#mari's classmates

[yeehawpim]

I just assumed "High-Five Heroes" came from some hope for positivity, but Brennan talked about Kipperlilly pushing it on her group in this really cool interview and that gave it a p interesting extra dimension for me

[coochiequeens]

On the 35th anniversary of The École Polytechnique massacre never forget the 14 women who were killed for being women in science

The École Polytechnique massacre (French: tuerie de l'École polytechnique), also known as the Montreal massacre, was an antifeminist mass shooting that occurred on December 6, 1989 at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec. Fourteen women were murdered; another ten women and four men were injured.

Perpetrator Marc Lépine, armed with a legally obtained Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle and hunting knife, entered a mechanical engineering class at the École Polytechnique. He ordered the women to one side of the classroom, and instructed the men to leave. After claiming that he was "fighting feminism", he shot all nine women in the room, killing six. The shooter then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targeting women, for just under 20 minutes. He killed eight more women before ending his own life. In total, 14 women were killed, and 14 others were injured.

The massacre is now widely regarded as an anti-feminist attack and representative of wider societal violence against women; the anniversary of the massacre is commemorated as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. After the attack, Canadians debated various interpretations of the events, their significance, and the shooter's motives. Other interpretations emphasized the shooter's abuse as a child or suggested that the massacre was the isolated act of a madman, unrelated to larger social issues

The incident led to more stringent gun control laws in Canada, and increased action to end violence against women. It also resulted in changes in emergency services protocols to shootings, including immediate, active intervention by police. These changes were later credited with minimizing casualties during incidents in Montreal and elsewhere. The massacre remained the deadliest mass shooting in Canada until the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks over 30 years later.[4]

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Timeline

Sometime after 4 p.m. on December 6, 1989, Marc Lépine arrived at the building housing the École Polytechnique, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, armed with a Ruger Mini-14 rifle and a hunting knife.[5] He had purchased the gun less than a month earlier on November 21 in a Checkmate Sports store in Montreal. He had told the clerk that he was going to use it to hunt small game.[6] He had been in and around the École Polytechnique building at least seven times in the weeks leading up to December 6.[5]

The perpetrator first sat in the office of the registrar on the second floor for a while, where he was seen rummaging through a plastic bag. He did not speak to anyone, even when a staff member asked if she could help him.[2] He then left the office and was seen in other parts of the building before entering a second-floor mechanical engineering class of about sixty students at about 5:10 p.m.[7] After approaching the student giving a presentation, he asked everyone to stop everything and ordered the women and men to opposite sides of the classroom. No one moved at first, believing it to be a joke until he fired a shot into the ceiling.[8][9]

Lépine then separated the nine women from the approximately fifty men and ordered the men to leave.[10][9] He asked the women whether they knew why they were there; instead of replying, a student asked who he was. He answered that he was fighting feminism.[9][11] One of the students, Nathalie Provost, protested that they were women studying engineering, not feminists fighting against men or marching to prove that they were better. He responded by opening fire on the students from left to right, killing six—Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, and Annie St-Arneault—and wounding three others, including Provost.[9][11] Before leaving the room, he wrote the word "shit" twice on a student project.[10]

The gunman continued into the second-floor corridor and wounded three students before entering another room where he twice attempted to shoot a female student. When his weapon failed to fire, he entered the emergency staircase where he was seen reloading his gun. He returned to the room he had just left, but the students had locked the door; he failed to unlock it with three shots fired into the door. Moving along the corridor, he shot at others, wounding one, before moving towards the financial services office, where he shot and killed Maryse Laganière through the window of the door she had just locked.[12][11]

The perpetrator next went down to the first-floor cafeteria, in which about 100 people were gathered. He shot nursing student Barbara Maria Klucznick near the kitchens and wounded another student, and the crowd scattered. Entering an unlocked storage area at the end of the cafeteria, the gunman shot and killed Anne-Marie Edward and Geneviève Bergeron, who were hiding there. He told a male and female student to come out from under a table; they complied and were not shot.[13]: 30 [11]

