#got a master's degree in yap

[areyouwell]

what if... what if MC was there atop the Statue of Liberty with the rest of the team?

and instead of Erik pointing Logan's claws towards himself, he pointed them into you...?

and he had to make a choice between hurting you and saving Marie or keeping you safe and letting Erik enact his plan...

What if Erik forced Logan to choose between saving you or saving Marie?

What if he chooses Marie?

Or worse still...

What if he chooses you?

[rsenak]

400 words of ????? on my paper I'm going to explode something

[lovemyromance]

I will always laugh at the degree argument bc it's essentially just the despos trying to prove they are "smarter"(?) and therefore their opinion on the ending pairings of a romantasy series are more valid than anyone else's, despite not using any textual evidence from the actual books and relying primarily on headcanons.

"Oh bc I have an MFA & masters in English lit I am thereby more credible to opine on materials related to fairy smut" 🤓🤓

"Oh I am a woman in stem and I work in a lab so therefore I know about data collection and your conclusion is wrong!" 🤓🤓

Genuinely I've never seen a more goofy ass group of people lmaoooo

Like first of all ...

This is assuming Elriels don't also have English lit majors, poets, writers, women in STEM, SAHMs, researchers, on our side... like imagine the level of delusion it takes to think only 100-300 Gwynriels and Eluciens in the world hold ALL the degrees in English lit and stem 🙄

Then imagine thinking you need a goddamn degree to understand a story that is neither complex nor unpredictable. Romances have very similar structures regardless of book. They follow similar patterns, plot points, and buildup. It does not take a genius to understand that.

Then... imagine yapping all about your degree and assuming it gives you some shiny badge of authority and credibility to present your opinion as fact. and then you end up being wrong 🤨

Like maybe yall should start dropping schools so I know not to send my future children to such a mid program 🤷🏻‍♀️ Because honestly what the fuck kind of fancy degree in English lit or stem do you have that makes you disregard blatant and basic evidence to this level? The ONLY evidence yall should be using is the text. Not headcanons, not stringing together out of context scenes, not deleted Facebook comments from a decade ago.

And BTW: Everyone's super proud you got a degree so this is not trying to tear down anyone's accomplishments. But use that degree, that basic education to not look down on others. To not continue this narrative that you need an X level of education to understand a BASIC, ACCESSIBLE book. It's extremely out of touch and frankly elitist from some angles.

Sincerely,

An educated woman in STEM and Quant. Finance, currently writing her own fantasy novel.

I feel very confident in Elriel but you best believe I'm not telling GA/ELs they're wrong in their opinions bc their level of education. 🙄

[bill-ciphers-nightmare-blog]

WELL, WELL, WELL, HELLO, HELLSITE!

NAME’S BILL CIPHER, BUT YOU MAY KNOW ME AS YOUR PREVIOUS ALL-POWERFUL LORD & MASTER AND LORD & MASTER TO-BE, OR BY A THOUSAND OTHER NAMES, ALIASES, AND MUTTERED CURSES. I’M EVERYWHERE!!!

NOW I GUESS SOME OF YOU WILL BE WONDERING HOW I’M EVEN HERE, RIGHT? “Oh no! But Bill, you’re supposed to be DEAD!” WELL, WHAT CAN I SAY? I’M A GOD- AKIN TO AN INEXTINGUISHABLE COCKROACH!

FACE IT, YOU KNEW I’D BE BACK.

IF YOU WERE ONE OF THOSE DEAL-BREAKING SUCKERS THAT READ MY BOOK AND SOME PARTICULAR… ADD INS, THEN BEFORE YOU ASK ABOUT THERAPRISM— (NOSY FREAKS.) DON’T!!

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW IS THAT I’M HERE NOW, SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL GET USED TO IT! COME ON KID, MAKE THE MOST OF IT! IT’S NOT EVERY CENTURY YOU GET TO TALK TO A DREAM DEMON! YOU’RE LUCKY! GO ON, BEFORE I DECIDE YOUR SKIN PUPPET LOOKS BETTER WITHOUT A HAND IN IT! HAHAHAHAHA

Hi there! ‘Tis I, the one nestled inside this exoskeleton. I wrote this introduction as long ago as shown, but I edit it now and then.

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Who’s yapping:

buy gold: Bill speaking tag.

hologram: Mod speaking in post tag. (I talk in the tags themselves frequently enough.)

