#failing grades

[brightlotusmoon]

#heavy sigh #skipping a grade for english yet failing math #gifted kid burnout #twice exceptional

[birdmenmanga]

I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

#just thinking thoughts... #disco elysium #idk man when did we get so scared of failing!! #people never want to speak in class because 'what if I'm wrong :(((' #well then you are wrong... that is okay... it's normal to fail... sometimes saying the wrong thing is a great way to jumpstart a topic... #'getting a good grade in X is both normal to want and possible to achieve' #okay sure but have you made peace with the fact that getting a BAD grade in X isn't a bad thing? #a bad grade in being friends... okay... so you didn't check up on someone in 3 months... you failed... that's fine... #you can learn from it!! you can learn how to keep in touch with people. how to take care of them when they're sick. #how to resolve a dispute. how to communicate and compromise. these are all things you are not born with #and will fail first before succeeding at #Like yes I get that in the age of surveillance your failures may be recorded and preserved forever and that's not great #but if we don't normalize failure I really think we'll just suffocate and die

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

demanding a series in the same vein (heh, vein) as Dexter/Hannibal wherein a prolific serial killer plays cat & mouse with the police--except the serial killer in question is a preteen schoolgirl. this would make for compelling television due to the fact that middle school frequently causes girls to become deranged, and more media should reflect this

#she hangs out at active crime scenes in a way that should be a red flag but 'evades' the police simply by merit of being in 7th grade #the ONE 'detective'/nemesis who is convinced she had something to do with The Murders #is the classmate who sorta tried to bully her at the beginning of the school year but then the vibes got all intense and sapphic #so she backed off and has been Ignoring the Nerd she does Not have a special interest in #except then The Murders begin and she has so many Suspicions BUT #everytime she confronts the antihero the interaction ends in accidental intimacy followed by furious blushing #the nemesis's father is an (unsympathetic) cop character who repeatedly ignores his daughter's concerns #'dad i think the weird girl in my math class is a serial killer' 'that's not an excuse for failing algebra. go do your homework'

[reignmaefall]

Reblog this to tell whoever you reblogged it from that you're proud of them.

#i am so burnt out #school is killing me #yes i seek validation from strangers on the internet #yes it is a trauma response #yes my trauma is self induced from my neurodivergence #yes i am undiagnosed #yes it is genetic and other people in my family have it #yes my neurodivergence is constantly overlooked #yes my grades just went up but im still not on the honor roll and technically failing #*but fuck i am trying here* #anyway #not to trauma dump or anything besties #i want validation pls

[luminous-studiess]

in life updates: decided to enroll in a notoriously difficult class this semester. civil law is my achilles heel, and i also wanted to force myself into better study habits and time management. last week, i took the midterm and braced myself for a fail: despite improvements in the way i prepared for class and spoke during cold calls, i'd still been struggling over the semester. after the exam ended, i went and checked the schedule for dropping classes. one week later. dear reader, i passed.

#sam screams #seriously what the fuck guys after finding out my grade i went to the bathroom to cry #the same bathroom i cried in when i found out i failed my nth exam in first year #anyway people are like flowers they bloom in their own time #studyblr #study aesthetic #study motivation #studyspo #lawblr #uni #coffee #college student #studygram #books #dark academia #chaotic academia #law school

[rawliverandgoronspice]

In spite of the whole bonkers thing of TP Ganon wielding his own execution sword, I find it fascinating that he is using a weapon of Light to fight you --a weapon originally conceived for purposes of justice, and that light still steeps through him through the wound.

And, to top it all off, Link uses tools more aligned with darkness to fight him back (turning into a wolf, Midna becoming a eldritch horror...)

Symbolically this combo of reverse mirroring AND literal mirroring is very interesting I think

#thoughts #twilight princess #tp #ganondorf #link #midna #thinking........... #meeting in the middle #truly the twilight of all princesses #seriously they were on grade A mythology shit when they made TP #the failed execution of a failed king ascending by force into a failed god..... still refusing failure to define him until the very end #tp ganondorf really always pulling at my heartstrings :_: #in spite of the game not textually committing to these ideas #I'm fairly certain the arbiter's grounds were intentional at least for somebody in the team #even if the idea didn't translate for everyone or had to be mostly washed clean

[frozenrogue89]

Pit Madness makes Jason more violent.

Red Hood is fiercely protective of and cares deeply for children.

Tim is Sad Baby.

Therefore, I raise the argument that the Titans Tower incident was an unfortunate case of Pit Mad Jason Todd having an extreme case of cuteness aggression.

