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when will you update??
I promise I’m not withholding new chapters, life is just busy😭 Since I started this series, I switched jobs and I don’t really have as much free time anymore, but I’m still writing snippets because I fucking love this story as much as you guys - I’m just not happy with how small the updates are and I really want them to have quality. To put it into perspective, I have a part time career in the military and 6 months ago I started a full time civilian job as a night shift 911 dispatcher, so I’ve got quite a bit on my plate. Also, this is the first and only piece of writing I have, I do not consider myself a seasoned writer by any means, so I don’t really do well when it comes to consistency in producing content - it’s not as easy or quick as I wish it was🥲
All this to say, yes I will update because I’ve got later chapters written, I’m just working on the middle stuff. (I’m like 80% done with the next chapter) When will the next update roll out? Not sure, I’ve been at my military job for the last week and I’m flying for like the next 5 days so it might be a minute, but soon.
I also just have anxiety; anxiety over not posting, anxiety when I check the word count on chapters and it’s not as long as I’d like because I can’t devote as much time, anxiety over letting you guys down because you’re all so patient and kind with me, soooo many things and I want desperately to be better for you guys.
I feel bad asking for patience because I generated so much momentum and then I let it fall to the wayside, and for that I’m so very sorry. I think about you guys and this story all the time, I’m still very much obsessed with it and wanting to get all my thoughts on ‘paper’, but I’m making do with what I got. While also taking care of myself physically and mentally😅
#sorry this turned into a lecture#I just wanted to let you know I’m still here#stressing over everything#sorry for the rant#ask bless my demons#also these asks get lost in the app on mobile and sometimes I don’t see them
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clandestine meetings <3
this was inspired by a peaky blinders scene can you believe
#fearandhatred#fearandart#drawing this turned me feral btw and i'm never going back to normal#what's with me and the colour blue in my drawings#also i really did not have time to make this but i did it anyway#sorry to my 4 math lectures i am coming for u#good omens#good omens season 2#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#crowley#aziraphale#good omens fanart#good omens art#art
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Your knowledge of medieval stuff is really impressive! You said in the tags of that ask you answered that you majored in literature? I would love to hear more about your passion for medieval literature and just medieval times in general. Did it start with Kingdom of Heaven or were you interested in it long before watching the film?
Ahh, I'm glad you think so, thank you! ☺️
I did my BA with a major in German literature and linguistics and a minor in English lit. For my MA (which I'm almost finished with save for my thesis defence), I switched to English full-time. My interest in medieval literature is really something that came with my studies - I've always had a general interest in history and read lots of historical fiction while in school, but I'd had basically no exposure to medieval texts (or the knowledge to engage somewhat meaningfully with them) until I had to take my first compulsory "Introduction to Medieval Literature" class at uni. From then on, I just kind of fell in love with the subject. We had a great prof - a really cool older lady who gave the most engaging lectures and with whom I later took seminars on topics like the medieval idea of monsters or animal depictions in chivalric romance.
Within all things medieval, the area that perhaps fascinates me the most is medievalism studies, which is a sort of sub-discipline of medieval studies that investigates, broadly speaking, the reception and depiction of the Middle Ages as well as medieval texts and topics in post-medieval media. Idk why it had to be that field in particular, but there's just something so beautiful in finding parallels and continuities between our world and the medieval one, especially since misconceptions about the Middle Ages are still so prevalent. Unsurprisingly, I wrote both of my dissertations on such medieval/modern overlaps: In my BA thesis I looked into the portrayal and function of mentor-mentee relationships in medieval literature and modern adolescent fiction (lots of commonalities there, interestingly enough!), whereas in my MA diss I focused on the construction of dystopian scenarios in recent British Arthurian fiction and how these respond not only to the older Arthurian material but also to present-day environmental and political anxieties. (Sounds a bit complicated but it makes sense, I promise.)
