#(moreso than in undergrad)

[fakeosirian]

post-school school/career headcanons (non-exhaustive, will make a part two eventually), for your consideration:

nina goes to undergrad for literature with a concentration in creative writing. hasn't picked a medium yet, and regardless it's not like making it in screenwriting is that much easier than traditional publishing, so she writes by night and is an office temp by day (she is aware of the irony of being the "permanent new girl" as a job description. it was funny the first time someone pointed it out. the first time.)

fabian gets a bachelor's in history and immediately goes to grad school for...library/information science. he has to spend a good bit explaining to people that yes, that's a real major, and no, "the books don't start reacting with each other -- a science is a system of ideas, not just when something blows up." he works as a TA and is torn between if he wants to stay in academia or find more "practical" work (this is where i mention this is background work for a story where he goes back to the school to teach <3)

amber might go to a post-secondary fashion school, but even if she does, she's absolutely going for the connections and dropping out the second she gets an industry job, most likely in nyc (which considering how well off she is...probably didn't take long). idk she's thriving (though if she's surrounded by work/kind of by herself socially i could see her getting to a breaking point and claiming she needs roommates to afford rent (lie) just so she can have people around lol)

patricia actually DOES become a guidance counselor. LOL. i can't resist this one -- more specifically, i could see her going to a liberal arts undergrad without a direction in mind but knowing she "needs to figure one out," taking a couple psychology classes, realizing She Cares, declaring a major in psych, and after discounting the clinical track (too close to med school) and the research track (too creepy), she ends up working on an MA in social work

alfie seems like a guy who would have his fingers in like 5 different pies at all times -- depending on who he's talking to/if he feels he needs to impress them, he says one of the following: "business partner" (jerome's business -- more on that later -- alfie's more of an ideas/production guy than a """business guy""" but you don't need to know that if he's telling you this), freelance film crew (prop master/art department), Professional Artist (has a studio where he makes the stuff he uses for his various pursuits), comic author (i feel like he has a weird janky webcomic he makes for himself. i can't explain it. he has a couple thousand readers), etc. he's always picking up a new thing and finding a way to use it until he gets bored and does something else. he just tells his dad "jerome and i are making A Profit" to keep him off his back

speaking of jerome: i've always been fond of the idea that he and his dad go into business together at some point, so it'd be some sort of thing they could do together that alfie's artistic skills would be of use for. despite the fact that jerome very much would like to bend some rules here and there, his dad is not keen on the idea of going back to prison so unfortunately, no white collar crimes for him. (for now.) they're doing well all things considered, but jerome refuses to get a job to fund the business ("what's the point in doing all this if i'm going to let someone else be my boss anyway"), so he's definitely having to find creative ways to squeeze more money out of the business to, y'know. Survive

i'm not 100% settled on this joy idea but communications/PR? definitely gets her start somewhere more corporate, but i could see her getting creeped out by stuff she'd have to spin/help cover for, so she switches to nonprofit (which is also depressing, arguably moreso sometimes, but it's a bit easier to stomach). isn't directly involved in jerome's business, but she does "consult" (not without something in return. preferably, y'know. Money. but sometimes she starts a casual conversation without realizing she should have written up a contract first, and that's the only way that jerome will actually pay you)

#house of anubis #hoa #hoa headcanons #will add mara mick eddie kt willow later i have ideas but theyre not fully formed and this needs to get OUT of my drafts

[smallsies]

trick or treat :3

happy halloween pidge :D

parker yang is from the south!!

i've briefly talked about this in tags iirc but never really expanded on it, so; he grew up in southwest texas, in a town called alpine! his family still lives there—his dad runs a music venue in the heart of the town and his mom works in the administration department at the local university, where his sister is an undergrad studying chemistry.

in a mostly-canon sense, he left alpine because he couldn't really pursue the type of career he wanted there. the local police department was nothing more than a few farmers with pistols who didn't take very kindly to his few haphazard suggestions to form an investigative unit, so he chased the strange stories he'd heard about places up north until settling in arkham.

for aus (specifically the college band au) it's moreso his needing a change of scenery & the chance to figure out who he is away from his family and the ties to his hometown. i've got a parker-centric fic in the works about this, but after graduating he keeps making music & ultimately ends up with a lot of complicated feelings about alpine; growing up he was always ready to get away, but now that he can't go back, he ends up torn about his identity as a southerner, a queer man, and as a well-known musician.

send me a "trick or treat" headcanon ask!

