#college crisis

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Since I’ve been making posts about American/ British entitlement towards Ireland, I thought I’d talk about this video here.

I am a student at this college. It’s a big tourist attraction for many reasons, but the main one being that the book of Kells is kept here. I am also from Kells itself, but Dublin having the book and not Kells is a whole other issue.

So this protest that’s been happening over the the past few weeks is in response to the college once again raising rents for student accommodation to astronomical rates. That being when rent in Dublin (and Ireland as a whole) is already unliveable. You’d find cheaper rent off student accommodation, but it’s hardly easy to find places like this. As well as this, the majority of the student accommodation isn’t even on campus to begin with. Most are about a 45 minute luas journey away. So what the fuck are you paying for?

This protest is necessary. It’s been a long time coming. Time and time again they prioritise tourists over us. Buildings are old and falling apart, equipment isn’t functional, accessibility is god awful. I know this because I am disabled and use a rollator, but I can’t even use it on campus most days because there’s simply no ramps/ elevators in some buildings.

In one of my lectures last week we were in one of the old buildings. We had a lot of content to cover, but of course the projector wasn’t working. The professor spent fourty minutes trying to get the computer/ projector to work, but to no avail. So we have a whole lecture to catch up on! All of this while I was looking out the window at this atrocity:

A new building for tourists! Yay!

They’ve been building new school buildings for years, but of course instead of finishing them, they’ll spend their time and money on the tourists. I’m not even having an exam in one of my modules because they told the professor that there simply isn’t enough room to host our class for the exam. And it would be “too expensive” to book a venue… it’s only a class of about thirty. He had written a whole exam and we were under the impression we’d have one, but now it’s just continuous assessment I guess!

So you have to understand why we’re not exactly jumping for joy for the tourists. There are hundreds on campus everyday, just generally being annoying and entitled. And yes DISCLAIMER; not all tourists, not all Americans/ British people, blah, blah. But from my experience, you do encounter some obnoxious people everyday.

So that’s why they blocked entrance to the book of Kells. That’s why it’s disgusting for the tourists to be arguing with them and demanding entrance. For once we just want our college to prioritise us! So yeah we will revoke your entitlement, because we are the ones who study here, we are the ones who have to LIVE here.

#ireland #irish #tcd #trinity college #trinity college Dublin #Dublin #the book of Kells #book of Kells #protest #cost of living crisis #rent crisis #freeze the rent #leftist #tourism

[joytri]

the moon knows

#aesthetic #dark academia #art #coffee #books #academia #college #light academia #studyblr #literature #having an existential crisis #wes anderson

[spacerockband]

i wonder sometimes what reigen was like in college

#mp100 #mp 100 #mob psycho 100 #reigen arataka #mob psycho fanart #fan art #art tag #digital art #reigen 'i had so many friends growing up definitely was not a loser' turning into flamboyant extrovert conman of the century. #when did it happen. i have to know. #bc i think it was sometime in college. #theres so much self discovery going on. #reigen 'you dont have to be gay to know that naruto and sasuke were gay thats just facts its just having eyes' #later: 'ok i have something to say but this doesnt change my statement on naruto and sasuke' #sasunaru #narusasu #idk #naruto #i definitely didnt draw this while having a crisis 3 weeks ago. im normal.

[politijohn]

Average Weekly Income (inflation adjusted):

1973: $873

2022: $813

Median Home Cost (inflation adjusted):

1973: $185,000

2022: $433,100

Monthly Rent:

1973: $108

2022: $2,002

Annual Cost of Public College (inflation adjusted):

1973: $514

2022: $10,740

#education #rents #national rent control #wealth inequality #income inequality #housing crisis #current events #news #college

[allieebobo]

hello! I HAVE FOUND YOU!!!

Farewell message to my dignity

After years of vaguely talking about the 'tennis' and 'singaporean' game I am writing,

My girlfriend has finally found my IFs / tumblr.

She has threatened to expose the link to my younger brother.

