#*gets banned from the club for being a nerd*

[foolishlovers]

“you should be at the club” i should be rewatching good omens, mind your own business

#me at the club: so has anyone watched that show about an angel and a demon pining for each other for 6000 years straight #the ppl there: ………. #me: it’s really good it’s called good ome- #*gets banned from the club for being a nerd* #x #foolish talks

[oinkinpigprince]

Omg I NEED more gwimbly x Reader headcanons from you because I can’t find literally any 😭😭

Okiedokie!! You got it, another gwimbly x reader coming up! The ppl love gwimbly, it’s not shocking though.

MORE!! Gwimbly x reader

I want to talk about dates w/ gwimbly cause I feel like they’d be really interesting. Both the most fun you’ve ever had and leaves you terrified

He loved big adventures, driving at midnight, going to parties and clubs, maybe flying cross country w/ you

He’s very spontaneous, never going with the flow. You’ll be sitting on the couch and gwimbly will bust in with a suit case saying “WE HEADIN TO TOKYO BABY!” On a Tuesday

It makes you feel alive but he also forgets you have, a job. So sometimes your stupid head boss ruins you’re guy’s(his) plans and he just sits there curled up on your lap pouting

Muttering about capitalism, and corporate wage slaves. You just have to stroke his little head and roll your eyes at how dramatic he is

You teach him how to better make plans, you can just hop on a bus to New York or LA and not expect to take some time off

A fun date idea is testing him for scabies! Checking him for bugs and that sort, who knows what’s under that fur coat.

You two went to universal once and he lost his shit at Nintendo world. He both loved and hated it.

Gwimbly hated it at first, he hating seeing that stupid Italian everywhere and how HE should have his own GWIMBLY WOOOOORLD!! Where you’d slam a can of corn every meal time

But, he could deny the epic-ness of it all. Bowsers tower, Mario kart, it was just. Too awesome for him to deny. It was also a total ego boost to have game nerds come up to him to get his autograph

He got so many pictures with you and fans, loved hugging you tight as people took photos. Gwimbly even tried to kiss you but you shoved his face away making a hilarious photo

Omg ARCADE DATES!! The most retro, nerdy shit you could think of. He loves playing arcade games w/ you, he favorite being mortal combat or any street fighter type games

He kicks ass at DDR, and loves to smoke you in that game. You kick his ass at air hockey, he’s so dramatic about it too. He does it cause he knows you find it funny

You two have a lot of fun! Before he tried to win you an arcade prize and lost so much he grabbed his gwimbly gun and tried to shoot the machine

You two actually got kicked out, well gwimbly got thrown out and was promptly banned from that location. It was fun while it lasted

#smiling friends #smiling friends x reader #smiling friends x reader headcanons #smiling friends headcanons #gwimbly #gwimbly x reader #gwimbly headcanons #gwimbly x reader headcanons #smiling friends gwimbly #smiling friends gwimbly headcanons #smiling friends gwimbly x reader headcanons #smiling friends gwimbly x reader

[antoine-roquentin]

The previous part of this series, Part 2, is available here.

In the world of internal Democratic Party politics, the chosen party of the professional-managerial class, fighting for a role in the party hierarchy is done by resume-padding. You have to have worked the correct jobs under the right managers with subsequent letters of recommendation from your patrons, showing both that you care but your primary commitment is to the job itself, not to the cause you were purportedly fighting for in that position. In that sense, Allard Lowenstein fits the bill as a typical upwardly mobile member of the party in the same way Pete Buttigieg does today. If America knows Lowenstein at all, it's from his role in the popular PBS documentary series on the civil rights movement Eyes on the Prize, especially episode 5. The emotional climax of the episode comes over the party machinations to keep the alternative slate of black voters from being seated at the 1964 Democratic convention, which LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, and his protege Walter Mondale succeeded in because of their superior knowledge of debate club tactics. A series of copyright claims by rightsholders for whom licenses had expired kept this show off the air in the 90s, but early filesharing advocates got to work promoting the show across the internet. After all, if they were trying to ban it, it must be important. The clip here is from that episode.

Lowenstein got his law degree at Yale, did his stint in the military like an honorable American, and then got a job from Eleanor Roosevelt directly, always the most powerful player in the party from her husband's death to 1960. However, Lowenstein also cared to an extent. He wanted the black people of the American south to have a chance to vote, based to a large extent on what he witnessed on a fact-finding tour of Namibia, then an internal colony of Apartheid South Africa. His passion was such that he was a major player in the movement to prevent LBJ from being renominated in 1968, recruiting Eugene McCarthy to run against him. This was because they were both politics nerds in the West Wing sense. Young guns, they believed they knew better than the Democratic machine politicians what voters wanted. They knew the people wanted an anti-war candidate who satisfied liberal pieties and who thumbed his nose at the old hierarchies. The result was three unsuccessful campaigns for presidential nomination and Lowenstein himself becoming a one-term congressman. As Gus Tyler, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (himself a young rebel against an old guard at one point, now an old man leading younger women) said, Lowenstein was leading politics "away from economics to ethics and aesthetics, to morality and culture", and ultimately "to the Republican Wolves".

The problem here wasn't that Lowenstein cared too much, as most of his contemporaries wrote. Rather, he'd performed like a racer trying to slipstream/draft who had spun out of control. This was because of Lowenstein's background and training. As the consummate liberal striver, he'd managed to become president of the National Student Association in 1951 (note this in particular for future posts). This was a union of students' unions, which was basically the debate club to end all debate clubs because that's all student unions are. Even today, but especially so in the 40s and 50s, the only reason to get involved in student politics was because it was a training ground for how parliaments and congresses work. All they do is argue over arcane resolutions on mundane subject matter, until one manages to land a blow strong enough to gain a majority in favour. It's a weirdo politics junkie's dream.

Lowenstein brought that energy to organizing black people in the American South. Even before his role in organizing 1964's Freedom Summer in Mississippi, the project for which Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were murdered, he was already getting on the nerves of more radical black people. James Forman, right of MLK in the pic below, ended up on the wrong side of Lowenstein at the 1956 NSA convention. Lowenstein didn't want passage of a more progressive civil rights platform than the one the Democratic Party had adopted. At one point, he literally shoved a black man to the microphone to speak on his behalf, according to Forman. He won, of course, because he knew his debate club tactics better.

7 years later, Lowenstein and Forman butted heads over the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's work in Mississippi and Alabama. Forman notes that he arrived almost unannounced, and yet many of the white volunteers suddenly claimed that they were under his orders to do what they were doing, including going to towns that were centres of white violence and had no organizing done. As a Yale alumni, Lowenstein probably had links to major white supremacist orgs to protect these people given that Yale was the university of choice for white southerners in the Ivy Leagues. On the other hand, Lowenstein's line was against black radical politics and towards conciliation. Forman found that Lowenstein often worked hand-in-hand with Bayard Rustin, James Farmer, and John Lewis (far right in the pic above), and were close to Norman Thomas and Michael Harrington's Socialist Party (eventually Democratic Socialists of America), bankrolled by Walter Reuther of the United Automobile Workers union. He was particularly piqued when they went to the Dominican Republic as supposedly independent observers and certified the election of the pro-American candidate not long after an American invasion, despite the well-known popularity of his opponent Juan Bosch.

This rankled Forman because the struggle in America for the civil rights of black people was part and parcel of the decolonization struggle abroad, or so he thought. To have America going around and imposing governments on nations through its military industrial complex and arcane intelligence apparatus reeked of what South Africa was doing in Namibia. After all, there was a reason the SNCC had adopted the phrase "one man, one vote" for its 1964 Freedom Summer campaign: it had been a slogan of the 1958 All African Peoples' Conference, the first meeting of black revolutionaries from all of Africa in history.

This conference was convened by the newly independent Ghana, the eighth independent nation in Africa and the first of a long wave which gained independence between 1958 and 1994. The resounding waves of this action were felt in America. Martin Luther King Jr explained in an interview that year "This event will give impetus to oppressed peoples all over the world. I think it will have worldwide implications and repercussions—not only for Asia and Africa, but also for America… At bottom, both segregation in America and colonialism in Africa are based on the same thing—white supremacy and contempt for life". But "Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent", incoming Ghanian prime minister Kwame Nkrumah declared, which is why the All African Peoples' Conference had to be held.

