#(as in I have an assignment on the topic to do)

[slackeremeritus]

[Image description: A three-page comic featuring Heavy and Medic from Team Fortress 2, rendered in a clean, greyscale style.

[Page one features a close-up of Heavy adjusting a bolt on the hinge of Medic's medigun, inset to a medium wide shot of Heavy seated at a table with Medic standing beside him on his left (the viewer's right of the frame). Heavy is repairing the medigun and explaining the mechanical issue that led to this. The panel is framed from behind Medic's left shoulder for a ¾ angle.

Heavy: Here. See? It moves now. Trigger was stuck because hinges lacked proper lubrication. Doctor needs to remember to apply it after every battle.

[Page two includes two insets, both close-ups of Heavy; the first inset shows him with a stern, slightly irritated expression. In the second inset, he looks surprised or off-guard.

Heavy, inset one: You can break her for being too rough and Dorothea hates it when you press trigger too hard. Heavy, inset two: Is dangerous if weapon stops working in battl– Medic, off-panel: –Who is Dorothea?

[The main panel continues the medium wide shot, now framed at a head-on angle with Heavy at the left of the frame and Medic on the right, still close by his side. Heavy looks disgruntled while he works on the medigun. Medic looks intrigued by the conversation, his right hand lifted to his chin in a contemplative gesture while he gives Heavy a small smile. His left arm is tucked behind his back.

Heavy: ... Medic: –You just said "Dorothea hates it" Heavy: I did.

[Page three has a large, medium close shot at the same head-on angle for panel one. Heavy appears to be continuing the conversation only begrudgingly. Medic looks amused; his right hand is lowered to his chest. [In panel two, Heavy lurches toward Medic and points at him with his left hand, index finger jabbing at Medic's chest. Medic has both hands raised disarmingly in an apologetic gesture.

Medic: –Is that what you call my Medigun? Heavy: Yes. Is her name. Medic: –Ow. So you think she is a gift of God? That's sweet– Heavy: Don't change topic! Doctor has been bad owner and neglegted (sic) gun for too long. Medic: – What? Neglect!? Did she call it that? – Oh! Who would have tought (sic) my own bolts and blood would turn against me!! Heavy: Heavy is serious!

[After the artist's blurb below the comic are screenshots from tweets discussing the naming of the mercenaries' weapons, by user Ginger 🌻 (open comms) (@ JohnnysStars), date unknown.]

Heavy has secretly assigned a name to the other mercs weapons, he likes talking to them whenever he has to do maintenance he WILL roast the weapon's owner if he sees they have done a poor job at taking care of them, you better keep them on good shape or he is scolding you once he is done Scattergun: Lisa Rocket launcher: Donna Flamethrower: Tammy Sticky launcher: Wilma Medigun: Dorothea Sniper Rifle: Millie Revolver: Cosette

[End image description.]

day 120

gun naming

This comic came from my hc that Heavy has names for the other mercs guns:

[iwant-fuitgummi]

imo nicole's canon design actually has huge implications for ragbros btw

rambling theories below 👇

so prior to this trailer, nicole was represented using this teapot in this cutscene. and, when you hear her speak in the fontaine archon quest, she is represented by the matching teacup. as many people know, this same teapot is found in dawn winery, and the pattern is also found on diluc's clothing.

seeing as this was the only imagery for nicole that we had, i (and many others) theorized that she may be diluc's mother. with her released design, though, some people may be thinking "did her genes even try at all?" and the answer?

of course not!

ragnvindr genes are strong as hell!!!

as proof, here's some images of all known (biological) ragnvindrs, spanning back 2600+ YEARS !!!!! they all have the same long, luscious red hair, no matter what !!

so, no matter who diluc's mom was, he would've looked like crepus regardless because those ragnvindr genes will ALWAYS be the dominant ones and will ALWAYS be representative of the child's phenotype.

ok. so that's the diluc evidence, but we already knew all that. she's probably his mom. ok. but what about kaeya?

well, the most obvious thing is definitely the eyes. most khaenri'ahns (dainsleif, caribert, direidyth, etc.) all have pretty large pupils. kaeya's have always been different, being much smaller. i've always assumed it was because he was half-khaenri'ahn. but so is caribert, and his are still large. so that ruled that out.

