#on the academic grindset

[movedtodykedvonte]

I don’t own the Spamton plush but I obsessed about him enough to where I get the same affects as the average Spamton plush owner. Like this creature will be in my dreams, always out of focus in the background doing nothing. I wish he was being interesting, even causing a nightmare at this point but all he does is sit in my peripheral and watch while the actual dream occurs. He always gets blurrier the closer I get and suddenly vanishes the few times I can reach him, only to appear back in the corner of my vision.

This has been going on for a month and I don’t think it’s going to stop.

#Spamton is a fucjinng tulpa #sorry I’ve been quiet today #hitting the books #on the academic grindset #spamton #but he haunts my sleep

[pub-lius]

its intriguing to me how you know so much so instead of asking a question about said knowledge im gonna ask how u know all this?-?/?-

oh hey!! the simple answer is autism but i'll give more specifics

so i've always been a nonfiction guy, and i first started doing historical research when i was really young on the history of New Orleans from my school library, which was abundant since I'm only about 40 minutes outside the city. every week we could check out two books so i'd check out two history books (or books on ghosts, dogs, or greek mythology, i'm kind of a jack of all trades) and just. read them for fun.

later on, i started writing essays in my free time about the things i was reading about to summarize what i was learning (this blog is just a digital version of that). from this point until, well, now, i was taught how to do research online in school and also kinda figured it out on my own and this extended to my other interests which, at the time, was psychology (i still study psychology but just for school).

its not a shock to anyone that my research on the american revolution and american history in general began when i listened to hamilton, and i started researching information about the events portrayed in the musical online. i read yk the online articles about the lives of the characters, then the relatives and friends of those characters. then i found the government archives and started reading through hamilton's letters. then i started giving all my money to bookshops and now i have a library of fully annotated history books, bookmark folders full of secondary and primary sources, and exactly $1.88 to my name (not exactly but its funnier to say that).

i am very privileged to be able to pay for books and have transportation to libraries and bookshops and the archives and whatnot, and i take full advantage of it!! i was actually kinda called out by my law teacher today because he said that usually people get addicted to things that are fun and not tedious while looking right at me. so. that's a fun thing that happened today.

knowledge is just a collection of facts, and intelligence is the accumulation of skills, and so i do my best to get both. so really any knowledge i have is just enough free time to accumulate enough facts to keep me yapping 24/7/365 and enough skills to make it seem that i vaguely know what im talking about!

#history #and in summary i am a fucking ACADEMIC WEAPON #i am ON THAT GRINDSET MINDSET #THE GRIND DOESNT STOP #FREDDIE MERCURY SAID I WANT IT ALL AND HE MEANT IT #FREDDIE MERCURY SAID THATS WHY THEY CALL ME MR FARENHEIT AND HE MEANT IT #RISE AND GRIND PEOPLE #DONT DISAPPOINT MR MERCURY

[scopop08]

Forcing myself to learn and absorb information by making my favourite guys to do it as well

#say what you want about me‚ not gonna fail AP Stats #i might be insane but i am on my academic grindset #hermitcraft #bdouble0 #bdoubleo100 #tangotek #zedpah #sco art

[solarsonata]

i just realized that i'm SO behind schedule 💀,,, trust i will get through this!!!

#solarsays #pic from pinterest #studyblr #chaotic academia #chaotic academic aesthetic #university #grindset #cramming

[inquisitiveheretic]

me wired the fuck in daft punk alive 2007 blasting on repeat slamming out a biographical essay on some niche song dynasty chinese philosopher while some girl cries into her iced coffee next to me in the library:

#academic grindset etc etc #lee.txt

[bug-bites]

haiii so erm i have been oh so busy w/ school + other nonesense and i barely have time to go on tumblr but i swear i will be working thru reqs soon!!! so sorry for making u guys wait actual months but i swear ill have most of them done soon when i have the time </3

#blah blah bug #can you tell im running out of words that start with b #anyways again i am so sorry i gotta be on my sigma alpha male academic grindset yall :/ #but i am slowly working thru reqs!! mostly of ghost so you will be fed soon #granted its less like a hearty meal and more like whatever i could find in the back of my fridge #the fridge being my writers blocked brain #but fuck it we ball

[ohnoitstbskyen]

I heard a raw line from Guilllermo Del Toro the other day about monsters being the perfect way to express human failure:

“…monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing.”

