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galaxycunt · 25 days

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@shrimpmajordomo thanks for the tag!!

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.

@gayafsatan @gingernut1314 @skarphedinn @gabegade let’s see 🧐

1. American folklore, don’t let me get into tribal stories and cryptids we will be there all day sorry like the real ones tho like animals we think are extinct but ppl swear they saw one and like myths in general

2. Movies, and other media studies related stuff. That was my double major in college bc it was easy to make it into one with the design/advertising degree I had lmao I also was a comp lit minor so I be analyzing things and watching video essays

3. The Manson Murders and The Golden State Killer. My dads favorite book was Helter Skelter so he was like u should read it when I was like 14 and my family is from California so I heard a few stories like I remember my mom saying the rumor for gsk was he targeted yellow houses and she lived in one (tho at the time he was the night stalker bc the other one I think)

Also forensic stuff but i blame the fact two teachers taught us that bc they saw dead bodies at some point (I was gonna keep going on this see what I mean)

4. Pirates. I loved it since I was a kid, I even that that pirateology book and in college took an anthropology course on pirates. Idk something about them I was like whoa!!! Cool!!! Also like cowboys? But I grew up in the west so I mean that’s most people lmao

5. Circuses. I was sooo into the old design at circus circus with the old circus posters and my mom watched hbo carnivale and I used to have night terrors featuring clowns so I was like let’s find out more shall we 🕵️

But maybe that’s just all ties into Americana and the culture of the early days of this country idk!

#about me #I was meant to be an academic I think

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fumifooms · 16 days

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Canines

The hand that feeds

Mickbell Tomas & Kuro Dungeon Meshi

^ 1: Ink-the-artist, I will remove my teeth / 2: Margaret Atwood / 3: C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy / 4: Mitski, I’m your man / 5: Ojibwa, I love you like a rotten dog / 6: KotOR II / 7: Stardrop, Everything that’s ever been mine is covered in teeth marks / 8: Sodikken, People Eater / 9: Mitski, I’m your man / 10: maxime., The life and death of a dog / 11: Mitski, I bet on losing dogs / 12: maxime., The life and death of a dog / 13: hun, I did not bite with Malice / 14: C. Michael Davis, Don't Pet the Dragon / 15: Mitski, I’m your man

v 1: Early versions of the myth as in aeschylus orestes / 2: Ink-the-artist, I will not remove my teeth

#Yeahh i’m workng on a mickbell & kabru party analysis oops #I’d bleed for anything if it held me the right way. Even teeth #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #Mickbell tomas #kuro #mickuro #mickrin #It’s on topic in my heart #The red means I love you…#The duality between the care & devotion and the hurt & isolation is really what gets to me #Traumabonded kittens highkey #Tw #cw #cw abuse #tw abuse #Web weaving #web weave #webweaving #I hit 30 pics :( would have added more if i could #Idk even anymore… Pls tell me you see the vision #Mick obvi loves Kuro a lot but this was meant to focus on the unhealthy side if that wasn’t obvious. Abuse tactic of isolation etc etc #People always leave. doesn’t matter how or why but his parents his sister everyone he’s never enough to stay #and that’s why he thinks he has to trick Kuro into thinking Mickbell’s the whole world or he’ll discover that there’s more out there.#Stuff that’s worth leaving him for. He has to make the world scary and unknown and not pay him and not let him have connections #That’s why he doesn’t want people to have a choice!! Either Mickbell doesn’t care about you or he’ll make sure you can never be without him #and there being a third option/outcome in this freaks him out!!!#Some of these should be called ‘No Title’ instead but I have bad academic crediting etiquette this looks cooler sorry #He’s scared of course he bites. There’s only throwing bones when feeding a stray. So bare your teeth and chew me up

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hersweetrevenge · 2 years

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okay but i think it says a lot about eddie that he clearly wanted to graduate high school.

in some way or another, it was clearly something he actually wanted to do, or he would have just dropped out when he flunked his first senior year.

but he didn't. he tried again. and again. those aren't the actions of someone who couldn't care less if they get a diploma or not. the whole school thinks he's a freak, he goes through the embarrassment every day of being the 20-year-old super-duper senior, but he does still go to school.

idk whether it might be partly on his uncle's suggestion (wayne seems to want the best for eddie and that probably means getting some qualifications), or whether he wants to do it for himself (to prove that he could, in fact, do it) but either way, instead of dropping out when he so easily could have (especially after his 2nd try) he didn't.

and this is why i so desperately wanted to see him graduate. it wasn't just about "getting out of this dump" (which he could have done years ago by dropping out) it was about proving he could do it, that he could accomplish this mile stone and then move on.