The shooter then walked up an escalator to the third floor where he shot and wounded one female and two male students in the corridor. He entered another classroom and told the men to "get out", shooting and wounding Maryse Leclair, who was standing on the low platform at the front of the classroom, giving a presentation.[13]: 26–27  He fired on students in the front row and then killed Maud Haviernick and Michèle Richard who were trying to escape the room, while other students dived under their desks.[11][13]: 30–31  The killer moved towards some of the female students, wounding three of them and killing Annie Turcotte. He changed the magazine in his weapon and moved to the front of the class, shooting in all directions. At this point, the wounded Leclair asked for help; the gunman unsheathed his hunting knife and stabbed her three times, killing her. He took off his cap, wrapped his coat around his rifle, exclaimed, "Oh shit", and then killed himself with a shot to the head, 20 minutes after having begun his attack.[14][13]: 31–32  About 60 unfired cartridges remained in the boxes he carried with him.[14][13]: 26–27 

After briefing reporters outside, Montreal Police director of public relations Pierre Leclair entered the building and found his daughter Maryse's stabbed body.[15][16]

The Quebec and Montreal governments declared three days of mourning.[15] A joint funeral for nine of the women was held at Notre-Dame Basilica on December 11, 1989, and was attended by Governor General Jeanne Sauvé, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Quebec premier Robert Bourassa, and Montreal mayor Jean Doré, along with thousands of other mourners.

The Victims

Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student

Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student

Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student

Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student

Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student

Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student

Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department

Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student

Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student

Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student

Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student

Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student

Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student

Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student

[g0ldenglider]

Do you think that Mary Ann and Zelda know each other? They are both barbarians who would have been in the same year. Neither of them seem to be/have been in the same class with Gorgug (ofc Zelda had private lessons with Porter in freshmen year, but I assume that wasn't ALL of her classes) so it stands to reason they might have been in the same class block.

I like to think they actually got on okay. They're both very reserved and clearly neurodivergent it's easy to imagine them partnering up on group projects when Zelda doesn't want to ask someone else and Mary Ann doesn't care to. They make for an interesting match up with Mary Ann seemingly being a very brute force style of combatant and Zelda being a dexterity focused Eagle barbarian, but them being probably the shortest two barbarians in their year. I bet they enjoyed hanging out in class and not actually having to talk to each other, maybe chatting occasionally about crystal games

[robbie-verse]

[oc] temperance

[orangeispice]

breaking news: renowned actress mary jane watson posts tell-all to her twitter about how her longtime husband took johnny storm, of the fantastic four, as his senior prom date, specifically to make her jealous.

[station26]

THE ROMANCE OF AFFLICTION by SEEYOUSPACECOWBOY... MOCK CD SLIP + POSTER

[000marie198]

I love speaking in 3rd person when someone talks about me like I'm not even there

[writtenbysmek]

been reading the 1831 edition of frankenstein for a class and it’s making me notably worse

the binge listening of the magnus archives is not helping

[televinita]

[side note: though written months apart originally, this is kind of funny given my last text post, almost like I'm answering my own question]

After seeing one at a library sale, looking up the rest of the Flirt series, and thinking "aww that would have been so cute to have had growing up if I'd been born circa 1997-2005," I had a sudden realization moment of "wait a minute..."

Because I realized, that for all I have made shippin' people on movies and TV a core part of my personality (original X-Files shipper here; also loved many an animated Disney prince as any 90s child would)...I cared almost zero percent about romance in my books until I was an adult?

Like, I look back on my reading lists, and partly it's that my jam was old books, old books aimed at children mostly, where if boyfriends/dating existed they were more like social accessories than anything that would make a reader swoon. Or I was reading nonfiction. I didn't read adult books unless required for school, or the occasional bonus classic Mom insisted was fun. Even when I did read more modern YA, when I've reread the titles I remember as being standouts, half the time it turns out I've forgotten there was even a boy in them.

(This is getting long so I'm adding a cut)

Plus I very distinctly recall looking at the rows of Jeannette Oke, and whatever Harlequin or Avon was attempting to do for teen readers (also mostly in historical fiction) at the time, and being bored to tears by the sight of them, since they looked exactly like all the rows of bland romance novels in the adult section.

(although I did give 4 stars to the exception I made for Miranda and the Warrior, which...??)

