#maybe it’s just where I go to college …

[harbingersecho]

she should've been problematic at the club

[cementcornfield]

also like speaking of college joe'marr....one of my favorite headcanons is like, yeah, ja'marr probably hero worshiped/had a big crush on the new hot older super talented QB....but i also think joe had a very inconvenient little crush on ja'marr

like joe said himself that thought of his time at LSU as a master's/internship type program but for football instead of any real school curriculum (lol). he had just spent 3 years at OSU /not/ playing football and it was all he wanted to do. now that he had this chance at LSU he was going to buckle up and take it as seriously as possible (he took all online classes and spent as much time as he could at the facility, living and breathing football as much as possible).

so like, he did NOT plan on getting distracted by the cute freshman with the million watt smile and easy warm nature. this kid who would try to joke with him but never try to talk with him without justin or terrace around. this kid with all this god-given talent but no clue how to actually watch film and improve from it. but hey! nothing always goes 100% to plan!

[shyguygubbs]

I was thinking about kotlc recently and how the Black Swan originally wanted to wait to bring Sophie into the Lost Cities until way later, probably when she turned 18, and how different of a person Sophie would have been if that were the case.

Like at the start of the series, she's this child prodigy who has to go to community college in the fall at the age of 12 because her parents won't let her go to Yale (a totally valid parental choice btw), and the thing is I think she would have THRIVED in that environment. Like at first she would be scared and hesitant because in all other school environments she has been bullied for being as smart as she is, but now she's going into a school that people choose to go to in order to learn. Community college doesn't just have mean, jealous teenagers who attend, there are people of all ages and all walks of life who are ready to learn. Sure, Sophie would still be the youngest one there, and I doubt it would be super easy with the whole mind reading thing, but she would be in a much more supportive environment when it comes to learning than anything else she's experienced.

She'd be able to make friends with her peers, being able to bond over a shared love of whatever they're studying, and these friends don't think she's too smart or too weird. She maybe finds some way to muffle the voices in her head better than her earplugs did. Yeah, she still gets headaches, but she can manage it. I can see her taking as many classes as she can, figuring out her passions and what she might want to do as a career. She'd be in a fantastic place academically to transfer to any school she wants when she turns 18. I can even see her parents letting her graduate when she's 17 and allowing her to transfer to a four year college to get a bachelor's in whatever she wants to study, whatever she finds her passion for, because she worked hard for this, and doesn't hate school now, and has found a path for herself in life that feels right.

And then the Black Swan shows up and whisks her away from all of that, and she's heartbroken because she doesn't need to be taken away from everything she's worked so hard for. Yeah it feels nice to finally have the whole mind reading question answered, but she doesn't need a new place to belong, she has one. I imagine this Sophie being a lot more confident in herself, but a lot angrier too. She's fascinated by her new world, but desperately wants to go back home, to just live out the life she's been working towards. I can see her working side by side with the Black Swan from the jump, because she's in a world with injustice and she can't just sit back and let this slide, but constantly fighting back this resentment for them and how they took everything from her. I think of how canon Sophie had a brief moment of hesitation when it came to training her Telepathy, and I think this older Sophie would be conflicted between wanting to know more about this abnormality that she's been dealing with her whole life, and wanting to cling to her human identity and her old life as much as she possibly can. Because she's been ripped away from it, and no matter what her genetics say, this Sophie still views herself as human.

[coern-art-very-cool-and-nice]

sekai au 👊😔

[july-19th-club]

first time i watched 'no exit' i was 100% in jo's corner like oh great it's sexist dean time . wheeee let's all watch her learn a lesson about hunting and he can be 'right' in a factual way but he'll be as obnoxious as possible about it the whole time . now i think what's happening here is that he has pretty much instantly samzoned her, as a college dropout from a hunting family who has a contentious relationship with her one surviving parent. EXCEPT that she's a five-foot-something twiggy barely-out-of-her-teens woman who has a crush on him and has never been on a serious hunt before, and he's dismissive/over-vigilant enough with the actual sam, a powerfully-built man with clairvoyant powers and over a decade of experience. bearing that in mind, his behavior towards jo is barely outside his normal realm of bossy and overbearing, and since he knows a little something about how sams will respond to direct orders, he still tells her mother she's not on the hunt with them so as to avoid the fallout until it's over. basically i think the whole dean thing, his most consistent characterization over the course of fifteen years, is his tendency to express even genuine protectiveness through the medium of 'bossy older sibling', and this makes him come off like the worst person on the planet. he frequently IS, but it's actually because of other things and has nothing to do with that habit in specific

