#class choices are all great

[plounce]

elle and emmett from the legally blonde musical are one of those m/f couples that i think work best as a woman and a man purely because their relationship and how elle wouldn't stay at harvard for him because she has grown to want true respect & success more than a man she loves' approval/desire is like so important to the themes of the story and it's the whole point and it's part of what makes them so good. on the other hand emmett could be such a hot butch lesbian it's crazy i want to eat drywall when i think about emmett forrest but a butch lesbian BUT it simply would not improve and in fact would detract from the themes of the story. they have to be m/f

#chirps #tangentially. i think that a trans man casting for emmett would be really great for a lot of reasons #the scene of elle buying him really nice men's formalwear and finding clothes that he likes and feels good in... #'take it like a man' in general would have such another layer of meaning and love to it #anyway. there would be a really interesting dimension to their relationship in terms of elle embracing hyperfemininity & emmett being trans #and how their respective relationships with & presentations of gender impede them in the upper-class Professional world of harvard #man that'd be really cool... that would add soooo much to the show... #Emmett Forrest. You Must Be Transgender Now. #tbh thinking more. t4t f/m elle/emmett would be so incredible but also so fucking devastating for certain things. BUT THEY TRIUMPH!!!!! #<- all my tags aren't me trying for a 'best of both worlds' option wrt casting. just me thinking abt how the roles gender plays in this sho #and the ways different casting choices could shine light into different facets #the 2022 west end revival had them both as black which also is really great stuff i think... i wanna find a full boot for that

[forcedhesitation]

I'm actually rather surprised that not a single one of the boys made top three. but then again, I suppose the large number of straight men that play this game are not as visible in fan spaces as us lgbt. That is...a fortunate thing, though, I'd argue.

#bg3 #thoughts about media #with how much you see of a certain little elf- I figured he'd make the top three. but I see I figured wrong! #the top classes do not surprise me at all. #I take great interest in strategy when it comes to dbd. so I pay the same attention to strategy in bg3. #the top three classes are some of the best classes to choose for combat. #theeeen the choices stray back into RP territory. #rogue has it's uses...but less so than warlock I'd argue. #I'd say wizard and cleric are stronger than rogue too. #hell. I multiclass star into wizard once he's gotten his lvl 3 thief perks. in part for tav lore reasons. in part to maximise his strengths #stealth just isn't consistent enough in this game to pay off. in my opinion. #like the best classes I'd say are sorcerer / paladin / bard / warlock. #fighter is good for multiclassing to gain action surge. and multiclassing into war/tempest cleric can be useful too. #but fully levelling either seems pointless imo. #the race choices are 100% because of RP reasons. the stats do not whatsoever show any influence from min/maxing stats and abilities. #if that were the case. half-orc would be the top. halfing. and drow. I think duegar is good too? #tiefling being up there isn't actually TOO bad either. they are decent for mage classes. #CANNOT believe evoker wizard is the most popular though. other subclasses have better perks imo. #I also think thief is the best subclass of rogue. extra bonus action? and falling damage reduction/cannot fall prone from falling? SO good. #also my sincere congrats to the 464 maniacs who've already destroyed honour mode. you people are bananas.

[whenthelightisrunninglow]

submastronomy

#pokemon #submas #gotta become one of those people that draws ingo and emmet doing completely random things all the time. here they are in my astronomy class #i am not posting anything of value because my stuff still isnt showing up in the tags. this is great because it means i can do whatever #and only my followers will see it. which is your guys' own fault and choice

[bmpmp3]

when people complain about getting like, a 98% grade on something because it was "so close to perfect" its like. i understand what you're saying on a technical level. but that is a line of thought so far away from my experiences and ways of thinking that i do feel like im from another planet. 100% isnt even a real number to me