Perhaps this is why KoH has had such a chokehold on me these past 4 years. It's such a flawed piece of media that it makes me want to dig my teeth into it, in an academic as well as a fic-writing sense. There are so many moments in it that could be right out of a chivalric romance, yet also so many others where the film blows its pretence to historicity to all hell; there are so many interesting characters who only scratch at the surface of the historical figures behind them, and simply so much wasted potential. It's just ... ahhh.
The funny thing is that my growing interest in medieval literature kind of coincided with me discovering KoH, which in turn made me dig even deeper into the research side of things (a vicious circle lol). I think I wrote another post on this about a year ago, but me discovering - or rather re-discovering - Kingdom of Heaven was basically the result of the following chain reaction: I somehow stumbled upon an old novel covering the same events as KoH (Graham Shelby's The Knights of Dark Renown) > something in that book's depiction of Raymond of Tripoli scratched my brain in the right place > I investigated further and found KoH > I saw that skrunkly Mr Irons was part of the cast and decided I had to watch it immediately. In such matters I'm a simple girl - nothing will incite me to watch a film more than an old history man being hot 😂
And then half-way through the film I remembered I'd actually seen it before - with my former best friend during the early years of secondary school when she was obsessed (and by that I mean obsessed) with Orlando Bloom and made me watch literally every film with him that she could get her hands on. Which was a good thing only insofar as it made me discover Lord of the Rings. Though in hindsight it's very funny because she clearly intended for me to join her in her Orlando insanity, whereas confused 11-year-old me instead stared at Aragorn and Tiberias like this: 😳. Yes, I've always had impeccable taste, obviously.
And thus, in the spring of the year of our Lord 2020, I entered my KoH era, and so far the brainrot is still thriving.
I do wonder, though, how many people in the fandom have a similar background? The handful of people that I know or have interacted with seem to skew that way, with mostly history- or literature-related fields of study, but I wonder how representative they are of the overall fandom 🤔
In any case, thank you for the fun ask that did not flatter me at all!
#asks#about me#don't let the lecture voice fool you i've still got a lot to learn#sometimes i feel like people on here think i'm a trained historian but i'm not#like i've read up on the historical side of things and am continually discovering new material to look at#but at the end of the day my angle on the middle ages is that of a literature scholar and not a historian#there's a lot of overlap between the two disciplines but their methods and focuses differ#that said i'm always happy to give both academic and fictional book recs on the subject if anyone wants them#sorry for rambling on endlessly#whenever i get an ask it turns into one of these multi-paragraph monsters#i hope you don't mind!
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out of curiosity how did we find out about liam payne :(
#people were talking about it in my bio lecture and my friend and i just stared at each other like. is this a joke#hopefully everything turns out okay for his family :(#I'M NOT CAUGHT UP ON ANY DRAMA I'M SORRY#💬 yap#this could've been a poll smh
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I'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO HANDLE THE GHOST TOUR WHILST TRYING TO WRITE MY 3RD YEAR ENGINEERING THESIS FUCK
#DUE DATE FOR MY PAPER IS APRIL 29TH. LONDON IS APRIL 19TH SO IM GOING TO SET MYSELF AN EARLIER DUE DATE AND IT'LL BE OUT OF THE WAY FOR THEN#I CANT TURN CAPS LOCK OFF RN SORRY#FEELING UNSTABLE#PRESALES TOMORROW?????? NO WAY IVE GOT TO SKIP ANOTHER LECTURE FOR BAND TICKET PRESALES IM SO AUTISTIC#the band ghost#HELPPPPPPPPP KHJGSDCYKHULIO;KLSADNJMBCN#[redacted] tour
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got any future plans for adding to the child Valtor au, because the more i think about the more i wonder about how his age changes the way he interacts with the characters and vice versa
I cannot tell you how much I've been thinking about child Valtor ever since I made that post
You what a bunch of hcs??? You get a bunch of hcs!!!
