#miss that class though

[oops-allsquids]

My English literature class in school focused on frankenstein for one of our books. We finished exams almost a month ago and yet I'm shocked that apparently my friends from class didn't know what I considered to be one of the most integral pieces of information from the novel (or at least the scene wherein the monster is brought to life) which is that:

Frankenstein loved his creation until he looked at it's eyes

This is fascinating to me from an analysis standpoint and I ended up writing a short essay of sorts to them in an attempt to explain why I deem this so important. And tumblr looks old media so here, have a treat.

As the creature comes to life Victor is marvelling at the creatures beauty "limbs in proportion", "features as beautiful", "hair of a lustrous black", "teeth of a pearly whiteness", it's only when the creature firsts opens its eyes that Victor is then filled with disgust. He describes the beauty of the body as a "horrid contrast" to the eyes, and there is likely a multitude of reasons as to why this may be.

One being that a person's eyes are something that shows their humanity, you can read emotions through people's eyes and they act as one of the most expressive parts of the human body, the "watery eyes" of the creature do not do this, likely coming off as emotionless and unnatural on the creature. This may also link with the fact that eyes are considered the windows to the soul, and in looking at the creatures eyes he is aware of the lack of humanity in the creature.

Looking the creature in the eyes may have been what Victor needed to finally become aware of the egregious actions he committed in creating the creature. From originally admiring his creation objectively in its beauty, to looking it in the eyes and suddenly being filled with disgust shows a realisation that his actions were wrong, both legally and religiously (as religion plays a major role in the novel's contest and story).

This second point is also somewhat stated to be the reason why Victor falls ill when he returns to his room as both his physical and mental health catch up with him from overworking and the moral ambiguity of his actions.

#frankenstein #analysis #apparently this was unimportant to everyone but me #miss that class though #i loved/love the over analysing of media in a way that matters to no one else #and this class really hit that for me

[pallanophblargh]

Another desperate strike at the art block and a tribute of sorts: super rusty linocut to reinitiate me into the world of printmaking. It’s not as attuned to my working style as intaglio was, but this is fun, tactile, and enough of a departure from my way of thinking that is super welcome.

It’s nothing special and definitely technically lacking (over-inked block and such) but it’s something, which is a big deal lately. Also it’s my favorite species of fish and we all know Kuhli loaches deserve all the tributes we can give.

#printmaking #linocut #Kuhli loach #kinda sorta art #love the carving process even though this is only the easy carve block so it’s soft #I have some of the firmer stuff too for future works for better detail #wanna do a cecropia caterpillar #actually wanna do a bunch of little precious invertebrates #art is so hard these days I will take what I can get #I’ll figure it out i promise #this is redemption for the horrid woodcuts I did during my relief printmaking class #miss it so much

[crybaby-bkg]

cw: Bakugou dies but comes back to life, “comes back wrong” trope, implied fighting, angst

When Bakugou died, you’re not sure how you went on living. Grief had taken over your life, sat you in the passenger side while it cruised off the highway into icy waters. And even then, you couldn’t find the energy to drown.

It’s why there’s a sudden uptick of energy when you’re promised to have him back. Some top scientists contact you months after his death, tell you to hurry down to the headquarters labs, come and rejoice for what you’re about to witness. And you’re horrified, to say the least.

“This isn’t my husband.” Are your first words when you walk in, watch the figure on the other side of the glass examine its own hands. It looks like your husband but—but his hair isn’t the right shade of blond all over. His nose bridge had a slight bump after a scuffle with a villain. He had a scar on his hand but—but it never looked like it was to sew a pinky beside the other fingers.

“Is that really my husband?” You ask next in disbelief, slowly entering the room. Bakugou’s head snaps up, his eyes a little brighter than you remember but—they hold so much emotion. So much memory, so much panic, so much guilt.

“I left you.” He mutters, his voice raspy and ragged, and you wonder if it’ll always be like this now. It makes you cry a little harder than it should, but you only embrace each other. He’s cold and his shoulders don’t hold the same mass and his back doesn’t carry the same scars. There’s one, jagged and rough, running down his back, and you think, you think that’s where they slipped a new spine in.

“Welcome back home.” You tell him, weeks after meeting him again, new and not totally—Katsuki. He’s stiff and he doesn’t immediately take off his boots when he enters, and it worries you. Makes you think if you’ve just let a stranger into your home, one that has stolen your dead husbands face. Makes you wonder if he’ll be as loving as Katsuki once was, or if he’ll become your monster looming over you with the guilt of not being able to rest anymore.

