#they’re the mean kids in school

[octoooo]

Baby Sabito & Giyuu

Can you tell I love drawing 🥺 lmao

#kny #demon slayer #tomioka giyuu #octo’s art #sabito #sabigiyuu #I mean they’re kids so no dating #just really good friends for now #but I’ll tag anyway #sweet litl babies playing with Dino nuggets #giyuu is me fr big chocolate milk fan #also modern au i guess? #maybe I’ll make this official #he lives with Tsutako but visits Sabito’s house after school sometimes #Sabito’s adopted by Urokodaki #neither him nor Sabito care much for chocolate milk but since giyuu started coming over #he keeps a carton of it just for Giyuu #he gets choco milk at school #tsutako had limited him to 2 cups per day #he can and WILL try to drink the entire carton in one day #and then get sick so he has to pull out the puppy eyes on Urokodaki #it worked once but then giyuu got sick at his house so it doesn’t work anymore #except it kinda does #Urokodaki had to look away to not be affected by Those Sad Eyes #Sneaky Modern au

[deityofhearts]

cheerleaders 🤝 equestrians (but specifically horse girls): your sport not being taken seriously by other people and being treated like a joke

#deity dialogue #when I was in middle school my computer teacher was also a football coach and would have ‘banter’ with the cheer coach (who was also an #assistant teacher for my math class btw she was so sweet she helped me a lot in class and also made me a bow which was stolen from me :( ) #about how ‘football was a real sport and cheerleading wasn’t’ LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING ME #jsut because cheerleaders look cute and are peppy and more often than not girls and women you don’t take anything they do seriously #do you understand the strength and agility and flexibility needed to be a cheerleader do you see the shit they’re doing and you have the #gall not to respect what they do as a sport??? i wasn’t a cheerleader but a few of my friends were and I respect them so much that shit must #have taken so much of everything #obvs I’m not covering the full scale of what it takes to be a cheerleader cause again I wasn’t one but like I’m so pissed whenever people #have the audacity to act like it’s not a serious sport and I’m mad at the same for equestrians as well. #Also generally I hate people who think cheerleaders are inherently awful and bitches like y’all shouldn’t generalize just because some #people in a group are mean or popularly portrayed as mean doesn’t mean it’s true my friends from school were sweet to literally everyone so #can it. this isn’t me like dismissing anyone who’s been bullied by anyone but don’t like assume everyone is terrible thanks bye #it’s the misogyny and we all know it :/ it affects men in the sports as well because if you’re a male cheerleader you’re treated badly and #it’s the misogyny and we all know it

[dipyronegirl]

thinking (and rewatching..) inside job again and i dont think rand is that bad of a father? i mean, he made a lot of mistakes and he doesn’t even feel bad ab it, even tho he traumatized reagan and a lot, but he was never absent. he acts like he cared ab reagan’s career just bc it could help his career, but that’s not true. he pushes her to be the best all the time and it’s bad, but he genuinely cares ab her so much. and the whole ‘creating crises to force her to hang out w him’ thing is fucked up, but it’s cute that he just wants to hang out w her that bad. most fathers literally don’t care enough ab their kids to do any of that. most fathers don’t even know their kids as much as he knows her. maybe my standards are just insanely low, probably, but he’s a better parent than 90% of the parents i know

#not just fathers. my standards aren’t lower for fathers than they are for mothers yk. they’re both low #he’s a better parent than my mom #he raised her being completely emotionally neglecting and putting so much pressure on her to be the genius she is #but i mean #my mom was just as emotionally neglecting as he was. i like telling the story ab how she had me stitch up my own wound when i was 8 #and always mocked me for being ‘weak’. exactly like toxic masculinity except that we’re both girls. i couldn’t have feelings yk #rand isn’t as toxic as her when it comes to that. he neglects her feelings and even mocks them too but she still seemed allowed to Have them #if my mom thought i was being ‘weak’ she would scream at me ab how much she wished i had never been born. he doesn’t do that!!!! #like when she didn’t wanna skip 4th grade. if that were me my mom would have made me feel so guilty for being born #like i had to skip grades and actively pretend (i’m talking real acting here) to not be upset or she’d go on her rants #ab how life is difficult and depressing for everyone and i gotta swallow it and like it cause she sacrificed her happiness and health for me #cause my being born made her life so hard etc etc #i don’t think rand make reagan feel like her continuing existence kept him from being happy or healthy #my mom started blaming her diabetes on me when i was 10. #like im not fucking kidding #cause my expensive private school (that she forced me to go to all my life cause it was semi boarding so i had someplace to stay all day and #so she didn’t need to leave me home alone) made her work too much which made her stressed which made her eat more so being diabetic was a #sacrifice she made for my future #that’s just how it was #inside job #text