Nkrumah did not learn his debating skills from the NSA. As a student in America in the 30s, he'd given sermons in churches across New York City and Philadelphia, talking always about Africa. Yet it was his experience of American segregation that radicalized him. Being told he was only fit to drink from a spittoon was one of many insults he faced from white Americans. At times, he would buy a subway ticket so that he had a place to sleep. He knew the civil rights struggle was the same as his own, and this followed to the rest of his government. When Ghana became independent, it had virtually no skilled workers because universities in the country barred black students and everybody who had the ability travelled to America to learn. In 1958, Nkrumah spoke at an NAACP dinner in Harlem, telling black American dignitaries that the next step in their fight for civil rights was to send their well educated members back to Ghana, where they would receive a warm welcome and teach their fellow Africans to build a strong, independent nation that could one day bring together a united Africa to rival America.

The opening salvo in this project was the call for all freedom fighters of Africa to send representatives to the AAPC. Nkrumah welcomed them personally. First came Tom Mboya (keep your eyes on this guy) from Kenya, a trade unionist official and future Minister of Justice who one day soon would ensure a member of his tribe, Barack Obama Senior, made his way to America to attend university. Future successful and failed revolutionaries like Joshua Nkomo, George Padmore, Kenneth Kaunda, Hastings Banda, Frantz Fanon, Dr. Felix-Roland Moumie, and Holden Roberto, as well as notable black US Congressman Charles Diggs, were among 300 delegates. Perhaps the most important delegate was accidental. Joseph Kasavubu had initially been invited as the representative from the Congo. However, when the plane to Ghana stopped in Leopoldville/Kinshasa, Belgian authorities had stopped him from getting on, recognizing him from anti-colonial speeches earlier. However, they did allow Patrice Lumumba and two comrades who had impressed the plane's passengers with their rhetoric at a bar to join in. When Nkrumah met Lumumba, he was deeply impressed and called for a photographer to record the moment.

Also among them was Horace Mann Bond as a representative of the African American Institute, a group funded by western mining interests but staffed with academics from major American black universities like Howard and Lincoln. He brought along a reporter named Bob Keith, who was arrested during a closed session of the congress with bugging equipment. Bond was also president of the American Society of African Culture. AMSAC had deep pursestrings, bailing out a number of black groups soon after it was founded, and sponsored Bond as well as CUNY professor John Aubrey Davis, who reported on all the proceedings to former National Student Association president and current AMSAC leader James Theodore Harris Jr, according to AMSAC's archives. A third group that attended the conference was the Congress for Cultural Freedom, who sent white AFL-CIO leader Irving Brown. AFL-CIO in turn sponsored International Ladies' Garment Workers Union member Maida Springer, one of the few black women. One thing that AAI, AMSAC, AFL-CIO, and CCF shared was an explicit commitment to anticommunism in their charters, even as some claimed apoliticality otherwise. CCF sent its future president, South African poet Ezekiel Mphaphele. Some CCF funding came from the Fairfield Foundation, a charitable organization that sent its own observer Patrick Duncan, a white member of the South African Liberal Party. Other funding came from the Ford Foundation, which sent white University of California Santa Cruz professor John A. Marcum on its own. Marcum and Brown helpfully offered to translate ad hoc between French (spoken by Lumumba) and English (spoken by Nkrumah), and the two report an unknown American helping them with all their conversations.

I note these people because they or the organizations that sponsored them were all revealed to be CIA fronts or conduits by the magazine Ramparts in 1967 (Brown's one time boss at the CIA's International Organizations Division, Thomas Braden, wrote a response entitled "I'm glad the CIA is 'immoral'"). Many of them defended themselves by saying they were unaware of where the money was coming from or that they did not know the people they reported to were compromised. As Ramparts was drawing primarily on IRS information that had been leaked as well as corroborating testimony, they did not know the full extent of their integration into the intelligence apparatus. As many of these organizations folded in the 70s and 80s after these revelations their archives were given over to universities for preservation. They were rarely perused, two notable exceptions being by Frances Stonor Saunders and Hugh Wilford in the 90s and 2000s respectively. What they revealed was not wholesale domination or complete innocence, but rather a joy that the CIA was funding them to do what they knew was the right thing combined with strident insistence to the conduits for their funding that they not be forced to do anything that would contradict with their politics. When Farmer, of Forman's Lowenstein faction at CORE and SNCC, went on an AMSAC-sponsored tour of Africa, he criticized Malcolm X's beliefs as "apartheid and… worse", then got into arguments with diplomatic staff for his criticisms of American policies towards South Africa, Portugese Africa, and most of all the Congo. He later claimed that seeing apartheid abroad helped to calcify his opinion the American government. When Brown became harshly critical of Nkrumah, Springer, his subordinate and mentee at AFL-CIO, explained decades later that the 1958 conference gave her "goosebumps" and was more significant than the fall of the Berlin Wall in her opinion.

Evidently, many of these liberals, like the more radical leftists they battled, viewed the American civil rights struggle as an anti-colonial one. So too did the CIA, given the similar manner in which they infiltrated both through the liberals. However, portrayals of the struggle in popular culture like Eyes on the Prize show nothing of the sort. They tend to show a struggle from the streets right into the Democratic Party. This pattern also befits all of the above named associated with the CIA, albeit with the ones less inclined to support whoever the current president was also ending up becoming less powerful. Typically, they emerged in academia rather than politics, ie the other glorified debate club. In contrast, the radicals tended to find themselves sidelined or shot. Forman was an early supporter of the Black Panthers along with his associate at the SNCC Stokely Carmichael, but as the group descended into factional infighting, his former comrade stuffed a pistol in his mouth and threatened to shoot, giving him a nervous breakdown. He went into academia and helped ensure his son, now a Yale Law professor, could do the same. To co-author his autobiography, "The Making of Black Revolutionaries", Forman picked Julian Bond, son of Horace Mann Bond.

‘Irving Brown was never a CIA agent’, said Cord Meyer, the head of the International Organizations Division of the CIA. ‘The very notion is laughable. He was as independent as you could get, and very strong-willed. What the CIA did was to help him finance his major projects when they were crucial to the Western cause. But in his operations he was totally on his own’.

[catindabag]

TBOSAS AU ✨CRACK! TAKE✨: The 10th HG Mentors According to Drunk Dean Highbottom. (Part 3)

⭐️❄️⭐️

Thank you for reaching part three of this TBOSAS Crack!AU, but I’ll still advise the new readers to read part one for context, but here are all the parts anyway: [1] [2] [4]

⭐️MENTORS⭐️

Hilarious Evans Bee (Hilarius Heavensbee)

Who names their own kid hilarious?!🤣

You’re gonna get bullied forever.

Your father is weird and creepy AF.

To be honest, I don’t want your parents anywhere near my school.

Your family is rich, but thankfully not Mama Cardew money rich.

By the way, what does your family even do for a living?🧐

And don’t tell me again that your ancestors only got filthy rich by selling a certain powdery substance that I can’t legally name.

Doesn’t understand how money works.

Thinks he’s part of the cool kids club.

Likes talking to garbage boy.

Has delinquent tendencies.

Your mother acts like a living & breathing CCTV.

Likes to buy banned films that were produced centuries ago.

Stop bringing your freaky chihuahua to school!

Currently on his “legally blonde” era.

Feels oppressed by his strict but super creepy family all the time.

You suck at playing Capitol Monopoly.

I might give you a demerit for that reason alone.😂

Doesn’t know what a deadline is.😩

By the way, your mother gave me a weird looking cake as a “compensation” gift.

Gave his own father a restraining order to never approach any of his classmates, especially the pretty boys (Crassus & Philip) and girls (Cannibal & Clam Asia) for some reason.😰

Tell your freaking father to never flirt with my former boyfriend (Crassus) again!😡

Is ready to commit arson, than attend a family gathering.

Will NEVER win the Hunger Games. Rather, he will destroy the Arena, taking down everyone with him, just to piss off his family.

Acne Crane (Arachne Crane)

Is loud, boisterous, and obnoxious AF.

Can gossip about anything and everything.

Used to be the “Sandwich Queen” of Panem.

Tried to steal my super secret blueberry tart recipe.

Hates doing her own homework.

Hates the Plinth boy for stealing her “sandwich” title.

Hates how Crassus and Philip were considered prettier than her.

Bullies “Chemistry Girl” for being a nerd.

Blackmailed half of the class to do her essay assignments.

Is manipulative, but stupid.

A certain infamous family ate her maid.

Hates “Cannibal Girl” for some specific reason.🧐

Accidentally gave me money for looking like a homeless bum. I was drunk!