“I’ve missed you so much.” You whisper against his mouth one night, a little while after he’s moved back. You don’t know why you lay under him, why you let him nestle himself inside of you, why you let him hold you against his chest. Katsuki always ran his hands over your cheeks and neck whenever he held you like this, but this…man, only holds himself up with his hands resting beside your head. It’s alien, how he looks at you, how his hips are methodically measured with every thrust, how he kisses you every 8 seconds. You wonder if he’s more robot than Frankenstein monster.

“Why did you come back to me like this?” You ask him one night, barricaded in the bathroom away from him. You can hear his sobs on the other side, his pleading to be let in. He tells you he never wanted to come back if he had to be like this, that he’s sorry, please let him in, he misses the warmth of your skin, he’s never been so cold before, he’s never liked the cold.

“Is this considered cheating?” You ask yourself aloud one night, when Bakugou is forced back to the lab when he becomes too…un-Bakugou. To sleep with a man that is your husband in every way but? Your husband has been dead for a year now, and yet you stroke the chin of the man that tries so hard to be him everyday, but fails so miserably at it every time.

“I’ll come back to you right this time.” Bakugou promises to you when he’s strapped down to leave for the lab and before he’s sedated. But you don’t believe him—you never did. Your husband is dead, and this animated corpse has been nothing but a cheap mockery of everything you’ve lost and something you will never truly get back.

#I was writing this and then checked my dash and saw another post about this #and felt so guilty and almost didn’t post it aidjdkfj #but I love this trope too much to delete it!!!!! #I’ve written about this in my published book before and it’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever written #there’s just such a deep heartache about having to grieve someone #and then the grieving process being interrupted by the one you lost #and battling with their death even though you still look at them everyday again #but it’s just not right?? it’s not the same?? #they have the same face (kinda) but it’s truly not hem #not them* heck #it reminds me of a convo I had in a psych class about making a new cloned version of yourself #where the question was ‘is the clone/new version still you? or are they an entirely new person now?’ #and at first I said they’re still me you know? they have my face n body n memories #but my prof told me no!! after they have been cloned they are sentient and are now their own person making new memories apart from you #and I thought that was soooo interesting and it makes me fall in love w this trope every time #you’re my person but only a version. you’re who I love but a newer person. you’re not them. you’re everything I’ve missed about them #so heartbreaking I LOVE ITTTT #sorry I’m rapping it’s the sleep meds kicking in #okay bai #bakugou treats! 🍬 #—new treat in the streets! 🍫

[twinstxrs]

the gorgug-porter conversation is interesting to me because like. yea for the overwhelming majority of the conversation porter’s being shitty & trying to fit gorgug into a box that gorgug just does not fit into by trying to make gorgug’s relationship with his rage more focused on the aggression aspect of it. but then there’s also this specific thing that brennan brought up again in the ap, which is that gorgug’s relationship with his rage is wholly “this is a tool i use to protect my friends.” which isn’t a bad thing! but that’s his Whole relationship with it, & gorgug seems to place next to no value on his rage in relationship to himself. which is problematic, because it’s first & foremost his rage.

being raised in a household with a sort of toxic positivity largely meant that, whether or not it was his parents’ intention, gorgug internalized the message that more traditionally “negative” emotions such as anger are the wrong response to something. part of the reason he prioritizes his artificing is probably because it’s “fixing” things. in comparison to being a barbarian, which gorgug associates with “breaking” things. good vs. bad behavior, in his eyes.

it’s a totally unacceptable bar to measure a 16 y/o by, but i do think part of porter’s reasoning for not letting gorgug multiclass is him recognizing that gorgug generally does not value anger as a valid emotional response to something, at the very least for himself. & that directly conflicts with what being a barbarian is, because whether you like it or not, that rage is what fuels you. but again, barring a kid from pursuing something they deeply care about in part (not entirely, porter has a lot of more bullshit reasons) because of their fundamental values & world outlook is crazy.

so yes, 98% of porter’s reasoning is pretty shitty, immature, rife with a toxic view that there’s only one proper way to access rage, & generally not a good thing to do as a teacher, but also within that reasoning is the 2% of ‘there is a fundamental part of yourself that you only value if you can use it to take care of other people & you need to accept that as something that can take care of you, too.’ but that’s something to discuss with a therapist or a guidance counselor, not something that should hugely impact gorgug’s academic future.

