistrust, of being honest with the feelings that were buried so deep. It is hard for some people to achieve these steps, but they just have to see that there are people out there willing to take that extra for them. Whether that stems from respect or love, those people are going to be there for them, no matter what mistakes they make, no matter the type of person they are. But you have to meet halfway. Compromise, and respect one another’s individuality for we each have our own strengths in different categories of life.      

[anti-gravity-insanity]

I….AM…..GOING….TO…….GRADUATE!!!!!!!!

[sabbathbloodysabbeth]

Ahhhhh, Im somewhat alive I guess. I feel like garbage but I have finished college and for the last few weeks have been floating by on an alt tumblr account. (Which I have decided to use for my smaller one shots or dump posting or just a place I can disappear to when I get overwhelmed with this account, which strangely happens a lot) with that being said I also just want to say that anything that I began to write on here and didn’t finish is off to the void now, I just mentally don’t have the energy to complete them anymore.

And as of right now I’m trying to pick myself off the ground and start writing again! (I have a bunch of drafted ideas that I wanted to work on lol)

[expliciticadeeznuts]

It's that special time of year again where affluent college students leave a bunch of assorted junk behind before moving out. I happen to be witness to the madness of one of the tables where people feel the free license to dump their pile of tchotchkes, random bullshit, and honest to god good things that I'm blown away no one wants anymore. This is a goldmine nestled in a mountain of straight up biohazard trash.

The table in question:

The following are a number of honoroable mentions that I found in the pile.

Cool fancy box! Full of green beans!

Tricorn

Condoms

(From left to right): Used glowsticks, water jettison, little hockey stick

(From left to right): Strap-on tail minus belt, detached window panel, humidifier

(From left to right): Tiny iron with a face!, so much jello, equally unrepresentative amount of popcorn

Stickers, Gay Corporate Drawbag, Hairspray

T!

There's quite a bit more, but I'm running short on images. A rundown of who I'm taking home:

-Tricorn

-Hairspray

-Ukelele (not pictured here, I pinched it the moment I saw it yesterday)

- Some decent fitting clothing

- Still sealed, non punctured food

- So much cookery. Like, why arent you donating this to the poor levels of unwanted cookery (Baking sheets, pans, microwavables, tupperware, pots, cups and plates)

Thanks rich students for filling my trash heart and soul with yet more trash so that I may sustain myself. It's been real.

[ssruis]

Aside from the noble platypus I also feel like rui would really enjoy these animals:

Mola mola/Sunfish

Anteater

Echidna

Kiwi

Kākāpō

Axolotl

Horseshoe crab

Gibbon

[elenitrack]

Katherine Welsh (Smith College)