#i hate standardized testing

[patron-saint-of-cemetary-pigeons]

[freakbleeds]

Me after consistently Not Studying: okay, time for a study break!

[smhoco]

at this exact moment i am not crying but seriously considering doing so instead of studying for my gene therapy test tomorrow

[frogizz]

Questioning my gender feels like a multiple question test answer.

"Okay, process of elimination... I'm not this, this- or this..."

Then I'm left to differentiate 3 or 4 other similar answers and constantly second guess myself before even thinking about filling in one of the answers.

[s7-evermore]

IDEA: Idia with a Science-y, girly pop gf

Okay so I was rereading one of my favorite romcoms “Love on the Brain” by Ali Hazelwood (one of my faves) and there’s this one side character there named Kaylee, the assistant of the ML who’s such a pink, girly pop character and she eventually falls for the FL’s assistant, who’s an emo girl.

And a thought occurred to me… what if Idia had a pink, girly pop prefect who loved science? Specifically astrophysics and engineering?

On top of being kind, earnest, and generous, she’s also fun, interesting to talk to, good with people, literally has the cutest smile, wears cute fashionable clothes, does her nails and just owns a lot of pink pink pink! Literally the definition of an it-girl but she’s ALSO intelligent, outspoken, witty, good at games, an AWESOME older sister (Ortho just LOVES her), and is just great at keeping up with Idia!

Idia’s initial thought when he first sees her would probably be “holy shit. It’s one of those extroverted sunshine mf who is the complete opposite of me so that’s another person on my list to avoid”

But then one day when he asks Azul to help him add updates to Ortho, Azul brings along Grim and the prefect and it takes everything in him not to PANIC because the PINK SUNSHINE GIRL IS THERE AND HE HATES IT

WHY is that living incarnation of SUNSHINE in Ignihyde where she’s NOT supposed to be?!

But suddenly she starts fawning over Ortho’s systems and asks him questions and eventually figures out how Ortho’s program works and Idia is suddenly swept up in a long ass conversation about engineering, and then they move on to games, and then Idia says his typical self-deprecating but also condescending stuff about her being a normie and she just DOESN’T get offended and even quips back with witty remarks and Idia just gets SO amused by her—

—that he suddenly realizes holy shit…. She’s actually… pretty cool……like…..I would….tolerate this human being……and she’s also hot……so…….

THE THOUGHT OF IT IS JUST SO CUTE?!! LIKE BRODIES IMAGINE:

Sunshine girlie pop prefect with her nail-art covered nails, twin-braided hair with cute tiny flower clips, white sleeveless crop top with the frilly pink skirt, a fuckin watermelon-shaped purse, pink flower earrings, and a pink flower necklace with the first letter of her name in the middle of it, holding a pink drink while she’s strongly going on about how standardized tests are institutional gatekeepers that graduate programs over-rely on for student admission and how expensive and outdated they are and that schools should focus more on a holistic approach for graduate admissions and blah blah blah…

And Idia is just…

Staring. At her. And he’s breathing quickly, lips parted, his cheeks are flushed, his hair is PINK like the flowers on her braids, and he clutches his tablet like he’s holding on for dear LIFE.

Despite her looks, she’s also realistic. She’s not needlessly naive nor is does she innocently believe that everyone is a good person.

She’s just who she is.

And holy shit. Idia is falling. HARD.

[proseka-headcanons]

tsukasa doesn't like thinking. send ask

he's so me

[charliextea]

hate dressing up for work lunches

hi everyone i am smiling and nodding and pretending to be a moderate democratic woman here among the public. why yes, i am going to bite my tongue on why you’re a dumbass who doesn’t understand children. why yes i will nod along to your iditoitic ideas about testing. i smile and wave at my principal across the room and act like she hasn’t fucked our school catastrophically by refusing to compromise 90% of the time on ideas that make our school “ideal”. everything is fine and i am so happy to be here!

[eggsistential-basket]

oho! found a new enemy! pymetrics!!! Jesus Christ using digit span and reaction time to judge whether a candidate would be a good hire is straight up discriminatory and would not tell you shit about whether or not they're a good candidate. none of these tasks are anything like something you'd see in real life unless a client was throwing balls at you or some shit. legitimately awful. will probably not get the job for this. honestly probably because the "hard" version of the spacebar task was easy as shit. also requiring me to stare at a screen at red and green dots meant the color negative cancelled the colors out and I couldn't see the colors as it went on. absolute dogshit.

[lotus-pear]

Seeing the word apush in those tags gave me psychic damage I forgot there are still some poor poor souls in high school 😭 I loved my apush teacher but lord I hated that test

dbqs are the bane of my existence good luck to you bestie

apush actually has the lowest pass rate on the exam and i’m a high achiever so that’s kinda 💀💀 BUT YK WHAT it’s ok i’m good at writing and mc is ok as long as u know the content so i think i’ll be fine

[patron-saint-of-cemetary-pigeons]

Johnny Appleseed

Planted some seeds for apples

They were very sour

So people made booze

Out of poor old Johnnys fruits

and it fed them well

[un-pearable]

my days of being 21 so far

disney and attempting alcohol (tiny amount) (fine)

exhausted

exhausted (work obligated socializing)

exhausted (stressing about finals and reading so much cars fic about it (sue me it’s good racing))

exhausted on campus (realizing i read too much fic about it and scrambling to stitch together a final presentation in 5 hrs

setting my expectations low lmao

[def-not-kaz-brekker]

*Me when I was young and naive, being a gryffindor and holding a Harry Potter book and waving my wand that lit up when I shook it*: omg I love jk Rowling so much I wanna be like her when ur grow up—

*Me now, gay and trans, opening ao3 to read another wolfstar fanfic on my phone after reading “the sun and the star” and another kanej fic, being a slytherin even tho on the test it said ravenclaw, smirking deviously*: oh she-who-must-not-be-named would hate me so much

[seraphim-seeker]

UPCOMING SAT GOT ME LIKE:

[darkwood-sleddog]

“Ethical breeders have too many expectations placed on them for anybody to want to do it.” *proceeds to explain how expectations should be lowered.

How about no.

[just-your-average-cryptid]

idk how common this is for other people but I feel like some English teachers/classes only recognizing one interpretation of a text has done irreparable damage to media literacy

take “the curtains are blue bc depression vs the curtains are just blue.” symbolism is not universally one thing means one thing, often it’s contextual to the time period of the text and the story itself.

maybe the blue curtains ARE about the character being depressed. maybe the blue curtains remind them of the seaside town they left behind and long to return to. maybe blue was the favorite color of someone they lost, and they surround themselves with it to fill the void left by their absence. maybe the author likes blue. maybe blue had a specific connotation when it was written that we’ve since forgotten. you see the idea?

literary analysis is not determining The True Intent Of The Author. it’s like being a detective, picking up on clues and gathering information to try to piece together the whole picture. did you notice that every time a flock of sparrows flees a location, a fight breaks out? that sparrows sing when the protagonist confessed to their love interest? are the sparrows peace or love, or both?

every description and detail is a choice. sometimes those choices are important, sometimes they aren’t. sometimes they weren’t meant to be important but were nonetheless. the important part isn’t who's right or wrong, it’s allowing yourself to see from other angles.

there is no One True Interpretation.

[simptasia]

i'm getting my cervix poked today and not in the fun way. nevertheless it must be done, and i highly recommend cervical screenings to anybody that procedure applies to. early detection is so so important when it comes to cancer, my mum would still be alive if they found it in stage one, so i implore you not to ignore your body