#gorgug thistlespring #fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #btw these r just my personal opinions u r 100% free to disagree #gorgug & his rage interest me so deeply because of how deeply that rage existing seems to be against gorgug’s own will #like mechanically classes are choices & you can switch stuff around any time. but gorgug as a barbarian always felt like an unwilling choice #like that 14 y/o kid did not want to have rage. & that really interests me. #i’ve seen people before be like ‘what if gorgug dropped barbarian & went full srtificer’ but i feel like that simply can’t happen?? #mechanically yea sure but it always felt like a core part of gorgug that the rage will always be there & it’s a matter of how you channel it #idk. dnd classes narratively being treated as ‘you can not lose this part of you’ even though you technically can #gorgug could be lvl 19 artificer & he’d still have 1 level of barbarian. because that is part of who he is. #btw i don’t think porter truly cares about gorgug valuing his rage only as a way to be a human shield #i think porter just sees that as ‘wrong’ but like. not as in ‘you need to take care of yourself’ & more ‘you aren’t conforming’ #he thinks it’s wrong for the wrong reasons. the nastier ‘this is how you should be’ reasons #ppl being like ‘we r being too hard on porter. it’s an 150% courseload gorgug will be overwhelmed’ i think r missing the point bc like. #that is 100% a valid reason to not approve gorgug for multiclassing! but that’s also 100% not the reason porter rejected him. #that whole interaction was basically porter shoving his percieved version of conformity down gorgug’s throat. was v neurodivergent kid coded #no hate to anyone saying that last point btw these r all just opinions #thinking about last ep wilma & digby being like ‘you’re a great barbarian. you’re so great at it. but look at what you made!!!’ like. #they would never mean it like that. but when you only understand half of your son he is going to prioritize the half you do.

[vampiricsheep]

Don't think I've seen this question make the rounds before, so:

Do any of your OCs hunt/fish/trap? Who taught them, and why do they do it? Do they have preferred gear or quarry?

#question brought to you by hunting coming up in all my classes simultaneously and bringing it back to mind #fishing is in here bc it ends up in these irl convos but I suppose it does feel like a gimme after gw2 added it #(and it's popularity as a minigame in many games as well) #but here I'll go first. my ex mordrem Merlin fur-traps in the shiverpeaks for income #he'll eat the meat of what he catches and splits w/ his nightmare hound (do u think fern/nm hounds can swallow bird bones? much 2 think abt #less wasteful and lessens what he has to pack when camping out in remote places for long periods of time #he was a deadshot with a bow as a young sprout but mordremoth got him early and uh. well that bow ended up integrating with his arm #which is why he's missing his right :) that's a story in and of itself though #but yeah so no bow-hunting or any marksmanship really #though he can throw an axe pretty well if needed #alright I have others but it's bedtime and this is a tag novella already #gw2 #<- will it even find its way into the tag? who can say LOL anyways gnite! or good morning!

[literary-heights]

oh my god…

#dedicated to the girl in my ceramics class who is homophobic! #happy bingqiu week i literally did not know. y bad guys #i’m going to try to catch up hopefully but i don’t draw anymore :( #i miss you guys though #svsss #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #bingqiu #sqq #the scum villain's self saving system #scum villain self saving system #scum villain #bingqiuweek2023 #this one is for day 1 soulmates but uhh it’s kinda just. them #i want to do all seven let’s see sorry i’m late i’m. insane

[daylightaftertherain]

btw young royals' central thesis for wille is still "the problem isn't that he likes a boy, the problem is that he's a prince" and people need to remember that

also I was going to put the rest in the tags but yknow what

yes I KNOW he can't realistically abdicate YET, but I'm saying it's the best resolution for him and not just because it would give him and simon an easier time!! if the fandom weren't so caught up in yelling about how the only happy or good ending is wilmon endgame (seperate rant that I texted avie yesterday but not the point of this post) maybe we could have a discussion about wille abdicating would be more for himself than any relationship he may or may not be in.

even if he and simon broke up the source of his problems would still lie PRIMARILY with the monarchy, and removing himself from that would be the first step to HIM recovering and healing and growing, not his relationship w simon. that's a seperate matter and seperate problem that can only be properly addressed after abdication because while he is a prince and part of a corrupted and vicious system, he cannot be a good person to himself, simon, or any of his friends and family.