#i kinda understand when its something like a multiple choice test or something where there is an objective answer #it might feel like u got so close but just missed one #again still a bit alien to me because my scholarly performance is mysterious and anything over 70 is great to me #but i mean ive had a 98 before once in a math test. i did get exactly 1 bit of 1 question wrong #but i didnt really care that it was one off from perfect i was too busy being happy because that was the highest mark id ever received #and the previous math test i had taken got a 53% . grade 11 was a wild time for me in math class GHJKSHFKds #anyway i kinda see where ur coming from with stuff with right or wrong answers like that #but i sometimes get friends in class complain that they got a 95 or something on an art assignment #because they think they got docked 5 points for one or two little things #but i dunno. thats not really how fine arts departments in university tend to grade things #you dont start at 100 and get docked marks for things you got wrong. i dont think ive ever seen a 100% on something like that #tbh the numbers are a little arbitrary i find. i do prefer to try to get em higher because that helps with grants and stuff #but the numbers dont mean all that much in fine arts or in art history (my two majors) a 75 and a 95 can function the same depending on lik #weighting and context and feedback and whatever. i dunno its a wild world out there #it might just be the perspective of someone who did really goodbad in school. (GoodBad (tm) its when ur good but also kinda bad at school!) #compared to someone who got a lot of perfects in mandatory schooling. i sympathise i really do that kind of pressure sounds insane #but while i sympathize i cant really empathize as much unfortunately with this specifically orz its a world very far outside my purview! #100%s arent real to me so they never cross my mind to be worried about LOL

[catamaurrr-star]

i think hsr is a horror game just for this fucking trailer alone

#the snake eating a bird in the background of red acheron and black swan “dancing” #and how directly afterwards it shows that birds skeleton. hmm #and of course the predator and prey imagery in black and white. with that Damn art style like holy shit #also black swan falling in that weird red and black swirling abyss. as someone who is scared of heights Thats pretty scary #also can i just say. that scene at the very end with all the people falling down from the sky while ahceron is just walking (in the pic) #was the most horrifying part to me. like holy shit man. who used a potion of slow falling on those guys #its just so ominous to me. gives me the creeps #fucking great music choice as well btw #maurposting #i have many thoughts. as you can tell #honkai mumb rail #this trailer really feels like. abstract horror? i dont really know the right word for it #in the best way possible: this feels like something 9 year old me wouldve spaced out thinking about in the middle of class

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

also fun fact. you can effectively punch holes in plastic glow in the dark stars using a push pin and a rock and just pressing it really hard into your carpet or something so it doesn’t damage anything once it penetrates the plastic. in case you ever needed to know that

#i hope all my actors come to the premiere because i do not think i will be finishing this shit by sunday when we stop filming #going to need to tell them i have surprise presents for them all and use that to make them come see my mid short film #i have to stop putting down my own film. it’s not going to be mid. it’s going to be good. perhaps not as good as some others in the class #but it will not be as bad as the annoying ‘men’s mental health story’ bs one group is doing #frankly i don’t give a shit about men’s mental health but whatever #actually it might not be bad as a film idk their skill levels. but i won’t care about it due to there being no women in there #actually another group is making a film with no women (except the firdged mom) but i think theirs will be good #they have a cast of two people it’s not insane that there’s no women so i’ll allow it #and also of course that guys script was very good and he was actually my first choice when we voted on who’s scripts to make #no i was not my first choice…. i was trying to be humble…. #also i wouldn’t have had to be director on his film. i could have been the bitchy production manager….. #i also would have had to go on multiple hikes due to the locations they needed. so perhaps it’s a good thing my script got voted in too #and i know i complain but i do actually like my group they’re great people to work with #even if the Annoying one and i clash sometimes. i like to think of our dynamic as Divorced Coparents #which sounds more sexy than it is. it’s not sexy at all. there’s no sex going on metaphorical or otherwise #i just mean. we clash sometimes but we also have good rapport. it’s like a tense middle school friendship #and the other guy. he’s great. cringe at times but we love him #i wish i’d known him before this semester so we could have had more time to become friends this timing kinda sucks #anyway. i don’t remember how this post started. #ok bye

