#adults should go to college

[wyvernity]

sss day my favorite national holiday WOOOOHHHH

bonus

#pokemon #trainer lyra #rival silver #soulsilvershipping #timeskip tag #bao beis #i had so much more planned. but alas. college. #ANYWAY. sss my everything. ohh. always thinking abt them. #this is very obviously lyra's room! all the pink! massive bed to fit all her pokemon! the champion paycheck gets you that much at least #and plants!!! no. 1 horticulturist in johto #she's living somewhere around the base of mt silver... decently close to the league and her hometown #so i like to imagine her with a huge greenhouse so she can take care of plants even in the harsher climate #meanwhile silver has one of those decrepit malelivingspace flats in viridian. he's making it work. #i can only see sss properly moving in together liiiike in their late 20s #after they get to enjoy young adult independence for a while #but before they permanently settle down they should go on silly adventures again... just once. or twice. or #as much as i like to entertain the thought of them being homebodies i think they'd rather spend their lives travelling haha #since silver never got to fully experience it as a kid on the run #being a wanted man and all #and lyra is itching for the getaway #they deserve to be in nature and responsibility-free and *frothing at the mouth* #BTW i put my whole wyvussy into that wall decor #lisia signed poster... rosa's resemblance as mei(!!!) in the totoro one... bell tower + whirl island pics // #pokemon constellations... and those gen 4 mail templates that no one actually used. probably from dawn. champion penpals :] #i debated doing a lance poster because celebrity idol funny but nah she'd bin that immediately after moving out #oh yeah the drawover was um. inspired by the nonebinary neochamp fit. so happy for my son. #i'm glad i managed to finish the big piece in time otherwise i would've just posted that LOL can you imagine #okey bye happy sss day

[damianbugs]

i watched shazam fury of the gods this weekend and just imagined the comedy in battinson accidentally becoming emotionally attached to a bunch of very obviously totally adult heroes. then later when bruce meets dick and spends even five seconds talking with him, every interaction ever with the shazam-fam (billys words) makes his newfound dad senses just pause and go: wait a minute.

#he should of known the second freddy introduced himself as 'captain everypower(not immune to magical god staffs)' #then he's like phew at least marys actually an adult #(then he remembers that one time mary wouldnt back down from a bet and almost blew up an entire city) #bruce: please let me pay for them all to go and be distracted by college #victor and rosa: why is bruce wayne in our house. is this like that one time with the dragon #bruce: DRAGON? #battinson #billy batson #shazam #batman #saki 2am rambles

[craycraybluejay]

yes i am an adult male who loves high school dramas this is because i literally never experienced normal coming of age drama like ever and am disconnected from the collective experience of having a relatable peer group forever hope that helps

#i JUST want to experience high school #without like. my whole shitty life thing having gone on #i want to go to high school and have stupid drama and sexuality crises and worries about grades #not... That #i never had that im never going to have that #can i get (one) permission to go a little crazy if i survive into a university #fuck everyone befriend and be-enemy everyone get all up in peoples stupid mind numbingly low stakes drama #i want that sweet golden experience where the worst thing ill ever fear is annoying my classmates #or accidentally spilling something on someone at a dance #i deserve it i deserve to have had a childhood and a young adulthood and a life #i deserve to have dealt with unserious issues to prepare me for bigger ones #rather than serious danger that leaves me permanently severed from normal people and life #and makes me incapable of reacting proportionally or finding it in me to care about less serious problems #like yes it sucks your mom is going to miss college graduation #but i thank my lucky stars that you are not dying or being abused or starved or beaten or exploited #i literally dont know how to take things seriously a lot of the time like im not able to even if i try #because to me the mildest real problem is someone purposefully isolating you and ruining your health #the MILDEST #i try to care ab simple stuff i really do i just CANT #and it sucks so much trying to be a good friend and kind feeling like i cant do enough #the loud thought 'i wish that hapoened to me/i wish i worried about that/i wish the people i love only had that as a problem' #i get so envious. like thank fucking god your parents divorced like normal adults when it should be over #thank fucking god that 'friend' cut you off when they were actively insulting you and betraying your trust #thank the fucking universe that shitty partner dumped you before you fkn hurt yourself over them #yk? #and its a 'mean/cold' way to think about it but i just dont have the capacity to think or feel the little picture #i can imagine my friends subjected to such horror even tho i dont want to