[blonkk]

“so sad being a harry potter fan/jkr stan and a transphobe pick a struggle” ok but how’s it a struggle? ?? because weird losers i don’t know will try to bully me on the internet ??? y’all are just smug because you were nobody in high school and now you feel like you win at life because you have internet clout from tweens and perverted adult men plus the duds who jumped on the bandwagon because they have zero values and beliefs of their own …. like stop projecting i promise no one gives a fuck that you’re “different” it’s still annoying and your green shaved head and mushroom tattoo aren’t punk or even really that cool at all….get a grip fr …anyways i’m gonna struggle by A) being objectively right and B) enjoying my childish stories that have no shortage of material (and more on the way!) to keep me entertained

#feminism #jk rowling #harry potter #this applies to everyone #males and females #gay or not #trans identified or not #like so much if this movement is deadass made up of people who were unpopular in high school. and now they get off on being internet famous #and i was a huge loser in high school too so this isn’t some stance on social hierarchy #it’s just the kids who never got over not being cool when it actually meant something #so they’re trying to make it mean something now #and the saddest thing is that you’re still losers #and the biggest tell is that followers will always remain neutral #favouring the side of the cool people #hence the male he amount of silent so called allies #they’re gonna switch sides when this one goes under i’m afraid #anyways like it’s always the people who want attention who are the worst about this stuff #like i’m a huge harry potter fan. i was not popular in high school. people barely knew who i was #that is not something that was cool in the 2010s #but i’m still a fan and i’m not ashamed of that because i’m not just gonna flop on my interests and principles #and i’m not gonna let some weirdo who probably does actual weird shit make me feel bad about like one of the most beloved book franchises #of all time #when they were prob the types of weirdos having orgies under the stairs and grooming eachother and speaking japanese they learned from anime #anyways. i don’t know im just rambling im mad and tired and all seething and i want to bully someone about it

[rotzaprachim]

doing some readings for class and now extremely interested if academic work has been done on the boarding school in Harry Potter as English/Anglo-American apparatus for assimilation and social control

#Many people have rightly pointed out the fact that the fantasy sold in Hp isn’t just magic #But an in many ways *idealized special image of the British boarding school #I’m curious if this has been taken a step further #This is in light of how how HP is being used as a language revival text among several speaker groups of indigenous and minoritized language #On a praxis level makes total sense #Because it allows for kids/second langsuge learners to do extensive reading of a text they’re probably deeply familiar with #On another level. What does it MEAN to read about Harry getting his boarding school summons in Hawaiian Greenlandic Yiddish Irish Māori????

[the-starlight-papers]

I hate this state I hate this state I hate this state I hate this state I hate this state

#a bill just got introduced to expand the dont say gay bill to all of k-12 #and the wording is vague enough that at least from my reading it bans all discussion of gender identity #which basically would ban trans people from being in schools because if a kid asks if they’re a girl or a boy #because responding would break the law #fuck I’m volunteering at a middle school once a week #we’re helping middle school girls build go karts #I think if this passes idk if I can do that any more. #and the fucking DEI ban bill is coming up for a vote soon #which would mean rip all campus resources for basically any group #plus I FINALLY got someone to take my complaints of a conservative student org harassing me last year seriously #idk man #low key considering looking into transferring #because this fucking sucks.

[aspiringhorrorauthor]

So I saw a post about the whole Maths being taught in UK debacle that, while the article is was showing was clearly ridiculous, made it clear people don’t understand the issue and why British people (including myself! Hello!) dislike this whole “teach maths until 18” thing. So here’s the deal:

In England at least (not sure about the rest of the UK it’s probably similar), once you turn 16 you have four options: A-levels (exams for academic subjects), BTECs (qualifications for non-academic subjects), apprenticeships/diplomas (practical skills focused on specific jobs) and going into work. At this point, there is very little you do that you don’t actively want to do. Further education is a lot about choice and making the decisions about your future.

So once you’re at this level, you can decide to never study a subject ever again. I decided never to study dance, PE or geography again because I hated them, and for a lot of people, they would have decided never to study maths again. And that’s fair, at this stage we’re all Adult Lite and deserve a say in what we learn. At A level/BTEC you typically do 3-4 subjects, and diplomas/apprenticeships have you choosing one.