And i was wondering your take on this quote in relation to things like vampire and werewolf and other semi-monster subtexts. “Monstrous” humans that are ironically allowed to act more human more often than… humans. I just find the attempt to make an outlet for imperfection while still at large criticizing it fascinating.

I mean, yeah, there's a long history of interpreting monsters through queer, anti-colonial, feminist and other Outsider lenses for exactly those reasons. The monster is the Other who is vilified by the in-group, which represents all that the in-group hates. The monster must, by its nature, fail to live up to the standards and expectations of the in-group, which is why it must be destroyed. But that also means the monster is free from the standards and expectations of the in-group, including oppressive and bigoted ones.

So, as an example, if you're queer, and rhetorically treated as inhuman and monstrous and diseased anyway, or eugenically classified as a deviant mutation or sub-derivation of "real" people, there is real appeal and a real sense of resistance in claiming monsterhood, in embracing it and glorying in it.

In part, that's what the rallying cry "we're here, we're queer, get used to it!" meant and still means. It is a reclaiming of monsterhood as a source of strength and community and pride, rather than shame. Slurs are used to Other queer people, to set them apart from "real" people and mark them out as a monstrous deviation from the virtuous norm - slurs are used to call us monsters. And thus a lot of queer people find a lot of power and freedom in reclaiming them, in turning their Othering into a flag to rally around.

And I think that's still a big part of the appeal of the monster, honestly, that freedom from being what someone else thinks you ought to be.

If you're a monster, you don't have to have the perfect body, you don't have to suppress your lust or your love. You don't have to shave your body hair or dress correctly for your assigned gender, or have a white picket fence house with a spouse and 2.3 children. You don't have to sit primly at the dinner table, you don't have to repress your emotions, you don't have to hate the foreigner or despise the gays or fear the trans agenda. You don't have to have a small, straight nose or perfect cheekbones, you don't have to wait to fuck until you're married, or pretend you want to fuck at all. You don't have to want to get rich or be a CEO, you don't have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps or be on your grindset, or cheer when the cops clear out a homeless camp.

To be a monster is to be free from the inhumanity that is forced on us by white supremacy, by fatphobia, by heteronormativity, by imperialism, and by the interests of capital. To be a monster is to be human in all the ways that are inconvenient to oppression.

... but I went off on a tangent there a little bit - vampires and werewolves, right. I have no theoretical or academic basis for any of this, so this is entirely a personal hot take, but I think vampires are perhaps a bit more about "passing" as a fantasy. Not necessarily in a gender sense, but the ability to keep your true nature undetected by the "normal" folk, while the secret things that make you different also make you dangerous and powerful. Surviving by stealing sustenance from a world that hates you, on terms that are entirely yours to dictate. "I will survive even if it kills you," that kind of vibe.

Werewolves, on the other hand, feel more like a defiant, angry embrace of the monstrous. Transforming into something vast and powerful and furious, growing out of your skin, out of your form, out of your boundaries; howling your nature to the moon and mauling any motherfucker who has a problem with it. Giving in to all the beastly unnatural urges, and diving into the horrible monstrous wants and desires that boil inside you (which, remember, include things like Not Wanting To Fuck or Wanting To Hold A Girl's Hand In A Lesbian Sort Of Way). Less the "I outfoxed your social game and drank you dry" slick vampire power fantasy and more the "call me a slur one more time and I'm going to wear your entrails like a fucking scarf" power fantasy.

