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[tiffaluvr]

Hi!! I'm one of the active people in the tumblr branch of the HCH fandom!! For some reason I like asking a set of questions to other HCH fans sdv;gjkerlgk I wanted to ask you too ^^

No pressure to any of them, as in you don't have to answer if you don't want to, and take as much time as you need if you do want to answer!!

Favourite HCH character?

Favourite panel/screenshot of said character?

Thoughts/opinions on Nicolosi? Negative, positive, and neutral are okay!

Any HCH headcanons, theories, or OCs?

Again, no pressure ^^ Have a good new year :]

hi fuzzy!! tysm for asking ^^ this is actually a very cute fandom thing to do, considering it's also a small community so it's a great way to know each other's opinions :D

I'll answer under the cut just to prevent clogging other people's dashboards

1. Fav HCH character:

I also love very much Percy and Luna!!

When it comes to picking a fav I'm always indecisive because each media I like has me attaching to at least 3 of them (⁠●⁠_⁠_⁠●⁠) my top fav tho has to be Sapphia! loved her since the start she's just too iconic (and her backstory is actually so sad that's why I grew attached to her)

(and I'll add again that my user on here was sapphialuvr before I came back a year later and was mad indecisive between tiffaluvr or ryuuluvr but tiffa sounded better)

2. Fav panel/screen of said character:

Nice question because there's some screens where they're together!

One of them is the one where Marla sneaks out with Sapphia but nobody (minus a few) knew it was her. So when Percy was on the tower, and she says "August says hi!", ofc he's confused

(the lil Percy is so silly like cmon 😭)

As for Luna (and Saph again) i was laughing SO HARD when she clashed at the wedding because her bestie had stolen her crush (which sounds like an average american rom-com), and when she was talking with Sapphia about this, girl had only one way to stop her:

and unironically, this picture has been in my camera roll favorites since then

(in between of friends picture, a wallpaper and more webtoon screens)

3. Thoughts/Opinions on Nicolosi (negative/positive/neutral)

Definitely hated him at some point (or more than one) because of his behaviour at the party (?) (I forgot if it was a party that August organized but u get it), where Sapphia clearly acted out of impulse and then we all know what happened next.

Also in the backstory where he was super mean to her, ableist, hated her for being a lesbian and kept forcing himself to believe she was the villain!!! oh, and the desperate try to stop the wedding.

I have no idea if he's converting back to being good or something, since we can see him finally coming to his senses after the closet scene (percy in the closet and august confessing), I really hope tho!! would love to see a redemption arc

4. Any OCs/Theories/Headcanons

My biggest theory was the whole Lucas/Luna/Lucille thing (I had figured out Lucille was Lucas b4 the transition, and Luna was his sister). I had a whole document about it where I color picked stuff and helped with a few lines from diff chapters! Took it very seriously (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠) Canvas readers already knew, but for me (and anyone else) who started reading in 2022, clearly it was new stuff!! I remember sending the doc to a few friends and convincing them of the theory being real, it was fun ngl!!

Other than that, I don't have any particular headcanons, and no OCs (but would love to see if someone has any!)

That's it!! Again, ty for asking! This was very fun ^^ Can't wait for the new season to start so we can comment it together and make the community even more active!!

And happy new year to u too!

[myaoiboy]

favorite gross nasty mgs fic? 👀

Okay ummm this HIGHLY depends on your definition of "gross nasty" so just a roundup of a few in no particular order (sorry nonnie you're getting dumped on lmaooo):

Actor Out Of Work - FaggotTapedeck

If MGS gave me a gun kink, this fic diagnosed it. It's not that *gross* but it is *fucky* and I love that shit so much. Helped me solidify my HC's about Kaz living past '05.

Hawaiian Red Fruit Punch - FaggotTapedeck

Okay I promise no more of Deck's fics because it feels like cheating, honestly. I love fucked up Snotacon, I love drug use/OD fics, I have mixed feelings about forcefem and some of the specifics of this fic wigged me out but it's so good that I had to keep going.

Also it's posted with PUP lyrics which makes it automatically based.