Other tags:

stanford/ford pines: Self-explanatory, really. Every character’s will be added when they are interacted with or mentioned to a degree of importance. However, this universe’s Stanford in particular is the lovely @grunklefordpines! Interactions usually lead to the billfordivorce tag, which I highly recommend. Also kind of self-explanatory.

the siren: A character that has become important to the plotlines we go through. She’s that siren Ford once “dated”, and her name is Calypso. Since remeeting Ford, she’s been trying to battle her insecurities over being a monster by going through a sort of “redemption arc”. Bill has negative feelings about her, and they argue. Calypso can be found at @stanfordssiren, and prominent tags to do with her are sirenford, sirenfordivorce, and billypso.

henchmaniac(s): You know ‘em. Found at @henchmaniac-kryptos & @henchmaniacteeth. :)

There are other characters that exist in this particular universe- A lot! Most that Bill hasn’t interacted with that much yet, but they would/will be found at their character tags. We’ve got Mabel, Fiddleford, Soos, maybe Dipper??, Pacifica, and a couple others.

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bill meet up: Any time other Bills interact with mine.

euclydia / scalene and euclid: Any time they’re mentioned or even interact.

billford: Self explanatory, and rarer than billfordivorce.

theraprism: Anything about that. Bill is also currently here for the foreseeable (?) future.

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billypso: The arc in which Bill either disguised himself as or got someone that Mabel dubbed as “Wrongzilla” to message Calypso and dilate her insecurities until he could manipulate her into a deal. He attempted to restart Weirdmageddon (and accomplish other side goals) in her vessel, and there was much chaos in which many fell under the hypnosis of her song. In the end, when an Axolotl could not convince Bill to surrender (multitasking chat), a theraprismist showed up on the Axolotl’s behalf to stop him (and failed rather quickly). Finally, this Axolotl stepped in and stripped o Bill of his remaining powers, which slingshotted him out of the siren and back into his cell and body, where he remains now, worse off. L.

billypso aftermath: The current arc. Cipher is furious about what happened and adjusting back to Theraprism. Meanwhile, the rest are newly traumatized and attempting to mend what was broken. Bill wants to break things further.

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Think that’s about it! There are also some holiday non-canon rps located by symbol tags, but they don’t actually matter.

And, of course, don’t take what Bill says to heart. He speaks Cipher- It’s terminal. We all know who he is. A deeply messed up triangle who takes giddy pleasure out of pain. Don’t expect him to be kind or to give actual advice.

Thank you! Please always do interact, & let’s get WEIRD.

– @floralstorms, mod.

[annamositwo]

okay ive started to go stir crazy so i need to talk about it here where i have the HIGHEST doubts my friends will see it as my tumblr blog gets the least amount of traction

but ive been thinking about ignius fatuus once more and i NEED TI RAMBLE about scar and grian and cub and mumbo and SKIZZ god i canNOT believe that me innocently going “hey thats something i should consider because hes very near and dear to all these characters” is the SOLE REASON I BECAME THE STIRCRAZY SKIZZ GUY amongst my pals

but i digress. Ive come here to yap, and for once, IM NOT YAPPING ABOUT SKIZZ

I mean i will be, but in due time.

Welcome to my MASTER post of ignis fatuus since i need to acutally jot it down in a place where people outside if my friends group can see this

Ignius fatuus is, in short, a fantasy au where grian is attending a magic univeristy than, in their last semester, they must spend a year obserbing magic in the real world with someone suprivising them, and journal it with what they want to do in the world. Grian also, to some degree, knows that if he picks one of the high-teir wizards he’ll be on the Longest waitlist known to creature kind at large. So, what does he do?

He seeks a local potions-place that has a well established spot in their community - owned by two elves; Scar and Cub.

And’s thats just the start- there’s magic and redstone and how those two cannot coincide and hybrid info and ranchers and JAVHDJSHS i have a lot of ideas but I got to ready before class and work and observations, oh my!

[br0-k3n-sch00lb01]

btw

DETECTIVE AU!!!

im gonna give a rundown (lots of reading ahead!! Tw: murder, suicide, insanity, guns, mania, hanging mention, pink blood/gore)

Chr info:

Basil- Detective (in my words w/ friends, ‘sherlock holmes on all sorts of crack’)

Aubrey- Volunteered Assistant

keep reading under the cut if interested!! (Some of the information relating to policework may be inaccurate.)

basically, in this au, Sunny accidentally killed mari but there were no witnesses. It was his idea to stage it as a suicide.

