#academic probation*

[qprpbj]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I was curious if you had any head canons about Darry and Soda’s emotions watching Ponyboy grow up/realize he doesn’t need them as much (i.e. learning to shave, drive, moving into his own room)? How do you think they react to their little brother/baby become this independent person?

i love you for this!!!!! first i’m pointing you to my little fic of darry teaching pony how to shave bc you mentioned that specifically so here you go <3

i’m ngl i see these guys as so pathetically codependent that even when pony starts fr growing up he’s still pretty reliant on them even if he doesn’t need to be bc he’s always been a very independent kid. i think through the course of the book we see him learn that growing up too soon and hyperindependence isn’t all it’s cracked up to be so he learns to lean on his community a little more which i think (or hope at least) that that carries on further in his life.

as for headcanons i think just a lot of teasing from both of them so they don’t get too sad about it. i’m a tall!pony and a forever short!pony truther depending on the day and i think tall!pony never lets them live it up that he’s .25in taller than darry once he’s fully grown lol. soda definitely cries when pony moves back into his own room and even then still probably ends up in soda’s room by morning like 50% of the time. & is it just me who thinks pony would be a godawfully shit driver

[gynii]

Gynii my beloved mutual gynii.. can I see the baby (Michael_B) please and you're the best.. <3

To make up for how late this is, a bonus tubbo with your michael_b <3 (also youre the best!!)

[writterings]

me with my 18 year old students that i teach at a college

[cosmiccowboystuddies]

[4.16]

today I: drunk 3 bottles of water ate 3 meals got advised sewed a dress studied organized writing projects journaled

It's only Tueday, and I end the day with a horrible uncomfortable feeling. It's like someone is gently tugging at my heart, and it only makes me feel all wrong, like something bad is about to happen. I can't do anything about it but sleep it off I guess, but at least I end the day knowing that I managed to be somewhat productive. I have a lower grade in one of my classes then I thought, and though I'm passing, I'm not doing as well as I hoped. That's to be expected considering how I procrastinated on every assignment at the beginning of the semester, though there is no use in dwelling on what I could have done better, just doing better. So I am doing better now by working on my assignment even though it is due next week. I go to bed early because Tomorrow I have to wake up at the ass crack of dawn to register for classes and sign up for summer classes.

[ilovecoelacanths]

actually seriously though sorry to vent but this quarter has been like one of the worst times of my life i didnt really think it could get worse from last year but it did and also my whole family life kinda fell apart which didnt help.

i thought going part time this quarter could help me but it just gave me more time to do nothing and then feel bad about doing nothing. i only have two classes this quarter and im definitely gonna fail one and im maybe gonna barely pass the other one. plus my financial aid changed so school is literally 3 times more expensive which means im running out of money way faster than i have the past two years, i thought that since i worked 3 jobs this summer i had finally saved enough to pay for the whole school year but instead i barely paid for the quarter.

literally the only thing that makes school worth it right now is the rowing team and tbh half the time i cant even drag myself out of bed to get to practice because we meet at fuckin 4:30 in the morning so im just disappointing them and wasting all the fucking money in dues because we don’t get money from the school so we have to pay a lot to fund the club and yeah. i just. need a break. i thought i could do better this year but nothing ive done has helped and trying to fix whatever is wrong with me and do school at the same time is just too much.

im just so tired. im tired of doing nothing and then feeling bad about it and overwhelmed even though i havent done anything and all my tasks are very manageable. im tired of not being able to fall asleep on time because i managed my time badly or my roommates were being loud and then either getting up for rowing or sleeping way too long. im tired of getting 3 hours of sleep one day and then 10 hours the next. i feel like shit and i cant even tell people how bad it really is because i dont want to disappoint them but here i am disappointing them anyway. i want to fix it but for some reason things that should be easy are so so so hard. i didnt even brush my fucking teeth today man.

my professor sent me a message a week and a half ago telling me im gonna fail the class because ive missed too many classes and im too far behind and i still havent responded. she probably thinks i dont care but the truth is every time i think about responding i feel sick. i just want to go home but now everything is different and my mom and brothers moved to a new house and my aunt and uncle moved to a new state and i have to go home to a house that isnt mine and not all my family will be there. or i go to a different house that isnt mine and not all my family will be there. and they say they dont want me to pick sides but somehow going to either place feels like im betraying someone. cant a guy catch a fucking break around here

[sunsetcorvid]

hyperfixates so hard that it interferes with my school and basic bodily needs

[landgraabbed]

playdate time! the big bros aren't doing a good job of watching them smh

[vrisbian]

Why didn’t Debbie put Mark on Leave of Absence?!

[the-commonplace-book]

Registered for fall term community college

Completed my FAFSA forms

Did my budgeting for the next year and a half

I’m going back to schoooollll

[10sim]

sry for absence. imagine if a freaky ghoul entered your apartment on a random tuesday and hit you over the head with a big squeaky hammer and rendered you incapacitated for ~2 months ( thats pretty much it )

[alaskan-wallflower]

can my history teacher please shut the fuck up i get it’s a college class!! i get that! you don’t need to keep telling me i’m gonna fail!!

[qprpbj]

literally have 4 diff fics actively on the go rn what do yall want first 🙂

[gynii]

I JUST ACTUALLY FOR REALSIES FINISHED MY FINALS IM GOING TO CRY THIS SEMESTER WAS SO HARD HOLY FUCKING SHIT! PLEASE LET ME PASS ALL MY CLASSES PLEASE GIVE ME MY SCHOLARSHIP BACK I AM ON MY HANDS KNEES orz

[steph-pilled]

made a christmas miracle of an academic comeback (prof of the class i was supposed to fail at uni took pity on me and i passed anyways with the bare minimum)

[cosmiccowboystuddies]

college tips from someone who survived their first year, and got themselves off of academic probation

study every day ( reread your notes, run through your flashcards)

it helps to avoid cramming around finals season

do assignments when you get them, it doesn't matter that its not due until the end of the semester, you will forget, you will get busy, you will get caught up with doing something else so do it when you get it, so you won't have to worry about it later

don't study in your bed, its a bad habit, it will make it harder to study and make it harder to sleep

go out at least once a month, to a party, to a club, on a late night walk

carry a knife if its legal ( not just for safety reasons)

join class group mes

go to office hours, even if you don't need to, lie and say you didn't understand something so the professor knows your name

its okay to skip a class occasionally, just never two in a row, and don't make it a habit

[zapsoda]

im making straight Ds except for my B in my mandatory humanities and idk what my grade is in chem its a fucking secret