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piracytheorist · 1 year
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One of the things I never got quite clearly is how the education system works in the US. In my country, private schools are a rare occasion, even the most "humble" and cheap private schools are like, super rare, and for most of us, when we hear that someone attended a private school we go like "Wow your parents are super rich huh". Also, homeschooling just isn't a thing that happens here, apart from children with disabilities and mostly because they physically cannot attend school. But since most of my knowledge of how Murica works is from (mostly mainstream) American films, I pose here this poll.
Choose the option that applies the best to you, like if you attended private school for three years and public for nine, choose public school.
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wheels-of-despair · 1 year
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Revenge of the Freaks Summary: The Hellfire Club does April Fool's Day a little differently. Contains: Sweet revenge, don't try this at home. Words: 1k-ish Note: Part of my Evil Woman universe, but more of a Hellfire story than an explicit Eddie pairing. Can be read as a standalone.
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Everybody expects to get pranked on April Fool's Day.
Everyone, everywhere, is suspicious of everything. Especially at Hawkins High. Even the cafeteria ladies get side-eyed when students pick up their trays, wondering if there's a little something extra in their pudding today. No one touches the salt and pepper shakers. No one accepts any gifts. Don't even bother trying to share your food. Check the toilet for plastic wrap before you use it. Beware the sink. For 24 hours, everyone is on high alert.
Because everyone is expecting to get pranked on April 1st.
They are not, however, expecting to get pranked on April 2nd.
As your April Fool's Day prank for the Hellfire table, you brought in cookies.
Not toothpaste Oreos. Those are a waste of both toothpaste and cookies. (Although nobody would've complained about being the designated Eater of the Creme Filling.)
Your April Fool's Day Cookies contained M&M's, Reese's Pieces, and Skittles. It counted as a prank because nobody was sure exactly what they were biting into, other than a circle of butter and sugar. But they were actually quite good. You passed them around, and you all shared a laugh and a few cookies. In case anyone was watching.
On April 2nd, when everyone let their guards down and thought they were safe again, Hellfire would strike.
People would suspect Eddie. Eddie was loud and lively and definitely stood out. The rest of you? Unless someone was looking for a punching bag, you all seemed to sort of fade into the background.
You'd be using this to your advantage.
You'd been plotting for months, and finally had a game plan in place.
For Jackie, who asked out Gareth on a dare and burst out laughing when he stuttered through his nervous response, a locker full of dead ladybugs. You'd found a pile of them in the attic and didn't want them to go to waste, so you swept them into a plastic bag and kept them for a special occasion. Showing her what a lady looked like seemed like a good one.
For Chip and his fancy new car, which he nearly ran over Jeff with while revving obnoxiously and laughing with his friends, a piece of bologna on the hood. It would fry in the sun during the school day and leave a marvelously discolored circle there, until his daddy paid to get it fixed. Until then, someone might throw out the phrase "asshole-mobile" a few times and hope it stuck.
For Brandon, who drew unflattering caricatures of Grant on the blackboard in first period every day for a week before he lost interest, a mouse trap would find its way into his backpack. A thoughtful gift for his creative hands. No idea how it got there.
For Troy, who successfully tripped Mike into Lucas one day and attempted to stuff Dustin into a locker the next, tiny bits of chocolate would appear on his chair. (The smaller the pieces, the faster they melt.) The boys had told you about a similar kind of incident with Troy in middle school, and you didn't want to ruin his reputation.
For Ashley, who took credit for spreading the rumor that you were spreading your legs for all of the freaks in town, a very professional-looking letter from the Hawkins Free Clinic would arrive at her house to inform her that she had a venereal disease. Several pamphlets on safe sex were included.
For Mrs. O'Donnell, whose hatred of Eddie seemed to intensify by the day, a loose screw on her desk chair. It would be a real shame if she were to fall on her ass so hard, it broke the stick that had been up it since 1962.
For Jason, who was generally unpleasant to you all, tiny balloons that appeared to be haunting him. Everywhere he went, a tiny balloon or two would appear on the ground nearby. This puzzled everyone, until somebody loudly suggested that he had to use those because regular condoms were too big for him. Wonder who that could have been.
And for the rest of the basketball team, something special to show your appreciation for the way they ruled both the court and the school. Let's go, Tigers.