Stop throwing me your worthless coins! I’m the freaking Dean of the school!😫

Her older brother is very likable, but unfortunately, he is not the favorite child of the family.

Your family only got rich by owning the largest “Airbnb” chain in all of Panem.

Most of her family members are a bunch of “all year round vacationers.”

Bribed her own mother not to attend The Academy’s annual PTA meeting.

Her family’s mansion looks more like a luxurious hotel.

Knows how to balance a spoon on her nose.

Will NEVER win the Hunger Games. I just have a feeling that someone might incapacitate her before going to the Arena.

Bias Green (Gaius Breen)

Does not know his left from his right.

Sucks at directions.

Is the true ✨Class Clown✨.

The Citadel Brat of Panem.

Very friendly & extremely likable.

Green is not his favorite color.☹️

Gave me a can of lima beans for my birthday.

Has a feral pet raccoon.

Likes to adopt stray dogs for some reason.

Is not allowed to drive a car.

Your mama owns the Capitol Zoo.

Tell your mama to fix and renovate that damn zoo already!

No offense, but your family’s mansion looks more like a jungle.

Does not know how to ride a bike.

Smuggled illegal sexy magazines into my office as a dare. Almost got me fired.😡🔪

Has no enemies except for me and that rabid squirrel that once ate his pop tarts.

Stole my driver’s car keys and tossed them in the school fountain to delay me from going home to check his assignments.

Seriously, stop stealing my car keys!!😫

Is a certified delinquent.

Knows the password to Dr. Gaul’s personal computer by accident.

Might be immune to rabies.

Accidental winner of The Academy’s ✨Mr. Congeniality✨ title.

Will only win the Hunger Games if his jokes can make everyone else cringe to death.

You Know Flips (Juno Phipps)

She’ll use her family lineage to get away with murder.

The ✨Queen✨ of Nepo babies.

Your family is powerful and secretive AF.

Haven’t you heard? She’s a member of a founding family of the Capitol.🙄💅

Acts like royalty, but is practically royalty.

Spoiled and entitled AF, and everyone knows it.

Seriously, stop using your family name to get out of detention!😠

And don’t ever steal and dye my favorite winter coat hot pink again!

Owns 10 dogs, 15 cats, 30 rabbits, 70 well-trained horses, and 100 hummingbirds for no reason.

Gave me a gigantic horse as an “apology” gift.

Also, tell your himbo of a father that he can’t bring 200 living turkeys (again) at our next PTA meeting as a sign of peace and prosperity.

Reasonably unreasonable.

Your family’s mansion looks more like a medieval castle.

Is part of my Mean Girls List.

Is obsessed with fashion.

Knows every seasonal fashion trend ever.

Yes, I know. The Hunger Games will cease to exist if you ever got reaped as a Tribute, ‘cuz your “noble” family will burn Panem to the ground if that ever happened.

Iffy Genial Most (Iphigenia Moss)

Your parents gave you a cursed name.

Looks skeletal AF.

Likes to give away her food for free.

But seriously, don’t force feed your classmates to death.

You’re a living choking hazard.

Might have stolen my precious pet goldfish out of spite.

Has severe “daddy issues” too.

Doesn’t know how to cook to save her life.

By the way, why didn’t you invite me to your “All You Can Eat” birthday party?!😭

Embezzled the class funds for makeup.

Might be another juvenile criminal.

Very very sneaky.

Likes to buy expensive lipsticks.

Your family literally controls the food industry.

So why are my freaking groceries still expensive AF?!

Your big ass house looks more like a grocery store.

Honestly, I might just do my groceries at your place.

Also, I’ve heard that you gave a certain student a truck load of cabbages last year.

Can stab someone with her eyeliner.

Manipulative AF.

Is on her “Good Girl” era.

Will NEVER win the Hunger Games. Just look at her! She’s thin as a stick!

Insomnia Sicko? Insignia Sicko? (Vipsania Sickle)

A true “Gym Gal.”

Your favorite aunt works for me!

Is competitive AF.

Is a certified gym bro and athlete.

Can easily throw people like a sack of potatoes.

Your family own the largest gym in the Capitol.

Your father can crush anyone with his left thumb. I’ve seen him do it before.

Your mama is also muscular AF.

By the way, stop leaving your stupid dumbbells on my desk! I can’t f*ckin’ lift them!😫🔪

Loves to party and drink posca after school.

Will challenge you to a dance battle.

High survival rate.

Can crush a grown man’s head with a book.

Is sometimes mean to me.☹️

Smiles like a scheming cat with a knife.

Will most likely and literally backstab people to death.

Can and will blackmail anyone to buy her those expensive energy drinks.

Loves to eat strawberry waffles.

Likes to win in everything and anything.

Cannot be easily trusted.

Will most likely win the Hunger Games through sheer will and brute force.

#tbosas #crack post #coriolanus snow #president snow #sejanus plinth #lucy gray baird #hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #suzanne collins #thg fandom #thg #thg fic #thg fanfiction #crack treated seriously #crack ship #thg series #hilarius heavensbee #arachne crane #casca highbottom #dean highbottom #crassus snow #snowjanus #snowplinth #crack #crack fic #tbosas incorrect quotes #thg incorrect quotes

[becca4leafclover]

Headcanon time.

I’ve mentioned before that I like headcanoning Flint as a yugioh player because of his voice actor, but the thing about yugioh is that it’s one of those games like chess or smash bros where it isn’t fun unless the person you’re playing against someone of an equal skill level.

If your opponent is stronger it’s no fun cuz you’re losing horribly, if your opponent is weaker it’s no fun cuz they just look kinda pitiful.

But what separates yugioh from smash bros or chess is that the rules are a little complicated and it can be hard to learn, so even though it’s no fun unless you’re equals most people would (in my experience) be happy to meet someone who knows the rules.

Flint’s pretty good, he keeps up with the meta and he’s gotten bored of challenging the same group of students. Boba, who’s never played before, sees Flint’s boredom and offers to play with him, Flint warns him of the complex rules and summoning conditions, but Boba insists, this is something his best friend really cares about.

Flint takes it slow, explaining everything in great depth and making sure Boba gets it, he even goes a little easy on the guy.

Only to lose within three turns.

Flint tries again and again and again and Boba just keeps winning, he doesn’t know how Boba is so good, but this leads to a comedic chain of events where several students see the game LOOK easy and decide to play, only for them all to fumble the same way any beginner would. (they’re underestimating Boba’s intelligence, he’s a blue shard and all)

This results in Yugioh becoming massively trendy within the school, Jada uses ancient gear golems, Wren uses ice barriers, Lucretia uses traptrix, and several others join with awfully thematic decks with one goal in mind.

Beat Boba.

holy frick THIS IS A WHOLE FANFIC CONCEPT I LOVE IT

Boba being the final boss is peak cinema. While they were studying magic Boba was finding THE HEART OF THE CARDS

Before anyone can face Boba though, they must first defeat his royal guard- his original teacher, Flint!

And that alone is still a challenge that makes people actually have to build good decks and get good at the game, leading to a small elite team of students who consistently challenge Flint and Boba, where everyone is learning from each other and the skill level just keeps going up. If Everston had a nerd club they'd all be Yugioh-tournament-level competitors and none of them have any idea just how good they are because this has happened in the bubble of the school

It starts to become a problem and teachers are threatening to ban and confiscate cards that are being played in their classes until Moody points out that this is actually pretty good recreation for the students, and both Magiclicas and Ciphers are equally involved and its fostering positivity, so teachers instead say no cards in class (they CANNOT be trading waxed cardboard in potions class!) but they set up an official school club for the Yugioh obsession and the students build Boba a throne in the club room

#THIS IS FANTASTIC I LOVE IT SO MUCH #canon in my heart now that in the background theres a massive yugioh craze like the pokemon go one at my middle school #THEA DOES NOT PARTICIPATE THOUGH SHES VERY CONFUSED LMAO #starlighter #starlighter mcrp #yugioh #? should I tag that? im tagging it anyway LOL #minecraft roleplay #becca rambles #becca answers #chill4234-reblogs

[bunnymajo]

Filled out another ship questionnaire for Tiara x Jewel because it's fun and no one else will probably do it but me lol

What’s their love languages?

-Tiara knows Jewel’s big into science & history so anytime she comes across something interesting she’ll share it.

-Jewel nags out of love.

Do they have a dynamic trope? (enemies to lovers, sunshine x grumpy, etc?) 

