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[accirax]

Hello, I'm sorry if I'm bothering you, and it's fine if you don't want to answer this. I was just curious to know if you have any final predictions for the comeback in the next episode of dc now that the trailer is out. I won't say anything in case you decided not to watch it. As I said, I'm just curious to know your opinion.

Hey there, not a bother at all! I was just thinking yesterday about whether or not I wanted to make a final check-in about who I thought was going to return in DC, so this ask was the sign I needed to bite the bullet and write it out ^_^

Typically, I haven't been watching the previews this season, but since you brought it up in this ask I decided to watch it so that I could get a general gist of what was going on. (Mostly, I was afraid that the teaser would reveal that eliminated contestants would be competing in teams of two that would succeed or fail together, thus limiting the possible options of who could return :P) Thoughts below the cut!

So, the teaser definitely makes it seem like we'll be doing the same thing as DCAS, where one of the competitors that's still in the game teams up with someone who's out of the game to help them get back in. This is weird, because we have 10 people who are out, and 8 people who are in. Regardless, the teams seem to be...

Amelie and Hannah

Benji and Jade

Diego and Spencer

Richard and Logan

Tristan and Zaid

Isabel and Marissa

Alessio and Natalia

Additionally, Ted and Lynda seem to be digging alone, perhaps implying that ONC's solution to the 10-8 divide was to make it that two of the unpopular returnee candidates have to compete without an ally.

This would also imply that Anastasia and Ivy have been paired together, as neither of them are seen throughout the challenge portion of the trailer. I guess she's trying to make good with Zaid's girlfriend in order to strengthen their alliance?

Under the premise that Ted and Lynda have been left alone, I think it must be a schoolyard pick-type situation instead of DCAS' assigned pairs, or else it would be unfair that the show determined that Ted and Lynda would be alone. In order for some of these weird pairings to happen, here's a general summary of how I think things might play out:

Isabel picks Marissa (trying to get a strong, solid alliance member back into the game)

Anastasia picks Ivy (in lieu of being able to help Marissa, Anastasia tries to strengthen alliances)

Zaid picks Tristan (with Ivy off the table, Tristan is the obvious choice for Zaid (he's still mad at Benji, probably))

Logan picks Richard (duh)

Jade picks Benji (Jade pairs with Benji specifically to try to make sure he doesn't get back into the game and sway Hannah back to his side)

Natalia picks Alessio (why not? RIP Lynda in the girls' alliance)

Hannah picks Amelie (she's very torn about whether to pick Diego or Amelie, but maybe Diego gives her the go-ahead to work with Amelie?)

Spencer picks Diego (even if things are awkward, Spencer feels guilty enough to not make Diego have to compete on his own)

Lynda and Ted are left alone

The Spencer and Hannah picks could also go the other way, where Spencer picks Diego in an attempt to make amends (or just as the only even mildly friendly face out of the crowd), and Hannah's decision to rescue Amelie becomes simple. Just throwing ideas out there.

But, anyways, that's not even really relevant to the question at hand, which is, who do I think is actually going to come back? The hour is finally at hand! Honestly, even though I switched to ranking by pairs when the dual returns were announced, at this point I think my top pairs would just be varying combinations of my top 4-or-so choices, which is less interesting than just talking about everyone. So I'll discuss each individual, and then talk about maybe my top 3 pair choices at the end.

#10: Richard

Richard is so cooked, it's not even funny. Not only is he now taking the "literally just got eliminated bullet" from Ivy or Benji, but, like, what would his return even add? He went out on such a chill note, and gave Logan a physical memento! He almost certainly doesn't have the same fire to return that many of the other contestants do. Richard already survived far longer than many people expected, so the idea of bringing him back to have him survive for even longer seems silly.

#9: Marissa

Anastasia's moved on. Not romantically, of course, but she's got other storylines cooking now which would probably get weird if Marissa came back. I said to my sister yesterday that the funniest combo of returnees would be Marissa and Ivy, because it would fully undo the revenge plot bonding that Zaid and Anastasia have been simmering (pun intended). While that doesn't necessarily mean that Marissa couldn't return in a functional fashion without Ivy, I find it unlikely.

#8: Ivy

Speaking of Ivy, here she is! Funnily enough, I think that Ivy's chances of returning now are worse than they were when she had just been eliminated in the episode prior. In that case, immediately bringing her back could be a fun subversion, whereas now, it would just be a bit nonsensical. It's the same sort of vibe I just mentioned with Marissa, where I feel like the show has moved past the Ivy portion of the season.

I put Ivy slightly higher than Marissa just because I think her return would be moderately more interesting from a strategic standpoint. If Marissa returns, she obviously joins the neo-girls' alliance, and they continue to dominate. If Ivy comes back, even if she is a girl, I find it difficult to believe that she would join and alliance that's conspiring against Zaid. Maybe she could even succeed at flipping Hannah this time!

But, that's just me trying to make an interesting situation out of an unlikely scenario. I don't think Ivy will be back.

