#world is cruel and unfair

[anatheyma]

fox yearning hours today boys

[whoisspence]

matthew gray gubler in 'the learning curve'

it's funny that my teachers never looked like this

[tomurakii]

I kind of hate all the comparisons between kipperlily and like. Those fuckass "affirmative action fucks me over I wish I was [minority] so it would be easier" people because none of that. Is what she said. She said the bad kids already had more experience with adventuring before they got to augefort and it meant they had an advantage. Which is true. Yeah Riz was lower-class but his mum was a COP. Riz, Kristen and Fig had parents who were heroes (Sandra-Lynn is an active ranger, Kristen's parents are paladins, Sklonda is a rogue), Adaine's family was super rich and politically influential, Fabian had both. Gorgug's the only one who wasn't actively at an advantage [IN THE CONTEXT OF HAVING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HEROISM] and she didn't have shit to say about him. Kipperlily was the first person in her family to try heroism, the bad kids are largely legacy admissions.

Additionally to the people comparing it to the "anti-affirmative action" crowd: do you know what affirmative action is. The bad kids didn't receive special consideration on their admissions to aguefort or scholarships or additional financial support or extended assessment times or anything. How could she be mad about affirmative action if none of these people received affirmative action. What they DID have was knowledge about their classes that started much earlier than high school, which is what Kipperlily said in her file that she thought grading should be adjusted for because she did not have that.

To me it's less like affirmative action and more like augefort is like an IQ test. They pretend that it's fair and objective, but you can be taught how to do those things from a younger age, and if your parents took the time to teach you pattern recognition and shit then you'll do better on an IQ test than someone who wasn't trained for it and everyone will act like that makes you innately smarter when it doesn't. It just means someone taught you how to do that earlier.

Barring Gorgug, every one of the bad kids had access to information about heroism and their class at a younger age than Kipperlily did, which primed them for success in their classes. Every one of them got additional information about mysteries from their families (and even direct battle-tactics training from Bill), Riz especially with getting classified info out of his mum. Kipperlily does not have hero relatives. She's the first in her family line to attend a hero school. She knew nothing about it before her first day, meanwhile Kristen was already the chosen of Helio, Adaine had already been attending the best wizard school in the country, Fabian had already spent his whole life training with his father, and Riz was already involved in solving mysteries using info and tactics he got from his parents.

They aren't necessarily "privileged" (except Fabian and Adaine), but Kipperlily didn't say they were, she said that in the specific context of attending a hero school they had a prior-knowledge advantage. Saying they didn't is like comparing the grades of a kid who's academic career started with preschool with a kid who didn't attend until middle school and acting like one of them wasn't better prepared.

[anxiously-sidequesting]

i absolutely LOVE flawed fictional women so Ione is perfect to me because of her trust issues and how that affects the people around her but at the same time Velma Von Venkman, another fictional woman, is the target of these trust issues and as a result is isolated and avoided by Ione (and the rest of the scholars) and i find myself shedding solemn tears in my personal conflict

[aropride]

[virgil-says-things]

thinking about elle. thinking about her never recovering from what happened to her because leaving the bau didn't give her the closure she needed. thinking about. what if she does return to the show what would she think about the team now. does she know gideon's dead. I have so many thoughts and they're all making me awfully sad

[tiecladartist]

So between Vander to Warwick, Viktor to Machine Herald, and Powder to Jinx, season two is definitely going to have an underlying theme of becoming a "Monster" (in quotations because I'm just going off of the "monster you created" vibes, but more accurately it'll be exploring a permanent loss of self, or finding one's true self/freedom in a form not typically accepted by others. Even the cities have been transformed from what they were before due to traumatic events beyond the control of the people affected).

I am very excited for this.

[jellybeanium124]

I think things should be cheap and last forever

[somefunkyaxolotl]

i feel like they’d have similar yet different views on life, do you know what i am saying?

[makiruz]

But seriously, Denzel Crocker didn't have a father so Cosmo was his only father figure, and both the show and the fandom expect me to just accept that Cosmo didn't love him as much as he went to love Timmy and not feel about him? Specially since Timmy is the reason Denzel lost his godparents prematurely and was permanently traumatized and disfigured?

[emmiethebaldbaby]

NOOOOOOO MISTER EDGEWORTH!!!!! DON'T TAKE THIS CASE!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOO RUN MISTER EDGEWORTH NOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Crying. I can't do this.

I CAN'T DO THIS NOOOOOOOOOOO

STOOOOOOOOOP I CAN'T

[trollocs-ooc]

Thinking about riikiis whole outlook on life and goddddddd . God.dd god. Do you get it . Do you understand

[offorestsongs]

the fact that i feel tired when i want to draw is so homophobic of the universe actually

[asterocky]

eat your meals, drink water, take a shower and brush your teeth. he would want you to continue taking care of youself and slowly relearn how to live happily and fully.

[epickiya722]

Leon S. Kennedy 🤝 Ethan Winters

Blond men dishing out one-liners and suffering by the hands of other people

[spidermanifested]

anyway google is not helping me figure out what the Fuck book this is from but i spent all afternoon staring at tiny blurry kanji so im posting the fruits of my labor (original image and transcript under the cut)

Fullmetal Setting Art Book

Introducing the setting and key players of episodes 21 - 30. Once again, the show is bustling with new characters.

Greed: His black leather pants and spiky hair make him look like a musician. [you try to figure out what that word is i give up], and he pays close attention to accessories, being perhaps the most fashionable of the homunculi. The seal of the Ouroboros tattooed on the back of his [left, I forgot to write left] hand also makes for an effective accent.

Roa: Judging by his rugged physique, he probably boasts comparable strength to Armstrong and Sig. The oversized hammer he grips in his right hand further promotes this impression.

Dolcetto: Even though he holds a katana, looking at his attire and bearing, he gives off the image of a ninja rather than a samurai.

Martel: Her hair is cut short, but the forelock that droops down in front gives her personality. The red tattoo that runs from her shoulder to her cheek is also striking.