I’d love to hear about the high school teachers AU!
This one holds such a special place in my heart, but there's not much of it lol, just me like fantasizing about it and just never writing it down other than bits and pieces.
So, basically, the premise is that Steve is a history teacher and Jack Thompson gets promoted to vice principal of the school so they have a new history teacher slot of fill and Peggy is the new teacher, much to his surprise bc Steve is expecting someone older and just like Jack (an asshole, bc that's what the school has been hiring as of late) but Peggy is taking over and she's making a set of new classes on street law and politics classes.
So Peggy gets Jack's old room which is right across the hall and they meet each other in the summer and hit it off and once they start school they just become friends, but mostly through leaving notes and covering each others classes before they're even REALLY friends.
There's some of it under the cut--it's SUPER unedited and kind of not fleshed out, but it's cute.
It starts out as just friendly smiles and conversations about students they have in common. They share smiles across the hall in between classes. Eventually, though, it turns into a bit of a friendship.
The first time he realizes they’re friends is when he has to take a personal day to take his mom to the doctors. He leaves detailed notes about what documentary to show and the guided notes they need to follow, and how it will tie into the other things he has planned for the rest of the week.
When he comes back, his desk is set up nicely, all the papers in the right place and the sub notes are there too for him to read over.
He figures out in reading the sub notes that Peggy had his last class of the day during seventh period, so she must have put everything in its correct places. Her notes are more detailed than any of the other people who covered his class, and there’s a note at the end from her that says she hopes everything is alright.
He thanks her with a coffee the next day which she accepts with a smile. “Of course,” she says.
He gets a chance to repay the favor when she takes two personal days the next month. He gets assigned her last class both days she’s out. He makes sure everything is put in the right place, and gives her detailed notes about her classes too. He even makes sure that her classes get covered too, which isn’t something he normally does, but he likes her.
When Peggy gets in Monday morning after taking Thursday and Friday as personal days, she’s surprised to find her room in one piece. She’d gotten in an hour early to survey the damage, but there hadn’t been anything out of place.
She checks the sub reports to see Steve’s familiar handwriting in the bottom two slots. There’s a note at the bottom of the second day on a post-it that almost makes her cry. “Missed seeing you across the hall, hope everything’s alright. —SR”
She’s sitting at her desk when she sees him unlock his door Monday morning. She waits until he props his door open before bringing him over a mug full of fresh coffee for his trouble, and his nice note.
“You didn’t have to do that,” Steve said, still taking the coffee gratefully.
She shrugs, and gives him a watery smile. “You did the same for me.”
They have a bit of an unspoken system after that. When one or the other is out, they always get assigned the last periods of each other’s classes, so they leave notes and make sure everything is in order for the other person when they’re gone. They have lunch together more often than not, and they’re friends.
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Anyway, I just love when they're soft together in little worlds like this... and of course I was thinking of like them trying to make the school a better place and having a beautiful cast of students and teachers, but it hasn't been that fleshed out yet.
Hope you enjoyed this little bit! thank you for asking :)
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One of the funniest pieces of internet-drama-starting knowledge I have is that Lunime, creator of Gacha Club, Gacha Life, Gacha Life 2, etc., put a pole dancing pole in one of the earliest games.
Now, this would largely be a non-issue, except that he got really mad when people started making sexual stuff with the games, because they had assumed that since he had included what is largely considered to be something sexual (a pole for pole dancing and various poses to go with it, which are largely associated with strippers), he was okay with it. Which is a fair assumption! At the time, and even largely today, pole dancing is associated with clubs and strippers! But he chose to ignore that and got mad when people started doing stuff with it.
I mean, even in Gacha Club there were some lines in character profiles that implied one character was yandere for her sister that were then omitted in Gacha Life 2. At least we have full color control again, though.
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King 🐉 who uses you to get tf off work.
🐉: "You have ten minutes to discuss."
Some official: "My king? This is a long topic--"
🐉: "Then be present first thing tomorrow."
Official: "Pardon my rudeness, however the line to your audience is always long--"
🐉: "Queueing at three in the morning will surely land you first ten, I'd wager."
Official: "I beg you, just an hour of your time--"
🐉: "An hour! Surely you jest? What would my spouse say? Or do? Can you imagine! An hour of overtime!"
🐉: "My sympathies go to you, though you must understand that my hands are tied. I am sure you empathize. Spouses can be terrifying..."
Official, defeated: "Yes, yes..."
🐉: "Eight minutes."
Official: "Y-yes!"
From then on, anyone who wants an audience with the king has learned to practice thoroughly before the scheduled meeting date. They learned to discuss so concisely and quickly, in fact, that it paved way to the emergence of a brand new entertainment scene in their country: Thorns and roses rap, where participants try to decimate each other with the most eloquent, rhythmic and thorny phrases they could within a short given amount of time.
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My playlist has played 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton three times tonight I’m living I’m so tired but this song has too much power I am WIDE awake.
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