#got my classes for the fall scheduled

[bookwyrminspiration]

I...have to send... an EMAIL! *explodes everything away from me in a perfect circle with my mind*

#shitpost #quil's unholy underworld #goddd I don't like reaching out to people but I want to know this so bad #i gotta know #is this course only offered this semester #because it's got really low enrollment because it's more niche #there are literally only 2 people enrolled in the course rn #so they might only do it in the fall every year #in which case. I need to know #so I can completely rethink my schedule to accommodate it because I really want to take it #it would mess up like half my classes #but! i really wanna take it #so I gotta know. is this just in the fall #or. could I take it next semester in the spring #because I don't want to wait a year #this is. this is something it's better to start sooner #so now I gotta send! an email! to ask to department whether i gotta completely rearrange rn or if. I don't #and i'm on a time limit here #if only i'd know how to properly look up the course when I first registered...I didn't know how they categorized it #so I registered without being able to look it up #but now I found it #and OUGH #i wanna. I wanna take it so so bad

[arthur-r]

as usual i am up late into the night planning my future when i should be: getting a good nights sleep so that i even have a future!!

#i have work in seven and a half hours. so i should really be getting to bed #BUT i officially made my final definitive degree plan!!!! i mean not the actual classes but all the requirements i have to meet and how!! #(in order to earn: history and information science double major. with certificates in material culture and classics) #and i’m genuinely excited for every single class i have to take except for human-computer interaction #just cause i know it’s gonna get overly technical in ways that won’t quite apply to my future #anyway every single other thing i’m gonna do is very cool and exciting. so everything is good really #but i should be sleeping. and i’m not. as usual 🤧 #idk wish me luck!!!! i’m so hyped about my degree plan though #i’ll go into more detail another time. i’m very excited #ANYWAY goodnight!!!! can’t be so busy planning my future in library science that i DONT GO TO MY SHELVING JOB #kind of important to actually go to work for the library that employs me…. #and then i might go see a first-printing roget’s thesaurus!!!! or i’ll sleep. we’ll see #followed by lunch with GUY WHO IS THE WORST KILL HIM WITH HAMMERS #(there is nothing really wrong with me he just keeps kind of being mean to me and also expecting me to fall in love with him. but like #extremely passively and not manipulatively it’s just like. hey buddy you’re doing this friendship wrong….) #anyway then i have a class and after that i have an hour to rest. and then a phone call and then a lot of homework #(ten page paper draft due in a week and a half!! so it’s time to start writing the actual body of it) #and then i sleep for a LONG time and then work again on saturday. and then sleepover with somebody i have a crush on?? #and then be normal all day on sunday and do a little more paper writing. and programming homework. and whatever else #and then keep up with the slog for three weeks!!!! and all of a sudden it’s summer!!!! #projects left this year: material culture paper (entirely unstarted. but may research the thesaurus and just win!!!!) #history project (draft due the monday after next and real paper due a week after classes end) #one more programming assignment where i adapt my recipe doubler project (probably. it’s getting stupid at this point but it’s what i got!!) #and a programming test in two weeks and then the final a week after that. then no more programming #and then i just have my weekly latin tests and a latin final on may 5th. and then EVERYTHING IS DONE #ok i got this. sorry for walking through my schedule in the tags it’s how i remember what’s real #can’t believe my fucking partner just kind of walked out on me there hello???? like. we should be powering through finals together #but i’m genuinely better off without him so i guess it’s just whatever. trash took itself out or something?? #anyway. i’m so regular. and i have work in the morning. and i’m going to sleep #thank you world. goodnight

[mag200]

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#got my tentative fall classes schedule and holy shit?? #if im understanding it correctly it is a BEAUTIFUL schedule im thrilled to have it work out this way #have to confirm later but goddamn i hope im reading it right

[mercymaker]

i'm trying to get a little better at doing stuff and things in my daily life and i really want to get better at just sitting down and reading but listen... i spent nearly an hour reading today and i managed 10 pages. T E N pages

#life #granted walter distracted me a couple of times by crying and leading me to the bedroom to get his little paper from under the box #they were also a4 pages let's not get it twisted yall #but still.. girlies #i checked the time realized my progress and got transported back to year 2 uni #where one saturday i sat down to read jane eyre because i was falling behind on my reading schedule for the classes #and i legitimately non-stop read it for like.. 6-7? hours and couldn't finish it in one day #me brain slow read cannot do #it's just.. i gotta savor the words? i stop and think! i admire #and then other times i realize that i read a sentence too fast and didn't 'chew' it properly #so i go back #it ain't good in this household #somehow i am better at reading wikipedia articles on various prion diseases than like.. stuff i actually want to read pls send help

[wanderingwolpertinger]

!!