#eddie munson #stranger things 4 #god i love him so much #and i will never forgive that he didnt get to walk that stage #disclaimer. i do not think its bad to not graduate hs first time around #the school system isnt suited to a lot of people #and academic achievement is not the be all end all by any means #but. eddies situation #for whatever reason. he wants to graduate. and that means going through senior year 3 times for him #hs is often terrible and there would be people there that think hes a total idiot for being 20 and still trying to graduate #but the thing is is that he still does it #instead of being embarrassed (as far as we see) he sticks it out and is willing to keep trying #the big thing is #he doesnt have to do this #he could have dropped out and probably still been in a similar position career wise (esp. in the 80s)#so like please god i just wanted to see him graduate #yeah maybe music is his dream but graduating clearly meant somethin g to him too

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cosmicrhetoric · 2 years

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vetinari's dubious sexuality being a genuine puzzler for the citizens of his city........the bit in unseen academicals where glenda is like "no one knows what side of the bed vetinari got up on. or even if he went to bed at all" vs. the two seconds in the truth where i was convinced that had de worde not stopped him his neighbor would've fully called vetinari a slur

#f slur specifically ugh im gonna find the passage but that was so like #literally panic reading that bit of the truth like WHAT were you about to call him WHAT were you gonna say???????????????#and when the guy was like ha ha uhhhh yeah i meant cause of his relationship with known undead milf. least convincing cover EVER #cause unseen academicals i think leaned into it a bit but the truth was kinda early in the series i thought i was gonna have a heart attack #discworld #havelock vetinari

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noknowshame · 7 months

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tonight I had the absolutely glorious moment of being asked for the first time unprompted if I’ve ever watched Black Sails and I think my eyes physically started to glow as I pulled a bag full of prop urca gold directly out of my purse

#I’ve never felt more seen than someone instantly knowing what I meant by The Narrative #which means they’re definitely on tumblr so if this was you hi lmao #both of us are in the same incredibly niche academic field which I think is very telling #Black Sails will do that to you

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cryinginmelodrama · 6 months

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but you know what the worst feeling in the world is? it's when something instantly reminds you of someone and for a flash of second you get giddy with excitement, thinking of sharing it with them but then there's the sudden shattering realisation that you're not close to them anymore and that you can't. when nostslia makes the walls of your throat tighten and your eyes water and you want to forget all the bad blood for that one stupid moment, just to share that one stupid thing. but you can't because the past is lost and your history is tainted and because its your pride and their ego and because its your hatred and its just so complicated. but then you go back to thinking that how did we end up here? where did we go wrong? how did we mess this up? and you were supposed to be here and i was supposed to be able to share my happiness with you and we were meant to last forever. but then the acceptance that you need to forget about them and move on because that's what adults do. because you're not a kid anymore and because you can't make up with people by greeting cards and chocolates anymore and because you need to quiet your heart and not be vulnerable anymore. but you still can't help but curse the universe because is it really supposed to hurt this bad? because why are you breaking apart? because, god, why didn't it last? so many lost friendships, so many lost loves, they come back to me in these instances. and i want to scream “look at what you have done, look at me choking up like a fool, look at me falling apart, and just look at me but dont pity me. and just tell me that you think of me but don't say that you miss me and just know that i loved you but also that i hate you, and that i was supposed to be able to share this silly little thing with you but i can't, I won't. and im sorry. but im not apologising. and im fine. but im probably pretending, and I'll put my mask back on but I'll mourn us behind it. and I'll move on. but i'll always treasure you in my memory.”

