#college doesn't suck

[azzydoesstuff]

people on steam discussion forums when making the game takes time and the developer has a life instead of slaving away 23 hours a day for to make them free updates twice a week:

#zeekerss has said that he's going through some crazy changes in his life rn #and ungrateful dinguses are whining about how “lazy” he is and how the new beta branch “sucks” #MY GUY there is LITERALLY ONE SINGULAR COLLEGE STUDENET WORKING ON THE GAME #HOW DO YOU EXPECT HIM TO PUMP OUT MASSIVE UPDATES IN SUCH LITTLE TIME #do YOU know how to make a game?? could YOU release updates frequently in your life's current state??? #i mean with large corpos like mojang i can kind of understand but this is just unreasonable #patience is a virtue for fucks sake. the game is still getting an update #but just because it's not some big whoop it doesn't mean it's shit #shitpost #shitposting #lethal company #lethal company update #lethal company shitpost #lethalposting #companyposting #zeekerss #zeekers

[nebulous-rain]

stream doodles!! my blog is so dry

#nebbie's sketchbook #msa #mystery skulls #mystery skulls animated #lewis pepper #deadbeats #MysteryBen27 #signalis is SO funky and awesome but that water puzzle made me want to curl up #it was Painful. #but anyway i haven't drawn is so so so so long #drawing doesn't feel good rn but i need to so i don't get too rusty #stream gave me a the most motivation i've had in a while so i wanted to take advantage of it :) #so we get lewis. of course #hoping to try and draw more but no promises #college sucks #AUGH

[moregraceful]

accidentally invented a new form of no bedtime called 11pm glass of emergency-c + 4pm latte + 8pm cup of black tea + 9pm cup of black tea

#the real question is can i go to church on less than 5 hours of sleep and still function lol #i unlocked my instagram bc church wouldn't stop tagging me to direct people to me for stuff but that meant i had to delete a bunch of pho #tos AND rewrite a bunch of captions for photos i didn't WANT to delete bc i was too mean to random sharks prospects #which is fine if it is u know the anonymity of tumblr but not public instagram where my church won't stop FULL NAMING AND TAGGING ME #''anonymity of tumblr'' i doxx myself on here like 80 times a day in front of more people than i went to college with #anyway my point is i was going through deleting all evidence of politics pens fandom and legal documents and i was like damn #my attitude towards my team SUCKS. i gotta be way less of a hater!!! #what did my prospects ever do wrong besides everything NOTHING. the system is BROKEN. i am sorry i will be so much nicer guys :( #also if u really want to be humbled. scrolling back to 2012 on your instagram and re-experiencing senior year of college. BAD #i've deleted i think everything that would reasonably get our nonprofit status pulled but what a horrific journey it was #two full hockey intermission periods of deleting shit plus another hour at home doing several more passes and then rewriting captions #so that some poor 21 year old prospect randomly searching their name doesn't see me full ass call their teammate cringe #their teammate IS cringe. but i love him. but the nuances are lost on instagram people don't understand these things they take everything #at face value #don't know why i just assigned shakir mukhamadullin they/them pronouns #i think i need to go lie in bed with a blanket over my head until i suffocate #this ALWAYS happens i get too hype about mackenzie blackwood and start listening to selena gomez and then it's like almost 3am and i'm just #fresno oilers.txt #oh and. a friend sent me screenshots of the girl she's been flirting with on a dating app and they are SOOOOO cute #i hope they make a good run of it i really do bc it was SO cute. living vicariously through episcopalian lesbians as one does #but then i was trying to figure out how to edit my dating app profile to dissuade chasers but still honeytrap guys who are tall enough #or athletic enough to pick the tangerines at the top of the tangerine tree. bc i couldn't reach this week #but there were still like god maybe 150 tangerines on the tree. i was like this could be feeding people but i'm TOO SHORT #and my life will be like this. FOREVER #icb the future of this garden is so psychologically burdensome that i'm having to build it into a dating app profile lol #well now that i'd treated this entire tag set as twitter for and hour and a half #time to go try to lie in bed and stare at the ceiling and then wake up in [checks notes] four hours