Like Winx says that Valtor was made by the ancestral witches, he wasn't born, and he actively trashes against the control the ancestral witches have on him and they straight up help Bloom kill him for the kicks?? And it's like, just there? I love it but it's so easy to kill off Valtor bc he has control over his actions and he's an adult and you don't get to sit with these uncomfortable implications due to that. The tragedy has already happened, it's passed, you don't have to look at it. You know??? Not anymore, we all hurt forever
Can you imagine being Daphne??? Seeing Valtor hiding behind Belladonna's leg, this child. Can't be older than 11. Fighting your fellow Nymph's, and you can't even think about that, pay attention to that, because you need to fight Belladonna and protect your planet. This wasn't a priority, that child those evil women created wasn't a priority. How would you ever recover??
The company of light is made up of educators, people who dedicated their life to children. A stutter, a small child's eyes winding in panic. None of them could follow though. It was safer to kill him, he was made, he doesn't have a soul, it was the right option. They send him to the Omega dimension instead
He wakes up from the ice to see Belladonna's cold eyes staring back at him. She doesn't look the exact same but he knows that smile and he knows those eyes. He'd recognize his mother anywhere. He does what he's told for new Belladonna too, not that he knows why. Icy has plans, plans he's supposed to help out with
He clings to Bloom. Her magic feels like his, she's the only person who could begin to understand how he feels. She was chosen too, right? She gets it doesn't she? How could she not. He just wants someone, anyone to understand him, to help him. He couldn't tell you what he wants help with. The Ancestral Witches say he's loyal to them, and he's never been able to disagree with them before
He doesn't like the winx, he's never shared in his life and is loathed to start now. He plays tricks and schemes and never kills them. He mains, he disables, he distracts. This is fun. He's never had a true enemy, rival. The company of light wanted to defeat his mother's, these are his fights. It's fun, he wants to keep them
(You ever think about the amount of times Valtor could of straight up killed the winx or put his mark on them and he just kinda doesn't and then gives their romantic rivals a love potion??? Bc I do. That was weird and the entire reason this au exists. Like Valtor basically made the perfect opportunities for the winx to get their Enchantix by never directly trying to kill them. It's almost funny)
Valtor is completely incapable of free will but he does experience desires and he has the ability to think for himself. One of the winx asks him why he's doing all of this and he literally can't answer, he doesn't want to, he doesn't want to be here, but he does? That's why he's doing it, right? And the girlies get a front row seat to a child gaslighting themselves to cope with their inability to control their own actions
He wants to be powerful! The most powerful person in the dimension! Then he could do whatever he wants! Then he would be free! At least that's what he tells himself (he knows it's not true, but children are allowed to have their fantasies)
They could extinguish kill. He barely came up to Bloom's chest, and they could just extinguish him. If Bloom pulled at the fire element in his body and Aisha the water they could pull him apart. Making a soul sounded impossible and has never been done before but that's the only way to release the Ancestral Witches control on Valtor, so they'll do it
#post s3 Valtor is adopted by light rock and Bloom is his sister. hes just this insane kid they all take turns babysitting#yes that Valtor‚ the wizard of magic‚ the Ancestral Witche's most powerful weapon. his favorite flavor of icecream is mint chocolate chip.#ive only had one type of ice cream i can stomach if you think my ice cream assessment was wrong im sorry but do you get the vibe???#adult Riven who works at Rf lecturing the class while a world class war monger works on fractions at his desk with a slurpee#i can go more into my post s3 thoughts for him if you want. its just him being a kid™#rus chatters#asks#winx Valtor#child!valtor#winx club#winx headcanons
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Huh. If my life was a quote, it'd be "one of those sad ones with a deceptively happy tune"