#got my grades back from fall classes and I finally did well in everything #(not counting the class I dropped) #had a 3.4 average which is huge for me #I literally never do this well in engineering classes #and my schedule was 100% engineering classes #buuut my next set of classes start so soon 😭 #Christmas break should last forever actually #Maggie’s things

[greatfunkystatic]

I fuckin hate warm water

#blog #is this even worth tagging with blog #honestly I might just have to add more #im just bored rn in class tbh #sucks tho bc we have to study a chapter and a half of discrete math in 2 lectures now bc the schedule got pushed back #but hey it was worth all of the breaks we got this semester yho #i haven't watched op in forever huh #or much of anything tbh #i was supposed to watch a movie for class today #i ended up just doing a 16 star run of sm64 #didnt matter tho bc I fuckin overslept the class #i really gotta figure out what's happening with that tbh #I might be sleeping with my phone too close #but if I don't listen to anything when falling asleep I can't sleep #but also if I use my earbuds my ears get blocked over time #aaaaand I have a roommate so I can't blast it ou #woe is me #maybe I should also fix my sleep #at least I didn't sleep thru my exam yesterday #oh that algorithms exam was a lot easier than I expected #still expecting a 60 tho ngl #as long as I get above average we will be chillin #(most of my classes are relative grading) #god I just realized my arms are sore #from blj #i can't believe that really fucked me up #i was trying it for like an hour and a half lmao #also funny thing #most of my classes just don't care about the fact that I just wear an earbud in middle of the lecture #even the smaller classes

[mossboys]

the past few weeks have been the most insane in recent memory. i’m also going back to school in a month so it feels like life is going at 200mph

#text #i’m starting a histology 1 year program in the fall and that has brought so many other things out of the woodwork #i finally saw a pcp for the first time in 5 years #i have to learn how to drive so i’ve been doing that #and i got into my first accident a week ago #i have been getting supplies and my id and uniform and just preparing #and i need to adjust my work schedule so it’ll give me time for in person (!!!) class and for homework #and i graduated in january but i haven’t set foot on a college campus since march 2020 #and in general did not get any of the college experience so i’m excited for that. and to be in a lab again for the first time in years #local biology graduate has not touched lab equipment in 3 years and feels totally normal about it i promise

[magentagalaxies]

randomly ran into an online friend from back in 2020 on the street of boston today and i legit felt like a celebrity it was so cool!!!

#we were close during lockdown (like this was a friend group where we'd hang out on zoom every day) #and we met through a fandom i'm not really active in anymore so once people's schedules got busy with lockdown lifting #most of us lost touch (and also i had a falling out with a few of them) #so when i was walking to class this random guy across the street just goes ''HOLY SHIT JESSAMINE????'' #and i didn't recognize him at first bc his hair is different/he has glasses now so i was like ''what class do i know this guy from?'' #and then it clicked for me!! he was in town for a different friend's show and just happened to get lunch at a restaurant on my street #and recognized my hair bc i have very iconic hair lmao #so he was just in disbelief for a minute and was like ''oh my god... can i get a picture????'' like literally acting like i was a celebrity #we spent a while just chatting and catching up which did make me late to class but the professor was actually later than i was #so yeah this was such a pick-me-up bc i had kind of a shitty morning but that was so cool just randomly running into someone from my past #(in a good way of course)

[mell0bee]

WAIT. i May be able to watch critrole live this semester omg 👀

#i don’t have any tests/quizzes scheduled for fridays At All and my first class is at 9:30 (one of my prof’s office hours are at 8am so like) #my last class on thurs gets out at 6:30… #plus like. doing laundry on thurs > doing laundry on fri #👀👀👀👀👀 #i might also drop that 9:30 class so then my 1st class would be at #11! #bee watches c3 #on the one hand i feel like i need to take a break from critrole. but on the other hand if i fall behind i will Never catch up lmao #so maybe watching live will remedy that??? #i got to watch live for like. one ep of c3 and all of calamity iirc in may/june #but i didn’t get to watch live besides during break so i feel like it’s been FOREVER since i watched live regularly… #like literally since c2!! because it has been!! #i am in est timezone. for context. #i will test it out this thurs. we shall see how it goes.