[atopvisenyashill]

I am so glad you articulated the criticism of Dany crucifying the slavers as a political folly and not a moral folly like listen I am a Dany fan if I could send asks from my sideblog you would know this but I do not believe we are supposed to just brush off the crucifixion like Dany herself isn’t even fully convinced it was the right thing to do. Remembering it she feels sick and has to shut down her doubts and TELL HERSELF it was right. She is an interesting character to me because she can’t stand the compromises she must make to maintain peace AND YET she does want justice and liberation BUT she also hates the suffering and bloodshed of war AND YET she is quick to command violence on impulse. I do think her peace in Meereen was real (big Meereen Knot Essays believer) but all of her internal conflicts lead her to her mistakes. Can’t stand peace but can’t stand war so she just tears herself apart!! It’s tragic! It’s interesting! So much more interesting than an unambiguously heroic Dany who makes no mistakes ever!

Yeah, like....it's certainly morally messy, and I think it's morally more messy because Dany isn't a slave of the Ghiscari like Missandei or an Unsullied like Grey Worm, Red Lamb, etc who is rising up and using violent revolution to liberate the slave class of Meereen - she is a descendant from a foreign, formerly slaving culture that enslaved most of the cultures represented in Meereen, someone of noble birth who has experienced immense suffering but was able to pull herself out of it because of her immense social privilege and magical abilities, using violence in an attempt to liberate those her family had once helped subjugate while...still keeping herself at the top of the pyramid.

There's a lot of mess and contradictions in this situation and I find it much less interesting (as you say) when people paint what Dany is doing here as unambiguously heroic. I know I sound like a broken clock when I say it, but the justification of "well this culture has slavery and slavery is bad" is the exact sort of rationalization many colonial and imperial powers make when conquering. White Americans made it about various Indigenous communities ("oh well the Iroquois had slaves and conquered their neighbors" yeah and white americans had chattel slavery which is objectively worse so what now??), the UK and France used it as a rationale for conquering most of Africa and parts of Asia; there's always this annoying through-line of "well Africans sold themselves into slavery" and I think making this argument that "Well the Ghiscari are brutal slavers" is really similar. And I know people don’t like the dragon/nuke comparison or the imperialism/colonizer comparisons but….what made the genocides of the Americas, and the colonization and imperialism of the 20th centuries stand out from the wars that came before is the sort of hellish combination of nationalism, political schisms, fervent hatred of the Other, and industrial growth. Never before could people amass armies and kill on such a massive scale before. Never before did we have weapons that were so fucking good at killing. Never before did we have the bureaucracy capable of streamlining the process so damn well! (and not for lacking of trying, shout out rome but like...still). I think the dragons are a commentary on that - when someone has access to technology like that, can one person be left to decide if it’s use is good or evil? can one culture not be completely corrupted by their technological advances? can nuclear bombs or weapons Ever be used for good, and if they can be then where is that line drawn? who draws the line? why does that person get to draw the line? I don't think any of this will have a clear answer because that's not exactly how he does things - he's just writing a scenario about this and letting us analyze why it happens on our own.

So it’s like okay the Ghiscari and Dothraki are slaving cultures...Sacking a city is still a violent, destructive thing to do and she does it three times including to a city she is attempting to rule. The moment she had an inkling she might be ruling Meereen, she should have rethought her actions there so she doesn’t start off alienating a large group of people. Coming in as a stranger from a culture who used to be slavers and constantly making comments about how much she hates the culture she’s ruling over is....not great! Dany going back and forth between "I hate these people I was right to crucify them" and "there's too much violence amongst these people I have to stop the violence" is why the issues in Meereen become so complicated. Does she have reasons for acting this way? Yes! It doesn't change the outcome of her actions!

