#And only scores 'completed'

[majorxmaggiexboy]

Couldn't help myself and just wait, went ahead and sent out some job applications. Very much hoping to get some hits.

[autumnwhistles]

(still ft synthesised voice because round 2 of auditions for everyone are still going on and my voice isn't feeling great at the moment)

[rwpolls]

what karma level do you think iterators are at ?

levels 1 – 5

levels 6 – 9 but not 10

level 10 ( max karma )

it's different for each iterator

iterators don't have karma

nuance / other

[to-dance-beneath-the-diamond-sky]

petition to add a fifth category of answer to the RAADS-R Autism test for "I do not know how to answer this question // The premise of this question is highly flawed"

[knickynoo]

The Keatons + name meanings

[crimeronan]

chronically ill people will see the rapid3 questionnaire ask "do you have problems with dressing yourself each day, including doing up buttons and tying shoelaces" and be like "ah, this does not describe me, for you see i have a System" and folks. that is what the question is getting at,

[softquietsteadylove]

Hello! 🫣

I had this idea: thenamesh academic rivals?

Gil is a top student, mostly getting a mark of 100. but whenever Thena asks her rival what he got he always says a lower point (for example he says 97 and she got a 98) , hiding his exam behind his back 🫣

Thena glared at the chair next to hers as it was taken.

"Uh," Gilgamesh attempted - yet again - to strike up a casual conversation, "hey."

Thena tapped her papers on her desk, waiting for the professor to come in, as well as tell them how they would be conducting the labs with their students for the day. "I trust you've already looked up what your score for the mid-term was."

"What was yours?"

Thena clenched her teeth in her jaw. It didn't matter what she got, he would get just the same, if not better. She had worked her whole life to become a historical scholar, as was expected of her. And this guy always managed to stand shoulder to shoulder with her, seemingly without so much as blinking. "I achieved 98. I believe the two point demerit was due to my oversight in the essay section."

Gilgamesh merely nodded, offering a nervous kind of smile. "Ah, well, the essay parts are always the toughest."

She slid her eyes over to him. She didn't truly wish to know, but she also couldn't resist knowing. "And you?"

"Ninety..." he trailed off, as he always did when they were discussing their academic performance. She glared at him to finish, "seven?"

Thena smiled, although she did her best not to appear smug and unbecoming. "An admirable mark."

"Thanks," he laughed off, like it was nothing. Professor Stoss was a famously tough professor despite his young age, and getting any good mark from him was already a feat.

Thena did somewhat believe that the affability Gilgamesh possessed made people go easier on him. And even then, she had to concede that he was intelligent and competent in their field of study. It infuriated her.

She had the weight of the world on her in the expectation to perform. She was even a teaching assistant entirely to advance her studies and career. Otherwise, the interaction with other students was far too much for her own preference.

But Gilgamesh said he was good in historical studies merely because his mother had possessed a fondness for them. Thena devoted hours to studying and research and Gilgamesh worked part time at a diner close to the university. And yet he used to consistently beat her in every assignment and quiz and test.

Only in recent months did he seem to be coming just a single point under her, and even that was not enough. Thena had already heard from her own family how outstanding this no-name student was and how those in their field of work were asking about him.

"Did you...do anything this weekend?"

Thena looked over, somewhat astonished that he was still trying to make conversation with her.

He shrugged, tapping his fingers anxiously on the cover of his textbook. "I heard there was a fancy party for the TAs, I mean. I assumed you went."

Thena frowned. There was indeed an event for the faculty and their chosen assistants--those who showed promise enough to earn extra credits in teaching. She hadn't attended because she felt no need (nor did Phastos, in her defense). "I assumed you had gone."

"Oh, no," Gilgamesh smiled down at the desk. "I take the late shifts on weekends. They're long, but we don't get many people, so I can get studying or work done, y'know?"

Thena swallowed her words. She had all this envy for his natural skill, but his work was just as legitimate as hers. And he worked to pay his rent, living off campus, while she lived in a dorm for female academic leaders. Gilgamesh stole his time studying as opposed to building his entire life around it.

"You deserve to enjoy yourself a little."

She looked at him again, still frowning. "I beg your pardon?"

"S-Sorry." He went back to staring down at the tattered edges of his textbook. But she kept looking at him, waiting for him to elaborate. The silence worked, dragging his words out of him. "I just mean...you work really hard, right? You're always top of the class. You should be allowed to have some fun, sometimes."

She did work hard. She devoted every waking moment of her life to her studies, and the one person who continuously thwarted her attempts at perfection was the one to point it out?

It would be easier to be angry with him if he were dislikeable in any way. As it stood now, all she had to go on was that he always beat her in academic achievement, and so effortlessly at that. But even with that, she had to concede that he worked just as hard, if not harder than her for it! And it was infuriating!

"Sorry," he repeated, looking away from her glowering at him.

She sighed. "No, I'm sorry. It was an innocent question."

He looked at her, completely astonished. She would like to snap at him for thinking she couldn't even just apologise for being overly adversarial with him. But that would defeat the point. "Well, I know you don't really like small talk."

It was that she wasn't good at it. She angled herself in her chair, destroying her perfect posture to face him somewhat more properly. "Should you not have also...enjoyed yourself? When do you have time to socialise if you are either studying or working?"

"Well, I have friends I can see in my other classes," he shrugged.