(I promise no more Deck fics but special mention of Hands Away and Mr. Credit for rewiring my brain in the direction of Zerocelot)

Aren't You Ashamed Of Yourself & The Only Thing That I Ask, Love Me Mercilessly - corpsefluid

Putting these together since they're sort of a continuity? Another account that feels like cheating ngl. Ocelot has Huey strung out on heroin, there's drug use, there's pimping of dubious consent, there's deserved abuse of Huey Emmerich. Nice, sweet, simple, gotta love it. I pray to the Ao3 gods every day that they will have the time and desire to add more to this series

Cat Farts - corpsefluid

If you want gross-nasty? Here's the thing. The secret to writing good gross nasty fic is that you can never really go full /j, there's gotta be a core of /srs in there. The more /srs the better.

I'm warning you now that it's. It's just fart fetish. Very well written fart fetish. That's not my thing, generally.

...But--

l̵i̵s̵t̵e̵n̵ ̵i̵m̵ ̵c̵h̵r̵o̵n̵i̵c̵a̵l̵l̵y̵ ̵i̵l̵l̵ ̵i̵ ̵l̵i̵k̵e̵ ̵w̵h̵e̵n̵ ̵p̵e̵o̵p̵l̵e̵s̵ ̵f̵e̵t̵i̵s̵h̵e̵s̵ ̵s̵e̵x̵u̵a̵l̵i̵z̵e̵ ̵t̵h̵e̵ ̵t̵h̵i̵n̵g̵s̵ ̵i̵ ̵f̵i̵n̵d̵ ̵d̵e̵e̵p̵l̵y̵ ̵u̵n̵s̵e̵x̵y̵ ̵a̵b̵o̵u̵t̵ ̵m̵y̵s̵e̵l̵f̵ ̵l̵e̵t̵ ̵m̵e̵ ̵l̵i̵v̵e̵e̵e̵e̵e̵

(special mention: Personal Business, also by corpsefluid, which I would say exactly the same things about, except it's scat instead of fart fetish)

Methadone - ifeelsodirty

UGGGGHHJHHHHHHHH! Did someone say zerocelot? Oh, no, just me? Well, Zerocelot nonconsensual overdose fic, I don't think I really need to explain more tbh.

Dog Days - doodlebughero

I dunno man all I can say is "knots." And also we all know this was going down behind the scenes.

The Coldest Goodbye - serpenthomosexual

One of the first mgs fics I read bc when I join a fandom I start by checking the fuckiest pairings and seeing what the quality of the fics are like. Snakecest was the only one I knew for sure at the time. Solimiller would follow very quickly behind.

There is. So much going on here. The necro-twincest. The shame. The shame over the necro-twincest bleeding over into snotacon where snake....envisions that otacon is liquid?? Mwah. Serpent Homosexual I want to give you sloppy in return for this delicious meal.

I could literally keep going forever. I mean. I can't at this moment. But in theory I could. I tried to include a variety of pairings and fetishes.

There are DEFINITELY some fics that didn't spring to mind right now, and some that are on the edge of "gross and nasty" but I didn't feel were gross and/or nasty enough to justify making this post even longer lmaooo

[1moremilgram-enjoyer]

Damn now other people are starting to send asks...I need to up my annoyingness ante more /joke /lh Kazui and Amane will be the last two I ask about since you already did posts on them, and Es and Jackalope will be the next one, so as I see it the next one on the list isss...Yuno! She's currently fighting in my mind to turn my favorite quintet into a senary because one of my friends really likes her and it kinda got me to analyze her more, so I'm interested to see what you think !

Yeah I don’t why why everyone suddenly started sending asks I wonder who gave them that idea Õ_o /j /lh

CW: Abortion, sex work, suicide.

Uh… so you know when I said Shidou was the character I thought about the least? I… may have deadass forgotten Yuno existed when I said that ngl. I’m sure I’ll go insane over her when I get to analyzing her videos more in depth, but for now she’s kinda flown right under my radar. I’m sorry, I just weirdly can’t find it in me to care much about her. Obviously it's perfectly fine for others to enjoy her, and I don't think there's any major issues in her writing, it's just I can't get too invested.

