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your-mom-friend · 36 minutes

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Unpopular opinion maybe but I feel like going to a school or college on a scholarship isn’t that great. I mean it’s fantastic that you’ve earned the scholarship and you’re getting the opportunity to go to a great institution because of it I just feel like people ignore the aspect of it that’s like, if your grade drops below a certain level they’ll revoke the scholarship??

I feel like that’s just, too much stress for a person to have to handle. Make sure your grades always stay above a certain level, you don’t have the liberty of spiralling, you HAVE to make sure it stays above a certain grade. Plus some scholarships have more requirements too right? Like you can’t have any disciplinary action against you?

Beyond education, these are also places where you figure out who you are, like outside of home. You get exposed to new ideas and opportunities and you should get to explore and make mistakes and you can’t really do that with the weight of financial ruin settled just over your head if you mess up.

Idk I just feel like. There should be more grace in these things. A kid shouldn’t have to worry about crippling their or their family’s finances just because they messed up a few times

#rem rambles #life stuff #school stuff #scholarships #idk maybe I jsut don’t know enough about scholarships

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your-mom-friend · 2 days

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Chat: *sobbing about Polites and Odysseus’ mom*

Jay: Don’t worry guys :D it’s only their final thoughts as they died :D

Chat: *sobbing harder*

#this adds more fuel to my theory #that when Odysseus mentions thinking of the infant from that night #it’s because taking the infant to the wall was that baby’s final thoughts #so since it was a baby and hence had no dialogue just the thoughts of the baby’s final moments were projected onto Odysseus

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your-mom-friend · 2 days

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No Longer You just hits different when you know the story of The Odyssey so you know exactly what events the prophet speaks of but you can absolutely tell what Odysseus thinks is happening.

#rem rambles #epic the musical #the underworld saga

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your-mom-friend · 2 days

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i get so freaked out by like. pictures of really big rope

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your-mom-friend · 2 days

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i cant sleep so i wanna talk about the different ways i conceptualize cecil's age. to me there are 3 domains i consider: chronological, physical, and functional

for his chronological age, we know cecil was a teenager in 1745 making him more than 279 years old. this one's pretty straight forward.

for his physical age we have to do some math. i've broken it down in greater detail before, but the tldr of that post is that (in my estimation) cecil physically ages 4-8 years for every 49 years he's alive. given how much wtnv likes a 1:10 ratio, i'd actually be willing to bet my math in the original post is close but wrong and cecil ages at a 1:10 rate. if cecil was at least 15 in 1745, and if he was stuck at 19 for at most 100 years, that would make him around 33 physically.

cecil's functional age i've never seen talked about and i haven't had a lot of chances to talk about before, so this was the main motivator for this post. cecil isn't just a man, he is The Voice. and since huntokar found night vale after it was founded and didn't break time until 1983, we can assume there was something supernatural about cecil before her involvement.

leonard burton was host of nvcr for "an uncountable number of years" and cecil has said he didn't recall anyone being host before him.

cecil interned under him from at least 1745 until ww2, likely after pearl harbor (1941) since cecil stated america was involved in the war at that time. so cecil interned for ~179 years and has been hosting for ~83 years

it's unclear when leonard died, i've detailed the murky timeline on his wiki page, but cecil had been hosting for between 38-60 years when he did. when leonard died he was crossing the street outside of nvcr, which i interpret this to mean leonard was still involved even after he retired, likely continuing his mentor role informally or else helping cecil as a consultant.

no matter how long cecil had been hosting, 38-60 years is a drop in the bucket compared to "an uncountable number of years." cecil as The Voice was still very new, functionally very young, when leonard died.

this continues the theme of cecil's life: that he's abandoned too young and before he's ready. i read cecil's lack of on-air professionalism to be a reflection of that; just like how he struggled and lashed out and acted up after his mother left he's doing the same thing on the radio. he didn't have anyone to show him any better. we aren't seeing cecil the 279 year old immortal or cecil the 33 year old man, we're seeing The Voice who is still only a child

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your-mom-friend · 2 days

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He...uh, isn't doing too well

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your-mom-friend · 2 days

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Hey so like. In The Underworld. When Odysseus sees Polites and his mom, they’re talking about what were essentially their final moments before they died, and it wasn’t the painful moments, but rather the more peaceful ones before they died. His mom talks about always loving him and waiting for him to come home, not that she wasn’t going to see her son get home. Polites talks about greeting the world with open arms, and not being killed by the cyclops.

Just before that, he says “I keep thinking about the infant on the wall”

Do. Do you think that. Do you think he was thinking about the baby because the baby was too young to have any dialogue about his final moments so instead his final peaceful memory, since he wouldn’t have any context for what was happening, was of being taken to the edge of the wall in the gentle arms of a father, and that was just projected onto Odysseus’s mind?

#rem rambles #epic the musical #the underworld saga #odysseus epic

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your-mom-friend · 2 days

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The underworld saga fucking broke me JORGE WHEN I CATCH YOU JORGE WHEN I FUCKING CATCH YOU

the soft, gut wrenchingly heart broken way he whispers “Polites…” and not to mention “mom?”

Why the fuck did you do that to me

The way the prophet makes him think he’s not getting home, that his wife takes another husband, that his home gets invaded, that his wife is in danger, when we know what actually happened and it’s so, so much sadder.

#rem rambles #epic the musical #the underworld saga

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