Again, that's just personal hot takes, everyone's understanding of the monstrous in relation to themselves is different. I've seen a number of genderfluid and nb people use monstrousness as a way to defy occupying a shape that can be gendered for example.

#tb answers #monster #queerness

[snaillock]

i’m sorry but the fact that rin is canonically flunks most of his class except for english (cause he be on that sigma soccer grindset babyyy) has been lingering in my mind for like a week or so oh my god

like imagine him not caring enough about those classes (why care about your geometry grade when you’re gonna be the best striker anyway or whatever’s going on in his head) until one of his teachers nags him about improving his grades, even suggesting a tutor. at first he’s way too prideful to seek help from a tutor but the teacher’s incessant nagging made him give in and find a tutor who’s happens to be another student in his school, most likely an upperclassman.

while he’s waiting for you to show up clearly running a few minutes late, he mumbles to himself about how unnecessary and “lukewarm” this tutoring shit is.

when you finally showed up and gave your quick apologies for your tardiness, you took one look at rin’s impatient/borderline judgmental face and decided it was best to cut out the fluffy introductions and dive straight into it.

he’s pretty reluctant about telling you what exactly he’s having trouble with in class since being here already bruises his ego enough. not to mention, he’s very doubtful about your skills as a tutor (definitely isn’t personal ofc, he just be like that). you, of course, prove him wrong and also get him to share what he’s struggling with so you can actually help. then surprise! surprise! he already shows a lot of improvement by the end of the session.

the way you get him to open up about his academic struggles with ease kinda freaks him out but he goes along with it

there was just something about your patient yet stern way of teaching that made rin drawn into that made him focus up and actually work. clearly a step up from his shitty lukewarm teachers. after that session, rin soon found himself booking another one… then another… and another after that… ok look you just have an efficient way of teaching that does not cut into his precious soccer time. it’s not because of any other reason, he swears!

i imagine when he lowers his walls and slowly starts falling in love, he becomes a huge mess internally. can you blame him though? he’s never done this before. he’s never felt this before. oh my god. what do people even do when they’re in love?? what the hell even is love??? someone please answer him before he starts spiraling!!!

while these questions run around in his head, he watches as you explain the assignment he has to do for one of his classes, too engrossed in teaching to notice the redness on his neutral face

eventually he accepts his feelings for you but he’s still very lost on what to do now. after all, he has only had people fawn over him and he has never returned those feelings before. thus he has no idea what to do when he’s actually interested in someone and gets stuck for an indefinite amount of time.

oh rin itoshi. the man who can literally psychoanalyze the opposing team in 0.005 seconds and knows when to perfectly strike also has absolutely no clue on when and how to ask someone out.

so now the ball is in your court if you reciprocate his feelings and want to become more than just mere tutor and student

a.n.: this was supposed to be a three sentence thingy idk what the fuck just possessed me today

#★ snail.writes ★ #rin x reader #rin itoshi x reader #rin itoshi #shout outs to that one bllk fun fact post that made me wanna read rin’s light novel #rin x gender neutral reader #rin x gn reader #blue lock imagines #bllk #blue lock #blue lock x gender neutral reader #blue lock x reader #blue lock x gn reader #wrote this while watching aaron and jo #just recently discovered their channel and they’re so fucking funny

[aroanthy]

i've thoroughly enjoyed everything you already said on the topic and would like to ask if there is anything else you might want to get off your chest about saionjis gender shit if it strikes the fancy?

i am the transfem saionji truther, we know this, but mannnn. her whole thing with masculinity is so damn interesting and i see very few people actually grasp at what's going on in that (malcolm tucker voice) abandoned barn of a brain of hers. that was a joke btw her brain is not an abandoned barn she actually makes some of the most astute points in the whole show lmfao. anyway

saionji's masculine ideal is much more informed by traditionally japanese ideas of gender, as opposed to the americanised 'modern man' masculinity that akio peddles. like saionji thinks that princes are cringe. he's just also tormented by the fact that no one else thinks that and everyone loves these princes and because he's got the world's biggest inferiority complex, he can only think that he's wrong, that he's been left behind to a world deemed 'unspecial' because of some innate quality about him. and whenever saionji thinks this (all the time) he becomes fucking awful to be around.