I mean, it’s sorta similar to the Mahiru situation for me. It’s implied by the fact she really doesn’t seem to care about money that she was engaging in compensated dating just for fun, which… I just can’t relate to, I don’t like sex or dating. But sure, stay safe and slay or whatever.

(T1) Q20: The most expensive thing you've ever bought?

Y: What did I buy? I think a stuffed animal.

(T2) Q7: What would you do if you receive One Million Yen and you must spend right now?

Y: I'd have a nice meal with my family, then give them to my friends.

Now, I actually could sorta relate to her whole deal about always seeking “warmth” because she always gets bored of things easily (I think that’s what’s going on anyways).

(T1) Q24: Do you have a future dream?

Y: I wish I can find something I can really get absorbed into.

Me before DRDT and Milgram.

However, I just feel like it’s not explored in a very interesting way? She's not exactly Veronika Grebenshchikova you feel. Maybe I’m missing something, but “bored girl finds a hobby” is not the most compelling storyline in Milgram. Am I supposed to be scandalized by her compensated dating? Cause I’m not. I’m not gonna tell her how to live her life.

You could argue there's maybe safer and possibly better things for her to get into, but any actual discourse which could exist around that part of her story comes from the subject matter more than Yuno, if that makes sense. And I'm just personally not very informed in the whole subject of compensated dating, plus I find it a bit uncomfortable to research too much for personal reasons, so I feel like I can't fully immerse myself in it.

Which gets us to her “murder”, and I’m gonna be honest, I feel there’s some kinda culture shock thing going here. Because a big part (read: the main damn point) of her second VD is that it’s stupid we try to justify her actions for her, that we pity her without knowing the full story, that she doesn’t want to hear our excuses for being forgiven, etc…

Tear Drop: Feeling magnanimous? INNOCENT? I'm so not that

(2nd VD) Y: Even if I was scorned by you, I would have been okay with being told I'm not forgiven. I don't believe I'm not in the wrong. I'd accept it.

So she doesn’t think she’s innocent necessarily. She speaks vague on purpose, but that’s what’s she’s getting at. She thinks if we vote her innocent it must be because we’re looking down at her or assuming things about her life which aren’t true, it’s the main point of Tear Drop.

But… We don’t need excuses, Yuno. You did nothing wrong.

I usually say that as a joke, but here it’s just true. And any kind of moral ambiguity which may have existed is completely thrown out the window by the fact we’re comparing it to actual first degree murder. Girl we forgave the fucking organ harvester three numbers away from you why do you think we need excuses to forgive you? Innoing her is the easiest decision in all of Milgram imo.

Like I said, possibly a cultural issue? It’s not like I live in a particularly progressive country, but in the online circles I run in its very much accepted abortion isn’t murder. Yet, that’s not what she believes.

(2nd VD) Y: I have no intent to say abortion isn't murder. I'm a respectable murderer.

Or… does she?

(2nd VD) Y: To the extent of understanding the feeling of actually taking a life... I couldn't feel that that was a life. A discomfort and…the sensation of a foreign body….

Girlboss make up your mind.

The point is that she even regrets what she did, and wishes she could have prevented it.

(T2) Q10: If you could turn back time, would you commit the same murder once again?

Y: I'd make sure that I won't have to commit it. That's it.

In any case, I hope I'm making some amount of sense, and I can get across why I struggle to really get invested in analysis of her. Sorry.

Of course, voting isn't the only aspect of Milgram, but I also just don't find her personality and character arc all that interesting. Personal opinion, I don't think it's badly written or anything, but I just find it significantly less interesting than other characters.

That said, the most interesting thing to me is that she might be dead?

Y: Oh! Also, that reminds me, there was one thing I'm curious about. Es: What? Go ahead and say it. Yuno: Am I…really alive? Es: That's���what do you…. Yuno: Hm…if you don't know, then it's fine. Es: Yuno…. Yuno: Hey, it's time, right? Es: Y-yes. Prisoner number 2, Yuno. Sing your sins.

