What if an AU where Steve actually didn’t graduate, but he’s pretending he did and that he just didn’t get into any colleges because if his parents find out he’ll be out on his ass. He’s eighteen, able to intercept any messages the school does happen to send home, and after Starcourt he changes his emergency contact to Robin’s parents or something.
But it starts with being called into the principal’s office to receive the news. He’s an athlete and the school’s golden boy, so the principal tries to give him an out. He’s a good kid, just obviously got derailed in his studies sometime during junior year… maybe by drugs. Is he *sure* he wasn’t pressured into buying anything by Eddie Munson?
At some point the principal tells Steve point blank that if he sells The Freak out, he can graduate and not have to repeat. All of this can just go away.
Steve still says no, he didn’t get anything from Munson. He’s barely ever talked to the guy. (He’s not even lying—Tommy always took care of that stuff back when Steve still threw parties, albeit with Steve’s money.)
He doesn’t know that Eddie is in a chair just outside the door waiting for his own special “you flunked” audience.
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Eddie is chewing rabidly on his hair because he knows that if he were offered this deal he would’ve sold King Steve out in a second, and it’s making him feel like a complete shitstain.
He is not offered that deal, which is why he uses his longest sewing needle to puncture a sloooow leak into all four of Principal Higgins’ tires less than an hour later. But this means… he only has a few months of summer break to decide if and how he should thank Steve for not throwing him under the bus.
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I GOT IN TROUBLE IN SCHOOL I THINK NOOOO 😭😭😭😭😭💦💦🌊🌊🌊
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the thing that gets me about the, "oh it's quick bc it's war, it's more realistic," defence for soap's death is 09 ghost's and roach's deaths were abrupt as well but they were still treated with dignity
ghost screams for roach and tries to kill shepherd before he’s killed. we the player get to sit and watch with a dying roach
roach tries one last time to get the dsm even though it’s hopeless. we see the way they throw ghost's body, the rising dread as they spread the fuel. the hatred for shepherd drags out when he flicks the cigar and lights it and the screen slowly darkens, music swelling as he gets away with it and roach finally dies as well
we hear price scream through the comms and the devastating realisation hits that if he'd called just a little earlier, they might have lived
that is how you do an abrupt but dignified death that respects the audience
mw3 is how you throw together a rushed and disjointed climax and hope people swallow it
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so i'll most likely just make a tumble post or some kind of article about this ( maybe?? ), but if i talked about the LGBT rep in the lads' works, like....a proper elaborate deep dive essay type thing, would you guys....enjoy that? engage in it, i mean
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Going to sleep is the grind killer. Nothing good will come from going to sleep. Water is not needed when there is water I could be drinking in the coffee. I will look sleep in the eye and cry over my unfinished work like a productive member of society.
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All of the Plaintiffs in the Mills v. DC Board of Ed (1972) ruling are students of color. Despite that, the case itself was about DC’s BoE allowing school districts to exclude, suspend, expel, and transfer these students for having “exceptional” disabilities. They sued on behalf of the estimated 12,340 disabled students who were unfairly cut out and left to rot. Doesn’t that just make you feel a certain kind of way?
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fuck I forgot Cisco's family are such dicks to him, even calling him "mija" instead of "mijo", the latter of which they call his brother.
(or, according to the subtitles on Netflix, calling Cisco "mi hija" and his brother "mi hijo".)
which like. I don't speak Spanish. but I know enough about the language to know that they called Cisco a feminine nickname and his brother a masculine one. which is such an asshole move.
anyways new headcanon Cisco is trans and his family is transphobic.
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