#actually not ab/ap for once

[let-me-lyric]

“these are the last blues we’re ever gonna have”— Patrick Stump, January 2018

“I got the quarantine blues” — also Patrick Stump, March 2023

[bluukive]

This is my first time actually making a request/ ask of any kind because I feel like such a pervert 🫣 but could you possibly write how the JJk guys would react to a reader who’s a surprise squriter? -🦎

!MDNI: Surprise? - JJK

an - I actually know nothing about sqwuirting so this might be unrealistic? Ty for the ask tho <3

ᡣ𐭩 G. Satoru

Starts crying

Like he's so dramatic about it, lower lip jutted out as he thinks 'Oh, shit. My girl's a supersoaker???', all whilst he's staring at your twitching body below him.

Tries giving you a high-five, ignoring the fact you're boneless right now. You can't really blame him, he's beyond excited. Probably just ends up slapping your thigh.

He's brought back into reality when your pussy refuses to let him go almost, gripping him like a vice.

Says he needs to see you do it again for 'scientific purposes' - he's got his phone out with the flash on, recording from all angles possible as his fingers slide in and out, curl up inside you with his face as close to your pussy as possible so that he can throw a cheeky wink at the camera.

Non-stop yapper after, like... worse than usual. He's laying on his belly in bed, legs swinging as he goes on and on about how flattered he is and how you must love him so much

ᡣ𐭩 G. Suguru

Quiet when it happens. He just stares for a while before exhaling and pulling his cock out of you. Suguru's head is tilted as he admired his still pulsing length. It as hard as ever, but the only difference now is that it's glistening with your release.

Slaps his cock against your clit, smirking when you curl in on yourself due to overstimulation. Will also whisper about how nasty of a slut you are, getting his dick wet like that

He restrains you (consensually ofc) with whatever he can. Suguru wants to see you frustrated, so he'll use anything to edge you, whether that be his tongue, fingers, toys. etc.

Dare I say when you finally orgasm and squirt again, he comes untouched too. He developed a fascination with edging just because it made that final release all the more satisfying for you both

All cuddles and praise after, but he's thinking of different ways to make you do it again

ᡣ𐭩 T. Fushiguro

Nearly stops completely, cursing as his hips falter. You've been folded in half when it happens, and the spurts of your release hit his aps, coating them in a glossy sheen that he's staring down at. Feels his heart thumping in his ears, Toji's that turned on

Smug as hell once he's recovered (acting like he didn't pull out and squeeze his cock slightly to prevent himself from cumming on the spot)

Runs his entire hand down both his abs and chest and makes you lick it all clean after staring at it. You swear it looked like he was rebooting, and you mentally log it in your head to tease him about it later.

Once that's all done, your knees are practically by your ears as he pushes your legs back even further (idek how that's possible, my fatass could never). Toji's swearing to wring you out like a damn towel, determined to make you do it again

You both end up overstimulated, Toji just couldn't stop himself from getting hard whenever he saw your pussy gush all over him

ᡣ𐭩 N. Kento

Mr. Short-circuit pt 2 yessir. Starts saying stuff like 'Did I do that to you?, 'Was that because of me?', and he knows damn well it was all him.

You squirt for the first time when he's eating you out, actually. His glasses are covered in stray drops of your orgasm, and he politely wipes them clean, all whilst taking a moment to smile privately. He's made you do that, no-one else. Nanami's face is a pretty pink throughout it all.

First makes sure you're okay. After all, your comfort is Nanami's priority above everything else. He wants verbal confirmation that you felt good, a nod isn't good enough.

Once you give him that shaky 'yes', something shifts in Nanami. He's borderline clinical with how he touches and inspects your pussy after. His glasses are off, and his eyes remain trained on your pussy whilst he's fucking into you.

A thumb stays on your clit throughout it all, and he's changing the pace of the focused digit. When Nanami feels like you're close to orgasm, he slows down. He's unintentionally edging you, but neither of you are complaining when your back arches off the bed for the nth time that night

Thanks you when you squirt, for trusting him this much

ᡣ𐭩 S. Ryomen

Pretends that it's an inconvenience when you accidentally squirt on him. He's actually hiding how obsessed he is with you at that moment

Grabs your face, practically snarling when he degrades you. Sukuna's hissing out commands, talking about how you've soiled him. It's apparently now your duty to squirt again with ONLY his permission

It's become a challenge for him to make you soak his body over and over, and he's dragging his tongue all over your cunt when it happens (even if that means he has to pull his cock/s out of you)

Calls you weak multiple times. Frankly doesn't care if you're crying, he'll just lick the tears right back up. Time to recover from an orgasm is practically non-existent

Develops a need to have you ride his thigh at least once a day whilst he's on his throne. It's a way for him to humiliate you, making you buck your hips like you're in heat until he can feel the wetness coat the thick muscle.

[spiegelgestalt]

The Residence is very enjoyable, very kind, very sincere and a deeply conservative show

Let me preface this with something: The residence isn't right wing. It doesn't hate LGBTQ+ or black people. Its not needlessly cruel or aggressive. The residence is conservative in the true sense of the word: to conserve, keep and respect what is already there and what came before. And because it's a very sincere and good show it actually gave me the answer to a question which i had for a very long time: Why oh why do people always conflate leftist politics and right wing politic. It doesnt make sense. But i have an answer now. Leftists and Maga people agree on one thing: things have to change. they can't stay the way they are. And in that they are a threat to a true conservative. BTW i will spoil the culprit under the cut:

To understand my points we must acknowledge the huge extremely unsubtle theme inside “the Residence”: The White house is the USA; the workers inside the white house are the people of the country and the ones who are leading the white house staff are representations of the leaders of the country. Harry Hollinger, the president and his husband have an interesting role because they aren’t directly responsible for the white house and are strangely removed from this theme. Harry has at least a bit to do with it and Mr. Morgan is a stand in for the undecided liberal – but the president himself is a non-character. At most he’s like the white house a stand in for the country itself. Around those characters the series a) pulls its punches and b) the theme of the series breaks down a bit.

I will exclude the detective, and the people in the congress hearing from this analysis as they are clearly meant as observers/stand in for the audience.

A.B Wynter is a man who’s being hated for the sins and decisions Lilly Schumacher did. He’s well meaning and kind black man while not being particularly warm. A lonely person who tries his best to protect the White House as it once was. Everyone blames him for everything even though he’s good at his job. While the real culprit runs free.

Lilly Schumacher is pretty easy to hate. She is a flighty Las Vegas gal, who steals from people, who makes really distasteful interior design decisions especially around hotels. She’s bad at what she does and blames everyone else for it. She doesn’t care about the feelings of other people. She’s rich. She hides behind other people and depends on the fact that she will never take the blame. She becomes extremely vicious if there’s a real danger that she will be held actually responsible. And even in the end it’s kinda hidden that she’s the murderer. The world moves to protect her. She’s basically a metaphor for the rich elite, “who’s ruining the country.”TM

And I think the show pulled it’s punches a bit by making Lilly Schumacher the villain and not the president or his husband.