That's peculiar. Given the Haruka suicide theory I brought up in my post about him, it's definitely a possibility she's dead. It's possible she went through an unsafe abortion, given this question:

(T2) Q20: Did you hate the person you killed?

Y: It was too much of a pain to for me to think about anything.

So there's potential death one. Potential death two is her Undercover silhouette shot.

Given I have no idea what the deal with this scene is, it's possible she jumped from here? I guess she does fall from stairs at the end of Umbilical, although she lands upright, though maybe that's her landing in Milgram? The issue with this suicide idea is this answer:

(T2) Q17: How many years do you want to live?

Y: About 40 years would be just right, I think.

... Okay, well, that's a concerning answer, kinda wish we got a bit more insight into what the deal is with that, but the point is she's currently not forty, so.

Anyways, that aside, I don't know what else to say. Yuno really hasn't rotted my brain as much as the other prisoners, so, uh, sorry I can't go any deeper atm. I feel kinda bad I can't say anything more positive since you clearly like her (_ _). Hope it's alright! Take care!

[ritahayworrth]

Why didn’t you like TAR? Ngl I found it overrated too

spoiler warning for tar (2022), and tbh this is very ranty and gets very rambly

okay, so firstly, i will say that everyone in the film did give good performances, i get the cate blanchett hype, i'll give it that and the cinematography was nice

but like everything else? it just felt so shallow and full of itself. like okay wow white lesbians can fully assimilate into white male dominant spaces and be just as bad as them!! like okay, most poc already know this, this is a conversation that has been dabbled into for a while. and like fine, this is a film by a white person for white people, but even taking that into account, it still just feels like a film that's just talking without really saying anything. and i have things that i didn't really like or make sense to me like why is a supposed to be an up-and-coming conductor working as a personal assistant? why is the fact that whether or not she took advantage of her former pupil so ambiguous? and i'm sure there are others that i can't think of at the moment.

and like i can forgive everything i've said so far, but really it's the last ten minutes that just... but okay wow the fact that this is a film by a white person for white people really made itself known 💀 and like sure, i am a filipino who lives in the philippines, of course, i can like spot things others won't and be super nitpicky, but the portrayal and the implications the film makes of my country just makes me want to put todd field into a guillotine! like she has a big fall from grace in the western classical musical scene, at the bottom of the barrel is conducting a video game score in the philippines. like, firstly, is the whole it being meant to be the philippines but really filmed in thailand + that whole apocalypse now line meant to be some weird meta thing?? because it doesn't work either way. anyway, does todd field know that we have twitter in the philippines? does he not think in a nation that is one of the most consistently recorded as being very much Online, no one in the classical music sphere here would have heard of lydia tar? that no one would have made a post calling her and the event organizers out? i mean obviously not, based on how he portrays filipinos as being the ones stupid or not-in-the-know enough to give lydia a job. and like seeing it as almost an honor for them to have her, a white lady there, giving her flowers and a gift basket (idk how to word this it's just very colonial mentality). okay, there's two places the event she was hired to do would be happening at, manila and cebu, and since they went to pagsanjan (where apocalypse now was filmed) that can only mean that she's meant to be in manila. and so that just gets to me even more, because i live in manila, i have been to the nerd conventions, i have aunts with connections to the theater, one of them is literally a production manager in events!! and i say this because we see lydia in what is definitely a budget hotel room, then we see her at some random alleyway getting into a sketchy building while it's pouring rain, and then she's in a meeting in a very poorly lit room, and the scene where she's working in a karinderya. and like, the event she's been hired to do, which i later found out is kind of a big thing in japan (and that just adds to what i'm gonna say), would have been organized by people with money. and keeping the whole "it's an honor to have her" thing in mind, in real life, she would have been put up in a much nicer hotel room (i'm by no means rich, and i've stayed at much nicer rooms), they would have most likely arranged for someone to drive her to the meeting and the driver would most likely have an umbrella and would have held it as she walked to the door of an average office building most likely in a nice part of metro manila, then she would have gone to work in a starbucks. but no ofc this doesn't happen in the philippines it's a third world country, they don't know shit, and are definitely not known for their hospitality..... then there is ofc the massage parlor scene 💀 just really fucking disgusting all around. while it was a long time ago, i did write a paper on sex tourism in my country like i know this is a real thing that happens, but at this point, it has been way too many strikes for me. from the set-up, like ofc the man at reception thought she meant *that* (again, she would have been put up at a nicer hotel that probably would have had an in-house spa, also why did he have her prescription?? also we don't have those orange bottles here), and to like the scene itself?? like yes, a white person being asked to pick a sex worker in a line-up, excuse me, fishbowl (wow so oriental!!) in a third world country is a very appropriate parallel for the process of auditioning orchestra members 🙃