A few weeks ago, you and Eddie had taken a little trip to a pharmacy two towns over and bought the cheapest, worst-smelling perfume you could find. It was the kind of perfume that an old lady in a fake fur coat might wear to Bingo on Wednesday nights at the VFW. The kind of smell that made you wish the stench of moth balls in her clothes was a little stronger, to help overpower it.
The Hawkins High gym lockers are more open than the lockers in the hallway. Instead of the standard slats on the top and bottom, there's a wire grate to allow for better airflow. Nobody likes a pile of sweaty teenage gym clothes. Just a few pumps of spray into the grate would have their letterman jackets smelling so bad, it was like a warning system. A Jock Alarm, if you will. You'd always be able to smell them coming, because that stuff wasn't ever going to come out.
Eddie spent all of his free time that day in the library, on his best behavior, under the watchful eye of the stern librarian. He was a good boy, just trying to work quietly on his English essay so he could graduate. She would attest to this, if asked, because he gave her a dandelion when he came in and smiled at her every time he got up to sharpen his pencil near her desk.
The recipients of your little gifts may have had their suspicions, but they couldn't prove a thing. No one paid attention to the nameless, faceless freaks of Hawkins High. No one batted an eye when a two-minute trip to the bathroom actually took eight. Or when an unfamiliar face passed through a hallway it had no classes in. Or when someone changed their shirt between periods because it suddenly smelled like an old lady.
After all, why would anyone want to prank people on April 2nd?
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corrodedcoughin · 6 months
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WHAM!💥 🏳️‍🌈 BAM 💥 I am! ❗️ A MAN! 👨 🧍‍♂️Job 👔 or no ❌🚫 job ❌⛔️ you 🫵 can’t tell 🙅 me I’m not 🙅‍♂️🚫❗️. DO? 🤔 YOU 🫵. Enjoy 😃 what you do? 👷‍♀️🧑‍🍳👨‍🌾🧑‍🏫👨‍💻👨‍🔬 If not just STOP ✋ . Don’t stay there ⬇️ and rot ⚰️ 🧌
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nightvale-thoughts · 2 months
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i was talking to a new acquaintance about adventure time and once and i told them i’d read a simon x winter king fic the night before…for some odd reason. they laughed at me and said “i can’t believe you’d just admit that” 😭 it’s so over for me
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faye-tale · 2 years
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Luke Thompson: In The Club, S2 E2
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bitterscampi · 1 year
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eddie singlehandedly trying to keep kayfabe alive. he said fuck your ladder match tk I’m out (to go to your other show)
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darkpoisonouslove · 1 year
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In my headcanons Riven always watched out for Timmy and when all the things happened with Darcy in season 1 it was really hard for Timmy to believe that Riven could've switched the sides.
I love the idea of Riven being somewhat protective of Timmy because they didn't really have a dynamic in the first season and we didn't get to see Timmy's feelings on the whole mess with Riven abandoning the team because of his relationship with Darcy.
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akkivee · 1 year
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OMG did the NB drama track finally get a translation? I still haven't read it, can you link it please?
not that i’m aware of no 😭 if this is about the ‘why tf would you pay to talk to girls???’ kuukou said that i posted without context lol, the context is that mozuku’s associate, who ichiro and kuukou were tasked to bodyguard, had them meet him at a hostess club
after this man demonstrated what a heel he was and they both briefly express he needs his ass kicked lol, ichiro and kuukou then question why hostess clubs are a thing, they don’t see the appeal of spending a lot of money just to sit around talking to a bunch of girls lmao
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astrovian · 1 year
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if you user t/rrent there’s been a dual audio version of the man from rome out since september and the image quality is better than youtube
Thanks for the tip, anon!
I do just want to point out something though - we absolutely should be paying for RA's content where possible
Now, don't get the wrong idea that I'm preaching from up on a high horse because trust me, I have streamed (and still do) so many things in my life that may have come from uh... let's say, more *dubious* sites
Accessibility to content is a real issue for a number of us, especially because RA tends to do a lot of UK/European-centric releases. Here in NZ we can have *so many* paid subscriptions to legal streaming services and still not be able to access modern mainstream content that places like the UK & US take access to for granted
So look - I get it. I actually actively encourage it 99% of the time
But bear with me for a second:
I know it's obvious, but I think it bears repeating that paying for RA's content is the number one way we can say directly to film creators - "yes, we want you to cast RA in more things!!" and also allows us to directly tell RA - "yes, we do want to see you do more things and continue on like you are!!!"