#parker yang #malevolent #if you see this post and have no idea whats going on; i'm doing headcanon trick or treat today :D #headcanon halloween #< tag for organization :)

[mahoushoujotechsupport]

ep 6 time

background witches

why is she like this

f u professors

akko face

hanbara’s character designs have really grown on me lol hannah moreso than barbara

this shit is so wildly unfair lol imagine if somehow ursula wasn’t actually a teacher at luna nova while akko was enrolled. ya ursula took her magic, but ursula also helped her get through months of this shit from the other professors and was the only one to really try and acknowledge that akko was from a non-witch background (even if part of that was based in her own guilt lol)

*RE4 merchant voice* welcome

gayvendish,,,

fairy band

angey

can’t make out anything there but random book screenie

akko face

interpretive witch dance

me after getting anyone to watch lwa

oh frank, buddy, you’re barking up the wrong tree my friend

hm lol

one thing i would love to see in a potential s2 is more on diana and andrew’s childhood together lol. all we really get in this episode is that andrew’s circle thought of diana as the creepy weirdo witch and well… diana had no friends lmao

the face of someone who has had enough of this shit

oh frank, you sweet boy

imagine these two fighting… diana would just use magic to kick andrew’s ass and would have no qualms in doing so

meanwhile in the dorms

the lighting/colors here is very nice

once again f u teachers

chariot frame

neat frame 

baby arcas card and lol this book is just nonsense jibberish letters

diana’s sass aside, where is the cavendish summer home???

creepy weirdo cavendish my beloved

andrew’s recollection and the cavendish episodes show us how diana didn’t really have friends growing up because she was the weird witch, but i definitely forgot about this comeback. so, at some point there were kids interested in diana’s magic

our favorite little disaster bi

how many times did andrew probably say this shit to diana growing up lol

lol how does akko keep up if professors like lukic are using latin on the witchboards

not baby arcas

akko face

good frame

chaotic chariot frames. the tall ass dog is probably my fav lol

idk how ursula is able to keep a straight face at this

ok im done... don’t really care about taking screenshots of andrew and his dad going home lol

sometimes i try to think back on what i watched as a kid growing up and i’m sure a lot of it had some moral they were trying to impart or whatever but man idk i feel like i have seen better life lessons in some anime/manga than whatever dumb after school shows i watched as a kid growing up in the 90s

for sure i definitely needed someone to tell me that doing things takes hard work rather than having to learn it the hard way by having a hard time in undergrad cuz everything had come so easily to me until then. i guess some of it can be attributed to gifted kid syndrome but that feels like a cop out imo

 lmao i dont actually have anything meaningful to say, i just appreciate that the seven words of arcturus are actually worthwhile and not empty platitudes

#gayanimeweed lwa re-watch party #ep 6

[gold-onthe-inside]

What’s kinds of reviews do Piper’s college students leave her? Do they like style or are they annoyed she makes them do a bunch of reading?

i think her undergrad students are sort of intimidated by her qualifications and all the stuff she'd done by their age. but i think they'd be mixed in terms of how seriously they take her because of how young she is. some won't attend, others like her lectures so they will. the thing with young professors is that they're more engaging, they invite discussions, moreso than older professors (in my experience). she's definitely more open-minded as well, so she understands needing extensions on assignments or needing to move the date for a test because of personal issues.

she's more strict and serious with post-grad and phd students, because people who do post-grads are the ones who are practicing, so she does weekly reviews with them, discussions that you have to participate in actively and meaningfully. her marking is much more rigourous -- very few people score in the higher percentages (85-100) in her classes. but she'll also go through the marking with them, explain where they went wrong, how they can do better (which a lot of professors don't do). i think i've mentioned it in my series somewhere, but she has to stock her office with tissue boxes when she's having meetings as a phd guide because of all the edits she makes.

there's obviously always going to be a few who hate her as a professor, but i will say that the students who take an interest and do their best and keep up with her tend to do really well overall in the field. her students have great publishing rates, they get accepted in great places.

