#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

[larsnicklas]

panthers defenseman gustav forsling goes into a full-extension dive to sweep the puck away and prevent a high danger scoring chance in the third period. florida would go on to win 2-1 to advance to the stanley cup final (x)

[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

[damthosefandoms]

every week we have to wait between new pjo episodes is like reliving the year between mark of athena and house of hades. except this time we’re ten years older and still haven’t forgiven rick for that author’s note💙

[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]

Another sketch about the guys in the Zombie Apocalypse.

Is it okay, guys, if I add a hashtag for this au? I just don't know what name to choose. "The four survivors" (very simple, sorry, but for the first time i tnink... it's okay) (ಡ‸ಡ)

By the way, I forgot to say that Danny does not see one eye, instead there is a prosthesis with a green pupil. Anyway, he lost an eye. And one more fact about Danny in this au, he prefers the nickname "Dan".

[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

[karenchasity]

npmd au (HUGE au) where max completely pivots to get graces attention. maybe its to prove a point, maybe its infatuation.

he starts going to church. dressing differently. speaking kinder. he becomes gentler, for all the wrong reasons. instead of being physically cruel, he goes for the heart.

and grace sees it. of course she does. he's a new man. and she can't deny he's getting hotter by the day.

she meets him in church one day, on some random wednesday, and grabs his hand and drags him home herself. her parents are gone. she needs to talk to him, alone.

and he would do anything for her to keep looking at him. he'd convert not only to christianity, but to her.

and he does. and she loves it. they get closer, slowly, as max lives a lie and grace watches him crumble into a husk of the man he was.

they're bad for each other. everyone around them can see it. max isn't max jagerman anymore. he's not a nighthawk. he's graces lapdog. and she could never love max jagerman.

but they're in love. as in love as they could be, anyway, as chastity belt and the literal monster. they can only get so close to love before someone breaks.

ill rewrite this and flesh it out later idk

[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.