so yeah maybe i should be allowed to kill todd field

[nysus-temple]

So I finally played it last night due to an impulse after I finished studying and organizing some stuff, and all I can say is: this is my new guilty pleasure. So why not rambling about it a bit even if it's past midnight around here, am i right.

I didn't expect to like this design for Penelope that much, but here we are. Not the first time that I've seen a blonde one, tho.

The duck details and jokes were pretty nice and cute, actually ! I thought that I wouldn't enjoy them as much knowing how biased I am towards the ethymology of names lmao

And man, what can I say about those mythological references, the swan one with context is just really funny to me.

I ADORE when Penelope covers herself with the veil, people tend to forget veils were a thing 💀

I'm still not used to see people drawing Odysseus without a beard, but I'll tolerate it since he looks nice in any case ! And they're supposed to be young, after all. Can't say no to Penelope being able to comunicate with ducks either HAH

This small random jokes towards other media were also a very curious and fun part of it as well. I had just finished reading JJBA's Part 7 before playing this game, so

Odysseus being kind of mean towards the rest was actually, not out of character, you see. Because he is, in fact, mean and cruel. He's selfish and a trickster who will cheat to get what he wants, so it's not surprise that he would talk in such a tone towards other heroes we know.

Ajax did, in fact, stay angry with him after dying, am I right 😶

Whenever people show me that Odysseus is only shown to be vulnerable towards Penelope, I explode, remembering the ending of the Odyssey in which she tricks him to prove that it's truly him. No one except her can trick the king of tricksters... AND THAT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME YOUR HONOR

I actually haven't played an otome in my entire life, this has been my first one. And I still don't think I would play others, but this one? The ammount of replayability it has since I wanted to see all of the art... You see. There's nowhere else to find them, so I replayed this for an hour like an idiot.

This moment is my personal favourite, since I didn't expect it and I loved Penelope in it. She already knows him, she can read his face, she knows how he is and that's just not gonna work on her.

Gotta love that she only gets his intentions after he screams at the top of his lungs "WILL YOU MARRY ME". Since I can just imagine in the original Trojan Cycle for her to be confused about the whole asking-her-hand thingy since, you know, Helen's there.

And Odysseus didn't even stay in Sparta, it's Penelope the one to went to Ithaka. To a small place, in peace.

Icarius trying to understand Odysseus is a CIRCUS because he really is incapable of understanding what's going on in that guy's mind.

Odysseus is a criminal bastard but that's why we and Penelope love him very dearly and very much !! Gotta like the detail of people throwing shit at Odysseus just how he throws it at them.

Gotta say I didn't expect to get a good ending in the first playthrough, but I did, the second one. Finding everything was such a nice experience and I wish I could play it for the first time again, ngl

Gotta say I'm physically incapable of accepting the friendship endings LOL instead of Penelope I just saw Helen. It's a guilty pleasure of mine to view Helen as Odysseus' bestie when we have very few sources about them, and who is even able to see Odysseus and Penelope without romantic background.

The race part was SO FUN. But I couldn't help but laugh at the fact that the Roman Coliseum was used as a background LMAO that made me mad for a second, won't deny it xD

Besides that detail, this is a cute adaptation overall of what their encounter could have been. We know little, and the sources are almost nonexisten, but we know Odysseus choosed Penelope over everyone else, so that's already a very important reason of why we remember them with such a warm feeling despite the centuries that have already passed since they came to our world.