It's that old stupid phrase that I hate for being so true: money talks
And that idea of talking with our money directly to Richard is particularly important to keep in mind, more so now than ever I think, as we look ahead to the next few years, and also back at the past few years of RA's works
I mean, look at the main types of works RA has been producing in recent years:
a) Netflix-heavy content (where most of us have subscriptions that are not solely dependent on him being in their shows)
b) Smaller, more niche productions & film markets (e.g. though maybe a bad example because it's also a Netflix film, we know for a fact RA took a pay cut to shoot Space Sweepers because he liked the idea of the film, but the film itself was intended really for more of the Korean market than the Western one) - not necessarily Hollywood blockbusters
c) Audiobook narrations & voice-over work
Combine that with the fact that he's very explicitly said that his focus for the coming years is on his fledgling writing and producing careers which he's been setting up, and I sadly do think that the time when we see him less and less on-screen is coming much sooner than any of us would really like to admit
(and I mean that in a "I'm happy for you RA for following your current passions but also depressed at the thought because I want you to continue in front of the camera for as long as you can" kind of way)
I'm not saying that I think he'll give acting up for good anytime soon (he's not THAT old, despite his complaints and talk of self-retirement 🙄) but I think it's incredibly naive for all of us to not see the writing on the wall in terms of the direction he actively wants (and is working hard to ensure!!) his career is moving in - and in particular, what that means for his on-camera career
My prediction is that we will see his narrative, writing, and producing works increase in volume and they will take over the majority of his time in coming years - we'll only get the occasional film/show from him compared to the bounty he's blessed us with in the past (keep in mind I am also really talking big, big picture here)
Which will be a bittersweet moment for us because I think we're all so happy he's following what he wants but also so sad his new acting jaunts will be less frequent for us to consume (note how I'm not suggesting he will stop acting in film/TV altogether)
((and I would could write a freaking novel on why I think he's seemingly a bit obsessed with this idea of self-retiring and getting old as an actor but that is a story for another time maybe!!!))
BUT ANYWAY, as dumb and as obvious as it is, what I'm saying is that paying for RA's new shows/films is the number one way we can get the message across to him that despite these exciting new paths that he's gonna wander down (and we will be following him down!), we still want to see him exercise his acting muscles as much as he's willing to for us!!
So, by all means, t/rrent & stream where you need to - heaven knows I do. Do it if you need or want access to his work ASAP and that's the only way you can get it. Do it if it hasn't been released in your country & don't feel guilty for it
All I'm saying is - if you are blessed with an avenue to pay for one of his works, and if you have some spare dollars at the end of a paycheck - please, please, please do so
Stream it illegally, then ALSO go buy the DVD. T/rrent it then ALSO buy it from Apple or Google Play. Stream and t/rrent it and then ALSO go see it in the cinema. Or do all of them if you really can afford to!!!
Paying to see RA's films/shows is the number one way we can ensure he makes more room in his life for future acting gigs while he also focuses on wandering down new exciting chapters in his career
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bootyful-seventeen · 4 months
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quick question for y'all when it comes to friends owing friends money, and not like 50 bucks but the more significant ones like $200+ range
if you owed a friend that much what would y'all do to pay it back? do it in installments if it was too much at once, send whatever you can when you can even if its like $40 after 8 months and $20 6 months after cuz times be rough, or let it build up until you're stressed about owing money to multiple people while still splurging more on yourself???? i just gotta know what others would think is normal for paying someone back
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badluck-buck · 5 months
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i love that my sister's love language has always just been making me work for her.
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jckeperalta · 9 months
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there will be NO seats on the floor and the ticket prices will be revealed when the sale starts.... this will be bad i fear
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c0rpseductor · 10 months
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love reading dieworkwear.com and nodding along knowingly as if im the type of guy thats ever going to spend $100 on a single article of clothing
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friendofthecrows · 2 years
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It's weird being in such a niche group on Tumblr bc I know what my peers (here) like, but I have NO IDEA what would be popular with people in my local area.
Basically I want to start a book + tea club that's also a GSA. We'd have tea parties, read/discuss books, and do activism/good works. I think it would be a fun and good thing.
Allies allowed of course. Especially if we're doing activism + similar bc numbers help.
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heavenknowsffs · 2 years
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Wtf bro
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kuiinncedes · 1 year
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:P
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