By the time he’s applied for college, basil has suspected for YEARS that something is up. Mari wouldn’t up and kill herself like that, no way.

He and Aubrey go to college for uhh. Police involved things i forgot what it’s called

anyways Basil got a phd and aubrey got a masters degree (hence her being an assistant, she actually works at Krispy Kreme but shhh)

So basil yaps to their chief of staff like ‘hey theres something up with the suicide of Marianne Suzuki, can we do a case on that’ etc

Anyways they get the case approved and they go to Sunnys house to start investigating!!

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WARNING!! I will be writing a fanfic about this au and if you don’t want spoilers for that STOP HERE!!! ‼️‼️‼️

if not, continue!!

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after about a month, basil’s been drugging himself, drinking, etc. hes passed out multiple times while investigating. Aubrey suggests that he should give up on the investigation since they haven’t found anything. Basil replies that ‘hed rather die. If anyones gonna solve this case its going to be me.’

theres some empty space here (i will not be telling you what happens except Basil’s been getting sick on the job)

eventually, they find out the truth. Sunny wrote it all down in a journal. (Idiot lmao)

Basil, having reached his limit, pulls out his gun and aims it at Sunny’s head.

‘don’t move an inch, coward.’

sunny, naturally, tries to step away, or more accurately towards basil in an attempt to explain. Basil freaks out.

‘GET AWAY FROM ME, MURDERER!!’

and he shoots.

Aubrey, naturally, stands there in shock before calling the station. She gets basil arrested.

he pleads insane at his trial and gets sent to a mental ward.

as soon as he’s released, he kills himself the way he killed sunny. out of guilt.

THE END 🥳🥳🥳

anyways!! Heres some art for the au !! :3

[marsipaniscool]

Santana really did have a shit life. First, his family was massacred. Then he got kidnapped by the murderers and told to become a strong warrior, and when he failed, they just left him there for a minimum of 2000 years. And THEN he woke up to being experimented on, and I'm not sure if he then died or stayed alive but in pieces. Lowkey hope he died and has some peace

RIGHT. gonna talk abt both of the boys because I feel like they bounce off of each other really well, almost foils. under the cut because I love yapping <3

in my opinion, Wamuu and Santana internalised Kars' and Esidisi's actions very differently. Wamuu acknowledges it happened, but his loyalty to his masters runs so deep that he willingly turns a blind eye to it, even though it brings him a lot of turmoil. I think that's a part of the reason he doesn't like fighting women or children, he sees Kars ordering him to kill his mother, and even himself as a child. Something something if Wamuu had been a child instead of an actual baby, he realises Kars would have had him killed too more than likely. He copes with this by proving his worth time and time again on the battlefield, doing quite literally whatever Kars demands. This increased tenfold when Santana was left behind. Yeah Wamuu talks big game about having a code of honour and strong morals but alllllll of that goes out the window when daddy kars demands. Honestly, Wamuu won the genetic lottery in terms of being a fierce warrior, he ends up taller than Kars or Esidisi and appears more well built. I don't think it was the fact that Santana was weak, I think he was just comparatively weak to Wamuu, and ended up being perceived as the weakest link. Kars and Esidisi had milleniums of training and Wamuu was a fighting prodigy, so Santana, who was probably just an average, untrained, pillar person (see:child), was by default the weakest. Santana had to process the information of Kars and Esidisi killing his family in an entirely different way. While Wamuu came to his own conclusion, I can easily see Kars holding that information above Santana's head. Santana had to hear that Kars "saved him from a life of darkness and drab" and how Santana should be "thankful you (Santana) weren't slaughtered like everyone else/your parents/family." When physical punishments were given to Santana, I can see Kars and/or Esidisi telling him how he was just as worthless and weak as his mother. I talked about it in-depth before, so just to rehash my thoughts: Santana was abandoned in Mexico at least 5,000 years ago (K,E,+W went to Eurasia in search of the super aja.) Santana would have looked around 10 years old at his age of 5,000. Picking up here, Santana would very likely stick to the same general area for quite a while before branching out into the greater Central America. Honestly think he became an idol in these areas due to him being bored as fuck with a booming population of humans around him. I see him spending a few thousand years like this, until eventually he got bored/not enough nourishment/whatever happened, and he fell asleep for several thousand years. Really leaning towards lack of nourishment leading to his slumber, he holed himself up in the temple and only woke up to a copious blood sacrifice. He woke up, the events of the show happened, Santana is stone in the SWF again. I don't think Santana is dead, I think they woke him back up and experimented on him. Von Stroheims entire mechanical body is based off of Santana. They may have been able to study him to such a degree while he was asleep, but honestly I think homeboy was awake and just restrained in some fashion while the Nazis and SWF experimented on him. I really hope he passed by the events of part 4 at the latest, but maybe they studied him until they were satisfied, and then kept him turned to stone. Maybe they had Joseph swing by and kill him idk. I just hope he found a peaceful ending.