Because  I don’t know if you noticed: this series was really unsubtle how blame and responsibility was given down through the ranks. Its said explicitly: you can’t be betrayed by someone who was never on your side. AB Wynter never passed the blame down. He took responsibility and that’s why the blame stayed with him. He was supposed to protect the house and its people. Which were a very diverse cast of worker (Melting pot…; from the fuck up on the third floor, to the gardener, to the kitchen chef). And while the people who did the work and kept things running are pretty diverse the people who run the government are all white men. And I originally thought that Lilly was like AP Wynter a person between a rock and a hard place. The she was just expressing the wishes the president and his husband had and was in the end another person who got blamed but passed the blame around. But the show didn’t do this. It removed the blame from all the disasters in the white house from the president and his staff, and they removed it from AP Wynter and put it all on Lilly Schumacher as a representation of the rich bitch who didn’t deserve to be where she was and who hated America and American democracy and was to blame for all the ills in the white house. And this is easy to believe because we all know at least one person who is like her.

Lilly is also pretty Trump coded with her outrageous promises, incompetence and general disregard for America and American democracy. Theres even a speech about her in the end. But if you play the blame game isn’t it particular that the white woman who works is the one who gets blamed while the white man who actually has all the power gets a pass?

But I find something else interesting about Lilly: What defines her villainy – what shows her disregard for the White House and for America: She changes things. And she’s the only person in the series who at the end of the day is characterized by her willingness to radically change things even if it means destroying something, going against tradition or hurting someones feelings.  Because it’s not completely true that she just destroys stuff. She replaces it. With modern interior, with a different way to celebrate Christmas, with particular food/cooking choices, conscious gardening – Lilly Schumacher primary characteristic is that she plans to destroy the white house and remake it in her image. The only other character who changed something was Jasmine the new house usher and even she had to defend herself for redesigning a space were she would work in. The series is deeply resentful of the people who change traditions. It’s all about the lack of respect for the old ways. And Lilly Schumacher is a symbol of that.

And here I am back at my first statement: if the evil is the change itself and not what kind of change you are going to bring than everyone who criticizes the old ways must seem the same to you. The radical left and the radical right agree on one thing IMO: a willingness to destroy the old to build something new. Things can’t stay the way they are. They have to change. That’s why they are both hated by the true conservatives: because the true conservative says: things are fine the way they are. Can’t you see the sacrifices people have to make to keep things running. Can’t you see the beauty in traditions and in the stuff that’s been build. (Can’t you see the ginger bread house?) Why are you disrespecting a system that’s meant to keep everyone save. And while the right is willing to lie and pretend that they just want to put things back to the ways they were and undo all the evil changes the left made  – they are as willing to change shit as the left. And once a true conservative notices that, they are the same to him. Because the evil isn’t the stuff that supposed to be achieved. The evil is in the change itself.

And one last thought: at least the AfD in Germany manages to promise both at the same time and that’s the reason why they are so successful. They say: things have to change that’s correct. But we are not doing something new. We change them back to the way thing were before the crazy people with their climate and their gender and their strangeness took over. You don’t have to change. We are just gonna remove the bad people and everything will be alright. And that’s far more attractive than: The way we ran things was bad. Our wealth is build on inequality and injustice. We all have to change – yes you too!

[malebodyswapper]

A Family Inside Out (Part 1 of 8)

Pretext: Hi All. This is my very first story, so please be kind. It not going to be short either (has 8 parts). So without further adieu let's get started.

Part I: Day 1 (The Day Everything Flipped)

🕖 7:03 AM — The Swap

Everyone touched the strange glowing amulet at once—Oliver found it in a dusty old thrift shop marked “Families Welcome. Discover Yours.”

A flash. A jolt. Then silence. Six people blinked, disoriented, in new bodies.

🕖 7:07 AM — Panic in the Kitchen

Xander (in Riley’s tiny, dyslexic body) is the first to say it:

“Okay, either I’m hallucinating or I’m two feet shorter, my legs feel like chopsticks, and my brain is suddenly allergic to written words.”

Riley (in Elio’s muscular adult frame) immediately screams internally and tries to quietly slink away, but knocks over a chair and clutches his chest in horror.

“I have hair on my arms. Actual man hair. WHY DOES EVERYTHING FEEL TOO BIG?”

Elio (now hyper little Levi) starts giggling mid-panic, tugging at his own pajama bottoms and shrieking:

“I’M SMALL! I’M SMALL AND I HAVE TO PEE!”

Levi (in Oliver’s serious dad body) sprints to the fridge, rips it open, and starts downing chocolate syrup straight from the bottle.

Oliver (in Valerian’s jock body) checks his reflection and mutters,

“Why do I have abs? Oh God. Am I Valerian?!” He then sees Caleb’s flirty text message and drops the phone.

Valerian (trapped in Xander’s chubby, brilliant body) tries to scream, but his voice is awkward and breaks halfway into a high-pitched sob.

“Why does everything jiggle!?”

🕗 8:00 AM — The Family Roundtable

The entire family regroups in the living room.

Xander/Riley starts drawing a “Swap Chart” with everyone’s names and arrows. His handwriting is messier than usual—dyslexia is hitting him hard.

Elio/Levi insists on bringing crayons and Goldfish crackers.

Valerian/Xander keeps tugging his hoodie down, as if trying to shrink.

Oliver/Valerian reads his son’s DMs, learning just how deep the closet Valerian is stuck in.

Levi/Oliver gets a sharp warning after trying to microwave a fork.

Riley/Elio curls into a fetal position, mumbling:

“I can’t have a mortgage. I’m eleven.”

They all eventually agree not to tell anyone—yet. School and work must go on.

🕘 9:00 AM — Off to School (Disaster Edition)

🚗 The Commute

Xander (in Riley) insists on riding the bus to middle school. The moment he sits down, a kid throws a crumpled paper at him. “Hey, weird Riley. Lose a few pixels?”

Valerian (in Xander) drives the car for the first time. He backs out of the driveway by screaming the whole time.

Riley (in Elio) drops Levi (in Oliver) at the office with a note from “Daddy” scrawled in crayon. It says: “Oliver sick today. But I’m fine. Also I like waffles.”

🕙 10:00 AM — The School Crisis Hour

Xander in Riley’s World

Can’t read the math worksheet. Dyslexia scrambles it like TV static.

A teacher asks him to read aloud. He panics and stutters.

He feels small, not just in height but socially.

Empathy spike: “Riley’s not lazy. He’s surviving every day like this.”

Valerian in Xander’s World

Xander’s AP History teacher catches him zoning out and asks a hard question.

He tries to bluff but fails spectacularly.

Realizes Xander has no real friends—and he hasn’t been invited to anything all semester.

He finally gets it: popularity ≠ connection.

🕛 12:00 PM — Lunch Break

Levi as Oliver

Eats a cheeseburger, two brownies, and half of someone else’s salad at Oliver’s office cafeteria.

Tells a coworker, “Did you know pterodactyls aren’t really dinosaurs?” while pouring ketchup on a donut.

Elio as Levi

Gets called out in second grade for shouting “Dinosaurs are the superior species!” mid-spelling test.

Forgets to use the bathroom. Pees a little. No one notices.

“How does Levi function like this every day?”

🕑 2:00 PM — Recess vs. Responsibility

Riley as Elio

Has to sign a work contract as Elio. He panics.

He doesn’t understand adult paperwork or insurance jargon. He signs:

“Riley. Age 11. I don’t know what this is.”

Oliver as Valerian

Skips class (Valerian’s usual routine). But instead of sneaking off, he ends up at the counselor’s office.

Talks to her honestly—for the first time—as his son.

“What if someone... like Valerian... felt trapped being himself?”

🕓 4:00 PM — After School Breakdown

Valerian/Xander storms into the house, rips off his hoodie, and yells:

“Your body sweats so much. How do you LIVE in this thing!?”

