#went to fucking boarding school

[sporkberries]

Robin(1993) is a comic where things happen

#the 90’s and early 00’s were a wonderful awful time #seriously like tim’s robin years are insane #man lost his mom got a step mom went to 8 schools dated like 3 girls had all his friends die #had his dad threaten batman with a gun poisoned lady shiva his dad died #he made up an uncle!!! #went to fucking boarding school #SNUCK INTO NO MANS LAND #survived an ebola epicemic #helped form a super hero team #it just keeps going #dc #tim drake #robin #spork art #1k #5k

[von-karmas-a-bitch]

just remembered a silly doodle i did of a franmaya date that i never posted here so. franmaya enjoyers come get y'all juice

#edit: good lord tumblr fucked this one up please click for better quality #i am projecting onto maya here bc i also know very little german and was is dein lieblingsfach is also the only german song i know #that and the snappy crocodile one. it's like a german nursery rhyme that generally only german-speakers tend to know #but my sis went to boarding school with some swiss german speakers and they showed her and it got stuck in her head so she showed me #but maya wouldn't know that song bc she isn't that wordly. until she left kurain she didn't even know what a meme was #she's wordly now tho. she's on a vacay in germany with her girlfriend where the legal age for drinking strong alcohol unsupervised is 18 #fanart #my art #silly #franmaya #franziska von karma #maya fey #ace attorney

[amaranthsynthesis]

I'm sorry, this popped into my head (please ignore if it is not as weirdly amusing to you as it is to me): What would be the absolute worst movie to force Ballard to watch?

i am ELBOW deep in the trans ballard ask you sent so this is my little lunch break thought chew here it is wildly amusing you are right

So first I need to decide what kinds of films Ballard would like, and based on his reading materials every documentary ever made is firmly in the YES GOOD category. Boy likes to learn, he isn't picky about what. Historical films? Check. Pseudo historical fiction films? Sure, he would enjoy Master and Commander a huge amount, Gladiator significantly less so but still a tad. Science fiction and horror films would have him absolutely enraptured, he will sit through three straight showings of The Thing or Event Horizon. Ballard would abide romances reluctantly, and I think comedies have either the potential of driving him UP THE WALL IN ANGER or actually being a blast, depending on the style. Adam Sandler? Death, immediately. Robin Hood Men in Tights?? screaming laughter the entire time.

So there are TWO answers to the worst movie.

The first one is a bad comedy. Let's say Bridesmaids, or Elf. Ballard gets increasingly mad the entire time because he DOESN'T think it's funny, he thinks it's low-brow and clumsy and oafish, and there is nothing else to even begin to redeem it in his eyes. He has a bad time and, worse than that, he makes everyone else feel bad that they are having a good time. it's a real fucking killjoy of a time.

THE SECOND ANSWER IS THE DEAD POETS SOCIETY

Ballard starts tearing up partway through when like, Todd reads/writes his poem? and he just does not ever manage to stop. No one is more surprised than he is. The movie destroys him, he is in shambles by the end of it and he goes and takes himself off to lock himself in his room for 48 straight hours, comes back out and pretends none of it happened. he needs therapy so badly. if you try to talk to him about any of it his eyes get wet and he hits you.

#ask meme #ballard #trying not to give ballard too many Finn Traits and in general he is not a crybaby he doesn't cry! he can't! #but for all his empathy issues--because of them even in some ways--he has things he's very sensitive to #and just. zero coping mechanisms. #modern au ballard definitely went to boarding school and it definitely fucked him up deeply but even without that That Genre Of Story #hits on a lot of isolation and loss and lack of belonging

[introspectivememories]

More about your last post I wanna know on how everyone reacts to eachother like imagine your friend finally is out of a pain cult that you had to sit around and watch as it literally ruins them but they had to be sacrifice and your local hero’s had to step to help them and then all of sudden when you go to the hospital you see TIM DRAKE straggling to fill out the most simplest questions

“TIM DRAKE!?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE???”

“…what’s his blood type?”