#oc: dr piper bishop #asked and answered #thanks for asking <3

[crispyblonde]

@dvarapala asked: who is campus enemy melissa and how did she and jess become campus enemies in the first place?

thank you so much for this!! i've been meaning to make a post about her for a while

NPCs for Jess - Melissa Murphy

Melissa and Jess were both biology majors on the premed track class of 2007 at Stanford University. They first met at an orientation of sorts a few weeks before their freshman year began. As students on the premed track, they were given upperclassmen to be their mentors of sorts to get settled in and receive advice on keeping themselves on track to acceptance into Stanford Medical School after undergrad. Jessica was assigned to Tyson Brady and Melissa to Joshua Powell. As part of this program, the mentors were required to meet up with their small group of freshman at least five times in the first freshman semester for a stress free outing to voice anything they were having trouble with and relax a bit within their peers. Tyson and Josh often had their groups meet together, so Jessica and Melissa were far from strangers early on. Coincidentally, the two women also ended up in more classes than average together, even their general education requirements.

We all know that Jess was never interested in creating enemies. While she pushed herself to do well in school with her own expectations of herself and some pressure from her mom, she never thought less of anyone that didn't make education their top priority. She is competitive, but not in a way that she looks down upon anyone that ends up beneath her, moreso that she wants to tear her own hair out for not being better. During her freshman year, after spending all of high school focusing on nothing but making herself the perfect applicant to Stanford, Jessica let her hair down a lot in her first college semester. With the heartbreak of her first ever break-up with Brandon on her mind, she tagged along with Tyson Brady to a few baseball parties until she made friends with some girls that frequented parties and attended them quite a bit to blow off steam on the weekends. Jessica had an easier time adjusting to college courses given her private college preparatory high school background. She barely needed to put much effort in outside of the classroom apart from her biology-focused courses and could get by on a few days of studying for each exam.

Melissa on the other hand, despite being valedictorian of her public high school was having a hard time adjusting to Stanford's rigorous academics. When their first exams came back in biology class, Melissa had gotten a C and she had peeked at Jessica's exam with an A- written across the top. With the hard adjustment from high school to ivy league being well-known, there were regular tutoring and study sessions available for the course to help students ease into how to study appropriately. While Melissa started attending these as much as possible, she never saw Jessica in attendance and would often overhear her plans of partying or see her bringing coffees from her barista job to her friends in their 8 am class. Jessica was oblivious to all of this, but the jealousy of Jessica's ability to seemingly have it all with little effort began to eat away at Melissa. Unbeknownst to Melissa, Jessica's lack of sleep between course load, her part time job, parties, and getting involved in the art community on campus was heavily supported by loads of caffeine and naps when she could fit them in.

Melissa's grades did improve, but she was finding less time for socialization to achieve it and her desire for success came more from a place of needing to be better than others, rather than pushing herself to be the best version of herself she could be. A rivalry was brewing rather quickly and Jess was not even aware of the feud until her friend Emily had overheard Melissa talking mad shit about Jess late in the library one night. Suddenly, it all made sense why Melissa insisted on talking about grades so much as Jess was never very keen on sharing them in the first place. She really started to notice how often Melissa was peeking over her shoulder or asking about grades multiple times if Jess tried to breeze past it. Melissa's goals shifted from getting A's to beating Jessica's scores if even by only a point. Despite Jess's best attempts to distance herself from Melissa, their frenemy status was rather solidified as two high achieving women in the pre-med biology track, there wasn't much room to avoid her.

All the while, Melissa was careful to hide her disdain for Jess behind double entendres and upbeat sarcastic remarks when they were around anyone but Melissa's closest friends. Jessica tried to remain civil, but had called her out a few times in private, asking Melissa not to use Jessica as a benchmark for her own success and encouraging her that she was doing great. Jess requested a clean slate as they went into the winter quarter of their freshman year, but she had no idea how much worse it would get. It was early March 2004 when Tyson Brady first introduced Jess to Sam Winchester. While the two had a bit of a rocky start, it was no secret that he was trying to pursue her and she was rather intrigued by the mysterious, brooding man that had a propensity to put his foot in his mouth. Even after she and Sam made their relationship official before finals began in the spring quarter, Melissa was often trying to make herself available to Sam.