Xander/Riley follows him in with sunken eyes.

“I didn’t know I’d have to relive middle school trauma.”

Elio/Levi runs around the kitchen chanting “CEREAL IS MY POWER!”

Oliver/Valerian sits down and sighs:

“I understand you now, son. I think… I understand all of you.”

🕔 6:00 PM — Family Dinner, Chaos Style

Everyone takes a turn cooking. It’s a disaster.

Levi (in Oliver’s body) accidentally uses salt instead of sugar in a cake.

Riley (in Elio) burns grilled cheese.

Xander (in Riley) ends up in tears from exhaustion.

Valerian (in Xander) just says, “Let’s DoorDash.”

🕖 7:30 PM — Reflections Before Bed

They all gather in the living room again. Tired. Changed.

Oliver/Valerian: “We can’t go back yet. We haven’t finished learning.”

Xander/Riley: “Can we wait until after the spelling test?”

Elio/Levi: “I wanna do recess again.”

Valerian/Xander: “I… want to go to GSA next week. Just to see.”

Levi/Oliver: “Can I be a dinosaur tomorrow?”

🕘 9:00 PM — Lights Out

Everyone settles into each other’s beds.

Xander, in Riley’s bed, stares at the glow-in-the-dark stars.

Riley, in Elio’s bed, listens to a podcast to fall asleep—he’s starting to like Elio’s calm presence.

Valerian, in Xander’s bed, opens up one of Xander’s old journals… and starts reading.

The final shot: The amulet, still glowing faintly on the mantle, waiting.

PRIVATE JOURNAL ENTRIES — NIGHT ONE

📓 XANDER — now in RILEY’s 11-year-old body

Medium: Handwritten in a new spiral notebook Riley had never opened

Entry Title: "I Hate My Brain Right Now"

This is strange to say, but I think my little brother is a genius. Not academically—he struggles there, badly—but emotionally? Riley's been surviving in a world that's practically hostile to how his mind works. Today, I couldn't even read a lunch menu without squinting like I had a concussion. The letters moved, like shadows. I've always known he had dyslexia. I never felt it, though.

Also... middle schoolers are evil. Why didn't I remember that?

Riley, if you ever read this one day—I’m sorry I thought you were lazy. You’re a warrior, kid.

Now, someone please take this hoodie off me. It smells like sadness and Monster Energy.

🎙️ RILEY — now in ELIO’s adult body

Medium: Secret voice recording on Elio’s phone app titled “DO NOT LISTEN, DAD!”

Recording Start: "So, um… I’m not really good with writing and stuff, and this phone has like a million buttons, but… okay. Hi. I’m Riley. And I’m inside Papa Elio's body. He’s tall. Like...taller than the fridge tall. And strong. Like, my arms can actually open the peanut butter jar on the first try. But it’s scary. Everyone thinks I’m a grown-up. Someone asked me to solve a billing issue today. I didn’t even know what the word ‘invoice’ meant until I googled it. I don’t think I’m ready to be big. I’m not ready to be him. But... I saved Levi from running into the street today. I scooped him up just in time. It felt like being... brave. That felt good. Like a win. Maybe being a dad is just a million little wins like that."

Recording End.

🖍️ ELIO — now in LEVI’s hyperactive 6-year-old body

Medium: Crayon drawing taped to the fridge (He couldn’t sit still long enough to write, so he drew instead)

📄 The drawing shows:

A T-Rex labeled “ME” kicking over a building labeled “RULES.”

A speech bubble says “ELIO SMASH!”

Above it all: “BEING SMALL IS A BIG JOB” in messy rainbow letters.

Written (in crayon at bottom): “Today I was tiny. But I felt loud. Levi’s brain goes zooom zooom, but it’s fun if you let it. I miss wine though.”

📝 LEVI — now in OLIVER’s serious 45-year-old body

Medium: Sprawling Word Doc saved as “DIARY OF DAD 2.0”

Excerpt from Entry #1: “Being Daddy is exhausting. First, people just talk to you. Like, real talk. About money and stocks and taxes. I don’t even know what taxes are! I told a woman at work today that I think spiders should be allowed to vote, and she just blinked at me. But also... being big is fun. I can eat whatever I want. I flex in the mirror and say ‘Justice!’ really loud. And no one says I’m annoying. Maybe being Daddy means pretending not to be scared. I think Daddy does that a lot.”

📱 OLIVER — now in VALERIAN’s closeted jock body

Medium: Notes app on Valerian’s iPhone, hidden under “Homework Ideas” folder

Entry Title: “My Son’s Closet”

Today I read Valerian’s texts.

Not out of snooping. (Well... okay, maybe a little.) But I found them. From Caleb. From someone named Noah. Sweet things. Frightened things.

He’s scared. And now I understand why.

I walked through school and got high-fived, flirted with, invited to parties. But one wrong move, one “too gay” word, and the mask would fall. And these kids—his teammates, his friends—they’d turn.

He’s doing so much to protect himself.

I wish he knew he didn’t have to protect himself from us.

🧠 VALERIAN — now in XANDER’s chubby, brilliant body

Medium: Handwritten on Xander’s college-ruled journal, buried in a desk drawer

Entry Title: "I Don’t Know How He Carries This"

This body feels… slow. Heavy. I get winded walking up stairs. And everywhere I go, people treat me like I’m invisible.

But then I opened Xander’s journal. Pages of thoughts. Poems. Equations. Emotional stuff I didn’t think he had in him.

He’s brave. He lives loudly. And he’s never even tried to be popular. He just... is who he is. I never realized how strong that is. I’m hiding. He isn’t.

Someone came up to me after school and said, “Thanks for the GSA speech. You helped me.”

…I didn’t even say anything. That was all Xander.

But for a moment, it felt like maybe I could.

✨ NIGHT ONE – REFLECTIONS COMPLETE

Each member of the Moreau-Liu family goes to bed more exhausted than they’ve ever been—but for the first time, they’re each carrying someone else’s world. And the weight is changing them.

[beneathsilverstars]

i was such a good noodle for 99% of my schooling career, but i did get into a personal feud with my senior year Calculus BC teacher, for reasons exemplified by the time i asked her if i could do a type of problem a different faster way and rather than explaining why not or even just saying sorry no, she said “you’re not allowed to think for yourself until you’re in college”.

i was taking AP art that year as well so I often worked on my watercolor paintings in other classes once I was done with my assignments, so when i decided i didn’t like the calc teacher i started painting through the entire class, from my seat in the middle of the very first row, so, right in front of her, taking zero notes and barely paying attention because her teaching wasn’t helpful anyway, i was better off skimming the textbook and figuring it out myself. she hated it but what was she gonna do? send a 4x AP student whose other teachers adored her to the office??

she wanted to fail me so bad, but i had done so well in calc AB that the school had hired me to tutor math in the library after school every day. so i was the only reason the entire rest of the class was learning anything, because they sure weren’t learning from her! i simply didn’t do any of my big year end review packets bc i’d calculated that i’d still get a B without them and i was busy walking a dozen plus classmates through doing their packets. so she made up some bullshit “if you don’t do at least x% of the hw it’s an automatic fail even if you otherwise have the points” rule, but i was like, go ahead, do it. fail me. fail me and explain to the principle why the kid the school hired to tutor math failed your class despite getting a 5 on the actual AP test. so i ended up getting my B, lol.