What's interesting about her is that as you say, she does realize this conflicting dichotomy within herself! That’s like, the entire issue she’s facing in Meereen - she wants peace because she knows that’s what’s best for the people there and yet struggles to control her boredom and temper because she is too traumatized to sit still any longer. She’s associated the constant move, the constant fight, the violence and blood and death and destruction with righteousness, justice, goodness, and we can SEE it’s having a negative effect on her psyche, her emotions. She’s not HAPPY by the ending of adwd, she’s not self actualized, she’s just hardened herself completely in the face of this unending monster of a campaign. She wants off this ride and yet she’s unable to find a way out. I don’t think we’re meant to cheer her on here!! SHE is barely cheering herself on here!!! It’s a burden to her!!!!

#asks #anons #anti daenerys targaryen #again....it's an anti tag for filtering purposes i'm not calling her evil i'm calling her an extremely dark morally gray on a bad road #the way like. theon in acok is or robb in asos is or cersei jaime and tyrion all are always. #she worries me the way arya worries me!!! murdering is not healthy for your mind!!! #it's just that. arya has a support system. and dany doesn't. and that sucks!! but sometimes... #your life is just one part decision and two parts luck! #i hope i don't sound like i'm talking out of my ass here i am admittedly rusty on my Academic Theory About Imperialism #and also like. i'm at work on lunch alkdfjskdj #my anons are so smart and i am just a dumb bitch with indigenous heritage a community college degree and an internet connection alsjdf

[dglvr1760]

Blop

Also big moon-

Wack-

Niiiiight

#Zosan #Zoro #Sanji #Dglvr1760 #roronoa zoro #zoro x sanji #vinsmoke sanji #One piece #Can be a ship but this doesn't have to be #Isn't implied but it can be #Sticker vibes #Bleh #Would yall pay for stickers? #Or would you guys even be okay if I did commissions bc I don't have a lot of money- #Sobbing #College sucks #Well #Paying for it does

[piedoesnotequalpi]

Fake Fic Title:

From The Ladder’s Last Rung

Hello! I am fairly sure (after some googling) that your title is a reference to a Noah Kahan song!

Anyway, to me "last rung" can mean either the highest or the lowest point on a ladder, depending on your perspective, and that is the premise of this fic concept!

Race goes through elementary/middle/high school with a reputation of being both the class clown and one of the smartest people in his grade. What most people don't know, though, is that he uses the class clown part of his personality to deflect from the fact that he is not doing as well, grades-wise, as people might think--sure, he takes AP history when it's available, but he never gets higher than a B- on his report card for it. So when senior year rolls around, the combination of good grades in most other subjects and extracurriculars that make him seem interesting means he is able to get into one of his reach schools.

Anyway, Race goes off to school and he's very excited about the whole thing. He can finally put history, which is his least favorite subject, in the metaphorical rearview mirror; he's going to major in math and minor in dance; he's going to join all the clubs that weren't available to him in high school. During course registration, he ignores the suggestion from his RA that he should perhaps consider only taking one math class his first semester and registers for honors calculus (yes, this is a thing at some colleges) and an upper-level math class that only has a prerequisite of calc 1 and 2.

The problem with college, especially the first semester, is that it is often a big adjustment from high school no matter what your high school was like. Classes that really should not be taught lecture-style are taught that way, you're (sometimes) in a new city/town and even if you aren't you probably don't know a ton of people, and suddenly you have a much higher degree of independence. So Race is dealing with the general first semester freshman woes of making new friends and having a roommate and balancing time and navigating dining halls, but he's also dealing with the fact that for the first time in his life, he's struggling in his math classes. And that makes everything worse for him, because if he can't even do the one thing he's supposed to be really really good at, then how can he get through the rest of college? Does he even deserve to be there? Clearly his college made a mistake when they accepted him despite his less-than-perfect history grades. (those are his thoughts, not mine; he does deserve to be there)

As I mentioned earlier, he's used to using his class clown-esque personality to deflect from what's actually going on in his life, so almost no one knows how stressed he is. He still talks to his high school friends a lot, but so many of them are at their colleges having (as far as he's aware) a much easier time adjusting, so he doesn't want to talk about it with most of them. He goes to office hours sometimes, but he is very careful about which problems he gets help with to keep up the illusion that he knows what's going on. This would be less of a problem if he met up with his classmates to do homework, but he's worried he won't be useful enough to them. And obviously he would rather die than tell his new college acquaintances how overwhelmed he's feeling. The semester goes by in a blur of homework stress and club meetings and conversations where he just barely manages to convince everyone that he's doing okay (it's a lot harder than it used to be), all overlaid by the feeling that he's not good enough.