[hballegro]

alan alda storytime

the full story from one of the screenshots of my previous post.

story begins with my archaeology professor showing a slide of alan alda in the early 2000s holding some mammoth bones and asks the class if anyone recognizes him. i had watched some MASH with my mother when i was little and had also seen the movie The Object of My Affection, so i raised my hand and said it was alan alda. he lit up and said yes, it was, and told the rest of the class he used to be on this old show, and that when we got more into the bioanthro side of things, remind him to 'tell his alan alda story'.

about 2 months later, we are in bioanthro, and i remind him. he gets excited and says he included slides to talk about it.

[rest under cut]

he tells us how he had just moved to a new city, and he had taken a university job in order to get insurance for his new family [which he didnt get but thats neither here or there]. he gets news that his job is going to be working with Scientific American Frontiers, hosted by the one and only Alan Alda. my prof was thrilled, he loves MASH, and while he specifically wouldnt be involved in the process [being a presenter, working with alan, etc] he was allowed to be around incase they needed help.

i dont know the specific episode, or if it can be found anywhere, but the topic was early man and tools, and how there were mammoth bones that specifically had cuts that could only be made with tools, not by teeth from an animal. they had finished filming for the day and just needed B-roll of some lions at the local zoo chewing some bones [part of the experiment], and alan got a call. he asked if he could head out now, because he needed to get back to his hotel now, and the call had been important. the producers said sure, go ahead, and alan asked if someone could give him a ride.

my professor, having the chance to actually spend time with someone he idolized, and being a stupid late 20s-something, volunteered immediately. stupid why? well, i said he'd just moved there. he didnt know where the hell anything was, and he didnt have GPS available to him, he was just really excited. so they get in the car and start driving.

as i said in my previous post, alan alda had about 20 minutes with this random guy, and found out pretty quickly that he was an archaeologist, and the amazing topic of conversation that he picked was the [then new] theory that we developed agriculture specifically to make booze, and that the rest of the stuff was more or less a biproduct. which is pretty on-brand honestly.

after a while, alan catches on to the fact that this guy clearly has no idea where the hell hes going, and that they've been driving in circles around the city for a while now. he [reportedly very politely] said that actually, this here was his stop, and thanked him for the ride. he then most likely called a taxi that actually knew where it was going, and got to his hotel.

turns out the call was about The Aviator! the call was important because he learned it was confirmed he in it and they needed him to get over there.

its not a glamourous story, but its the only story i got. my prof reported he was a funny guy, and despite slightly kidnapping the poor man for a while, he was the picture of kindness and personability. and clearly he likes telling the story and it left an impression, because he took time out of our already-short lecture to tell a class of 20-somethings that had no idea who Alan Alda was about it.

sorry this is so verbose i dont know how to be short lmao

[wasabikitcat]

community college is so funny because half of the teachers are like "For this class you need to use lockdown browser for all quizzes and tests. You need to buy this 70 dollar textbook, and all papers turned in must be in APA format with a title page even if they're only 500 words long. I will not accept late assignments. Also you have a minimum of 4 assignments a week." and the other half are like "you don't need proctoring for the final exam I trust you. here's a download link to a pirated copy of the textbook. as long as your writing is coherent and demonstrates an understanding of the material I literally could not care less what format you use. I can't figure out how canvas works so I'm not giving you due dates, just make sure it's turned in before the grading period ends. your only weekly assignment is a forum post with a minimum of 100 words."

[kathbunny]

It's snowing so I'm so tempted to do a library monster Maxim experiencing snow oneshot

[ignis--fatuus]

Ever just have your homework reading tell you Watson got shot in the left ass cheek?