[gently-decaying-flowers]

well that was awkward

#rant in tags #i coulda sworn i told my mom i didn’t wanna go to college #apparently not #she didn’t go tho so why was she so weird about it #and my brother “oh they’ve always been inconsistent about what they wanna do with their life #like yeah #and i know im young #but can’t yall just be supportive #i just wanna get a job and publish stories #i have dreams #i have things i wanna do with my life #why would i go to college and waste my energy and MONEY #on a degree i’m probably not going to use!! #i would rather save my money to move out and write and care for myself #i just don’t think college would benefit me #my mom of all people should understand that #sorry i’m not successful like my brother is #sorry i’m not winning awards and being an adult #sorry i don’t live up to anyone’s FUCKING standards #i hardly live up to my own #i just want a future where i’m happy #and i guess academic and creative success and achievements are the only way ill have any sort of life #sorry i’m not a top student #sorry i’m not a perfect writer #sorry i’m not good enough #vent #char’s diary

[tomatoluvr69]

Sitting down to floss and brush my teeth has been lifechanging. On a completely unrelated note how the fuck am I supposed to have this skeleton for several more decades. It’s all over for me lads 😔

#knees hurt. hips hurt. back hurts. wrists hurt. swag #it’s not this bad most of the time but by the end of the day it’s like auuuugh #it really is too bad that I’ve got extreme doctor fears because of the IssuesTM! #and oh yeah I don’t have health insurance LOL… #which I am using as a convenient excuse to avoid going to the doctors LOL #i have some doctor ~traumas~ I think LOL! #im working up to it. it’s glacial. sometime this year maybe? #I went twice as an adult and both times were for health forms for college enrollment #I’ve been to the ER and an urgent care once or twice though so clearly I’m FINE… #this is BAD do not be like me #but it’s only become clear to me in the past year or two that the incidents in my childhood reeeeally affected me #and to have US healthcare be such a profoundly difficult and punitive process basically means I am just never going to like jump through #those hoops only to be confronted with a severe phobia lol #im not saying that’s a reasonable train of thought but it’s more that that’s my subconscious reasoning #but it is a 2024 goal to get seen by a doctor #but the other thing is that it’s so fucking clear to me that they will do NOTHING for either PMDD or my joint pain which are my chief #complaints at the moment #but like i should probably be like getting routine panels and Pap smears :-( #everything’s SO EXPENSIVE… #They’ll be like give me your blood. ok all normal everything is healthy. ok that’ll be literally $200 #:-( #ugh I’m upsetting myself just thinking about doctors. ok Goodnight #(with full intention to keep scrolling)

[corpocyborg]

God, I will never not enjoy how surprised nearly all my younger students get when they find out how much I know about video games. Like... but you're my teacher... and you're nearly 30... and you're a woman... how can this be??? 🤯

#my favorite thing is when they start trying to convince me to play their favorite games and report back to them about what i thought of them #it's so cute #plus honestly they already normally get so shocked when they see my gaming laptop... then they find out i actually use it hahaha #i am proud of the fact that i've been told i type fast by 12 year olds... that is a real compliment... they type SO fast themselves #god... on another note one little girl once saw my laptop stickers and asked me what year i graduated from miskatonic university #and then i told her it's a fictional school and she said “oh so you didn't go to the college of winterhold either?” 😂 #once one kid asked me if i have a husband and kids and when i said no to both of those she goes “oh i guess you're alone” 😂😂 #and then i told her i live with my two best friends and we mostly play video games and board games and tabletop rpgs all day #and then she said she wants to do that too lol #i told her she should do whatever she thinks will make her happy ofc #it is just amusing when kids meet an adult who doesn't act the way they expect... but honestly they adapt to new info so fast #i mean ofc they do they are designed to learn basically everything is new to them #they are funny because they get so shocked and then instantly recover