I fear I shall never live this down.

#if #asks #ct:os #college tennis: origin story #interactive fiction #merry crisis #author

[foreststarflaime]

Ok so I was translating the Iliad for fun last night as one does and oh my god it’s them?? Genesis Rhapsodos is a homeric hero in this essay I will

“Sing to me, goddess, of the accursed wrath of Achilles son of Peleus, who caused countless pains for the Acheans, and sent forth many stout souls of heroes to Hades, and made them spoils to dogs and to every bird of prey, and the will of Zeus was accomplished, from when first the son of Atreus ruler of men and divine Achilles stood apart in strife.”

-Homer, Iliad, I.1-7 (translation is my own)

But like the more I think about it, the more it just…fits him perfectly? Strap in boys this turned into a long one, I’m putting my ‘useless’ degree to good use

So a huge drive for Homeric heroes is pursuit of kleos (κλέος, meaning glory), it’s what their societal values are built off of, and it’s what Genesis builds his life off of too. It’s why he can’t let himself coexist peacefully with Sephiroth—for Genesis’ glory to spread, it can’t be eclipsed by Sephiroth’s. Kleos is earned primarily through being remembered in song, and you don’t see Shinra making any propaganda with Genesis in it (at least disproportionately not as much as Sephiroth).

And that’s another thing—Genesis’ desperate will to live. A big part of the appeal of kleos is that it grants you a sort of immortality, to live forever in the minds of humanity as long as the songs about you persist. There is a way to earn kleos without being the best hero around, and it’s to be killed by the best hero around—in passages where heroes go on killing rampages, there’s little catalogues of everyone they kill, like little graveyards of poetry that let them live on after death. It’s not a dishonor to them, rather the opposite since they died bravely fighting someone they just couldn’t beat.

This isn’t the way Genesis wants to earn his kleos, though, and he’s desperately afraid of it. We see in his reaction to degredation that he will do anything to avoid his own death, lashing out against everyone in pain and fear. He wants more than anything not to die, but he doesn’t want to end up a footnote in the rampage of someone greater. He wants Achilles’ fame, but fails to see that this fame was conditional upon his death. The most famous part of Achilles’ story that survived, after all, was his heel.

And then there’s how his friends fit into the story. As you can see in the quote from earlier, Sephiroth fits well as the Agamemnon to Genesis’ Achilles. Agamemnon leads the assembled Greek forces because he has the most men, the most fame, but Achilles (putting aside the matter of whether he is or not) doesn’t want to be seen as inferior to him, and is infuriated when Agamemnon does something he sees as a slight against his kleos. From Genesis’ perspective, this fits Sephiroth exactly. From Sephiroth’s perspective, naturally this is not the case, but therein lies the problem—he’s in a different genre from Genesis, one that becomes incompatible when put in the context it’s in, and this dooms them to tragedy.

It’s a similar problem with Angeal. Honor and glory are similar enough to be the best of companions, but they are not the same thing, and it’s something that is easy to forget. The difference is most clear, again, in the context they’re in. Genesis is so busy chasing immortality in kleos that he forgets that honor is not immortality, and Angeal’s will to live fails when his honor does, and he loses him.

Angeal and Sephiroth are both their own genres, causing misunderstanding and ensuring the tragedy that occurs, but they fit in just enough with the context of Homeric heroes to not let Genesis see his mistake.

Important for him also is the definition of monster to a Greek—two different creatures mashed together in a way nature isn’t supposed to go. That’s it. And by that definition, he is a monster, though we’d still call him human by our definition. And that’s just…ouch. In the fundamental rules of his world, he is inarguably a monster.

But the tragedy of that is that he’s just so painfully human, as are all Homeric heroes—so horribly, humanly flawed in such a loud way that the world cannot ignore it, and is pulled down with him.

