#school is tough

[shoami323]

Decades Challenge

Generation 1 - 1890

Floriana Milicent Milton was born in year 1870 to Leonard and Annabelle Milton, upper-class merchants. She was raised as a proper lady, who was meant to wed a son of another merchant family in the future. Although Floriana was a big romantic, keeping herself busy with reading romance novels and dreaming of marrying the boy of her dreams, she didn't exactly mind her fate. She had to marry someone anyway, so she saw no point in fighting with her parents over something like this.

A year younger than Floriana, Clarence Octavius Wellington was born 3rd of 6 kids of poor farmers, Octavius and Prudence Wellington. He was a sensible and hard-working, though a bit gloomy boy, who found great joy in helping his parents with the farm. He never really thought about marriage and wasn't keen on it, but he knew that he would probably marry some farm girl one day, just to have someone to care for the house while he would be working in the fields.

In 1889, Floriana's father started looking for a new gardener. Because Clarence's family was struggling financially even more then, he applied for a job and got hired. He did a great job at taking care of the plants, thanks to the long hours he spent working at the farm. One day, while tending to the flowers, he saw a beautiful girl who was looking at them. She had jet black hair, dark eyes and smooth skin. Most people probably wouldn't call her beautiful, but she swept him off his feet in a moment he saw her.

Floriana, too, thought he was quite a handsome lad. His red hair reminded her of her favourite flowers, roses, which grew under her room's window and greeted her every day after she woke up. So after a few days, during which she fought with herself about what she had to do in a situation like this, she approached him and began talking. At first the talk was about the weather, but they soon began talking about their hobbies, their families, their greatest joys and regrets. The talk was never once awkward, and it seemed like they knew eachother since childhood.

Clarence was a sensible boy. He knew it was wrong, and that he shouldn't flirt with a higher class girl. At first, he thought he would eventually fall out of love. But when his affection held for Floriana only grew each day, he knew he had no time to waste. He proposed to her one winter evening, when they were sitting under an apple tree, thinking that she would probably turn him down, anyways. But to his surprise, she agreed.

They ran away together and got married in a small chapel in the town where Clarence lived at - Henford-on-Bagley. It was the day when Floriana lost all her wealth and luxuries, but she never once regretted that decision. After all, she gained something else.

And it was Clarence's love.

[luminousbravery]

as soon as spring break hits in like a week i'll do requests i promise

[thoodleoo]

surely this fun coffee drink will save me from my immeasurable exhaustion

[starkpack]

I just got my final grades for this last quarter and I got straight A’s. I’ve really been struggling with motivation and passion for my major, and I didn’t think I’d do so well (especially in my seminar.)

I’m trying to treat myself gently and regenerate some of my early enthusiasm, but the next two quarters are my last before I graduate and I feel like I’m just going to try to survive it all.

[savagegood]

"We're closed' ma'am." "Thank you, sir. I was looking for some old, mean so-and-so named Tina." | THE BEAR SEASON TWO

[razzafrazzle]

human marzi!! almost got the whole main cast designed now :o]

[image description: a page of drawings for a human design of marzipan from homestar runner, where she is depicted as a chubby woman with two prosthetic legs that is wearing a long corduroy purple skirt, a matching cardigan, and sandals. next to a fullbody drawing of her is a drawing of her original design, a drawing of her in a long purple dress, and a drawing of her in her sultry buttons costume, where she has black hair and sunglasses. end id]

[lotus-pear]

i think you guys are onto smth..

i unironically got invested in this HELP

[meidui]

one of my favourite things about peggy is the contrast between her tact and her honesty. she's an artful secret agent and spy but i would never call her emotionally reserved because when she's angry she's furious and when she's vexed she repisotes and when she's heartbroken she cries. she's strategic, but she doesn't make those calculations in her personal relationships because she gives herself completely to the people she loves. with age, she masters diplomacy, but she never stops being vulnerable either

[kbsd]

john and gale in stalag luft iii // "violet hill" for @swifty-fox

if you love me, won't you let me know?

[study-diaries]

Things I do instead of studying...

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Watch study motivation

Read study motivation quotes

Think about studying

Worry about not studying

Lay in bed doing nothing

Daydream

Chat with friends

Have slight mental breakdowns because of studying

Wondering why i don't have time to study

[recycledraccoon]

I have evolved into Scuttlespring anon, just say anything about them. I love them so much

