#and should be in a different class

[penguicorns-are-cool]

Also because it's pretty shitty that schools are ranking kids like this at all. The school shouldn't be ranking children it's very unhelpful and gives everyone a really toxic mindset about it all.

You're either told that you're the main character and above everyone else or you're told you're not good enough and either way you're gonna grow up and be told that it was all a lie and didn't really mean anything. Except by then it's a bit late for it cause it was a formative part of your childhood and shaped your whole mindset

Either way you're having an unhealthy amount of pressure put on you to either try to get into the gifted spot or to prove you deserve that gifted spot. Either way you don't get the resources you need because your school is more focused on trying to measure your potential for intelligence than on effectively teaching you and supporting you

It's an extremely fucked up system and we should talk about it and how it absolutely shouldn't exist

ohhhhh I get it now. the "gifted kid" discourse exists because people see it fundamentally as a sign of Privilege and not as a largely meaningless category that puffs up weird children before setting them up for the same unremarkable lives as everyone else; thus they interpret people going "the educational system gave me false expectations before ultimately abandoning me to the same heartless world as everyone else" as "why am I, The Main Character, not getting everything I ever wanted."

[fisherrprince]

it’s not necessarily that I hate the themes most prevalent in fiction set in the real world and it’s not necessarily that I don’t like stories revolving around real people or relationship drama or interpersonal issues it’s more like im a dog who doesn’t recognize that a pill is still a pill if it has peanut butter on it. I need like the little peanut butter spoonful that is aliens or robots or monsters or time travel or something fantastical and not at all down to earth real life so that you can approach me and be like “this story is about how friendships can deteriorate over time and also how this guy feels bad for being a bad friend and causing his buddy problems with their girlfriend” and then look at me making a face at you and be like “AND! they’re all aliens who are doing all that across spacetime” and I’ll be like OHHHHHH OKAY YAY (shlop shlap shlup the sound of a dog horking down peanut butter pills) wow what a poignant story

[xxplastic-cubexx]

og post

bonus textless/jeanless below:

[unggoydluffy]

tls of misc law 4-komas from お米-san

[aldercaps]

I HAVE WOVEN!

Can you tell I immediately overcorrected tension issues about five times in a row?

[s2pdoktopus]

Hehe

[tangledinink]

i really need tumblr to learn the difference between "CEO of a massive corporation" and "'CEO' who is the owner and founder of a small business."

[fjordfolk]

puppy fever, might be terminal

[ryllen]

Hi! I hope that you are doing well🥰💗💕 I really adore your art!! Your Yuu really wins me over to the very heart!💘💘💘

I wear lightning-shaped earrings and they really remind me of Sebek!⚡ I would like your girl to put them on and draw this🥺💓

But I also really love her black earrings that she wears when she's a teenager and green ones when she's an adult! It's really cute💕💕

And! I would be interested to know if Sebek notices when Yuu puts on other earrings or doesn't wear them at all if she doesn't want to?👉👈💗

Have a nice day!🥰❣️❣️❣️

decide ur ending, which feels more in character

[jesterjaxx]

i'm sure you've noticed me binging ur content rn but no. that's not enough. i need to eat ur blog like im digging through dirt and shoveling it into my mouth like a starved man in the light of a crescent moon. if your blog was an orange id eat it from the flesh to the seeds to the pith to the peel. i'd hike mount everest to get better wifi to scroll thru ur blog

anyways what do u think different td characters hand writing is like??

Me to this ^^^^ i fucking love it when i see people go thru my blog and like and reblog a bunch of shit i be watching the notifications and giggling

Anyways

[hoomanbeaning]

elias: i just want to be with you.

young hearts (2024)

[rikan-oo]

I guess we should let Shen Jiu pull out Han Yoojin's little trick against Sung Hyunjae ghosting. It would be fun.

Imagine Yue Qingyuan didn't answer anyone's messages for quite a while. Maybe a problem with Xuan Su.

SJ sent a letter reprimanding him for his absence. When he didn't get immediate answer as always, he threatened to blow up his house if he didn't answer and gave him a timer. Then he sent the last letter that time was up.

He came and threatened him with the sword. Yue Qingyuan was never so happy getting a sword against his throat and his house destroyed.

[notkingyet2]

Jopson and Hickey have such delicious parallels and i specify "delicious" because noticing all their parallels feels like chewing tinfoil

[novelconcepts]

There's something really fascinating about the duality of Van and Lottie. Two kids who opted into stories to keep going, to keep everyone else going. Two kids who told themselves what they needed to make sure they could arrange an inherently nightmare situation into a home they could all stomach. Van with fiction; Lottie with faith. Neither any truer than the other, neither any greater as a lie. There is no such thing as false hope, just hope. Tell it to them all to make sure the despair does not win.

And then the loss of that faith, of that fiction. How it shapes them both in shades of depression, distances them from the others. Lottie speaking less and less; Van joking less and less. Lottie no longer having the trust of any of the others; Van no longer even trusting herself. Both of them striving to rework the narrative and not quite, not quite being able to grasp hold of the threadwork anymore.

Van with scars on her face she wears for the rest of her life. Lottie with a scar on her forehead that is totally invisible in adulthood. Van going off-grid, distancing herself from everyone until given no other choice. Lottie going off-grid, returning with as many people surrounding her as she could manage. Both knowing in their bones the Wilderness, It, is not real. Both falling back into the Hunt anyway. Both staring it in the face, getting dragged back to who they were at seventeen. Lottie embracing. Van rejecting. It makes no difference either way. They follow the same path, the same road, the same endless trail to the same heartless end.

Lottie dying meaninglessly. A murder. Lottie, going back to the vision of fire she's had since she was a teenager. Lottie, who wanted so badly to be useful, to have a purpose, to mean something, and who dies alone.

Van dying meaninglessly. A murder. Van, going back into a house filled with smoke, just as she's feared since she was a teenager. Van, who wanted so badly to have a purpose, to find a reason, and who dies alone.

The story doesn't save either of them. The story only keeps unspooling. More tragedy. More meaninglessness. More stupid death, as all death is stupid--as Travis and the button, Natalie and the needle, Jackie and the snow, Ben and a fabricated trial were all stupid. Meaningless. Unnecessary. But always, always coming for them. You don't actually cheat death. You can't. You can't make meaning out of nothing, but it won't stop you trying. You have to try. That's all we have, all we are. We are all stories in the end, and we are trying so desperately to make that matter.

[fiendishartist2]

astro boy doodle dump

[dykedvonte]

A crazy thing about Mouthwashing is that Pony Express lost communication with one of its freighters for months and didn’t send anyone to check.

A genuinely reputable company, or at the very least a decent one, would have sent someone, something out to check after about two weeks of silence. Two months is when the crew start questioning if they are even being looked for which implies they were already expecting it to take a while cause P.E just doesn’t care.

They don’t care about who they hire. They don’t care about the conditions they place their crew in or how safe the safety measures actually are. They just don’t care, made rules and regulations so they can care less and succeed in getting away with it with how little those ideas are discussed.