Jess was rather convinced that this had nothing to do with Sam himself and everything to do with Melissa's need to be placed above Jess in any way. The final turning point in making Melissa her campus enemy was Melissa literally throwing herself at Sam at a party Jess had begged him to attend with her to let off some steam before finals. She finally snapped and her anger got the best of her. The name-calling and raised voices escalated enough for both Jess and Melissa to be tossed out of the party. A slap across Jess's face led Jess to push Melissa into some rosebushes before Sam was able to corral the inebriated blonde back to his and Brady's dorm room for the night. Jessica is still rather ashamed that her drunken state and anger led her to any sort of physical violence, but after this night she didn't bother hiding her distaste for Melissa publicly. Jess never tried to start anything with her, but if she had survived, she would undoubtedly be hoping that Melissa would have to attend another university for med school.

#╰––– »「 ✞ 」 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁. ┊ melissa murphy #i changed her last name to fit the fc i decided upon literally last night what crazy timing #long post #psd is cold water by bbysuri

[immaculating]

I'm so sorry for putting Tumblr back in its peak era, but i have to.

For me, at least. But maybe you can take something from this too.

We all went through something super dramatic and came out different in one way or another. Some people changed for the better, some people for the worst. A lot of people cam out of the COVID-19 pandemic with more social anxiety or experienced it for the first time (like me). Most of us sat and continue to occupy positions today which provide us with challenges and impact our day-to-day in unfavorable ways.

As I sit here writing this, I have a million other things I need to be doing--but I'm so tired. Physically tired--sleep deprived to the point where it's not even funny, mentally drained and exhausted. I've fallen behind in so many tasks and assignments. Yet, sometimes we have to be the person who allows ourselves to take a break and express our thoughts and articulate our emotions when no one else will. When the world is not giving you the kindness and consideration that you deserve, make sure to make time and space for yourself. Writing this will probably make my thoughts a lot clearer (well, I'm sleep deprived again, so maybe moreso...less cluttered). I just feel like so many thoughts are hanging over my head in a cloud that I don't have time to think about. But in the long run, really, it makes everything harder to navigate.

If you take anything away from this, give yourself the 5 minutes and a much needed break to do what you need to do for yourself, like I am doing now.

I transferred to a new university away from my hometown, a passion that I loved, a community that I loved to do my passion with, and almost everyone I knew. I've been in undergrad for damn near long enough to have (maybe) my graduates. I'm supposed to finally graduate this quarter.

But I'm just so tired...and anxious, and depressed. I know that it's much better to talk to a professional about this but I'm not able to right now. I work 20 hours per week, and go to school more than full time since my advisors pushed me to graduate earlier than everyone else I know graduating for no specific reason. One day, I was sitting in class an my heart rate on my watch rose to 155BPM--i wasn't doing anything, I was just sitting there anxious. I thought I was having a heart attack and drove to the hospital, staying overnight.

Anxiety is never something I've had to face in my day-to-day which impacts it at that level before. After COVID, however, I am anxious in all social situations and especially in an unfamiliar community (still fairly new to me because of the stay-at-home orders, remember?) This was supposed to be my last hurrah at a university experience after years of working through community college to transfer. And I moved away from everyone and everything I loved to sit in my room for two fucking years, gaining health problems and mental problems I didn't know would be popping up now after society has been opened back up for awhile.