i digress. saionji takes being the president of the kendo club very seriously, not just because he takes Everything seriously but-- well. arguably the reason that he takes Everything seriously is because of his practice of kendo. i think it's a bit of a chicken and the egg situation wrt 'is saionji Just Like That or did his warrior grindset make him that way'. kendo is really important to him, and the way that he and touga are (rarely, lol) able to connect through it would suggest, i argue, that it's a good and healthy thing for him to have in his life. same goes for touga but that's a different post about 1000 other things.

i think this gets at a) something rgu is trying to get at wrt americanisation and a critique of aspects of japanese culture that doesn't then discard that culture altogether. ikuhara does this a lot more obviously in his other shows. and then b) on a character-level, it's about separating something valuable and important (the practice of kendo) from ideas that have enmeshed themselves with it bc Society (misogyny, namely). saionji's conception of masculinity is all about kendo, and he likes kendo, but he's uncomfortable with/stifled by this expectation of Manliness that he simply cannot access in a way he's comfortable with. it's only when he lets himself forget about his obsession with power dynamics and Being A Man that he can just. enjoy this aspect of his life that informs how he lives it so wholly. tldr girls can be kendokas too. which is obvious to people who aren't as misogyny-brainrotted as ohtori academy student saionji kyouichi, but swagever.

btw if anyone whose better educated on nuances of japanese culture than i, white british person whose only read a handful of academic articles on the subject, thinks something ive said here is off in any way, please let me know!! i always always always want to gain a better understanding of rgu as a distinctly japanese show, my lack of resources and formal education on these topics be damned!!

i just think saionji is an androgynous legend who should get into textile crafts. let her woodcarve and knit. she'll be unstoppable. practical queen etc etc. lets embrace gender anarchy together

#that's all :) #i mean its not i didnt even talk about sexaulity as relative to gender nor did i mention wakaba's egg cracking dorm room #but that's bc i didnt want to write about it rn #and this ask has been sitting in my inbox for a while #send me asks!!!! i promise i like answering them it just takes me a while sometimes!!!!!!! #dais.txt #dais talks trans #new tag yay

[gold-rhine]

Funny how the common theme in Mondstadt (so far) seems to be You: But They Want Things For Themself, but Lisa's would definitely be some sort of workaholic grindy academic

no, evil lisa would actually be evil adfghjk. like Lisa is not like that bc she's lazy, she was incredibly driven before, she was best student in akademiya in 200 years, until she got fucked by some forbidden knowledge book. after which she evaluated her priorities and realised its not fucking worth it and quit akademiya to become take-it-easy librarian in mond

evil lisa didn't quit, but decided to use other ppl as resources to pay the price for knowledge instead of paying it herself, she's a toxic Akademiya Grindset Girlboss, she's one of the grand sages, she's gaslighting sumeru, gatekeeping nahida and yelling at scara to get into the fucking robot

#rhine talks

[sanddusted-wisteria]

I have a crack theory that has absolutely no bearing on the story whatsoever: Qi never got his doctorate/PhD.

[Put the rest under a read more in case you don’t want to read like 3 pages of straight up speculation over nothing holy shit]

(to preface, getting a PhD is basically what separates a student and a professional researcher in academia. You most likely can’t be a professor without one, and research jobs in non-academic labs aren't likely to take you either. Getting a PhD also earns you the title of "Dr.", same as an MD.)

Even though Qi is referred to as “Dr. Qi” by several people, when he’s actually called that in his earshot, he insists on being called “Director”.