(Although some subjects will still pull in parts of other subjects you dropped and some diplomas will have you sit remedial lessons for subjects like maths and English if you scored poorly in them to bring you up to speed).

The problem with “everyone needs to learn maths until they’re 18” is that that really detracts from the choice, freedom and enjoyment of further education. It’s also a problem that the government is not saying “We need to assess secondary education to see where the failings in teaching maths is and provide funding and assistance to ensure all students get a good handle of maths by the time they leave secondary school”, which would be the reasonable and actually helpful thing to do for students. Instead, they’ve decided “Let’s take either free time or study time away from related subjects and the freedom of choice away from students”.

If you despise maths because you’re bad at it, being forced to learn it for two more years in an education system that needs help and not ridicule and punishment is not going to improve anything, except change your plans on what further education you may take to avoid this mandatory maths.

#rishi sunak #uk #uk politics #tgeres probably more nuance this is just a rundown on the anti maths crowd #There’s a lot of better and more helpful solutions than what Sunak suggested #Also for the record: I ADORE maths. I took it to A Level. It was my fallback degree. #But I detest this plan of Sunak’s. #Also the ‘people are against kids learning MATHS’ thing is annoying too. Sure these are teens but they’ve been taught maths #Further education being Adult Lite means people should get to make their own choices on their education #And for the record this generally means as well ‘allowed to fuck up in their choices’ because you can just do it again. #Like once you leave secondary the reins are loosened. Once you leave college they’re thrown away #At this point a lot of focus shifts from the school responsibility to individual responsibility and deciding #How you want to spend your time and what you want to study is important for that

[quibbs126]

Just todoroki dark choco and zuko

I never got far with My Hero, I was only at like the beginning of the Overhaul arc, so I can only judge Endeavor based on everything up till then (I heard he might have improved somewhat later on?), but again, it’s just Dark Choco being like “are you two okay??”. Especially since like, these two are teenagers while he is an adult

#if they met while they were all teenagers Dark Choco would be even more horrified #but also I’m imagining them talking about their moms only for DC to be like “I don’t have one” #and they’re like “oh did she die?” #“no I don’t HAVE one” #because he’s a Cookie and as far as we’re aware Dark Cacao is his only parent #but I mean yeah compared to the other two Dark Cacao is by far the best dad #I mean he actually feels guilty about the things he did to his kid #(again can’t speak for Endeavor bc I don’t know) #(I read the manga back freshman year high school (which Christ was around 4 years ago now) and I prefer reading manga) #(I just don’t really know where to find manga that I don’t have to pay for because I’m not paying all that money just to catch up) #(Also finding the motivation to read it) #but anyways #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #dark choco cookie #avatar the last airbender #atla #atla zuko #my hero academia #boku no hero acedamia #todoroki shouto #crossover #answers

[francisforever2014]

the school district i went to high school in is currently in hella drama bc they’re trying to detrack math up until 7th grade and all of the AP students, alumni that went to ivy leagues and white parents are shitting their pants bc they “don’t want school to be dumbed down” aka they don’t want themselves/their kids to stop feeling special and have to be in classes with dumb brown kids* i’m sure . anyways so many of them are like “i believe in equity but—“ so you don’t . also they’re like if you do this people are gonna send their kids to private school!! like ok good riddance

#*PEOPLE THEY SEE THAT WAY IN CASE THAT WASNT CLEAR #if you are in ap and think that you’re special for it. went to an ivy league and think that you got their on your ‘own merit’. #or can afford to send your kids to private school you opinion means NOTHINGGGG to me #like you can just tell how much they buy into merit based thinking and think that they’re uniquely smart #and not that if some of the kids they think are ‘dumb’ could do just as well if not better than them in school if they had their resources #and background #coming as a fucking nerd ap student #who was usually the only brown kid in class like you just have to accept that you’re not that special #otherwise you start to believe that you ‘deserve’ what you have . and inversely that other people don’t . even though that’s the inverse #part that’s not said out loud

[schmope-is-dead]

I’m going to kill this kid I swear to god

#charlie.txt #slight vent #me when. my little sibling pressured me into admitting I have an alcohol problem #then they tell all their friends because ‘they don’t care so it’s fine’ #and for the past school year they’ve come close to outing me several times and they don’t seem to care because some of their friends are #fine with trans people #but also it’s not like I can get too mad in front of them bc they’re just 13 #I mean it’s not like we live in a super transphobic town 🙂 and some of their friends have admitted to harassing trans people for fun 🙂 #and it’s not like their friends gossip a ton 🙂 /s #I’m trying so hard to be a good big brother and understand that kids will just be pieces of shit sometimes #but I swear to god. a lot of people in our area want to kill people like me. I cannot just let this kid gossip about me