[lifeofmarvvel]

We're only 2 weeks into the semester and I'm already like "okay can I have a mini break again pls?"

#b talks #college #delete later #we only got 2.5 weeks for winter break it wasnt enough #and that was only bc i got my finals done early #and i mean yeah we had this last monday off #but i just. don't want to pick up the nonstop grind of the semeste5 #especially since they dont give us a spring break. they literally only give us a day. #at least we get 3 day weekends this semester #unlike fall. which only has the 3 days of thanksgiving #also i start an 8am job on monday #rip my sleep schedule #anyway. maybe I'll feel better after chilling tomorrow. but we'll see #im glad sunday is my designated chill day #no homework no work no class #just church and calling home and my star wars crossstitch for hours on end #surprisingly relaxing that thing is

[cyberstabbing]

so dizzy and so out of it and once again my life in spiraling out of control due to my own laziness and procrastination

#and today my mom's going to call and ask about my classes tomorrow (nope) #and if i signed up for all those mental health courses and meetings at my school (i don't go there technically so nope) #and doctors appointments i haven't scheduled and all the shit i haven't done #at camp an older colleague asked me about my adhd and how i didn't seem like i had it #(not in a rude way--she's got adhd+autism and we would speak at length about being neurodivergent at a camp for kids with autism) #but that she'd noticed that i worked really hard and seemed on top of things #especially compared to our manager who had adhd and would constantly be late and forget stuff etc #and i told her the truth. which is that i can focus on one thing at a time #and do that thing really well. go above and beyond #but everything else in my life gets put on hold/falls apart #bills appointments course work other jobs messages emails deadlines #none of that shit gets done. and the consequences of that bite me in the ass HARD #it's a cycle that doesn't get better with age. feels like it gets worse. #idk smoking weed as much as i have definitely hasn't helped #i'm almost out rn and i'm not buying anymore for a while #it needs to end. #i'll sign up to my backup courses today but they won't work towards my degree #it's so frustrating bc i'm missing just a few points to get into the course i need to continue my program #and it's for work i have done (i just didn't send in the reflection essay until last week because i'm an idiot) #and the teachers didn't respond to my email and today's the last day and yeah #yay #it's just so fucking embarrassing. i don't want to tell my mom AGAIN #i wish she had another kid so she could be proud of their academic achievements #i come from a family of academics so i hate being the fuckup #mine #rant

[nuhoney1hunnit]

i don’t get on for like a week and come back to all of this 🤯

#i’m losing my mind #apologies for the incoming spam #anyway! my graduation ceremony went ok but the planning/choreo was kind of a shit show and no one knew what to do #the photographers there weren't great either... luckily my sister is way better and got some nice pics for me #it all kind of hit me that i really am finished with that and i need to stop procrastinating about scheduling classes for the fall 😬 #all of that used up all my social and emotional bandwidth so i’ve spent the past few days either in bed or w/ my chickens #my body sucks so i’m still in pain tho lol

[sabertoothwalrus]

so I’ve been gaining a lot of insight into the animation industry recently, especially in regards to pitching & the creation of new shows. There’s a few ways to go about it.

First, there’s pitching to a studio. When you pitch, it has to be SHORT and CONCISE. You may write a lovingly detailed pitch bible that perfectly breaks down episodes and characterizations, and it might barely even get read. First impressions, first impressions, first impressions!

Most peoples’ first projects don’t get picked up. I’ve heard a few stories from directors that said they tried pitching a story they’d had for years, which got rejected, to then spend a week or even several hours in their car coming up with a new idea, only for that to get greenlit.

