#EQ classes

[aschenbroedel]

eah snow white and evil queen hcs because i have class of classics brain damage

when snow is nervous she mutters the last lines of the snow white story under her breath

every time snow visits eq she will stand outside the door of the mirror room and repeat the lines until she feels ready to enter (though she never fully does)

after eq’s release (dragon games) but before they pick team captains, snow breaks into eq’s room (one of ever after high’s guest rooms where milton is letting her stay) and sees her for the first time in a long time without her headdress on

snow’s first thought - absurdly - is that she looks unnaturally small without it

the night before they pick captains, eq asks snow, “do you think my little birdie is going to play for me?”

snow tells her no

milton gives eq the largest room in the castle, but she is never actually going to use the bed - she is too unstable and restless for sleep

eq has insomnia

eq has hand tremors

they’re both underweight, but eq is emaciated

when they were younger they used to climb to the top of the highest towers of the school and map out the arena together

in the last game of their senior year, a beanstalk had grown to block snow’s signature route

snow steered her dragon directly into it anyway

snow won the game for her team and graduated with three cracked ribs and a mottled indigo stomach

her dragon, paralysed from the neck down, died of sadness a little before her coronation

when she has nothing else to think about (which is rarely), she wonders why it obeyed

snow’s posture is always perfect; beside the slouchy eq, she looks brittle

their last game still gives snow bad dreams

snow has dreamed of dying every night since that game, and of eq every night since eq was locked away

snow couldn’t sleep more than an hour at a time after graduation because she didn’t know when eq would come to poison her

snow was scared to die before eq could poison her

when snow woke up after the game (in an incredible amount of pain) flat on her back in the grass, her first thought was to get baba yaga to call eq over so that she could do it right away

eq could have - she carried snow’s apple everywhere

the poison apple spell was the first spell eq ever learned

they were so young when their mothers read the story to them, they don’t remember that it happened - only how it felt

between them, snow is actually the first to wonder if maybe the storybook of legends isn’t as powerful as they were taught

because snow knew in her heart that she could have died during that game, and that having signed the storybook in her legacy year would not have protected her

eq disagrees, and gets testy when snow voices this

after all eq used the book to take over the fairy-tale world

eq dry-heaved when raven dissolved it

eq’s voice is derisive even when she doesn’t actively mean to be, as though derision is what she based on

eq looks startlingly young when her hair is damp and obscures her cheekbones

snow seldom looks young anymore, but her eyes still have that disarming baby animal quality

even in a state of relaxation eq’s body is always contorted somehow - limbs angled unnaturally, bones protruding where they shouldn’t be, shadows distorting her features

they have forgotten each other’s true names - storybook magic

every once in a while snow asks (subtly) for eq’s name, but never receives it

this wounds her deeply, though she’ll never admit it

because milton refused to do anything about the beanstalk, snow returned to the arena after her prince woke her and had her seven dwarves raze it to the ground

though when snow talks about the past, she never says “after my prince woke me” - she says “after i was poisoned”

when snow sees an apple, her mouth aches and her skin starts to feel sore to the touch - like a child with a fever

snow has a bad habit of gnawing on her lips until they bleed, but it’s hard to tell from afar because they’re already blood red

some time after the events of the show snow’s mental and physical states begin to deteriorate rapidly

apple’s coronation has to happen prematurely because her mother has become useless as queen and can’t do a thing except sleep for days straight in her glass coffin and argue with the shadowy woman in the mirror (who only sometimes argues back)

when snow sleeps for days, she dreams things are different

[class-of-classic-blog]

Do you think the Good King had friends who were not royalty? Because I honestly see him capable of having hit it off with Badwolf (Not necessarily a friendship but they do get along well) I also see the Evil Queen getting jealous of anyone who is with the Good King.

yeah. he was definetly friends with Badwolf, Pinocchio and Mad Hatter. I think that he had quiet a lot friends who were royal growing up becuse of his status, but then when he got disowned due to his destiny he was slowly going low contact with royals and starting to spend more time with commoners.

He still has a very close friendship with Mad Hatter and Pinocchio

[athena-xox]

I am unwell

“You are clearly your mother’s daughter”

crying, CRYING

Ravens mommy issues go so hard

No but like this coming from Cook, Ravens mother figure had to hurt SO BAD

I refuse to believe that Cook didn’t call up headmaster Grimm and order him to give Raven the weekend off after that so they could have some mother daughter baking time

[gumjester]

trying to remember how 2 draw.... ft power couple about 2 go wrong. and their kid who frankly asked for none of it!!!!!!

[queenlucythevaliant]

In Defense of Wuthering Heights

This is not an “I can make him worse” book. It’s a “we can make each other better in the face of tremendous pressure to do otherwise” book. I promise. 

I’ve already written extensively about my love for Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and while I love lots of other Brontë books with all my heart, what I really want to do tonight is try to make you fall in love with Emily’s Wuthering Heights (generally the most divisive Brontë novel among modern readers) the way that I did.