[irlnikeiyomiuri]

it’s actually so interesting to be applying to college w/like. zero support networks. i’m sitting here googling trying to work out what i need to get taken care of after rushing to get my fafsa filled out and thinking abt how i only learned commonapp existed in like . october of last year (when i was planning to apply december of that year)

#^ my dad did college online through the military as a grownnnn adult. and i wasn’t in school for hs #so i just never have any idea what’s going on or what i should b doing. lol.

[disco-troy]

Philosophy/ethics professor Raven! Hear me out here! 1. ntt Raven going to university is the best thing, she loves socratic seminars 2. She gets to explore her place in the world with ethics, tie it back to her childhood in Azarath 3. She gets to have a way to platform and quantify her empath powers, and like reflect on their impact and stuff 4. IMAGINE HOW MAD TRIGON WOULD BE 5. Next time he takes over the world, Raven tells him shes the first in the family to go to college and he just has to sit there 5. Raven gets to have her own life, friends ect. outside of the Titans for a little 6. The Titans going to her graduations!! Cheering her on!! Little signs!! 7. IMAGINE HOW FUNNY A SUPERHERO TEAM WITH AN ETHICS/PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR WOULD BE. She’s just there like wow this villain is working of a perverted version of Camus’ philosophy of absurdity n then she gets into an argument about interpretations with them while the titans are just there

#new teen titans #teen titans #titans #raven #she would be so good at it!! #give her a civilian life!! #but not like in the new 52 oh my god #shes an adult!! she should go to college

[cloverpattch]

i actually think i could make a list of most mutuals I've had since February 2019 AND a tree of how meeting some led me to meeting others etc. crazy that i own my current favorite artist to a mutual in law from polygonblr that unknowingly introduced me to pat the bunny but that I've never directly spoken to. and how it brought me closer to anarcocommunism (would've probably ended there anyway) and the impact that's had in my life. and mitski i own to maddie who i met through charlie. kevin devine i own to jolteon. and the oh hellos and los campesinos and fred thomas i own to ghost. my biggest obsession to date (genshin, now forced myself over it) i own to charlie thatsrigthzoeyeyey (starkid era) > maria o-theater (objection era) > winter snowflakes-and-candies (positive space era) > ghost ghosboy11 dukeborninfebruary (polygon era) > wild vang0bus (anime, later specifically bakugang era and that exploded into current animanga circle) + thomas dykeroland (genshin era, possible future bg3 era) = now we're here. all of these are going to be permanent impacts in my life. im going crazy. and im also just really into chains of events and graphs. we'll see how this spirals.

#stuff like this is why i quit tumblr all the time. i haven't stopped caring about a single one of my mutuas #that's just how i am as a person #BUT i gotta act normal because i can't impose it on people who are very much all trying to mind their business #including me who is trying to quit globalized social media spaces. and who will probably deactivate again next week ! #i can't be trusted with a place where i can meet people and then won't see them again #because suddenly I'll be doing laundry and remember a mutual of mine that used to move around the foster system a lot. is an adult now. #and i wonder how they're doing #or another that used to be really pressured by their family about grades and career should be starting college soon. if they go.

[corntort]

Its like shared custody except indra has most of the custody by nature of arm and host stuff so they have to put up with each other

But also consider Hammond and indra used to kiss (and/or have a connection pre-av2's events that eventually fizzled out)

NODS NODS FOR SURE. also i am considering this heavily

#rambles #ask #anonymous #indra av #damu av #hammond av #amashilama av #going to college and studying the same thing and growing close through the hell that is the 20s when shit is so confusing still but youre #'an adult' so you 'SHOULD' be handling it fine (you are not) #and then later being ceos of rivaling tech companies #like that'd be crazy. that's crazy i mean neurodivergent

[plexippusangel]

I either need to accept that I am just a way stronger person than this friend and can handle way more while still being able to engage with the world as a person, or recognize excuses as excuses, accept that I am not valued and be done or. Maybe both. Idk. It might be somewhere between the two. I am just sick of regular life stuff rendering him unable to spend any time with me, and of him being unable to bear any of the details of my life, when I would move mountains to rekindle our friendship. Though I'm starting to wonder if I still would.

