#New academic year

[britishcandybracelets]

holy shit moving up a year..

today was the last year of the grade I’m in and wow that’s a goofy ah feeling I don’t like

also

THE HELL IS GEN BETA DOING??

I’m gen Z and there’s already 2 generations after me!? I feel so old- 😭

I love wellies so much- they’re so nostalgic and so random but the texture, the smell, the way they look I just love. Especially the sparkly/ transparent ones just nostalgic

[justnownews]

Schools Reopen Across Punjab and Sindh After Summer Brea

LAHORE: After the end of the summer holidays, schools across Punjab, including Lahore, are set to reopen today. The Punjab Education Department has issued a notification outlining the schedule for government schools. Schools will now operate five days a week, with Saturdays and Sundays off. Male teachers are required to be present from Monday to Thursday, from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Female teachers,…

[ancientsstudies]

The color of winter is in the imagination.

[vigilskeep]

read my powerpoint boy

[chronurgy]

Gortash designs and builds mechanisms so I imagine he has to be able to sketch fairly decently in order to sketch his projects and designs. And I'm imagining a pile of charcoal sketches of Durge, done over their entire acquaintance, starting out with sketches of them in battle and then slowly becoming more detailed and intimate and as they do, the titles changing from things like "The Bhaalspawn" and "Bhaal's Chosen at Their Bloody Work" to "The Chosen in Contemplation" and finally just Durge's name

[depressedlanadelrey]

motivating myself for 2024 <3

[karizipan]

we'll wait for you again next year

(happy new year)

[x3nshit]

2024 goals:

make money make art make out

[manifestingdiana]

🍂☕️🪵 academic weapon fall 🍂☕️🪵

[zo-mbiegirl]

thoughts about the passage of time + big thief lyrics

richard siken, portrait of fryderyk in shifting light/ big thief, change/ daphne du maurier, rebecca/ big thief, time escaping/ sylvia plath, the bell jar/ big thief, certainty

[gojonanami]

you guys better appreciate the prof geto fic because i'm having to read papers on philosophy and ethics just to write this fic

and i had to go on google scholar for this

[ancientsstudies]

Christmas in New York by magicinsalem.

[mathewton-cl]

As An IzuOcha Shipper…

…them not ending up together isn’t the problem.

Horikoshi taking the “leave it up to interpretation” approach and then proceeding to COMPLETELY AVOID ADDRESSING their relationship status is the problem.

Horikoshi failing to tie up that one last loose end for Uraraka’s character arc (not closing off her feelings) is the problem.

Again, I ship IzuOcha. Still do, because I’m stubborn. Would I have liked for them to end up together, even if it was only a somewhat blatant implication that could be handwaved? Obviously. But you know what? Maybe I would be upset if the story went out of its way to explicitly de-confirm any chance of Midoriya and Uraraka being a romantic pairing, but I’d at least respect it and understand it a lot more if the story let Midoriya and Uraraka actually talk about this, or at the very least SHOWED US them talking about this. I’d understand if Uraraka completed her character arc by having a heart to heart with Midoriya and telling him that her feelings have changed, her priorities have changed, and Midoriya understands and they remain good friends. Let’s be real, romance isn’t Horikoshi’s strong suit, despite his many attempts to leave romantic implications throughout the series. I’d completely understand if he just had Midoriya and Uraraka talk and they didn’t end up together, because at least then it still provides both of their characters with closure.

But no, that’s too simple. Let’s just “leave it up to interpretation,” because it clearly wasn’t that important, right?

Well, as many people on the internet have already brought up, if it wasn’t so important, why did you spend so much time putting emphasis on it? Why did you have Uraraka, up until the FINAL WAR, have her crush on Midoriya be a crucial part of her character (it wasn’t her only character trait, mind you, but it was still important)? Why did the penultimate chapter have the class come to comfort Uraraka and tell her that they can talk to her… and then come the next chapter, Uraraka apparently hasn’t done anything regarding her supposed crush on Midoriya? For literal YEARS!?

…see, this isn’t even a shipping problem anymore. This is a character problem.

Horikoshi, for whatever reason, chose not to include a romance for the main character and his supposed love interest. And again, that’s fine, not every story needs to be a romance. Two problems with it here though (well, one problem and an observation):

1) Choosing to not at least address the romantic subplot with a “I think we’re better off as friends” encounter, thus actually concluding the subplot and providing a sense of closure, not only leaves the result feeling underwhelming and frustrating, but also actively damages Uraraka’s character arc. We can have her address the problem that caused people like Toga to exist, but heaven forbid she talks about romance with Midoriya.

2) Despite his supposed aversion to romance, Horikoshi still went out of his way to give Gentle and La Brava wedding rings… he’s willing to establish a side romantic pairing without bringing too much attention to it, but he can’t be bothered to do something similar for the arguable MAIN pairing? It’s the “Togata has special clothes so he doesn’t end up buck naked, but Hagakure’s still gotta go commando” debacle again…

I’ma go ahead and wrap this up ‘cause I don’t wanna keep y’all much longer, but like… being optimistic, this ending was… functional. I’ve got my problems with it, obviously, I don’t think it was BAD bad… but it certainly wasn’t good. It works. Barely. And it’s ‘cause of stuff like this.

Midoriya and Uraraka didn’t need to end up together, truly. All Horikoshi had to do was put the smallest amount of effort and give us something of substance, something with closure. Instead, we got what we got.

I get that he was exhausted and wanted the manga to be over… but that excuse only holds up for so long.

[alexandrasstudycorner]

Welcoming 2024

A Very Happy New Year be upon y'all!

That being said, here's my New Year's Resolutions! (if I'm posting it, I'm sticking to it. Well, that's the plan)

Academic:

Control procrastination

Study regularly, get projects done ahead of time

Quit multitasking

Studying healthy, taking small breaks

Quality > Quantity

Physical Health:

Regular exercise

Nature walks/morning walks everyday

Drinking adequate water

Eating healthy, controlling caffeine consumption

Skincare

Mental Health:

Reading more

Limiting phone usage

Meditating

Setting clear boundaries

[sparklingchim]

exam tmrw n i didn't study at all it is so over !!!

[californiannostalgia]

sometimes I think

hey maybe it's that time again

it's that time to write an abuse survivor mental illness fic with lester papadopoulus and maybe that will help me figure out what the fuck is going on in my brain

maybe my obsession with normalcy and potential dangers and spiraling late at night and being suspicious of people and the hollow disgust at the desperately cheerful person I become around my (changed behavior) parents isn't normal people stuff

maybe I'm gonna be afraid forever incomprehensible forever non-normal forever and maybe apollo wants to say a few words on the subject