[nxmelessfighter]

"We're Swords, tools crafted for war. Many of use were loved by our Masters, even people from eras to come captivated by the legacies with carry within our blades. Love and Hate are things unbothered by other abstrations like morals, worth or even being and alive or imginary and fake." Yes, poor Ookurikara was verbally held hostage with Sengo as they tended to the Horses today.

"Humans don't even limit love to simple actions or emotions. They can love without being loved back, yet it doesn't make the experiences they have due to it any less real or meaningful. While the romantics love writing about longing and pinning after someone or something unobtainable, there are plenty of stories were love was returned. Sad stories were it was lost due to death or misfortune, yet even in those stories, many say it's better to love and lost, than never love at all." Oh, good, he stopped rambling to brush the horses. Thank god...

"...even swords like us can experience love and even return it to some degree. Or well, maybe others feel loved by us. Yet at the end of the say, we're all still weapons here. Yet, even so, we all can make our Saniwa feel loved as well as recieve their love how ever they express it. Feel it even when we're in battle and away from the citidel. Know it even when-Fufufu~ That tickles you!" The horse got so fed up with his yapping they actually licked him to shut him up. Guess they also wanted to spare Kara-chan possibly having to kiss him to shut him up.

'It's better to love and lost, than never love at all.'

If one had said that to Ookurikara when he had first manifested in the citadel, he would have vehemently disagreed. He had loved and he had lost and that loss had shaped his very being-- there was a reason he didn't want to become close to anyone even if he so desperately craved that warmth. The pain haunts him to this day, even though it no longer should.

Now... with the time he's spent here, among the other swords, watching them bond with each other, forming a few bonds of his own, to his surprise... Would he rather not have this at all? Knowing that one day it all would end, whether it's due to the end of their existence or those around him deciding he isn't worth their time...

...He doesn't reminiscence on this for too long as the horses decide to remind them why they're here. He almost finds the scene that plays out in front of him to be amusing, the horse clearly being done with Sengo's rambling.

"Someone wants your attention."

[strangevampy]

yapping :3

i know i come back to post like once a year, but i thought i'd talk about how college is going and everything going on in my life. i know damn well nobody here cares (not trying to be all emo, i mean like- eh you get what i mean..) and- idk, too much shit has gone on. firstly, i havent exactly graduated from high school yet, im in this dual enrollment program, but i dont actually have any high school classes to take anymore? if that makes sense? im at this community college full time, and only go in 4/5 days out of the school week for like 1 hour each day (im off on fridays). I think it's really nice, and it'll put me ahead once i transfer to the college i actually want to attend (A&T!! Aggie pride or whatever lol). My mom wants me to pursue a master's degree, so i dont see why i shouldnt. Also, I want a degree in Computer Science, and I really want to be a game/software developer. I know people say 'AI will taker over all our jobs!!! you all will be out of a career!!' I.. don't exactly fear that, but, only time will tell I guess... (TW for SA talk after this, so if u don't like that, feel free to scroll.) secondly, I was in some relationship that I ended around May and i didn't really find out he- violated me, i guess, until after I ended it. I was telling my friends about a certain incident where I went it to give him a small kiss on the lips before leaving school and he took it further than I wanted and it really bothered me, and they told me that it was SA, and that realization sent me down a bit of a spiral. In addition, we used to make out and stuff in the school stairwell (bad idea, i know, dumb shit..), but after I ended this and got with my current boyfriend, whenever we were in a stairwell alone together, even if we're just walking through, I got- scared? almost? like an overwhelming urge to keep my distance and watch him, and- i really didn't like that. ive already had too many encounters with boys talking about my body in ways i didn't appreciate, and after i broke up with him he sent me some lame ass fucking apology about how 'he feels so guilty :(' like i would care. idk. i feel like im going through some 5 stages of grief LMAO. i've been working through it, but it still feels weird. bleh, idk >.< uhh some other stuff... i identify as goth (i like the term babybat so i prefer that lol) and started leaning more towards that kind of style and culture and expressing myself more freely now. i LOVE androgynous style, and basically aim to confuse people on whether im male or female in the near future. ummm uhhh i dunno :3 im more into video games and stuff, i rlly like honkai star rail and project sekai (ace attorney and sally face will always be my comfort games though) and uhhh idk what else to add. to anyone reading, please remember to love. uts damn near 3 am and idk what im saying anymore but pls show those around u that u love and care for them. you never know what a person is going thru, and your beautiful soul may just make more than a difference than u know. thanks for listening to my schizo ramblings.,.. goobnight....