#trust and believe I am still an endgame truther but it's kinda annoying to see people blatantly missing the point of the show #and what the problems it's trying to depict are simply because it gets in the way of wilmon getting back together #and the whole thing for me does have echoes of amanormativity and the weird mindsets a LOT of people here have #we've been very explicitly shown that being crown prince is destroying every aspect of wille's life in some way!! #and not just the romantic side even though THAT'S what people fixate on the most!! #like I hate to say it but yr is a drama about class and identity before it is a romance #young royals

[sadquickchristmassnowman]

Please please please post your Jeff Winger analysis that you wrote for your college class

fine. here it is.

for those of you that don't know, this my final paper for my abnormal psychology class I took last spring (at a community college lmao, I have since graduated and am now in university studying something completely different.) the instructions were to play therapist and write a case study on one of your hypothetical clients. we were supposed to make up a person and diagnose them with something. naturally, instead of making someone up, I chose a sitcom character to dive into. I somehow got 100%. read if you so desire, it's about 1600 words.

A COUPLE (sad) QUICK (christmas) DISCLAIMERS

I wrote this in literally an hour! it's Very Rough! that's not me being humble! that is an objective fact! please just accept right now that the grammar and syntax are sloppy as hell that's just How It Is

I changed Jeff's name to something stupid, I don’t even know what it was, just so I’d have less chance of being caught lmao

I stretched some canonical truths and made some shit up that doesn't necessarily apply to Jeff. I did this because the paper was due at 11:59 and I needed to make a compelling argument quickly. so I somewhat warped Jeff to be what I needed for the paper. it's still mostly canon compliant but just beware and don't come after me for any inaccuracies okay I did it on purpose

#whatever man #also even though I got 100% on this paper I still got a D in the class lmao #and subsequently lost eligibility for my associate's degree in psych HAH #I had two other degrees so it was fine but yeah that's my bad #I was working full time and playing in multiple ensembles and was extremely burnt out and working through a ton of family shit oops #I had a bunch of missing assignments and that's why I failed #everything I turned in got like full points but yk. whatever man #I’m just cosplaying the reynolds twins from sunny with my half-assed psych degree. also britta #I'm studying music now anyway so who even cares #anyway #jeff winger #character study #community #nbc community #community nbc #media analysis

[teeth-draws]

Hhhhighschool au bus ride with trouble from @shepherds-of-haven ;;;; haha

#shepherds of haven #trouble alder #halle beren #if you were wondering why red and the others had such different styles it’s bc this is the missing link #thought I’d try and paint aka no lines! and a background! wild! #anyway in a hs au where their respective single parents are alive #trouble is supported and thriving as the king of social butterflies #she is less feral but also less confident and she pines for him night and day #she is positive he can’t be that thick and he just wants to be friends - every time she tries to ask him out he invites a group #hang in there girl #this will all come to a head where she swears off her feelings for him and finally starts dating the guy from her smart girl class #and trouble who has always kinda liked that tall redhead or whatever suddenly wants to crack his head in the door #-what’s he got that I don’t got?- but all the girls just laugh at him so he sulks #what do you mean you’re going to the library with him what about our Tuesday night taco tradition??? bruh #the vibe as always is energetic extrovert x introverted baddie #teenage trouble punches walls and that’s a shame but also can’t be untrue #here ig he’s like 17 and she’s 18?? they both live in the poorer district of the city and she uses his mum’s laundromat #it’s a fixture in the community and part of the reason he’s so nosy and earnestly involved with everyone #her ears are pierced so much to mimic THE halek prince of whom she has a picture of in her locker #she is overthinking which music to play on their shared earphones even though he’s off with the fairies #this is why AirPods suck like the intimacy of earphones is unparalleled it’s all about the lean #anyway no doubt years of on and off infatuation vs his obliviousness culminates in dating someone else and avoidance #until either his dad shows up out of nowhere and he bangs on her door in the rain OR like her dad does something extra depresso #and she goes to him straight away #then there is a dramatic confession at the school festival or something #or his mum whacks him over the head ig and makes him walk her home when it’s still awkward between them and he can’t stand the weird mood #also they were going to be wearing their school bags but I got tired lmao so they’re on the ground while they commute it’s fine #he ate her up though tbh lmao #as usual the tags are nonsensical there is so much moisturiser in my eyes I’ve been writing reports for hours and have met so many weirdos #her phone is the shiny drampa that rotted my brain enough for me to create her in it’s image when I was shiny hunting

