#compulsory schooling

[euryvices]

linny song inspired by goodluck babe

one day I'll get better equipment & maybe then my music will have an impact. until then, ill js keep...singing for my moots. bc i love yall. and y'all must like my lesbians

[grishaverse-chaos]

following up on my post from earlier, I'd like to remind all darkl!ng stans that Nikolai faced all the same problems as king (in the kos duology) that the darkl!ng did, as well as several other new problems (the demon, having to find a wife, etc) and committed ZERO mass murders. your fav could never

[fangswbenefits]

do you have a favourite book?

Of all time? Yes. Death with Interruptions by José Saramago. The entire book feels like a fever dream, but it's such a clever commentary on human nature. I highly recommend it!

[katabay]

Just out of curiosity, do you like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, as a play within a play?

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is an all time favorite! the film adaption too. a few years ago, there was a point where I was reading the play and watching the movie regularly enough that I could recite most of it off the top of my head lmao

[vriskaserketdaily]

its so hard to write vriska as an adult because she is So chronically a teenage girl. like a good 30% of her actions can be explained away with "shes a teenage girl"

yeah being 13 is just like that idk what to tell you

this is gonna probably get into "your experiences are not universal" territory but (pic unrelated)

vriska is the kinda chick where, you weren't exactly friends with her, but you ran in the same circles of weird-but-not-too-weird kids. like, neither of you were popular but there were definitely two or three freaks lower on the social scale than her, and unlike you she was a huge bitch about it. anyway, you have a massive but not-unforseen falling out (she is a LOT) and end up going to separate high schools. years later you reconnect with a different friend from the same school, and as you're catching up with them her name comes up.

and your first thought is, "damn, she's still alive?"

let's say, for example, that this is kanaya and nepeta catching up. the trolls' friend group might not have been as freaky as my own, but there are FOR SURE two or three of 'em where looking back it's like "yeah, no way that kid isn't dead/in jail by now." and then, pleasant surprise, ten years later nobody's offed themselves BUT the guy you least expect (karkat) is now a father. go figure. anyway nepeta/kanaya gets curious and asks what the hell vriska is up to, since last she heard vriska was a pretty troubled kid and it'd be nice to get some closure on that front.

same old shit, somehow. except now the police can get involved, and basically her life is a huge mess. does she have a job? no. a degree? well, half a bachelor's maybe, but everyone else who hasn't made a trainwreck of their lives is either thinking about a master's or certified in some trade of choice. does she even have a car? . . . not as such. the perpetual mystery is how is she GETTING into all this insane and petty drama with the most QUESTIONABLE people like how is she GOING to these VENUES with no car??? WHERE is she meeting & dating this BIZARRE rotating cast of shitstain losers and rancid wannabe IG baddies?????

has she like, developed or grown in any capacity? well, now she's cool with tats and piercings and has a big ol anchor on her shoulder she got while dating a hot college chick as a high school freshman, but no, she is in no way a nicer or more mature person. anyway let's circle back to karkat being a teen dad WHAT??? how did THAT happen???

so to answer your question, i prefer to write adult!vriska as "that one chick in your old friend group who never actually grew up past middle school, to the detriment of herself and everyone in her immediate vicinity." the degree to which she completely wrecks her own/others' lives is up to you (i stop short of putting her in jail for vehicular manslaughter by simply not letting her have a car) and whether or not she Can develop into a stable, well-adjusted adult is Also up to you. personally i think she'd make an excellent fake psychic, but singer-songwriter, professional wrestler, vlogger/streamer, and independently wealthy layabout are all viable vriska "careers" (also, most miserable history major on earth, if you truly believe she would get a degree in l*beral arts). hope this helps!

[thrilling-oneway]

random almost 2am thought that's been plaguing me for like a week actually but you ever think about how the original stunt from wonder halloween with the trapdoor and the action under the stage was Really Fucking Stupid (sorry rui).