Oh. Yes, of course. Thena felt her hackles raise again at the idea that she was so unfamiliar with the idea of having friends in any of their classes. But she was trying to be nicer to him.

"But," he offered another sheepish smile, bending closer to whisper like children trading a secret in grade school. "This class is my favourite."

Thena just stared at him. She supposed that made sense. He always said he had the same like of history and classics that his mother had. But the idea that she was included in the categorisation of his favourite anything; a warm feeling spread in her chest.

"The lovebirds are here already."

Students began filtering into the small lecture hall, facing them seated at the front of the room. The one who made the comment plunked down close to the door. Another one looked in their direction, "don't you two ever sleep in?"

They got jokes and insinuations that they were together all the time. Apparently, everyone could see some kind of brewing, invisible tension between the two of them. Thena always found it ridiculous.

"We don't-!"

The student startled, as did the rest of the room slowly taking their seats. The declaration was sharp, and loud--far louder than was needed for a room this size.

Thena felt warmth rush to her cheeks, first for the outburst, then the realisation that it seemed overeager to deny something that wasn't even said. She cleared her throat, turning towards the board (since she had shot to her feet in her denial). "Sit down and start copying."

The student body present groaned but obeyed. Gil was the far preferred teaching assistant because he didn't scare anyone, and even if they under-performed, he had kind encouragements as opposed to scathing condemnations.

"Guys, come on, you heard her."

Thena barely glanced over her shoulder. There was nothing new about their students complaining about her teaching methods. But Gil usually didn't take quite so stern a tone with them. Even in her defense.

He peeked at her with a smile, perhaps hoping to show that he was indeed her ally and not her enemy.

Thena whipped her head forward again. So long as they were pitted against each other in any setting, he was no friend of hers. No matter how winsome his smile was.

[hestiasroom]

does anyone else's mom think they are "mean" for having boundaries? or is that just my mom?

[rickybaby]

i truoy believe that if daniel hadnt broke his hand he'd be in the redbull seat next year (from the very first race)

the universe really did checo a solid one with that injury

I KNOW!! It just wasn’t about he looked so comfortable within the RB team, but also he was so ready to go after the summer break!! And it was the first weekend they’d finally figured out his set-up

It would have at least been interesting to see what the perception would have been around an increasingly confident Daniel and the checo that had that spate of awful races between Singapore and Japan

[shiroselia]

I have so much respect for dedicated high scorers in this game I fucking hate high scoring it's so tedious and boring I am not made for this shit

[soleminisanction]

Me, coming into my apartment with an armload full of 5-15 new books for the 20th time this year: Hmmm, do I have a problem?

[eddie-rifff]

u ever think about how youve probably passed up so many amazing records in your record collecting career just bc you didnt know/care about the artist yet. i am haunted by that idea

[wumblr]

evil cooking tip: you can cook chicken to any temperature. the FDA guidelines are for restaurants

[samarecharm]

Im not gonna hold u; this big run was miserable. Like the map was just So Fucking Bad. High tide was hell. Getting horrorboros on hightide was an immediate death sentence. Reg tide was annoying (having the natural spawn be a foot away from the ramp close to the basket was not okay who let this happen???) Low tide was BAD like SO BAD there is just no way u can say its okay to have all threats from all directions AND have me climb up to get long range threats???? And u know its awful when they have to literally hide the fucking big shot cannon behind a lower ledge directly outside their own spawning geyser bc the alternative would make it laughably close to spawn 😭😭😭😭😭 and on top of this, they gave us arguably the worst grizzco weapon (brella) for a run that incentivizes high scores like just seeing Three Grizzco Brellas and a Rapid Blaster Pro for High Tide immediately made me want to give up; a [grizzco] Charger or Blaster wouldve been way more manageable for the absolute dogshit spawns they gave us. No one uses specials, or if i check the app for boss kills, ill see that our only solution to NINE (FUCKING NINE) flyfish was a killerwail that wants so so SO desperately to lock on to this maws underground and an inkstrike that needs to u be midrange to throw and that never happens bc all of us are pushed into high tide territory bc again. They have decided that having their spawns be right next to the basket was okay. I never complain about splatoon or salmon run rotations and i literally will just suck it up if they give us bad weapons but i literally had No Fucking Fun at all. It was 100% stressful and im blessed to have even found a decent freelance group that got me to 153 eggs like i wont get gold but i hope thats at least silver 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[comixandco]

imagine if the credits for majora’s mask were tied to the actions you did in your last cycle

like instead of that everybody is happy celebrating the festival, if they were a specific set of cutscenes that each play depending on whether you did it before fighting majora or not

so like, if you didn’t defeat each temple boss you would see cutscenes from that region still in trouble like the deku with the monkey over the fire or the gorons all frozen, but if you did kill all the bosses in the last cycle you can see the regions happy like in the actual credits

and the same for important quests as well, grog could either be with his chicks or with grown cuccoos, pamela might be with her dad or she’d be on her own, you can only see anju and kafei’s wedding if you complete their quests then fight majora, if you don’t help romani defend the ranch she isn’t playing with her sister in the credits she’s just sat there

idk i just think it would be really neat if you finished the game and were suddenly hit by the realisation that that’s it, the cycles are over and your choices in that final go-through are how the characters will live the rest of their lives

and it would make you want to go back and play through again if you saw your favourite characters not having the happy ending they deserved

[rohirric-hunter]

The only problem with having a bunch of hunter alts is the True Shot deed my beloathed.