-Sporty & Studious I guess? Jock x Nerd? Princess x Normal girl

Who cooks? Who cleans up? Who’s banned from the kitchen?

-Both of them are just ok cooks, since it’s Jewel’s house Tiara probably would do most of the cleaning. Jewel is probably banned from cooking the main dish whenever Tiara visits because all of Jewel’s food is too spicy for her (Tiara likes spice but like. A level 2 or 3 vs Jewel’s 5+ level). 

What’s their favorite sleeping/cuddling positions?

-Tiara’s the little spoon

Who does what chores?

-They’re both pretty responsible enough to do whatever. Tiara’s more likely to fix stuff using duct tape and tools herself “what? it works fine!” while Jewel’s more likely to take it to a professional.

Jewel’s also more likely to make the bed or interior decorate. 

Do they go out often or prefer to stay indoors?

-I could see them going out a lot, Tiara’s not one to sit still too often. Jewel’s up for a little excitement so she’s happy to go anywhere also.

Who is the more romantic one?

-Probably Tiara, I think she tries to seem cool and collected but she’s not really used to having someone her age to depend on, so she turns into mush.

Even though her being a princess isn’t really that important to her, I could also see her internalizing fairy tale ideals like “true love’s first kiss” and “love conquers all” that sort of thing.

Jewel’s a lot more practical comparatively. 

Do they have any favorite activities to do together?

-I think Jewel’s a bit of a sports fan, like she’s good at strategizing and analyzing the best way to play. Tiara’s definitely more of a jock so she gets really competitive and enjoys sports both as a spectator and to play.  

So I think they both enjoy athletic activities but in different ways.

Who drives and who picks out the music?

-Jewel drives, Tiara tries to be good and let Jewel pick the music but after like, an hour in, it’ll devolve into whatever Tiara wants. Jewel’s into loud music though so it’s ok. 

What’s their opinion on PDA?

-Hand holding and hugs are ok, Jewel’s a little embarrassed by anything deeper than that. Tiara’s not shy but she also doesn’t want to make Jewel uncomfortable.

Who does fashion shows after a mall trip and who watches and compliments them?

- Both really. But Jewel is more inclined to spoil Tiara with gifts

Do they go on vacations together? Where is their favorite place to visit?

-Tiara’s always traveling but it’s for her search for her father so it’s been an incredibly long time since she’s gotten to actually relax without having a weight on her mind. If their schedule’s line up Jewel will come with Tiara somewhere but she’s also there to help in the search.

They promise that one day when this is over they’ll travel to all the places they didn’t get to go together.  

What’s their favorite “domestic bliss” moment? Do they cook/clean together? Do they like to go out shopping together?

They’re a long distance relationship mostly, so pretty much anything 

What does a relaxing night in look like for them? 

  -At their core they’re Sega characters, so they like to play games. Board games, card games, video games. Or just enjoy each other’s company.

What does a date night out look like for them?

Favorite place to go is the local sports bar for chicken wings, but if they’re feeling a little fancier maybe a new restaurant they haven’t been to and just chat and hang out for hours. Sometimes a dance club if Tiara wants to blow of steam or a movie if Jewel’s feeling stressed.

How do they silently/subtly express their love for each other?

-Tiara will sit still for a bit. If she’s comfortable enough to sit with you for longer than an hour I think you’re in.

-Jewel....I think Jewel gets very stuck in her routine that doing something outside of that is big deal to her. If she's willing to meet in the middle on something or want to try something new because she knows it'll make you happy - I think that's proof enough that she cares for you.

What clothes/accessories do they steal from each other?

-Jewel’s clothes are too small for Tiara, but she will try on some of her business blazers when she’s not looking

-Jewel knows Tiara’s clothes won't fit her so she’s too embarrassed to even try. She will borrow or hats, sunglasses or something else of Tiara’s if they’re outdoors a lot for the day.

Which of their friends/family pokes fun at them for them getting flustered/affectionate?

Oh Tangle playfully teases Jewel whenever it comes up, she never goes too far with it, but Jewel makes it too easy sometimes. Whisper’s starting to do it too.

How do they apologize after arguments?

Just. With words. Like you’re supposed to. Tiara might get a little extra cuddly.

 Do they like pick up lines?

-Tiara will try and sometimes it works if Jewel is caught off guard. But some days Jewel be so caught up in trying to get something done she’ll be like “that’s sweet of you to say, hey help me carry that stack of papers?”

What are their favorite places to kiss on their partner(s)? What are their favorite types of kisses?

 -Tiara likes forehead kisses, she’s also a sucker for being kissed on the hand.

-Jewel is sensitive all over

What is their dream home? Do they buy a place together? Who plans the decorations and who does the heavy lifting?

-Jewel’s home in Spiral Hill is probably where they’d end up for a long time. If they ever moved it’d probably be in some kind of mobile home traveling the world. In any case Tiara would do any heavy lifting required and Jewel decorates

Do they have any pets or kids?

-Nah, but I think if they were older I could see them wanting to start a family

Who would propose? What would their wedding be like?

-Tiara would probably have to be the one to propose, just because she’s the type to not settle in one place and Jewel would be too nervous of that rejection. But it would work out once Tiara’s closure with her father finally isn’t weighing on her anymore. 

As for a wedding I think Jewel would be focused on getting all the logistics figured out (how does the world’s best wedding planner relax for their own wedding?) while Tiara is more focused on making the funest reception ever. They’d say it’s just a small get together but it turns into Spiral Hill’s wedding of the year.

What’s something that reminds them of their partner(s)? Do they have anything on them daily as a reminder (a photo, phone background, tattoo, clothing/accessory, etc)?

Silly answer: Buffalo wings…

Real Answer: Since Jewel deals a lot with missing person reports she, in a sad way, always has Tiara in the back of her mind. It helps keep her focus in her work though, she takes it very seriously.

Since Tiara’s been doing more research on gems since meeting Jewel she’s also constantly reminded on Jewel’s influence on her. Every time she sees something cool or finds book that teaches her something new she thinks “Oh I wonder if Jewel’s seen this one?”

What is something they can never agree on? How do they meet in the middle?

Buffalo wing side dish fight, Celery vs. Carrot stick. Jewel is team celery & Tiara is team carrot stick.

Free space! Say something about this ship that you want to say!

To the person who has the rights to Tiara: please consider letting Tiara and Jewel hold hands. It’s cute. Please give me your blessing because I’m going to keep doing it anyway.

#bugbowski #jewel the beetle #tiara boobowski

[ninootny]

talk about gary the gadget guy i am listening very intently

ninoo and gary documentary

"a flabbergasting and beautiful story about a kid who learned nerd exists" 8/10, -igm

"my favorite fanfiction, wait, it's a documentary? even better!!!" 10/10 - club penguin times

gary is like so special just look at him he's so tiny idk, he's a friend!!! i wish i was able to get gary stuff when i was younger but i never found club penguin stuff in stores (even if it was pretty popular in france) he really did something to my brain when i was playing club penguin everyday back then (at least when i was at my mom's place/work because for some reasons (child of divorce) i became chronically online around 8). i would just do on loop the psa missions because i loved him, and my dad put the club penguin epf ds game on my r4 and yeah, obsessed.

since i'm (breaking my silence) i'm a nerd i think i related to him + he has glasses + he's creative, i just had a huge kin moment i think. I stopped playing club penguin after operation blackout, and then i came back a few years later with a few friends because we were going on every old kid mmo to have fun (we were roleplaying/trolling in a nice way, like we were just like "we're about to hack the epf silly penguins.... and steal all your pokemons" (because pokemon go was popular and we loved it a lot) and i saw him again. and i was remembering how much i love that guy. i would love to find my old drawings of him but i moved a lot sooo a lot of drawing are lost-

i remember when they announced island i didn't understand club penguin would shut down. and I didn't saw the website closed, I learned it maybe a week after the terrible event and I was devastated. my friends from this era didn't care a lot about it because they never played to club penguin when they were kids, i cried about club penguin shut down and not being able to see my silly penguin again (Nella02, a cyan penguin who never got the membership because my parents were broken af if I remember well when i was a kid), but also, not being able to play the legit version of club penguin and knowing I'll never get new EPF events, no more gary content.

the void

but hey!! we can find some!!! tweets!!! from my new twitter acc because the old one is gone (got banned for lying about my age)

after this event gary just came back in my head sometimes and i would be crazy for like. a week maybe.