The thing that a lot of people don’t know which I really think ought to be printed on all the dust jackets is that the Brontë sisters were the daughters of a revered. They were PKs and it totally shows.  

So Wuthering Heights is not a romance; it’s a family tragedy. Specifically, it’s an astonishingly hopeful book about generational trauma. 

Heathcliff is Mr. Earnshaw’s bastard son. This is never explicitly stated, but it is implied so heavily that it might as well be. To boot, Mr. Earnshaw favors Heathcliff over his legitimate son, Hindley. When Mr. Earnshaw dies, Heathcliff is immediately and violently cast out of the family and forced into servitude. Mr. Earnshaw’s hidden infidelity is Wuthering Heights’s original sin.

Of course, Cathy and Heathcliff love each other, but it’s a violent and destructive like-recognizes-like kind of love between two people who, on the one hand, absolutely should not be together and, on the other, totally deserve each other. They’re capital T Tragic and capital R romantic: co-dependent, sharp-toothed sibling-lovers who don’t understand their own relationship as kids because their father lied to them. That lack of understanding follows them into adulthood; they don’t really know how to make sense of what they feel for one another, but boy do they feel it. 

Cathy tells Nellie “I am Heathcliff” and “He’s more myself than I am” and “whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same,” and it’s half a reaction to the fact that one of her brothers (Hindley) has cast her other brother (Heathcliff) out of the family with a vengeance and half a statement of the fact that although she doesn’t know what Heathcliff is to her, she doesn’t know how to live without him. And while Cathy’s love for Heathcliff definitely fills romantic roles once they’re adults, it’s doesn’t really read as sexual. To use Lewis’s parlance: it’s not eros/gift-love, but rather need-love in the most emphatic sense. It’s storge. Actually, it’s really posessive storge that thinks it’s eros. Hence the problem. 

From the other side, Heathcliff is an outsider from the moment he enters the story. He’s an intruder and a presumed bastard. He’s coded as non-white, maybe Romani or similar. (Probably not actually African-black, but kudos to that one movie for at least making the attempt.) He’s… probably kind of a psychopath in that he displays cruelty to animals and then later on becomes a charismatic, manipulative monster. You can make a nature vs. nurture argument—Heathcliff is definitely on the receiving end of a lot of cruelty—but there’s also something Off about him and that too is othering. And after Mr. Earnshaw dies, Cathy is the one person who still loves him.

But of course, they can’t actually marry. On and off the page, that simply cannot be. Heathcliff runs away, Cathy marries Edgar Linton. They hurt each other badly in the process. Neither Heathcliff nor Cathy can escape the harm that Mr. Earnshaw began and Hindley perpetuated. Cathy dies, Heathcliff marries Isabella, and then things get really interesting.

Because the beating heart of Wuthering Heights, the place where you can profoundly see the fingerprints of the reverend’s daughter, is in the third generation. Cathy and Heathcliff devour each other in life and in death, but the children survive. They forgive. The patriarch died without knowing what he had wrought on his children, the second generation died in anguish, but the third makes it out. Or at least Hareton and Cathy II do.

Cathy’s daughter is named for her mother. Heathcliff’s son by Isabella Linton is named Linton Heathcliff. Heathcliff forces Hareton, Hindley’s son and the only one among the third generation not named for his parents, to live in the same debasement that Hindley once forced on him: he denies Hareton any education and forces him into servitude while simultaneously courting his admiration. In essence, Cathy and Heathcliff implore the next generation to go on living their parents’ tragedy and it. Doesn’t. Work.

Heathcliff tries to force them both into awful situations in which they must act out his trauma, his revenge, to go on perpetuating the pain and bitterness. And at first, it looks like they’re going to play their parts. For a time, they’re as awful to each other as everyone else is.

But then they change. Hareton tries to stand up for Cathy II while she’s essentially being held captive as part of Heathcliff’s 12-Step Revenge Plot. Cathy teaches Hareton to read. She laughs at him, but when she realizes that she’s hurting his pride she apologizes and learns to be patient.  

“I didn’t know you took my part,” she answered, drying her eyes; “and I was miserable and bitter at everybody; but now I thank you, and beg you to forgive me: what can I do besides?”

And after this, they both stand up to Heathcliff. They say, “This ends here. This far and no farther.” Heathcliff is their dragon and they face him together. And when everyone else is dead in grand, tragic fashion, Cathy II and Hareton are left living.

But it’s not just that Hareton and Cathy II survive. They specifically un-do the failings of the previous generations. There’s a kind of atonement to it. They’re honest with each other, unlike Mr. Earnshaw. Cathy recognizes Hareton’s humanity, something Hindley never did for Heathcliff. Hareton lets go of his bitterness and resentment, while Heathcliff let his fester into cruelty and Elaborate Revenge. Cathy II is willful, like her mother, but she is also kind. Hareton is proud, like his father, but he is also compassionate. They forgive each other, while Cathy and Heathcliff only ever held grudges.

