#but will be going back... for reasons

[a-sad-mage]

I just had this thought: since Lia (my OC) is 14 years old, I can see her being shocked at the fact that down here in Slugterra, the school education system is so different from what she's used to in the surface world. And she gets a little jealous of that. Eli agrees with her on that. I can also see everyone, including the HC gang, asking what the education system is like in the surface world. And for Lia and Eli, telling them what they know off the top of their head. How would everyone, including the HC gang, react to this?

I think the Gang is a little confused lmao

Like after a certain age, Schooling is like more or less optional depending on what trade you go into in the Cavern's, and even then you can change focus or learn different things at anytime.

The biggest example of this probably being Blakk himself, starting out as a hard labor worker, then Gang leader eventually becoming a successful business man/scientists.

so finding out a most people on the surface spend a good 15-20 years, or longer(or shorter because reasons), in school, and they basically have to make a decision on what they want to more or less do forever, with minimal changes. is like, a mind fuck.

In Slugterra your more or less free to be whatever you want, so long as you got the skills to back it up. And even then, you can do multiple things at once, you aren't limited in what you can do.

And this isn't covering the education system as a whole, having to go into dept to get higher education or the tests, and other things you gotta put up with to get a fancy peace of paper that say's you can do a thing.

And I say that as a college graduate!

I DID MY TIME!

but yes, the Gang, + the hc Gang are mind boggled as to the Surface's education system. For a 'mythical world' it's way or teaching its next generation is weird compared to the Caverns.

Trixie is intrigued by the there are apparently schools that specialize in the creative arts, but to know that they are so expensive... Same with Kord, Gent, Stocker and Vance about mechanic stuff, though the idea of tech/robotics and auto-shop in High School in an intriguing.

Pronto probably demands to know more about Shakespeare, to bad Lia and Eli got limited knowledge-

Dana, Mario and Junjie think University/College is a scam once Eli explains it. after all experience is the best teacher, with a little guidance.

[opt1gan]

Around the world around the worrrld 🏍🚗🚤

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

being a student during peak pandemic was so fucking surreal like. "it's not an excuse to fall behind" I cannot stress enough to you how much A Worldwide Plague Upending Life As We Know It is literally one of The Top Three Reasons to fall behind

[soepwashere]

Turtle Tot shenanigans, a harrowing encounter

bonus doodle :]

[beyond-the-frozen-pines]

one for the ages, it’s a tale as old as time 🍃

[fairsweetlonging]

svsss body swap au where shen qingqiu and liu qingge swap bodies, and while shen qingqiu (either yuan or jiu could work!) is having the time of his life with the full power of the bai zhan war god, liu qingge is having a very rude awakening on how much chronic illnesses suck and how much pain and discomfort sqq is in every single day.

liu qingge finds out how awful without-a-cure is, it's blocking his cultivation and leaving him helpless, and it hurts, too, a constant ache that lingers in the back of his mind. it takes mu qingfang calling him out on his behavior to realize that he's been lashing out at others out of his own discomfort and frustration. the only relief he gets is the cleansing of his meridians, but to take all those brews every day and be dependant on his martial siblings for his base health is really frustrating, because he can't do so many things he used to be able to do without second thought.

meanwhile, shen qingqiu arm-wrestled every peak lord and won, cleaved a mountain in half, ran a marathon for fun, and approached every dangerous animal he could find to study them because his strength and reflexes get him out of tricky situations every time.

shen qingqiu: i just ran eighty miles and im not even sweating !!

liu qingge: i tried to circulate my qi and now i have a horrible migraine

eventually they switch back; liu qingge is very relieved, glad to be himself again. shen qingqiu is keeping up a brave face, but the constant discomfort feels a little worse now he knows what it's like to live without it.

[kaahmbem]

legend has it that the young witch circe and the once beautiful nymph scylla shared a complicated past...

[zorangezest]

more of this miserable thing I made, somehow it became A Whole Au… no it does not get any better for them LMAOOOAOAOOA

it’s a father/son descent into madness! im calling it DON’T DO THIS, DAD and it’s mainly about frenzy and soundwave’s extremely ill-omened endeavours to bring rumble back to life. yes rumble is very much around and actively haunting them. no he doesn't consent to this

start

next

[somewhereincairparavel]

jason would be the type of person to roam around the grocery store on his birthday because piper and leo asked him to "do something nice for himself" and he'd spot a birthday flavoured protein bar, would jump around in excitement bc it's BIRTHDAY FLAVORED and go "this is perfect for today! :DD" and would come out the store with that, and nothing else.

[lotus-pear]

ace detective more like ace DEFECTIVE

[ink-the-artist]

funky ceramic wizard staff + an update on how fucking LOUD the cicadas have gotten jesus christ

[simpforsolas]

going back to my roots

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

just to be completely clear, the amount of military power and political influence Israel has has NOTHING to do with its settlers being Jewish. Israel is a force for American & European interests in the region and they're just doing what America does and allows/encourages its close allies to do.

war crimes aren't considered war crimes when someone America finds useful is doing them. european and american pushback against anyone criticizing Israeli apartheid & genocide is 100% because these crimes are useful to American & European hegemony.

Governments that are deeply antisemitic, like France, aren't suddenly caring about Jewish people. Jewish people, persecuted the world over, don't hold some kind of hegemonic power outside of Israel.

The state of Israel and its attendant brutal treatment of the locals are both incredibly useful to the US, and American hegemony means we're expected to celebrate both.

not bc they're Jewish. this isn't a break in the pattern of western antisemitism and it's not evidence that antisemitism doesn't exist.

it's just like how you could get fired for saying shit against the US war in Afghanistan when i was growing up. it is 100% about US military and political interests (ok slightly western europe too but lbr)

[starry-bi-sky]

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.

[snowangeldotmp3]

btw i feel like this shouldn't have to be said but the reason that agatha hates rio is because agatha didn't get to say goodbye to nicky. rio couldn't offer her any more time. and, in rio's mind, nicky going peacefully in his sleep (and even telling him to turn around and kiss agatha goodbye!!) is the one grace rio feels she can give agatha. nicky doesn't suffer. he doesn't fight. he just...goes. he goes on a walk with his mother and kisses his mama goodbye. but agatha doesn't get to say goodbye!!! she doesn't get those final moments with him!! she wakes up and he's already gone.

[plesiosaurys]

getting emotional over footage of an amateur scuba diver interacting with a coelacanth. they are hunted by large deepwater predators, and here comes a large creature bearing the brightest lights it's ever seen, making strange noises, but it does not shy away. it hovers, calmly, as the diver reaches out and trails a hand down its back. im strongly against the anthropomorphizing of real life animals but the stupid emotional part of me loudly insists this is because it recognizes us, the alternating movements of its four paired limbs matching the diver's four paired limbs, & it is thinking, "hello, cousins, we missed you these 66 million years, it's so good to see you again. welcome back, welcome home."