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serdtse · 12 days

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#my friend defended her phd thesis today and I’m so happy for her #we were on this journey together until I quit two years ago and it’s amazing how well-researched her thesis is #however by the end of the day I can’t help but think that I could #do that too maybe? or I wouldn’t be able to?#also watching her defend her thesis and seeing familiar faces made me somehow nostalgic abt the whole academic setting #and lately I’ve been feeling such a lack of purpose in anything I do I wonder if it were different had I stayed #or is it nostalgia lying? I think factually I quite hated being at uni in the last semesters #but my problem was the supervisor mainly and I try to imagine now how it could be with someone else #so many maybes and hypotheticals.. maybe I’m where I’m meant to be as of now even if still not happy lol #oh i also remembered how i thought i would be lonely forever bc at my uni most of the lecturers are middle-aged and over women #and now i simply sit at home alone all day #funny huh

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thesparrow1996 · 18 days

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it upsets me when people don’t know things and yet are still confident and assured in themselves. i am so distressed by not knowing things that i add a million qualifiers to every question in my head before i can even ask it. also i am a bad and judgmental person

#someone in my cataloging class just asked what rda meant. we’re in week 13 and he’s graduating this semester.#and already has a full time academic librarian job i think and i am never going to get past a phone interview at this point

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captainsparklefingers · 3 months

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KALINA NOOO!!!

What the FUCK. BAD KITTY. BAD. NO GREENIES FOR YOU.

#d20 spoilers #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 fantasy high #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #what the actual fuck is happening #what are these things #what's the connection to raugh and his mom and her demon gem #IS THIS QUANGLE SHIT?#god. and this is STILL somehow less stressful than all the academic shit.#(I don't think Kalina meant that tbh cuz like. that red shit is happening. but still damn.)

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britneyshakespeare · 6 months

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So yesterday I read "Slimed with Gravy, Ringed by Drink" by Camille Ralphs, an article from the Poetry Foundation on the publication of the First Folio in 1623, a major work without which most of Shakespeare's plays might very well have been lost today, possibly the most influential secular work of literature in the world, you know.

It's a good article overall on the history and mysteries of the Folio. Lots of interesting stuff in there including how Shakespeare has been adapted, the state of many surviving Folios, theories of its accuracy to the text, a really interesting identification of John Milton's own copy currently in the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the fascinating annotations that may have influenced Milton's own poetry!!! Do read it. It's not an atrociously long article but there's a lot of thought-provoking information in there.

There's one paragraph in particular I keep coming back to though, so I'm just gonna quote it down here:

...[T]he Play on Shakespeare series, published by ACMRS Press, the publications division of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University... grew out of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s plan to “translate” Shakespeare for the current century, bills itself “a new First Folio for a new era.” The 39 newly-commissioned versions of Shakespeare’s plays were written primarily by contemporary dramatists, who were asked to follow the reasonable principle laid out by series editor Lue Douthit: tamper in the name of clarification but submit to “do no harm.” The project was inspired by something the linguist John McWhorter wrote in 1998: “[the] irony today is that the Russians, the French, and other people in foreign countries possess Shakespeare to a much greater extent than we do … [because] they get to enjoy Shakespeare in the language they speak.”

Mainly it's the John McWhorter thing I keep coming back to. Side note: any of my non-native-English-speaking mutuals who have read Shakespeare, I would love to know your experiences. If you have read him in translation, or in the original English, or a mix of both. It's something I do wonder about! Even as an Anglophone reader, I find my experience varies so much just based on which edition of the text I'm reading and how it's presented. There's just so much variety in how to read literature and I would love to know what forces have shaped your own relationships to the stories. But anyway...

The article then goes on to talk about how the anachronistic language in Shakespeare will only fall more and more out of intelligibility for everyone because of how language evolves and yadda yadda yadda. I'm not going to say that that's wrong but I think it massively overlooks the history of the English language and how modern standard English became modern standard English.