[heycoyotegirl]

love how the message of season 4 was that you have to have extremely good grades and have gone to parties to be able to successfully adjust to university

#nhie s4 spoilers #nhie s4 #nhie #never have i ever #nhie critical #if you had mediocre grades or were too uptight might as well not even bother going since you're apparently fucked #like. devi ben and fab all got into an ivy and seemed to be enjoying university and doing well right away #meanwhile we have eleanor who gets 1 rejection and gives up on furthering her education entirely (why didn't she think about film school??) #and paxton who worked So Hard to get into college only to immediately drop out just because his roommate was shitty #& blair who was an excellent student but partied too hard and failed out and tried to keep it a secret because it was 'kind of humiliating' #like. blair mentioned that she was burnt out but then it was almost immediately reframed as her having been 'too perfect' in high school #the only character who never planned to go to college was trent who was so bad at school he had to repeat his senior year #why weren't there any students who had done well at high school yet struggled academically even though they were genuinely trying? #or students who hadn't done super well in high school but then thrived in university when they had more freedom to choose their classes #where were the top students who didn't get into their first choice school? or knew that they didn't want to go to college at all? #obviously the show couldn't cover every possible permutation of how people decide whether to go to college and then how they adjust to it #but it's uhhh not great that the 3 'smartest' main characters were admitted into ivies and immediately thrived at university #while the 3 who struggled with school or prioritized non-academic interests either didn't try to go to college or gave up extremely fast #the show has always had moments where characters will be elitist but it seemed much more prominent & tied into the narrative this season #my post #my meta #tag ramble

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#the thing abt me is that if u complement me in an academic context i will melt #me walking into every interview: fuck this school. i dont wanna go there. im sad. on one is gonna want me. i can hardly function. fuck this #me walking out of every interview: fuck. the project is cool and they said nice things abt me 😭 #fuck. the guy from the lab i interviewed with basically said if u wanna be here i can make it happen. i like ur style and i think ur a #super good candidate 😭 and he quoted my wanky writing bc i got a bit flowery and idealistic lol #and hes on the admissions committee so he was like: yea i can support u if u want just let me kno #and fucking hell the project is cool. but the thing is i think id have to be less of a sad sac bc i think he expects a lot and is hands off #but it is a big institution with a lot of creative ppl and theyre good abt supporting interdisciplinary work #so like the opportunities there would be pretty fucking great i think. hhhhhh god. theres no way i could take the uk one now #fuck. wtf am i gonna do abt that? do i bow out now before ive committed so they have a shot with another person #or is it too late for that bc they already put my name forward to the committee #god dammit. this was the one i was supposed to b like yea no shot am i getting this. and now im like fucking considering it like #the opportunities.... but id have to live in new jersey... it would b closer to home i guess. id b back on east coast time #and i could work with Yellowstone organisms. and i bet the classes r pretty fucking rad education wise #god. decisions. im gonna play Choices by the Hoosiers like a million times #thats what i did wjen i was deciding to go for undergrad. and then i didnt even decide. i was just like... well i dont wanna go to the #place all my classmates r going. i will go 3hrs away. then 12hrs by plane for my masters #fuck. at least it went well. everyone was nice and the 2nd guy i talked to was like: #even if u dont go here. email me if u end up working with zinc and i can help. and i was like 😭 #i got a bit rambly with him but whatever he was 15min late so we're even lol #i was way too nervous. but it was ok. but also i dont understand wtf other incoming phd students r like?? #like they say im a good candidate and ive got good background and im like ??? what sort of losers r u looking at if u think im good? #i just think maybe what i wanna do is unique and very specific so im like not trying to do just anything. i have standards lol #and apparently im more coherent than i give myself credit for. i talk good sometimes and i have enthusiasm when i dont feel like im dying #god. i was not expecting this. i dont belong at a school working with tech startups like wtf. i come from a place of slightly trash #universities lol. well my undergrad uni wasnt so bad... well i mean the city is the butt of a lot of ohio related jokes tho. im looking at #u klinger. fucking mean streets of toledo. whatever the school im at now is worse. couldnt even keep my boss here smh #anyway what the fuck. and i got a lotta writing done today what the fuck #me being competent???? unheard of. god. imagine if i had my shit together. i could kill god. algae and other scientists would fear me #unrelated