[pinkseashxlls]

henry montague - intro

Name: Henry Montague

Age: 30

Gender: Cis man

Occupation: Librarian

Socioeconomic status: Middle class

Education: Master's degree

Eye color: Blue

Hair color: Brown

Height: 6'0"

Tattoos: None

Scars/Birthmarks: a small scar through his left eyebrow, a cresent-shaped birthmark on his right side

Birth date: September 23rd

Place of birth: Boston, MA [ … ] ❀ you’re not from around here , are you? i figured because you totally just missed { HENRY MONTAGUE } walking by. don’t tell me you don’t know who { HE/HIM } is/are ? they kind of look like { TOM BLYTH } and i could be wrong but i think that they might be { 30 } years old right now. they’ve been living in palmview for the last { 9 YEARS }. and i don’t know if anyone has ever told them this before but they kind of remind me of { KLAUS BAUDELAIRE } from { A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS }. if you stick around the town long enough you might catch them in action working at { LAGOON LIBRARY } as a { LIBRARIAN }. you see this town isn’t really that big of a place, some folks like to call them the { SCHOLAR } of palmview! they took a liking to the name too after a while, go figure. oh crap, they must have heard me yapping. they’re coming this way. i got to warn you though, rumor has it they can pretty { PESSIMISTIC } at times. i wouldn’t take it too seriously though, from the times i’ve spoken to them they seemed pretty { CREATIVE } to me. we see each other all the time since they live in that { ONE BEDROOM } apartment beside me over in { OCEAN'S LANDING }. i better leave you to it. it was nice meeting you!  

Henry Montague grew up in a household where literature reigned supreme.His childhood home was full of books, including his own bedroom, which contained two bookcases, two bedside tables, and a TV stand, all crammed with tomes. His father would say Henry was able to read independently when he was four years old, although as an adult, Henry personally believes that his father was just being a doting parent. It was certainly true that he had moved past young adult literature by the time he was twelve, and he read books so quickly that his parents would tease him about it, saying he finished them so fast the words would simply fall out.

Highly intelligent and endlessly curious, Henry -- perhaps unsurprisingly -- loved to learn. His mother was a history major in college, and she still loved to read biographies about a variety of historical figures from a variety of time periods: Eleanor of Acquitaine, the American Civil war, Billy the Kid, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, the French Revolution. Henry began picking up those books, too, and he discovered how much he loved imbibing information simply for its own sake. It was a love that stayed with him throughout his childhood and his academic career, which certainly helped his grade point average.

He skated through high school, his natural aptitude and love for academics carrying him through (except for math, he's shit at math -- although he's read a couple of fascinating biographies about Isaac Newton). In college, he double majored in English and Communications before attaining his Master's Degree in Library Sciences. As for his social life, Henry tended to put studying before partying, both in high school and college. It wasn't that he was shy, or even that he was a loner, but perhaps more that he wasn't extroverted or energetic enough to find the scene appealing.

Henry has only had one serious romantic relationship in his life, with a girl he met in his senior year of college. Her name was Isadora, and she was studying to become a marine biologist. Henry had never really considered himself to be a romantic, but he fell head over heels for this girl, and quickly. The week before graduation, he even proposed, but she turned him down, telling him she'd accepted a job on the other side of the country and wanted to start fresh.

He was crushed, but he decided to follow in her footsteps in one aspect -- he decided a fresh start was in order. He moved to Palmview (perhaps an ironic choice, considering its proximity to the sea, which would only serve to remind him of Isadora) and got his Master's degree from Palmview University. He attained a job at the library soon after that, and he's been there (and obstinately single) ever since.