[lunebits]

ap class tips

for those in ap classes who are struggling. also for those who aren't really. whatever.

just as an intro to my qualifications:

i go to a stem high school (will be graduating next sem!) where all the classes are already advanced as is (our ap classes are also taught differently!) i've taken a total of 10 ap classes during my time, and while that isn't as much as others, i'd say i have a pretty good spread of ap classes i took!

general ap class tips

remember that the ultimate goal for you taking this course is to take the exam and get a 4/5 (reach for that 5!). yes, the grade is important, but that score at the end after that exam might save anywhere from $600-$1200+ in college. so focus your energy on that exam once the exams are encroaching!

make friends in your ap classes. trauma bonding is real (/j) so making friends that will help you study or might save you when you accidentally forgot is key.

and while they all say "study a bit every night!" that's hard to do. the rule of thumb here for every class will be in the categorized sections, so don't worry (i gotchu!!)

ap math (calc ab/bc, stat, physics, chem, etc.)

i personally didn't take physics or chem bc i didn't want to, but i did take bc and got a 5 (yes, i'm so proud)!

rule of thumb for studying at home: do your homework everyday and actually take the time to understand what the hell you're doing. understand what the process is behind solving the problem. be able to pull out the variables. practice, practice, practice. also, this is one of those subjects where it's actually worth it to study it at home everyday.

ANOTHER RULE: practice tests. these math exams are about stamina and speed. if you can solve a problem, great! but now here comes 20 more screaming your name. but, if you can get the timing down before your exam, that's even better. so go waste your saturday afternoon at that mock exam if you need to. another saturday will come in time anyway. ask your teacher for mock exams. get that practice workbook. whatever it takes. get the timing in your hand.

just as a quote from my teacher, "life is about choices, and we are all busy people." don't waste your time doing something that'll waste your time. even if you can't remember it, that's okay. just keep moving and score more points somewhere else. and also, do the easy route. only memorize the easy route.

math is about patterns. patterns rule math. extract that pattern out of that problem, memorize it, and you'll be just fine.

FRQS WILL HURT YOUR BRAIN AND THAT'S OKAY! collegeboard has a very specific way it wants you to answer these questions. the best way to learn the format is to do so many frqs your hands hurt. because in any exam that involves math, you genuinely need to do better on the frqs. they'll land you more points. yes, the mcq might get you that 5, but the frqs become the basic 3 or 4 that you need. your teacher will hopefully teach you the format, but if they don't, the collegeboard ap website has all the past frqs they've ever made.

YOU WILL BE OKAY. I PROMISE. make sure that if you cry, you understand your disappointment then move on to a larger action plan.

ap histories/humanities (art history, u.s history, euro, world, etc.)

i've taken all the histories that my school offers (apush, euro, apwh, apah, etc.)

rule of thumb: don't study at home unless there's a test coming up or you're bad at putting stuff in order.

GET YOUR WRITING SKILLS DOWN PAT. this is the thing that'll get you the most points. that mcq section is a killer, but doing 3-6 (looking at you apah exam) right after might just kill you. so please, get your stamina up. just write. just keep writing.

timeline shit for history. because when it comes down to it, knowing the sequence of events and knowing the events themselves are more important than dates or whatever.

if you're worried about coherency in your writing, jot down a small pre-writing list.

memorize every single rubric. luckily, the dbq/leq rubric is the same across apush, apwh, and euro. you'll get away with just memorizing the two. the apah rubric is a little different, and the ap lit rubric is a little different. just memorize them as best you can.

when writing, cater to your reader. make things easy to spot and easy to grade. they'll give you a higher score if they can clearly see where things are.

just practice mcqs. all the stimulus will have something you can pull out of it (unless it's like apah where you're meant to memorize the works). but every question will have an answer that's in the passage. practice finding that answer. (this one is still really hard)

all these tests are tests of stamina. and sometimes, they're on the same goddamn day because collegeboard hates love us. just keep going. grab a snack. rest your eyes, go.

essays are the bane of everyone’s existence in ap courses because you’re on this strict rubric and have this mythical complexity/sophistication point that you need to give your hopes and dreams of achieving. BUT. but. you’ll be okay. especially for exams like the ap lit/apah exam, you get to come in knowing at least a bit of the exam (for ap lit, a good part of the frq weight. for apah, 90% of the test). TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT!! know a novel inside and out. know the works inside and out. you’ll be okay. stretch your hands, breathe, write.

ap sciences (bio, physics, chem, psych, econ)

i've personally taken bio and both econs, but these are all concept based, so the same general tips apply.

rule of thumb: if you don't understand it in class, you need to study it at home asap. seriously. because you sure as hell won’t be able to put it together during class the next day. whats good though is that there’s so many resources online (esp videos!!) for all the ap sciences that it’s actually crazy.

read your textbook. science is great with a textbook in your hand. you don't even need to read the whole thing. just skim through it to add information to your class notes. most times that works.

because the questions are concept based, the mcq/frqs are a little hard to get used to. SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS: don’t ignore your responsibilities and learn what these questions look like.

flashcards. USE FLASHCARDS. so much of science is not only understanding concepts but applying them. to apply them, you need to know them by heart. and to know them by heart means flashcards to drill yourself.

and speaking of applying your knowledge, you need to take things slowly. approach questions with this framework: 1) read the problem + understand what concept it’s asking about. 2) pull out that information from your sexy brain. 3) solve the problem based on what you can remember. to truly understand, include a lot of examples in your notes. AND MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHY AND HOW THEY WORK. the why and the how are more important than the what.

misc tips 🌷

burnout is inevitable if you don’t manage your time correctly. there’s people online that can explain how to manage your energy more than me so please go watch them instead lmfao

try your best to stay on your schedule. the more you push your tasks to this arbitrary tomorrow, the more you absolutely won’t do them.

honey, you need to bring a snack and a water bottle to those exams, you get like a 10 minute break that isn’t enough for the mental taxation (without representation) that happens on those exams. they’re brutal.

the classes themselves are not as bad you think. i promise. most of the time, you’ll actually have fun. and it’s really cool to be learning at a college level. so keep at it! the moment you hate something, the moment you begin to stop trying as hard and your grades start slipping. keep finding the next thing to delude yourself into enjoying (/hj).

[itsjustaturt]

I can't believe during the AB/AP portion I actually thought they'd play Centuries after Uma Thurman. no. they fooled me once again. The Kids Aren't Alright attack 10000000000 damage

[earlgreytea68]

Do u have any twin skeletons thoughts/analyses?

SO MUCH. BUCKLE UP.

I looooove this song and I think it is the most raw and brutal song about the disintegration of the Pete/Patrick relationship in the entire discography, I really do.

Patrick jumbles his use of lyrics up time-wise, he plucks them from all over their chronology, but I don't think he would write this song today, and I don't think he would write the lyrics up in this song today. Like, the lyrics are brutal, but the song they're in are worst, the way he arranges them, the way he sings them.

BUT THEN HE ENDS IT IN HOPE. THIS SONG.

I feel like there is this vague trajectory to the lyrics that Pete writes and the way that Patrick arranges and sings them. When they're both young kids, the lyrics are more straightforwardly melodramatic and self-pitying, the way kids are, and Patrick sings them that way. Which isn't to say they're not still complex, but yeah. As they move toward the hiatus, I feel like the lyrics actually get less bitter and more longing but Patrick starts arranging them and singing them more viciously, so that lyrics that could have been love songs become angry songs instead. Post-hiatus, Pete's lyrics take a distinctive pining turn that he's never entirely left, although they're not always about relationships (they never were, really, which is what I love about him) but about the passage of time and the way everything is yearning ambivalence for things you can't even define as you get older. Patrick in the beginning of the hiatus still arranged these lyrics in songs that felt defiant but by now the lyrics get put into love songs and lose some of the irony in the way Patrick sings them.

