#acdec

[acadec]

Hello, hi, how much of you guys are participating in the Irving Invitational tomorrow on the 9th!

[vammieposts]

If i didnt do well on that science acdec test i will be so sad

Im feeling so confident about that one in particular for some reason

Also the art one and economics

[blebbloom]

guys when they marry rich to become a writer (unsuccessful) and spend their days pulled by the frivolities of their spouse without reflecting upon their life together only to realize after upon reflection after their spouse's death how that time was the best part of their life and they can never get back to it without distorting their memories in perpetual winter

[fluffydice]

Trying to decide whether I should split the one-shot into two chapters

[neil-gaiman]

hello mr. gaiman! did you know that mushroom hunters is on the curriculum for the 2024 u.s. academic decathlon? maybe you were asked or notified (I don't know how acdec content works) but I just wanted to tell you how happy I am to see your work in acdec!

I didn't know. That's wonderful.

[buckybarneshasmyheart]

Annabeth vs MJ fighting it out during a ACDEC competition. Just think about that.

[acadec]

Lathe of Heaven mention!

Though Ursula K. Le Guin's novel "The Lathe of Heaven" is regarded as a classic of science fiction, her sequels "The Band Saw of Purgatory" and "The Benchtop Drill Press of Hell" are less well known.

[spideychelleforever]

(Inspired by @seek--rest here )

So many movies and shows brag about how their characters marry their best friend. Or how their spouses are their best friend. Or how they-they-ugh. It just got more annoying the more she thought about it.

Because MJ wanted to get through school and go to the next school with her best friends Peter Parker and Ned Leeds.

But she was stuck because she was hopelessly in love with the former. And the latter knew about it, too.

They were all geniuses but somehow Peter was oblivious to one of his best friends being in love with him, and somehow she was dumb enough to fall as hard as she did for her best friend who would surely never reciprocate. And Ned got to be the main audience for it.

Bless Ned. He was wholly sympathetic to it, he wanted it to happen. He listened to her if she wanted to rant about him and even indulged her so she could mention to him how cute Peter looked that day. But in a way, he made her feel worse through no fault of his own because it was his two best friends in this weird dance, and she felt like she would make him choose her side or something. He’d told her more than once that would never be the case, but she also worried that what if her feelings caused the trio to break up, leaving Ned without anybody or one of them.

UGHHHH. She tore into her stress ball. Get back to work, she told herself. Peter can wait, but your paper can’t.

Then one of the absolute worst days MJ had experienced in a long time came - when she saw Peter making heart eyes at Liz.

“Too late, you guys are losers,” MJ snarked to him and Ned. She tried to keep the venom out of her voice, the sound of the shattering that was going on inside her chest from getting out of her mouth. Because she still couldn’t truly be mad at him, it wasn’t something she had a right to be upset with him about, after all.

But it still hurt.

MJ wanted to bury it, but some part of her wondered if that was healthy. But what would be the healthiest approach right now? Just move on and accept Peter would never like her back? She didn’t like that idea, even though Peter had never given her any indication he liked her. So she wouldn’t be losing anything if she moved on.

Still, something in MJ refused to let him go. Maybe it was spending most days with him, whether it was reading her book while he and Ned played video games, or whether they ate sandwiches with the bread smushed down real flat, or whether they studied together. Spending time with him made her so happy, but she was also in pain because she did want him in another way. But why wasn’t she happy with him being her best friend?

If there’s one thing MJ’s mind was, it was a mess of contradictions, roundabouts and detours. This possibility and that possibility. Much of it, however, was clouded by Peter.

And that simply wouldn’t do. She couldn’t let herself be so invested in a boy who didn’t even like her back. Even if he did make her happy.

So she decided that, if she couldn’t bring herself to move on from Peter, she needed to at least remember she had a life outside of Peter. Even if she wanted to spend her life with him- good God, get a grip, girl! It scared her how easily she could say and think things like that when she was just some chick in high school pining for some boy. Ugh!

So she devoted herself to her schoolwork. She worked hard to pull her weight on the AcDec team, enough to keep up with Liz, enough that facts were getting burned into her brain. She started looking at colleges early, far earlier than her peers, and what kind of career she maybe wanted. She tried to enjoy her time with her parents at home more than she already did, and her time with her best friends more. She kept things as casual as possible, and to be fair, Peter was so oblivious he wouldn’t notice a thing.

She had a whole life to live, she told herself. And it wouldn’t be defined by her best friend she was in love with. At least, that was the plan.

[flowerflamestars]

Not someone else who understands the Academic Decathlon madness! The after school practices, the endless binders of materials, the bizarre fact that somehow it all was focused around a single topic? I feel like it explains a lot about us

our group burned the materials in a bonfire at the end of each season 😂

Oh my god!! We also burned our materials?? In a giant desert bonfire that once included fireworks, dangerously. (sixteen year old boys are. a kind of human. for sure)

The binders, the teens in office wear, the SPEECHES, the sheer insane amount of time spent learning esoteric information?? it explains so much, somehow.

Side bizarre anecdote: I met? the FOUNDER OF DEMIDEC? in 2013 when he was unsuccessfully trying to pivot from not just making educational materials for acdec, but trying to start some kind of adult quiz competition international circuit. I cannot overstate what a weird bouncy ball of man he was, the precise kind of manic that spawns, well. The professional grade binders.

[acadec]

Homophobic people when it's called the biosphere and not the straightosphere

[chryzuree]

chrysi in all her clubs & her pet bestfriend boyfriend sitting next to her cluelessly. this guy should NOT be in acdec but it wasn’t like he was going to let chrysi go to it ALONE

[blebbloom]

There are a lot of names teams use to call Academic Decathlon! At a competition a while back, there were many heated debates on which team was the most correct. Today, I'm bringing the debate to you.

[an-absolute-travesty]

honey don’t sweat it <333

40% of my friends are acdec kiddos and i am basically working unpaid part time jobs :) so :)

i get it :,,,)

take time for you and i love you <3

also if i can cheer/confirm you with a writing request lmk

Woooo joint suffering! I love you too <3

I wish I had the energy to write, school is draining me so hard I can’t even do that 😭 looking forward to spring break and actually yk being able to do things I like

[shitposting-puppet]

ADDING ONTO THIS!

Another good Hamlet spinoff is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and I got it because of an AcDec competition but genuinely its one of my favorite books. Wacky and existential, it follows Rosencrants and Guildenstern as they wait around for Hamlet jr's orders while the main play takes place in the background.

This may be the best book I have ever purchased. It is definitely in the top 10

[kissmedcadly]

thinkin about acdec and how vic would have excelled at that shit in high school if she wasn't already juggling like. honors classes and singing/piano lessons and trying not to kill herself LAUDHZJAISHX

[audiomixtape]

are you… an acdec kid??

yeah! 1 of 2 acadec kids who use tumblr lol