At the beginning of the book, Cathy is dead and has explicitly not gone to heaven; with the Brontës, you’ve gotta take these things seriously. Cathy is not in heaven and Heathcliff is a monster and they both seem to be damned, but they do not succeed in damning their children. And in that (I would say because of that), even Cathy and Heathcliff find peace after death.

I also do think that the fact that the story is narrated by Lockwood (weirded out by all of this) and Nellie (unreliable, cares deeply about everyone involved) can make it difficult to see the redemptive arc in the story as clearly as we might if it had an omniscient narrator, or if, say Cathy II was narrating. We're presented the Cathy and Heathcliff love story as this great, horrible, compelling saga (and it absolutely is), but then the following generation can almost seem like a footnote. They're adapted out of most of the film adaptations. But they're the whole point!

I do get why Wuthering Heights just isn’t to some people’s taste. Really. Some people just don’t go for Big Romantic Family Tragedy and that’s fine. But too many people come to the Brontës looking for Jane Austen or Elizabeth Gaskell and that’s just. Wrong. You’ve gotta at least read Wuthering Heights on its own terms before deciding that you hate it (not directed at anyone specific on here, but I do know people irl...). And you really ought to read it with an eye towards Emily’s faith. It makes a world of difference.

TL;DR- There’s a beautiful, very Christian center to Wuthering Heights and it’s one of forgiveness instead of revenge and kindness instead of cruelty. It’s a book about people who are destroyed by the sins of their fathers and those that manage not to be. In a way, it’s almost a fairytale.

[becquerelian]

It's kind of crazy how math really does have applications. Like, I'm not going to sit here and pretend my physics degree answers the question of "but when will I use this in every day life?" (To which my real answer tends to be, how much of what you learned in K-12 is useful in every day life? No matter your life trajectory, a bunch of it will end up falling by the wayside. Math is just treated as some kind of strange beast for no good reason.)

I'm not even particularly good at math. Neither is my engineer dad who inspired me to go down this path. Neither would many of the fellow physics students I have met claim to be.

And in my lower level chemistry and physics classes, it shocked me how simple the math was. It was practically pure algebra, sometimes with the vague concept of an integral mixed in for flavor. It was difficult to explain to anyone else how, really, if you know how to add and multiply, you can do physics.

So now, moving into upper-level physics classes... It's a shock, really. The math classes I have slaved over for years and done my best to defend to anyone who would listen. All these strange, abstract math concepts that even I have written off as... you know. "For math majors".

They really do have applications. They are useful in the real world, and they get used to solve all kinds of real-world problems. Not even particularly advanced ones. What am I learning right now? Projectiles with air resistance? My dad has been painting me stories of fluid dynamics and airplane wings and vortices since I barely understood the concept of division. He explained orbital mechanics to me before I had enough of an algebraic grasp to make sense of dimensional analysis. When a year and a half ago I finally could roughly explain it mathematically myself... it was like the universe sang.

[kyologos]

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[alteredphoenix]

The past week I’ve been watching a streamer do a self-found run of Everquest Project 1999 on Twitch and it got me to check out the wiki. Naturally, there’s a scalie race (that’s Evil, but you know what, I have an Argonian necromancer on ESO I RP as morally grey so I have no room to complain).

Naturally, I’m also confused on one thing: What’s the point in giving Iksar the ability to play as shaman, warrior, and shadow knights if they can’t wear plate armor (up until the Velious expansion, but it’s still a negative bonus) and have an experience penalty (which doubles against the player even more if they’re going shadow knight)? Like I get fitting them into classes that fit their alignment, but is that more of a challenging aspect players can tap into if they’re for it?

[elipsi]

ok so i just woke up 😐

[azufres]

phys exam on friday followed by calc3 exam on saturday OH IT IS BLEAK

[familythings]

The History of Mercedes-Benz: The Very First Automobile in History

For this week Celebrity Story, instead of a person I choose to introduce you with the history of a celebrity brand for cars. I’m talking about Mercedes Benz. Here is its fascinating story full of unknown facts for most users of Mercedes Benz. Mercedes-Benz is one of the most famous car brands in the world. It is known for luxury, quality, and performance. But how did it all begin? Let’s take a…

[medium-amount-of-gay]

I am a hypocrite.

pov you just came back from recess and ur still feeling that high. you sit down and the first thing you see is this

[swallow-wind]

I love sound boards i love doing tech i love being a sound engineer yayyyy!!!!!!

[grim-heir]

Had a breakdown coming home from sch001 and almost had another one in walmart when the handle of one of the pull carts touched my ass

[ancorasveglia]

Travis Scott x Mercedes Benz

[molecars]

2024 Mercedes EQS S-Class -New Ultra Luxurious Mid Size Executive Sedan!