But that’s not the end of it. Just because a show gets greenlit, doesn’t mean it will ever get finished. There’s lots of things that can happen. Sometimes, unexpected major world events (like… a global pandemic) can cause projects to get chopped. Sometimes, a CEO change or studio merge means a single person can decide a project “no longer fits with the company’s brand.” Sometimes, the one producer that was rooting for your project gets laid off, and no one else cares enough, so it gets shelved. Sometimes, a streaming service decides to create an animation department, and then they decide they don’t want it anymore. Sometimes, the studio will be simultaneously be developing another project that was too similar to yours and they just didn’t think to tell you until they decide yours is the one with less potential.

On top of that, almost everyone in the industry is saying that “studios just don’t pick up original content anymore.” Studios want something they can franchise, something that will bring in money. New content is risky. Established fanbases are safer.

However! Studios can still be a very good thing. They can be unionized. They can provide better benefits and resources. They can have connections and infrastructure and a larger volume of workers. At a studio, you can divide the labor and produce more in less time. Longer episodes, longer seasons, more consistency in quality.

But this comes with all of the disadvantages of having more in the kitchen.

The alternative is indie animation.

With indie animation, you have total freedom. Full artistic control. It doesn’t even matter if your idea sucks ass, because there’s no one to tell you you can’t make it. You could make it anyway, and you can make it whatever you wanted.

The thing is, making animation is hard. In my production class last semester, the average maximum animation one person could make in that timeframe was 30-60 seconds, and that’s not even counting background design, sound design, or cleanup/color. To make a 5 minute animated short, you should probably have at least 5 people.

And it is CRUCIAL you have a production manager. Ideally someone who’s not already doing art for the project. Most projects without a production manager will fall apart pretty quickly. Once the adrenaline and impulse-fueled motivation wears off, you need someone to hold you accountable and enforce deadlines and proper time management.

Speaking of time, that’s also hard to get. The more people you have, the more likely schedules won’t line up. Most people will have school, or other jobs.

And it costs MONEY!!!!!! You either have everyone work for free and volunteer their time & energy, or you establish a business as a proper indie studio, with people who may or may not have experience on how to handle paying someone else’s salary. And the money has to come from somewhere, so you have to rely on crowdfunding like patreon or kickstarter. (This, by the way, is why I could never fault an indie animation for releasing merch with their pilot.)

And like, maybe you wanna do a series, and all your friends agree to volunteer their labor and time to make the first episode, but it was unanimously not sustainable. Deciding not to produce a second episode until you can raise enough money is not being suddenly greedy, it’s attempting to compensate people rather than expecting them to be continuously taken advantage of.

You have to consider your output as well. There are some outliers like Worthikids, who afaik does all his animation himself, and afaik can work on it full-time thanks to his patreon subscribers. And he still has only produced a total of 30 minutes of animation (for Big Top Burger specifically) in the past 4 years. This is an IMPRESSIVE feat and this is with using a lot of 3D as part of his pipeline!!

Indie animation also has the complication of being more accessible for fandoms. When you’re posting your Official Canon Content on youtube, it doesn’t look a lot different than the fandom-created video essay in the sidebar next to it. What’s canon vs what’s fanon becomes less distinguishable. The boundaries are blurrier. When the creator is just some guy you follow on twitter, it’s easier to prod them for info regarding ships and theories and word-of-god confirmation. They don’t have a PR team or entire international tv networks to appeal to. And this is when creators get frustrated that their fans snowball and turn their creation into something they don’t recognize (and no longer enjoy) anymore.

So it’s tricky.

Thankfully, the threshold to learn animation is fairly low nowadays!! There are TONS of resources online to learn it on your own without forking over a couple hundred thousand to a private art college. There are conventions and discord servers and events where you can network, if you know where to look.

I know it can seem discouraging in the face of capitalism, but I think that’s all the more reason why it’s so important to BE DETERMINED about animation!! We’re already starting to see the beginning of an indie animation boom, and I think it’s a testament to humanity’s desire to tell stories and create art. Even if there’s no financial gain, we do whatever it takes to tell our stories anyway.