And yet here I am when it matters most. The one class that is required specifically for graduation--I wrote the wrong deadline down. I'm embarrassed and scared to email my professor about it. I've had to meet with my other professors, too, about missing work and falling behind. Even in work I'm behind on work. I feel so bad but I genuinely felt like my birthday, two days ago, was too much for me to think about let alone celebrate--how do i pull myself out of this? how do i not blame myself? i have severe adhd impairment and because of my newfound anxiety heart rate, cannot take my medication without precaution. everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong. and i'm so depressed.

i know this sounds like it went from maybe inspirational to a lot of whining, but honestly, i just need space to vocalize and vent. i don't know who else to talk to. i haven't made any friends since I've transferred.

anyway, i have to go try to tackle the never ending workload that i have in lieu of the past-due dates that are glaring at me at all times in my mind.

if you, too, are struggling friend--know that you're not alone. thanks for reading this far into my first (albeit mundane) post. I'll try to update the situation as it unfolds.

wish me luck, we'll make it through this. this too shall pass.

-the immaculator

#personal #covid-19 #struggle #mental health #anxiety #venting #school #burnout #impacts #college #loneliness

[silenthillmutual]

11 for the wip ask game :0

Which character do you have the most in common with?

answering with an oc would probably be cheating, right? i do have an oc i want to reshape for an original work who is based on me, moreso than the others. i usually take aspects of myself and put them into ocs so that i can have something to start with and build from. in that way i would say that karol is probably the closest to myself, as he was more or less intended as a self-insert. i just never committed to making him a fully fledged self-insert.

in terms of characters i write for fanfic, i'm not sure there's any one i can say i have that much in common with currently. i certainly write daniil as sharing some traits with me because part of the nature (and the fun) of transformative fiction is projection. i had a lot in common with his canon outlook and general attitude when i was in like... high school and undergrad, but i've grown and changed a lot since then. i guess that's one draw to writing character development for him!

wip ask game ~

#squid pro quo #thanks anon!

[merrock]

CHARACTER INFORMATION

face claim: Charles Michael Davis

full name: Trey Gregory Wright

nickname(s) / goes by: Trey

pronouns & gender: cis man he/him

sexuality: heterosexual

birth date: December 5th, 1984

birth place: Burlington, Vermont

arrival to merrock: 2009

housing: countryside

occupation: livestock/large animal veterinarian

work place: Emergency Animal Services

family: n/a

relationship status: single

PERSONALITY

A lot about Trey is pretty typical of a farm boy. His best friend is his dog, he loves his truck, he loves his job, he loves a cold beer with his friends after a hard week at work. He's also got a more stoic side and while he's not someone who is awkward, he is someone who prefers to be an observer moreso than an actor, but he loves to spend time with people and get to know others well. He appreciates the slower things in life and focusing on the things that make him happy. Friendship is one of the most important connections to him, and he views those he trusts enough to let into his heart like family.

WRITTEN BY: Lindsey (they/she), est.

BACKGROUND / BIO

Trey is both the middle child and eldest son of a family that owned a horse farm. His older sisters babied him and his younger brothers encouraged him to become a ring leader. He didn’t lack for much as a kid, and always loved taking on project of caring for the animals on the farm or even random strays. As a kid, he preferred the company of the horses or his pets to others, but by the time he reached his teen years he managed to step out as a sociable and even charming young man.

His parents were the epitome of love and care, and continue to be so until this day, which has always served as a bit of a challenge for Trey. He more or less knew that he’d be hard pressed to find a match like theirs, and he also couldn’t imagine getting married after high school and then loving the same person forever. He wanted to travel the world and maybe help make some lives better along the way. Soon after he finished high school, he said goodbye to his family and loved ones and packed up for college in upstate New York. It wasn’t glamorous, but it was a change of scenery and a new place to live for a bit.

Through his undergrad and vet school studies, he took the chance to travel either for a semester (in the Netherlands) or on breaks (anywhere from Costa Rica to Canada to Thailand.) Still, these weren’t journeys of privilege, as he worked hard on funding these through his hard work and scholarships. Hard work was, after all, the most valuable lesson his parents taught him.

When he finished his studies, though, he returned home to realize his parents were getting a bit older and maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to be a bit closer. He jumped at the opportunity to take the opening at Merrock’s vet clinic and loved that the sense of charity amongst the town meant he could also help out with local shelters. In the past decade plus, he’s kept to himself and enjoyed frequent visits to local farms to provide vet care (and occasionally to ride horses or help with farm tasks), as well as his standard appointments with dogs and cats.