nicole's pupils are smaller, though, like his. if nicole and kaeya were related, then his smaller pupils would make much more sense.

the most glaring difference is the shape. it's not exact. khaenri'ahn pupils have more rounded vertices, as the stars are made up of curved lines. nicole's have angular vertices.

while not exactly the same as khaenri'ahn eyes, they're DEFINITELY similar. because of this difference, i have seen theories about her origin.

multiple people say that she is a seelie / angel, and i agree. nicole has a "halo" on her hat, and it glows whenever her translucent wings appear. in addition, in the nod krai preview, there is a large seelie with colors similar to nicole's, and it is examining the tea set that represents nicole.

in addition to this, i have seen theories that khaenri'ahns are descendants of seelies. i don't know much about seelies as a race, so I'll have to do more research later. from what i understand, seelies were created by the heavenly principles, but were then cursed by them. this could be why khaenri'ah and celestia had such intense beef. that's a different topic, though.

if you find the pupil evidence flimsy, i get it. they're technically different shapes (although arlecchino also has abnormally shaped khaenri'ahn pupils). so here's this instead.

nicole and kaeya wear extremely similar earrings. they're almost exactly the same. even in his sailwind shadow outfit, kaeya wears similar earrings. a blue diamond shaped gem with a gold casing and a sharp point at the bottom.

i always believed that the earring was a gift from his father, much like the eye patch. and yes, he always wore the eye patch, even before his fight with diluc. in chapter 7 of the webtoon, you can see kaeya prior to the fight. he's already wearing the eyepatch (and the earring).

this could also be considered flimsy evidence, since it's just similar shapes again. so it's time for me to become Insane.

i also believe it would make sense for nicole to have a connection to the alberich clan in general. kaeya's father would be that connection. this is where my wonderful etymology obsession comes in ! yay !

the surname alberich is derived from the germanic mythological character alberich, who is a dwarven king. alberich itself means king of elves / fairies. in french, he is named oberon, who is the king of the fairies in a midsummer night's dream (shakespeare).

side note, in nibelungenlied, alberich is assigned with protecting nibelung's treasure. in genshin, nibelung is the king of the seven sovereign dragons. just an interesting fact. back on topic now.

functionally, seelies are like will-o'-the-wisps, which are generally considered to be fairies or spirits. and, in other languages, seelie translates to, you guessed it, fairy spirits. so, seelies are like fairies, and alberich is king of the fairies. in addition, seelies lead you to treasure in game, and, as i mentioned before, alberich was tasked as nibelung's treasurer in myths.

nicole, being one of the only seelies left with any sense of self, could have been drawn to the alberich clan. not in a way that makes her do anything that she doesn't want, more like a crow with a shiny object. she could have been drawn to kaeya's father.

so with all of this, there's a possibility that kaeya is related to nicole as well. kaeya's father is mentioned in the game, but never his mother. and he has to have a mother. so, with all this, i believe that nicole is kaeya's mother, as well.

so. nicole is diluc's mom. nicole is also kaeya's mom. kaeya and diluc are biological brothers. they just don't know it because their mom is too busy doing whatever the heck the hexenzirkel witches get up to.

now we just wait for nod krai !!!

[inkpotsprite]

hii :) for the violence ask game: 7, 13,16 and 24 <3

Hi! :D Thank you for choosing some of the most terrifying questions here, you definitely know how to get me rambling.

Right *cracks knuckles* let's get to it. Buckle up, this is gonna be LONG.

7. What character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because of how the fandom acts about them?

Actually there's a funny story here bc when I first got into this fandom, it was through fanfic and that was the only way I interacted with it for the first year or so. With that in mind, I loved reading Tim fics and a lot of Tim fics are not very nice to Dick or Steph.

Dick, in particular I genuinely hated for the first six months bc I actually believed he tried to put Tim in Arkham and was like 'wtf???' So in a way how fandom treated Dick as a caricature of himself alongside making him comically awful made me hate him for a while.

With Steph, it was more like 'why are you only written as Tim's waffle loving ex who faked her death supposedly???' I actually thought she was funny and liked how bold she could be when written well, but fanon's portrayal actually stopped me from fully loving her until I read Batgirl 2000 and spiralled from there.