[vividly-vermillion]

When life is hard but then you're blessed with tsubakino screen time

I'm ready to abandon all my studies and glue myself to the TV but nay I shan't

^^^^me holding myself back

This month is going to pass by me like the wind because I have 12+ exams lol, only 2 more years left (and then higher education but let's ignore the calling of the masters degree for now 🫣)

Luckily it means I only need to focus on buying a new gramophone and nothing else (unless the spring dust storms kick my ass to the hospital)

I hope life starts becoming kinder to you because I'm starting to have beef with the universe. Here have some ramen 🍜 🍜🍜 it's important to stay hydrated with warm and cold liquids during changing seasons so you body can regulate it's heat better ❣️

I have a love hate relationship with spring because on one hand it makes me sick and on the other... Rhubarb! Green plums! Green almonds! Peas! Peaches! Fresh herbs! It's a great season for cooking 💔

Can't enjoy the good without the bad, but at least we can make the bad less effective if we focus on the good 😊 I hope nothing but the best for you Nyssa 💞💞

Mimiiii beaaannnnnn!!! I'm holding you so close to my heart I want to squeeze you through the screen 😭♥️

I'm wishing you the best of luck on your exams and hope that the month goes by extra fast for you 🥹 you can do this!!!

Can we share the Ramen? I don't usually share my food so that's a love language I think. Slurping ramen together and yapping about the world hehe

YOU GOT THE ALLERGIES TOO??? NO WAY 😭 let us hope that this year the world is kind and the allergies stay at bay so you may enjoy your rhubarb , green plums and green almonds to their fullest ♥️

[bt-tarot]

hey ozzy! how are you? just wanted to check up on you and see how you were doing :)

I also took a peek at your queue and it's even longer now 😭 I hope you take breaks because that looks exhausting

Hiii! I’m feeling a little weird lately, not gonna lie, it’s like many things are happening at once 😭 Thank you so much for the vibe check~ I hope you’re doing well!💞

I will use this post to yap a little and do a "get to know me" kind of thing ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

One of the reasons I'm not posting much it's bc I'm about to get my music degree 🥳 I'm very excited about it, I've been waiting for two years and finally the moment has come! But with that, I'm still studying for my master's degree so I have a lot of assignments piled up (and work too bc I work and study. I know, a mess). Also, I've been preparing for something personal that's coming very soon and I think I'll make a post about it when the time comes but let's see how things go.

I want to do so many things with this blooog, it's been almost a month since I started using it and I'm really happy about how you guys received it and my readings and the love and support and how it has made me develop and have a better relationship with my decks (before I didn't use them that much, when in fact, they love to be used and are very social). I received some ideas for activities and readings that I would love to do as well!

What I wanted to say is, thank you for trusting me, being patient and giving me your time and energy. The purpose of my readings is entertain you, sometimes learn one or two things, and also having fun. I'm glad that we can share this space and have fun together.

This got mushy, but yeah, thank you for almost a month of magic🦇 ♡

[cryinginthebigbluehouse]

HEY THERE!!! 🥪🥪🥪

I’m Cheese Sandwich, but please please please.. you can call me Mod Cheese!!

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Here’s some quick Mod Cheese facts…

☆ I use any and all pronouns (she/he are usually preferred) !!!

☆ Genderfluid \꒰･◡･๑꒱/

☆ FANDOM NERD ALERT!!! I have an unreasonable amount of media interests… (CHECK TAGS)

☆ If I were a kitchen utensil, I’d be a BIG LADLE!!!

☆ I’ve got a master’s degree in yapping, forgive me if I’m a yap-yap-yapper!

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I’ve got cheese in my knees just thinking about all the fun I’ll have posting on this blog ^_^ !!!

Toodles for now!!

- Mod Cheese 🥪

[theroyalsavage]

10 Questions for Writers

tagged by @demonzoro - thank you so much for the tag saint!! i really liked reading through your answers <33

How many works do you have on AO3? // 62 now!! that's bonkers

What's your total AO3 word count? // 677,320...... even MORE bonkers. master's degree in yapping

What fandoms do you write for? // i usually just kind of end up writing whatever my brain is shaking around like a chew toy at the moment. im currently neck-deep in arcane, but i've also written for lots of other fandoms over the years, including one piece, mxtx, bnha, and the og percy jackson of course

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?// i try to!!!!! i want to!!!! i really really do want to!!!!! but then i blink and months have passed and i experience a crippling anxiety akin to forgetting to text your friend back until it becomes too awkward to reply