He had a few short lived relationships, but nothing stuck. Nothing was really a priority, as long as he had family and his border collie, Bernie, around to keep him company.

#merrockbio #treywright

[whsprings]

I think you really need to try your best to stay out of res and finish school. I know the real world is scary and hard but once you're in it, you just sort of do it, you manage, you have to. Not saying it won't be hard and you won't still be ill, but you'll be out of this cycle of res/school that is just putting off the inevitable. I really really believe you can do it, and you deserve a happy life but you can't get it until you start living it.

I really want to finish "on time" (technically am a semester behind already but lots of people did that after graduating undergrad so it isn't a big deal). I think this relapse was moreso a trauma response than an avoidance of the real world, but that being said the idea of having a real job is so unknown that it is terrifying. I do not want to go back to treatment. I am tired of being the family fuckup. I also don't have the motivation to get better.

#cw// ed

[cass1x1]

📚🎵👗💀 | alexa!

[ 📚 ] what books does your muse have on their bookshelf? what books would they like to have? if your muse isn’t an avid reader, is there anything they collect or might like to collect?

an absolute ton! she is a former lit major so she's constantly buying books. she loves creative nonfiction (that's her genre, even moreso than poetry) but she has lots of poetry, literary fiction, classics, latin american lit (that was her other fave class in her undergrad), regular nonfiction, books on writing, dirty books...she has a little bit of everything.

[ 🎵 ] is there a specific song or songs you associate with your muse? why is that?

nothing jumps to mind but she's got big charli xcx energy to me >.< tho she'd probably love megan thee stallion too.

[ 👗 ] what is your muse’s fashion sense like? are they able to dress the way they want to? what would they wear in an ideal world?

alexa wields fashion like a weapon. she dresses at times very provocatively, and at other times, very femme, and at other times, very conservative. she likes to play with fashion and expression a lot. shedoesn't have the money to dress the way she might want to in the ideal world but she is honestly pretty fucking close despite that.

[ 💀 ] has your muse gone through anything traumatic? if so, how has this trauma affected them?

she's had some shitty boyfriends do some shitty things to her but overall she considers herself pretty lucky. life hasn't been that bad, outside of the ways life is always bad for a queer woman of color.

#answered #gerrykecy #ch: alexa #answered memes

[omg-physics]

I’ve reached the point where I just want to introduce myself to everyone here at grad school with the disclaimer: “Look, I’m not smart like you, I know I’m not supposed to be here, I have no idea how I got accepted but I’m trying my best so could you please be patient with me.”

#im surrounded by self-assured white guys #(moreso than in undergrad) #imposter syndrome #gradblr #help

[oflgtfol]

man its wild bc other than electronics i do find myself enjoying physics in general, after years of lambasting general physics since i believed that i "only enjoy physics when applied to astronomy." im, somehow, enjoying my optics class even though its mostly tedious and barely anything applies to astronomy except like, the telescope lens configurations we just learned and constructed last week

#my physics minor only requires 3 more classes than my astro major does #and apparently the physics double major only requries 1 more on top of that? #so i really could double major in physics. even this late into undergrad #however it is kind of late now so i dont.. want to. lol #but its moreso due to like. university requirements that i dont want to plan around rather than an actual disinterest !!! #and the only reason it took me so long to commit to the minor is bc of that damn electronics lab i have to take now next semester #its going 2 kill me. #its a super intense class in general nevermind the fact that i HAAAAATE electronics #brot posts

[redcrowz]

Do you have any idea how old the Orca Squad is because I, for the life of me, can’t figure it out because Quint is old enough to have been in ww2, Brody has a wife and young children, and Hooper is out of college (undergrad or grad I have no idea but that makes a big difference) and yet they all look like they’re in their 40s to me 💀

no canonical ages other than Middle Aged Adult Portrayals does make this tricky but i got some goods that hopefully help you, thank god for headcanons

tl;dr

brody is 42 ("canon" through screenplay and actor age)

quint is 47-48 (just through logic- through actor age and calculations, technically "headcanon")

hooper is in his 30s (35 for me specifically- just through understanding college formatting + the system and what makes the most sense considering the context and what has been said + implied, VERY much headcanon)

i mostly factor in the actor's ages during portrayal and also other jaws media into the thing, unfortunately i havent read the jaws novel yet but i may revisit this if ages come up in the novel (or someone whos read it says they have)

first off with the easiest one: brody who is said to be 42 in this screenplay, which is a believable Dad Age and lines up with scheider's age and him beginning to be a dad at ~30 would be reasonable

michael's actor was 11-12, sean's was 6-7

second one is just moreso implications and just lots of calculating with quints age