The way Qi speaks is very “technically correct” and literal, according to one of the writers.

[taken from an Ask the Dev segment on the Pathea discord.]

So maybe he insists on being called “Director” because it’s technically the only title he actually holds. Your college professors have doctorates, but you can probably call them “Professor” or “Doctor” interchangeably and it’ll still be okay with them. So why doesn’t Qi also operate like that?

PhDs also typically take 5 years to complete (and that’s assuming nothing goes wrong…). You’ll probably be in your late 20s by the time you’re done. But…how old is Qi? He hasn’t been assigned a canon age yet, but we can make a few guesses.

There’s a photo of his family in his room that is dated from year 80. MTaS starts at year 98 (or 97, I have to check). Considering that adult Qi is about 5’11”/180 cm, he’s definitely younger than a teenager in this pic when we see his relative height here. I say he looks around 8-10? That means that by the start of MTaS, he’s around 26-28. It should be around this time that he finishes his doctorate and has a successful dissertation defense. But he’s in Sandrock… There’s also this line from one of the main missions (no spoilers) that implies that Qi’s been in Sandrock for around 7 years. So he potentially left Vega 5 and came to Sandrock when he was in his early 20s.

But when did he graduate, then? It’s a bit more possible that he got his Bachelor's degree super early. Maybe he skipped a few grades, maybe he sigma grindsetted his degree plan. With the more course-based and structured nature of Bachelor’s programs, it probably would’ve been easier to speedrun. A big research effort like a dissertation takes more time to properly do and can't really be sped up that much, since it's intended to be a culmination of all the knowledge you've gained on a particular subject.

But then what happened after that?? He started work on his PhD, but then…his dissertation work got stolen. In The Assistant, Qi says at some point while he was at uni, his work was stolen.

He doesn’t specify what it was, but it was bad enough that he refused to work directly with anyone else since. Losing your dissertation is…bad, to say the least. It could’ve been stolen, you’ve might’ve lost it, or someone else just happened to do the same thing you were doing and publish it first. Whatever the case, if that happens, at worst, you need to start from square one. Years of work, straight into the garbage. It’s also a matter of money, too. Do you have enough to pull you through a couple extra years of tuition? Can you renew your assistantship? Considering his parents are humble fishermen, Qi probably couldn't secure the funds to keep going. So he threw up his hands and quit school, and tried to find research work on his own merit. Without a doctorate, though, he probably was only able to take low-rank or assistant jobs. Instead of being assessed on his talents as is, his lack of a title barred him from making any advancements. So he left. It would explain this line, where he talks about leaving Vega 5 due to “bureaucratic pedantry”:

Qi’s the only researcher in Sandrock, and is therefore Director by default. He might be in Sandrock to find the Olympia, but is he also there because that’s the only place he has any authority? Is Sandrock the only place where people will take him seriously? Is he clinging to that? Is that why he insists on people calling him Director…?

…Well now I’m sad. I’ll end this on a higher note with an even crackier theory: Merlin from MTaP was the one who stole his work. There is absolutely NO evidence for this, I just think it’d be funny.

Merlin was “the most promising apprentice” at Vega 5, but was kicked out for performing an experiment so egregious that even Vega 5 wanted nothing to do with her. What if she had a rivalry going with Qi while they were in school, and it culminated in her stealing his research? Whatever the hell Qi was planning to do was so off the cuff that she took the fall for him when she actually did it. And Qi was planning on leaving Vega 5 anyway, so he’d be free to continue his mad scientist shit elsewhere. Alternatively, Merlin stole his work, he saw that she got kicked out, and he decided to skedaddle knowing that he’d probably be next if he kept going.

okay that's enough spitballing thank u for coming to my ted talk

#my time at sandrock #mtas qi #blorbo thoughts baybeeeeeee #i like him a normal amount i swear #long post #other shady business

[revindicatedbyhistory]

