#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.

[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?

[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.

[sodavampyr]

John Wick gets hit by a ton of cars and he gets 4 movies and is cool and gets to kill his enemies, but when I get hit by SIX cars all I get is disabled and minor brain damage >:(

[sleebyfrogs]

Okay so just imagine like. You’re just a little guy. You have no parents and your grandfather who raised you has always disparaged and disapproved of the very fact that you exist, for reasons utterly beyond your control. People enjoy your presence because you’re polite and charming the same way they enjoy flowers in spring, which is to say in passing and ultimately without any real connection.

And then you meet this guy who is just like. obsessed with you. He always wants to be around you and he derives true joy from it without you having to say anything funny or clever or lie for politeness’ sake. He creates art that he loves of you and because of you. Indirectly, you are suddenly able to put joy and beauty into the world, anything into the world, because you inspire him. You never imagined you would leave any kind of footprint the way things were before, because nothing you had was meaningful or lasting. And he flatters you dreadfully, he tells you how incredibly beautiful you are, and whether you realise it or not, you can feel that at least part of this value that he has found in you, that he has given you, comes from that beauty.

And then one day you meet his friend, who is older than you and cooler than you and a lord, and so witty and eloquent that you struggle just trying to keep track of whatever the fuck he’s talking about (and he always sounds like he knows everything about it), and he’s been this guy’s friend much longer than you have, and he also compliments you on your beauty and so seemingly that is the only quality of any worth that you possess, right? And then he waxes on and on about how it’s the only thing worth having and explains that what you have is actually incredibly valuable and fragile and precious, and that you are inevitably going to lose it and there’s nothing you can do. And also he says all this while you’re having your gay awakening because he’s sweet-talking you in a way you’ve never experienced and it’s uhhhhh it’s something. So then while you’re having a complete existential crisis over this your mutual friend calls you over to show you the most exquisite painting you’ve ever seen in your life and it’s of you. You didn’t know you could be so beautiful to anyone, you didn’t know he could create anything so beautiful, you didn’t know beauty on this level could even be captured in art. And that’s how he sees you, continually, without you having to make any effort to please him? Just to be yourself is enough to have inspired this incredible thing? You might cry. And then you realise he created it here and now and of you because on this particular day of June, you are twenty years old, and young, and pretty, and once you age out of that, you will lose the one thing anyone has ever valued in you, and surely also his interest, and you will be alone again, and worthy of nothing and no one. And because you’re also twenty years old and privileged and inexperienced you’ve never learned any capacity for nuanced thoughts and say things that are incredibly rash and stupid and regrettable.

So I’m not saying Dorian did nothing wrong but I am saying in his position I’d definitely have been a vain and terrified idiot too

[greetingfromthedead]

I love TTRPGs. I am very anti-social, but I make exceptions for D&D and other such games!