That's kind of a tangent.

Anyway, I don't actually think they dealt, lyrically or musically, with a lot of the emotions of the hiatus until AB/AP. I think they wrote SRAR almost carefully. Some of the songs in it feel almost like Patrick designed them to try to be at a remove, they feel kind of impersonal, aiming for the kind of heterosexual drama that FOB rarely hits in their songs because Pete rarely writes lyrics like that. But I think about a song like The Mighty Fall or Death Valley or Just One Yesterday or Young Volcanoes -- and there is A LOT to all of those songs, too, of course, and I love them -- but they're easy to read as just, you know, typical radio play stuff. (The notable -- REALLY notable -- SRAR exception is Miss Missing You, of course, and maybe that was as much as anyone could deal with at the time lol.)

But AB/AP, to me, is FULL of working through the hiatus baggage. There's "The Kids Aren't Alright" and there's "Fourth of July" and there's "Favorite Record" and THEN THERE'S THIS SONG. To me, this song is all about a relationship -- a partnership -- that's supposed to be perfect breaking completely to pieces right in front of you, and the way it devolves into recriminations and accusations.

The chorus, revolving around this titular room where everything went down. I read “shares our fate and deserves our pity” to imply that this room has been somehow ruined, too (sharing our fate) and that’s such a huge pity, like, this isn’t how it should have happened. There’s deep regret in this chorus: I don’t want to remember it, and what they don’t want to remember is the things the promised. The promises you make to the people you love and when it all goes to hell and you end up not keeping those promises, you don’t want to think about them.

EVERYTHING about the description of the relationship in this is some of Pete’s most vivid lyrics. This is one of those songs where every single line is absolutely crystalline. When Taylor Swift said once that she wanted “Blank Space” to be like a Fall Out Boy song where every line is a zinger, this is the song I think of, because the way this relationship is described, the way it unfurls through the song, every single line carries an entire story within it, it’s all so vivid. And the thing is, this could be read to be about sex—dull the pain, strip down to skeleton, saint swimming our sins—sure, it’s all sexy, but I don’t think any of it is actually about sex. Stripped down to our skeletons, that’s not how you have sex, that is way more revealing, way more vulnerability being shown than just taking off your clothes. It has to be read in the context of the image on their Greatest Hits compilation, those twin skeletons, dedicated to each other even in death, like, it’s just not about sex. Sure, sex can be read as sinful, but there’s a multitude of sins out there in the world for them to be swimming in. And the line that really smacks me over the head: “’til we’re twins again.” You…don’t have sex with your twin. I mean, unless we’re getting into some really weird narcissistic thing going on in this song. The twin thing is so…Patrick-coded hahaha. Because who is Patrick? The person he has twin-speak with. This whole thing is in the vein of Pete’s pining language to be honest: I MISS YOU SO MUCH. I JUST NEED A LITTLE DOSE OF YOU. I MISS HOW WE USED TO BE. I MISS WHEN WE WERE SO OURSELVES WITH EACH OTHER THAT WE WERE BASICALLY SKELETONS, THERE WAS NOTHING TO HIDE BEHIND.

But the way Patrick sings these words, the melody he gives them: It doesn’t sound pining. It sounds biting and cruel. If he sang this song in one of his piano arrangements, I bet these words would kill you with how much longing is in them. But that’s not how he sings them.

And then we get to that jet black crow, droning on and on and on, up above their heads, droning on and on and on. The way that droning line repeats, the way Patrick sings the on and on and on so that it sounds like a drone, it’s cleverly done, and the jet black crow always feels like this bad omen to me, this thing hanging over them, that they can’t escape. I MISS YOU SO MUCH, PLEASE STAY HERE WITH ME, but there’s that droning of foreboding hanging over their heads. You’ve got to keep making trouble until you find what you love, he’s not done yet, he wants to keep going, he needs a partner in crime AND YOU SHRUG. I never can decide which of them is speaking there, who looked to the other for their partner and didn’t find him there, and maybe it was both of them, because they were mutual destruction, maybe that’s the point.

Then we get to the second verse, one era dying and the next being born, showing up just to fade away, calling an end to the whole thing – and hating it the whole time (“I wanna throw my hands in the air and scream”). “I can just die laughing on your spiral of shame”: the way Patrick sings that. That is another line that I’m not sure who it’s meant to be referencing, and it could just be both of them. Honestly, the cruel things you do to the people you love when there’s a jet black crow droning on and on over your heads. But you get through the wreck and you pull yourself together enough to survive, even though you’re barely holding yourself together with a string.

But. BUT. THIS BRUTAL, BRUTAL SONG that Patrick takes Pete’s lyrics and puts together here. The way he has the pining of the first verse devolve into the vicious backlash of the second verse in the wake of the indifferent and painful shrug is so good and then the narrative retreats into: Hold on. Hold on, hold on, hold on. At the end of the song he repeats “hold on” EIGHTEEN TIMES. That’s how much he wants Pete to “hold on.” This song about the complete disintegration of this relationship ends with Patrick begging, over and over again: Hold on. Hold on. It’ll be okay. Hold on. That jet black crow drones on and on and on twelve times. Patrick asks us to hold on many more times. And he never sends droning as he does it. He packs multiple notes into the ons. The jet black crow is gone by the end of the song. I made promises. Just hold on.

[twitchmattentusiast]

https://www.tumblr.com/twitchmattentusiast/767636340288405504/right-now-im-in-a-slump-because-i-dont-know-what

i honestly don’t even know atp LMAO 😭 since 8th grade until the beginning of senior year this year i wanted to go into political science and be a legislative assistant but the pay isn’t that good and i live in southern california where everything is so expensive 😭😭 i’m currently also taking AP Government which made me realize that i have to memorize so much shit and i have the worst memory ever soooo that discouraged me as well lmaoaoaoa and i honestly don’t even know if i’m interested in that field anymore :/

it’s completely normal to lose interest in subjects!!! sometimes it can be because of burnout or whatever reason. i lost a lottt of interest in my fav subjects after covid. i would js think about what you enjoy doing and stick w that. i definitely recommend talking to your parents ab a gap year tho js so your not so burnout when college comes round especially if ur not sure on what you want to do. have you tried looking at courses? i didn’t know exactly what i wanted to do but once i looked at them i managed to narrow them down based on what i actually liked. if it were up to my family id be studying to be a doctor rn but i can’t do maths, i hate needles and can’t deal w blood so id be a lost cause but please try and talk to them maybe if you explain it might go well? xx

[let-me-lyric]

Ok so this is def gonna be some sort of FOB blog now. My hyperfixation has returned babyyy (and I really hope this one sticks around for a while).

Anyway.

I think we need to give more love to American Beauty/American Psycho. Like I know on Spotify that it’s technically their most popular album but tbf we can probably all agree that that’s because of Centuries. There’s also Uma Thurman which is pretty popular (for good reason, it’s a BANGER) but the rest of the album deserves some love too.

Irresistible is lowkey my strut song, I love it so much.

The title track (AB/AP but I ain’t writing allat) took me a bit to get into but the bridge especially is actually such a good song? Currently playing it on repeat which is what prompted me to write this entire thing out.