On November 11, 1942, Congress approves lowering the draft age to 18 and raising the upper limit to age 37.

the uss indianapolis shark attack happened during 1945, so quint couldve easily been 18 during the time- and considering he mentions how Terrified he was to the point where he obsessively shark hunts, having that trauma inflicted with him at such a young age would really, really fuck him up

and it also lines up with his actor's age, shaw was born in 1927, making him 18 in 1945 and 47-48 in 1974/1975

now hooper... richard dreyfuss was 28 when he was depicting hooper

i take Much More Creative Liberties with hooper's age primarily for comfort bc an age gap between the ages of 28 - 42 - 48 can be unnerving bc those are quite the age gaps but its Fine, so hooper's more of a range in my head but ill be more Clear with what i think after explaining this

first: you need 4 years for bachelors, additional 1 year for masters, which is needed to be marine biologist researcher, and of course these dont need to be back to back bc College Gap Years and flexibility- the woods hole oceanagraphic institute both offers undergrad and grad programs

in the screenplays it was much more apparent that hooper was a student rather than a graduate or anything else, but i think if we're still sticking with the college student route (considering quint calls him a college boy, though it could either be him being a college student OR a graduate, so take that as you will), id imagine it'd be for his masters

nothing much was said about his position in the movie other than "expert", but i interpret this as a professor bc "full professors" have expertise and can still be considered a "college boy" despite the title, and could be dedicated enough to his field to get the rank being below the average age

"Very few people become Full Professors before the age of 40"

but it is possible!

if you want my personal interpretation, i really dont see hooper as 28 (ik facial hair does that to a mf but it really doesnt make me believe hes that young LMAO) and neither a student (i dont blame ppl who do take him as a 28 year old student considering the actor age tho)

i see him more as a (full) professor in his 30s, probably some sort of prodigy if we're thinking early 30s, or just the Standard Expert if we're thinking later 30s- he works hard in either even if he is a rich boy LOL

hes also commented looking "young" so i dont wanna go over 40 though that could be viable considering Average Full Professor Age

averaging in my brain, ill consider his age 35 with Personel Headcanons

he couldve taken gap years! college and working in the field such as marine biology is hard as balls So

hope that helps! ^^

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[campgender]

the strangest thing about graduating undergrad is suddenly like, Doing Adult Polyamory™️. like, i roomed with one of my partners for three years, my boyfriend & i lived together last summer, we’ve already been reaching stereotypical milestones of adult relationships, but being out of college makes it feel different, more serious.

navigating the tangled logistics of six people’s lives as five of us graduated was so lonely and scary, moreso than the usual experience of that transition, because there’s no script for us, no framework, no comfort of representation of relationships like ours. we were throwing paint at the wall in the dark and hoping it turned out a masterpiece, and i know it’ll continue to be hard when we have to do it again, but god, we did it.

tonight, my girlfriend and i ate dinner while watching my boyfriend’s first featured story on the local news, and i cried from being so fucking happy. i’m cradling moments of normalcy to my chest, sparkling and solid: group zoom calls and shared meals and movie nights, inside jokes and casual affection and emergency contacts.

i think a lot about this one post i read years back that described being polyamorous as a dreamlike state, untethered without any preexisting narrative to ground you. if i say i love you to my family in our homes and no one hears, is our relationship still real? but i wouldn’t trade it for the world, this abundance of joy and support and love. hallelujah for lunch breaks and grocery lists and the 5 o’clock news. this is real, this is worth it, this is everything i want.