THE ANON PANTHEON GROWS

Ok so. Gorgug likes Mary Ann because she absolutely infuriates him but also, and perhaps more importantly, because she has a type of confidence I think a younger Gorgug would have deeply envied. She's so weird, but entirely sure of herself. She likes what she likes and anyone who would have a problem with that is absolutely beneath her notice. She has friends not despite her oddities, but because she refuses to bend about them and that confidence is incredibly attractive in a person. Mary Ann Skuttle see's something she wants and she just...goes and gets it, easy peasy. Tiny little kobald strides, but when she puts her foot down with force, Gorgug thinks she could crush a mountain under with nothing so much as a blink or falter of her stride. She's certainly physically strong enough for it, and while Gorgug is undisputedly the better fighter, Mary Ann has a physical strength hidden under soft pastel pink hoodies and can, has, and will knock Gorgug on his ass. Gorgug got THRASHED at those Bloodrush field tryouts, and I'm certain he probably got his ass handed to him more than once during the year while at practice but before he quit the team. She made him so damn mad, everything that year was, and endlessly kind Gorgug got real mean to her over it. She was better than him, more casually confident, and didn't blink ONCE at his outburst. And later? When she was resurrected and freed from possession? He talks to her, acknowledges that it was just a game but he had been actually mad to be so easily knocked aside. He never really had to work at Bloodrush to be good at it, he just was, until suddenly she proved herself better.

And yet, without flinching, Mary Ann, famous for not giving a shit but listening to Gorgug say how much he had, just....asks if he has a girlfriend. Unparalleled confidence, shooting a shot he was unprepared for. Planets aligned even as his own orbit was knocked off course. And then, when he admits he doesn't even know where to get a quokki pet, something its been explicitly known to be something she really cares about? She writes down her number, letting him see that folded paper. She initiated this, and he got swept up in it, but instead of just handing over the number and allowing him to be swept up- Mary Ann Skuttle puts the number away and tells him shes gonna put it where you get quokki pets, and if he wants her number he's going to have to go get it. He's not allowed to just be swept up in the force of her, she wants him to put in effort, prove to her and himself that this isn't just a moment but a starting point. He cant be swept up by the tide, he's gotta swim. Gorgug liked Zelda, but their relationship started because they thought she was in danger and Gorgug had the best in. He stumbled into that relationship unsure and off balance, he never would have had the confidence to pursue Zelda without his friends hands on his back and their advice in his ears. Later on he gets more serious, he did love her and he put in the work to maintain that relationship, but it didn't work out and that's ok. Ever confident Mary Ann tho? She doesn't want unsure stumbling steps into this relationship. If Gorgug doesn't make the active decision to chase her, to WANT to be with her and putting deliberate effort to get there, then she doesn't want him at all. Gorgug, confused, asking where you even GET a quokki pet? And she smirks, calls him a loser, and walks away leaving him reeling and dumbfounded. Mary Ann Skuttle wants Gorgug to work for this. And who is Gorgug Thistlespring, but someone who puts in the work for things he wants? He did the seemingly impossible by creating his own subclass of Barbaficer, even if he had to take four years of schooling all at once. He puts in the work and makes the impossible possible, the greatest wizard of this age. So yeah. Yeah. Gorgug Thistlespring likes Mary Ann Skuttle because she makes him work for it.

[myokk]

Eloise and her brother, Leo🫶

[dixenjackal]

He has a WHOPPING 5 hairs instead of 3

75 notes and I’ll design gnarly in this au

[serpentface]

reading all about the white calf, love your work, can i just say. gonna put some hibrides appreciation out there because damn. nobody in this story is lucky but she in particular seems to be having a Bad Time

Yeah a lot of things suck pretty bad for her. Unwittingly in a lavender marriage, mutual dislike between her and her dogshit husband, extremely strained relationship to her former best friend/gay quasi-boyfriend/father of her children who alternates between avoiding her and desperate attempts to make her love him again, having to constantly maintain multiple levels of facade to socially protect their throuple and therefore herself, shy and socially isolated, dealing with trauma that she doesn't even begin to recognize as such because 'nothing bad actually happened', pretty sure something is deeply wrong with her, living under a damocles sword of catastrophic social consequences should her children be exposed as bastards, has discovered an unexpected and mostly unwanted pregnancy while on a months long cross-country trek, etc.

She's also someone who prides herself in being rational, put together, stoic against adversity, and not overly emotional and weak, which basically means all of this is getting suppressed and compartmentalized away like crazy.

She HAS managed to fall into a rhythm with it all and her life IS NOT constant misery and agony. But the situation she's in for the duration of the story completely tears her out of this rhythm and makes all these factors very acute (though also opens her up to new opportunities, new and more positive/differently complex relationships, and much bigger things to worry about than her domestic life).

Unrelated drawing of her struggling not to lose her shit in public (in this case trying not to laugh)

[bruhstation]

(redraw of last year's art!) happy new year 2024, everyone! hopefully things go well this year, too :]

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

honest question: is the "pity vote" even a real thing, or is it just something that feels true? do the sort of people who aren't Trump Fanboys but like Tough Guys* see this as a show of strength or a reminder of the man's own vulnerability?