ACADEMIC SIGMA GRINDSET: now that i don´t have to study for any more exams at this moment ill read some of the class bibliography i didn´t get to reading

#the thing is that i don´t really have something to fill the scheduling void from studying so yeah ill just study more for free

[dykealloy]

i am not built for the ambition grindset of this world i do not want to climb a corporate ladder i do not want more responsibilities i do not want to be at the top of my academic field i do not want to achieve anything i dont have it in me to take myself seriously anymore i just want to earn enough money to coast by and have enough time to enjoy a hobby or two until i die

#i think this may be burnout #still haven't heard back from this job offer for a slightly higher position #im so close to finishing university but god at what cost

[creature-wizard]

this is the last ask i'll sent on this because i don't want to be too annoying lmao but yes i know of thin-slicing but the things she picked up on were... way too specific. i still can't get my head over it, it's hard to brush it off as just sheer luck. and if it's "real" then... where do i draw the line between where she's right and where she's wrong? it's confusing

You can safely dismiss anything founded on conspiracy theories, spiritual eugenics, and grindset rhetoric, because all of that stuff is just demonstrably wrong and harmful.

Also, I'd super recommend studying the history of Christianity and the development of Satan/Lucifer from an academic POV. Maybe look into the work of Bart D. Ehrman or watch his videos on YouTube. Also, Andrew Henry at Religion For Breakfast has a nice introductory video to Satan you might check out:

#answered #scarletarosa #discernment

[blood-bound]

(gehenna-calling) um. 22&23 for mark, 38 for porphyria

I. I TYPED OUT A LOT AND THEN IT CRASHED AND LOST MY PROGRESS. UGHASHFDAJF Anyway thank you beloved mutual for helping me out of the pits of despair.

22 and 23 - What does your character like in other people? And: What does your character dislike in other people? (I’m gonna answer in one paragraph.)

I’ll kind of divide the people Mark likes into two categories - the people who he more quickly gets along with, though sometimes in a shallow sense, who he likes (liked?) to surround himself with - and the people who he Likes on a more deeper level even if they don’t vibe at first. For the first, Mark likes people that are similar to the image Mark projects of himself. Being around other snarky academic types makes him feel safe; he knows what role to play, they understand him, and it’s easy to find things to talk about that aren’t too personal. The conversations are legitimately enjoyable and yeah, it’s basically Comfy. They aren’t going to push him too far and any deep conversations won’t be about personal topics, and as long as they aren’t misanthropes (Mark truly loves all that humanity has accomplished and believes it will keep improving, though he doesn’t show this side of himself often), they’ll get along well. His touchstone Dr. Armatto falls into this category; though this is a deeper care/like because he shares that love of humanity’s history and Mark has just accepted that he isn’t gonna share deeper personal things (like that he’s gay) with him, and has made his peace with that.

For the second part, of course the standard things that make people like others apply - but there’s a certain type of personality, that is willing to meet Mark where he’s at but also know the right ways to push him gently, subtly, in a way that doesn’t have to make him acknowledge that he’s being pushed, that he likes, even if he couldn’t put his finger on why. This type of person also has to be capable of indulging Mark’s nerdiness even if they don’t share it, lol. So someone more extroverted but with patience, if I had to oversimplify it a bit. Sampson fell into this category. I think his coterie member Rose might fall into this too, though their friendship kind of developed weirdly because they had to start trusting each other with their lives on like, night 1 of knowing each other and then for many battles after. 

What he doesn’t like is overt misanthropy - which I mentioned before. Like, Mark IS cynical, but not about humanity in a large sense. He also doesn’t like impulsive people; he needs stuff to be planned and if possible, know what to expect. Incompetence bothers him more than the average person I suppose; he’s less likely to brush something off as ‘its fine don’t worry’ (even if he helps out the person who screwed up anyway, lol). He doesn’t like laziness either - Mark works hard! (Don’t think about the fact that at this point, some of that GrindSet is just an excuse to Not Think About The Horrors). He doesn’t like it when he’s pressured into things, he’ll get stubborn about it and think the individual is obnoxious (even if again, he does deep down want to be pushed, it has to be in a certain way.) Uhhhh also even if it is the 2000s and a lot of people are homophobic, if they’re vocal about it obviously Mark won’t like that either even if he wouldn’t say anything. 