[twelve-kinds-of-trouble]

pulling my hair out at people my age talking about how easy their jobs are and their £13/hour part-time, underage wage while I stick my hand in containers of mustard and get harassed by bar staff for the measly minimum wage </3

#I mean it makes me unreasonably angry that people expect full-time workers (not me) to make £5-7 an hour #and just be able to support themselves and their families in a way that doesn’t make them always fear for their security and finance #like the place i work employs in a lot of rural kids who need a part-job nearby to pay for school or something. they’re good in that way . #but christ. i know you could afford to pay us all more. #Harping on

[linoguy]

I have no concept of numbers in kpop. everything reaches the millions so I just have no clue what’s actually popular. the boys will reach 5 mil preorders and I go oh cool but then the next post will say “they’re the first group to do that” and I go oh cool, because it just?? preordering albums is a new thing, streaming is a new thing, it really doesn’t hold much weight to me so I just have no clue what any of it is supposed to mean. I don’t know what the average amount of preorders is so how am I supposed to be impressed w 5 mil -.- among other records

#like it’s cool I guess?? good for them. that means they’ll get more financial backing from their company but that’s all I think about #I don’t know the average for amount of records sold. I don’t know these averages 😔 #or like I just saw a post saying that they reached 20 mil views in one day and that they’re the first to do that but to me it’s like well . #ok #oh sorry not first but third #at a certain point it feels like the Disney ‘first gay character’ but maybe that’s cause the boys are really just moving up in popularity #so they’re breaking certain records?? idk man #it doesn’t matter that much but sometimes it does feel like I’m a parent being scared awake from my sleep to hear what my kid learned about #in school that day

[yuribalisms]

Essentially what it is all boiling down to is I have fully realized I am bad at being a person, that will always be true, and I don’t know how to handle that

#I’m going to be depressing and self depreciating in the tags so. fair warning to anyone who reads them #I’ve known for a while now that I don’t know what to do with my life. I’ve thought of a few ideas but none of them seem to be working. and I #think a good chunk of what it’s boiling down to is that I am quite literally just stupid when it comes to an actual useful real life skills. #and it’s frustrating because I can’t even talk to ppl I know and confide in them that I feel dumb and stupid without them being like ‘nooooo #don’t say that! you’re not stupid! you were top of your class in hs!’ (that is their favorite thing to fall back on) but like. the thing is #I wasn’t even smart in hs. sure I did good but that’s because I cheated my way through and got lucky a lot. I never actually learned anythin #I never understood what I was being taught or how to apply it. I was good at English and art classes and that was it those were the only one #I truly felt I knew what I was doing in and grasped the subject matter well. I know I’m good at those two things and smart when it comes to #those subjects. but the thing is. in real life. both of those are useless skills. I can’t make money with them and it is highly unlikely #that will ever change. and yes I know not being able to make money with it doesn’t mean it’s useless but like it kinda does. capitalism #sucks. I know that. we all do. but that doesn’t change that we live in a capitalist society and it’s unlikely to actual change in my lifetim #so I’m stuck to try and figure out how to live in it. but I have no skills I can make money with so I will live my entire life poor and #miserable and working dead end jobs that make me want to kill myself. I’m not good at socialization I’m so fucking bad at it so I can’t work #any kind of job that hinges on networking or sales or human interaction which is MOST JOBS but I’m also too stupid for anything related to #STEM. I tried two different stem degrees and flunked out of both of them because I am a FUCKING IDIOT and I know there’s no point in trying #to go back to school for another one. but no degree in anything I naturally have a knack for will help me find a decent well paying job. ill #just be wasting my money to go to school for something like that. and then like. I don’t even think I’ll ever get married and I def won’t #ever have kids. so I can’t even put any hopeful stock in just being happy with a family one day. I know a lot of ppl who don’t like their #careers but they’re fine with that because they’re happy with their family but like I don’t even have that and I won’t ever have that. I #have NOTHING to strive for and NOTHING I am good at that’s meaningful I’m going to fail at having a career and a family and I know that #doesn’t mean I won’t be happy in theory but by societal standards I am and always will be a fucking failure of a person and since I do live #in this society yeah. it’s kinda fucking true. and I don’t know what to do about that. I’m just tired. I’m tired of being afraid and #struggling and going through patches of wanting to kill myself because of this because like what’s the point. I’ll never have anything #better so what in the actual hell is the point of me existing. and I know I’m being ridiculous and my brain is eating itself and none of #this is probably even true but that doesn’t change that it FEELS like it is a lot of times and esp right now and I don’t know what to do #to anyone who reads this I’ll be fine tbh prob as soon as tomorrow like dw about it I just need to get it out so I stop stewing in it. #I’m just. yeah. not having a great time rn but I left work so I’m gonna cry and then maybe sleep for a bit and hope that helps #kaz rambles

