#grade four

[nomolosk]

This does make a lot of sense.

And I want to further posit that the general adult population has been told, and is in general *more comfortable with* the idea that agents *need* adult supervisors. It stems from that sort of repressed urge and mindset, as adults, to *protect children* while at the same time allowing for those same children to do a very dangerous but unfortunately necessary job.

"I know they're just kids, but look! There's an adult with them! Surely that will help their chances of survival. I can look away and go to my own, ghost-protected home, in peace."

Meanwhile, child agents continue to die at an ever increasing rate, reinforcing that notion that the adult supervisors are needed to ensure better protection (and nevermind that those supervisors hardly ever make an actual difference, and when they do, it's usually for the worse).

But guess who doesn't need adult supervisors? Agents with a Grade Four.

So, there's not only an incentive for Adult Supervisors to protect their own jobs, there's also incentive from Concerned Parents/Citizens to limit how many agents actually Do get that Grade Four- probably only offering the opportunity to the "best and brightest" (i.e. the most loyal and least combative) of any agents in an agency.

I'm late! I'm late! For a Very Important... arbitrary time frame with no consequences?

Lockwood and Co: The Obsession Continues

Reading this the first time, I was a little confused by how the grading system works. Lucy, sounding like she was a bit of a agent prodigy, blew through grades 1-3 in four years. She managed to go from a complete newbie to junior agent status by age 11 but, for some reason, couldn't make the jump to grade 4 in three whole ass years?

It seemed odd until this reread. It mentioned that grade 4 agents can lead their own teams and I got to thinking...

What if Jacobs intentionally didn't want qualified team leaders because they could, in time, become competition? Lucy says that he used to be decent but had gotten worse over time. Jacobs became jumpy and lost his nerve. He drank. He became lazy.

Now here comes Lucy with her exceptional talent, work ethic, and very little regard for her own safety. An excellent second in command? Yes. But. BUT! Lucy, or more likely Lucy's mother, could easily get greedy. Why take a small cut when it would be easy to set up a competing company and take the whole pie? Lucy, and anyone else talented and ambitious enough, would have to be reliant on Jacobs for something for him to keep in business. So I can easily see a weasel like Jacobs withholding grade 4s from anyone he saw as competition.

So now the question is- what happened at the mill? Was Jacobs incompetent or did he intentionally allow for problems to escalate in order to make Lucy, the one bringing him the news, look as though she lacks the necessary skills to lead a team? I don't think he expected the other members of the team to die but I can see him manipulating the situation for his benefit. It would be easy enough to sigh and shake his head saying that Lucy and, like, Paul or someone wanted their grade 4s so Jacobs let them take the lead to see if they were qualified. There wouldn't be anyone besides Lucy to discount what he was saying so he could heavily imply that he was simply trying to acquiesce to their request but clearly it was beyond their abilities.

There's no way in hell anyone in that small ass town would trust Lucy with any responsibility after that. So, in addition to all the abuse, neglect, and trauma Lucy endured, she also has a disreputable reputation. In all honesty, it's no wonder she ran as soon as she could. She literally had no future in that town.

[silkentine]

Anyone else looking to get bit at the beach or?

[heian-era-housewife]

Wip - Cowboy Sukuna

[hamsternamedmarinette]

This blog is four years old today. If this blog was a human being I'd be picking it up from daycare right now. Who allowed this to happen

[gojonanami]

sometimes I think about the fact that I am a lawyer, I completed law school during a pandemic, I passed the bar exam(????) somehow??? and now I sit here a licensed attorney….

wild

[vaguely-concerned]

even at this point in the story and with the romance well and truly confirmed it's very possible that lucanis has never seen even a sliver of rye's naked skin below the throat. very likely no one on the team has yet except possibly emmrich if rye got hurt in battle and needed help patching it up. high-necked watcher garb with gloves and all stay ON at all times. thank god for rye's sake that lucanis' history of romantic interest indicates that surprise bitch he could be kind of into that fhsdkjfas

[rainstormess]

I feel kinda... want to open the Zombie apocalypse AU (2013 year - ...) with favourite four-band and draw concept sketch. feeling tired of the world, and wow world full of zombies with hero-guys.

