#the whole class + class b

[dear-ao3]

as some of u know already i have a test tomorrow in my anatomy class. i’ve never studied this hard for anything in my life and i still know nothing. i have a bachelors degree in three separate fields, i graduated with college magna cum laude with separate honors in two of my majors, i took 7 ap exams, i took the sat, i have a certification that is incredibly hard to get. i have never been more stressed for an exam in my life. i know too much and also nothing at all. how do you stem people do this in like four classes at once.

[harrietvane]

So, in Busman’s Homeymoon, Lord Peter buys Harriet Vane a mink cloak worth 950 pounds (according to the Dowager Duchess’ journal entry), but he buys Tallboys for “only” 650 pounds.

Even bearing in mind that real estate really did used to be cheaper, do you understand how that is possible? Or how to find out more about relative purchasing power? I used an online calculator website which gave me some figures, but it still seems insane that one could buy an entire Elizabethan farmhouse for 2/3 the price of a garment! Very curious to learn from others who understand this better than I do.

Ah, I see my esteemed colleague @oldshrewsburyian has also had some interesting thoughts on this, so I'll link that here as well before I begin.

So, it's a legitmate question, and there's no catch-all simple answer (in the gotcha sense of 'why didn't i know that bit of cultural Truth'), but there are mitigating factors that take it from a ridiculous price comparison, to merely outlandish. Even taking into account that the coat is quoted in guineas, not pounds, and that PW says the bank valued Talboys at £800 via a mortgage (the paid price was a discount, for paying in cash quickly, which is Plot Relevant), it gets us to roughly the same place, value-wise. Or shall we say PRICE-wise, rather than value, as I'll get into below. There's several factors at play here - they mainly relate to class, and spending power:

-The house is Not That Great, in terms of the kind of property that PW would usually be buying. I mean it is still a large-ish house, big enough to have 2 adults and small children in, but it's not what would be on his radar normally. The only reason they know about it, it that it's near a place where HARRIET grew up as a child. It's not getting any high marks in particular Beauty, Convenience, or Quality - the main reason HV's drawn to it is sentiment, rather than anything else. They both know that they will have to significantly add to it, and alter it, in order for it to be a comfortable home. That would usually be out-of-budget for someone in Harriet's position, who would expect to buy something that meets her needs 'as-is'. Most people looking at buying that house would be Harriets not Peters, so it might be a tough sell.

-The house has no power, and limited plumbing: There's dark references to DRAINS by the dowager duchess, it's entirely possible that this house has no modern plumbing at all - they make the comparison that the huge palace the Wimseys grew up in wasn't plumbed until recently, but then again they do have about 800 servants, whereas Talboys is just a regular house: they will have Bunter alone (at first), with an assist from Mrs Ruddle. There's mention of "a cistern" with some basic valves, but the scullery is mentioned as having a copper, from which hot water is "scooped into a large bath-can" - a copper being, simply, a large metal basin over a fire, in effect. No running hot water, maybe no flushable loos - it's a factor. They also talk specifially about having to electrify Talboys themselves - it's candles and lamps until then. It's fancy camping. By the mid-1930s, a lot of middle-class buyers would expect a little more convenience in both water and wiring, unless they had significant support staff, which Talboys would not be expected to house.

-There's probably no farm! It's a farm house - not a wider land purchase. People like PW's brother the Duke are wealthy primarily because they own land, not because of the big palace they have (which eats money, rather than generates it). The land is what gives them spending power, because other people are paying them rent to live on it, farm on it, or both. PW's own personal 'younger sibling' wealth is also mentioned somewhere to be primarily in real estate (assumed to be in London) - sad to say: he's a landlord, and that's why he's rich. Talboys, on the other hand, as a purchase, would not, in almost any way, be expected to generate revenue through either farming, agriculture, or charging rent. Until they invent house flipping in 80 years, or until the motorway goes through in 40 years, there's not much expectation that Talboys would increase all that much in value.

-Lastly, there's a massive disparity in what The Market Will Bear when we compare a basic residence vs a luxury item (like a mink coat) in the mid-1930s. This is not particular to that time, though. Like any first-year economics student will tell you, the price of something is not it's intrinsic value, it's what someone is WILLING to pay for it. If someone is willing to pay such a price, that's the price it will be. So, we're not comapring Objects, we're comparing Buyers: the the main purchasers of a slightly run-down farmhouse located nowhere special are Harriets, and main purchasers of mink coats are Peters. Talboys is priced for Harriets. The mink coat is priced for Peters.