AKSDHJSKAHDHAS I FUCKING LOVE TALKING ABOUT MY FICS

okay so! some background information, it is my personal hc that bear fell into the cult, senior year of high school. so when tim rescues, he's been in there for like 5 years. it just doesn't make sense to me otherwise? like they chose him for the sacrifice. it wasn't like "oh he's convenient. might as well use him." they specifically interrupted his date-but-not-really-a-date with tim to get to him. like they thought he would be a worthy sacrifice to bring down the attention of dionysus. like he had to have been their most devoted member or something.

the gang meets him in their freshman year of college where mori, jam, and bear all end up getting an apartment together bc the landlord leased it out to three different people and they all responded. dija and chinna are their next door neighbors. anyway, they all become friends bc they all go to gotham u together.

i think mori and jam always knew there was smth wrong with bear. he's always kinda lost in his head, he disappears at odd hours of the day, when he talks to you he never directly stares at you but to the side of you like there's someone there. and as they grow closer, obviously the truth comes out near the end of freshman year.

and as college goes on, everyone learns his backstory and his sordid history with tim. needless to say, bear is like your dad who drops absolutely horrifying Dad Lore at random times and the gang is left to red-string-cork-board it together. they could be at a cafe near uni and bear randomly would be like "i tried to give my dead best friend chest compressions for like 30 minutes bc i refused to believe she was dead." cue the gang going, ".... do you, maybe, wanna unpack that?" / "no." / "oh. ok"

background info out of the way, the gang despises tim drake. how could they not? when they see the way bear has deteriorated after junior year? when they stumble across a photo of the grieves trio and wonder where that bright smile of bear's had gone? how could they not, when all of them have had to talk bear out of a hallucination? how could they not when bear comes back each night with more and more scars? when they've all walked in on him bleeding out? when all bear talks about is being chosen? when it's starting to look like this cult is going to take their friend from them?

and then, 4 years after they met bear, they get a call from hospital telling them that their brother is in the icu. and when they finally arrive at the hospital, tim drake is sitting in the waiting room, struggling to fill out basic information about his so-called "best friend".

fuck tim drake.

#okay yeah they're biased as hell #but they're on bear's side first and foremost #fuck everyone else #anyway they absolutely hate that man. if they could punt him into the sun they would #bear and tim could be getting married and they would still give tim the stink eye as he walks down the aisle #im sorry ik you meant it more in the comedic sense #but tragedy calls to me like a siren #asks #introspective.txt #timbern #mori lore time! i was originally gonna make him meet bear @ the boarding school bear went to #but i hate the idea of like one person having more ties to a person than everyone else #sorry that's just my personal issues coming out #jam lore time! jam is thai. thai people usually go by their nicknames than their real names so i looked up some popular thai nicknames #and jam popped up! anyway jam is the only one in the gang with a good family. his mom and dad are auntie and uncle to every1 else

[puppybong]

No bc in canon Tim as a kid WAS like Fuckkk yes my parents are leaving me alone for the holidays again, time to climb trees and read all about batman and robin but fanon ruins it. Like why did they do that

he was probably praying his house would get broken into so he could recreate the home alone movies

#ask #tim voice Yepp and then i would throw bricks 🧱 off the balcony at them. Amen #like he went to boarding school and had a nanny he was not alone. He fucking wishes

[vaguely-concerned]

every day I think about the theoretical world where quinlan vos turned up to be grogu's jedi teacher instead of uncanny valley girl luke skywalker. it would be a better place to be I think

#they really ruined everything that was good and fresh and new about the show with one move huh. still boggles my mind #it could have been quinlan!!! you could have done so many things thematically with that instead of whatever the fuck this was #grogu went to boarding school with nightmare cgi luke for all of one ep. why. why throw it all away for this. god. I'm still so salty lol #star wars #oh well at least I have confirmation he was still alive and kicking from the obi wan show at least that's something

[leviathiane]

I’M A PROFESSOR NOW?!?!??!?!