#quote from MLP:FIW#sorryyyy been kinda angry about my step family all day#sorry but im so tired of my Stepmom acting like she raised decent kids#my step brother is like 25 and living in my dads home. hes unironically an andrew tate fan and treats his very disabled girlfriend like shit#step sister always got compred to my sister who's the same age and put step sis in the light every time EVEN THO MY SIS WAS LITERALLY BETTER#<- like grades n shit#also both step sibs are gross. never cleans up ever. step brother and his gf are banned from the basement#step bro went to juvy when he was 16 and step sis had a trial last year and almost went to jail#also step sis has mono and would rather die than cover her mouth#i feel bad for SB's girlfriend because she has no other support system and sometimes it feels like SB or SS is trying to kill her?????#my dad threatened to kick out the adults if the house is dirty (adults being SB. SBG. SS. My sister. Aunt.)#My sister does SO MUCH HOUSEWORK and nobody cares and im mad#also bullshit rules recently have made my potential eating disorder worse#i don't think its healthy to rather starve than wash a dish but i actually have cried several times over this#not to mention how much i accidentally starve myself#also our food has been less and less because I don't know what I'm allowed to eat anymore because of my step family#also i have to share the smallest room with my sister. its okay tho ilh and i wouldn't want to get rid of her#sometimes it feels like my stepmom doesn't like me or my sisters because we're “weird”. childish interests and artistic#she lectured me about having missing assignments and I started crying#i said i just forgot to turn in some before the deadline and she called me lazy#<- Oops! so close. its actually THE MENTAL ILLNESS#my sisters and i feel like shit#i feel like my safe space is with my oldest sister.#and you all too! i love you guys#i just feel trapped. trapped by my step family. trapped by my own mind.#i was just starting to feel free from the burden of school and she just made me feel more stressed.#i didn't want to study because she killed the little motivation I had#Spanish exam is now “Fuck it we ball”#sorry for the personal post
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numba three for choose violence asks 😇
hot take time
3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr
i… see terrible takes daily because i go into character tags a lot because i hate myself but recently ive seen a take about how cullen dragon age doesn’t actually believe that the inquisitor is the herald of andraste and doesn’t buy into the religious fervor around the inquisitor which i disagree with like adamantly lol. cullen is a firm believer, he is religious and has been his entire life whether by choice or because he was raised into it when he joined the templars as a teenager, he would be the person who believes above all others that the inquisitor is the actual herald of andraste and if he’s romanced i like a bit of religious conflict where his feelings for the inquisitor and his feelings for god/the maker kind of intersect 🥸
#sorry this turned into a lecture lmfao#i have a lot of feelings about characters who can have their faith twisted in such a juicy way turned into something else 😭#obvs it’s just a character and any interpretation is literally fine#except when it concerns a character I have imprinted on due to their religious leanings because i like messing with god#anyway hahaha#thank you for the ask!#ask games#not tagging this…
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I’m new on your blog but the blue bandana was never confirmed right? Was it just a theory?
Just a theory, love. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a theory that was based on some pretty solid evidence in the beginning. The idea that it’s a day collar was a joke that I think people got a little too attached to. It’s fun to think that’s what it is, but that’s based on absolutely nothing substantial.
I also think it’s easy to believe that Harry or Louis put the same kind of weight on things that we do. Do I think Harry knows what we think about something like the bandana or the peace ring? Yeah, he probably does. Do I think he’s always thinking about that when he gets dressed. Unlikely.
The problem is that a lot of people want absolute assurance of things and when fan theories don’t play out 100% of the time (like always wearing the peace ring) or when patterns change (like the two-week rule), suddenly people freak out and decide absolutely everything they ever thought was wrong.
I’m not picking and choosing which theories are real when it suits what I want to believe, I believe things (like Harry and Louis were together and mostly likely still are) based on a thousand different reasons. It’s okay for a theory to be wrong. Or for reality to be somewhat different than we theorized. Or for something we theorized to change. So if I see that Harry let someone wear “his” bandana, I really don’t understand why that equates to the absolute end of the world. Brad wore his sweatshirt the other day. Xander wore what could be his bandana. Why is this making front page headlines?
These are real people. They’re not characters in a book where things are static and you can have absolute answers that never change. I just think people need to unclench and be okay realizing that we are never going to know anything for certain.