#animation #2d animation #indie animation #long post #not 100% sure why I made this post #all this to say: I’m still not sure what direction I want to go towards for my own show #ngl!! i think im confident i could get people to like my show. i think I could find an audience #i have some experience at this point getting people to like my ocs #its just a matter of MAKING the damn thing

[arthur-r]

accidentally stayed out an extra hour to drop someone off who lives in minneapolis so wish me luck finishing this essay on time

#it’s due at midnight… want to sleep tonight… i left the restaurant at 7:30 please #anyway it turns out this dinner was scheduled when it was cause it’s my friends one year anniversary with her ex #which makes a lot more sense. than a valentines dinner in january. title was a diversion #anyway it was good. there were less people than i thought and the person who lives in minneapolis has the same stims as me #and likes midwest emo and the magnus archives and is transgender. not that i am a magnus archives listener but i got to say i like jonmartin #so that was nice shdhdf. and yeah it was good. just very distracting from the issue at hand which is ten paragraph othello essay due tonight #(ten paragraphs is how many i wrote. it can be as short as five i’m actually working on cutting it down currently shdhdf) #but yeah. it’ll be okay!! my essay isn’t terrible as is. just have to drive home a few more points before it is good enough to turn in #i’m excited though. it’s about the mutability of identity which is one of my favorite subjects of all time #as well as touching on internalized oppression and shaping identity in response to backlash from those around you #(iago changes himself because of long-standing class difference - were he othello he would not be iago (he says) and he was my main focus #for the malleability of identity and everything just because i really like writing about iago. but othello and desdemona also exhibit major #changes to their identity at the hands of racial and sex-based oppression and they experience complete shifts in character falling into #societal expectations of who they should be. othello is confident and well spoken until suddenly he’s not. desdemona speaks her mind until #suddenly she doesn’t. his scorn she approves. anyway i should be writing this essay not talking about it. but yeah #i might post it here when i’m done but yeah. i’m submitting it before i go to bed tonight cause due at midnight. so again wish me luck!!!! #was really planning to be home at like. 7:45. not 9pm. not ideal. but it’s okay #so anyway that’s where i’m at. hope you all are doing well. i’ll be around just working on my essay!! might be back with my final copy #anyway i’m just speaking shdhdf don’t mind me #me. my post. mine. #delete later

[cinnabeat]

i still have more to say actuallly but j shall restrain myself

#i dont know how i got from khux to ?? idek what that was #anyways im hungry tired but cant sleep and i have too many thoughts in the brain #no fr tho the dssps thing makes so much sense about me like i look back on my hs life and im like yeah i see it #exlains so much about her #and the fact i would be sleeping from 4-7 DAILY omggg im surprised i didnt fall asleep in class #ive discovered i cannot fall asleep when i have obligations and/or in public its one of those #my friends would make fun of me for taking naps during lunch and its like guys im literally dying #and then id go home and nap and itd make it worse #as shitty as my class schedule was the fact id regularly get off by 12 everyday ensured i stayed alive #like i cannot. elieve i was a functioning person #throw back to when the fucking truancy officers parked behind me like so what you up to? #and i was like going home??? what did you think #michi tag #i was one more uhhhh idk the word OFFENSE away from being a legit truant #schools do not like it when you take two week vacations in the middle of the year #or when youre regularly late to your first period class #in my defense. i had never had to wake myself up so early and to catch the bus #new territoryt #i stopped being late agter that #got my shit together #my dad would also calll me in the morning to make sure i was awake and id slap my alarm off answer my dad make some vague noise then go vack #back to sleepand theyd get mad at ME for it #like yes i should be more responsible but ALSO i was fighting insomnia or whatever the fuck like my life depended on it and also if youre go #youre gonna call me make sure im actually awake #i think my parents wouldve just had me fend for myself if i wasnt so close to accidentally sending them to courtbc i kept fgoing in late #more to noon classes are so sexy btw and id schedule my college classes like that if only most of the art classes werent in the fucking afte #afternoon #art history is always at 9 #i did not mean to rant again omg i need sleep #you know when i was a kid i used to just read into the night until either my dad woke up to go to work ( @4) or id fall asleep myself

[daytaker]

The Gang React to You Breaking Your Ankle

Lucifer

"This was bound to happen sooner or later."

I mean, really, with all the stunts you play with his brothers and that sorcerer, it's more surprising that you didn't break anything before now. Thank goodness your room is on the ground floor. Now, here is a schedule of where you need to be and when, along with the brother who is your designated companion at all times to ensure you don't get stuck somewhere or fall over and break something else. This is a rotating position so stop fighting all of you!