In conclusion: play Pre-Odyssey ! It's free ! I'm gonna donate a bit to its creator myself tho, it has a lot of love put on it and it deserves it, doing this stuff that we play in a little time takes a lot of effort, so of course it deserves a reward.

It was cute, fun, and it also included a little reference to the Iliad and the Odyssey in the extras ! So I hope whenever people play it, they feel like reading the actual epics as well !

I don't have much to say, but someone being devoted enought to such an... Old, literally old couple, to the point of making a game about them... That's very admirable, indeed.

It might have been just a point&click and the only otome i'll ever play in my entire life, since it's not my type of game, but I will forever keep Pre-Odyssey in somewhere to play it whenever I feel down. Odysseus and Penelope make me smile regardless of where and how I'm seeing them, been 8 years like that, still ongoing.

I knew the artstyle was familiar, tho, I saw an animatic with Epic: The Musical before with it

Pre-Odyssey: Odysseus, Penelope and Her Ducks [Otome]~Development Blog~

NaNoRenO 2023 is around the corner… and I couldn’t participate this year- but I did participate last year with Pre-Odyssey: Odysseus, Penelope & Her Ducks, an otome game from Penelope’s POV, with of course, one love interest, Odysseus.

If you’re interested, you can play it here: https://ant-san.itch.io/preodyssey

I got a few questions about this title from first impressions… why ducks? To which I’d answer: it’s a spoiler :) But if you know, you know ;) The game has two main romance endings, but the trickier to get is the one I consider as the ‘true ending‘.

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[mysticalmusicwhispers]

HELLO... i am back

yes aditya gets a treat because otherwise indus is going to murder him and then transfer him far far away and never unground him ever and we can't do that to a baby. also i hope no actual murder of chickens occur in their plot thing but it could also be something Worse so Yikes!

i wish yao didn't know what a hickey is but. welp he would. actually this makes me propose a situation (nsfw-ish? implied nsfw?): nyo china buys encyclopedias for yao to read and one very old one has a section with a full diagram of sexual intercourse. it isn't porn, it's those diagrams where the skin is missing and serves as a view into the organs of the human body but just in a... position. so 8 year old yao reads all about sex and goes to nyo china being like "hey so sex is for making babies right? so if i want children i have to have sex right? there's no opting out of it?" and nyo china is like fuck it the kid might as well get his sex ed + introduction to adoption stuff now since he knows about it already. then the next day a teacher has a badly hidden hickey and yao is trying to figure out how the fuck that happened before he remembers that certain animals bite each other during sex and asks nyo china about it.. and then boom. (the encyclopedia part was unfortunately inspired by irl events 😔)

but anyway imagine yao mistranslating the code.. and being like "wtf why do you want to BITE people" and india + iran being like ??? and then they get an unfortunate sex ed that night (baby! yao's mildly inaccurate version: "sometimes weirdos like biting each other during sex many animals do this as well and this is called a hickey. sex is this thing that adults do for fun and sometimes to reproduce. but you should only bite other people and have sex with them if all of you are interested and not just because you want a baby, because there are other ways of getting one. if they try to have sex with you or bite you or touch you in Bad Touch areas you should -" "kill them? and get an adult later?" "yeah exactly" "how do you know this tho??") then yao probably tries to find the sex encyclopedia to bring to school to show india and iran but nyo china threw it out because it was 20 years out of date and said that pluto was a planet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

also YES MISS VIETNAM DESTROY THE PROPERTY OF THE RICH... CUT HIM DOWN TO SIZE imagine getting 2 entire ass houses at 18 lol and there was actually a person who was going to get a mercedes in my class. apparently his parents were buying 2 and wanted him to pick the one with the colour he liked more as a gift at 18 and keep the other for themselves. he asked us which colour Mercedes was better, someone accused him of being a braggart, and then there was so much drama... i am glad i am no longer in that class. rich people.