Centuries is iconic and I love it I really do, it was how I found out about FOB and it deserves all the love it gets.

The Kids Aren’t Alright is honestly not really my fave but idk bro the lyrics really hit.

Uma Thurman gets me so hyped every time I hear it, I LOVE IT!

Jet Pack Blues is once more not as high energy as I usually like but they popped off with the lyrics “she’s singing ‘baby come home’ in a melody of tears while the rhythm of the rain keeps time”??? How did such a line get brainstormed and where do I get some of that absolute skill???

Novocaine is such an angry, gritty song and I don’t know what else I can say about it. Def one of my faves on the album but this is also lowkey my favorite album (lowkey, it’s not like I can just pick ONE 😥) so that tracks.

Fourth of July is ofc sad but it’s almost kinda cute if that makes sense? Like it makes me think of a cute romance that didn’t end so well. Not exactly the best vibes to bring to a Fourth of July part but you best believe I ABSOLUTELY will be adding it to the playlist.

Favorite Record is similar, but it almost feels like a more… homemade(?) sound. Softer might be a better word. Like the background instrument are kinda toned down or something. It expresses such a similar meaning in such a different way IDK

Immortals feels like the earlier part of a relationship that you know is technically doomed to fail but you really don’t want to let go of. All of the time references really cement that idea for me. There’s more I was going to say but I forgot it so.

Twin Skeleton’s (Hotel In NYC). Now what do I even say about this one? Honestly, I’ve run out of things to say right now but let’s just say that if I heard this one in concert I would probably die. S tier. No further notes.

Also this is maybe an important disclaimer: I have zero experience with love and I don’t intend to get any (aromantic babyyy 😍). So my analysis might be a bit inaccurate but who’s doing research for smth like this anyway?

TL;DR: y’all are SLEEPING on AB/AP, but also every album is equally good in its own way (altho I’m ngl I could never bring myself to listen to evening out with your girlfriend but someday I will, promise).

…yeah. I think it’s clear how not normal I am about this band.

[gods-revolver-twice-as-shiny]

I'm in love with @ybcpatrick 's post!ybc au and I really need to scream my headcanons/silly little ideas into the void.

- one night the power goes out in the studio. instead of finding a flashlight, Pete goes "wait guys I got this" and just shakes Patrick until he gets angry enough for his eyes to glow yellow. they use him as a little nightlight. Andy, Joe, and Pete find it amusing. Patrick does not.

- Once Patrick got comfortable with walking around outside again, he constantly needs someone's hand to hold. Usually it was Pete's, Andy's, or Joe's, but sometimes when he was out with a manager or other members of the crew (when they eventually go on tour) he just. grabs their hand. and won't let go. and everyone around him just understands and if Patrick grabs their hand, they Do Not Let Go Under Any Circumstance.

-Patrick is a still considered the main suspect in Joes death and is wanted by the police, but since the major piece of evidence to convict him is a) Alive and b) Living with him, the police can't do anything about it. Doesn't stop Patrick from getting severely anxious anytime he notices a police officer around.

-Pete struggles with the things that he wants. He has essentially forced himself back into that old "protector" roll over the rest of the guys and because of that, he has a hard time conveying what he actually wants for himself. to help with decision making, Patrick gifts him one of those magic 8 balls as a sort of joke, and Pete becomes attached to it. now he consults the 8 ball on every decision

-during the production of save rock and roll, Joe dragged Patrick to their studio and helped him play guitar (joe played the chords while Patrick strummed). Patrick got over his apprehension of being alone with Joe pretty fast when he realized he got to play guitar again, and the two of them came up with the "Death Valley" riff together

- the day Patrick discovered that music no longer triggered him was the loudest the house had been in weeks. Patrick CONSTANTLY played music. his favorite albums and songs were always on repeat. he even put some quiet music on in the background while they slept. Patrick even took to singing along and dancing to his favorites and was the happiest he had been in a long time.

- Patrick has only one type of music banned in the house, and thats any song with Courtney Love in it. Joe also has banned Motley Crue from being played in the house.

-the four of them listen to at least one Elton John song a day. As a sort of thanks for bringing them all back to life.

-the first time the four of them went out in public together they met a small group of fans. Pete and Joe did the majority of the talking and allowed Andy and Patrick to stand back a bit. One girl asks if she can give a bracelet to Patrick and he says yes, and so she gives him a little Soul Punk friendship bracelet. After the fans left, Patrick nearly starts crying on the street. he NEVER takes that bracelet off.

-As a precaution, Patrick will wear sunglasses during interviews and occasionally out in public. Pete, Joe, and Andy will also wear sunglasses during interviews so that Patrick doesn't feel isolated or anything. When he eventually gets on stage, Patrick wears blue contacts.

-one time Pete and Patrick were being harassed by a street interviewer and it was really getting to Patrick, so he just took his glasses off and told the interviewer to fuck off. No one believed the guy when he started spouting about how Patrick Stump -- known by everyone to be such a nice, sweet guy-- had these crazy, glowing yellow eyes. Everyone thought the dude was a lunatic. Pete took the opportunity and mocked him on Twitter for it.

-Patrick changes the little LEDS on his hand to fit each album tour theme. for Save Rock and Roll, he uses his usual orange, but for AB/AP, he chooses blue (for Jet Pack Blues), purple for MANIA, and pink for Stardust.

[youlooksogoodinblue]

Fob albums as seasons

Because i saw sum ppl asking what seasons the albums r, also not including greatest hits or eps :)

TTTYG

early summer, like the weeks just after when school ends. This is probably bc of the lyrics to Saturday and the doa music vid. But the entire album to me is just sun burns, hot humid thunderstorms, staying up late and talking for hours with your friends, the beginning of summer excitement and regret for how the past academic year has been spent. Yeah

FUTCT

The obvious choice is the correct one, this album is autumn. Like the mv for Sugar is very obviously set in autumn and dance dance set in a school probably is the main reason i think this. But its like November Fall rather than September or October, its almost winter, its getting darker for longer, most of the pretty fall foliage has fallen to the ground, leaving the trees naked and cold, studying exhaustion and stress from midterms. apple cider, cinnamon and pumpkin spice flavored everything(but you’re still bitter).

IOH

This one is the haziest i think, i think it is spring. But the early spring i experience as a northerner(USA). Its snowstorms in april, seeing trees with buds on them dusted with snow. Its cursing that stupid fucking groundhog for the “two more weeks” of winter, that seem to last for months. Its spiders sneaking into your home because they exited diapause too early and while it was 72 degrees yesterday, ice has covered your driveway once again this morning.

Folie

Early autumn/ late summer, like late august early September, its back to school ads, the time you are wishing for halloween while it still reaching 80 degree weather, the smell of autumn just starting to linger in the mornings, the first few leaves falling to the earth. Regret of free time and good weather wasted and looming dread for the SAD winter yet to come.

SRAR And AB/AP

These are grouped together bc they are both summer, and in similar ways. They are July, they are fireworks going off for weeks before and after the fourth, and being able to see them from your bedroom window. They are amusement parks, concerts, and beaches visited and enjoyed, but maybe not as much as you hoped. Specifically Ab/ap is riding your bike to a local ice cream parlor and paying the teenage employee in coins. SRAR is scraped knees and palms, beat up chuck taylors, and heatstroke.