Cause I have

The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction for those interested

[whentherewerebicycles]

this might be nuts but I think my sister & I might try to do a trip abroad with the baby next fall

[skyward-floored]

I literally vented about my pathetic love life so I FEEL you on the struggles 😭😭 may we find a guy soon

we're all just struggling today oof 😭

I swear all the good guys are all hiding somewhere. we'll find them eventually

[digitalcactusblog]

Top 5 drinks? ☕

i am about to confess. i am a terminal water-drinker SKFJHG i'm not super into sweet things and don't mind the taste of just plain water? so i don't often have any beverages at all, so this list is about to be the most hyper-specific list of beverages known to man 😂

hot water: i would argue this counts as a drink, because most people i know don't drink hot water, i'm just very chinese lol. it's nice! feels less shocking to the system than cold water. i do not like cold water.

taro bubble tea: truly the most bestest of bubble teas. it's purple! it has edible tadpoles! yum. idk unpopular opinion though, every time i get it from a place where they actually serve legitimate taro inside their taro bubble tea, i hate it. i want the artificial stuff that comes in powder form, that is probably like 90% sugar by weight

there's this corn juice that T&T sells that's really good. is also probably 90% sugar by weight. corn!

okay i have to admit that i do like the starbucks coffee cappuccino frappuccino whatever stuff that comes in the sealed glass bottles that you can get. again, definitely mostly sugar and milk by weight (i am not a hardcore coffee person. i'm not even a coffee person really), but they taste really good. i haven't had one in years and i'm not about to break that streak now! but i do remember really liking it.

another asian beverage, there's this pineapple beer stuff that is mostly non-alcoholic (the alcohol % is super low) that is really good. ALSO most DEFINITELY 90% sugar by weight, i swear it tastes kinda like caramel and nothing like pineapple. still good tho!

[asfdhgsdkjhgb]

god is swuarshing me beneath his thumb like i am an aphid or perhaps a clover mite. yeah. its slow and painful and im small. and also meek

[dayurno]

omg reverse riko au is making me feel so ill..... please let us know if you have any more thoughts abt riko kayleigh and kevin legend.....

I DO my idea is that its around the same age kevin and riko met in canon so tetsuji kicks the bucket when riko is 7/8 and riko is (very forcibly) removed from the nest and sidelined to kayleigh as a new moriyama asset from the main branch takes over the nest. riko struggles a lot with the change because he is very young and very scared and he’s used to horrible things at tetsuji’s hand, which means that he doesn’t trust kayleigh and finds kevin entirely too weird. it’s honestly really cute because i think at this point obviously 7 year old kevin wants to befriend him but riko is such an anxious ball of anger that most of their interactions are like

baby riko: what do you WANT from me. go AWAY!!!! NOW

baby kevin: (heavy irish accent) nothing i think. do you want a bite of my sandwich?

anyway i think riko and kayleigh do get along but he never really considers her his mother or even godmother, for a long time he thinks of her as his Benefactor until the child therapy starts hitting and she becomes Aunt Kayleigh and then after a few more years he can be loosely convinced to refer to her as auntie once or twice a year. his second son syndrome never really leaves him; in the upcoming years riko struggles with the idea that he’s anything But an add-on to the days and still overworks himself to death trying to be acknowledged by kengo, but it’s leaps better just from being outside the nest and having people to look out for him

riko and kevin have some rough patches, especially during riko’s first years with the days. because kevin is an easy target and riko is afraid of kayleigh he ends up letting a lot of that anger out on kevin, though obviously at this point they are children and riko’s anger manifests in some mild bullying and name calling. i think kevin doesn’t even understand it most of the time 😭 riko has been around grown ups his entire life so his adult level insults make no sense to kevin’s seven year old mind. nevertheless after kayleigh tells him to stop picking on kevin riko does respect it (first out of fear, then later because they actually get along) and they go on to become brothers with only a slight tendency towards antagonism. riko’s jealousy of kevin is still a big part of their relationship and i think even more so when college applications roll around, and he’s even more worried when wymack comes into the picture, but it never culminates into anything as horrible as hand breaking because riko has an actual outlet and a support system :) it’s mostly a yelling match that eventually turns to getting scolded by kayleigh for acting like barbarians

[grif-o-cil]

Hey what's up passing by before entering exam hell because I watched Mouthwashing too and while I still have to really look through the tags to see if anyone adressed this yet I will yap about it anyway.

Spoilers ahead! Trigger warming for SA and death

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So am I the only one who actually fucking hates Curly?

Don't get me wrong, I know he's a victim. I'm very well aware that Jimmy was insane to put it lightly and everything he did especially to Curly was incredibly fucked up and that level of pain that he inflicted on anyone else was really just- really uncalled for.

But.

One must not forget who let Jimmy not only pull all of this shit to begin with, but also let him get away with him: Curly.

