#sleeping with my student

[lovemurphythe100]

Mitchell Hoog in Sleeping With My Student

[equill]

Job promotion (now what?)

Comic 1: Interrogation

Caught him lurking in the background (he was being suspicious in their defense)

Comic 2: Everywhere you go.

[lotus-pear]

HIII SORRY FOR NO NEW ART have some concept sketches for the fic i'm working on instead

[pali-and-proud]

I was thinking about Buddy's character arc earlier!

It's really, really rare that you see a redemption arc like Buddy's work so well in a romance, and that's because there's often some level of excusing abusive/harmful behavior on past trauma/characters/factors. I love Buddy so much, but early Buddy put in the WORK to make Chase's life hell.

Romance novels/webtoons are especially guilty of this--how often has the protag forgiven the love interest within two chapters? how often has the love interest even apologized for what they did, or illustrated remorse by actually trying to change?

And I think what really sets Buddy's arc apart from a lot of other redemption arcs is the decision to not give us any details about his past. We can somewhat discern Buddy isn't doing great, something Chase has picked up, but we also know Chase isn't doing great, something Buddy has not realized.

Chase said it best--regardless of whether it's morally right or not, if Buddy treats him shitty, Chase will call him out on it. Chase has the same amount of information as we do, and he makes it clear that it's not enough to justify the way Buddy treated him.

And Buddy CONFIRMS that, much later, by apologizing. Most importantly, we know Buddy's sincerity in the way he's clearly harboring guilt--his hesitation over Chase's injured hand, his scorn for his tendency to worsen a situation, and his reaction to Vampire-Guy's heart-filled speech.

What all this means is that we know Buddy feels upset and remorseful for what he did + how he treated Chase, without really knowing the angsty logic behind it. And that's brilliant, because Punko manages to use Buddy's facial expressions and cleverly-placed crumbs of information to help us sympathize with him without even giving us the trauma.

We as readers can't excuse his behavior (bc we literally do not know WHY he was that callous--the guy stuffed bugs in Chase's shoes and set traps to catch the kid), but we can compare who he was with who he's trying to be. And somewhere between the two, we can almost see the authentic, genuine Buddy.

It's such a brilliant way to set up/carry out the redemption of Buddy. If you check out episode one Buddy (please do), and you compare with episode 53 Buddy, it's an absolutely insane difference. You think ep1 Buddy would cry out for help? Would hug Chase? Would even consider apologizing to Chase, let alone saving him from a creep? Excluding the bit where Buddy tricked Deacon into nearly getting mauled by wolves, of course, but that was character-consistent and hilarious and honestly, would he be our boy if he wasn't slightly maschotic

Anyway, I love seeing a good character redemption arc, and I genuinely think Buddy's is one of the better arcs I've read in such a long time.

[thenarwhalgal]

I think the funniest thing about Arcane is that Jayce and Jinx never actually meet.

I mean really think about it… these characters are like two of the most major driving forces in the entire show. These two for some reason keep managing to effect the other throughout the whole show. Like it’s crazy how specifically intwined the two are with both each other and the Arcane.

And yet they literally never meet. Not once. They get close multiple times. Powder is a single door away at the beginning of the show. She’s the reason his workshop blows up and he meets Viktor and almost gets banished. He’s the reason she gets her hands on the crystals that kill her family. She’s the reason he becomes a counselor by stealing the hex crystal and his research (a second time from the same person lmao, which btw allows Caitlyn to free Vi on his faked order), so he tightens security and lockdown the bridge, and Silco pushes Jinx more because of that, so then Jinx bombs the bridge, then that leads directly to Jayce killing a child which leads to peace talks which leads Jayce to ask for Jinx in return for Zaun. Which indirectly leads to Jinx blowing up the counsel. Which leads to Jayce putting Viktor in cryo-stasis and becoming Jesus, and Jinx becoming a revolutionary icon herself, and then a bunch of other stuff happens and oh no! Jayce blows up Viktor and leads to Isha dying and Vander being lost forever and despite Jinx being right there… they still don’t actually meet!

Jinx goes to blow herself up and Jayce goes to start a war and then Ekko saves her last minute because he’s been off in a side quest which… uh… well… that anomaly and the reason Ekko was there was Jayce’s fault wasn’t it? Though it was Ekko’s fault that Powder blew up his apartment in the first place if you don’t count the reason for that as being Jayce shopping illegally for parts in the Undercity to begin with. Anyway Ekko saves Jinx using Jayce’s rune, and Jinx joins that war last minute and they once again end up right next to each other for the third time! For about half a second as he flies past her fighting with her father and Vi. And they still don’t even lock eyes!!!! They don’t see each other! And then they both die immediately after.

So yeah. Jayce and Jinx end up right next to each other three times. Jinx steals from him twice, both times either making her life suck immediately or his life suck immediately. Jayce tries to arrest her, and Jinx blows him up. But they never see each other. They never… not once… meet. They are… in like 10 different ways always two degrees of separation apart.

