#acadeca

[melandollic]

she aca on my dec til i superquiz third place medal

[bureaumantic]

thanks acadeca i didnt know that

[ponysongbracket]

EqG Song Tournament

Please make sure you've heard both songs before voting.

ACADECA

Unleash The Magic

[pinkacademic]

Girlies, I have your Summer Planned

No joke, I'm really excited about this. It's pretty close to the end of the academic year, so I'm pushing this fine, I know... BUT we can make it work! You also do this at any stage in the year, and you can break it up over time because it is a big one!

Acadeca: Academic Decathalon

Girlies, I know you're all as pro-learning as me, and I KNOW you're as competative, do not lie to me. Like, this is for fun... but I also suggest a points system. But just imagine competative learning with your besties! Here're all my thoughts- and here's the long post warning because I remembered the keep reading!

I’m not gonna lie, queens, I learned that the United States Academic Decathalon was even a thing because of My Little Pony. I watched The Friendship Games and I was like “on one hand, fun, on the other hand, what high school is letting kids do motocross?” Anyway, for my fellow non-Americans, the AcaDeca has ten events: art, economics, essay, interview, language and literature, math, music, science, social science, and speech.

Get a group together, and each of you can set a couple of challenges to earn points over a set period.

As adults, we probably all have jobs, but you could make it a monthly thing or something like that, and have a Christmas night out where you announce the winner.

If you’re setting the challenges yourself, they do not have to be the ones listed above.

The My Little Pony list was as follows

Science (experimnt unclear, but Explosion=Bad)

Baking

Birdhouse building

Spelling Bee

Maths (solve this ungodly equation)

Relay Leg One a): Obstacle Course

Relay Leg One b): Archery

Relay Leg Two: Roller Derby

Relay Leg Three: Motocross

Scavenger Hunt/Capture the Flag

Can I reiterate: what high school is letting kids do motocross? I think taking the lists here as Inspiration Only might be wise.

Suggestions I have, some from the offical list and the My Little Pony list, some my own

Karaoke/Lip Sync

Art

Normal Relay Race and/or obstacle course

Spelling Bee

Bake-Off

Languages

Dance

Quiz

Capture the Flag

Essay

Anyways, have fun, contribute your own ideas too!

[magical-bees]

Two trucks says more about America's relationship with the automotive industry and ideals then Velvet white could ever dream of

[ally0ally]

Made by Marvel Week 12:

Matt Murdock.

@made-by-marvel-prompts

Also I'm so late once again but maybe I'll manage to write this week's today as well. We'll see.

[magichroma]

back when I did academic decathlon id have to sit for like 45 minutes while the testing period ended so I'd just put my head in my hands and recite the entirety of Hamilton to myself, I'd get to about track 5 before I'd start forgetting things

by the way here is a picture I made of lin manuel miranda in a sonic onsie

[gumy-shark]

kind of a CRIME that acadeca did not make that mlp song poll

[angelcloves]

i know im weird but idk how ppl take more than twenty minutes on tests you either know the material or you dont and if you dont then you bullshit whatever the first thing that comes to mind is

[stealingpotatoes]

In tl4j AU, where would Merrin stand in the school v school decathlon (force Olympics)?

Like she is a nightsister, but there’s also Cal

i'm pretty sure the nightsisters at this point consist of Merrin, Ventress, and i GUESS those 3 ppl in another galaxy. you may notice this includes 0 children so merrin's options for the force acadeca are 1. give up and join team Jedi or 2. steal some of the padawans to make team nightsister and hope nobody questions it

[paintsplatteredcanvas]

I just made a connection-

This is so NRC and RSA omfg

[bureaumantic]

why do they drain the fun out of everything

LET ME READ IT AS "three!!" INSTEAD OF "three factorial."

[ponysongbracket]

EqG Song Tournament

Please listen to both songs before voting.

ACADECA

We Will Stand For Everfree

[number1greedlingfan]

Guys Peep This

ok so theres this high school au that me and a friend are cooking...

Almost all the characters are either faculty or students. Like Envy is a student right because then we can have them fight Ed crazy style in the middle of the cafeteria, but Wrath is the dean so we can say "mr the furious" are you seeing the vision?

Mustang is the academic decathlon proctor and also the AP chemisty and trig teacher. Hawkeye is the AP english teacher that everyone is afraid of. Havoc is the french teacher (but his ass is NOT teaching!! he just plays the french dub of shrek in class). Fuery is the new 20 yr old English 1 teacher who cant get thru a single class session without going to the bathroom and crying because his 14 yr old students keep bullying him. Olivier Armstrong is the PE teacher and she runs that shit like the fucking Navy. Their shitass poorly funded high school is in the top percentile of the presidential fitness exam because of her (at least one anemic child has died).