First of all, is Shakespeare's language completely unintelligible to native English speakers today? No. Certain words and grammatical tenses have fallen out of use. Many words have shifted in meaning. But with context aiding a contemporary reader, there are very few lines in Shakespeare where the meaning can be said to be "unknown," and abundant lines that are perfectly comprehensible today. On the other hand, it's worth mentioning how many double entendres are well preserved in modern understanding. And additionally, things like archaic grammar and vocabulary are simply hurdles to get over. Once you get familiarized with your thees and thous, they're no longer likely to trip you up so much.

But it's also doubtful that 400 years from now, as the article suggests, our everyday language will be as hard to understand for twenty-fifth century English speakers to comprehend. The English language has significantly stabilized due to colonialism and the international adoption of English as a lingua franca. There are countless dialects within English, but what we consider to be standard international "correct" English will probably not change so radically, since it is so well and far established. The development and proliferation of modern English took a lot of blood and money from the rest of the world, the legacy of which can never be fully restored.

And this was just barely in sight by the time that Shakespeare died. This is why the language of the Elizabethans and Jacobeans is early-modern English. It forms the foundations of modern English, hence why it's mostly intelligible to speakers today, but there are still many antiquated figures within it. Early-modern English was more fluid and liberal. Spelling had not been standardized. Many regions of England still had slight variations in preferences for things like pronouns and verb conjugation. We see this even in works Shakespeare cowrote with the likes of Fletcher and Middleton, as the article points out. Shakespeare's vocabulary may not just reflect style and sentiment, but his Stratford background. His preferences could be deemed more "rustic" than many of his peers reared in London.

Features that make English more consistent now were not formalized yet. That's why Shakespeare sounds so "old." It's not just him being fancy. And there's also the fact that blank verse plays are an entirely neglected art nowadays. Regardless of the comprehensibility of the English, it's still strange for modern audiences uninitiated to Elizabethan literature to sit there and watch a King drop mad poetry about his feelings on stage by himself. The form and style of the entire genre is off.

But that, to me, is why we should read Shakespeare. We SHOULD be challenged. It very much IS within the grasp of a literate adult fluent in English to read one of his plays, in a modern edition with proper assistance and context. It is GOOD to be acquainted with something unfamiliar to us, but within our reach. I'm serious. I do not think I'm so much smarter than everyone else because I read Shakespeare. I don't just read the plain text as it was printed in the First Folio! The scholarship exists which has made Shakespeare accessible to me, and I take advantage of that access for my own pleasure.

This is to say that I disagree with the notion that Shakespeare is better suited to be enjoyed in foreign tongues. I think that's quite a complacent, modern American take. Not to say that the sentiment of McWhorter is wrong; I get what he's saying. And it's quite a beautiful thing that Shakespeare's plays are still so commonly staged, although arguably that comes from a false notion in our culture that Shakespeare is high literature worth preserving, at the expense of the rest of time and history. It is true that his body of work has such a high level of privilege in the so-called Western literary canon that either numerous other writers equally deserve, or no writer ever could possibly deserve.

The effort that goes into making Shakespeare's twenty-first century legacy, though, is a half-assed one. So much illustrious praise and deification of the individual and his works, and yet not as much to understanding the context of his time and place, of his influences, forms, and impacts on the eras which proceeded him. Shakespeare seems to exist in a vacuum with his archaic language, and we read it once or twice in high school when we're forced to, with prosaic translations on the adjoining page. This does not inspire a true appreciation in a culture for Shakespeare but it does reinforce a stereotype that he must be somehow important. It's this shallow stereotype that makes it seem in many minds today that it would be worth it to rip the precise language out of the text of a poet, and spit back out an equivalent "modern translation."