#polyam #polyamorous #polyamory #polycule #mac.txt #domesticity

[lemeute]

Big Ask: All the evens, or at least as many as you wanna do, Feuilly, Enjolras, Combeferre?:D

oooh hm

2: fistfight, get drunk with, share a flat with:

get drunk with Combeferre because I bet he is fascinating, like, so full of weird FactsTM.

share a flat with Enjolras, because I do think he's a relatively good/lowkey roommate and (more importantly) because I would NOT fistfight him, because I don't want to die.

fistfight Feuilly, I guess? sorry Feuilly.

4. write a book with, read a book to, hit with a book.

hit Combeferre with a book because sometimes he is irritating and also sometimes his FactsTM are so. uh. wrong.

write a book with Feuilly; I think that together we could balance out who has to do the project-management-y parts of co-writing something and actually get it done.

read a book to Enjolras. I think I daydreamed this about once a week in undergrad

6. go clothes shopping with, go to ikea with, go grocery shopping with

go to ikea with Feuilly. I bet he has opinions about decorating a home and I bet they're good ones

go clothes shopping with Combeferre, because if I go with Enjolras we will both just be bored and uncomfortable and desperate to leave, and neither of us will have a good time

go grocery shopping with Enjolras. contrary to fanon about him I think he is competent at this. contrary to fanon about me I am also competent at this when I uh, y'know, finally go do it

8. share a car with, share a bank account with, share a cake with

share a bank account with Enjolras. there's definitely enough in his bank account to support two people being Mostly Just Revolutionaries

share a cake with Feuilly because I want him to have cake

share a car with Combeferre. he can....have it, mostly? I can make him drive me to actions lmao

10. go geocaching with, go beachcombing with, go on a walking tour with

ahh damn all the permutations of this are good, really? hm. go beachcombing with Combeferre. I bet he will tell me more FactsTM

go geocaching with Feuilly! I don't know why this makes sense in my brain, but it does

go on a walking tour with Enjolras. honestly, I'd rather go on walking tours with all of them, but I feel like Enjolras is the one I can't pass up. I dunno, it's something about how walking tours, especially in cities, just always give me really intense feelings about humanity, history, and the future.

play a sport with, play a card game with, play a board game with

play a sport with Feuilly. I bet he, y'know, can enjoy a sport (more than Combeferre), but also he is not AN ANGEL AND A WHIRLWIND AND THE REVOLUTION IN HUMAN FORM, a state of affairs that makes it embarrassing to play a sport in the vicinity of Enjolras

play a card game with Enjolras, because card games are good to do while talking

play a board game with Combeferre. modern au Combeferre is DEFINITELY the type of person who owns niche cooperative board games, oh my god.

get stuck in an elevator for 10 hours with, get trapped in a cave for 10 hours with, get stranded on a boat for 10 hours with (no way to call for help or fix the engine, no paddles)

jkldsf welp so. unlike some of them, this question has a clear starting point and it is "who do I trust most as a lifeguard" because I cannot swim and if we are stranded for 10 hours on a boat where paddles are worth mentioning, I am going to pick the companion who minimizes my chance of drowning, and my gut says that's probably Enjolras. so, stranded on a boat with Enjolras.

Feuilly and I can manage the elevator. I have a feeling he's probably spent a fair amount of time in small, crowded spaces! like, everyone did in 19th century cities, but workers who grew up orphans definitely moreso than bourgeois students

and then I'll be trapped in a cave with Combeferre, because I feel like he would have a good time for at least part of that time, because caves! a fascinating environment! did you know this thing about bats that I read in a 16th-century philosophy book!!

#ilu pilf shglksdjfld #lm tag

[jameshurleyhateblog]

Having that awesome trauma feeling lately of being way too young and way too old at the same time, and I hate that I didn't get to spend the Figuring Out Who I Am part of my life actually figuring out who I am, so now I'm trying to do it when I'm too old to do it and that.. sucks.

And for the record I don't mean too old as in "you can't learn things once you get to a certain age" I mean too old as in "I have to get a job and take care of myself and resources for learning new things are expensive but they weren't when I was in my undergrad but I didn't do it then because I was too busy trying to survive." It's about access moreso than time, but time affects the access, you know?