#sorry anon I know you asked something simple#and I turned it into a lecture#blue bandana#The peace ring#for newbies#fandom dynamics#two week rule
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google how do i tell my dad that the reason i keep bringing up elon musk's transphobia isn't that i've got gen z political tunnel vision that makes me blind to his "innovation" in electric cars but because i am desperately crying out for you as the father of a trans child to feel just as outraged and angry as i am that that man has so much power
#edit: warning the tags get pretty personal whoops. however tumblr is like a diary to me so. but if discussions of father issues arent for u#it's not anything he's directly said but like. when we talk about it i can tell he's clinging to this like#image of musk as this inventor working for the good of humanity#because he's admired him for a long time and like i get it it's hard to let go of your heroes when it turns out they're trash#but. he's always been trash. is the thing. and i've been saying this.#and it would be nice to feel some solidarity! or support! or empathy idk!#and not like. lectures why tesla is actually progressive or why spacex is the best thing to happen to science since fucking penicillin#and sometimes ppl who push the world towards progress rub people the wrong way#god like. we were in the car the other day talking about it and i mentioned tesla moving to texas bc of the law protecting trans kids#and he mumbled something like well sure yeah he said that but Really... really it's about the taxes......#okay!! who give a shit! that's not the point! the point is that he's got fucking legions of alt right fanboys who hang off his every word#so when he says something that is good for trans people is actually dangerous and bad and hurts kids#and when he openly publicly deadnames and misgenders and LIES about his TRANS DAUGHTER. it's fucking dangerous! and it makes trans people#(IE ME. YOUR CHILD.)#feel unsafe!#it should get you angry! it should make you rethink how you saw him previously! it should make you want to stop supporting him!#idk. i mean my dad has never been like. against me being trans. and he's worked really hard on the pronouns and not deadnaming me#but it's stuff like this where it feels like he doesn't grasp how he's de-prioritizing my perspective as a trans person and.#his Child.#and how his first reaction to me starting t was 'no.. why would you do that :('#it just feels bad. i love him so much but it's shit like this that makes me feel like i don't matter to him or like i'm disappointing him#and then he gets confused when i tell him that i feel that way#wow! sorry for this. i should get serious about finding a therapist i dont think i knew i felt all this until i typed it out#im gonna add a tag at the beginning of this. as a warning. lolololol. lol. anyway#got 2 pick up my t tomorrow and also email my dr for more wellbutrin haha slay! hit the slay button. dispenses ssris.#god i'm so tired sorry i'm delirious actually. also i saw my brother this weekend which was so nice and he's such a weirdo which also#makes me weirder by proxy
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I have an anecdote about when I worked for a company and a co-worker left to work in a different state on military aircraft. He had to get a TS clearance and because we had worked for several years together he asked if I would be okay with being interviewed for his clearance. I said sure and an interviewer w the gov, arranged to come to my place of work and conduct the interview there. I was asked questions about him like how well did I know him, and whatever answer I gave led to more specific questions like if I answered a question about knowing his wife, they would ask if I thought his marriage sounded secure etc.
This memory of that experience was on my mind while I read your story and I wondered who Iceman would choose for his TS clearance interviews (and who the gov would choose for him) and what would they say? I feel like their "secret" would be uncovered in even a low level clearance (years later I had to submit names for a low level Public Trust clearance for my job) It was so embarrassing because I did not have many friends I was comfortable submitting for that as I kept my work and home life very separate.
Anyway, that is my "cool story, bro"
Thank you for such a great and well researched story!
this is indeed a cool story bro and touches on what is literally my story’s fatal flaw, which is: Yeah, a shitload of people would’ve known about it. I am going to hijack your question to talk about that, so my apologies, though i will get around to your question by the end. This is gonna be a really long post. I have a lot to say and a lot of ground to cover.