Okayy wrapping it up with a few fun facts because this is turning into the essay I didn’t mean it to be, his last name Rhapsodos (Ῥαψῳδός) is a Greek word that translates roughly to bard, and specifically to a bard that recites epic poetry. Like the Iliad. It’s so unbelievably perfect for him, good job square enix! And the fact that this quote from the Iliad has goddess instead of Muse like the Odyssey, it was fated! Also, not that noun genders really mean anything, but the Greek noun genesis (γένεσις) is actually feminine, so win for genderqueer Genesis propaganda

Anyway where did my afternoon suddenly go, this was supposed to be a short fun thing, I should really be working on my thesis (which coincidentally was inspired by him, I’m in too deep send help) if you read all this I love you forever lol bye

#me when the hyperfixations collide #genesis rhapsodos #ff7 #crisis core reunion #crisis core #the iliad #ffvii #ff7 crisis core #classics #sephiroth #angeal hewley #character analysis #i went to college for this #my translations #are you proud of me professors #this is what i am using what you taught me for

[collegetennisoriginstory]

Dev update for CT:OS and Merry Crisis

Hi guys! Sorry it's been a while!

Life update

I've been so busy at work that I've barely had time to rest and hang with friends and family, let alone write as much as I need. I've still been spending some of my weekends writing, but rapidly discovering how little I can get done with just 5 or 6 hours of writing per week. (Crazy how much time IF-writing takes haha)

It's just peak busy period for my job right now before holiday season and things will calm down in December.

CT:OS

As y'all may know, I had been hoping to release the update in early Nov for early release folks and mid Nov for public folk.

I am still aiming to squeeze out the CT:OS update by end of Nov or early Dec and I wanted to let you all know where I'm at!

The scenes are about 95% written (all the way up to the end of the matches currently, I'm just finishing up the win/lose reactions and editing)!!

As of right now, the new update stands at a mammoth 90k+ words with code, but I think something like 35-40k in a playthrough, and there are new RO kisses for all ROs :)

The good news despite these delays is that this update (far from being a short pt. 2), is actually meaty enough to really stand as its own update.

Merry Crisis

I'll update again when I have a bit of a sense when CT:OS is done and how busy my December looks.

Ko-fi

Finally, because I don't want ko-fi folk to be paying out of pocket for this month as its taking a bit longer than expected, I will be refunding ko-fi monthly payments from beginning of Nov until the next update, which I hope will be before Dec.

Once again thanks everyone for continuing to read/play the IFs, supporting me, and sending me love/messages :)

❤️ hope to have some great update news for you guys soon!

#ct:os #college tennis: origin story #if #interactive fiction #asks #merry crisis #update plans #dev log #developer update

[stargirl230]

Its been freezing recently and i miss the nice fall weather (october pls come back :’D)

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

#my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #doodles #original art #fall #autumn #made this for a vague college thing that im not going to get too specific about #lol #but i promise the brown thing has context #and i had a crisis making this because color is relative right??? so what is brown really. #when is reddish brown just red. or orange-brown just orange. dont get me started on yellow. #what is brown #(what is love) #also thats hot chocolate not coffee #caffeine is my enemy it gives me anxiety #guys this scribbly brush is so fun to use #and it colors so fast #can i stay in the lines? no. #i feel like a little kid with a crayon #fun fact i used to get in trouble for drawing on the walls when i was younger #i havent changed i just found a more productive outlet haha #OMG ALSO ALSO #i was practicing violin in the hall today and some guy asked what i was playing #and it caught me off guard so i went #music??? #LIKE WHAT NO WAY

[glassamphibians]

COLLEGE DROP OUT ANNABETH IS MEANT TO BE ITS THE ONLY WAY

#THIS IS HOW IT BEGINS #percy should also be a drop out but hearing abt kids who sucked at school but excel in college makes me feel better so he can stay #annabeth tho. get out girly its identity crisis time #annabeth chase

[littlebigmouse]

Everyone making fun of Reigen like the dude isn't literally in his late 20s. Dude started the psychic agency when he was like, 24. It's a miracle that place is still running. The fact that Reigen isn't even 30 years old explains absolutely everything about him.