also yeah miss vietnam is definitely one of those nice but strict teachers!! she'll definitely be kind to everyone but she won't tolerate bullshit and god knows yao is full of it. but also imagine vietnam teaching india's class and then yao pouting to india about the assignment he got a b on (a slight improvement from the c) only to be met with "what? she's so nice and smart lol you're just an asshole i kind of want to make friends with her tbh" and yao's like How Dare You Backstab Me Like This? but yes she really forces him to Think instead of just letting him be and that's very good for him!! and she gets an intellectual outlet too :D

also yeah like linh is going to struggle.. how do you write "he's a complete asshole but tolerable and intellectually fun after a while" in a GOOD manner?? this rec letter will probably be full of phrases like "a spirited personality given to debate" or something

This is also a late reply :’)

I wasn’t really thinking about anything specific for the plot; I was really just trying to find a word that was slightly similar to hickey and decided on a dead chicken lmao. But honestly, it would probably be something like “I’m going to bring a (dead) chicken to class for show and tell and you two need to act horrified and cause a ruckus because it would be fun and it would scare the other kids :)”. (this is probably bullying, so in an effort to make them slightly better kids, an alternative plot is that a stray cat has been coming to their school and in order to make friends with it, they feed it a whole-ass dead chicken Nyo China got from the butchers and was planning to cook for dinner. The teachers are horrified and confiscate Yao’s backpack for fear of germs and salmonella.)

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OH MY GOD nyo China, miss, please, he’s young. But the encyclopedia reading is so accurate o-o small and independent Yao + voracious reader + lots and lots of books about Everything + nyo China’s hands-off “it’s never too early to know” caretaking/parenting strategy = what other things has he been exposed to... (let’s face it he’s probably said the F-word or insulted someone in Mandarin without meaning to, but came off as a disrespectful little chaos ball) BUT THE BADLY HIDDEN HICKEY and the ANIMALS BITING EACH OTHER salk;fsdl;ksdjl way to unconsciously roast your teacher lmao. I love nyo China’s no-nonsense way of approaching Strange Questions Asked by Eight Year Olds but I do not know how to feel about her very direct answers 😭 Also, I am very sorry for your personal loss 😔.

Scene 3 is 100/10 canon now. “weirdos who bite each other during sex” Yao thinks hickeys are weird, and good for him. Also the little summary!! Of course Yao pass on everything he knows to India and Iran... at least it’s not a fucked up version of sex-ed, even if it may have some small inaccuracies. rip outdated encyclopedia. Also “ ‘kill them? And get an adult later?’ ‘yeah exactly’” GOOD nyo china thank you for doing at least one thing correctly

also your class is crazy??? A MERCEDES oh my god... how do his parents love him so much? My parents probably wouldn’t even trust me with a second hand from 2005 lmao. Also, wtf rich kid, why would you be crowdsourcing opinions for YOUR car? (ngl I kinda think he was bragging too 😂, but drama? Do all these people have nothing else to do besides gossip smh)

Vietnam has a blacklist of Confirmed Assholes she needs to keep an eye on and Yao got on the list in the first few days after being very tryhard and simultaneously arrogant, so he just assumes she’s naturally mean because he never saw the other side of her. But then he starts hearing reviews from his friends who all say she’s their favorite teacher so far and he’s all like “????? Excuse you???” Also yes go get her friendship Aditya hopefully it will mellow you out a little as well “A spirited personality given to debate” YES YES YES! That sounds like such a nice phrase but it’s just code for “loves to argue with me and that’s cool I guess”. The recommendation makes Yao glow (to admissions) despite how much Vietnam thinks it’s bad and also how much bs-ing she thought she did. Admissions officers think Yao’s amazing and contributes greatly to the classroom environment and Vietnam is like “yeah, in a way, as long as you don’t mind someone who thinks every word you say is somehow wrong and will fight you to prove it lol. just take him, I’m trying to get rid of him”

Since there’s essays involved I’m assuming she teaches either history or literature? Kinda on the fence because I feel like she’d be good at giving a no-nonsense version of history filled with interesting details and prompts that make you think (and also hosts monthly debates on controversial issues), but I also want Yao to be as un-confident as possible in his abilities in her class, and I feel like he would be less comfortable/sure of his answers and thoughts in a lit class than a history one. I’m not sure though