So I wanna start out by talking about the structure of this story and its core conflict, because while I’d like to say this story is rooted in an accurate depiction of the US military, obviously that’s not true; it’s rooted in the dynamic of the story that i wanted to tell, which is the story of a guy coming to realize the truth behind a Big Lie—him passing as straight. And that’s a pretty universal story, but it’s made more specific by the fact that a) the guy canonically wants to be the best in an institution that enforces the Big Lie and b) the guy canonically is so successful because he follows the rules/orders of that institution. So, for character growth, to put it simply, the guy (Ice) has to come to the conclusion that the Big Lie is a lie by himself. He can’t be told/ordered that the Big Lie is a lie, otherwise he hasn’t grown out of “just following orders.” (I’ll get to the Big Lie in a second. I made charts and story structure graphs below.)
The only other story about a Big Lie I can think of off the top of my head right now is Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen, which is about a Black woman in Chicago trying to pass as both white and straight. It’s a great book and I’ll try not to spoil it, you should really read it for yourself, but the terminology I’m going to use in this post comes from an analysis of it, so just to bring you up to speed—Clare, the woman trying to pass as white, is recognized by a friend, another Black-but-passing woman, Irene, who is shocked that Clare has abandoned her heritage (the truth of her, that is) and married a hyper-racist white man who doesn’t even know that she’s Black. So the book sets up a dynamic of the Big Lie that I’ve outlined here (hopefully it makes sense):
I built on this dynamic for my fic. Ice is both a “dupe” and a “passing figure,” in that he believes the lie that he is straight and also passes for straight—but it’s also more complicated than that because he’s not actually straight (getting to that). Mav is an “in-group clairvoyant” and can recognize Ice as passing because he is also straight-passing. The Navy are a bunch of “dupes.” But…what is Slider, for instance, or your question’s hypothetical government official who, yes, will 100% find out because people always find out?
In comes my ginormous-and-overly-wordy WWGATTAI Plot and Character Dynamic Summary Graph. You don’t really have to read it all, the only important bits for this discussion are the leftmost column (“plot”) and the green quadrant (“out-group clairvoyants”).
To summarize—people who know the truth can’t actually act on it, because for Ice’s character growth to make sense, he has to come to the truth himself. This forecloses the possibility of any outwardly homophobic action (by which I mean someone like a govt official or one of my lame OCs actually challenging him on his illegal relationship) in the plot, because for 90% of the story Ice is so fragile that he would probably just cave immediately and double down on the internalized homophobia. So, for plot purposes, everyone—including Mav, as it happens—has to sort of tiptoe around Ice’s obvious not-straightness and give him an unreasonable amount of grace so he can figure it out for himself.
And therein lies the fatal flaw of this story. It is, like, not conceptually viable. Of course people would find out, of course the government would interrogate him about it, of course he’d have to confront the truth much sooner than TWENTY-FIVE years after he first starts messing around with Mav. Which literally breaks my heart because I didn’t realize it was a fundamentally busted story until long after I had finished writing the base plot & couldn’t fix the overarching problems 😭 The thing is, it had to be this way, because there is at least a thirty-year gap between TG86 and TGM22, and TGM is obviously the emotional climax of the series and my story had to match that. So—fanfic and its canon constraints, everyone.
But also… I can explain away these logical inconsistencies with story structure & character dynamic graphs to make the story make sense, sure, but it doesn’t change the truth of the matter, which is that… I hadn’t ever really thought about things like security clearances, and therefore wrote around them because I didn’t even know to consider them. And I know there are a bunch of other details in this story that betray my immaturity (anytime I talk about alcohol, for instance—I still am not legal to drink in this stupid country & have only cheap bad experiences to draw on; THE HOUSE—if i could rewrite this story from the beginning they would not have bought a fucking house together, what was I thinking???) and the lack of thought about the real-life logistics and consequences of secrecy is one of them.