#depths' talks #totk #depths plays #i should make a tag for my totk playthrough at this point tbh #but i went to hateno to get my farm veggies #and uma greeted me as professor link #i was like ?!?!?!?!? HUH #I SAT IN FOR ONE LESSON AND PPROVIDING TEACHING MATERIALS #PROFESSOR IS A HIGH TITLE FOR MY TWINK ASS #out of curiosity i went to the 'help wantedd' school board #and it says. #ANNOUNCING OUR NEW PROFESSOR LINK. PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEW FACULTY #SO I GUESS TOTK!LINK IS A FUCKING PROFESSOR OF THE CALAMITY NOW JKDHVGHSBAK #THAST ASTOUNDING FUNNY TO ME #'yeah i lived it. died. woke up. beat up a pig. u know how it is' #'wow!! thanks professor!!" #HUH #JKSBDHJKSJABKDHSAHAHHAHAHAH #totk spoilers #not really IMPORRTANT ones but they are ones ig #this is so fucking funny to me #botw vs totk link: weird homeless child vs professor #wait the two lessons they teach are on the calamity and on cooking #link may as well be a professor hes got the credentials there #man makes pizza in a fucking wok i meean

[sleevebuscemii]

nepo babies are so infuriating because they are just completely unremarkable they have no x factor they have no pizazz they’re all just a little too polished a little too put together a little too normal a little too ‘never experienced adversity in their life’ know the industry and how to get and be famous just a little too well they’re completely stripped of substance and meaning as artists and i dont Care how talented they are and i dont care if this is pretentious or oversimplifying i just dont. like yes some of them can get the job done but its not INTERESTING. nothing about their performances or about their presence on screens or on stage is ever INTERESTING. you can spot a nepo baby from a hundred miles away because above all else they are so Bland just the most some guy some girl some person in the whole world and you think why are you on my screen? and then it’s like oh. thats why.

#when i say nepo baby i mean anyone with famous parents or rich parents or anyone who went to fucking boarding school #i just dont care. you can never give me art that i genuinely feel touched by i dont Care. #they shouldnt be here and they’re casting is literally ruining cinema and i say completely in the utmost seriousness #m

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Do you think in-universe that there's actual pokemon levels? If so, how do they measure it? And if not, how do they keep things like the battle facilities level-capped? I remember you mentioning before that you think battles are largely for show, and that in gym battles the leaders/trainers will basically "fight down" to whatever predetermined strength level they've trained their pokemon to fight at depending on how many badges a person has. And that basically they're not actually "fainting" from some kid's baby pokemon, they just have a set amount of damage they can take before they concede the win. Assuming I'm remembering correctly anyway.

But like... are those standards just arbitrary? I assume the various Leagues have rules about that kinda thing, so their gym leaders and Elite Four/Champions are trained rigorously (gym leaders more so, I think, because they'd have to learn eight different levels of difficulty by heart, whereas the Four and Champion only need to abide by one difficulty level). But in a battle facility or tournament, you're not just limiting what your pokemon are allowed to do, you're also somehow making sure that your opponents are doing the same, at the exact same difficulty level. If there were actual levels I think that'd be easier (although I'm still not sure of the actual mechanics of how it'd force them down to level 50 or whatever), but if there's no levels and it's all arbitrary, then literally how would they even tell or enforce it?

Or is this the kinda thing that's just me entirely overthinking video game mechanics that have no logical or reasonable in-universe explanation. Because maybe it's just because it's really late here, but I'm drawing a blank. Although, I guess the pokemon universe does have some mind-bogglingly advanced tech that would in no way work in ours, like Bill's machine that turned him into a clefairy or a functional doomsday device 4,000 years before the modern era or even just the PC system as a whole, so I guess if there are levels it'd make sense that there was some kind of tech that could measure and suppress them?

oooh, really tough question.

so your first paragraph summary is basically right lol—what makes most sense to me is if pokemon battles are like, for show, or honor duel type things, where they're—generally speaking—stopped long before the point where either party would do lasting harm to the other. (there are exceptions, like in the case of frenzied alphas or other certain wild battles, but usually if it's not a scenario that is legitimately life or death, they're not gonna fight like it is.) it's just a matter of demonstrating that one is stronger, and their opponent conceding. & yeah, the corollary that goes along with that is that gym leaders and other high level fighters really are, as they rightly should be, much more powerful at a baseline than you are when you fight them—but to make the fight fairer, they'll try to match strengths with you.