"love"

but this time it's getting very long, i really want to focus on other characters like Cadence and Rookie because i loved them too as a kid (I wanted to cut my hair very short but my parents were pretty much against it because they were like "you need to keep girly long hair" 💀 and seeing Cadence as a kid made me happy I think) but gary is too strong idk

in 2020 i thought about rookie and gary at the same time it's crazy

"clearly the best huh"

"i really want to play to club penguin but i'm at work" (heartbreaking)

also i think it's because of him that all my favs are blue pathetic nerds that never sleep (tsumugi aoba from ensemble stars my dearest wife)

"gary from club penguin i think about him evry day of my life amen hes just the type of person i love sorry blue nice pathetic nerd who wants to be useful to others"

"its the saem character"

sorry i needed to talk about my relation with club penguin and i think in a few years i'll just. i'll just look like my gary gijinka. my hair are blue and i really want a lab coat BECAUSE OF THEM ALL

have a nice and beautiful day

#ninoo ask

[quinnick]

Alright, you pulled my leg (/lh)

Do you perhaps have any hcs for the OG losers + Mike being in a polycule? 👀

HA ! You have fallen for my trap !! Now you will be forced to hear my hc!! How do people do these? Eh, I'll figure it out

(It's an official thing now. Look I MADE a mood board for it. It's fancy now)

The OG Losers were always super close as friends and would always hold hands or just generally hang off each other and it was always something their parents would assume they’d grow out of.

Jokes on their parents though because they never grew out of it. They did stop holding hands or doing as many things with romantic connotations in public once they realized how much negative attention it brought.

Richie takes any opportunity to grab his partners hands or lock arms. He is also the one who makes the most fun of his partners for holding his hand.  Bev and Ben meet the group and immediately understand that they must find a way to manage them before they get hurt. Not even in a targeted way. Just that they are too chaotic. 

Like the time they witnessed Eddie attempting to climb into Bills window and then falling off

Mike joins later on and Bill finds himself developing on a crush on him and so does Stan and the two pine after him.  Of course Mike starts dating Stan and Bill but he doesn’t really ever date Richie or Eddie

Their favorite group dates include going to the movies, the arcade, and every so often they give in and let Stan take them bird watching

Usually bird watching ends in some disaster or another 

Like the cliff incident or the time Eddie and Richie fought over what a birds name was. Both of them were wrong.

Movie dates always involve a lot of trading. They are very annoying to be in a movie theatre with as Mike insists that he sits between Stan and Bill but Richie wants to sit by Stan and Eddie but Eddie wants to sit by Bill. They change spots at least 6 different times but Mike never movies. He does pass back messages.

Back on my window note, climbing in through the window nearly gets banned by Ben after the 5th window related injury in one month. Most of these injuries were Stan related in some way or another and he never even attempts to climb in through the window. 

Richie makes mix tapes for each of his boyfriends and also helps them make mix tapes for each other. 

Stan leaves notes in his partners lockers and always signs them “love, Stan”

My personal HC is that Richie is a theatre nerd so of course everyone shows up to all his productions.

He always ends up with way to many flowers so eventually they decide to bring him the most ridiculous things as gifts.

The spot for most ridiculous gift given after a production was a random bottle cap that Bill found and no one can figure out what product or company it comes from.

Stan, Bill, and Mike go on their own special dates where they do nothing but sit on a bench that is in the middle of no where. They found it one day when Stan and Bill had been running away from some bullies.

Bill has fought multiple people and it concerns his partners a lot although he wins all of them

On the other hand, Eddie gets in a bunch of fights and loses. 

Richie is not allowed to pack his own lunch because he once packed only fruit snacks so now Stan packs an extra lunch. 

They had to add a couch to the club house because everyone kept fighting over who got to sit in the hammock. More so Stan would sit in the hammock and suddenly everyone wanted to sit in it. So the couch is much more suitable.

In high school, Richie carves everyone's initials into the kissing bridge. It made no sense to anyone driving by. 

They have movies nights and had to make an order for who would pick the movies. Everyone usually is fine with this but Bill has a tendency to go around and beg his partners to pick. He also usually either chooses a cheesy horror flick or a cheesier romance movie. 

During high school, an actual window entrance ban was in forced after Stan actually tried it but got caught because he climbed into the wrong window. 

This ban was broken multiple times by Richie

They also had a group game night for a bit but it eventually got banned by Bev since she was tired of everyone breaking up over monopoly

Stan gets everyone the most gifts. He’ll regularly be seen showing up with flowers, cookies, or chocolate if he visits one of his partners. He also likes to buy little things to give them. Like how he got Bill a stuffed duck.

Eddie thinks it’s funny to kiss his partners cheek at random to get them to blush. Stan always blushes the most at thing turning full red.

#Ask #Moots #Losers club #Reddie #stanbrough #Bichie #Losers club hc #Losers club polycule #Mike x Bill #Stanley x Mike #Bill x Eddie #Stan x Eddie #Idk everyones ship name pls forgive me #I am sorry this took me so long #This is my first official HC thing so I am sorry if it is all over the place #I tried to make sure a good amount of everyone was mixed in so it wasn't tilted towards one character #I still hold the opinion that Bev beats up anyone who is bigoted and homophobic against them

[defendglobe]

anyway, jumping off that post i made the other day about odo being deanna's stepfather, here's some TNG/DS9 crew interaction headcanons:

-sisko and picard keep a respectful distance from each other. neither of them want to discuss what happened at wolf 359 but it's too big an issue to ignore. their interactions are limited to stuff like "congrats on your promotion to captain" or "sorry your ship was destroyed."

-since the TNG movies first contact and insurrection take place while worf is working on DS9, the TNG crew stay around for a few days when they bring worf back to talk about their latest adventure. after first contact, data scares the bejesus out of everyone by walking through the promenade with half his face ripped off.

-whenever geordi visits DS9 he ends up helping o'brien with repairs because something is always broken on DS9 and geordi is a workaholic. it's a good excuse to catch up and find out how keiko and molly are up to. he always leaves DS9 glad that he's the chief engineer of the enterprise and not station on fire trash can.

-riker sets up a poker table at quark's and invites julian and o'brien to play. julian gets all competitive is convinced that he can beat riker but o'brien (who regularly attended poker games on the enterprise and knows damn well that riker is an amazing player) tells him that he doesn't stand a chance. they play a game and riker absolutely wipes the floor with julian.

-data, geordi, and julian keep in touch after the events of TNG S6E16 because they're all autistic nerds who love infodumping. sometimes they'll try out each other's favorite holodeck programs together (sherlock holmes/james bond).

-also because of TNG S6E16, beverly keeps in regular contact with julian and lets him swing by the enterprise-E every now and then to use medical equipment that is more advanced than the stuff on DS9. she does still give him shit for literally breaking into sickbay that one time, though.

-sisko and beverly bond over being single parents and losing their partners because of their starfleet careers. beverly busts out some baby pictures of wesley and his ugly sweaters remind sisko of jake.

-jadzia and riker probably fucked at least once. they also swap weird sex stories in the middle of the bar. beverly walks by, says "by the way, i fucked a ghost once," and then walks away. jadzia hauls ass across the room to ask for context on that one.

-deanna goes to garak's shop looking for a new outfit and since she's a betazoid, she ends up telling him he really should consider therapy because his vibes are so off. garak does not appreciate that insight and has to resist the urge to go full obsidian order on her ass.

-picard and odo get along surprisingly well, since they both tend to hold people at arms length and are emotionally constipated as shit. if picard ever needs to pass on information to the DS9 crew, he usually goes through odo so he doesn't have to talk to sisko. also picard is super orderly most of the time, which odo appreciates.

-quark tries to ban data from the dabo wheel, saying that it's not fair for an android with superhuman abilities to gamble because he could easily rig the games. julian, o'brien, worf, and the entire enterprise crew threaten to beat the shit out of him for saying that. data explains to quark that his ethical program wouldn't allow him to cheat and quark ends up having to listen to data infodump about his programming.

-data occasionally joins in garak and bashir's gay little book club, because he appreciates hearing a cardassian perspective on human literature. since he's super direct/upfront all the time, he gets a bit confused by garak constantly talking in like fifty layers of euphemisms. bashir has to explain that no, this isn't a human social norm you're missing, garak is just Like That.

-the enterprise is out on an urgent mission when worf and jadzia get married, but the crew throws a hell of a party for them when they get back (riker and beverly were the masterminds here). likewise, the DS9 crew members who stayed around after "What You Leave Behind" are invited to deanna and riker's wedding. they're just off camera because they didn't want to be seen in such a bad movie, lol.