#faer personal files #i just. really didn't want officiating his wedding to be our last hurrah of friendship even though i did kind of feel it coming #also i'm really sick of being infantilized for my chronic fatigue i am a grown adult and i know what i'm capable of #ugh. maybe i'm just being awful and not understanding in which case i'm too much of a rancid person to be his friend i guess #but i don't think that's the case #idk i'll never forget when i couldn't see this dude for a year even masked up outside for covid but when another of our old friends came up #from her job doing COVID RELATED CROWD CONTROL FOR THE FUCKING ARMY he went on a hike with her mask off #and i think that says a lot about what our friendship's been for years honestly. if he can't bear my company idk why i try #if i'm just an interesting prop for conversations and occasions but not a friend. i can't accept that #i am an interesting prop for conversations. the disabled genderfluid bisexual genius who lost everything bc of said disability #but i didn't lose everything i just have to fucking rebuild on new ground. and i am doing that. i whine on occasion but i am so strong #and i do know how to interact with people without traumadumping i haven't on him in YEARS but his concept of me crystalized at age 21 #or something like that i guess. idk it just breaks my heart #bc for a long time he was my person. he was the only person who knew the authentic me. more even than my sisters at times. #and yeah that was a little unhealthy but at the time he craved that!!! #and then i grew up and stopped needing him like that around the same time he stopped wanting that and it should have been fucking fine #but like. even senior year of college when i was sick it was already starting to fall apart #like i remember being on a small hike once being exhausted and jokingly being like you gotta carry me back and then being like #no really i might actually need an arm to lean on by the end of this walk if i'm gonna make it back to the car i really don't know if i can #and he said no bc he didn't want to look straight. who the fuck CARES??? i could barely walk i was stumbling my way back annoying him going #too slow. fuck. and that really has been what our friendship has been for years. the minute my house wasn't the most convenient place it wa #more or less dead idk why i keep dragging this horse around #idk why i keep letting him break my heart like this it's so stupid he's never gonna care about me like he did when i was quick and brillian #but never quite as smart as him in his view. fuck him. i'm smarter. just bc i was a little gullible or paranoid at times bc of the #FUCKING CPTSD doesn't mean i was dumber than him. the fuck??? there's something wrong with me i swear idk why i hang on #anyway i'm irritated. but i'm also reluctant to throw away somebody who's seen me through key points in my life. so.

[moregraceful]

birdcage why is college so expensive. sorry this is weird ask i am going SICKO mode right now

my friend i wish i knew. i do not know what country you are coming to me from but here in the united states of hell, i feel only rage when i think about how university is free in some countries. like rn in graduate horror funhouse college, i just paid for a semester where the line items for cost were "credits" + "fees". tf am i paying for here. give me a line item breakdown. tell me exactly where my money is going so i feel empowered as a student!!

i am sorry you are in the thick of it, you have my greatest sympathies. if you have to take out federal student aid, my main recommendation is whenever you have to call their customer service line to get some nonsense bullshit sorted out, be really careful about what you dial bc one time i misdialed my student loan servicer by one number and ended up on the phone with a sex line call center. the psychic damage i took was immense. "hey handsome thank you for calling [name of the sex line call center i forgot what it was], are you touching yourself? would you like to be?" "this is not my federal student aid loan service customer help line......is it??" and it wasn't.