#7: Lynda

Now that Richard is gone, Lynda is seriously strapped for friends. She has Spencer, I guess, but... come on, is Lynda really going to choose to work with audience unfavorite Spencer, serial flipper Logan, and scorned loverboy Zaid over trying to worm her way back into the girls' alliance? I mean, maybe, if it's part of a secret plot to get revenge on Anastasia, but we've already seen Lynda vs. Anastasia! Twice! Anastasia is gonna win every time!!!

There is an argument to be made that Lynda's return could throw an interesting wrench in the girls' alliance, causing them to split up, but 1) Lynda already did that her first time around, so it would feel repetitive, and 2) there are already cracks in the girls' alliance re: Hannah's general distrust of all of them and Spencer's plot to get Anastasia to lose trust in Natalia, such that we don't need Lynda back to get them to crumble. I also somehow forgot that Lynda lowkey already got a chance to return, which she fumbled. Her story is one of toughing it out and believing in yourself through your failures, but still, it might come off as a little unfair if Lynda got a second second chance.

#6: Amelie

Good on Amelie for raising up a couple of spots! I can't remember if they were on YouTube or Tumblr (or possibly even Twitter), but some comments I read somewhere did open my eyes to the benefits of Amelie returning to serve as a late-game villain, in the case that we were lacking some. Of course, I do actually take issue with that argument as well: I think that Anastasia, Isabel, and potentially Jade have already been set up to be late-game strategic villains, and I also think that (at least with Hannah still in the game) Amelie's character arc resolved with her not being as much of a villain anymore. Amelie is always going to be ambitious, cutting, and a bit bossy, sure, but if she truly came back into the game and started demeaning everyone, it would feel a bit like her character development thus far was for naught. Despite those disagreements, though, I do see the vision more now. Promise!

However, I do think that bringing Amelie back now would be a little weird for Hannah's arc. Last episode, Hannah started to internalize the idea that, if she truly wants to win, she's going to have to cope with losing her friends to elimination along the way. If Amelie, the first friend she lost to being voted out, suddenly comes back, it could help her to internalize that message: your friends aren't gone for good, they're fine and can hang out with you again later! But also, it undoes some of the gravity of that sentiment, by essentially "resurrecting" her "dead" friend.

I see the Amelie vision more now than I did before, but I'm still not sure if her return is what Hannah or the story needs. But hey, she's almost made top half this time!

#5: Alessio

I continue to be pretty neutral about the idea of Alessio returning. He doesn't have a lot setup, but he also has a good amount of potential, and that relatively blank slate could be what the writers want, especially when balancing the effects of two returnees. Although, uh, can we talk about the episode poster for a little bit?

Why is Alessio, like, ripping a hole in the fabric of his reality?

Honestly, this makes me wonder if Alessio's path this episode will be to more or less ascend, and become cognizant of the fact that he's a fictional character. It sounds ridiculous, but, like, what else would this mean?! He already knows he's on an in-universe TV show!

If that is the case, then Alessio's returnee stocks plummet. A self-aware character is an awesome one-off gag for a special episode, but not for a genuine competitor who'll probably stay in the competition for a good few episodes to come. At least, under the assumption that DC doesn't suddenly go meta, and turn into a show about all of the characters realizing that they're fictional.

Otherwise, uh... yeah, I don't know. Alessio squeaks into the top half again by not doing anything offensive enough for me to knock him lower, but not anything special enough for me to want him higher.

#4: Tristan

Tristan is a definite possibility to come back, but I'm not sure if the stars will align for them. There's potential for some interesting exploration into Tristan's gender identity in the midst of this "battle of the sexes," and I maintain that, should Tristan return alongside Benji specifically, their internal conflict regarding whether to side with Benji or Zaid could be an interesting one.

Still, Tristan's story feels fairly complete, and I'm not sure if they "need" a return in the same way that some of the others do (much like what I described with Richard). They've already found their new family!

Other than losing some characters that I think they could've had interesting interactions with (Benji, Richard), Tristan's status hasn't changed much throughout the various times I've written on them, so I don't have much more to say.

#3: Diego

What... is even going on with this love triangle anymore...?

Spencer and Logan kissed. That's a fact. Yet, despite that, I'm more hesitant that they'll actually be canon than I was before. When Logan described the situation to Natalia, he says that he doesn't know if he actually has feelings for Spencer, he "just liked that he liked a boy." That is confirmation that Logan "likes" Spencer, but, if the two were to become a canon couple, why not have Logan just straight up say that he enjoys Spencer's company...?

Then there's Spencer, who appears to be straight up losing it. It's definitely trauma from his past tumultuous relationship, but the fact that he looks panicked when embracing Logan isn't the clearest indication of a happily ever after. I mean, you never know, maybe in that scene Logan resolves that the kiss didn't mean anything and Spencer is upset, but the fact that Spencer somehow winds up with Diego in the seemingly-schoolyard pick one day after kissing Logan speaks to the idea that things are going to get... messy.