Being a college student gets easier, but not easy enough that he's able to turn everything around by the end of the semester. He withdraws from one of his math classes, and doesn't do great in the other, and he does...okay in his other classes. It's not the end of the world, but it does mean he has to drop out of the honors calculus sequence and possibly retake the class he withdrew from. But that doesn't stop Race from feeling like a failure, even though the only people who see his grades are him and his parent(s) (I haven't decided what his parent situation is in this), and they're understanding. It'll be easy to make up the credits he lost from the course withdrawal by taking some lower credit electives in later semesters, and he has seven more semesters to raise his GPA and figure things out.

And then we come back to the title and my (mis)interpretation of it (I wasn't just rambling pointlessly this whole time): To Race's parent(s), he's fallen off the bottom rung of the metaphorical ladder, so it's pretty manageable to get back up and keep going. But to Race, he's fallen off the top rung, because he can't stop thinking that he peaked in high school.

Things do get better for him, and later on he'll probably experience stuff that's way worse and wish it were just a rough first semester of undergrad, but in the moment, it really sucks!

#i hope i captured the feeling of stuff like this being the Absolute End Of The World #because being and adult/grad student has really changed my perspective #anyway hope you enjoy these angstboi hours #thanks for the ask! #my writing #ask game #asks #blurglesmurfklaine #racetrack higgins #isabel.tex #to any high schoolers or college freshmen reading this: #your first semester will probably suck if you choose to go to college. it will get better. #and if your RA recommends against you taking a class at least take it into consideration #okay posting this hoping it doesn't suck and meeting my friend for dinner #enjoy!

[slayerchick303]

So, Cassandra/The Nightmare King is about to die, right? I can't be the only one thinking this.

Because the Junior Year trailer made me believe that Kristen was getting in trouble for Yes!/Yes? dying when it was still Helio all along.

After the first Junior Year episode, I'm like... oh no. Kristen has done nothing with the church. Again. Did Tracker not come back/they broke up?

If Kristen is Cassandra's only follower, and Kristen is treating them like that... Cassandra is not long for this world.

#i am worried #for one it really sucks that kristen did that again #especially to a deity she really connected to #i really hope cassandra doesn't die because their brand of faith really spoke to me too #and they had just been saved by kristen and lead to believe that they could be of use again #i will be legitimately sad if cassandra is gone #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high #dimension 20 #d20 #dropout tv #college humor

[sleepinglionhearts]

yknow what sometimes not being able to take ibuprofen fucking SUCKS

#guess who has the flu 🙃 #i even got my flu shot the other week! #specifically so this WOULDN'T happen! #ah... it isn't as bad as when i got it back in college but it still sucks #manager-san was telling us it is important to have good attendance during December #and like yeah it gets REALLY busy at the silly gifts and books store #and here i am with the near 101F fever suffering at home like i didn't want to be #anyway ibuprofen usually knocks my fever down quickly and for a while and acetaminophen doesn't work the same ;;m;; #3 more hours before i can take more bwaaaaaaah

[thespineoftherighteous]

thank God there will never be an aftg show because, in true college-based media fashion, the series finale would probably end with (right after the final scene of tkm fades to black) a montage of the girls' graduation and then Matt's and then the monsters' and then it would show all the og foxes sitting together in an audience (new hairstyles new clothes new facial hair to show how they've been growing over the years) looking proud and shit and then it'd switch to Neil walking across the stage before looking over at Coach and nodding and then turning to look up at the foxes while he moves his tassel and to be real fucking honest with you I don't think I could take that

