#depends on the funding

[theexhaustedmermaid]

Two weeks until dolphin research!!!!

[wasabi-gumdrop]

thinking about modern au Kabru

ivy league college student, probably studying law and political science on a full scholarship. first time living away from Milsiril so he has to promise her, yes mom i’ll call you at least four times a week, no mom i don’t need your amex black card, yes mom the normal credit card is fine i need to learn how to budget like a Normal Person (it has a limit of $20k — that’s not normal Kabru).

Milsiril insists for a long time that she’ll just get him a house off campus so he can have his own space (aka a place she can drop by anytime and possibly live a few months out of the year just to be close to him) but Kabru puts his foot down and tells her the best way he’s gonna make friends is by living with other students (bye mom).

his floor in the coed dorms is the party floor and he always makes sure to invite everybody (his nightmare is accidentally leaving anyone out and having them think that he doesn’t like them). somehow it’s always a good time, everyone leaves with more friends than they came with, it never gets totally out of control, and plenty of girls who are interested in him (and a lot of guys too tbh) bring tons of baked treats so there’s always free food. Kabru is the RA’s favourite person to have in the building (even though Kabru himself is messy but most of the people he’s friends with are nice and clean up after themselves).

he has a porsche (Milsiril gift for his 16th bday) but he’s adamant about not driving it unless he absolutely has to (because he doesn’t wanna look like a douche). BUT he never says no when his friends ask for rides (so he ends up driving all the time anyway). he actually contemplates selling the porsche and going for a more practical car but Mickbell is like ‘dude you are not taking this away from me.’ Kabru sighs and decides to keep it because his friends (Mickbell) like being chauffeured around in a fancy convertible (Rin, Holm, and Dia don’t care, they’re just glad they don’t have to walk to the grocery store).

he’s probably on a casual texting basis with most of his professors and you know he’s going to all their office hours, grabbing beer with them just to keep chatting about life outside of school. and that’s how he winds up in some super secret faculty group chat where he’s now privy to all the college administration gossip.

Kabru is elected for student council during his freshman year and he’s probably the favourite to be sc president one day.

he doesn’t really date (gets too in his head about how he doesn’t wanna ruin any friendships) but he does hang out one on one with a lot of girls and treats them all really well. he probably goes so far out of his way to be platonic that he flies a little too close to the ‘Just Like One of the Girlies’ sun, he kinda forgets that most people interpret it as flirting coming from him. which leads to a few awkward conversations. people feeling led on, a few angry jealous boyfriends, scathing dms about him being a girl stealing homewrecker.

it’s such a nightmare for him and he needs it to end right now. so he begs Rin to ‘date’ him for a week or two and then publicly dump him just so the entire student body gets the message that he is Just A Friend.

Rin stares at him for a few seconds. then she laughs. she laughs and laughs. she laughs for a crazy long time. and then eventually she goes, ‘wow you’re an asshole, Kabru. no i won’t be your fake girlfriend. you’re gonna suffer and i’m going to enjoy it.’

and that’s when Kabru has a moment of enlightenment. ok yeah. asking for that is probably really selfish and mean. maybe he needs to think about girls’ feelings more and that’s maybe more important than his deep seated need to be liked, and when has Rin ever been wrong about anything.

he apologizes. and so begins one of the more serious talks he’s ever had with Rin about being okay with not being liked.

he thinks he can really turn over a new leaf. the whole ‘not worrying about what other people think’ thing goes pretty well — up until Kabru meets the aloof professor for his Monsters and Myths class who keeps forgetting and mispronouncing his name.

Kabru has never needed someone to like him So Bad, he needs Prof. Touden to like him as a matter of life and death, and he’s willing to look stupid for it (fails a midterm on purpose to justify begging for one on one tutoring)

[thatsbelievable]

[quatregats]

I don't know if every grad student is in taxes hell rn but my university certainly seems hellbent on creating that for us

[frolis-maneuver]

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please contact me at frolis.commissions@yahoo.com for inquiries or commissions if you are interested! If you see something in particular that you’d like but isn’t listed yet on my site feel free to reach out and we can discuss it!

time to plug COMMS again. to make a long story short, my rat Millie has been experiencing some health issues recently and it's been a long road to figure out exactly what the problem is and how to fix it, including multiple vet visits (including one yesterday AND today!). As you can imagine, vet bills are expensive, so on the off chance anyone is interested in helping offset the costs of vet bills and get some cool art in exchange, commissions are open!

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this includes A-Grades AND B-Grade pins! Everything is in stock BUT the botamons are very limited right now! I only have a couple left and I don't know when they'll be restocked (or if they will be - depends on demand!)

Thanks in advance for reading and for helping spread the word if you do!

[pixelateddork]

Final day to get these stickers free with your Pre-orders! All orders after today will not receive these with them!

[t4tails]

[angy-grrr]

bkdk trump supporters?????? bkdk trump supporters?????? BKDK TRUMP SUPPORTERS???????

[flashhwing]

“uh duh I paid attention in history class, I got an A” skill issue. I slept through every single history class and still got an A

[desire-mona]

at this rate season 10 of game changer is gonna have a panopticon episode

[mxwhore]

i didn’t realize you’d finished your thesis congratulations!!!

thank you!! hopefully yall be able to find it soon in the form of a paper

[lvnce-mcclain]

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[bagalois]

day 11: do you have any hobbies or special talents?

hobbies? i like to draw occasionally. i used to write a lot, like creative writing. oh, i also like cosplay, so i've been wanting to get more into clothing alterations and sewing.

as for talents - i think im good at visualizing stuff? i'm also good at handling failure and setbacks; failure doesn't bother me at all. not a lot of people can stare failure/dropping out in the face and still keep going without the stress getting them down.

also, when i first learned to solve the rubik's cube, i was in high school. it only took me one day!

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day 11 of 30 day stem study challenge

[theexhaustedmermaid]

What a time to be alive in America for an early career scientist

[saintadeline]

It's been a while so I made a new reference for comms :) I couldn't think of anything else to add so if you've got any additional questions just lmk (graphic design is not my passion)