Mania

Summer. Mania feels like carefully selecting seashells from the beach, only to have your brother shatter them. Sticky popsicles dripping down your chin, no one has a napkin. Its the smell of smoke from barbecue and bonfires that you were not invited to. Its cloudless warm nights but being afraid to go out to look. Its standing in the middle of a thunderstorm in your bathing suit.

SMFS

Winter. Specifically the time after Christmas, Its being able to see your breath, its watching the ball drop and actually being excited for another chance. Its snow reflecting Christmas lights still left up. Its slipping and falling on black ice and being forced to look at the stars. Its enjoying the things you have already received and savoring the time you have spent.

[dzthenerd490]

File: Raving Rabbids

SCP#: ARR

Code Name: The Chaos Rabits

Object Class: Joke/ Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-ARR instances Found in the wild are to be captured by Mobile Task Force Hephaestus-2 "Rabit Hunters". On each mission they are to bring flash grenades and large screen devices to present memetic kill agents. After capture the SCP-ARR instances are to be contained in at Site-AB. They are to be given specialized goggles that constantly project memetic images into their eyes. The memetic images introduced are designed to slow the brains of SCP-ARR instances to weaken their chaotic impulses, they can now only eat and sit around. 

The are all to be locked into a 50x50 meter containment cell containing nothing as the SCP-ARR instances require no other food than what is given and don't defecate. Foundation staff are to ender on a daily basis and feed a single block of protein every day, so they don't die of hunger. Any testing must first be approved by at least one Level 3 Researcher. 

In the event of a containment breach, the entrance to SCP-ARR's containment area is to be reinforced with a nuclear blast shield door. There are hidden generators within the wall that will also activate to disrupt anomalous wavelengths weakening and hopefully completely nullifying the effects of anomalous tools and items. Anyone who tries to remove the goggles off of an SCP-ARR instance will be apprehended at once. If they are a spy they will be executed; if not, they demoted by a single level, there are no exceptions. 

In the event SCP-ARR instances are found by MTF units or field agents within Nexus Point: The Wanderer's Library they are to be ignored and allowed apprehension by Group of Interest: The Serpents Hand or Entities of Interest: The Librarians. Any staff members that ignore this rule will be discarded by the Foundation and left to the mercy of the library, there are no exceptions. 

Description: SCP-ARR is an unknown species of rabbits that seem to come from a different reality. They are humanoid in nature with thin white fur, large ears, large eyes, mouths, and stubby hands and legs with fingers. The only thing that has them resemble regular rabbits is their long ears that is signature to the species. They have the anomalous ability to speak though its mostly limited to gibberish that only barely resembles a language. Each SCP-ARR instance, though able to feel pain, are all immortal and indestructible in every sense. Crush them, burn them, shoot them, freeze them, pour chemicals on them, beat them, it doesn't matter they will survive anything and everything thrown at them. 

SCP-ARR instances are extremely chaotic always enjoying causing mayhem and destruction wherever they go. SCP-ARR instances are also well known for stealing items to be used for their own self gain and often for things they were never meant to be used for. It's not uncommon for SCP-ARR instances in the wild to find lots of random junk and use it to build trash piles to act as homes or actually live in junk yards. SCP-ARR instances are not dangerous per say but they are quite hazardous in the chaos they cause and can unfortunately draw attention to the anomalous world. 

SCP-ARR was discovered in 2006 and since then have been involved in several rampages in our world. Please see Addendum X-38 for details. 

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Addendum X-38

The following is a basic rundown of all the previous encounters with SCP-ARR.

2006 - In [data expunged] park, a group of SCP-ARR instances burst form the ground and start terrorizing park goers and eating their picnic lunch. They are accompanied by a large ape like monster with a metal helmet and metal rabbit ears on it. The Global Occult Coalition only barely manages quarantine the park and deploys troopers to exterminate all SCP-ARR instances. Unfortunately, they fail as the SCP-ARR instances are indestructible and thus are immune to their bullets, laser rifles, and rocket launchers. Though they were able to kill the ape like SCP-ARR instance by unknown means and to this day refuse to tell the Foundation. Supposedly there were other SCP-ARR instances that were killed the same way, but the GOC has yet to prove this. 

Foundation agents were able to capture the few SCP-ARR that escaped the GOC's grasp and sent them to temporary containment at the nearest Foundation Area. Afterwards the GOC begrudgingly surrendered custody of the rest as they could not kill them all effectively. The cover story later established was that there was a bomb threat in the park which was later confirmed to be a hoax. Foundation deployed Class A Amnestics to those who witness the event and both organizations agreed to leave the FBI to apologize for all the civilians of their troubles. Since in the public's eye, this was a blunder of the local law enforcement. 

2007 - A mall located in [data expunged] became overrun with SCP-ARR instances armed with plungers. The Foundation was able quarantine the area and hack into the TV's and speakers to emit memetic and audio kill agents. The kill agents were designed to make anyone who saw or heard them fall asleep even SCP-ARR instances. As such the resulting cleanup was rather easy.

Once the SCP-ARR instances were contained the people inside were given Class B Amnestics and told they were exposed to an anarchist attack. The official cover story is that some pranksters released smoke bombs into the ventilation of the mall, all of the bombs being filled with sleeping gas. It was also explained that the gas was made with hallucinogenic chemicals hence why some could barely remember sightings of chaotic humanoid rabbits attacking them with plungers. 

2008 - within the city of [data expunged], SCP-ARR instances suddenly appeared on several TV channels and were able to alter what was being broadcasted that day. The Telecommunications Monitoring Office - Broadcasting division was able to shut it off after 2 hours of public exposure. Apparently, a single SCP-ARR instance was sleeping on a power pole's transformer and got electrocuted somehow transforming into several SCP-ARR instances that could exist in TV broadcasting frequencies. How this is possible is unknown.

The power pole's transformer was apprehended by the French division of the Foundation and sent to the nearest Foundation Area to be dismantled and incinerated, as everyone agreed this was the best course of action. It should be noted that this is the only time the Foundation has ever been able to kill a single SCP-ARR instance successfully. The cover story later presented to the public was that a hacker managed to infiltrate several channels and edit them with random presentations of strange humanoid rabbits. 

2009 - SCP-ARR instances are found gathering trash in the [data expunged] garbage dump. They somehow manage to make a tower of trash so large it almost reaches the edge of the Troposphere. There were even reports of civilians having all of their close stolen from them and added to the pile for some reason. The Global Occult Coalition launched bombs into the junkyard and blew up the SCP-ARR instances. Though they didn't die they just floated in space and still somehow survived in the void. It took Space Task Fleet Apollo-1 several months to gather all the SCP-ARR instances. 

The Cover story later given was that a group of junkies were experimenting with different chemicals in the junkyard. They were also messing with hallucinogenic drugs and often tested them on innocent bystanders, hence why the people attacked claimed they saw humanoid rabbits. Unfortunately, they also experimented with dangerous chemicals to create new drugs which led to a disastrous explosion and the complete annihilation of the junkyard. 

2010 - A black 1949 Mercury car with flames painted on it manifested outside of Site-AB. Jackson Brown from Group of Interest: The Brown Family got out of the car and threw a washer machine at the entrance. It was connected to a damaged time traveling device and filled with four SCP-ARR instances. One was dressed like a Pirate, another a Pharaoh, another like a Viking, and the last was dressed as a Cowboy. He took the time travel device and demanded the Foundation staff deal with the SCP-ARR instances before things get worse. He then got back in his car and drove away before Foundation security could apprehend him or take the device from his custody. Instead, they just took the SCP-ARR instances and left the washing machine to be picked up later by the on-site trash collectors as it was worthless without the device. 