Then for Porphyria: 

Is your character more likely to remove a problem/threat, or remove themselves from a problem/threat?

This one is pretty easy - she is more likely to remove the problem, because she sees it as a mage’s duty to help sleeper society. So if it’s a problem, she and her cabal can certainly fix it, instead of leaving it for someone else to run into. She would only remove herself if she can’t fix it - and she can check this with a simple scrying spell. It’s easy for her to know if something is possible, or very unlikely, even if she isn’t yet strong enough in the time arcana to know the details. 

So yeah - she would see it as irresponsible to avoid the problem when she could fix it, and she’s pretty confident that she, with her cabal, can solve most anything they come across. What a QUEEN i love her. 

#mark vtm oc #porphyria mage oc

[fruitymocha]

Octavinelle’s Coffee Orders

That time when Octavinelle ordered at Starbucks

Featuring: Azul Ashengrotto, Jade Leech, Floyd Leech

Warnings: none :)

A/N: So I put this off for a while, but finally you Octatrio stans get to hear about their Starbucks run, since apparently they have free time in between running Mostro Lounge and their other student activities. Also I hate that Azul is rubbing off on me. I swore not to fall into the trap of liking Octavinelle, but here we are. Also also, you guys have no idea how much thought and consideration I had to put into Floyd’s section. Seriously. His was the hardest. But anyway…

Let me restore your memory…

Bold of you to assume he can fit a weekend Starbucks trip in his schedule

He’s on that capitalist grindset you guys, why would he ever risk his precious profits for a cup of coffee?

…well, then again, if someone were to convince him to do it for business and marketing research purposes, he may be convinced

So off to the Twisted Starbucks he goes! With the tweels in tow! Because remember the excuse is that it’s for business

Okay, so Octavinelle has its fair share of tea, and Azul does strike me as a tea drinker, so I think one of his preferred orders would definitely be a tea latte, similar to Riddle

I’m pretty sure Azul would just get a Black Tea Latte if he wanted something with a tea flavor (and he’d order it tall instead of grande because who needs that much tea latte in their bodies?)

Also Azul is on that diet remember? He doesn’t want to risk having those sugar-boatload orders, so tea lattes work out pretty well for him in that regard

If he’s not in a tea latte mood, and decides to have a teeny tiny cheat day, then I think he’d get an affogato style coffee Frappuccino

I say affogato style because it’s more sophisticated, and it adds that sweetness without actually being blended into the coffee, instead melting into the coffee slowly

And he’s ordering this tall because, again, who needs that much coffee in their bodies

He obviously knows all the sizes already because what kind of idiot walks into a food/drink establishment and doesn’t do research before the research? /hj

Also, just this once, for business, he will stay inside, but anytime after that, he’ll be getting coffee exclusively to-go

Because as I already established, he’s rising and grinding every day, and he has a business to run as well as an academic reputation to maintain, he has no time to see the sights

Azul Ashengrotto Take A Vacation Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

As for food, I can see him with a Turkey Bacon and Egg White Wrap

And as for the “research”, that pretty much goes out the window once the tweels (mostly Floyd) start causing their typical shenanigans

But at least Azul finally got a break from Mostro Lounge and got to be a normal student for a while

Okay, I get the feeling that Jade is probably the one who suggested the trip because let’s be honest, he’s pretty much the mediator between Azul and Floyd, and knows how to appeal to both when necessary

So of course Jade is the one who found the nearest location on the island

Canonically speaking, Jade does at the very least take interest in tea if not drink it, so we have another tea/tea latte enthusiast