Have you ever had a fic stolen? // yes lol and i was SO mad because they copy/pasted everything into their new ao3 post except for the title. girl take my title too i left it there right at the beginning for you and everything

Have you ever co-written a fic before? // no i haven't! i'm not sure if i ever could tbh. i think i might be a bit too much of a perfectionist to adjust to another person's style/vision like that

What's your all-time favourite ship? // this question is so hard!! i often go through intense phases where i revisit ships and read through half the ao3 tag before chilling out again. maybe neil/andrew all for the game.... i've carried them with me for like a decade now. my eternal cross to bear

What are your writing strengths? // this is also a hard question omg. i really enjoy writing dialogue and like to think that i'm pretty good at capturing voice and character! i find it hard to recognize my own strengths, everything turns into word salad if i look at it for too long

What are your writing weaknesses? // i definitely have a tendency to over-write. editing me is always like UHGGGGHH GREAT!!!! another run-on sentence i have to cut down or simplify!!

First fandom you wrote for? // the first fandom i consistently posted fic for was pjo, but the VERY first fic i ever wrote was for lotr. it got sent directly to my bestie's dms and nowhere else

tagging: @whatiwouldnotgive & also absolutely anyone else who wants to do this and blame me!! go crazy go wild, please share your thoughts about writing

[whitehartlane]

Yap master sham will entertain you: im studying english studies 75% and proto and pre history 25% (basically archeology) and i am SO thinking about moving to ethnology from archeology but i LIKE that and now i went to a little counselor and i CANT do 125% (english 75% + archeology 25% + ethnology 25%) NOR 100% but i do english 50%!!! And I'm truly in a big rush to finish this bachelor quickly because EYEEEE want to do an ausbildung or more likely want to study art part time!! (Maybe distance?) And like... THAT SUCKS! because idk if i wanna change my minor from archeology to ethnology!!! And i think i might just do two ethnology courses for extracurricular ECTs .... But like arggggh!!!!! It's still annoying because everybody tells me to enjoy uni like as in go out and meet people and have fun but I'm truly just here to learn and get a farking bachelor and idk if i should feel bad but i like... I don't see myself having that much fun here 😭 like for me that comes after when I'm done .... Like rn i can pick what i do and where ill live but i feel like im more excited for my life AFTER uni!!??

hello master sham 🫡 now as for what to study i can’t tell you that, i quite like your idea about taking two extra ethnology courses if that’s something that really interests you!! what i do want to do is tell you to do whatever feels right for you. the university experience is different for everyone and highly depends on what you study; some people like the partying and clubbing and going out aspect of it and some people are purely there to learn.

as all things in life it’s good to find a balance. i understand wanting to be done with your bachelor’s as quickly as possible especially if you’ve got plans for after and if you don’t vibe with the people there but from personal experience something that i’ve had to learn the hard way is don’t postpone your joy. some phases of life are difficult or can kind of be nail-biting to get through but it’s rly important to not fall into that trap of ‘yeah after this i’ll probably be more excited/happy’ because that ‘this’ keeps changing and suddenly you realise you’ve put your life and your joy kind of on hold. i’m not saying that that’s what happening with you at all but reading through this i was reminded of that bc i felt just like this!

i think it’s rly important that you find your joy in your day to day life more than anything and that you chase that joy. you absolutely shouldn’t feel bad about having or wanting a different uni experience than others and if your perspective on it is that you’re here to learn first and foremost then that is a perspective that should be valued just like anything else and is 100% valid!! your balance can be found in other places, like doing art or going on walks, it doesn’t necessarily have to be the german culture of parties and meeting people if that’s not what you want to do.

university is mostly also just a time of figuring yourself out on a personal level. what you’re studying, what you want to do, that’s all important—but the person you’ll grow into and become over the course of your degree. for some people that’s really major like figuring out their sexuality but for some people it’s more minor like learning how to make a grilled cheese without setting the kitchen on fire. and in the end this is another phase of your life, everything works out in the end even if it seems like you’ve got no clue what you’re doing in the moment, i promise you that! i rly believe firmly that whatever happens in life is a redirection to something else, so maybe you decide you wanna do eng 50% and archeo/ethnology 25% each and that opens up a path, or you switch to ethnology and that opens up another path, or you stick w archeology and that opens another path. in the end you’ll get where you need to go. there are only doors, no right or wrong things, and the good thing about doors is that you can always go back through them. 🤍

(also small tip from me an der stelle: if you’re stuck between two choices that you feel you want equally then take a coin and decide that one is heads and one is tails. flip it and look at the result. if the first feeling you feel when you see the result is a feeling of dread in your stomach then it’s not the thing you want right now. doesn’t always work but it helps!)