levels though. yeah, it's kind of a toughie. even if you don't assume the above, levels are kind of tough to make coherent in-universe. this might just be one of those situations where game mechanics sort of run up against inworld depiction, yeah, like when an npc tells you to press the B button to run? or the apparent metaphysical law of reality preventing anyone from having more than 6 pokemon on their team at once. it might be that in reality, "strength levels" (inc. not just xp levels but also EVs/IVs and that kind of thing, since some trainers (ingo again) have also shown that they can modulate those) are just sort of a thing a high-level trainer and their team gets a general feel for as they advance, and then maybe they have to do some extra training to actually do the moderation, but the general sense for different strength levels is already there. like, maybe it's not as granular as "okay, now be level 37," it's just "yeah put in like... 40% of your normal effort. great."

but then yeah, the idea that there's no hard and fast rule for it makes stuff like the battle subway kind of hard to explain. since like, there's no way to actually stop someone from cheating and going over 50, and if they do there's no actual Numbers for them to point to and say "no, you've gotta take it back a bit." they can only rely on vibes to determine whether someone isn't strength scaling appropriately? that seems like they wouldn't be a fan of that.

on the other hand i do love the idea that modern day pokemon people have invented some kind of machine that can just scan your pokemon and output a bunch of numerical summaries of their general stats. ooh, maybe that's one of the things a pokemon center machine is doing when you heal, it's giving them a lil blip and updating their info chip in the pokeball-or-however-it-works with their latest info. if it was anything that was actually enforcing a level standard i think it would have to be based around that, since modern pokemon are at least partially data based and i think it would make some kind of sense to be able to sort of. put checks on that data.

alternately, there's no actual physical limitations, it's just that if you try that you will be kicked out of whatever you're participating in. and there would probably be like, sports news drama about it, depending on whether you were participating in some kind of tournament. so people generally don't bc the payoffs of winning once aren't worth it when it's so immediately obvious to everyone that they're breaking the rules. (there could even be some kind of like, known scammer's/cheater's art of trying to just barely toe the line of "rule-breakingly strong" without anyone being able to strictly prove it and punish them for it. but for the most part that's more investment than people want to do for not a lot of gain, it's easier to just fight normally)

...but then the thing you always circle back around to when talking abt this is like. from the battle subway forwards, you're not just going down to 50, they can make you go up to 50 too. which is like, how the fuck, even. how are they juicing the fuck out of my level 20 starter to make them match with everyone else. which is why i feel like there might not be any physical in-world numbers about it, and it's just a matter of it being accepted that both opponents should play down to whatever the weakest party member is, and 50 happens to be the standard level the games represent that as for ease of calculation.

-ok wait a second i just went to check and according to bulba in post-bw games, like in the battle maison and further, they stop doing that scale-up-to-50 thing. it's just the fucking battle subway that does that?? hi?? hello?? out of universe i guess this makes sense from a gameplay perspective, since they're a much earlier-game and generally more accessible facility than other regions, so it's actually unlikely that a player would have a level 50 team when first boarding. in-universe, though?? what the hell are you guys doing over there???

#the nemesis speaks #the nemesis answers #anonymous #fuck i know i just threw it in there at the end of a really long ramble but can we talk about that #the level 50 thing. can we talk about it actually. #like you're telling me that other facilities just DON'T. DO THAT. #it's just them. being outliers?? #but that's also the implication to me that like #most of these facilities are like. aggressively high end competitive things #for people who could at least challenge MOST of their region's gyms. and generally they're postgame areas #but the battle subway was like fuck that. do you have a pokemon? you're golden hop on board #what if the lil preschoolers that fight you on the subway really are just like. #kids on their way home from school hopping on the train with their level 10 partners for fun #hides my face in my hands #AND THEN BULBA WENT OFFLINE SO NOW I CAN'T FACT CHECK ANY OF THIS FURTHER #live with it #oh shit almost forgot #pla analysis #ah yes. because this involves pla so heavily (that's just my general pkm analysis tag atp)