Now I feel like he’d alternate between some of them, but mostly goes with the Teavana Frozen Chamomile Tea (yes it’s a mouthful I’m sorry-)

For those who don’t know, this drink is sold in Asian Starbucks locations, and has Kyoho grapes as well as aloe in it, both of which I think Jade would appreciate the flavors of

I think he’d get it as a grande if it were just a treat, and get a venti if he was genuinely craving it (or particularly overheated/thirsty)

If he wasn’t in a tea mood and decided to get something that actually has coffee in it, I think he’d get a latte and then ask to put brown sugar syrup (and that’ll be grande or venti depending on his mood)

While he definitely would try it iced, I think he has a preference for hot coffee drinks, idk, he seems the type to secretly enjoy the cozy warmth that comes with hot coffee

And with Jade being Jade (and also being the one to suggest the Octavinelle Coffee Research Expedition), he did the research before Azul’s pre-research research (oh I’m so gonna get sick of that word later), so he has basically memorized the sizes after like, one or two glances

I genuinely think that if Jade isn’t busy helping with Mostro Lounge, he’d absolutely stay in the shop and drink it there, because atmosphere is part of the food and drink experience

In terms of food, I can absolutely see him having a Tuna Melt Panini

As for the shenanigans, Jade is probably sitting back and sipping his drink as he watches things go down between Floyd and Azul, pure and unabashed amusement twinkling in his eyes (obviously though he’d step in if Floyd was starting to cause a scene or bother the other customers)

Oh boy

So Floyd is an interesting case

Much like Ruggie, Floyd likely doesn’t have a certain drink that he orders every time, and likes to try things

Therefore, he is the most likely to customize his drinks

I also think that while his drink decisions are spontaneous, they are never bad tasting

But, for the sake of simplicity, let’s go with the two or three drinks that he alternates between the most

If he’s in a good mood, and wants actual coffee, then I think he’ll get a cappuccino

That’ll be a size grande, and he might sometimes add a chocolate drizzle or something

If he’s in a good mood and wants something other than coffee, I can see him getting a refresher

In particular, I think he’ll get the Pineapple Passionfruit refresher

Why? Because pineapples are funky but delicious (they have digestive enzymes and stuff so I think Floyd would find that interesting)

And I genuinely think he’d get a size venti (since apparently both he and Jade canonically have large appetites)

Only reason he gets cappuccinos in grande is because he has some form of respect in terms of proportionate coffee sizing

I also think Floyd would probably get the refresher with water or lemonade rather than coconut milk

Now if Floyd were in a pissy mood I feel like his appetite wouldn’t be huge, so he’d probably get a size tall on average if he orders coffee while in that pissy mood

As for what he usually orders when he’s feeling down, I get the feeling he probably wants something that’s more on the creative side to try and lift his own spirits (as much as I think that sometimes he’s okay with wallowing a bit, I don’t think he’d want to worsen his own mood by getting a plain drink)

I wanna say that his go-to is probably a secret menu item known as the Horchata Drink

Basically it’s iced white tea with cinnamon dolce syrup, heavy cream, and extra cinnamon powder

He’ll order it tall if he’s in that bad mood, but if his mood spontaneously improves before he actually decides to order, he’ll get it as a venti instead

Listen, this man has the secret menu memorized

He looked up some secret menu drinks once on a website or MagiCam or whatever and just decided to remember the ones he liked the most

Also if he’s in a good mood he’ll take his drinks to go, while he’ll just stay inside and sulk for a bit when he’s in a bad mood

He knows his Starbucks terms, end of story

Also for food I really think he’d get an iced lemon loaf just because

Or maybe sometimes he’s in a brownie or chocolate chip cookie mood

It really depends (but we all knew that, this is Floyd we’re talking about)

He’s here for a good time, even if his definition of a good time pisses off Azul a bit

~memory restored~

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