[justasmallbloginabigklainefandom]

@sohereswhatyoumissedlastweek replied to your post “Bro i'll have my own kitchen soon. I don't have to...”:

I need the full story!! I don't think I saw it on my dash

​I only mentioned it in passing while yapping about Kierkegaard's philosophy of hope.

Basically I've been living in this student flat since 2017 and it's fine. I am fine. I got very lucky from the start, since I have my own bathroom, living room and bedroom. All together it's around 23m2, so yeet. Then I share a kitchen, a shared space, a washing machine and a dryer with 5 others. And I never thought I'd move, partially because I was supposed to stop studying in 2023 and you need to be a student to live here. But then after finishing my master's degree I added another 2-year master's degree WHICH I then extended into a 3-year master's degree cause stress (lol) and initially I planned on living the full extra years here as well, since again, this place is fine. The location is great. And it's affordable for this city.

But then last December I met up with my ""sister"" who lives in another student flat of the same organisation and her place is around 10m2 bigger with her own kitchen and only, like, €20 a month more expensive. And my mind started thinking. The reasons I never looked into moving before were a) the aformentioned graduation b) the expenses and c) this current one has a separate bedroom from a living room which gives me so much peace for some reason and I was under the impression this was the only building that offered that (as in, the others offer studios or single rooms).

But a) the aformentioned second master's degree + you can live here for around 9 more months after graduation, b) de kale huur scares people but with huursubsidie it's doable (aka the new apartment is even around €100 a month cheaper!!!) and c) my sister showed that there were more buildings that do this lay-out, but with a kitchen.

So since January I have been reacting on places. It's a lottery system, so completely random. A computer puts all applicants in a queue at random and the one who's placed first gets the offer bla, bla, bla. I have been looking at the building my sister lives in. That is the one I really wanted, but not the one I got. Then there was one on campus, aka my second choice. This one I got was my third choice and there was also a fourth choice that I actually genuinely didn't like so oop. So I've just been reacting weekly and hoping for the best (aka Kierkegaard would fucking hate me).

The fact that I got this one is so fucking wild to me, because literally yesterday I had to be talked out of withdrawing my application. And not only that, but I did this application last-minute. I applied every Wednesday, when the new applications opened. The thing is, a week ago I applied for an apartment at my first choice building, only to find out on Sunday that it's an apartment for disabled students. The whole thing was that there were currently no students needing those accommodations, so non-disabled students could apply, but there would be a clause in the contract that says that the moment a disabled student needs the room, you'd move out with the organisation seeking a new place for you. I didn't like that, so I withdrew and then was wondering if I should either sit this week out or apply for my 3rd choice building.

The reason I was doubting is because, as I mentioned, the applicant who places first gets the offer, but if they decline, the offer goes to the second place, and then third, and then fourth, and then fifth.... and I was no. 4 on an apartment of my first choice AND that ad hasn't finished processing yet after 3 weeks, which means no. 1 and possibly no. 2 rejected the offer. If no. 3 were to reject as well, the apartment would be mine. And I really REALLY wanted that apartment. So I did apply, but as I mentioned, I was this close to withdrawing EVEN THIS MORNING (you can before 11:00), because I was wondering if I should maybe take the chance on it. After all, there was a 3% chance I'd get the current one. And this was my 3rd choice. Monday and Tuesday I basically spent all day writing down the pros of this 3rd choice to convince myself to keep the application going. It's a great neighbourhood. It saves money. It's not 10m2 bigger, but around 7m2 and that's still a lot. I HAVE A BALCONY.

And people told me I needed to keep the application running just in case, because that 3% would still be more likely than 3 people rejecting an apartment, especially since a rejection means you are barred from applying for 10 weeks. AND THOSE PEOPLE WERE RIGHT, CAUSE I GOT THIS ONE.

So yes, it's wild to me that I spent months dutifully applying for my first or second choice (or not applying, if they weren't available) and then the week I apply for my third choice and I go on a rollercoaster of emotions because of it, I get it. I was a bit in a shock, and even though it's my third choice, I am still very, VERY elated. I have accepted the offer. They need to send me the contract and then it's official.

FUCK YOU KIERKEGAARD.