[skimblyshanks]

listen luke evans has the pipes of an angel and the character design is dilftastic but the latest adaptation is committing the greivous sin of making scrooge's problem that he's grouchy and doesn't like the holiday so it's an automatic L

#realized i might sound like im being tongue in cheek but im not #it's a story about wealth distribution and class stratification #also it has enough antisemitic undertones as is #dont make it worse by maki g his crime not liking christmas #the only thing that makes me like the story is generally the turning point at the end of the 2nd ghost's visit #when scrooge gets his own cruelty spat back at him #like i have many feelings abt the whole thing #and the villanization of ppl who dont want anything to do with christmas has made me :/ since i was a kid #but suffice it all to say #i genuinely consider the new movie an L by the fact that Scrooge's problem is that he hates christmas #more than it is that he. idk. abuses his clerk while openly acknowledging he underpays him as well. #advocates workhouses and a bootstrap mentality #and is a malthusian social darwinist #so obsessed with the accumulation of capital that he *doesn't care* that he's causing harm to others #like yeah the character has sad aspects to his backstory but like. fndjfjdkfjek #part of the whole point is that he was making actively harmful selfish choices for years leading up to the present #and the only way to even hope to make up for them was to radically change everything about his relationship to capital #its not *just* abt being nice to the cratchitts. its great that he does become nicer to bob #but the point is also that he needs to stop valuing money above quality of life for *everyone* #and idk man idk it bugs me when it gets simplified down #anyway. -sits down with my Jim Carrey mocap version-

[zeynatura]

You may think it's fun to have class about geek and fandom culture but is not, my brain is going 1000 km/h with all this new information and applying it to my 20+ years experience and i have a headache

#i'm lying it is fun #i'm just autistic and my mind goes brr #also if i was already so normal about granblue fantasy #the fact that it is the topic of my final exam makes it worse #so much that i have a friend that asks me multiple times a day what i'm doing and if it's gbf related he demands me to have a rest #tbh i thank him because once i get hyperfocused on something it's so hard for me to stop #today my techer asked me if i needed more time fo my presentation and with how much info i'm putting in it i said yes #xD #so far all of my classmates' fandom of choice are very different so it's gonna be great #geek culture class

[angelboybreakdowns]

im just. im really fucking mad. ok i get it ceramics was full. had sculpture as my second choice that was full too. but instead of giving me like a study hall or sth you put me in studio art for the second goddamn time after i took it in 9th grade (and i got a credit for it that time so it means im not getting a credit this year) and not only that but you put me in the class with a teacher who is a known ableist like to the point where other teachers gossip about how she never follows ieps or 504s WHEN I HAVE A FUCKING 504 like i just. and shes racist and shit too but thats not relevant to how bad a decision it was on the schools part bc im white (does make me angry tho but like. shes not targeting me so irrelevant). but like. now i have to spend half the year in a class i hate doing assignments i hate and im not even getting a credit for it but i still have to get good grades because junior year gpa is the most important and i just.

