#hes a high school dropout

[peachie-wren13]

as someone who was previously a 17 year old and has worked with 17 year olds, even a genius 17 year old would not be a good CEO.

Tim would be A) losing his mind during meetings bc they're long and boring and B) getting into shit around the WE offices bc that's what teenagers do.

When I was 17 I was rolling my friends down ramps in trash cans at school, in the cafeteria. I was also drawing dicks in paint on theatre set pieces (before covering with more paint) and stealing props from the theatre department. Straight A student with a 4.0 gpa but I was still doing dumbass shit bc teenagers have squishy little under developed frontal lobes and very little impulse control.

look me in the eyes dc and tell me a seventeen year old would make a good ceo

[thepringlesofblood]

the vibe im getting from FHJY is that this is the season where they really lean into the high school aspect. that probably sounds bonkers since its called Fantasy High, but like. hear me out.

Freshman year, they come at high school from the "John Hughes" "80s teen movie trope" vibe, which is to say different from the real-world experience of high school.

it works great! operating in that frame of reference makes everything flow really well, and hits all the high-school-related-media notes in a very satisfying way while putting its own spin on it and not getting bogged down by the actual slog that is high school in reality.

there's still a lot of more modern inspo, but it stays in the kinda expectation-suspension-tropey area of how 80s movie high school works.

Sophomore year is spring break! I believe in you! They're not at school! They're on an adventure!

They lean into being a teenager and coming-of-age themes a lot (obvs), but the only big reference point to the institution of high school is that it'll be worth 60% of their grade.

A huge point, to be sure, and the exact kind of objectively unfair but somehow not against the rules shit that happens in high school, but not the main driving force of the season.

arthur aguefort also does a bunch of wack shit but it's more fantasy than it is high school although its a lot of both.

they lean into adventuring as a set career path much more, with the school giving money for hirelings and offering a basic incentive for other students to go, so that's a loose connection to the real-world career counseling high schools have, but again, not the main thing.

VERY Important though: we are now very much in the present. The viral shrimp party, livestreaming Kalina, online banking, the epic of Gorgug building a cell tower? this isn't john hughes 80s town anymore, this is now. (at least in Solace).

Junior year

almost everything in the trailer is about academia

we've got the cool doodles-in-the-margins style art and intro

in the interviews and BTS (so far), the cast have talked a lot about what they were like in high school (not the 80s)

and the precedent that The Seven set where the MacGuffin was getting their GED? It's time.

we're getting into what is actually hell about high school - the institution itself. the arbitrary standards that academia in the US holds, and how it leaves behind, punishes, and fails its students in its extremely important role of preparing them for life as an adult.

i could talk about this all day, but personally for me the quote from the trailer that shot me back to my junior year of high school was "You have perfect grades, and it still might not be enough for you to graduate"

riz's arc this season is shaping up to punch me in the academia trauma and personally i can't wait for the catharsis

Brennan has shown time and time again that he Gets and wants to tell stories about the ways in which the US education system affects, hurts, shapes, traumatizes, changes people, and how they survive and recover from it and make their own lives. I for one am so so ready to see that reflected with the bad kids.

[ostensiblynone]

WHAT IS THE STORY WITH THAT AMERICAN CLASS RING?

Well, I bought it in a pawn shop in Tokyo in the '90s. And I actually wasn't—an' hangover when I bought it. And, uh, I actually put it on in the shop and couldn't get it off, so I had to buy it. But, um, yeah it's from, uh, it's from Ruston High School, in Mississippi? And, uh, yeah. It's started many a conversation in a bar in America. That of, yeah. Amounted to nothing. A G.I. said to me once, in an airport, 'Where'd you go to school?' And I said, in an American accent, 'cause I was drunk, 'Oh, Ruston High School, in Mississippi, I went there!' [laughs] But, ah, it's a wonderful, wonderful piece of kit.

[Noel's Instagram] posted 3rd Nov 2024

note: there is no Ruston, Mississippi

[reddit ama 2015 - noel's answer]

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He is dressed top to toe in his favourite navy blue, his only adornments being a gold chain bracelet that he bought himself for Christmas and a gaudy ring purchased in a Japanese porn shop. "What? No. I said Japanese pawn shop," he cries, when I mishear his low-pitched, Mancunian rumble. He continues: "I fucking lie to everyone about this ring. I say, yeah, this is a ruby, man. But look. It's pink glass."