#cap..i KNOW i couldnt take that because i teared up writing this #which doesn't happen often actually #look i literally JUST submitted my graduation application thing so. a bitch is kind of emotional #not about being done with school.. god no. my college experience was nowhere near as transformational as Neil's #just about endings and shit #aftg #all for the game #neil and his foxes #look don't fucking tell me they wouldn't all be there. i know they suck and they're awful and they shouldn't be made to look soft and shit #but this is something i fully think they would all do #mine aftg

[5ivebyfive]

16. “I’ll kick his ass if you want me to.”

requested by @realist-tash for Leighton/Alicia in Sex Lives of College Girls

note: First time ever writing for this fandom and these characters. Go easy on me. I borrowed Midori’s real last name for Alicia because I needed to.

“Ugh,” Alicia grunted, falling onto the couch at the women’s center. “Some dudebro was asking for a beat down just now.”

Leighton sat in the chair beside the couch and looked over at her...well, they weren’t using the word ‘girlfriends’ again just yet -- Leighton wasn’t ready -- so her friend in quotation marks. “What did he do? Breathe too hard in your presence?” She glanced back down at the magazine she was flipping through.

“He offered to buy my coffee and wouldn’t back off when I said no. Since when do I throw off straight vibes?” She crossed her arms over her chest, and to Leighton, she looked so cute pouting. Not that she would ever tell Alicia that she was pouting. Alicia was too badass to pout, of course.

Without looking up, Leighton said, “I’ll kick his ass if you want me to.” She heard a snort of amusement and looked up again. “What?”

“You? Kick someone’s ass?” Alicia had both eyebrows raised.

“Well, unless he was a tiny person I’m not sure you could-”

“Hey! Don’t go there again.” Alicia jabbed the air with a finger. “I could kick his ass all on my own. You on the other hand...”

“Me what?” Leighton closed her magazine and stared at Alicia with narrowed eyes. “You don’t think I could kick his ass for trying to pick you up?”

“I can’t imagine you kicking anyone’s ass,” Alicia said truthfully. “Maybe cut them down with your vicious words, but beat them up?” She tilted her head and made an unsure face. “Not so much.”

“I’m tough!” Leighton argued. She stood up. “I’ll take you right now.”

“You’re gonna take me, huh?” Now, Alicia just looked amused. 

“Try me, shrimp.” Leighton shrugged.

“You did not just call me shrimp,” Alicia said, standing up.

Leighton’s green eyes sparkled and she tried not to smile at how cute Alicia was when she got riled up. “I did,” she said. “Want to fight me over it?”

“You really want me to fight you?” Alicia took two steps closer and looked up at Leighton.

“Try me, Iwama,” Leighton replied, raising one challenging brow.

Alicia took one more step forward so that they were toe-to-toe. She smiled. “You got it, Murray.” 

Leighton stared down at her...at Alicia, and was struck, not for the first time, at how pretty she was. Pretty, cute, awesome. All of the good words that one would want in a girl. She kinda knew that Alicia could take her, especially because Leighton didn’t want to risk messing up her nails, so she reached to cup Alicia’s face in her hands and leaned down to kiss her. She felt Alicia exhale through her nose against her skin as Alicia kissed back. It was a slow, soft kiss. Alicia’s hands went to Leighton’s hips and squeezed. Both smiled into the kiss. Leighton had missed it. So much. More than she had realized. She couldn’t remember the last time she had been so happy. Even if they were still figuring things out, it felt so right. Like nothing else had ever felt. 

Leighton knew things had ended badly between them the first time around, but it hadn’t been because they didn’t deeply care for one another. No, that hadn’t been a problem. They had just been at different stages of their lives with different needs. But now...now Leighton was out, she had perspective, and she didn’t have a sliver of bad feelings towards Alicia. She understood why Alicia had ended things, as painful as it had been. Because now that Leighton was out, she wanted their relationship to be out there and public. She wanted to announce to the entire campus that Alicia was hers and that she was happy. It was just how Alicia made her feel. And, well, how Leighton herself made her feel. She was finally being true to herself. She was content with herself. She would always be Leighton, but now she was a new Leighton. An evolved Leighton. A Leighton that really, really wanted to throw Alicia on the couch and make out with her for the rest of the afternoon.

