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[shrunkupthejams]

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thanks for the tag @aohendo !!!

i actually haven't written very much that i haven't yet shared since like june,, but here's a bit about geo and chad that was supposed to be part of my capstone (tho i never finished it... oop.)

also ig this is a bit more than a line but like.... 🤷 idc it works shh it's fine

Chad grinned. "See? No harm, no foul." 

Geo rolled their eyes again. 

"I'm beginning to think you're doing that to spite me for calling you an old stuck-up." 

Geo paused mid-eye roll, narrowing their eyes as they tried to hold back a smile. "You've made a monster of me, Meredith." 

"I am a great influence, thank you!" Chad grinned. (Yeah, he was feeling a bit vindictive.) "But tell me, O monster of mine own creation, what we're doing in Nästerren." 

Geo looked away to the horizon shyly. "My family is from here," they said quietly, and Chad felt cold all over in the full light of summer. Because how was he supposed to feel about that when he himself couldn't go home? He was going to be sick. 

"You... you brought me to your home?" If his feet didn't touch the ocean floor, he was going to drown, floating adrift. There was something here; so tentative, so vulnerable. Geo was showing him something important to them, something real, sharing it with him, and Chad wanted to reach out with heavy hands to crush that butterfly of hope. How was he supposed to accept this vulnerable extended hand when he was rotting from the inside out with homesickness and the knowledge that he could never go back. Chad was petrified and the tide was going to drag him away. 

tagging: @multi-lefaiye @jezifster @shineywrites @aschlindartroom

[icharchivist]

Cinema and literature? Which college did you attend to? That's so interesting! That explain why you are so good at giving explanation about hxh and stuff 🤔

aah thank you kdjhsjkdhd I don’t know how good I really am about it but this is really nice!

Actually it was in High School. In France, you chose a cursus in High School (Litterature, Science, Economics, Merchendise, you can pick more general ones, or really specific studies in high school but it works differently and i don’t know enough about it)

Then you also pick a secondary cursus, an option you will stick with for years. I picked Cinema, but there was Arts, Litterature, Sciences, Math, and a whole lot different options.

So I was in a Cinema option for three years in High School and a Litterature Cursus for two years. 

(high school is only 3 years, starts at 15yo, you pick your option the first year, and your cursus specialisation on the second year)

So ye, every week I had about 5 to 7 hours of studying Cinema where we basically analysed movies, analysed how movies were made, both on a technical standpoint and on a “what the framing/lightning ect” would mean” standpoint.  We would also make our own short-movies, defend them and explain them and will have to present them in the cinema festival the High School hosted every year where it presented all the movies made by the school (3 a year the two first years, really short by our own means, and on the last year, a short movie with big means and with an actual Report (I think mine was like 30 pages long) about all the steps that went into the creation of the final product). 

The exams were all about analysis and tbh, I can brag on that, but I had the best grade in the speaking exam about analysing movies (19 out of 20 points, which is like. A lot. A real lot. Especially in the final exams that defines your diploma.)

At the same time I was following the Litterature Cursus, which was basically something like 4 hours of Litterature a week where we were analysing books, and a Litterature Cursus implies also 6 hours a week of studying Philosophy on the last year. 

That + Languages (We had both English language and English Litterature, and a second language to pick - mine was Italian, It was a mistake, bye) and + History/Geography.

so French Litterature, English Litterature, History, Cinema, and Philosophy were all about analysings. Tbh I blame that for the reason I always end up rambling, because it was really, really badly seen if you would only give back less than a 4 pages essay after an exam. We were kinda used to write more, and having to organize it and such. (okay maybe not in English though because the level in English class isn’t really high, but it was true for the others lessons) 

then after High School I followed an English Litterature and Civilisation Cursus. So it had translations, but still Litterature Analysis to write as Essays and same with Hisory classes. We even had analysis of Press and analysis of Media like Cinema (which was so frustrating to me because it was like, level from my first year of high school ahah)

I dropped out for multiple reasons, and went into an art school. And while there it was much more about doing art, we still had Art History which was all about analysng Arts stuff and writting essays about the influence of art on anything. It was something I was rather okay with. 

Well as for now I don’t study anything anymore (kinda dropped out from school for good, not my biggest pride there) but that had been my scholar cursus so far.

So ye. All about analysing and writting a goddamn lot all the time. 

Istg there’s two pages in the hxh manga that have me geeking out because of the meaning of the FRAMING and i’m just holding back to ramble for ever about them because this is?? so silly?? and it’s just that it’s aesthetically made for that I shouldn’t over-read into it, but man, i love framing analysis, but this is the easiest stuff to over-analyse at this point ahah. 

But while it makes it fun to analyse in general, it does have me write wayyyys too much for my own good and end up overanalysing details that probably shouldn’t be overanalysed.

And even if I dealt with it more or less well in school (I did get my diploma with a mention saying I had “Rather Good” results) I was often told that I was all over the place and sometimes had trouble to focus on the question I was asked, and while i was answering to it, it was just going in every direction with so much different points, it was a mess ahah. 

And like anyone would tell you, there’s the big risk that what I’m analysing using the rules i’ve been taught about were not at all the author intend because maybe the author didn’t know about those rules or didn’t apply them on purpose and it was just all about aesthetics.

And it’s not like I know all of those rules either, or pay attention to all of them all the time either. I still myself have a lot to learn!

But I guess indeed that’s the reason I reply to stuff like I do when it comes to overanalysing dkjfhdkjf

Thanks for the message nonny ❤