and again unrelated but she (teacher) is such a mean pushy fucking bitch. she has literally ruined one of my art projects (pulled off paper bits i was using to make silhouettes before the paint was dry, they ripped and stuck because they were SOAKED IN WET PAINT and WET PAPER RIPS DUMBASS and tbc she did this after i actively told her 4 times i was deliberately leaving them and I knew what i was doing she reached forward and pulled them off herself) she has pushed me into adding to an art project because it “wasnt balanced” (i deliberately put the whole thing in one half and left the rest of the page blank because i wanted to symbolize the feeling of having to make yourself small to be likeable as an autihd person) and im bad at sticking up for myself and she kept coming to me after class and “chatting” about it for a week until finally i said fine and filled the rest of the page and then a week later she said after hanging it up without my permission and i am quoting this verbatim “you know yours got a lot of compliments from other classes, i feel like i should take some of the credit because i convinced you to fix it and make it more balanced” she has said “oh i like your hand” (i draw + write song lyrics on my hand and arm to help me focus) and when i said thanks she REACHED OUT AND LITERALLY RUBBED MY HAND even when i tried to pull it away (my 504 literally has a thing about no unannounced physical touch) she has given me a low grade on a project because she “felt like it was depressing” like she is not even a good teacher i just. ugh.

#like im 80% sure i said in my fucking email with the class choices i knew it was on the late side of things so please put me in study hall #if my electives were full #but like. what is this bullshit. #the entire school is just horribly fucking run too #they changed the bell schedule 3 times in the first 2 weeks #we had a lockdown drill for all 8 periods like one for each class (so youre prepared for every classroom) #and the school neglected to plan them properly so we ended up doing 3 of them #god i hate this fucking school #and its not even the fucking district #my elementary school was run fine middle school was fine i have friends at the alternative school and its run great #just the one goddamn high school that sucks #like wtf #public school #american school system #cw rant

[softgrungeprophet]

as a queer, neurodivergent writer/artist who likes to write fictional angst and sometimes uses that to work through my own health issues or other needs for catharsis, i think there is something (negative) to be said about the ways in which queer and othered (disabled etc.) artists are not just asked or expected but in some cases required to pry ourselves apart and provide personal information at every turn. as if by being atypical, you ought to provide only art that involves offering up your inner organs or some shit (and not in a sexy way)

this was unprompted, i just remembered that fucking queer theory + creative writing course i took and the way on the first day of class the creative writing professor told everyone to write about scars they had, to be read to the other students at your table (about 4 people total), and then... this teacher was truly, really surprised at how many of us chose not to tell a bunch of strangers about our deepest emotional scars and instead wrote about physical scars

like

bitch, i don't know you

you're in a class full of queer and disabled students, do you really think the physical body isn't part of that experience?? get real

#this is also the class where the OTHER teacher approached me about my apparent difficulties w/ essays and when i couldn't like #think of my own alternative homework assignment all by myself when i Did Not Know What Was Wrong With My Brain #docked me two FULL credits for turning in a partially incomplete essay as if i had not done every other homework assignment #and come into every class and so on and so forth #needless to say i was fucking pissed. i hated that class. it was pretentious in a bad way and literally my last choice and backup option. #the other students were great though #i just didn't like the professors very much at all... or the coursework except for some of the creative writing assignments #nadia rambles #funniest part — that teacher who docked me? he was my english language history teacher's brother. #that guy was great! #i loved that class! #his brother sucked though

[lotus-ignis]

My mom hates things sometimes, simply because they're mainstream. I think it coloured off on me.

I am listening to this song, I despise it. It is childish and from a horse girl movie and it was everywhere in germany in the 2010s. The song and lyrics and all are cringe to say the least. I despise this song. I also love this song so much because it is such a banger and I hate myself for it.

#I am slowly starting to like it again #I used to secretly love it everytime we danced to this song in my dance class because that would mean I can listen to it without it being m #choice. This really counts for all Bibi & Tina songs #Yes I know this is a me problem #I just want to vent #this song is for 10 year olds! It has no right to be this good! #don't get me started on Omm oder what was the songs name #up up up #horrible (it is so great you wouldn't believe it) #Lotus chatters #Not only does Lotus chatter she chatters nonsense #I should really get over myself and listen to the childrens songs already shouldn't I? #children/preteens

[vesperas-mirrors]

the lyrics 'always an angel, never a god' really hit hard.