Compare for example, a contemporary parallel: the Hermes Birkin bag. It's a leather handbag with a starting retail price of about USD 11,400. Just for the bag. Then, you have fancier versions of the fancy bag, eg wikipedia tells me one version sold at auction for USD 380,000 in Hong Kong in 2017. Now, the Harriets of today are not buying a Hermes Birkin handbag, but they are probably trying to buy slightly run-down houses outside urban centers for (one hopes) slightly less than 380k. The Wimseys of the worlds are clearly buying Birkin bags. In that way, it's actually pretty easy to get to a place where Person A might buy a single luxury item for X pounds, and Person B might buy a whole residence for X pounds, and neither feel like they'd done something insane. The key here is in a Wimsey/Vane marriage, they run up against this concept immediately, and repeatedly.

There's a good reason the first epistolary section of the novel is almost entirely taken up with money chat - the ring, the purchase of shirts from Burlington Arcade, the marriage settlement, the gift from the bride to the groom, the mink coat, the bitchy exchange between Helen and Harriet about HV being allowed "six free copies of her book" to distribute. These people come from 2 fundamentally different experiences of the world. They might have gotten engaged using the word 'Magistra', specifically to emphasise their fundamental equality (in the context of learning and the mind, to begin with), but it can't be denied: there's gaps that need to be bridged. They both know parts of their married life will be spent in attempting to do that, hopefully to their mutual satisfaction. Mention of a mink coat for 950 guineas is a nice, neat shorthand for illustrating what's still at play between them here.

[mishy-mashy]

I was gonna make a post at some point questioning if Kuroiro had a crush on Komori, with proof, since his wiki page never confirmed it in his Trivia

But nah, it's canon

(And now I also know his Relationships page says he seems to have a small crush on Komori- but this page is not "seems". This is definitive)

[astriiformes]

Not saying that people with more obvious physical limitations have it any easier, but if you're going to have a disability that gets in the way of schoolwork and class attendance, you are absolutely screwed if it happens to be "totally invisible and mostly unheard of 'can't wake up and get to morning classes on time' syndrome"

[queendaeron1]

Rhaenyra Targaryen, the Violande and the veil vale of tears— religious depiction of sorrow and betrayal

“The golden dragon devoured the queen in six bites, leaving only her left leg below the shin “for the Stranger.” The queen’s son watched in horror, unable to move.

Rhaenyra Targaryen, the Realm’s Delight and Half-Year Queen, passed from this veil of tears upon the twenty-second day of tenth moon of the 130th year after Aegon’s Conquest.

“She was thirty-three years of age.”

“Veil of tears” is a more metaphoric form of the expression “vale of tears” which has HEAVY religious undertones, of Christianity.

“When one leaves the world and enters Heaven.”

Now let’s talk about the Violande

“Rhaenyra was forced to sell her crown to raise the coin to buy passage on a Braavosi merchantman, the Violande.”

“Sick in body and spirit, broken by betrayal, Rhaenyra Targaryen wanted only to return to her own seat, where she imagined that she and her son would be safe. Little did the queen know that she was about to suffer her last and most grievous treachery.”

Violande is derived from the Latin word Violanda

Violanda is the feminine gerundive form in the nominative singular, formed from the verb violare, meaning “to violate”—the infinitive of the verb violo, which can be translated as “I violate” or, more adequately in this context, “I profane”

Reminder: To profane means : to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt (Merriam Webster definition)

There are several possible translations of violo/violare, as Latin is a very complex language (and I hope I haven’t fucked up with the translation…)

Some of the meanings include:

⁃to commit violence against; to treat with force or brutality

⁃to profane; to violate the sacred nature of something (to outrage)

⁃to violate, defile, profane, rape

⁃to betray

GRAND DICTIONNAIRE LATIN OLIVETTI – Latin–French:

The definitions from this French–Latin dictionary are:

1.to violate, outrage, or profane sacred places or objects (in this context, Dragonstone)

2.to devastate, plunder, ravage, invade (very interesting meaning in the context of the Fall of Dragonstone)

3.to mistreat, offend, dishonour

4.to rape a woman

5.to infringe, transgress, betray

“BETRAY” – “PLUNDER” – “INVADE”

So the final meanings—whether with religious overtones or through a more literal interpretation—could be:

⁃A woman destined to suffer profanation

⁃A woman who is to endure violence

⁃The sacred guest (woman) who will be betrayed

“Little did the queen know that she was about to suffer her last and most grievous treachery.”