2011 - [Data expunged by order of the Ethics Committe]. [Data expunged by order of the Ethics Committe]. [Data expunged by order of the Ethics Committe]. The Cows were later killed in an act of mercy, and it was agreed the incident must never be discussed again. 

2012 - A portal manifests in the containment area where the SCP-ARR instances were being kept and 12 instances came out all wearing silly costumes. They started fighting on another and the disabled SCP-ARR instances like they were doing a wrestling competition of some kind. They were quickly sedated and added to containment. 

***

From then on SCP-ARR instances were thankfully extremely rare, and increasingly easier to contain as time went on. There were even sightings within the Wanderer's Library which thankfully left it to Group of Interest: The Serpents Hand to deal with them. Still Foundation staff and MTF units are to be reminded that the threat of SCP-ARR instances isn't in how dangerous they are. It's how difficult it is to suppress the amount of exposure and chaos they unleash prior to containment. SCP-ARR is a good reminder that though Joke class anomalies are often ridiculous this in no way means ANY of them should be underestimated. At least, not until they can be properly utilized or neutralized by the Foundation.

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SCP: Horror Movie Files Hub

[clonehighjoansieofarc]

Clone High Theory

Exclamation Point is a staged community; the celebrity guest stars work for the Secret Board of Shadowy Figures, and that's why you see them with the Shadowy Figures in the last episode before they raid the prom. They could all be in on the conspiracy… maybe they're gaining something out of it? Who knows?

Every (normal) person around them is pretending. They interact with the clones and act completely ordinary and treat them like their normal kids while knowing, “Tee hee, these kids are going to be government super-soldiers! Yikes. Well, bye, Julius Caesar, it's nice to see you at the supermarket, but I gotta get some salad for dinner. Bye. ”

Exclamation Point seems like a small and remote town….? The type of place where no one comes in and out… it's almost like a secure bubble. There are only so few people that interact with the clones.

It’s a very The Truman Show esque false reality/fake community where there could be cameras everywhere, and the Shadowy Figures watch them like… a TV show. Essentially, they're keeping tabs on the clones and letting them “roam free” but actually developing their senses for what lies ahead.

The foster parents. They're all very weird… Toot’s never knows what's going on, Cleo’s mom is never clearheaded, so they were hired because they're competent because they're incompetent… the fosters aren’t going to act against the board! They aren't threats… they're just gonna raise a bunch of teen historical figures for however long, go along with everything and get their money's worth. Some parents don't give a rats ass about them (Cleo’s mom,) while some do (JFK’s dads) OR MAYBE THEY COULD BE ACTORS AS WELL AND NOT BE DUMB AT ALL AND WORKING WTH THE SHADOWY FIGURES TO GET PAID AND UNEASE THE CLONES AND JUST NURTURE AND RAISE THEM.

IN THE LAST EPISODE, THE SHADOWY FIGURES LITERALLY SAY “BOARD OF SHADOWY FIGURES… FELLOW CONSPIRATORS …” ???????????? timestamp 7:26

Joke about the clones being the first group of children to be legally “adopted” by a corporation

Back to The Truman Show! the clones eventually find out their purpose and rebel. It’s Joan who finds out first. She’s the most skeptical and least enthusiastic about being a clone, and once she finds out, she (understandably) freaks out and has the worst existential crisis. She tries to tell Abe Gandhi, JFK, and Cleo, but they play it off as her being crazy and overthinking everything (Cleo believes Joan in the slightest but shrugs the horrifying thought off because she can't afford to think all this being perfect was for something like that and JFK WANTS to believe her as well but he just can’t fathom a thought like that) Abe dumbly makes a little joke about Joan’s clone mother and her claims of something just as far fetched as her clone daughter’s and having no one believe her which ultimately sets Joan off on a rant on how meaningless their lives are yet these crazy events happen to them? How no one comes into Exclamation Point, and no one comes out? How small and bleak everything could be? “Don’t you guys ever wonder WHY we're here? What's the point of all this?” She would scream and sputter out word vomit while the four other teens stare at her with stunned and concerned expressions because it’s such a dreadful thought they've never put into consideration and because it’s Joan… the girl who’s historically known to be erratic in her prophesying and the most level headed and sensible one.

Joan is questioning everything, and slowly the rest of the clones start to believe her and decide that even though they don't know what their purpose is, they're going to revolt against Scudworth (since he’s their superior) using their intelligence and skills that Shadowy Figures cloned them for except it’s all dialed down to teenager style where they're all going ape shit (like in the riot) with Joan leading them with her smarts and strength just like her clone mother did all those years ago.

The last two bullet points aren’t necessarily theories but it’s a cool idea

tagging you guys because you all said you wanted to hear my theory :D @anton-wyzek @ort-smort @disconnected-dragon

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mack are you excited for new fall out boy!? i am. i really didn't like mania but i miss them and i want to see what direction they've gone this time.

yes! once a fob fan always a fob fan even though im obviously not a full time stan anymore. and unlike a lot of people, i actually mania. i like almost every song and i probably like it more than ab/ap as a whole. i definitely find myself listening to it more often. so im excited and looking forward to it. i havent even really heard the preview of the new song because i have just not been online, i was on vacation for a week and now im back to work in the middle of 7 days in a row. i guess i could look it up rn but at this point i think ill just wait and be surprised when i listen to it on the way to work at 530 tomorrow morning lol....

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hey, did you know that Seth Dickinson has a blog? He's got some really good articles picking through why exactly he made the writing choices he did for Baru Cormorant. Also some completely unhinged posts. like, what even is this: https://www.sethdickinson.com/2016/05/28/sex-dickinstone/

(nothing about when book 4 comes out, alas. that's why I looked him up in the first place)

I DID NOT!

Thank you for this very important information.

Also the most recent post from February is also a great way to set the tone I think

United under the God-Emperor Aslan, the forces of Narnia have conquered the known world. But when a playful kangaroo accidentally drop-kicks Aslan’s emissary down a well, his armies of apes and centaurs march on a tiny polity at the edge of the empire. In the face of impossible odds, Winnie, Piglet, Tigger and all the others must ripple their abs and form a phalanx, because the future of animal civilization is at stake in THE THREE HUNDRED ACRE WOOD

In this sun-drenched horror film, grieving psychology student Dani joins a friend’s retreat to the commune of the Scandinavian Halga. But her unresolved grief and her troubled relationship with her boyfriend take a back seat when Imperial Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor descends from the heavens to seek out the cultists of the Chaos God Slaanesh. The only thing worse than a heretic is a bear-etic in MIDSOMMAR 40,000

Mild-mannered London solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to the Carpathian Mountains to assist the business of local Count Dragul. But Harker soon begins to suspect that his sullen and unbelievably ripped host is far older than he’s letting on…and that he may once have worn the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon his troubled brow! Keanu Reeves contemplates the tree of woah in CONAN THE HUNGARIAN!

In this Judd Apatow dramedy, a hapless virginal electronics store employee must undertake the most difficult journey of his life: locating and assassinating Osama bin Laden. It’s THE ZERO DARK FORTY YEAR OLD VIRGIN

Kidnapped by the fur fanatic Cruella de Ville, the Dalmatians Pongo and Perdy have only one hope of survival: the revelations imparted to them by a mysterious black monolith. It’s 2001 DALMATIANS!

They're all so good.

Now just need to find time to go through the actual backlog.