They parted time to time to catch their breaths, but continued kissing. Neither noticed when Tova and Ginger walked in. “Do you two always have to do that here?” Tova asked.

Leighton and Alicia broke apart with smiles, albeit a little bashful, and pulled apart. “Do you always have to walk in on us?” Leighton asked back.

“We can come and go as we please,” Tova replied.

“Okay, okay,” Alicia said with a slight laugh. She held her hands up. “We’re done.”

“For now,” Leighton said, smirking. Alicia chuckled. Tova and Ginger groaned.

#slocg #leighton x alicia #leighton murray #alicia #sex life of college girls #slocg tag #leighton x alica tag #ship: come back be here #listen i'm nervous about this #i hope it doesn't suck #and is in character #if people like this #i have two more prompts for them to write

[no-mercy-bby]

I kind of just want to drop out of college and crochet and write books and

#get married (i don't have a boyfriend) #and have kids (i am not in a relationship or stable enough for a family) #i kinda wanna sell crochet stuff but it takes me like a month to make any and everything #plus i suck at reading and understanding patterns #and all ik is single crochet and double crochet and even then i think i do them wrong as well #Tunisian stitch is fun but i don't have a hook long enough and it hurts my hand #idk if it was just my sinuses and lack of sleep but ive felt so bad all day #and my back hurts cause i sit like a shrimp and don't know how to stand i guess #im so tired. genuinely. #and my mouth is fucked up again with sores because of stress and biting at my own lips #and its so lonely being in college #which is kinda funny cause i have more people i would actually consider as friends than ever #but i kinda just feel like im *there* #and i have a million projects to do but i played fortnite with my sis and her husband and my brother instead #and my dad taught my sis and i to play solitaire #and then i beat them both at black jack (it was actually a tie of how many matches i won but shhh) #and i know im blessed that im basically getting paid to go to college by my college but #it just doesn't feel right. like it feels isolating and lonely #and i have gone to some events btw they are not that great

[tomwambsmilk]

I am now realizing I don't think I've ever really explained my Succession-Inferno analogy but it is something near and dear to my heart so. Buckle up I guess!

The whole thing is premised on the idea that Logan holds a lot of characteristics traditionally ascribed to the devil in literature. He's an excellent liar (far better than anyone else on the show), he goes out of his way to destroy relationships between other people because he can't stand it when people love others more than they love him, he presents himself as "uncle fun" to outsiders, he actively revels in sowing discord and conflict and betrayal whereas everyone else merely tolerates it. At the same time everyone around him treats him like a god. He deserves all their love, he is The Father who has created all they see, reality is manifested by his will and is simply whatever he wants it to be, he is all-knowing and all-powerful. But because their god is actually. you know. evil. the fruit of his continued power (and their continued worship of him) is nothing but misery and lies.

In Dante's Inferno, Dante goes on a journey through Hell, guided by Virgil. Virgil represents two things: the knowledge of morality necessary to understand what's happening in Hell and avoid being taken in by it, and the moral support and courage necessary to complete the journey. Dante journeys through nine circles that are meant to represent sins of increasing moral degradation. The first is limbo, who's actually just people who weren't bad at all but were never baptized and so can't go to heaven. That's where the pagan moral philosophers - including Virgil - are. After that, it's Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Wrath, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and finally, Treachery. The order is very intentional, and rooted the belief that the early sins (sins of the flesh) are the easiest ones to fall into and ultimately are not as serious as the others - but, they also serve as gateways to the more serious sins. Each circle has sinners being punished in ways that are metaphors for the impacts of their sins. The devil sits in the ninth circle of hell, Treachery, where everyone (including the devil himself) is frozen in ice. The devil has Brutus, Judas, and Cassius in his mouth, and he chews on them for all eternity. Everyone around him betrayed someone they had an obligation to; the worse the betrayal, the closer to the devil they are frozen. The furthest away are those who betrayed their families (Cain); then those who betrayed their countries (Antenor); those who betrayed their guests and those who sheltered in their homes (Ptolemy); and finally, those who betrayed their masters, lords, and benefactors, which includes the three in Satan's mouth.

