#bc extra credit

[applebees4prez]

i wonder what level most aguefort juniors are. i’m sure they’re not all at the same one, different adventuring parties do different things, but what’s the most common? how far ahead are the bad kids? also, i feel like the adventuring party at the highest level in a grade should get some sort of reward.

[stuckinapril]

listening to all the demos victoria monet did for ariana grande is insane bc how did this woman have it in her to sit on all this material and not be frustrated about it

[amber-laughs]

jon pierced his own ears in the backseat of val’s car with a sewing needle they found in her console. no ice cube bc he wanted to impress her but she called him a pussy when he flinched. they got infected so he had to take them out then when he brought it up to her a couple months later she didn’t know what he was talking about

[bigmammallama5]

Got a good grade at our annual checkup this morning. (Don’t let her sweet face fool you, she would have bolted outta there if allowed.)

[mattodore]

What's in my bag?

Theo: uses his college backpack to lug around his things. normally keeps his bag full of study materials, but there are glimpses of him in his journal, his addictions, and the wildflowers he takes home.

Matthias: doesn't use a bag. he’ll keep his phone with him but there’s little else he’d have on him.

tagged by @rollingsim and i seriously loved this picrew so thank you!!! gonna tag @wldestluv-rs, @stinkrascal, @omgkayplays, @rottengurlz, @void-imp, @raiiny-bay, @fizzytoo, @bunmou, @birdietrait, @stellarfalls, and @pralinesims!

[tachyon-omlette]

okay before I lose my thought (MASSIVE Rise of the Beasts spoilers re: Unicron)

in my opinion rotb handled Unicron perfectly.

when I first watched the full trailer & saw Unicron my second thought was "oh no" (my first being "YOOOOOO") because in the bumblebee-rotb timeline it seemed extremely early to be involving him. I went into the movie almost resigning myself to the thought that it would end with Unicron being destroyed & never seen again, because he was advertised as the main Big Bad.

but the truth is, Scourge was the main Big Bad. and while Unicron made several appearances and had more than one line, the primary thing he did was loom over the narrative like the slow approach of death - he did more than haunting the narrative, I think, but aside from his interactions with the Terrorcons and his arrival at the final scene, he was largely uninvolved in the main conflict, and was in the end defeated momentarily rather than destroyed.

what we did see of him was always displays of power: the destruction of the Maximals' homeworld, his ability to supply the battlefield with endless Terrorcon footsoldiers, his mindscape-meeting with Scourge wherein he tortured Scourge for failing him from Primus knows how far away. hell, even Scourge, Battletrap, and Nightbird themselves were living proof of Unicron's power - ruthless, near-invincible supersoldiers who've killed enough Cybertronians and Cybertronian-adjacent lifeforms to steal and wear their badges like a bounty hunter collects trophies. on-screen all of this is done through Unicron's power, the extension of his will - and not, notably, by Unicron himself.

this wasn't Unicron's moment to shine, only to be destroyed so early in the narrative.

this was the moment that painted a target on Earth, and on Optimus Prime. this was the moment that established how Unicron is accustomed to taking thralls from other worlds while also killing off the ones he already had, laying the potential groundwork for Galvatron or even Sideways. this was the moment that showed off just how powerful Unicron and his allies are without cramming it into the first fifteen minutes of another movie down the line, and when he appears again we'll already know just how fucked the protagonists are.

this was the setup to Unicron's moment to shine. though I'd hoped Unicron would get more screentime, rotb ultimately handled Unicron with the severity he deserves; for that, it was perfect.

sidenote: I got very big "then perish" vibes at the end of the movie, when Unicron said smth like "think about this, Prime. I could give you anything you want." and Optimus responded with "then DIE!!". it was dramatic in the moment but remembering it got me a good laugh

[picturemecountingcards]

🎶once🎶

[bugmistake]

juts called my orthodontist to reschedule my appointment and it was a little bit awkward at the end bc i never know how to end phone calls but guess who didn't disintegrate or become a pile of goo on the ground? uhhhhhhyeah. that's gonna be this guy right here.

[moregraceful]

yet another writing ask: 23 and 32 if you would like to <3

Thank you 🙇🙇

23. Dialogue or description? Why is the other one so hard?

GOD. Dialogue is so hard. I get soooo stressed in rpf bc I often want or am including multi-lingual players who do not speak like a generic Californian, and I get real in my head about like...capturing that authentically and sensitively. Like description is easier to deploy meaningfully and if I fuck it up, I find that way more forgivable in myself than like writing a multilingual player and accidentally leaning into stereotypes about speech patterns or ways of expression that aren't True To Nature. and like to be clear this is specifically about non-Canadian/American players, like if I fuck up some American NCAA white jock who gives a shit but if I leaned to stereotypes about like how idk Russians speak, I would just die. and I have done this!!! I look back at some of my old sidgeno works and I'm like this is unforgiveable lol.

I'm poking at a concept with Radim Šimek, who is from Czechia, and I'm stressing sooo bad about his speech patterns and how he expresses himself in interviews vs teammates, particularly after I noticed how obvious it is that he learned in English in the Bay Area, which is not like...a particularly unique version of English, but I've noticed that sometimes the way Bay Area ppl inflect words is absolutely deranged. and like how does that affect how you express yourself yk, and like I'm basing all of this off getting lectured for being lazy in five years of French classes in high school and college, which is not even remotely the same thing

Also. At least once per fic, I have to go through a delete an instance of "hella". That man from Ontario would not fucking say "hella".

32. Do you have a word/expression that you always use in your writing?

Well I absolutely overuse "like" in speech which is what happens when you grow up in California and write primarily in a fandom of white jocks. Also tend to use "sounding strangled" with regularity, but I have never been able to figure out how to execute that specific emotion any other way (I have not tried very hard)

Thank you!!!

[glassknee]

Girl with something fucking wrong with her but then it turns out she is pretty normal. And her bff the girl who is pretty normal but oh wait hold on

[bonojour]

RUSSELL CROWE in thor: love and thunder (2022)

[violetclarity]

got a job offer today for a new position and not only is it not at a catholic school (fucking HUZZAH) I will be The Librarian and not just an assistant. who's in charge of organization? me. buying new materials? me. displays? me. teaching research classes? me! it will all be me! I cannot effing WAIT.

[serkonans]

so frustrated bc I need to break up w my personal trainer fr But he's experienced w helping people recover from injury and I want him to coach me through getting back into lifting after top surgery

[darksouls2yuri]

so i finished the chem hw with i think an 80%. going to do the 3 labs now which is cool bc i always do fine with the labs theyre like never an issue. also i reread the syllabus bc i remember seeing extra credit on it and theres like 50some extra credit assignments that are also final exam review. and theyre a mix of hw and labs so you know gil will do them probably during thanksgiving break

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Gonna have to bust out the comm sheet soon bc work is not scheduling me and. frankly. I simply do not want to be there as of late