Curly was just as delusional as Jimmy; he keeps saying and believing that he can fix anything, that together along with others there is nothing that can go wrong (words that Jimmy retorts to him at the end). He believes Jimmy can do right, despite all of his striggles. He thinks everyone will despite:

Anya has failed to be a nurse multiple times and her competence is questioned, and as a med (vet) student for how much you can have good will and genuine care if you just suck at this type of task you suck, and you should step back before any more troubles are done. Also, he assumed she was gonna do fine and well and this slip-up of never checking on her and her mental health we know what that lead to

Relies on Swansie to look after Daisuke despite how much the guy kind of- hates the kid nor seem to really even care about him, berating and belittling him everytime. Now I saw the game I know he kind of did I know he wanted Daisuke to be the one saving himself but you cannot tell me that man was a good thing to the poor intern, and what he tells him before chopping through his frontal lobe is EXTREMELY ambigous. Even if it was love it still hurt and while Swansea sure was knowledgeable you don't really see him working too much (beside on the pod for Daisuke) so his sense of duty and responsability is questionable. So I can still say Curly's judgement was well-meant but misplaced

And were to even start with Daisuke. The kid should have not been there. He didn't even want to. Everyone in the crew was aware of it, told at least once for Daisuke to trail back to his parents and generally did not have an ounce of trust on him, but what did Curly do? Oh just believe that shoving him with a bunch of broken disfunctional adults was truly what he needed to become a great man one day! Curly even tells Jimmy in 1rst-2d flashback that he should have made more noise about taking in Daisuke or just let him get in at all, but did he do it?? Noooooooo he misplaced his trust again thinking Daisuke would have learnt anything, became a great mechanic and so on not really considering the reality of things

But then again Curly's delusions go further. Did this bitch really, REALLY think that he could fix SEXUAL ASSUALT with just a little talk??? That him simply going to Jimmy like "Hey man you kind of Messed Up fr fr wanna do something about it, pay child support and talk to Anya uhmm?" was really change the mind of a guy who was already willing to do and DID something as horrible as that, and that it'd all have been fine?? That doing so would have magically fixed Anya's state of mind, the fact she was robbed of any dignity and accountability and just bare with the pregnancy and to stay around her fucking assaulter??

Did Curly really think any of that bullshit would have fixed or even helped any of the two??? Even in the case the crash did not happen??? Did he think this was the right environment for Daisuke to be in?? That all of their problems would have magically be fixed by the time they'd have arrived???

Just because he was willing to take responsability, it doesn't mean he was good for it. Or that he did at all, since Curly let his Best Buddy running around and do evil even before the actual crash showing that maybe the Great Captain was not so willing to take responsability at all.

And look, I get it. I get it that Curly had a big burden on his shoulder, was working for a failing company, was sent out transporting damn mouthwash in space on a broken vessel that the Tulpar was and there wasn't much that he could do about it. But you know what he could have fucking done? Grow a spine. Tell Jimmy to fuck off and chew him out for what he did, stand up for Anya, be reasonable with his superiors ans Daisuke's parents about loading this poor kid in a senseless journey were he would have realistically learnt anything anyway.

THAT was something within his power. He did nothing. He thought he could have handled all of that and waited until the last fucking moment... not even!!! NOT EVEN!!!! Because when he catches Jimmy out of the cockpit after the bastard condamned them all to crash against the meteor, he still has the galls to speak to him as if he was his friend, what did you do. Tell him what did you BITCH YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID FUCK YOU EVEN ASK IF YOU DIDN'T WASTE YOUR TIME AT IT MAYBE YOU COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING AND SAVE YOURSELF BEFORE BEING EATEN UP BY THE FOAM.

So for how evil this may sound, while- again the amount of pain and actual torture Jimmy puts Curly through for no reason than petty revenge, to just "make him get to the same level as all of them and watch lose everything"... Curly deserved at least ONE of those things to happen to him. This would have been avoided if he just did not think he could fix his "friend" and kick him out of the crew. Innocents lives would have been spared a miserable, agonizing and slow descend into madness and death including his own.

But he didn't. Curly was ultimately the one bringing this all to him.

He had the guts to go down with his own ship (or at least was willing to, but oh well in the cryogenic tank he went), sure, but that doesn't change the fact he was still the one to first send it to sink.

[corioliseffect]

new curse dropped: having fic ideas but i refuse to write rpf/don't think i even could