#compulsory schooling

[innestern]

decided to try out coloring a page digitally and it toook so much time and was so hard and i didn't even like the final result 👍👍 its kind of interesting to compare to markers though

plus a sketch from class that better captures the emotion i wanted to draw

[shouting-epicenities-at-you]

It isn't always a joke though. In my case, the being pulled aside to learn something they don't teach the rest of the students applies mostly to buttoning buttons and filling in multiple choice bubbles and pronouncing words and making light conversation..... And it pretty much started and stopped with that stuff.

Stuff they should have taught me, and everyone else too in the compulsory stages of school, but didn't

how to transport oneself safely beyond just looking both ways before crossing the street; basic traffic laws

How to cook basic foods from scratch; how to follow and modify recipes; how to add to 'instant" foods to boost flavor, texture, and nutrition

The real-world applications of math.

Caring for plants and animals

Identifying edible VS poisonous plants; Knowing lookalikes

First aid; also basic care for injuries that don't warrant a doctor visit such as pulled muscles and minor burns

Hygiene and grooming (with an acknowledgement that not all grooming is hygiene.)

How to observe, analyze, and either solve or prevent dangerous situations

The idea of consent and bodily autonomy as something that applies to everyone, in both sexual and non-sexual situations

Conversation skills for everyone, not just the kids in speech therapy; manners and elocution; understanding how misinterpretations happen and how to deal with them and prevent them

Potential careers and what they entail

I could go on and on.

Anytime I see someone joke about how they need to teach something in school that I was taken out of class into a separate special ed class to be taught I'm just like. Yeah. They do actually teach this stuff if you've been deemed to person wrong. Extra skills classes exists if you're not the right kind of person.

[project-sekai-facts]

Do we know exactly when was BAD DOGS created? (And when did Akito and Toya meet for the first time). Also do we know since when do Akito and An know each other?

Thank you so much for your hard work!

the timeline around rad weekend/middle school is a bit vague because they cram a lot into like one year. main story says ken retired around 2 years ago, but summerfes says RW was the year after akito quit football which would make it 3 years ago. LSV is consistent with the three years thing so we'll go with that. it could just be there was a year gap between RW and Ken opening WEG. that would make sense.

akito met toya at some point after that. toya says it was 2 years ago in his 2* story from stray bad dog, so when they were around 14. funnily enough despite us seeing the exact scene where they met like three or four times it's never been marked with an "x years ago" so i'm taking toya's word. it must've been just after fawo flashbacks because that's also two years ago and he hasn't met toya yet.

as for when he met an, i don't think there's ever been confirmation. they first see each other in fawo but never actually interact. an says in main story that she's know akito and toya since junior high, so presumably she met them after they formed bad dogs and started hanging out at WEG. maybe she met akito a bit beforehand but i can't remember it being stated.

[glacierberries]

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[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.

[von-eldritch]

//sometimes I wish I didn’t establish Hellsa as being secure in her sexuality because I just love writing women who are in the closet and weird about it and want a boyfriend so, so bad even though they actually don’t

[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!

[peanutbutterandbananasandwichs]

Re last reblog I also hate those kinds of jokes in relation to queerness, someone I was doing a drag show with we were chatting and found out we were both autistic and they said "all the straight autistics do science and all the queer autistics do weird art shit".

Me a queer autistic doing weird art shit who's also literally a scientist . . .

[off-campus-still-nerdy]

For the hours spent ploughing through this horror as a 1980s schoolkid, why yes, I think I can find a handy breadknife.

[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.

[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.

[thrilling-oneway]

i am so bored out my mind that for the first time in my life i am genuinely considering studying