In short: betrayal

Rhaenyra was betrayed. “WHO IS TO”, “WHO WILL BE”, “DESTINED”

The grammatical subtleties here are, I believe, extremely eloquent. It’s literally here : SHE WILL BE BETRAYED. THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THAT. IT WAS WRITTEN

“PROFANATION”, “SACRED”

Rhaenyra is the ONLY CHARACTER whose death is depicted with the expression “vale of tears” in Fire & Blood. Even in the main series, iirc, only Tysha’s death was framed this way, by Tyrion. Other than that, well…

This alone should’ve rung the alarm… betrayal is a very crucial component of the narratives in asoiaf. CRUCIAL… The Long Night, Daenerys, the Amethyst Empress… you name it

[garyfiddlesticksdammit]

a redraw of the best sprite in the game in my style :333333 ^^

[myokk]

WIP Tag Game

Thank you for the tag @okeydokeylackey !!!! I LOVED YOUR SNIPPET & everyone should DEFINITELY check out your art/writing (I know I always love seeing it on my dash🥹🫶)

Rules: Share a snippet from whatever you’re currently working on, and then tag 5 people.

***DISCLAIMER THESE ARE ALL TYPED UP STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND UNEDITED BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH***

Oneshot:

A beetle slowly makes its way across Sebastian Sallow’s desk.

The classroom is silent - save for the scratching of quills furiously calculating the Arithmatic probability of who will be the next Minister and the quiet murmur of his professor as she helps Hobhouse (how did he even get into the N.E.W.T. level?) - and Sebastian is going absolutely mad.

He counts how many seconds it takes for the beetle to reach his abandoned quill (fifteen). But, when it takes its seventh step after making it over the quill (an auspicious sign), Sebastian slams his hand down on top of it.

The loud noise echoes through the silent classroom and Sebastian hears her snickering coming from behind him as the whole class turns to see what has happened. His ears turn red, he wishes he could jinx her somehow, and yet he is terribly curious to see what she has sent him this time. Sebastian hopes that everyone has gone back to their equations and stops staring at him, because now that it’s in his hands, his fingers are itching to open it. His hands eagerly - shamefully eager, if you ask him - unravel the note he’s crumpled up in his hands - almost a shame that he destroyed the beetle, it was one of her better creations - and Sebastian soon curses his haste.

His ears would be an even deeper shade of red were his blood not currently draining to a different part of his body. Sebastian shifts uncomfortably in his seat as he continues reading the note, his eyes flying across the tiny note once, twice, three times before he crumples it up and adds it to the graveyard of the other notes she has been sending him all day. The words fuck my soaking cunt flash up at him and he adjusts his schoolbag so that if anyone walks past and looks into it, they won’t suspect a thing.

You see, this has been going on all day. Sebastian knew that when his seventh year started, it was going to the culmination of their academic rivalry, but he never expected this. That witch has made taunting him her personal vendetta, and it’s working.

Sebastian can’t get her out of his mind.

FIC - CHAPTER 25: (honestly I might delete this scene or save it for later)

She wanted him to hate her.

Hatred wasn’t what she saw in his eyes now, though.

Almost as if she were watching herself from afar, not in control of her body, Eloise came to a stop in front of Sebastian and looked down at him. The green light was highlighting his face and he looked ethereal, otherworldly. She watched her hand reach out and touch his cheek - hesitant, unsure - and when he didn’t jerk his head away as she expected - as she deserved - she moved to sit down next to him in the tiny space. Her knees bumped into his just like their noses bumped against each other as she moved her face towards his. Still, he didn’t move away.

She felt his warm breath fan across her lips. Maybe they stayed like that, lips not-quite-touching, for an eternity; maybe it was only a second. Eloise was only aware of Sebastian’s intoxicating presence, of the way his breath hitched when she finally bridged the gap between them, of the way her heart surrendered itself to him. This kiss was nothing like what they had shared before. It was hesitant, soft, sweet. His hands came up to her face, holding her in place as he deepened the kiss.

Eloise didn’t know what had gotten into her - she was supposed to be avoiding Sebastian, hating him, and yet she couldn’t pull herself out of his embrace. She was melting into his touch, his thumbs brushing themselves down her cheeks, her neck, fingers going through her hair, over and over as if to reassure himself of her presence, his lips moving languidly against hers. Eloise sighed into his mouth, almost-smiling but not-quite: she was nervous, as complicit as he was in this kiss, maybe even more, considering she had been the one to reach out first. But then -

Sebastian pulled away from her, puzzled, his hands moving back to cup Eloise’s face. He was saying something, rough thumbs gently brushing away the thick tears rolling down her cheeks. When had she started crying?

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[drvct-tape]

Has anyone thought of making an SCP Gravity Falls AU... with Stanford as one of the higher-up scientists and whatnot. I just think it'd make a lot of sense... I don't know where anyone else would fit into this AU?? Maybe the entire town of Gravity Falls could be considered an "anomaly" (because it basically is, in canon), and Ford is an SCP scientist sent there to make sure containment procedures are running smoothly.