Some story: Jake was scratched by a zombie, as a result of which he almost became infected, one part of his face died, and a tooth became deformed due to the transformation that had begun. The question is whether he is truly cured. He has Randy's scarf on his arm because there is a deep wound there from an injury.

Danny is called a ghost by his team and other groups of survivors, he is excellent with a sniper weapon, and he is good at hiding, this is one of his personality aspects. The second is endurance, he is quite patient, acts carefully, respecting boundaries, but in anger this guy is simply scary. The most mature in the group, born in 1989.

Randy is an immature teenager who has almost gone crazy; he is fond of hand-to-hand combat, agile and fast, almost like an ermine. At 15, he is quite tall and noticeably thin. He usually uses a knife, sometimes involuntarily carrying it with him everywhere. Wears a headband, hiding behind his love for ninjas.

Ben prefers to use different weapons; whatever comes to hand is in his arsenal. Sometimes he takes too many risks while obtaining food supplies; he blames himself for not being able to save the people who died, but he does not say it out loud.

Danny is very attached to Ben because they both traveled together at first, and then Jake and Randy joined them. (yep, green glow) + head canon for Jake and Randy's birthdays. (ﾒ﹏ﾒ)

[then0rthernstar]

Acurrucar

“Un día más, una vez más, en tus brazos yo me quiero acurrucar.”

- Ed Maverick [ song: Acurrucar ]

I missed drawing them, they just eepy, eepy dads.

[girlbloggercrowley]

if they play good old fashioned lover boy in season 2 of good omens i will eat a quarter of a sheet of paper.

hold me to this i'm serious

[james-p-sullivan]

this is it, the panel that ruined my life

[cupcakeshakesnake]

I am wondering if I'm nonbinary or agender.

Wondering very hard

If I ever come to a conclusion (read: never) I will let you know via a very faint flag overlay on my icon

[bigmammallama5]

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[lynxfrost13]

POST-POST SURGERY FOLLOW UP YALL IM SO HAPPY!!!! MY WRETCHED ORB IS STAYING IN PLACE I’M OFFICIALLY STRABISMUS FREEEE

[fishfingersalad]

Caboose is the kinda guy to own a billion different pets, many of which are rescues. You just know he has a pet tarantula that he lets free roam in Church's room (her name is fluffy and Church despises her), and a carpet python that Tucker hates ("Get your slimy fucking snake away from me!!!" "He's not slimy! Snakes don't have slime. Are you thinking about a snail maybe?"). He also has several crabs and a catfish. And his chinchilla, of course.

In a similar vein I think Doc has a pet axolotl or two.

[souenkun]

I loooove the jp fandom's headcanon that geeta and larry are childhood friends who met during their time in the academy and, sometime in the future, geeta personally recruited larry to work for the paldean pokemon league, as she must be one of the first people who knew of his prowess in pokemon battling! Like yeah, the whole geeta being a "strict boss who is frustrated by larry's stubborn insistence to be an average worker that she has to assign him different workloads just to broaden his horizon" idea is intriguing, but stepping it up a notch by making geeta be the "best friend a.k.a the only one who has seen larry at his very best and his very worst, and knows for a fact that he could excel at anything he put his mind into if he steps out of his comfort zone, so she doesn't particularly drag him out of said zone, but pushes him out of it each time she can because she can't bear to see her best friend be unaware of the good chances and positive things that awaits him out there, not if she has a (small) say in it" is also downright hilarious 😭🤚

[the-mallorca-files]

THE MALLORCA FILES S01 E08 — Death in the Morning

“The papers will enjoy this story. But at least the motive was personal, not political, so... a national outcry averted.”