13. Worst blorborfication

It's actually so hard to choose but I think I have to just say Tim. The sick, abandoned, Victorian boy trope fanon assigns to him is TIRING.

Not to say I don't love indulging in Tim angst, hell, I write a lot of it. But this whole underweight, wet kitten thing the fandom has going on in regards to him is just...no. He's not a poor, helpless baby, he's a little asshole surrounded by other assholes and sometimes that backfires.

And the whole "every character but Tim is a villain" along with ignoring the other characters' pain just to focus on his is just plain bad storytelling too. Not to say you can't focus on it, again, I do, but Dick, Steph and Damian aren't the devils incarnate just because they made Tim sad a few times. They're just flawed, complicated, hurt people like he is which I think makes for a more interesting story rather than mindlessly villainising them.

16. You can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, tropes, headcanons etc)

Hoo boy I could go for DAYS about this one. But to restrain myself, I'll focus on two characterizations that I really don't understand why people use/like so much.

"Duke is the normal one" is not only untrue, but such a dull way to characterize a funny, interesting and complex character. The guy's a lil hater who roasts people mostly unprovoked, it's hilarious. I just don't understand why people use it at all because it does nothing, adds nothing and only serves to make people who actually like Duke want to scream into the abyss.

Also Cass being the perfect, silent, well adjusted sister *snorts* that woman wouldn't know well adjusted if it kicked her in the face (affectionate) and the only "perfect" ideal she reaches is being a perfect fighter - at least in her eyes, I personally think her self preservation instincts could use some work but I digress.

24. Topic that brings up the most rancid discourse.

Ooooh you're spoiling me with this question. The DC fandom has so much rancid discourse bc it has a lot of issues with, well, anyone who isn't a member of the "fab five." But I'll behave and just focus on one.

A topic that really brings out an ugly side to this fandom is anything to do with Talia al Ghul. Her and Jason? "Evil, brainwashing lady who slept with him!!" Her and Bruce? "Evil, seductive lady who roofied him!!" Her and Damian? "Evil, cold hearted lady who hates her son!!" Her and Tim? "Evil, mean lady who made Jason and Damian try to kill him!!"

It is truly ENDLESS. Talia would probably get blamed for one of the guys stubbing their toe at this point if the fandom saw fit. So yeah, arguments can get real ugly over here when Talia discourse comes up.

Thanks so much for giving me the chance to rant and rave like a drunk preacher on a soapbox!!! 💜💜💜

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

I'm slowly making my way through a new project- editing the entirety of the album PUNCH by Autoheart to the Life Series.

I was originally planning to post all of the edits in order of the songs on the album, but I instead made the Lent one first and am too excited to keep it in my drafts any longer while I work on the first four songs of the album (especially since we're coming up on finals seasons and the amount of time I'll have to work on these is gonna plummet so fast). So instead, I'll be posting them as I make them and make a masterpost of them all in order at the end.

That being said, I hope you enjoy this! I'm really proud of it and a lot of work went into it.

[light-the-spark-of-dawn]

When I was in high school, the SATs had a mandatory essay. It was the very first part of the exam and the only thing they gave you was some philosophical question that you had 25 minutes to answer.

Of course there was a grading rubric. To get a good score, you were expected to write a standard five paragraph essay consisting of an introduction with a clear thesis, three body paragraphs where you gave examples proving your point, and a conclusion to tie it all together.

It was the sort of process that your English teacher might have you spend a day just for planning and outlining beforehand, but the SAT said "Do it all under half an hour or die."

I wrote hundreds of practice essays in preparation for this ordeal. So did most of the kids I went to school with. Every single one of us surely asked the same questions: What's the point of this? What skill is this supposed to be testing?

(Given the history of the SAT, it was probably a form of artificial selection to weed out students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. But I digress.)

Fast forward a few years to university, and I'm taking a mycology class with some friends. We're each assigned a paper on different fungi as the topic and given a month to complete it.

A couple of my buddies were good noodles and have their essays finished a week early. My roommate bunkered down the night before the due date with several cans of Red Bull and begins paraphrasing Wikipedia articles. I haven't even started researching but I'm exhausted and turned in with the plan of waking up early.