#this is just a stream-of-consciousness rambling. ignore me if im not making sense which im probably not #long post #text post #rant #shakespeare #also to clarify on that last point i am not shitting on the art of translation. AT all.#into other languages that is. nor am i knocking all modern adaptations of shakespeare's works #made with good intent. and also if you enjoy modern translated english shakespeare a la no fear shakespeare #genuinely good for you! that series has helped a lot of people and im glad for them to have that resource #HOWEVER. i WOULD like to challenge the idea that that is the best way to READ shakespeare #i think it's simply a shortcut.#and by all means take a shortcut if what you're reading shakespeare for is the plot. especially if youre new to him!#i DO on the other hand think it is entirely possible for any general reader to eventually be able to read shakespeare #in other types of editions. with the plain text and academic footnotes or annotations.#i do think enjoying the poetry of the works is as enriching as the characters or plot #in fact in the case of characters. the intricacies of the poetry of course enhance them!#you know. like i think the challenge is more doable than we ever really talk about in the mainstream #when you read him in high school you most likely had your english teacher holding your hand through every line #that's basically what the literal prose translations do too. in my opinion.#at least a la no fear shakespeare because those aren't meant to be performed like an equivalent art.#the translations are clarification.#again i think it's entirely possible to adapt the language of shakespeare and even a worthwhile project #but that's not. you know. the thing on the shelves to be read.#we can all still read shakespeare and we are all smart enough to do so.#if we think of early-modern english as another dialect rather than a whole different language #and there are so many mutually intelligible yet very distinct dialects of english around the world today #(the literature of which is also well worth reading) and if one seems approachable. well they all can be.

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moonfromearth · 6 months

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- How's my hair? I need to look good when we're on the news.

Day 3 - The Bad Girl

"Flirtatious, sexy, and catty to a fault. Usually stuck up. They mean well, but ultimately cares only for themselves."

from @windbrook's Slashed Challenge.

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the-broken-pen · 7 months

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I suffered a mental break after writing like eighteen college essays and wrote the newest one about a bagel and I just call it college essay bagel and it haunts me but like objectively it’s funny because it’s about a bagel you know? And my English teacher is gonna throw a book at my head when she finally reads it

#I cannot handle the unbearable pressure of this patriarchal and capitalist system meant to grind all of us down into something palatable #the system wants to swallow me whole and goddamn if I won’t make myself poisonous #what do you mean the AP classes and perfect academic existence isn’t enough #i made this my whole life and now you tell me I cannot write of the pain I had to hide to do so #this is not writing #sorry y’all #I’m but a teenage girl who is simply going through it #like and I’m not even allowed to write about trauma on the essay what kind of bullshit is this #you say write about your life and damn if that isn’t mine #I’m a writer and an artist #you think I’m okay?#I’m gonna start a series of food related college essays

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ruffgem · 5 hours

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a lot of my teachers this year have randomly complimented me on my writing even when the class largely has nothing to do with it and tbh??!??! it's really nice and it makes me want to write more?!?!?!!?!?!

#i thought i was bad at it but i think it's just bc i had to write so many academic essays that i stopped having time for creative writing #but i was shocked today because i had a one-on-one with my painting teacher which was basically my final #it wasn't even a crit just a talk basically about my painting #and i had to submit a write-up in advance about what i learned through the process of that class basically #so anyway when i got to the one-on-one the first thing he did was thank me for the write-up and he was like 'clearly you love writing'#'you're a good writer'#and i was like what!?!?!??!?!?#BECAUSE #im not trying to brag SERIOUSLY but i wrote it really fast and i didn't think it was that crazy #but it meant a lot coming from him because he's probably the most articulate and insightful teacher i've ever had #and also he like has a degree in english LOL #and he said i was a storyteller... so anyway..... i almost cried in the club immediately #well anyway. top ten moments #also my art history professor who i deeply respect wrote a very thoughtful comment on my work today to tell me that she thinks #that i 'have a true talent for written visual analysis' and to 'take her word on it'#BOTH OF THESE MOMENTS?? IN THE SAME DAY?!??!!?!#sorry for 18 paragraphs of bragging but i was truthfully floored #i am always floored when people compliment my writing because lowkey i am hugely insecure about it and feel like i can't articulate shit #like so insecure i cant even write lyrics for songs im like 'i have nothing to write about' man stfu just make shit up its called FICTION #anyway....#top ten days of my life

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fluffypotatey · 1 year

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Just thought of this, but man, I bet my dude Iseldir didn't have a single grey hair until he realised an entirely untrained raw magic powerhouse just moved in next door. That has to be SO STRESSFUL FOR REAL bc imagine. You're a Druid living in Camelot, you've kept your camp under the radar so far, you're respected as a good leader and a wise elder, and suddenly you've got this. fucking. infant demigod. with power you, a lorekeeper, have literally never seen nor heard of, that starts randomly showing up at your fucking house every now and again, does some impossible feat of magic for fun, just to entertain the children, and then fucks off again for who knows how long, and oh yeah, it's 50-50 odds he'll show up with the goddamn Prince next time.