[shopcat]

when someone makes eddie randomly british i go outside and i close my eyes and shove a random pedestrian into oncoming traffic and/or freight train is this what you want

#🐾 #now ive heard of the inability to separate the character from the actor but this is actually just fucking funny #youre STUPID like ... #sts #why the fuck would he be british 😭😭 but wayne isnt. its always such a convoluted reason too #ohhh... he went to um... boarding school

[stars-and-cows]

Fucking hate chemistry but man do I love the teacher.

He lets me draw on the white board

And set himself on fire that one time

Overall a good guy :D

#Um actually I'm gonna fail this fucking subject #The whole class went NOOOOO when he cleaned the board and destroyed my drawings #i don't like my class but damn that was a time of solidarity #That drawing of person with a ponytail is me irl lol #I unfortunately wear glasses #Well... SOMETIMES I wear glasses #I fprget them like 70% of the time #art #starry art #doodles at school #doddles

[ratgirlcopia]

ur the only other "copia is american" believer ive seen out there i am shaking ur hand so hard rn 🤝🤝🤝

GAH. handshake. for real though i think it's both the funniest and most correct reading of his whole deal.

#anon #ask #the thought of him trying to talk like the other three and the fake accent becoming a permanent part of his speech pattern is. a Lot. to me #so therefore it must be real. #furthest he's ever lived from LA was like. fuck i dunno. wherever he went for his ballet child boarding school backstory.

[rohan-kishibes-grindr-account]

everyone knows i’m a tranny faggot in japanese class i wanna die i hate you mrs allen

#if it was her misgendering me in almost any other situation it would be 70x less worse but no you did while the class was all standing up- #-around the board looking at me while you were announcing the fucking award #and she fucking knew she messed cause she apologized afterwards #like i don’t know i haven’t known her for a MILISECOND before being trans- the first day she had us tell her our preference names + pronou- #-n’s in a google doc #imagine any other male students face on top of mine if it’s so hard cause it’s not #there was no point in time where i ever went by ‘she’ in that class there is nothing to be confused with #i don’t wanna live in a world with cisgendereds bro #(there is only like 2 good cisgender ppl i’ve ever known) #RANT #VENT #LOL I HAVE TO BE BACK AT SCHOOL IN AN HOUR #slurs #sorry

[souvlakiandcocaine]

Remembering when lolcow was tearing lana del rey a new asshole for coming from a rich suburban family as if she didn’t have an abusive mother, develop alcoholism at 14-15, go through multiple toxic relationships, and let’s face it was probably SAed/raped from the way she talks about it. You are assuming so much about a person based on one facet of her life and it’s weird + retarded etc etc

#my txt #lana del rey #nothing else gives me an unhinged level of rage than these grandiose assumptions about others’ lives #it’s weird!!! if you think like this you’re weird!!! #who the fuck cares if she went to a private boarding school Oh My God pry yourself out of the woman’s asscrack you don’t know her!!! #I’m not even like her number one fan but you don’t know her do you understand me???? #you do not know this person #get normal or kill yourself please

[blugnettabutterflies]

can i get a fuck Gonta's human parents in chat?

#gonta gokuhara #drv3 #danganronpa v3 #ndrv3 #for the love fo god #i hate his human family #with a friend have been discussing that his family probably was hiding his disseapearnce as a he went to a boarding school #and now that he is found he is being accused for ruining them #FUCK HIS HUMAN FAMILY

[byronsacademics]

You know, sometimes when I think back on my life up to this point, I remember that half of the things I did could be considered future plot lines for a day time soap opera

#there was boarding school #and then my boyfriend in high school #my theatre teacher #my semi notorious excel spreadsheet of links that I got many a Tumblr popular user to fill out #dropping out of high school #tabitha #she gets her own fucking tag damn bitch was crazy #I think I went to like 3 funerals in high school too #junior high was…. so much #theo rambles #edit: that’s suppose to say kinks not links