[venacoeurva]

Oh yeah it's getting to be the start of finals season isn't it are you winning son

#I enjoy taking tests so exams were fun for me #outside of labs #vena vents #not art #I don't miss taking math classes though #I don't miss the neurology exams either

[vnynv]

“No, no - no need! You don't need to be so formal, it's not like I'll bite." She underlines her point by prodding at you momentarily. It takes a second for her to retract her finger from your collar.

an accompanying drawing for chapter 7 of my fic. fellas is it gay to 👈

#don't kill the part of you that is cringe. kill the part of you that cringes #honestly had so much more fun with the bg than i expected. though it was demonic at times. #dispatcher #tenth class oc #miss pauling #sniper #tf2 tenth class #10th class oc #tf2 miss pauling #ms pauling #tf2 sniper #and his CAMPER #tf2 #team fortress 2 #canon/oc #🚐 art #frontiersmen

[derelictheretic]

Okay so update! My family and I are all okay, the only real injury is my siblings ankle got twisted or something while we where getting out and it's swollen to heck but aside from that we all got out pretty okay.

We've got semi-stable living conditions atm, can't really go into detail there but we're okay for right now and the community where we live has been amazing and giving us a lot of support. Thank you to everyone who left kind messages on the last post, I really appreciated it and it meant a lot to me.

I don't have the brain power for dm's at the moment but I'm sending hugs to y'all <3

#slowly trying to get back to normal even though everything is very not normal #my computer and display tablet are fine but my monitor got murdered from the smoke damage #my fiancé is letting me use his monitor for jow since its the only one that didn't die ajsjsbabsba #for everyone who was worried I was checked by paramedics on the day and they said I was okay #and now i'm also getting set up with headspace bc mentally I am static noise #but !! I am optimistic that everything will be okay :'> somehow #for now i'm trying to catch up on the assignments for class and I should be able to get back to working on comms #It'll just make me feel more normal if I can do that so yeah hopefully i'll be able to get back to them asap #ANYWAY !! I am mostly okay and I miss y'all tons and hope everyones keeping well <333 #nadine is typing...

[slanax]

Unicorn Overlord class tier list I put together after my first run. Counts the class line as a whole over the course of the game, including availability, though because you do promote fairly early into the game, the unpromoted versions didn't factor in as much.

Tiers aren't ordered except by jointime

My second run with only generic units (and on True Zenoiran) is making me come around on the Gladiator/Cleric combo. A little bit.

also if anyone broke Featherswords please tell me. they seem like a lot of setup for just single-target damage when that amount of setup could also blow up the entire party with a Trinity Rain turbo build.

#unicorn overlord #unicorn overlord spoilers #(just in case) #(though I think I missed 1-2 playable characters? they were in the playable class list but I didn't get them lol)

[skunkes]

I heard that tech + engineering is a really good field to get into!!! If yr lookin to go back to college…. But I hope you find success nonetheless…. I can picture you as a sleepy art teacher at a college he he

Yaaa ive heard things ab tech for sure...i wish there were more careers for pea brained ppl...

in another universe i would be a printmaking professor because nothing was more fulfilling than 1. The printmaking itself 2. the community of being in a printmaking class

#sleepy is definitely right #i dont know if that could be my life though...im not sure how people take on roles like this #where youre supposed to know what youre doing #ykwim #anonymous #skunk mail #the grad students wld teach some of our classes. i cld not do that part. #but i really liked helping other people if they had questions and i was the only person there #AUGH ok getting emotional again i really miss printmaking #i wish i was an actual artist. i know the grad students and professor would ask me why #i was never in the studio outside of working on assignments #like sorry im not creative idk what id Print Make if not with a prompt bc im stupid. but i loved doing it

[cha1cedony]

Had a major breakthrough in my voice lessons today 💃 feelin good. Time to. WRITE

#pointing at myself in the mirror. YOU. WRITE. NOW #I also have an essay due tomorrow morning so I should probs work on that a bit but. shrug #it’s already halfway done #it’s the one class I have a bad grade in though bc I missed an assignment sooo 😬 #chalcy stuff

[floydsteeth]

Need to get dressed for the day, cat laying on top of me

Im stuck in bed

#Worse comes to worse I fall asleep and miss my first class #Best case my Charlotte gets up in a few moments so that I can get dressed #She's so soft and fluffy though