Iseldir probably made a Lot of offerings to the Triple Goddess.

Iseldir, in my humble opinion, was a fucking geek. "Lorekeeper," okay, please we all know that's just fancy words for ultimate nerd/geek, and that's Iseldir.

Sir was fucking ecstatic to realize he would be living in the same century as the Great Emrys. Then enters Merlin. A barely adult kiddo who holds untamed power that was foretold who knows how long. I find it admirable the old guy kept his cool for that long (10 bucks that after Merlin left, Iseldir had a personal crisis). But yeah, he was over the moon to be living in the same region and whenever some issue occurred in Camelot, Iseldir would probably be like "Ah yes, of course the Great Emrys vanquished another enemy!" or something.

And yeah, the hype is still there but Iseldir realizes (at some point) that merlin is still fairly young and hold so much magic and the kid isn't even fully trained???? We have 2 routes: Iseldir grows extremely fearful in like a "holy shit you have no idea what you're doing and maybe I should have helped you sooner" way or Iseldir just goes "OF COURSE THE GREAT EMRYS WOULD BE THIS POWERFUL" or something

anyway, Iseldir's a huge nerd for Emrys' trivia (this was what i was trying to get at and i think i derailed?) and would be the worst of the Druid's when it some to discovering Merlin's range of power and stuff

#i did have a point i was trying to make #iseldir = old academic geezer who's a fucking nerd and researching/archiving texts about emrys was his life #but i think i've become incoherent but i'm too tired to revise anything #bbc merlin #merlin emys #iseldir the druid geek #i'm sorry i read lorekeeper and my mind immediately just went “so he's a geek then”#yes i know geek and nerd have different meanings and i mostly meant geek but nerd also fits for iseldir bc academics?#headcanons #asks

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ronanlynchbf · 1 year

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haiiii question for the masses <333

#this is just a few things. i debated putting adam spends the whole summer wanting to break it off with ronan in here but ended up not #doing it bc while it IS considered ooc 2 me when u look at it straight on (adam would've def taken Everything into consideration before #choosing to start a relationship with ronan) if u look at it like adam is separating his academic and personal life and convincing himself #he can't have both or not allowing himself to accept happiness that does not come with pain or being too scared of the different directions #ronan and adam were going in and deciding to break it off bc he felt like eventually it would stop working anyway and he thought it was #best to end it now bc it would hurt less than ending it after a couple more years or even growing apart would...alas we do not get this #insight it is quite literally what i THINK was going on with adam and probably not actually what it meant. if maggie meant for option 1 to #be the truth then i consider it ooc. for the small chance that maggie meant for option 2 and just didn't rlly manage to make it come across #as explicitly so then it is not ooc i actually think that would be very like the adam i know so i didn't include it. and the poll was full #anyways. also there is a lot of declan ooc moments........#tfw u ask ur mom if u can have declan lynch & she says we have declan lynch @home & then the declan lynch @home is declan lynch in gw 😐#trc #dreamer trilogy #polls #SORRY i know all the gw dunking days r in the past sort of but i need to know i'm not the only one who thinks this.#greywaren #also sorry for the essay in the tags ✋

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hexplaything · 3 months

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not my mom being on the phone with a friend when i went to leave for class and her friend asks how i'm doing and my mom said "excellent"

mom im THIS close to driving into a tree on the way to class what are you talking about

#i think she meant moreso in terms of academics but she doesn't KNOW that? she doesn't know my grades #im doing just fine but like what #anyways i guess my eyes don't look so dead in person as i thought huh #good girl speaks

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