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Hey, Kick-in-the-teeth Claptrap, you know who was also a halfling rogue, with a perfectly normal family made up entirely of Mumple people????

Penny freaking Luckstone, of The Seven Maidens.

And she had the Society of Shadows beating down her door for an internship after graduation. So that fully sounds like a skill issue for you bitch.

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i couldn't rest until i made something this is driving me insane. so what if i dismissed your success as because of your hardships instead of in spite of them

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the intrepid heroes reached new levels of Accurate Teenage Friendship tonight

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kipperlilly hates being an npc because she wants to be a pc, caramelinda hates being an npc because she doesn't want to be in a fucking dungeons and dragons game

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the best part about being an artist is making the shit you want for yourself so pls enjoy my poster sketch based on this weeks episode bc i literally cannot stop thinking about it

this is gonna take forever to render but it will be so worth it

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Listen, gang: it's rare that I ask you for anything explicitly. But after the awkward hell that she endured on my behalf, and given that she's one of the funniest standups traipsing around LA right now...

...please, please, PLEASE go on Instagram and follow Kaylin Mahoney.

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Fantasy high jy has me on the Wikipedia icositetragon like 🤔

Anybody theorizing about the significance of a 24 point star???? Like this one detail is so bothering me why??? Specifically??? 24 points????

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #damn just nothing on that wiki #i love mysteries

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jace has been mean this whole time!!

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making six comedians answer exam questions instead of letting their characters do it is the funniest thing brennan has ever done the panic in their eyes is so real

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Transcript:

Emily: I have a stupid question, because I don't really eat cereal except for Fruity Pebbles on Christmas. Uh-- [Everyone laughs.] Murph: Moving on. Jake: So you do love the Flintstones! Caldwell: Right! Yeah, as god intended. Murph: Moving on. Emily: (shocked) What? Are they Flintstones related??? Murph: Of course! Caldwell: (yelling) What?! Jake: (yelling) What?! Caldwell: Emily!! (laughs) Jake: No! No! Murph: Emily, they're on the-- they're on the box. That you have. In our home. Emily: (yelling over him) I only eat them once a year! I-- (laughing) eat them once a year! Caldwell: (laughing) what are you… Jake: Impossible. How did you not know that?! Murph: And the Flintstones are on it! Emily: (still yelling) I don't fucking make-- Murph: (yelling) Surely-- surely-- Caldwell: (laughing) It… what do you mean?! Emily: --what's on my cereal box! Murph: Surely you've watched television once! In the past 40 years! Emily: Yes, I have! (laughing) I have. Caldwell: Wha-- do you like pour the box and then instantly put it away? Are you not looking at the box while you're pouring it? Murph: They're all-- Fred and Barney are all over that shit. Caldwell: They're all over it. Emily: (calmly) I have a very… (laughs) Murph: They're Pebbles. Flintstones. Emily: My… my attention is precious to me and I gift it only to the things that deserve it. (laughs) Caldwell: He named the cereal after his daughter, don't you understand? [Emily and Jake laugh.] Emily: Well, so I didn't know that context! So that went unnoticed by me. [Caldwell sighs.] Murph: Moving on. Jake: Insane. Emily: Anyways, um, do they still-- so since I only really eat that like once a year, do cereal, like-- is cereal still going nuts with mascots?

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She is still on the apple crate

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I've seen a few posts from people who think Henry was being shitty to Gorgug or setting Gorgug up to fail by allowing him to do 3 years of the artificer track at once. But I have a lot of experience in STEM, and I think Henry was being incredibly kind in a very engineering-coded way.

I did an undergrad degree in engineering and have been in STEM spaces for more than 10 years. And the STEM way of being an asshole is much more like what Porter did. So many people who don't look like they fit the stereotype of who belongs in STEM have been explicitly told to leave. Like, I was at a conference last year where a presenter asked all the people in the room who had been told to change their major to raise their hands. And there were lots of us with raised hands. (This was in a diversity equity and inclusion session, so a lot of non-traditional looking people for engineering.) If Henry wanted to be an asshole he would tell Gorgug to leave, or that the curriculum was "rigorous" and half-orcs can't usually hack it, etc. But he didn't!

Henry did the classic STEM thing of laying out all of the options, even the ones that aren't desirable. Since Porter won't sign the MCAT, the reasonable options are all gone. Henry mentioned that Gorgug doesn't need to be in school for artificing to be an artificer ("If artificing is something that brings you joy and brings happiness to your life, you don't need school. You can do that on your own.") Which is NOT something that STEM people do. I've never heard an engineering professor say that someone who does STEM stuff as a hobby can call themselves engineers. Henry is being absurdly kind by saying this.

When Gorgug says that he wants to do artificing in school, Henry gives the option to do all three years of school at once. [Note that Henry did not suggest this at first. Henry didn't offer it until Gorgug basically asked for a loophole.] This reminds me so much of all the STEM people who know a system really well and give you advice on how to navigate it. They note that their path isn't what the system was designed to do, but if you really want to do it you could do it this way. Which is exactly what Henry does. This also gives Gorgug the agency to decide for himself.

Henry also goes out of his way to say that the people who work hard are the ones he would bet on. This is also so nice as a STEM person! I can't tell you the number of professors I had who said that a specific problem shouldn't take long, or "if you're efficient you should be fine." I also had a professor who said some people can code and some people can't, and he didn't know how to help the people who don't have a natural aptitude for coding. Henry saying he thinks Gorgug can achieve this through hard work is super enlightened for a STEM instructor.

tl;dr Henry is incredibly enlightened for a STEM instructor. He tells Gorgug that Gorgug can still be an artificer without formal schooling, and then when Gorgug expresses a desire for the formal education he tells Gorgug the path. If Henry does a heel turn I will be emotionally devastated lol

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It was a long weird summer.

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Riz "Pleasant Presence" Gukgak at his 10th club meeting of the day

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fabian not responding to adaine’s text gagged me omg???

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thank you fhjy acknowledging neglect by lack of teaching. too often we make fun of ppl (esp college students) for not knowing basic self and home care, but some people weren't taught.

there's a lot going on with Fabian and his family but I'm so glad we're bringing up this problem. should an 18 year old know how to make breakfast and do laundry? yes. but it's not his fault his parents neglected to teach him and then left and took all his resources.