Ed gets blackmailed by Mustang into joining academic decathlon (he used his sadass dead mom backstory ONCE to get out of a test just to see if he could and Mustang has not let that go since he realized). Al is on the team because he likes it :)

Selim Bradley is a normal child here but hes like one of those insufferable gifted children that move up to high school way too fast. Hes on Eds team (debate champ) but Ed has insane beef with him because "there can only be one child prodigy" but Ed is. Not One. He is 15 and a sophomore, he is a normal age. I mean hes like taking too many AP courses but that doesnt make him special??? Attention seeking whoer

Ling and Lan fan are students from the prep school down the street that Ed's school has ancient beef with. Ling also has a guy in hisn head btw ("he's not crazy or anything he just has a guy that sometimes takes over his body and takes him on crazy benders" - how he describes his real medical disorder).

Ling is also the prep schools acadeca team's math guy (directly competing with Edward who is his team's math guy) and he thinks this just gives them more of a reason to be friends. He's obsessed with Ed the way that a child is obsessed with a wild animal. Sometimes Ling invites him to go dumpster diving and Ed has to watch in horror as he jumps fully into a dumpster and comes out with a half-eaten comically large turkey leg and devours it right in front of him. At one point Ed wakes up at 3AM to a text that just says "I want you." Ling tells him point blank that it wasn't him; Ed thinks he's just some kinda fruit in denial. (Greed sent it in an attempt to get Ed to stop hanging out with Ling because he thinks Ed is lame as shit).

is this anything

[magical-bees]

Look at me! Look at me dont look at the clock, look at me! Everytime you look at the clock I think you dont care, I think you hate me! Stop looking at the clock and look at me!

I was in third grade when a teacher screamed that in my face. I had been pulled from the middle of my class and brought to a separate room. I was scared and confused and just wanted to go back to class with the other kids, but that was not the first time it happened, once a week for multiple years I had been pulled out of the class for “special classes”.

I'm autistic, I was diagnosed sometime around the end of second and beginning of third grade , these “classes” or “therapy” as they called it where supposed to “fix” my autism, or at least suppress it. In these classes I’d do practice conversation with a teacher and read books out loud to learn how to be“normal”. 

The books I read gave me lessons about how there are secret rules that no one talks about that everyone but me was born knowing, don’t fidget, don't break eye contact, don’t speak loud, if you aren’t paying extreme attention to everything you do or say, if you brake one the the hundred secret rules, everyone will immediately think your weird and hate you!

How were my parents, how was I  surprised when years later I needed to start therapy? Think about that, I needed therapy to get over a different therapy! In my schools effort to make me normal, they messed so much more.  My schools approach to dealing with autism was to suppress any possible symptoms, to try to force me to permanently mask. 

“Masking” is when an autistic person suppresses stimming actions, hides special interests, mimics social behaviors of those around them, and suppresses any behaviors that may be seen as weird to those around them. While this may seem like it have little to no negative consequences, the overuse of masking has been shown to lead to increased anxiety and depression, and lead to breakdowns. Along with this masking often involves hiding self regulation behaviors or “stimming” as its more commonly refers to that help regulate emotions in new or stressful situations. 

Masking also hides sensitivity to certain stimuli. I have sensitivities to loud noises, some forms of intense lighting, and setting physical sensations like the feelings of oily or sliminess. Being around these stimulants, especially in crowded places, can lead to sensory overload, when my brain feels too overloaded with sensory inputs and can cause lack of focus, spikes in anxiety that lead to flight, fight, or freeze responses, or shut downs. Having to hide my sensitivity to these inputs and not learning how to live with them has made life much harder. I was never taught how to regulate these symptoms, only to hide them, when I finally learned to accept these things and start to plan around them, such as bringing earbuds with me when I leave the house to help muffle noise, or having gloves with me when I work with certain materials, my life got so much easier.

As I’ve talked about my experiences you may have been thinking that I don't look or act autistic, and to that I have to ask what do YOU think an autistic person is supposed to be? For many people when the phrase “high functioning autistic person” is said a young boy comes to mine who likes trains and is bad at communicating, this is for 2 major reasons, the research on autism that is most widely available and the representation in popular culture. The first person diagnosed with autism was Donald Triplett, who was diagnosed in 1943 when he was around 10 years old and died only a few month ago, on June 15 2023. I want to you to really think about that, the first officially diagnosed person died only a few moths ago, that is how new the field of research on autism is! Most of the research until quite recently on autism was done on young, upper middle class, white males. That is a very narrow demographic to studies someone as wide ranging and unique as autism.