And it’s exactly what I mean when I say “I look at this story and all I see are its flaws,” which is why I wanted to write this post & get it on record. I have just enough life experience to read my own writing and know that it’s fundamentally unconvincing, and not enough life experience to know how to fix it. :(
But, to answer your original question, you’ve got me brainstorming a scene where Ice is asking Slider to be his character witness & Slider’s like “Look bro do you want me to lie to the federal government under oath for you because I will” and Ice has to be like “Legally I cannot ask that of you but”
#in case you couldnt tell it really bothers me#idk what the age range of the ppl who read my fics is but i knoooow there are#some parts of this story where you read it and you go#yeah a little kid wrote that#if you asked me what a 401k is with a gun to my head i could not tell you#so the fact that people care about my opinions on these like really grown up adult problems is#literally like the highest compliment ever#but i feel bad that i don’t have the life experience to give a convincing answer & i apologize for that#ive grown up so much & so quickly working on this project both as a writer and as a person & so thankful for that#but it also means that i look back on even recent work & say WTF LITTLE KID ALERT#so#sorry i turned your question into a fiction lecture#but lol that’s like the one thing i actually AM a little bit qualified to talk about#and your question represents like the fundamental fatal flaw of the story i have spent literally 100s of hours on#so I wanted to talk about it#thank you for the ask <3333333#my birthday is in a couple days so just thinking about getting older lol#edts notes#top gun#top gun maverick#icemav#tom iceman kazansky#asks#hope to one day put this energy into like a job or sumn
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i can’t believe not even 24 hours ago i was in an exam like that still feels like something i hallucinated
#bc i have accommodations me and all the other academic silly guys go in a little room so it means there’s several different exams happening#and I have EXTRA TIME but the invigilator was like ‘you have reading time right?’ (different things entirely)#and my dumbass as we know can’t refuse a free thing regardless of the context so without hesitation I went ‘yep!’#like I’ll take it if ur offering babe!#which turned out to be such a pain bc in the 15 mins of reading time ur NOT ALLOWED to start the exam u just have to look at it#and my exam was stupidly short bc my lecturer is a lazy gimp so I was just sat there like 🧍🏻♀️#FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES#and the invigilator was really condescending? like defo got told she was in the room with all the neurodivergent and learning disabilities#and took it to HEART like she came over at one point and went to tell me where to write my name??? but obvs I’d already done it???#and I left early and before everyone else and when I put my hand up and said i was finished#she went ‘you’re finished???’ really shocked like#odd. very odd. also I had it’s been so long by the living tombstone stuck in my head the entire exam#THAT was not peak#it’s been so long…. since I last have seen my son lost to this monster… to the man behind the slaughter… 🤪🤪🤪#MY DAUGHTER IF YOU CAN HEAR ME I KNEW YOU WOULD RETURN AS WELL IT’S IN YOUR NATURE TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT IM SORRY THAT ON THAT DAY#THE DAY YOU WERE SHUT OUT AND LEFT TO DIE NO ONE WAS THERE TO LIFT YOU UP INTO THEIR ARMS THE WAY YOU LIFTED OTHERS INTO YOURS#girls will unknowingly memorise the fnaf speech. watch out josh hutcherson#hella goes to uni
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Don't know that one. What's it about? What genre? Is it fun?
#I'm not gonna pay for international shipping for a book blindly again#Last time I bought a book based on someone praising how gay it was and how good it's representation was#It turned out the main couple had been a thing briefly in the past but wasn't in the book's present#And while it had many flashbacks to the past timeline it was less about seeing them be together and more like#Character A saying something and the story stopped happening so character B could explain the thing at character A#Like 'oh you're experiencing periods. This is what that means what causes it and how to treat the symptoms.'#And 'oh you're bisexual. This is the dictionary definition of the word this is the etymology of the word'#Like one of the characters was alledgedly street smart thief but for some reason she had never heard of periods before#I was told they had great chemistry but all I got shown was a person shaped dictionary and a blank wall that got things explained to#I was clearly not the target audience for that one (I know what bisexual means! Stop lecturing like I'm an idiot and let me see the story!)#Though at least that book treated animals like actual animals and knew how logistics worked#Unlike this OTHER book I once bought on internet recommendation#That had me continuously go 'that's not how falcons work. That's not how horses work. That's not how weather works.#'that's not how winter works. Have you ever even seen snow? For fuck's sake stop rubbing frostbites! You're gonna cause tissue damage!'#......#Sorry did not mean to tag a wall of text#I've just spent too much money on books I bought on anonymous recommendation and ended up not having good time
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I have the same problem with understand what people says. But it's probably linked to the fact I'm hyperlexic. Apparently that's a thing. My brain is wired to only get what is written and even then that's not easy. Like I read the words but sense escapes me sometimes. My brain has a hard time deciphering stuffs I guess.