In fact, I just skimmed through my high school reading lists, and at a glance? I can't think of a single relationship / love story I remember fondly. Most of them I, once again, don't even remember having relationships in them. There were a few couples I got attached to in long-running series books, specifically in Thoroughbred and Animorphs, but romance obviously wasn't the focus in those.

Maybe I was into Laura/Almanzo in the Little House series, once he came along? but I don't think I checked for Anne/Gilbert in Avonlea, tbh, which I would have read around the same time.

...and now I'm kind of curious to see if I can figure out the earliest standalone book couple I remember swooning about.

[EDIT: oh wait. I have the sudden horrible feeling, actually, that I swooned about a Lurlene McDaniel novel. Maybe more than one, since I read a lot. At minimum I'm pretty sure I got Intense as an 8th grader about the Angels Watching Over Me trilogy...]

[and speaking of 8th grade, even though I forgot the specifics I dimly remember being into Daine/Numair in Tamora Pierce's Immortals quartet back then too]

[SECOND EDIT: WAIT, just realized we have a shipping winner, despite minimal actual overt romance, and it's Jo/Laurie of Little Women obviously!!!!! whew, now I feel redeemed]

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You guys should tell me your earliest favorite book couples, if you feel so inclined! I hardly talked about books with anyone after age 12 or so, online or off, until well into adulthood so I have no idea what my peers or really anyone born before the year 2000 were into.

[mephiles-the-jester]

the power of undertale songs make me upgrade one of my sonadow fankids now that i know what to do with him,,hes like if a teenage girl was a guy with psychic possession abilities,and he frequents the local roller rink

[bi-dykes]

I think the reason why my brain goes “DAUGHTER!!” upon seeing Gwen anytime she’s on screen (which is ironic considering I used to have a crush on her in highschool lol) is that she now reminds me of this one student I absolutely adore at work. The daughterest daughter ever to daughter

[good-beans]

Woo I shared that piece at the reading and people actually laughed!!!!! Yaaay!!!

[transxfiles]

saddest part of college is we have no specific books that we're going through for class, just The Readings. no literature, just snippets from textbooks and papers about how to write. not even a short story in the mix. only The Readings.

[neutrallyobsessed]

The Artistically-inclined Marie Curie clones are Friends!

[relentlesslyexisting]

Live Shingo Reaction.

[kflixnet]

Check out our member Mari's smau!

Mr. Yang, Is that you?: Masterlist

Synopsis: You were playing Roblox until you started having beef with one player that goes by the name “mryangslays193” determined to beat the player in the game. What happens if you go to class and find out it’s your crush Yang Jungwon who is the owner of the account ..?

Pairing: crush!jungwon x fem!reader

Featuring: Sunoo & Niki, Zb1 Gyuvin, kep1er youngeun, weeekly jaehee, IVE Liz.

Genre: classmates to friends to lovers, crack, fluff, angst, Roblox, smau, college au

Warnings: swearing, mean jokes, teasing, kms/kys jokes, individual warnings will be added.

Status: completed

Started: March 7 Ended: June 6

Taglist: Closed

Notes: hey… 😏 Roblox theme bc Roblox 4 life. Umm I just finished my last smau that took 3 MONTHSSSS (shouldn’t have) ummm I excited where this one goes and I hope it doesn’t take long like ttsd 🙄 written chapters like usual

Profiles: BADDIES 🤺 , SHEva love club, privs

Chapters:

Preview

1. Sleek the weak

2. AYO WHAT THE-

3. Mr Yang Yang better watch out

4. He wants MEEE

5. HE IS WHO!?!

6. Nah I’m out

7. Crack and Snap

8. Yandere era

9. Uh oh stinky

10. On my soul

11. So you’ll admit it?

12. RAHH (in smol)

13. Bro needs to be stopped

14. I.h.h.a

15. NEW HAIR NEW TEE NEW MAN!? — written and smau

16. won = sad

17. ALPHA!! 🤡💀

18. Please tell me.. — written

19. NO NOT YOU

20. EYES WIDE OPEN!!

21. Back up 🗣️🔥

22. Punch a guy

23. Roblox 2gether

24. nervy and nerdy — written

25. If it had been me-

26. PAUSE HUH-

27. Mr. Yang Yang approved

28. Bittersweat — written

29. Forever and 4vr

30. good 2 know 👍

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