If Logan is Succession's Satan, then two things follow. First, Waystar becomes a metaphorical Inferno, where climbing the ranks to get closer to Logan requires climbing through the circles of hell and participating in greater and greater moral degradation. I think the character this most applies to, because we actually get to see his corruption arc over the course of the show, is Tom. And his arc, I think, arguably fits with that journey into hell. Season 1 gives us Gluttony and Greed, especially in 1.06 when he takes Greg to the restaurant and gives his spiel about how great it is to be rich. We also get his general obsession with nice things and with stuff, something which the Roys don't have, and something that seems to fade in Tom as his arc progresses. Season two gives us Wrath and Violence (Safe Room etc.), and Fraud (the cruise line scandal coming out). And then finally, at the end of season 3, we get Treachery. And I find it very very interesting that immediately before committing the act of Treachery, Tom asks Greg if he wants to make a deal with devil - something which turns out to mean both a deal with Logan, but also the act of betraying Shiv. Up until this point, you could argue that Greg had been riding along on Tom's coattails on this journey-through-hell - but the line "What am I going to do with a soul anyways?" means that, for the first time, he's actively consenting to what's happening. Sure, he doesn't know what's going on - but the line itself implies that it simply does not matter to him.

The second thing that follows, though, is that while Tom and Greg and the old guard have journeyed down to where Logan is, his children have been there all along. They grew up in a world characterized by Treachery, Fraud, Violence, Wrath, Greed, and Lust. Their arcs aren't about them becoming corrupted; their arcs are about whether they can escape the corruption they've always lived in. Everyone is frozen in that same ice together, but the ways they got here were very different.

Finally, the Virgil character is very important, because he doesn't have a corollary in the Succession half of this analogy, and that highlights what none of these characters have. None of them have a strong moral compass, and even if they did, none of them have the kind of support and moral courage to resist the allure of temptation. This is far more devastating for the Roy kids, though, because they've never had the opportunity to encounter a Virgil, whereas everyone else had to pass through Limbo - where Virgil is - before they could start going through hell. Or, in other words, with Tom et al. at some point there was an active choice to reject the moral compass and reject the moral support, which the Roy kids never had. But once you reject your moral compass it's hard to get it back again, hence why the further you get from Limbo the harder it is to find your way back.

#succession #didnt include this in the main post bc I didnt want it to be too long BUT #I also think there's an interesting tomshiv angle here #where. if shiv has been immersed in this world of corruption and moral degradation her whole life (ie frozen in that ninth circle) #is there really a world where they can be together and tom doesn't end up in that same corruption? #shiv isnt the one who corrupted him. not at all. but her whole world is corrupt and so entering into it is the only way to get close to her #its not her fault he entered into it in the first place bc he clearly did before he met her #but once he marries her he ends up even more committed and its even harder to get out #I also think there's an interesting angle re: dante journeying through hell to get to beatrice #who represents true pure selfless love #BUT he can make it through hell bc he has Virgil. so he DOESNT get sucked into the corruption and he DOESNT get stuck in the ninth circle #and HE gets to pass through the other side of hell and head towards heaven #I have a creative writing piece I started forever ago where tom has to take a dante class in college and over the course of the show begins #rationalizing his choices as part of a journey through hell where on the other side is beatrice ie: love #bc he's so invested in being in this world and his marriage is part of the world #and then finally realizing oh fuck actually im in the ninth circle and there is no beatrice on the other side #there is no redeeming quality here and I dont think my marriage can be saved #and that leads into to the choice to betray shiv #because you're already in the devil's domain and you have no virgil to help you out. what else can you do #not that the situation justifies his actions. but it creates the moral apathy required to go through with it #bc genuinely I do not think he would have betrayed shiv like that in season 1 or season 2 #so the question is what about him changed #and I think the progression of his corruption arc is a big part of the answer to that question #not the whole answer but it is important #maybe I'll finish it one of these days lmao

[ms-hells-bells]

started reading a webtoon, and i just know the author is straight, because every single character in the entire thing is gay. i am not exaggerating, all 8 main characters introduced are gay. it makes it feel so phony and fetishistic.