That brings me to the second reason for the popular stereotypes about autism, representation in pop culture. What I’m about to say must of course be taken with a grain of salt, I have high functioning autism, I can care for myself and most of my problems are about writing and socialization, this may be different for people of different areas of the spectrum or have had different life experiences. For many neurotypical people when autism in media is brought up Sheldon Cooper is the first to come to mind, an abrasive, detailed oriented man, who has a few special interests, and has various problems with social interactions, he is a character meant to be laughed at. And the wild thing, he was not supposed to be autistic! When he was first written the writer's goal was to make an unlikable character and they grabbed many of the traits associated with autistic people and turned them up to 11.

Good representation of autistic individuals while slowly increasing is rare, but so very important. I will forever remember watching the show community for the first time and seeing Abed Nadir. Abed was one of the first good depictions of autism I had seen on television. Abed is treated with respect by the show, is autism is depicted realistically and it’s not his entire personality, he’s creative, smart, and despite him misunderstanding some social situations he has friends who care and except him, he’s depicted as a full person who is worthy of love and a full live without needing to be “fixed”. Seeing an adult who I related to who was about to do so much and was depicted with so much respect was so important for young me. It showed a future where I could have friends who didn’t need me to conform to certain standards and I’m able to do what I loved.

Autism is a wide ranging subject and effects every person who experiences it different, so why is it only treated one way? Why are characters depicted in only one way, why is research only based on one group of people? Why are children taught to only act one way and suppress it instead of learning to live with it? Autism is not one size fits all and it needs to stop being treated that way, the systems in place for people who have it need to change

[askkingerthings]

I’m thinking of animation

I’m not good at animation, I can make touch sketches on traditional then onto digital, but it would be rough and incomplete, and it would take me forever to conplete anyway! But the main songs I wanna do here, and before I go one I’m using songs I know and enjoy, some of them are MLP, some are Hamilton and some are from different musicals! Here are a few keys:

the MLP series-

Battle (of the bands)- equestria girls, rainbow rocks - bubble, Caine and Kinger from game master AU by @chez-cinnamon

What my cutie mark is telling me- MLP - extra’s au

Under our spell- equestria girls, rainbow rocks - the other universe AU

unleash the magic- frienship games - Caroline

Open up your eyes- the MLP movie - Zooble

This day Aria- friendship is magic - remixed- Queenie

welcome to the show - Coraline and Jax

Acadeca - maybe a tumblr user vs Caine

danger, danger- MLP movie - W3ll

tricks up my sleeve - Ragatha

stand for everfree - [[open slot vs super light au]]

Hamilton-

Alexander Hamilton - intro to the extra’s au

non-stop - Caine, Bubble and Coraline (extra’s au)

you’ll be back - Jax

what comes next? - Ragatha (if I can, if I can’t I’ll change it to another extra’s au character-)

Aaron burr, sir - Caine and Coraline (extra’s AU)

your obedient servant - Bubble and Caine

guns and ships - Jax and Kinger

Yorktown (the worlds turns upside down) - Kinger solo

Washington’s on your side - Vex from the extra’s au and well from exra’s au

the room where it happens - gummigoo (I’ll try- I’ll probably make him human for that-)

history has its eyes on you - jax and Kinger, again-

hurricane - Kinger (human au)

The schuyler sisters - Ragatha, pomni and blog owner

Farmer Refuted - hate!Anon (I’m sure there a few bitches like that out there… especially to @shortmomma1993 , she rlly doesn’t deserve it tho so guys FUCKING STOP, anyway-) and blog owner

death note

where is the justice - this seems like an argument between JD (guy from unleash the magic) and the AI’s of the circus

the Heathers

candy store- Jax

seventeen - queenie x kinger animation

Dead girl walking (reprise) - a Caroline and ________ romance

Dead girl walking - Zooble x Gangle

I am damaged - queenie’s abstraction

Freeze your brain - Jax and pomni

Hazbin hotel

whatever it takes -

out for love - Vex and W3ll’s brother to sister bonding-

Respectless - bubble and Caine

loser, baby -

hell is forver - Jax

Desendance

what’s my name - Caine

it’s goin’ down - intro to toy industry au

rotten to the core - Vex and Jax (they have a lot in common-)

Other songs

monster high fright song - W3ll

ready as I’ll ever be - blog owner +[[open slot]]

More..? Coming soon..

so…. Which one should I start? Of course there will be more to the list, maybe several more! Also most of the characters will be made into humans, like Kinger, Queenie, gummigoo, zooble and Jax, not sure abt Jax though-

here’s the order I will go in,:

I

unleash the magic

under our spell

Yorktown

Washington on your side

out for love

seventeen

open up your eyes

since this is a pinned post here’s the intro post