I’ll be honest, I hadn’t heard of hyperlexia before, but after reading the qualities, it sure sounds a lot like me as a kid. (Definitely had some behavior quirks.) Used to read like a machine before 11th grade (start of bad high school workload).
Deciphering stuff is wild when it usually just sounds like gibberish. Every sentence is like playing a round of Mad Gab. Written communication at least has a visual landing point to go over and over to make sure you’ve got it right (hopefully). I feel a bit like I comprehend less as an adult now than as a kid, but that could be the concerning amount of chronic sleep-deprivation in my case.
Anon, I hope we both improve in our ability to understand what is being communicated around us. Both in speaking and in reading and the world becomes a bit more clear and wonderful
💕 God bless!
#ghost answers#404 user not found#sorry if this is a bit rambley I haven’t slept much ✌️#my heart goes out to you anon reading is hecking hard when you have processing issues#it made school a nightmare for me in getting work turned in#my saving grace was in part bc my dad created me to be obsessively checking my work#if it was only lectures though I was as good as failed#also I grew up in a house w an adhd mom who bring up random half completed thought topics#and it make me very willing to accept people saying things that made no sense to me#like confusing the words summer and samba
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boy i love getting tipsy and then drunk and gushing about my special interest to people who cannot possibly care about this even half as much as i do and being deeply annoying and embarrassing myself and wanting to crawl into a hole once the harsh light of sobriety hits
#like i cannot stress enough that i want to die right now#it's not a physical hangover it's a mental hangover. a ''why am i incapable of shutting the fuck up'' hangover.#i become so deeply annoying when drunk that i should not be allowed to use my phone#i turn into the goddamned boom de yada commercial and inflict it on everyone in range#like i go off about the discworld series a LOT#one time at a party i cornered two guys who had no science background and tried to explain how avogadro's number was found#i gush about fullmetal alchemist or the story structure of everything everywhere all at once#i cry over interstellar or the cosmos series#my friends and family back home all already know this and give me their ''sure thing sarah now let's get you to bed'' looks#too few people here have been exposed to this to yet know how to stop it#eta: i should also stress that when i discovered that said guys did not know what vsepr theory was my reaction was not to stop#it was to get a piece of paper and start explaining lewis dot structures#eta again: you know after considering this long-standing history of doing this i feel paradoxically less embarrassed#like it will be very funny to explain the avogadro's number story and all the things i have done this about#like look i'm sorry i hit you with my special interest gushing but i have done this many times before to many people#the ''drunk!sarah highbeams of random essays and lectures'' is well-established and tbh kind of a rite of passage at this point
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I just realised that I made a bunch of sad personal posts ages back lamenting about how I had a really hard time in education and felt left behind - but I don't think I posted that I actually made it into uni and I'm studying illustration right now!
#now the kicker is I do not actually like the course content so far and our lecturer is ass#but! I'm here! I got in and I'm trying it!#also turns out I get the “sorry you had an awful childhood” package and I get 10k+ yearly in bursaries loans and grants#and a free laptop!#also I've been genuinely making good money as an illustrator for the past year and getting to travel for work a lot#very strange adjusting to all of this after just trying to survive my whole life#but I'm trying to make the most of it and I've met so many cool new people over the past few years :)#personal
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