Literally the first fucking thing they tell you in drama lessons is to not do anything significant behind (or below) the stage. the audience should be able to see everything that's going on. falling through the trapdoor on its own? sure, kill him or bring him back in another scene. having him have to climb back out afterwards to continue the play right into the next scene also creates an issue.

and i mean rui does realise that it was dumb in the next chapter this is just something that bugs me. rui kamishiro what the fuck were you thinking (he saw a trapdoor and got excited). wonder halloween is still a 9/10 go read it now if you haven't already.

[prince-liest]

Question that's about your thoughts on Alove Alastor. I am writing fanfic and I think I may have. Fallen into a little bit of a rabbit hole of thought but like, Alastor was alive during ww1. If he died in his mid thirties in 1933, he would likely have been of age by at the very least the 1918 18 years old third draft. do you think Alastor would dodge the draft.

I'm going insane thinking about this. I am losing my mind trying to figure it out. You don't have to answer but like. I figure you would have interesting thoughts about alastor's character.

Oh gosh, anon, I'm going to be honest: I feel like to answer this question fully, I'd have to do significantly more research than I currently have the time/energy for into how the draft worked during that era, particularly for a Black man, given this is Jim Crow America we are talking about - and then about how draft-dodging would be feasible, and again, how much more dangerous or difficult it would be for men of color. (Though, to disclaim: I do know there were a lot of Black men who served during WWI, but I also know they didn't receive the same permissions and opportunities as white men.)

Putting aside the logistics of it, though, and going purely on the initial gut emotion of it:

I do not think Alastor would have been even remotely patriotic enough to want to go. He is already really fucking upset with himself and the situation at the end of canon to realize that he's put himself at genuine risk of losing life and limb for the Hazbin Hotel, which is a group of people that he knows personally and has outwardly admitted to coming to care about. I cannot imagine that he would be even remotely willing to do that for the country he lives in.

Sure, he was a serial killer: but while we don't know the details of the who and the how, evidence points to him having had some kind of agenda with how he went about his killing, and I think it's not unreasonable to infer based on the old canon comics that it had something to do with people he found personally offensive to his sensibilities. I think that's wildly different from having a willingness to leave his mother, go overseas, and risk his life as a member of a wildly racist institution to kill some random motherfuckers he's never met. And there is no way he's altruistic enough to do it for political reasons.

Who knows! Maybe if there were political propaganda-related exemptions and he was already making it as a radio host, he could have gotten out that way!

[envolvenuances]

lesbian masterdoc and the unforgivable damage of making people hear compulsory heterosexuality and think of "can lesbians have crushes on men?" (no) instead of "are heterosexual women settling in unhappy marriages with men bellow their worth because of economic and social pressure?" (yes)

[grecoromanyaoi]

i turned 18 in november 2019 and that was supposed to mark the beginning of my hoe era but then covid happened and well. u know the rest.

[etherealstrike]

@jammyjams1910 LOOK AT THIS

[irhabiya]

for a while i didn't really understand why i was so uncomfortable in islamic studies class bc it hadn't set in yet that i'm being taught that i'm the wrong type of muslim

[jupitersflytrap]

sometimes it actually hits me that i'm halfway through my degree like. how is that possible. i've learned nothing.

[popsicle-stick]

You've reminded me about a salsa version of My Immortal from Evanescence that's relatively popular where I live, amomg others.

Rule of music: If a song gets popular enough, it will be Salsa'd

obsessed with the concept of this, and will be searching it out on youtube stat

[v-arbellanaris]

like in 2023 alone i have at least SEVEN separate classes/workshops/tutorials on formatting in microsoft word, inputting data and creating graphs in excel and editing powerpoints for UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. which i learned at primary school through fucking about making presentations and school reports on fucking toucans in the sixth grade. BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN THEY WERE TEACHING US HOW TO USE A COMPUTER.

[tachiguin]

yes, Tanizaki's normal outfit is 10/10,

but have you seen him

he looks so neat in Japanese clothes! it gives him a different energy than usual. 11/10 vibes

also Tanizaki just looks so different in Japanese clothes! his usual fit is very lazy casual, so the kimono makes him look more dignified than usual

[soyboyanarchy]

Every time I’m watching something American and someone mentions never having gone to school I am so impressed. Like damn you avoided the law for that long?? Only to then remember that in America it is in fact legal to homeschool your children