[whitegownsandflowercrowns]

ok random thought: so I’ve been seeing little snippets of alyson stoner’s “dear hollywood” podcast which is about child stars and what they call the “toddler-to-trainwreck” pipeline. and it’s just got me thinking about some things, and I think I’ve reached the conclusion that i’m not against children acting, but I am against child stars and the concept of “child stardom”.

so let me explain: I don’t think that we should remove under-18s from every movie or TV show. I think that, if done properly, a kid or teen being on a movie set can be more like an after-school drama club rather than a job. I think that kids on film sets should have multiple safeguards and adults looking after them, and I think every effort should be taken to make sure they’re treated like kids and not adults. so if all of those are in place, then I have no problem with kids acting.

it’s the child stardom, in my opinion, that’s the problem. it’s when kids are made into stars, whether they sing or act or whatever, that puts them in danger. when they’re put on the pedestal that a lot of people put celebrities on, when they’re being overworked, when their parents keep pushing them to do more and not caring about them as people, that’s when we run into problems. cause when kids are continuously pushed into doing audition after audition (rather than doing 1 or 2 jobs over the course of their childhood) that’s when they get overworked and do auditions that are inappropriate or potentially traumatic. when kids star on Disney shows or release “wholesome” music, that’s when they go wild not because they’re “bad” or anything, but they’ve been forbidden from behaving like a normal teen/young adult (honestly it’s similar to kids with overly strict parents). when kids have all eyes on them growing up, they crack under the pressure, because hey, ADULTS can barely handle celebrity.

and yeah I get that certain acting jobs require more public eye than others. but if the diary of a wimpy kid kids could be protected and have fairly normal lives, then more could have been done for the harry potter kids. it’s not impossible.

so anyways, I hope this post made sense, just organizing my thoughts.

#another point #I hope that the new Harry Potter series is canceled before it even starts #because there are absolutely going to be some vile people who in the name of being socially just or whatever are going to attack the kids #and you just KNOW they’re going to make sure the kids see it so everyone knows how mean the big scary woke people are #not to mention I completely agree with whoever said it that if they cast a black actress as Hermione they are going to #do absolutely nothing to protect her from bigots #also when it comes to “influencer kids” there is almost always absolutely no nuance for me #it is bad and exploitative. #at least child actors have legal protections #at least they only have certain amounts of hours to work a day #and another thing! #we can and should start having this conversation about high performing child and teen athletes #because pretty much everything I just said about child actors applies equally to them #the future olympians of course but hell even the varsity athletes at certain high schools #alyson stoner #child actors #child stars

[party-gilmore]

I’m sorry but if you don’t want your kid to be on a fucking [electronic] all day… maybe don’t give your kid their own [electronic]?

#maybe it’s just the Grew Up Poor in me but like #your kid shouldn’t have their own computer until they need one for school. The Family Computer out in the Common Area is perfectly fine. #your kid shouldn’t have their own gaming system/tablet/smartphone until they can get a job and pay for it themselves. #sharing the Family Console/Devices promotes time management/limitation and sharing and internet safety/security on public #’networks’ (in this case… public DEVICES but… same core concept) #and a text/call only phone is all they really need and is MUCH cheaper especially given the average dexterity situational awareness and #responsibility level of a kid #and if you’ve done your job right they shouldn’t feel uncomfortable looking up anything they need to/are worried about on a shared device #since you should’ve been establishing honest and open and trusting communication from the beginning #but hey shit happens and if you weren’t able to lay that foundation that’s fine that’s what LIBRARY TIME is for #I’m serious start a routine take your kid to the library at least once a week and give them free reign I mean FREE reign #(as long as their behavior is appropriate) #and they can have some time to access whatever info they’re not comfortable asking you about

[tacit-semantics]

I am so awake oh my god

#the kids don’t go to sleep for another four hours and they’re off school Thursday I love them but I am NOT cut out for childcare #which of course means very little djdjdj you got kid siblings you’re watching those kid siblings there is not much say in the matter #and thus: I am awake #tacit rambles