#also the writing is a putrid mix of marvelisation and twitter talk #it sucks because the plot is actually interesting #but straight girls are obsessed with making everything gay #in a way that feels extremely unnatural #and i ended up in a college dorm as a bisexual with another bi woman three bi men and two gay men #everyone doesn't flirt with each other or hook up

[loving-jack-kelly]

yesterday sucked so bad it was the longest day ever I cried at work and I slept like a rock bc I was so exhausted and then today I woke up and it was literally like. the sun is shining the birds are chirping it feels like fall I made birthday plans with my best friend for march that I'm so excited for the thing that was stressing me out so bad yesterday at work is fixed and over with and everybody is telling me I did well with it even though it felt like I did not in the moment AND I my adoption application was accepted at one of the shelters I applied to so I got invited to their adoption event to meet their dogs tomorrow AND I'm seeing hozier in a week and two days and that does not feel real but also it actually hit for properly for the first time today :) how the tables have turned oh and ALSO I'm watching a horror movie with emma tonight and last night I think it would have killed me bc I was so tired and empty by the time I got home but today I am Hyped for it

#i'm good at my job and usually the stuff I'm doing doesn't get to me but yesterday TWO solutions to the problem I've been dealing w all week #didn't end up being solutions at all bc first year college students suck so bad. and by the time the second one didn't go through #we'd told the student affected that it HAD so we had to walk it back #and i'm on call 24/7 this week so I was so so tired yesterday #and i just wanted to make fix this poor girl's problem and to have to tell her I'd been wrong when I told her it had been fixed....idk #it got to me and i cried which at least finally convinced my supervisor that what id been saying from the beginning was the correct move #and then i fell asleep pretty early and overslept on purpose bc fuck being in the office I needed to recover #and then i helped move a minifridge with a microwave attached to the top up and down four flights of stairs #bc this campus is possibly the least ada compliant space I have Ever been in in my life #and there are NO elevators in any residential buildings except the one that used to be a hotel down the street #anyway. life update ig <3 things are genuinely so so good rn yesterday was Simply a bad day. happens sometimes. glad it's over :) #real life stuff #i should have a tag for that so I can go through once in a while and see what was up when :)

[holeodemony]

Okay. There is a thing I need opinions on. So, with that said, calling all TMA fans!!

There is an animatic I really want to make, and I already know what the entire thing is going to be like...

But I don't have motivation.

So, would peoples on here like to see a TMA animatic to the song Passing Through..?

If this gets even any attention, I'll probably start it tomorrow. I've done a storyboard for the first *checks notes* 17 seconds. The song is over two minutes.

Any reccomendations on how to motivate myself? Also, thanks for reading as well. This is something I've been wanting to do, but time and motivation is very. Not existing. Yeah.

Have a good day!

#i've plotted out the entire thing #now i just have ti draw it #*to #yeah #it doesn't help that i'm insecure with my art style #despite having access to dozens of books on animation #since my mother went to college for animation #i know all of the tips and tricks #yet i still think my art sucks :( #tma #the magnus archives #magnus archives #tma animatic idea #animatic idea

[cassioppenny]

milesverse green episode

#milesverse #drew these all last night so you can tell i gave up on some of these because i was eepy lol #world shittiest road trip staring #ten year old with an alien mutated virus in her #chaotic cat god just trying to figure out where the freak clone of them is #college dropout and former evil gang member trying to get a date with the ten year old's mom #elite four member forced to go along with them since she lives in the sevii islands #and finally some girl from hoenn that definitely doesn't get sucked into wormhole midway through #deoxys and green dynamic is basically 'ooooo you want to go apeshit so bad ooooooo' #'you want to kill that pink freak oooooo" #also im very sorry reese but the funny alien isn't green's friend