-guinan and quark get into a "who's the better bartender" type rivalry and compete by making a shitton of different drinks for people in the bar and having them vote. it ends in them getting arrested by odo for using romulan ale or some other illegal thing.

[skelezomperman]

Gen II trio are running for student's council presidency! They're vying for the throne because Arion and Altena are graduating. Between you and me (and the whole world), who will you support?

Seliph: wants mental health to be a priority, will pressure the school to bring a psychologist to school clinic. Wants everything to be democratically decided by having people vote for student council's programs, such as what festival should be held next and where. Challenge so far: having to dispel rumor that he's coming from family of attorneys. Some loud naysayers unsure if he can uphold what he promised because to them he looks like a cute duck. Rumored wanting to ban swearing at school and replace it with weekly slam poetry session. The animal lovers like it when he thinks students should be able to have a yearly tour to zoos or aquarium to volunteer.

Leif: Runs on the premise that boys shouldn't be discriminated because of their height; inclusive basketball team because he thinks height will get you to the ring, but anger makes the best dunks. Wants to reinstate state-sanctioned mandatory free edible lunches and adds fishing in a secluded lake with a homestay of forest cottage into yearly school activity. Thinks every school needs a stress room where students go to destroy stuff and come out feeling better. Challenges so far: rumors about him being a communist, and whispers about him having slashed teachers' tires. The stress room is most favored, however.

Ares: The most radical premises out of the three. Wants to abolish school uniforms. Wants to bring back honorable sword duel to settle dispute, which gets criticized a lot. He argues it will make people to think twice before being an asshole, mutual deterrence. Thinks students should be able to oust a teacher from their class if the teacher is deemed unfit or doesn't care for the students' well-being. Surprisingly wants more funding for art programs, which leads to the infamous controversy where science and sports clubs point at his face asking why he hate them. It's only infamous because he says, "Like I give a fuck." Broadcast to the teacher's and principal's offices. Wants students who get caught being cruel to cats expelled without appeal.

There are also rumors that Ced will run although the certainties are still kept in the dark. His program includes extra math hours to help struggling students, which he will call Math Clinic. Wants school bus rides to be free. Favored for inclusive school environment, including more funding for cultural exchanges and foreign language classes. Wants school uniforms to be proper again, which invites some naysayers. The hardest challenge for him so far, however, is to stop people from calling him a nerd. His fans love the idea of mandatory sign language matriculation class, though!

If Ced actually runs, who is actually going to not vote for him? Many people, actually, because people are naturally distrustful of lofty promises like that. Not to mention, he sounds like a technocrat, and that is not in style right now.

I'd support Seliph, of course, because slashing teacher's tires is very bad. And while I agree with Ares that being cruel to cats should be an offense meriting expulsion, sword duels aren't the most safe thing.

#skele answers your questions #tbh diarmuid should run #he would be the best out of all of them

[combatbootsanddreams]

2024 Fanfic goals

Or an unrealistic and overly ambitious list of fanfics a busy and far to optimistic undergrad will be attempting to write this year on top of homework and life.

(In no particular order after 1, which is top writing priority)

Finish When the star don't look quite right

Complete more stories in the little light are you listening verse

A sad-ish Caduceus Clay fic. The ramifications of being Melora's favorite child. Also the occasional trials in protecting a temple worshiping a goddess banned in the kingdom next door.

A sapphic genderbent/rule 63 modern codywan mafia au. Where Cody is the heir apparent to Jango's enterprise and Obi-Wan's a bartender working at one of his clubs with her own problems. (And bodies in the closet. Metaphorically of course). Love, murder, and chaos ensue.

A fic that's kinda tied to the You're not flawed darling verse, or what else jedi padawan's in the facial analysis and dialogue inspection classes get up to. Really just an excuse to imagine all the cool classes Jedi might offer cause I'm a nerd. (Also they bring down a crime syndicate. For fun, extra credit, and as a birthday present.)

I made a 212th chief medical officer for a fic I haven't posted yet & now I'm attached to him & the whole medbay.

A stewjoni are succubus au that came from me rewatching the first few eps of Lost Girl with my mom. Way less about sex & more about logistics, medical problems, and cuddling. Featuring Qui-Gon being an excellent master, codywan, aromantic Quinlan Vos, Obi-Wan using he/they/she pronouns, and plenty of costume changes.

A star wars/magnus archives fusion where the Jedi Code is especially important to follow when you are tied to fear entities. Web!Obi-Wan, Slaughter!Anakin, Hunt!Ahsoka, Corruption!Qui-Gon, & so on.

That is all to say happy new years!! I hope everyone is safe & doing well.

And if you want come talk to me about fanfic. I have lots of ideas and no one IRL to talk to. Ask me a question about any of the above & I will adore you.

#my fanfiction

[coffeebooksandstuff]

Memoir

The Girl and Harry Potter 

I was never popular or considered one of the cool kids, because I wasn’t a part of the major religious upbringing, and because I was too shy and quiet, I never fit in. And with that, I was also bullied by boys. And it wasn’t in the sort of Oh he likes you, this is just his way of showing it. It was the type of bullying that made me go home and cry every day, and not want to return to school. “She isn’t as pretty as the other girls. No one is going to want to be her friend or do anything with her.” Stuff like that, it was heartbreaking and it felt like I would get a knife to the stomach every time, he said something like that. 

It got to the point where my parents had to get involved and they moved me from the middle of the classroom where Greg, the bully was sitting to the front of the class. We couldn’t switch teams, at our middle schools they spilt the 7th and 8th graders into teams and instead of choosing which teachers we would take as we did in high school, we were assigned the same teachers and it was too late in the school to switch me to the other team. 

 So I of course wasn’t happy about it because I so desperately wanted to fit in. Even if it meant being friends with my bully. Mr. Mac, is one of the best English teachers and ballroom dance teachers I have ever had.  He took 8th-grade students and gave them a chance and gave them things that could help them. He left an impression on me when he handed out books for us to read and do a book report on. I was almost excited for it, and then I saw the one I got. It was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, a book that was considered banned at the time according to the state of Utah and several other states as well(1), and at first, I was iffy of it. And Mr. Mac  knew it, he just wanted to make sure that his kids all got a chance to explore all the worlds that were created in fiction. 

 I wasn’t trying to get my hopes up that I would like it. Since it already had 3 books out in the series and I didn’t want to get into the series and not be able to own the books because it wasn’t something we could afford. And if it was something I liked. Like the Babysitters Club or Girl Talk or Sweet Valley High, I had to have at least one of the books of my own. Now 20 some odd years later, I own all the books in digital, illustrated, and physical copies.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was a new book a gateway into a new world that a 13-year-old me needed. The series was about wizards and magic. Stuff I wasn’t interested in. What kind of girl was interested in this kind of stuff? It could just be more of a reason for Greg and the others to bully me and make me feel even worse about myself than I already did. 

 In fact, I wasn’t interested in a lot of stuff at that time because of being 13 and having no idea of who I was or what hobbies I wanted to have. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I opened the book but when I saw the first sentences talking about how Dumbledore put out the lights with a cigarette lighter and how a half giant came in on a flying street bike. It was amazing! I had grown up around dirt bikes and street bikes so reading about flying one was awesome. I wanted a flying street bike at that point, still do.

  And here were these characters that I could relate to. Hermione, the friendless, nerd who desperately wanted friends like me, Ron the poor boy who offered his lunch to a boy who was an orphan and had no idea what he was getting himself into with going to the wizarding world. And Harry the boy who lived, who didn’t know who he was and made stuff up as he went along. 

Not only that it introduced me to the Weasley family, Molly, Arthur, Percy, and The Twins who became my favorites after Luna Lovegood and Hermione, and then little sister Ginny. The younger sister I always wanted but never got. I had been stuck with a younger brother who now I have no relationship with.

Then there were the other students and teachers that made me feel like I was included.

Even if they were fictional they were still my friends and I finally felt like I fit in even if it was an imaginary world. 

Mr. Mac not only gave me friends that I can go back and revisit now that I am older and have friends that I talk to every day, but I can relive that hope he gave me when he handed that poor bullied sad girl a book to read.  

Mr. Mac giving me that book opened me up to not only my love of reading but my love of writing. All it took was a book written by a single mother who was recovering from an abusive relationship in England to open this whole new creative world for a 13-yearv girl who just wanted to belong. So thank you Mr. Mac and JK Rowling (though I don't agree with everything you have said recently)

Work citiedhttps://www.standard.net/news/education/2023/mar/09/davis-school-officials-have-pulled-33-books-from-libraries-under-new-policy/.  

