One thing they won't tell you about college is that if you find out that you need a piece of paper signed by 5 faculty members in different departments in the span of a week, it simply won't happen. You'll get four signatures in 2 days and then the fourth guy will send it off to the fifth and there will be radio silence and you'll email the fifth like "hey bro any idea how long this will take" and the fifth will be like "lol lmao what paper". And also your advisor will disappear for the entirety of finals week without warning leaving nothing but an automated out-of-the-office email response so you have nobody to turn to for help. And then you won't graduate.
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played the game ok boomer at my family party today, ended up explaining to a room of ~20 of my relatives what fanfiction is so they could understand the question, “in fanfiction, what does AU stand for?”. and then the card’s definition of “AU” was wrong so i also had to get into the concept of “canon”.
can u believe. in front of my whole family. a room full of people, aged 3 to 80. all staring at me intently as i explain the difference between an alternate universe and canon divergence. at one point my mom was like “daina i think we get it” and a cousin and two aunts were like “wait no we’re interested please continue” and i had to say to my own mother in front of god and my i am kenough sweatshirt “sorry but unlike you the rest of them DON’T have to listen to me talk about fanfiction on the regular”. my uncle is a retired judge. my one cousin worked for the federal government in a job that was so classified that for years he literally couldn’t legally tell us about ANYTHING he was working on. and today those men sat and patiently listened to me define “coffee shop AU”.
also, not one, not two, but THREE of the answers for the young folks, i knew solely because they were either plot points on stranger things or they were things i found out whilst reading stranger things fanfics. and then i was the only person in our age bracket (10 people, ranging from ages 9 to 42) that knew who anne rice was, and had to explain yet again that the reason i had this knowledge was because… fanfic.
it was surreal. also my aunt, aged 68, may or may not begin attempting to read fanfic now because, according to her, “there are so many stories where there are these small side characters and i’d just KILL to hear their backstory or like what was going through their minds during the main action!” i’m very happy for her. today was wild.
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okay i complained abt damien darhk being the one that makes ray n nora leave the ship but i have to come in with the bullshit-o-meter like. the whole thing of 5x06 is nora asserting that she's her own person, that she doesn't need her dad controlling her life anymore n lashing out when she doesn't do what she wants. only for him to go to ray and be like 'hey. u guys should leave the team actually. for HER happiness'
like ik she and ray talks about it but it's not like she's upset with being on the ship? it just feels some misogynistic transfer of power, the idea that nora needs some man to take care of her. plus the whole "oh now i'm too mature to be living with my friends" bullshit of the idea of nuclear family
i think if ray hadn't talked to damien abt it and that be his inciting incident, it would piss me off less. like ray seems like the kind of guy who'd want that life without any megalomaniac father in law telling him that he needs to 'take care' of his daughter, who'd just want to settle down n start a life with nora bc he wants a more calm life
tldr: damien darhk bein involved just made the whole thing worse
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happy valentines day @mysteriousbeetle !!!!!!!
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i just finished reading the revolver mag article on sleep token (still so excited they got a cover? that’s so fucking sick)
it was a great article! it covered the band’s vibe and everything so well
but the one part of it i cannot stop laughing about is that their stage presence as a group was described as having a sense of brotherhood
like?? author they all kiss each other and iii actively pines for vessel at some point every show there is nothing brotherly about any of it lmao
Oh my gosh!!! I’ll be honest I bought it but I don’t even care about the article, I just got it to maybe cut out the pics of Vessel (sorry if this hurts anyone’s hearts), mostly just to own hi-res pics of Vessel, but that is HILARIOUS!?? Brotherly??? I need to go through and reblog every ‘brotherly’ gif I have of them lol.
Idk if you just read it online or not? but I HOPE my issue comes in the mail today🥺. But my mail comes late in the day (anytime from 2pm to 4pm), and as soon as I hold it in my hands I will hug it. I know my adhd self, the magazine is getting hugged!!
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