#i sure as hell can't

[bisonaari]

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JA MÄÄ 👈

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[zacksephreunion]

Lmao sephiroth knew zack would be upset when they finally met up after "what, a hundred years?" and STILL he poked fun at the situation, STILL he smiled even after zack griped and complained at him, STILL he gave zack permission to go see aerith and made sure zack saw that he was more than happy to do so, wished him well and wasnt bitter about it—

SEPH HELD OUT AND IT WAS WORTH IT IN THE END because he /sees/ zack is worried about him, about /them/, despite his frustration

Sephiroth remained kind and understanding of zack because he KNEW zack would be kind and understanding of him, FUCKKKKKKKKK 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🫠🫠🫠

[g4yr4t]

I've been trying to sleep for like two and a half hours. can't settle down. too itchy too anxious too hot.

[anxious-alyssia]

I mean... can you blame him?

Wait… I just found out that this picture comes from Jon’s dreams… you mean to tell me Jon dreamt up Damian in this outfit………

[technically-human]

Can you draw something with Doom Patrol!Edwin and Netflix!Edwin?

Maybe something about Dp!Edwin talking about his feelings for Charles with N!Edwin?

It's just something I've been thinking of, make it a little angsty?<3

Glad you asked

ko-fi

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 301

Ellie, during one of her stints of what do I do with my life right now, decides to, with the help of her Original Dad-Person (Look he’s aging and she’s not and it gets less questions the older he gets if he says daughter instead of sister with how the Fentons are getting older too) creates a Boo-Tube channel. No, not a Youtube channel, those are stuck to a single dimension.

Bootube on the other hand? Due to being through the Realms (and wow is Tucker getting so much income from creating it) is interdimensional. Which is so cool honestly. And she doesn’t know what to do at first, and honestly there’s already so many travel blogs that she kind of just… decided to do something that she wished someone had done for her and her brothers and Danny when she was new to the world. 

So she creates the channel CAAW: Clone Awareness, Accommodations, and Welfare. They had to learn things through trial and error, but maybe she can help someone out there learn how to find their own selves, or even help someone not melt. 

[saintaviator]

lineup fer an AU I've been slowly rotating in my head for a month or so.... sniles....

[BETTER LINEUP & FULL AU EXPLANATION HERE !!!!]

[heyninja]

I also want to tack on that a lot of the classes (especially at the end of high school) are designed for testing to accrue college credits or simultaneously earning credits while being in the class. Which in some ways is cool - you have less credits to take in college, which can save money and/or time - and looks good if you're trying to get into certain programs or schools. (Where people come up with the time to do the Other Things competitive programs like, such as volunteering or other extracurricular activities I'll leave for someone else.)

The high school I went to had, in my opinion, very exceptional teachers in all but one instance of these classes and I was Very Prepared to deal with college classes. I was pushed to take a pretty heavy class load to finish my degree in a certain time (money concerns) but even then I already had experience juggling a huge amount of homework all the time, and not being in classes 8 hours straight a day actually felt like I had more time to deal with it.

Except going screaming through undergrad in 3 years sounds cool on paper, until you realize what my life was like. I'd taken every "gifted" or "advanced" class offered as soon as they started offering them (I believe I started about 12) and only ever begged out of any college credit classes in my senior year of high school because I was already graduating with honors without it so it didn't make too much of a difference. I'd been doing hours of homework every day, every weekend, every break, every summer had homework before class started, for 10 years of my life when I graduated with my Bachelor's.

I was expected to go straight into graduate school because that was The Plan, and I was so burned out I had to withdraw or I would have failed.

It actually took me until earlier this week? to realize that I was so burned out because of how hard I was pushed by my schedule and workload and (not the school's fault) parental expectations, that it's a wonder I didn't collapse during undergrad. I think, actually, looking back on what I remember, I very nearly did. The last semester I had the lightest load - what actually counted as a full load at 12 hours, which was a break for me because I'd never taken that few - and I remember being so so so so tired.

My life might have been radically different if I'd only taken advanced courses I was interested in, taken things a little slower, been exposed to more people, and had more time to discover myself as a person. College would have been a lot different if I wasn't constantly working with 5+ texts at the same time with 3 papers due in the same week more often than not. I don't know what my 20s would have looked like if I was given the chance to chill.

But I can tell you one thing, I to this day have trouble with things like online courses, even for things I want to do for fun, because it brings back so much anxiety and expectations of "excellence" and what if I don't make the right grade?

I really think people, especially in the US, need to chill out on advanced courses for high school and consider quality of life for the kids in them.

I think a lot of the skepticism and derision toward the idea of "gifted kid burnout" stems from the fact that a lot of folks have no idea what the gifted track in most high schools actually looks like; they've got this mental image, possibly informed by popular media depictions, of "gifted kids" as a privileged group of students who get to go on extra field trips, monopolise the teachers' attention in class, and constantly be told how special they are, but who are otherwise treated identically to all the other kids.