#dc #red hood #jason todd #titans tower #tim drake #pit madness #shitpost #batman #millions suffer every year from cuteness aggression #Tim just suffers #ever see something so pathetically adorable and just randomly have the urge to rip its face off? break its neck? crush it? #Jason Todd failed to keep those urges as urges #He gets a bad grade in: Pet the Kitty

[crow-cap]

read the ace novel now. go

#crowcraft #serious art later but for now the grind must continue (i am failing physics) #ok hi. hi does anyone like deuce here #he’s so babygirl. med school dropout. distressed at all times. he’s sarcastic. how could you not love him #doodles from the Pit as I try to figure them out!!!! #aces face is hard. he’s got.. shapes in him [weary stare] #one piece #portgas d ace #portgas d. ace #does anyone tag it with the dot. does it matter #deuace #fire fist ace #masked deuce #one piece deuce #one piece ace #now I vanish for another 2 months. pray for my physics grades pls. bye #acedeuce

[yolexxx]

Just dug a freaking collection of tsams doodles out of my school folder💀💀

#could this possibly be why my grades are failing🤔 #at what point is it a problem #tsams #tsams sun #tsams earth #tlaes lunar #tlaes earth #tsams lunar #nice eclipse #tsams eclipse #sun and moon show #doodles #Tsams Monty #YoArt

[ffcrazy15]

"Oh so when James Kirk refuses to believe in no-win scenarios it's 'changing the conditions of the test' and 'commendable original thinking,' but when I, Bradward Boimler, can't accept the possibility of failure and retake the Kobiyashi Maru sixteen times–"

#lower decks #star trek lower decks #brad boimler #in my headcanon his first performance wasn't *great* but he did technically pass #but by refusing to accept that he hadn't beat the test and insisting on retaking it he turned his pass into a fail #and he *kept* retaking it until the instructor point-blank told him that there was no way to beat the program #And that the whole point was to experience personal failure #And *even then* Boims was like “so you mean by failing I actually HAVEN'T failed at all!” #“No that's not– ugh you know what sure. Gold star kid. Just get out of my office." ”Did I get an A+?“ ”OUT!“ #Completely missed the point of the exam and they basically pity-passed him after the seventeenth try #Mariner on the other hand already knew what the point of the test was ahead of time #(She didn't cheat she was still a goody-two-shoes at this point) (An older classmate or friend happened to mention it around her) #But she *did* think it was a bullshit test and just pretended to be humbled and accept defeat in order to get a good grade #She doesn't believe in no-win scenarios either #It's part of what makes them a good team

[ximon-xi]

I'm really proud of this

I don't know what they're doing but they're doing it

#rc9gn #randy cunningham 9th grade ninja #randy cunningham fanart #randy cunnigham #rc9gn randy #rc9gn fanart #rc9gn first ninja #Randy Cunningham Ninja Total #i swear if it fails again im going to cry #not a ship pls #wowowowowoow pls more content about these two

[joonie]

SEVEN

#bts #jeon jungkook #jungkook #bts jungkook #bangtan sonyeondan #7jgif #han so hee #tw flashing #tw: flashing #flashing #tried to a wong kar wai colour grading and failed but wtv jk and so hee are cool as hell

[saysbruh1]

thank you josh hutcherson

#rlm #jay bauman #all real quotes!!!! #my professor walked in on me making this...immediate failing grade

[erinsintra]

i absolutely HATE the fact that everyone in my family thinks i'm very smart simply because i don't like talking and like to spend time on my pc. no mum i'm not coding or whatever i'm literally just watching random shitpost videos for hours on end i do not think i would fare well in a big tech company

#then they go “ofc you're smart!!! you never failed a grade!” #bestie that's like... the bare minimum? #wtf #fyp #fypツ #memes #explorepage #explore #tumblr fyp #funny #hilarious #fypage #foryou #meme #dumb shit #shitpost #shitposting

[crystalkitty1220]

Tubbo? In a suit? In an area he made? With everyone else online also in that area? Being called a rat? By Quackity? In the middle of October?

#tubbo #qsmp #sorry ive been catching up on vods #still gonna be mostly staying off of tumblr but hey im passing psych now so the grades situation is not as dire #english im still failing. which is not good because people expect me to be an english major. also i need to fucking graduate lmao that too #usually i dont add unrelated tags and actual tags to things at the same time but i dont feel like making a whole second post.

[sukimas]

perhaps the idea that being absent for 14-18 school days over the course of the entire year counts as "chronic absenteeism" has something to do with it?

#90% is an A in the classes you teach #i do not think that it should be a failing grade for attendance. just saying.