[synergysilhouette]

Continuing on with my Choices ideas for books from my banned Reddit account, here is "Hierarchy: Scheming University":

At Sarcia University, you're ready to make a name for yourself. However, at one of the most renound liberal arts university, everyone is willing to sabotage you in order get ahead--and some professors seem to be looking away. Will you find a way to get through college by natural talent, or will you resort to cashing in favors and humiliating your peers?

Gameplay: your choices matter. Join clubs, participate in activities, and engage socially in order to impress your professors and earn respect from your classmates. Are you a nerd, a partier, an athlete, a loner, or a mix?

LIs:

Gwen Flores--beautiful, intelligent, athletic, she's in every club she can be at a given time. As such, it's gotten her a lot of popularity, but she's more substantial than that, focusing on being a good person. However, rejecting cliques can come back to bite you. She could really use you in her corner. (Hispanic, very casual fashion that she makes look beautiful)

Alanis Whitlock--popular and pretty, she pretty much does the bare minimum, academically. But in actuality, she's a world class nerd! (She'd kill me for saying that.) She'd never share this, but she's actually super poor and came on an academic scholarship, and some of the sleazy-er professors buy her things all the time, boosting her ego. And she's been known to sabotage people horribly if her well thought out plans fail…If you want to romance her, you better show that you have goals for yourself--plus a good public image. (Caucasian, glamorous fashion, a hint of sexiness but nothing overstated.)

Britney Kishimoto--coming from a family of successful writers, it was expected for Britney to be president of the journalism club. She struggles with insecurity due to the amount of hot people at SU, but her penchant for discovering the truth and creating believable gossip has gained her popularity--but this can put her at odds with you if she catches you doing something you shouldn't.

Silas Griffin, a hard-working ROTC member, trained to respect autheority. Growing up with a large family, he has a lot riding on him, and wants to keep his head down to avoid awful rumors circulating around him. However, when he discovers an interest in theatre, he becomes emboldened to speak out on the school's crooked injustice. However, he still has a bit of uncertainty, knowing his new outspokenness could get him expelled. Hopefully MC can help him gain some confidence. (Native American, hair usually braided, usually seen in atheltic clothing and bright colors.)

Ashok Singh--a handsome singe father who happens to be a professor at a local medical school (yay, he doesn't work here!) He's often trying to find a good work-life balance, especially after his son was kidnapped two years ago and he's become very protective. He's not your official therapy, but he provides insight on you and your morals throughout the story. He currently has his contemporaries investigating the shifty happenings at SU. (Indian, hair goes past his ears and has a beard, usually wears a dress shirt and jeans outside of work)

Dominic Ferrari--the result of a tryst between a wealthy Italian businessman and a Venezuelan model, he tends to take things for granted at SU. He likes to cause trouble and enjoy himself, but he never means any (severe) harm. You'd pretty, and he wants you, attempting to seduce you with promises of job opportunities when you get out of college. Maybe you'll have to consider it…(Italian-Latin with brown hair and tanned skin, usually wears business-related attire but sometimes engages in casualwear).

Twist:

(Neutral route): Due to you flying under the radar, most of the school has ignored you--except for Professor Crowley, whose child attends SU. She sends an anonymous tip to Britney that you're the one who set the gym on fire last year (you didn't, btw). Now you're in the spotlight--and not quite the way you wanted.

(Mean girl/guy route): You've managed to intimidate a lot of your opposition, but now Dominic wants to test your mettle, challenging you to maintain your popularity for the rest of the year. Sounds easy enough, until you realized he's made bets with a few othe people, and the sabotage is about to turn lethal. Watch your back.

(Nice guy/girl route): When everyone loves you, everyone hates you for it. Your transparency and kindness has earned a lot of friends, but Ross Sym, an undercover jerk, tricks you into preparing an awful speech that paints you as disingenuous. While a friend, even Silas notes your surprise seems very rehearsed, and in a school full of liars, it's easy to believe your angelic demeanor is a coverup. And now playing the victim seems to be a growing trend at school…

#choices #choices stories we play #choices app #pixelberry studios #play choices #choices stories you play

[bloodied-teardrops]

ok we all imagine various yan genshin characters coming into the real world one at a time.

now they're all at once. discuss.

diluc and kaeya are constantly fighting until darling implements a new rule: the person who starts the least amount of fights by the end of the week gets a kiss. they WOULD fight when you're not here, except various characters like razor and chongyun are in player's group and will tattle if it means they get a kiss and its just a mess. tldr: the player asserts dominance with bribery.

everybody acting like siblings in that they try to purposefully get the other in trouble all the time, while at the same time trying to get into the player's good books

razor lowkey having attachment issues and acting like a literal puppy- waiting for the player to get home and literally never leaving the player's arms. he demands constant snuggles

characters like venti and razor being spoiled because they are baby

xingqiu being a huge book nerd and reading every book in the house- bonus points if player is also a book nerd.

zhongli relating to the player about never having money. they are poor. venti might join the group too

diluc having a protective streak and having a near breakdown every time they tell him a story about a rude customer or something if they ever worked in retail/fast food

childe being a lowkey sugar daddy after trading in all his gold before being scolded into not blowing all his money

venti playing music to earn money and (hopefully) lighten the load a little

diluc joins the loaded club and sometimes puts money into the player's bank account when they're not looking

aether/male traveler got isekai'd as well and is so excited about meeting the player bc thats who he's been hearing! to him the player is basically god and is entirely the reason they've survived until this point and is so happy!!!

aether also gets spoiled because he too is baby. he likes to help around the house and also craves the snuggles. he and razor fight over that a lot.

childe will absolutely try to steal a kiss when you least expect it. kaeya might as well. they may or may not have competitions over who gets the most kisses by the end of the day.

diluc is a gentleman and will carry you to your room if you fall asleep. if he kisses your forehead as he tucks you, thats his little secret.

diluc is very warm. you've fallen asleep on him at least twice and both times he just held you until you woke up, usually long after he's passed out too.

all the tall men (childe, zhongli, diluc, and kaeya) give great hugs.

albedo will likely have sketched your cat. and you. he's sketches you many, many times but he will never let you see because it embarrasses him a little.

childe going to work with you one time and nearly getting into a fight with a guy who got handsy. things did not end well, but good news- the guy was banned.

if the player works in retail they often come home exhausted from having to deal with people and being scheduled shifts at ridiculous times but they have lots of stories to tell. one time the roadtrip snacks stall was stocked with clorox wipes. nom nom crounch.

Unless you have a big house, it’s going to be so crowded.

#Let’s Discuss ♡ #Sweet Citrus ○ #Genshin ◇ Impact #♡ yandere

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Hello! I really love your fic Pryoclasm and just love how you write Maxie and the Magma gang. I don't know if you've been asked this before but what are some of your headcanons with them? (magma gang or just team aqua/magma in general?)

ANON you have made my DAY with this thank you so much!! I'm not gonna include art with this bc you've opened Pandora's box I have a lot of headcanons and hopefully they will suffice. I'm also gonna limit these to Magma for now bc honestly i could do a whole separate post w Aqua. Also most of these apply to Pyroclasm Magma in particular but sometimes also in general? I can and will have conflicting headcanons and multiple interpretations and no one can stop me. And now they are under the cut because this got Long!

- The biggest one should be obvious to anyone who's read the fic but Pyroclasm Maxie is nonbinary! This is one of my few HCs where my personal take on the character actually differs from my HCs on the character in general. Pyromax is nonbinary and ace, whereas I think canon Maxie is probably cisgendered and gay

- Going off of that Courtney and Tabitha are both bi and cis.

- Maxie gave themself the name Maximilian Ashwright to establish an identity that gets away from their deadname and family. The whole "not really existing" bit is really helpful in leading an organization that some people might classify as 'ecoterrorism.'

- Tabitha is the braincell of Team Magma. I know Ive suggested this before but it is The Most True in Pyroclasm. Courtney and Maxie are chaos gremlins together and almost all of their ideas are bad. Team Magma would have fallen apart without Tabitha.

- Maxie is not actually as smart as they would like you to think they are.

- no really.

- Maxie's whole thing (and I HC this for canon Maxie too bc just. Go back and read his arguments that he proposes to the player) is that they can express their ideas very confidently and aggressively enough that most people either back down or get caught up in their chain of logic. If you go back and think over what they've actually said there's a good chance you'll realize it makes no sense at all.