#like yeah of course he extorts a middle schooler for labour he's 28 and eats like a college student #mp100 #reigen arataka #like yeah of course he's weird he has the social circle of a guy who's friends all went to found families ten years ago in his late 20s #he literally had a quarter life crisis #mob psycho 100 #don't get me wrong reigen is absolutely bulliable #i'm just saying if i founded a psychic agency now to spite my parents it would go about the same #if not way worse actually

[therosebanshee]

I just realized Alastor is technically half the age of Charlie. In terms of radioapple he's a sugarbaby 😅

#its like those men who marry their kids college roommate #i mean lilith left first #but the rumors that would circulate hell #theyd be gossiping about the kings midlife crisis #i just can't #im cackling #i cant 🤣🤣🤣 #radioapple

[skep-eroni]

Picking a random TWST card to draw until I get to all of them or give up

Card 3: Ruggie Dorm Uniform SSR

#I do like his vignette though. I think we should see more of students talking with animals #Also Lucius cameo!! I want more Lucius cameos #I'm. going through an art crisis rn so. Get ready to see different brushes next art maybe. #Also I'm not dead! Just dealing with college work #twst #Twisted Wonderland #Ruggie Bucchi #my art

[retroness-is-fabulous]

#So Little Time #Quarter life crisis #Mines was at 24 lol #mary kate olsen #ashley olsen #One of the Olsen twins #adulting #2001 #2002 #ABC #nostalgia #Random #midlife crisis #College #University #life #2000s

[havockingboo]

late night post!

@undertalesev suggested I should put all my Papyrus aus together like that one Christmas party au everybody goes nuts about

And putting them all together…realized I have SO so many Papyrus AUs DJJFFKFDFVK

Bonus: ec!papyrus seeings headless papyrus and gets traumatic flashbacks to the genocide runs in his au </3

#Papyrus au #Christmas party au Papyrus Edition #Undertale au #doodles #papyrus #existential crisis au #ec!papyrus #seasonstale #scarecrow papyrus #childhood au #baby bones papyrus #college au #hercules!au #projection au #papyrus kinsona #game show host au #villain papyrus #villain au #headless/geno papyrus #daydream #:] hehehehe #there’s like…4 aus i haven’t shown yet GOD #it’s so bad this fixation man it’s so bad #but I love him………so so much

[bellshazes]

can you really understand bdubs if you don't know he was a huge fan of dennis rodman growing up. i'm kind of /srs about this except ithink actually despite the first tuscan city build era of building with being one of if not theeee worst of the second half of that series, it's unparalleled for comprehending his issues and i don't even know where to start.

#peter posts #he coulda been a basketball player in college on scholarship he gave it up for love.... #he was going thru his yolo quarter life crisis my dreams are dead era. he loves his wife SO MUCH #he met ashlee simpson!!!! at a wedding during this time!!! he recs 404 without fanfare!!!!

[allieebobo]

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas everyone!! 🎄🎁

Holiday special

I hope everyone's having the absolute merriest holiday season so far!!

As mentioned previously, as a way to celebrate 2 years on both CT:OS and Merry Crisis, I'll be releasing 2 ''sneak peeks' for some moments that'll be coming up in future updates! It won't be the full scene, but hope it gives a nice teaser for what's coming in the year ahead :) I'll aim to release these sneak peaks by Jan!

Instructions

Vote for the 'sneak peek' scene you'd like in the poll below. I'll write the top-voted choice from the poll.

For the other 'sneak peek', reblog the main posts of @collegetennisoriginstory and @merrycrisis-if (if you haven't already) and I'll randomly generate a winner for this segment from the usernames of people who have reblogged the posts within the past week, and contact the winner to ask for an additional sneak peek scene they'd like! :)

#if #asks #ct:os #interactive fiction #college tennis: origin story #merry crisis #g #sam #nat #tobin #rayyan #shay #qiu #happy holidays!!