#non fandom content #vent in tags #i feel like I'm good at everything but great at nothing #for example I'm supposed to be the 'smart' one but never the smartest. #when someone gets a higher score than me i get jealous #like once i got 26/30 for math which is a good score #still A1 #but someone got 28/30 and i immediately feel inferior #like i cant really explain the feeling #and I'm that kid in class who has some friends #but im not in any friend group #so i feel left out #like im the second choice but never the first #and oftentimes i feel jealous of someone because they are better than me at something #everyone praises them and rambles all about them #they might not be present somewhere but somehow it feels like they are #and i hate it #and they talk about how the person is so smart #so talented #so dedicated #and even my softball coach praises them and he is hard to impress #they get a lot of positive attention #i get none #even when i outdo them in some way #they manage to steal the spotlight and get everyone to swoon all over them #thank god i ditched them #that would have fucked with my mental health more if i was still their friend

[sweet-as-kiwis]

why is midterm season Like This

#I. desperatly need a nap #also the way it’s designed is literally TERRIBLE for long term memory of the content #like there’s no real way to study for ‘three exams in three days and two more next Tuesday’ but cramming #but thanks to the first midterm of the week in my memory and cognition class like CRAMMING DOESNT WORK #mass practice statistically performed worse than distributed practice or studying in short bursts over multiple days in almost every single #so like when shit like this happens everyone is set up for long term failure although short term Might be fine (depends on test and study) #plus other factors like ‘stress fucking up sleep’ messes up performance even more #AND testing like this doesn’t even show great improvement of long term memory! just increases stress levels! #the best way to Actually make people learn would be smaller exams with corrections being a choice post exam #not ‘here take this test it’s over a quarter of your grade’ every day for a week #plus like I took a midterm This Morning I already used all my braincells and now you want me to study calculus??? bro I’m barely functional #just. ugh

[thatbitchery]

Ladies the trick to success is to make it quite literally impossible to fail. Make it so that failure requires effort & success is the matter of natural course. I'll say this until you get it- success isn't a question of milestones, it's a question of systems. You are where you are because your current systems support that, change it and see if nothing changes.

So if you want to look elegant and classy donate all the clothes & shoes you have that don't look elegant & classy- then how will you look dusty? Even if you wanted to look dusty, how would you do that??? When the option isn't there?? Take away the option for failure so that you must work hard to fail. If you have no sugars or processed foods in your house then you literally have to leave and pay to be unhealthy. If you only listen to calming, positive music genuinely where will constant anxiety come from. If you don't even have social media how will you get addicted to it? You have to exert effort to be. Girl if you don't even have his number how will you call him? If you focus during class how will you fail? Literally how will you fail. How will that happen? If you have no alcohol in your house how will you get drunk? You must leave and pay for it, right? If you're eating right and getting your vitamin balance in check how high are the chances for diseases? Acne? Hormonal imbalances? Weight issues? Automimmune diseases? Mood swings? Like yes it can happen but let's talk statistics, how high are the chances?

The easiest path to success is to not even give failure a chance. Like, instead of working so hard to succeed you must work hard to fail. Success, love, is a consequence of systems- a matter of natural course- you're eating right so you look and feel great- a natural consequence. A matter of rather obvious course. You're studying so you pass. Matter of course. You buy the right clothes so you just always look put together, like always. Obviously. What other choice do you have? All your friends are girlbosses so obviously you're a girlboss? Duh. Literally what other choice is there? Even if you wanted to fail the choice to isn't there, and although the chance is never zero it can be beautifully close to zero, that's the goal.

Success is a matter of systems, love. Not milestones. You set in place systems whose consequences are what you want. Like if your study system is great genuinely how will you fail?

Take away the option to easily fail, that's the goal. Set systems that have literally no choice but to get you where you want, as a natural consequence rather than goals you're trying to superficially impose. Its not milestones, it's systems. Its- habits. Routines. Systems. Make some that make failure hard to get.

Success is seamless, love. Let it be.