Also I thought it'd be funny because Bill Cipher would actually not be a Keter class SCP ^_^; and I think that'd grind his gears so bad.

[ficsiwontwrite]

I had (4 years ago?) a 200k words wip fic in my head that was basically the abnormal class from Fav Anime Mairimashita Iruma-kun being bnha’s 2A

So, it’s a canon thing that Aizawa expeled a entire hero class before the the anime’s 1A

Keeping in mind he expeled everyone on the first day guess who went “free real state”??? THATS RIGHT I just put the entire abnormal class as general students that didn’t get into the hero course

I’m pretty sure I had an entire arc of them meeting before UA and Iruma inspiring the others to try to be heroes

Unfortunately none of them had clean school history so they didn’t get to go to ua’s hero department… or any other good hero school tbh

But fear not!! They were going to be heroes even if they had to train by themselves, just having access to ua gyms and nurse would already be a more help then otherwise

Ofc, as I wrote before, aizawa gifted a entire class vacancy

So sports festival it is

They would have absolute dominate, showing not only personal talent but also their teaming up abilities

I vaguely remember having more them 3 scenarios of how the maze team game was going to go on the second part alone

Ofc the 13 would get to the tournament stage too… rip B class hero students lmao

All of this with Iruma being quirkless, of course I did need the whole secret indentity thing

In mairimashita iruma-kun the main character has a ring, who has a spirit/conscience and is able to eat energy and helps iruma use magic

Translating this to bnha was:

Sullivan has a energy manipulation quirk and tells iruma he made the ring carry a copy of his quirk, but it’s a secret because the technology is so op (lie)

In this case I made Alikred (ring spirit), be a ex-villain boss who was victim of a quirk (?) and was stuck in a ring, but Alikred’s quirk was a kind of vampiric copy quirk so the ring can be used like Sullivan’s (the grandpa’s) quirk as long as he eventually charges i

Eventually Delkira would get his mind back and slowly start to be able to use his shadow form, of course to get to that point iruma would have had to eat some very specific quirk energy (it gives the victim quirk exhaustion) like some shapeshift quirks and idk I can’t remember the details

(I haven’t read the manga in 3028832 months but I’ve been pretty sure alikred is the missing demon king since he got his name)

Once they got into the hero course Aizawa would go nope not my problem and somehow get rid of them and kalego-sensei would be put as their home-room teacher rip him

When they get in their second year is when canon 1-A gets there… everytime someone pities Aizawa for his hellions he thinks positively “at least it’s not the demons from the abnormal class”

[thelaurenshippen]

next up in our phantom pulse intro round:

the "elusive" Bremmer, as Ash wrote he/him born July 17th, 1973 Music: Lead guitar, songwriting. Actual job: Works at the bar with Monty. Power: Sensing spirits and being sensed in return-a few strums of the right chords will have spirits rising and coming toward him.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[coveredinsun]

t-minus 13.5 hours until i rawdog my cumulative psych final

[sideblogdotjpeg]

hey guys does anybody know whats the date today

[bnhatrashsideblog]

If you think of it, many of the people in this fandom keep proving Monoma right and making his character have so much sense- like guys, class 1-B is not the lesser class. They aren't weaker than class 1-A, the classes weren't assigned by strength or anything like that. The only difference between the two classes is that the fucking MC is in one of them, which automatically makes them the center of attention. If Midoriya got assigned to class 1-B then no one would fucking think they're lesser than class 1-A lol.

"How Hagakure/Mineta/whatever got in class 1-A?" girl the question is how they got in the hero course, not class 1-A (which is a talk for another post, not this one). Them being in class 1-A doesn't mean they're automatically stronger than everyone in class 1-B

[the-amazeeng-idiot]

If I don't end my biology teacher, I will soon end myself.

[the-copycat-hero]

Whatever you do, DON'T think about Fukidashi having nightmares about holding his dying classmate and wishing there something more he could do and blaming himself for Monoma's condition

NOOOO. NO NO NO.

GOD the way that Fukidashi yelled Monoma's name in episode 16, like that boy was DISTRAUGHT. and it makes sense because that's his friend!!! that's his friend, the guy who always hypes up their classmates and reassures them when they feel like they aren't doing well enough and helps them write stupidly elaborate plays with like 8 different franchises crammed into one plot because they all have suggestions and he wants to make sure that every single one of them gets included. it's been stated that, had Kendo not been there to mediate, class B would have 100% unequivocally fallen into Monoma's orbit, so the idea of him dying? of him being gone from their lives, leaving behind only that void where his energy and chaos once were? nightmarish.