#no but you are so valid for being mad. go get that college degree and then tear down the system that made you pay for it #imho state and community colleges and trade schools should be 100% free and paid for by the government #and private colleges should be empowered to assist as many first gen students and low income students as possible #and my hottest take? every school - EVERY SCHOOL - should provide ample subsidized housing for at least 1/3-1/2 of all students #including designated subsidized and/or free housing for returning students and adult students with families of multiple kids #that's a rant for another day lmao #anyway i am so sorry you are in sicko mode!! stunt on those hoes #cage replies #anon

[leafcabbage]

local college student one quarter from graduating realizes they went into the wrong major, more at 12

#miserable #why am i even here... sobbing #vent #i guess #i dont know #like i want to believe that its gonna work out and whatever #but i just cant right now #so ig im just surviving what fucking ever #i need a real adult to tell me that going to college for the wrong major for three years isnt actually gonna fuck up my life forever #i should call my mom

[nerdie-faerie]

It seems to really be hitting my mum just how young she was when she had me in light of her upcoming birthday

#+Extra #like on the one hand she feels old cus its a big birthday coming up but on the other hand it seems to only just be hitting her just #how young she is to have a 22 year old daughter which is frankly old news at this point she was always too young just in denial #we had a very odd conversation last night in which she started off by saying that my soon go be 18 yr old brother and the 19 yr old #definitely arent responsible enough to watch the kids for a couple of hours while she gets her hair but then that its ridiculous that an #under 18 yr old (her phrasing) cannot open a bank account without a parent because she was entrusted with an entire human being at that #age and so he should be able to open a bank account by himself and i was listening like no thats the wrong conclusion its the opposite the #adults in your life shouldve been more concerned about you also what a revisionist recount saying that no one was concerned about you #having a baby at the age and it was probably because my dad was an adult so they felt they had no need to be concerned when i know all of #your family tried to express concerns that you wouldnt hear which led to years of animosity during my childhood staff at your college also #expressed concern as did your friends you just dont wanna admit that now. also how can they not be trusted with the kids for a couple of #hours when youre 15 minutes down the road as basically adults when 1 is going off to uni in September supposedly and the other has #basically moved out already and i was left entirely alone with the kids at younger than 15? #the sexism and gender stereotyping continues to perplex me #anyway hoping no one got to the end of this rant to add that im once again reminded that my birthday is actually just a day for my mum to #mourn the youth she missed out on by having a baby stupid young

[jinniebit]

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#genuine question #how do y’all make friends? #this should be something that came naturally with life right? #but I guess I dis something wrong because I think I never learned nxhshd #when I was in school I had some friends or what I thought were friends because it was just us graduating that we never talked again… #but they still do hang out bc I see them posting but I was never invited… like wasn’t I part of this friend group too?? #same thing with college… I had this lil group and we used to do everything together and again after graduation #never heard of them again…. #am I doing something wrong??? #we did talk for a few days but then they just stop answering #and that leaves me at were I am now… a grown as adult with a friend group with 0 friends except for my sis that lives in another country… #kfhsmdjka #well as you can see my mind is still all over the place and I keep overthinking everything jdudmshshd #bye I’m actually going now… #oh yeah part of me is also freaking out because of today’s concert…. TASTE like??? wtf was that???? I AM NOT READY FOR THIS ALBUM! #anna.nonsense

[casiavium]

I have been in Nice for the past two days which is Amazing but what do the french have against a working wifi connection

#literally in fucking starbucks just to get some solid wifi to do homework #ahhhhhhhhhh #however french starbucks.... much better than american #I had the BEST breakfast this morning but embarrassed myself in front of the cute french waitress 😭😭😭 #I was going over in my head how to say things in french like I know this. I took 5 years of this. je voudrais une crepe etc. #and I totally blanked when she said bonjour and I went. um. parle anglais #and in my head im going FUCK I didn't say vous but should I have said tu? and I said parle which sounds exactly like parles but. wrong #anyway she laughed and said yes I speak english #also I keep getting called madame which is making me go ??? because my french teacher always told us madame=old #and never call someone madame unless they're clearly an adult because it's respectful but if you call someone too young madame its an insul #but ig mademoiselle is more for the 13 year olds in her class and not a college student carrying three bags