Mammon

"Holy shit, humans break easy, huh?"

Assuming for the moment that Mammon didn't accidentally get your ankle broken by pulling some stupid stunt for Devilgram clout and involving you in it, he'll be extra careful with you for a little bit. People keep jostling you in the hall! Don't they realize you're basically made of glass and paper?! He'll clear the halls for you to hobble by with your crutches. Yep, you're earning all sorts of new friends.

Leviathan

"E-sports are the best activity when you're injured."

What a convenient excuse to drag you to his room more often than usual for anime marathons and all-night gaming sessions. Like Mammon, he's a little uneasy about this revelation about just how delicate you are, but nobody gets injured playing video games. He's basically protecting you from your next inevitable accident.

Satan

"Stop trying to do so much on your own."

Satan acts extremely annoyed when he sees you trying to hop somewhere without your crutches or lifting anything more than fifteen pounds unaided. Of course, he's just worried about you and expressing that in the most practical way he can. He repeatedly reminds you of advice on improving your recovery rate he found in medical books and the blogs of reputable physical therapists (he always checks into their credentials).

Asmodeus

"Poor thing! Let me spoil you!"

And that's basically what he does, whenever he gets the opportunity. This is a great excuse to get some much needed R&R, in his opinion, so the two of you will be visiting spas and getting massages and you aren't walking anywhere anymore, he is one of the Rulers of the Underworld and you are going to be carried on a litter, so help him Gardonus.

Beelzebub

"You need to eat well to get your strength back."

Prepare yourself for Beel's version of "eating well". You only had three eggs for breakfast? You'll never heal at that rate. Have another six and some bacon. Here's a protein shake. It's designed for demons so it's probably a little grittier than the soft stuff from the human world but it's exactly what you need. No, he doesn't have any science to back this up. Yes, he expects you to clean your plate.

Belphegor

"Of course you got hurt, running around all the time. You should just relax with me."

Little did you know this was all part of Belphegor's master plan...

What a perfect opportunity to spend every second of the day with you. Now that you're forced to sit around and avoid being too active, he has you right where he wants you (specifically, under the blankets with him while he sleeps). He'll remind you at every opportunity that you normally run yourself ragged, and you've earned some time to laze around. And now that you're injured, you have the perfect excuse!

Diavolo

"Your poor human bones... My home is always open to you if you need somewhere more convenient to stay. Please take care of yourself, in the meantime."

Rest assured, he will provide you with all transportation necessary to and from RAD. Or perhaps you would like to try remote classes? Leviathan finds them productive! And if you need anything, please let him know. He'll be in touch about five times a day just to make sure you remember that.

Barbatos

"I am only a phone call away should you require my assistance."

And he will be on call at all hours of the day and night, just in case. You'll be treated like royalty when you visit the castle too, of course. (Even more like royalty than usual, that is.)

Solomon

"Oh, that? Here."

He just magics your ankle better. There, there, little apprentice. He's surprised you didn't do that yourself.

Simeon

"What are you carrying? I'll take it for you. No, I insist!"

Simeon will be a perfect gentleman, helping you up and down stairs and carrying your books and shopping for you. He's very concerned about you somehow re-injuring yourself, and even when you're alright to walk without crutches anymore, he still *really wishes* you'd use them for an extra week or two, just to be on the safe side.

Luke

"You did what to your ankle?! Ankles can do that?!

Congratulations, you've introduced Luke to the concept of broken bones, and he will find the human skeleton creepy and gross for the rest of his life.

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@thefandomthings I know this isn't exactly what your ask was, but it's similar, so I hope you like this!

#this was in my drafts for weeks #time to do another gang reacts post #obey me #obey me ensemble #obey me headcanons #obey me lucifer #obey me x reader #obey me mammon #obey me leviathan #obey me satan #obey me asmo #obey me beel #obey me belphegor #obey me belphie #obey me diavolo #obey me solomon #obey me simeon #obey me barbatos #obey me luke #dthc #hcs #text post #lucifer #mammon #belphie #levi #satan #asmo #beel #the gang react