#and she lived for like 16 years

[feelingtheaster99]

Oh my gosh Beardsley that was SO SMART to figure out the people whose blood crystallizes are the people who TURN DOWN being brought back to worship Ankarna god DAMN

[tomurakii]

I kind of hate all the comparisons between kipperlily and like. Those fuckass "affirmative action fucks me over I wish I was [minority] so it would be easier" people because none of that. Is what she said. She said the bad kids already had more experience with adventuring before they got to augefort and it meant they had an advantage. Which is true. Yeah Riz was lower-class but his mum was a COP. Riz, Kristen and Fig had parents who were heroes (Sandra-Lynn is an active ranger, Kristen's parents are paladins, Sklonda is a rogue), Adaine's family was super rich and politically influential, Fabian had both. Gorgug's the only one who wasn't actively at an advantage [IN THE CONTEXT OF HAVING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HEROISM] and she didn't have shit to say about him. Kipperlily was the first person in her family to try heroism, the bad kids are largely legacy admissions.

Additionally to the people comparing it to the "anti-affirmative action" crowd: do you know what affirmative action is. The bad kids didn't receive special consideration on their admissions to aguefort or scholarships or additional financial support or extended assessment times or anything. How could she be mad about affirmative action if none of these people received affirmative action. What they DID have was knowledge about their classes that started much earlier than high school, which is what Kipperlily said in her file that she thought grading should be adjusted for because she did not have that.

To me it's less like affirmative action and more like augefort is like an IQ test. They pretend that it's fair and objective, but you can be taught how to do those things from a younger age, and if your parents took the time to teach you pattern recognition and shit then you'll do better on an IQ test than someone who wasn't trained for it and everyone will act like that makes you innately smarter when it doesn't. It just means someone taught you how to do that earlier.

Barring Gorgug, every one of the bad kids had access to information about heroism and their class at a younger age than Kipperlily did, which primed them for success in their classes. Every one of them got additional information about mysteries from their families (and even direct battle-tactics training from Bill), Riz especially with getting classified info out of his mum. Kipperlily does not have hero relatives. She's the first in her family line to attend a hero school. She knew nothing about it before her first day, meanwhile Kristen was already the chosen of Helio, Adaine had already been attending the best wizard school in the country, Fabian had already spent his whole life training with his father, and Riz was already involved in solving mysteries using info and tactics he got from his parents.

They aren't necessarily "privileged" (except Fabian and Adaine), but Kipperlily didn't say they were, she said that in the specific context of attending a hero school they had a prior-knowledge advantage. Saying they didn't is like comparing the grades of a kid who's academic career started with preschool with a kid who didn't attend until middle school and acting like one of them wasn't better prepared.

[rosekasa]

creating for a fandom from teenage years to adulthood is so special because you can see where your subconscious was through the history of your works

[acetheta]

im so normal about thalia and jasons relationship (no im not)

[goodpointsandbadpoints]

I am absolutely on board with the shadow of rose dlc having Rose be pissed at Chris and everyone.

she's sixteen and having a miserable time at school.

from her perspective, Chris is overbearing and unreasonable (without explaining anything to her, I ASSUME, in classic Chris fashion).

on top of just being a miserable teenager, she's confused/irritated about her powers and her father, with basically no way to remedy either.

It's so fascinating to think of her POV vs Chris' POV of the whole thing. Based on what I know of the timeline between re8 and the dlc, Chris and co. have been able to keep her from falling into the hands of anyone who would exploit or tamper with her as a bioweapon. But I imagine that she feels very alone/trapped/misunderstood.

[fishareglorious]

I spedrun 37's event when there was only 2 hours left lmfao... the beefing between her and 210 was pretty hilarious to see their back and forth is gold even though I was pretty damn lost at all the mathematical and philosophical terms being thrown around...

also him holding that magazine lmao

[ryekat]

I actually am God's strongest soldier when it comes to defending female anime characters

[itspileofgoodthings]

the boys I teach have been so unpleasant to me this week but the boys I used to teach have been really sweet and tbh it helps so much.

[nobodysdaydreams]

Giving a complicated tragic childhood backstory to your favorite character is all fun and games, until you realize you need to account for how old all the other adult characters would have been at the time and realize that scenes that would work perfectly if one character was twenty three and the other was fourteen stop working when you need other characters who are played by adult actors clearly younger than they are to be in college at the same time so your story beats line up thematically.

[faaun]

pls i need to provide updates

[gemsbian]

First draft of Doc is complete! I plan to make her outfit more cohesive and change her prosthetic to look more like Armarouge later, but this design is fairly solid as is

[itz-pandora]

Huh. If my life was a quote, it'd be "one of those sad ones with a deceptively happy tune"

[black-grey-white-purple]

I have such a love-hate relationship with Kie's parents. Love you for caring about your daughter's education, but hate you for stopping her from clearing John B's name. Love you for recognising how much danger she's in because of what she gets up to with the Pogues, but hate you for not listening when Kie is trying to get you to understand her. Love you for thinking that sending your daughter away will finally protect her from all the kidnapping/shooting/killing/drowning/disappearing, even though it breaks your heart, but hate you for sending your daughter away.

[thrill-kill-kult]

I’ve mostly been thinking about this in the context of an AU I created, but I’ve been thinking a lot about Toki’s transition out of his parents’ home and into the real world.

I imagine he left before he was 18 and had to support himself entirely from before that in order to get himself out. And like idk I’m just thinking about the moment when he finally moves out and he’s sitting on a bed that he bought that’s in a room he can call his own, and like he thinks he’s going to be instantly happy and that everything will be perfect, but then he has to reckon with the fact that it isn’t, and now he has to deal with grieving his old life and trying to fit in to a new life he doesn’t really understand and keep himself afloat.

[sugaroto]

Made this meme some months ago but forgot about it, yesterday some kids at work told me I looked 30 and thought I was talking about my daughter (I'm 18 and I was talking about my cousin)

[sora-of-uranus]

something something the gang continues fighting supernatrual problems within the town, even going to universitys near each other/ the same one so they can continue working as a group since it's fun. Eventually they face another creature that causes them to experience their greatest fears and Ethan is forced to fortell the future over and over and watch as none of his friends ever belive him. He realises that his greatest fear has evolved from being alone, to being with people but never heard, because isn't that worse? to be seen but to never be listened to?

Anyway they deal with the super natrual creature and alls okay and they start beliving Ethan again but it still FUCKS with him.

ps if you see how I just wrote ethan into casandras position (without the "no Apollo I do not want to have sex with you omg" moment), shhh no you didn't.