Instead, I slept through my first alarm and woke with an hour before the deadline. In the midst of my desperation, old instincts kicked in and I banged out an entire paper on white mold that's used to cure sausages, starting with a sex joke (white stuff on rods of meat? it basically wrote itself). I just barely turned it in on time and a week later received a perfect score.

This sort of thing happened unfortunately often before I graduated. Was it stressful and risky and entirely preventable? Every time. But the reason I did get through college despite having shit time management was because having to write- and more importantly, to think- quickly was something I had practiced until it was second nature.

"what did students do before chatgpt?" well one time i forgot i had a history essay due at my 10am class the morning of so over the course of my 30 minute bus ride to school i awkwardly used by backpack as a desk, sped wrote the essay, and got an A on it.

six months later i re-read the essay prior to the final exam, went 'ohhhh yeah i remember this', got a question on that topic, and aced it.

point being that actually doing the work is how you learn the material and internalize it. ChatGPT can give you a short cut but it won't build you the the muscles.

[thiinka]

[quibbs126]

So question, are there any fanfics about Wildbreak from RID 2015 being a KOBD kid, but like it’s about Knock Out who’s having to raise their kid alone because of Breakdown dying in Prime, and him just having to deal with all of that?

Because I don’t know, I think that’d be interesting to read, and I’m fairly certain someone’s already made that fanfic somewhere

[klqdraws]

a homework assignment I'm proud of LMAO

[quatregats]

How do you politely give someone a D for using ChatGPT

[goldensunset]

you know how in school they’d always make you (still make you) like choose random topics to give class presentations on while everyone politely clapped even though they didn’t really care about your powerpoint on fungi or whatever bc they’re too worried about getting their own over with. tumblr is like if every single person in the room was paying full attention and was absolutely stoked about it and gave you wild applause and wolf whistles at the end. you can just get on stage and talk about coelacanths and you become a celebrity for a few minutes. like on tumblr it’s on your own terms so it’s like oh snap education is actually supposed to be fun

[satanfemme]

people always say "this website's hate mail game is insane" but I can't even remember the last time I received a hate anon that didn't just make me roll my eyes. it's like... so mid. sometimes it's so boring I forget I'm supposed to block. and look, I'll admit this is almost frustrating because if you're going to develop some kind of hateful obsession with me that's cool and gets me going a bit, but I'd like it if you actually paid attention to who I am as a person (it's like you don't even care about my major and obvious insecurities), or at least otherwise showed some kind of conviction and passion.... none of you are suitable kismesis partners for me and it makes me sad. you are all anxiety-ridden & reactionary cowards who, rather than forming a useful political identity, search tumblr for your favorite discourse keyword of the month so you can (fail to) posture yourself as effortless bullies because it makes you feel better about your own shit lives and it's so transparent that it could never work on anyone with even 1% less insecurities as you have. it's sad! :-(!

[sunstonespark]

♠️♦️card boys card boys♥️♣️

[mellomadness]

I just fell down a rabbit hole about (legal) body disposal and part of me is so anxious wishing I could tell the FBI agent monitoring my internet searches that I’m just morbidly curious and I’m not planning on dying anytime soon (or planning anything ELSE, for that matter)

[eddis-not-eeddis]

The truly annoying thing about college is that I'm kind of expected to be a top performer because I actually buckle down and do the work. I don't even do it that well, I just do it, and so I get decent grades (not phenomenal, but good) and I'm considered a good student. There are other kids who are waaaaaaaay smarter than I am. When it comes to raw intelligence they have me beat all hollow--they instantly pick up on topics I have to grapple with for days or weeks of careful study. They will easily answer a question that takes me four or five minutes of puzzling over to solve. But they're flunking out because they refuse to study. They're failing classes because they won't submit work. I'm only considered a good student because I muddle through it and actually submit assignments. Imagine how much better they could be if they actually studied for their exams or didn't wait to work on their projects until the day they were supposed to be submitted.

[itsmistyeyedbi]

You know when King Julian yells "How long is this going to take!" in the first Madagascar movie?

That's me with my assignment rn💀

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

oughhhh five million articles with tiny fonts but it's a pdf so i cant increase the text size without zooming in and having to manually scroll side to side to read everything or just suffer with the small font because i can only use half my screen for reading because the other half of my screen for writing in my word doc my DETESTED