In practice, the gifted track in most high schools – most North American high schools, at any rate – has the same problem as any other educational program: the need to adhere to published metrics. These programs exist for the benefit of students only insofar as those benefits can empirically be measured, which leads to several common outcomes:

Students on the gifted track being afforded fewer choices regarding elective classes – often to the extent of having no choices at all – in order to stream the highest-performing students into the subjects that are most valuable in terms of boosting institutional metrics.

Students on the gifted tracking receiving restricted access to educational resources such as tutoring because it's perceived as a waste of resources. In many cases, gifted students are not only denied access to tutoring, but expected to serve as volunteer tutors and teaching assistants themselves, effectively becoming a source of unpaid educational labour for the schools they attend.

Students on the gifted track being assigned considerably more homework, often literally doubling their workload in an environment where homework loads are already routinely high enough that kids have difficulty finding time to eat and sleep, simply because you get more measurable academic performance data that way.

The upshot is that the gifted track is often less about fun perks and constant praise, and more about receiving less freedom, fewer resources, and heavier workloads than one's peers, getting strong-armed into providing unpaid labour to the school on top of it, and constantly being told one should be grateful for it – and that's without touching on the fact that the unspoken secondary purpose of many gifted programs is to serve as a quarantine for all the neurodivergent kids the school couldn't find an excuse to institutionalise or expel.

Like, shit, there's a reason kids on the gifted track exhibit elevated rates of alcoholism and substance abuse compared to general student populations. That doesn't arise in a vacuum!

(To be clear, I'm not saying that people graduating from high school and immediately having an existential crisis upon realising they're not special after all isn't a thing that happens, but in my experience that's more usually something that happens to the kids who were on the football team, and reframing it as a nerd culture thing is really weird.)

[dlartistanon]

Seeing them in RS reminded me how good their dynamic is. I will not stand for Zofia erasure. Zofia is the one who has mentored and supported Maria all this time. Zofia openly shows her care and concern and was willing to die with Maria just so she wouldn't be alone.

[jeeaark]

Lae'zel: *as shown*

Gg: "yes, it hurts. I don't regret it now, but I wouldn't recommend it"

Emps: "Collage first"

[skellagirl]

Gordon/Barney/Alyx is really really funny to me conceptually bc it's like, two hot geniuses in their 20s who look at the 40-something smartass who hangs around and go 'yeah that guy. we both want him carnally'

[redysetdare]

"This fandom is so queer friendly!" This fandom literally hates, bisexual, trans, nonbinary, and aspec people but ok.

[erinwantstowrite]

personally i think the trope of "said something i wasn't supposed to while high on pain meds at the hospital" only works if it's smth actually incomprehensible. down with this trope. that and the whole "speaking out loud but the narrator doesn't know they are" trope. you should legally have to tag that i think. i know this usually happens for characters that would never admit something otherwise but actually there are a billion reasons someone would admit something they wouldn't otherwise. for example: someone else has a bomb-

[the-witchhunter]

DP x DC: Homme Fatale

Noun. homme fatal (plural hommes fatals) An ultimately seductive and dangerous man; a womanizer.

On a bit of a Film Noir kick right now, so blame that

Imagine, if you will:

Danny, a private eye in Gotham, ever the hard boiled detective, sitting in his dark office, drinking coffee you could use to tar a roof. The office isn't in a good neighborhood but rent still ain't cheap. He's fixing to get a new case on his desk soon

Enter one Timothy Drake-Wayne, CEO of Wayne Enterprizes. He walked in shirt unbuttoned dangerously low in a suit sharp enough to cut yourself on and bags under his eyes to large to be counted as carry on. Mr. Drake has a job for him, one he wants to keep quite, and one important enough that he's willing to add a couple zeros to Danny's usual rate. This job is a dream come true... almost too good to be true...

or

Tim Drake aka Red Robin(yummm) needs plausible deniability on a case tied to his civilian identity and so hires a PI and lays down a trail of clues for him. All the while playing up the Noir tropes to flirt with the cute detective.

why doesn't he just take care of it as Red Robin? Shhhhh... the detective is cute and he's having too much fun playing the homme fatale

Bonus: Immediately after wrapping up Tim's case Kon walks into Danny's office dolled up in a vintage dress, period appropriate makeup done, all to play the part of the Femme Fatale and do the exact same thing Tim did. Does he know Tim literally just did that? Maybe, maybe not

[vaggieslefteye]

ADAM in Hell Is Forever ♫ | 1x01 - Overture

[technically-human]

Confessional... things get complicated when you're a ghost.

@i-am-as-normal-as-you-are asked for, and this is a literal quote, "R!Edwin going to a confessional (full angst)" so yeah... full angst indeed.