—Noel Gallagher - Daily Telegraph - 19th June 2001

[tricoufamily]

just to watch him die

[just-your-average-tangerine]

I have a love/hate relationship with reading. Because I do love to read, I always have. But also, it makes me feel very stupid, I feel like I'm barely literate. Like I can read the words and understand the story being told. But then I see people making connections and extrapolations, predicting things based on foreshadowing, etc. And it makes sense to me once it's explained, I can see where they got that, but I never in a million years would have come up with that myself.

And I keep trying to find ways to improve that, but all the advice I can find is "read as much as you can, in a variety of styles and genres," but I already do that. I've been reading anything I could get my hands on since I taught myself how to read at 4 years old. Obviously, that's not working.

[br1ghtestlight]

bobs burgers is a safe space for anyone who is stupid or did awful in school and then dropped out. so few safe & accepting spaces for us dumbasses in this cruel world </3

[twosides--samecoin]

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"Well, I'm from West Virginia, may I remind you," said Nora, indignant. "When the Garrahans and Hornwrights brought the robots in, they stole so much more from us than just jobs. The only time in my life I saw my dad cry was when they turned on the Rockhound and drilled into Mount Blair..."

"...I caught all kinds of hell when I got out and went to Baltimore instead of stayin' and.. Some people I grew up with have to put on gas masks to go outside just so they can go get high in a shack somewhere in the mountains, you know that?"

"...Anyway, I know we already picked up Shaun's Halloween costume, but when we were headed back to the office, I saw this, and.."

She paused and smiled at the contents of her briefcase. "I just started thinking."

Jack tilted his head. "What about?"

"You know.."

Nora's eyes sparkled as she pulled a baby-sized white sherpa rabbit onesie from her briefcase. She held it against her body and smoothed out the fluffy ears so Jack could see their pink sateen details.

"Her."

excerpts from long time running, chapter 17: in circles

[ilyalljasonsandnon-jasonsthesame]

Jay dressing up as the monster of Frankenstein to angst at Bruce. Bruce naturally doesn't get the message. Alfred resists the urge to slap his head.

[spiritshaydra]

I fucking love the dumpster fire that’s the Nemesis crew <3

[liazrad]

trying to stay fed with only the money i get from art commissions is actually so fucking rough like all the business i was getting instantly died once my June sale ended. i have 8 cents left and am surviving on crackers and poptarts.

[its-no-biggie]

i love being a math tutor so much you dont understand like. theres the obvious stuff, like when a kid who was getting 60s proudly shows you they got an 80 on their last test, or getting to watch someone gradually improve at something they were struggling with and gain confidence in it. but theres also little stuff like. a girl told me last week that i taught her a new word. one kid asks a lot of questions about what hes learning about, wondering what something is or how it works, and i always explain it to him (as long as i know the answer) even though its usually not relevant. and he told me that he appreciates that i do that and even apologized because it makes him want to ask more questions about other stuff (he has adhd so he gets sidetracked a lot lol). and it just. like. that tangible sense of making a difference, even in small unexpected ways, is so so important to me i dont ever want to lose it

[confinesofmy]

i hate hanging out with kids because of the way people treat kids and the social rules surrounding speaking out when you don't like how a kid is being treated. like, if you're hanging out with a group of adults and one of the adults is cruel to another, there are many ways to say, "hey, don't treat them like that." or you can even ignore that person and tell the person who was wronged, "i can't believe they were so cruel to you." but with kids you're really not supposed to say anything at all unless it's your kid. and it's crazy because the stakes are so much higher. an adult being treated cruelly has so much more agency. they can leave, they can speak up and probably be listened to, they can be cruel back and not immediately be vilified. a kid usually just has to endure it. and judging by personal experience they don't even internalise it as "that person is cruel" it's more like "this is normal treatment."

[noirtek]

as always if you can please reblog and explain in the tags your mental reasoning as to why you think he is that age :)

[demonsfate]

❝ does anyone else find it peculiar that all my female friends are still high schoolers despite being nearly 20 ? why is xiao still wearing a school uniform ? asuka pulled up in a school uniform, didn't she turn 18 about 5 months ago ? why is alisa going to school, she's a robot, & she's designed to be around xiao's age ? is something going on that i'm not aware of ? are they even going to school, or are my friends involved in a cult ? ❞

[homosociallyyours]

(cw for gun violence & racism mentions in tag post)

[saltedsolenoid]

kin assign me a together in hell character please i am looking at you blinking rapidly please pleaase please

(elaboration in tags)