Which is really funny, because uh… they mirror each other perfectly for their respective cities? Jayce and Jinx are both icons of Zaun and Piltover respectively, both icons because of Hextech. Both of them start out only wanting to help the world, fail at this job repeatedly and in brutal fashion. And then eventually end up becoming revolutionary figureheads.

I guess it just goes to show, the real Jinx was the Jayce’s she stole from along the way.

[littlefankingdom]

Bruce is the kind of parents teachers hate, because he always takes his child's side. Dick started a fight? His boy would never, the other kid probably started it and deserved it. Jason felt asleep in class? Well, maybe stop being boring. His kids are angels who can do no wrong.

The administration of Gotham Academy was so relieved when Dick graduated because they wouldn't have to deal with Bruce again, only for him to get another one. And once Jason passed away, they felt guilty to be happy to not have to see Bruce again, only for him to show up a year later for Tim. (I know, canonically, Tim went to another school, but this is funny to imagine) He isn't even the kid's guardian, but he justifies it with the absence of Tim's parents at the moment, how he is his neighbour and his son is very close to him, they see each others as brothers!

It's a bit different with Damian because he was raised differently than his siblings and could be quite arrogant at the start, but Bruce still does take his defense when he doesn't have his son's side.

Of course, once he is alone with his boys, he does ask what happens and lecture them if necessary, but in public, he gets protective. It comes from how he remembers feeling as a teen, angry and hurt but nobody listened or understood, just scolded him. He wants his kids to feel understood, to know they can express themselves to him. (It's canon that Bruce saw Jason's aggressivity as Robin as Jason being in pain. In older comics at least). It's also comes from how protective he is in general.

This also happens with the Justice League and other heroes. They have no right to criticize his kids, and he can lecture them himself if they really did something dangerous. Robin punched you? You probably deserved it.

His kids are perfect angels, ok?!

[mu-te33]

They're trying to find netherite

you have no idea how much I was laughing at golden helmet Ridley

[winn-wynn]

If Hogwarts used Emails

From: Percy Weasley <percy.weasley@s.hogwarts.edu>

To: Filius Flitwick <filius.flitwick@hogwarts.edu>

Subject: CHARMS-ASGMNT 3

Dear Prof. Flitwick,

I hope this message finds you well. I am currently working on assignment 3, which is about the history of Weathering-Modifying Charms and whether or not they should be regulated. I also remember you writing down mobilicorpus, which is the spell for moving bodies of those who found themselves unable to walk. I was wondering if you meant mobiliarbus, which the spell to move plants and trees, which is closer to the subject?

I would greatly appreciate any guidance or suggestions you have to offer.

Thank you and have a great night!

Percy Weasley

W8008569

From: Filius Flitwick <filius.flitwick@s.hogwarts.edu>

To: Percy Weasley <percy.weasley@s.hogwarts.edu>

Subject: Re: CHARMS-ASGMNT 3

whoops typo yeah it's supposed to be mobiliarbus

-Flitwick

Sent from my iPhone

[kraro-school-life]

✦ 15. 4. 24 ✦ 📓 ✦ Monday ✦ Day 13/60 ✦

I stayed after school for a physics lab workshop (kinda?) about solar panels and we got to experiment a bit, I liked it a lot. At home I decided to write my history homework on paper for once, which is ironic, because I still have to type it on the computer, so it turned out to be double the work. But at least my notes look pretty :)

✓ school - history homework ✓ art - started project in art class; art course ✦ sport - //

🌱🌿🪴 - 1h 20min on Forest ♫₊˚.🎧 ▷▷ Void - The Haunting

Have a great day/night !! ~ ♦️

[lovemurphythe100]

[limeinaltime]

He's taking over my brain like mold and I HATE IT/j

[martiestudies]

[270924] i found out today that my midterm includes an unit i thought it didn't. so i'm coping with the rush of anxiety with the nicest things i could find (my cat + fruits + sunlight)

[gaysie]

and they said fujoshis who post on tumblr like it’s their full time job couldn’t pass their phd qualifying exam…

[glitter-stained]

Y'all ik we do the join my emo band jokes and they're funny as fuck and everything but I do wanna say he didn't try to recruit Mia. Like seriously that's not what happened. He said "start killing people" not "join me in my killing spree". Would he have liked to be buddies with her? Honestly probably but like. He staged all that shit just to convince her to kill people. How much of it is proving a point (and to who) and how much of it his version of altruism is up to interpretation. And if you want my opinion any interpretation of this is much funnier and more unhinged than recruiting her and we don't talk about that enough.

(also it was sidekick showdown, yk between two sidekicks, they're supposed to be on equal ground, he wasn't trying to make her his sidekick. You want an example of bad writing where he tries and gets a sidekick, take Scarlett.)

[moeblob]

I'm literally both at the exact same time and I don't know how I've survived this long.

[goldensunset]

idc how many times i���ve said it i will NEVER get over just how good bbs is in hindsight after dr. like ik that’s what happens when you make a prequel but like. it isn’t every day that a prequel is actually as effective as it’s supposed to be