- Maxie could be a lot smarter if they didn't have an ego the size of one (1) super ancient legendary eldritch earthmover getting in the way.

- Maxie has mastered the art of getting places through sheer determination and decisions of questionable legality.

- Tabitha is capable of rational thought and that's why he's the smart one.

- Maxie and Courtney met in college; specifically Courtney was an undergrad for a class that Maxie was teaching as a grad student. Said class was about the intersection of pokemon and ancient cultures and they bonded over the roles of legendary pokemon to these civilizations. They also bonded over being chaotic neutral but anyway

- Maxie specifically was pursuing a masters degree, with their topic being focused on a lost civilization in one of Hoenn's water routes. They consistently clashed with their professors over this and eventually ended up quitting the program before getting their masters, and left with Courtney when she graduated

- Before they left though they spent one weekend learning how to eat fire and still use it for horrifying party tricks sometimes. Tabitha banned them from making a Magma initiation ritual out of it

- Tabitha and Courtney are behind a lot of the tech that Magma actually uses; Maxie handles overall organization and research into the history of Groudon.

- Maxie is the best battler in Team Magma by a longshot--followed by Courtney, then Tabitha. None of them are anything to slouch at, but Maxie in particular is quite capable of using their pokemon to wreak havoc.

- Tabitha bakes to relieve stress and will not hesitate to smack you if you try to stick your fingers into the batter

- Maxie lives most of the time on exclusively straight black coffee because any sugar will put them to sleep. They are absolutely a hypocrite about pestering others to take care of themselves when they will not take care of themself

- Courtney is the rock nerd of the bunch and used to be in a rock lovers club with Steven. Steven told her once that one of her papers was intriguing but needed peer review. Maxie told her peer review was only relevant if her peers were as smart as she was

-tbh there's probably others i've forgotten about so maybe ill come back for a round 2 later but hopefully this is a good start anon!

#pyroclasm #magma leader maxie #magma admin tabitha #magma admin courtney #team magma #i wanna doodle for the other asks i have currently so expect those to take a little longer #if i'm lucky i might get to them tomorrow but alas i'm chronically behind on work

[dragonsareawesome123]

 Johnny’s initial Facebook message to Ali has the same energy as Paul’s initial letter to Aster in The Half of It.

[Photo ID, First picture: Facebook message written in all caps by Johnny Lawrence to Ali Mills that reads: “AND THEN IN 1992, IRON EAGLE 3 CAME OUT. YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON’T CARE WHAT THE CRITICS SAY, I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY GOOD. NOT AS GOOD AS IRON EAGLE 1 AND IRON EAGLE 2, BUT HEY, WHAT MOVIE IS? I THINK WAYNE’S WORLD WAS THAT YEAR TOO. THAT ONE WAS OKAY. THOSE NERDS HAD GREAT TASTE IN MUSIC. AND THE CHICK WAS HOT. WHAT WAS SHE DOING WITH HIM? HOW COME THE HOT CHICKS GO FOR THE LOSERS IN THESE MOVIES? ANYWAY, OTHER THAN THAT 1992 WAS A PRETTY QUIET YEAR. GOT FIRED AGAIN, BUT WHAT THE HELL DO THEY KNOW. I DIDN’T LIKE CONSTRUCTION ANYWAY. THEY ALL SPEAK SPANISH AND I’M PRETTY SURE THEY WERE MAKING FUN OF ME SOMETIMES. DO YOU KNOW WHAT A “GRINGO” IS? I STARTED LEARNING A LITTLE BIT OF SPANISH FROM MIGUEL AND HIS FAMILY. I KNOW “HOLA”, “PLANTAIN”, “TACO”, AND “DINERO” PRETTY GOOD, HUH? WHERE WAS I? OH, RIGHT, 1993. THERE WAS THAT DINOSAUR MOVIE. PRETTY GOOD FOR THE NINETIES. I MEAN, NOT ANYWHERE NEAR WHAT WE HAD BACK IN THE DAY. REMEMBER PREDATOR? THAT MOVIE WAS BADASS! THIS DINOSAUR THING WAS PRETTY COOL BUT TOO MUCH SCIENCEY STUFF FOR ME. I GUESS YOU PROBABLY LIKED THAT THOUGH, RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU’RE A DOCTOR NOW. I COULD NEVER BE A DOCTOR, NOT AFTER THAT INCIDENT AT COMMUNITY COLLEGE (I TALKED ABOUT THAT A COUPLE PARAGRAPHS AGO. DOES FACEBOOK LET YOU GO BACK AND REREAD?) STILL THINK THEY OVERREACTED, ALL THE GREAT SCIENTISTS SET THINGS ON FIRE, RIGHT? LIKE EINSTEIN OR WHOEVER. ANYWAY, 1993. DUTCH GOT ARRESTED. THAT ONE WAS PRETTY STUPID. I WAS DRUNK FOR MOST OF IT, BUT I’M PRETTY SURE HE HOTWIRED A GOLF CART FROM THE COUNTRY CLUB. I LOOKED UP FROM THE BAR AND DUTCH IS DRIVING THIS THING AT HIGH SPEED, OR I GUESS AS HIGH AS SOMETHING LIKE THAT CAN GO, AND CRASHES IT INTO THE POOL! THEY HAD TO BRING A CRANE IN TO GET IT OUT. HE DID SOME TIME BUT IT WAS WORTH IT! ANYWAY, I DON’T THINK I’VE BEEN BACK TO THE COUNTRY CLUB SINCE THEN. SID WON’T LET THEM BAN ME BUT THOSE GUYS ARE ALL UPTIGHT. AND THEY ONLY SERVE FOREIGN BEER. IT’S OFFENSIVE. WE WON TWO WORLD WARS DRINKING AMERICAN BEER. WHAT THE HELL HAS BELGIUM EVER DONE EXCEPT GET INVADED? WHO WANTS TO DRINK THAT SHIT? I THINK I GOT OFF TOPIC AGAIN, LET’S GET BACK TO THE MID-NINETIES. 1994 WAS A SLOW YEAR. THE NINETIES SUCKED. MAN, YOU TURNED ON THE RADIO AND IT WAS JUST CRAP. WHO WRITES A SONG ABOUT BEING A LOSER? AND ALL THOSE GRUNGEY TYPES WITH THE FLANNEL. LET ME TELL YOU MUSIC IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT BEING BADASS AND AWESOME, NOT ABOUT WANTING TO KILL YOURSELF. THAT SHIT CAN’T BE GOOD FOR KIDS TO HEAR, RIGHT? LOOK AT ME, WORRYING ABOUT WHAT THE KIDS ARE HEARING. I GUESS BEING A PARENT CHANGES YOU, NOT THAT I’M ALL THAT GREAT OF A PARENT. WELL, MIGUEL SEEMS TO LIKE ME OKAY. ROBBY DOESN’T. I MESSED THAT ONE UP PRETTY GOOD. CAN’T EVEN GET THE KID TO TALK TO ME ANYMORE. HE’S STUCK IN THERE FOR A FEW MORE MONTHS, AND HE’S GOT NOBODY. HE WON’T TAKE MY CALLS. I HOPE HIS MOM IS TALKING TO HIM AT LEAST. I THINK IT MIGHT BE TOO LATE FOR ME AND HIM. I MESSED UP TOO MANY TIMES. NOT THAT I’M A TOTAL SCREW UP. I’VE DONE SOME GOOD STUFF TOO! WHICH BRINGS ME TO 1995 AND HOW I MADE TWO GRAND BETTING ON THE OJ TRIAL]

[Photo ID, Second picture: Letter written by Paul Munsky to Aster Flores that reads: Dear Aster Flores, I think your really beautiful. But even if you were ugly, I’d want to know you. Cuz you are smart and nice too. It’s hard to find all those things in one girl. But even if you were only two of those things, Id be into it. But your like all three. Just to be clear. About me. I’m kind of cute. Some people think I’m the cutest one in my family! Those people being my grandma who’s dead now. Nevermind about my dead grandma. All I am saying is that I like fries. I like dipping them in my milkshake, is that weird? It’s actually really tasty. Would you like to try that with me sometime? I work part time and I have a truck! Let me know whenever. Thanks, Paul Munsky, second-string tight end. Football.]

#i love two (2) himbos #johnny lawrence #cobra kai #cobra kai spoilers #paul munsky #the half of it