And then there's Diego. I've put him at #3 because the trailer makes it seem like my suspicions that Spencer and Diego's drama might be resolved outside of the competition, AKA, without Diego actually becoming a contestant again. Or, maybe it's just "confirmation" bias; it's not like what Diego says points towards the two of them coming to any sort of conclusion any time soon (or at least, not any healthy one).

Then again, when you open by saying "what's the point?" about returning to the competition, that doesn't make me think that you actually will return to the competition. It's one thing to let someone like Richard who doesn't really have anything to prove back into the competition, and another to let someone who actively doesn't want to compete again over those who do.

I'm being pretty negative about Diego's chances of coming back because I think he's a pretty popular choice, so I imagine others already know what the pros of him coming back are. A chance to get him a happy ending (whether with Spencer or not), to let him stretch his strategic legs, to flesh out his relationships with Jade and Hannah.

Oh, and, speaking of Hannah, I'm aware that bringing Diego back could mess up her "all my friends are dead" curse, which I did bring up as a negative in Amelie's portion. While that's still true, we also need to consider the playing field. Hannah has so many dead friends that the odds that two returnees won't bring back at least one of them is pretty low. Unless the returnees are two of Alessio, Marissa, Ted, Lynda, Ivy, and Richard, we'll be seeing one of Hannah's friends rejoin her once more. As you might be able to tell by my list, I think the odds of both contestants being amongst those 6 is pretty low 😅

As I think I said before, I understand why Diego is a popular choice to return, but personally, I just feel like something's off with it. I'm totally willing to eat my words on that matter if push comes to shove, but right now, my internal pendulum has swung him back to (slight) disfavor.

#2: Benji

Is this just copium because Benji was one of my favorites and also my winner pick? Certainly! But, like... c'mon... wouldn't it be really cool if he came back...?

Genuinely, though, Benji still has several plot threads that still feel unfinished to me. His early suspicions towards Jade has been left wholly unanswered, given that he didn't mention it at all during his elimination. His relationship with Zaid is still tumultuous in a show where heroic characters typically tend to make peace in their rivalries. And his romance with Tristan still has room to be explored, if the trailer has anything to say about it!

Now, could the Jade targeting be resolved with Benji pairing with her in this comeback challenge? Could Benji wrap with Zaid in the finale or the hypothetical Loser's Motel episode, depending on how far Zaid makes it into the game? Would Benji returning to the game actually be worse for developing his relationship with Tristan if Tristan isn't also back in the game?

... Okay, maybe, but, hear me out...!

Obviously, the largest problem with Benji returning is his impact on Hannah. To flip-flop again, although I was saying to cut all of Hannah's dead friends some credit given how many of them there are, I do think that Benji's return appears the worst for Hannah. He was the most recent casualty, as well as the one who sparked the change in Hannah's outlook. If she learned to update her mindset from losing Benji specifically, having Benji specifically come back would be a little strange in terms of learning that lesson. Then again, that is supposing that Natalia's words are a lesson that Hannah is meant to learn.

Personally, I think it's likely that two non-women are going to return to the game. This would bring the balance back to a girls' alliance of five (Jade, Isabel, Natalia, Anastasia, Hannah), and a non-girls' coalition of five (Spencer, Logan, Zaid, X, Y). This would then give Hannah the opportunity to undo her past mistake-- favoring the potential of being in the majority alliance over the friends she already has-- potentially even by taking out Natalia herself.

While I do agree with Natalia's position that losing an ally isn't something to tear yourself up about, as all but three will be voted out of the game eventually, in a less favorable interpretation, you could argue that Natalia is vouching for emotional repression. She's saying that you can't win while simultaneously feeling upset when you're betrayed, or grieving the loss of an ally.

On Survivor, the question is often asked whether it's better to play an emotional game or a strategic game. Each season's answer tends to show that blending the two aspects is what truly earns you a winning game. I think there's a chance that, whether Hannah is the actual winner or not, her story is meant to show off this balance: that, despite how it may seem, you don't have to always play the game with 100% strategic perfection to be valid or play the game well. And if that is the arc that Hannah's story is going to take, then I think that giving her a chance at a full redo with Benji by her side is the best way to do so.

Well, there's my highly specific fringe theory of the post. Again, I'm still totally willing to admit that it may just be my own stubborn pride insisting to me that Benji is still a far better winner pick than anyone else left in the game, which thus means that he must be a returnee. But I believe in... the Benji that believes in me? The me that believes in Benji? Sorry, I haven't ever actually seen that anime 😅

#1: Ted

Yeah, I'm back around on Ted's returnee chances. Honestly, I think the fact that he's seemingly competing for himself in this challenge does wonders for him. Ted's story is one of taking a chance on himself, and I think that managing to win the challenge against the odds based on his own power and possibly some dirty plays alone would be an excellent way to herald his return... and properly set up how he truly is returning to the game with no allies.

(If we assume that, like DCAS, all of the returning players and their partners will have immunity at the following vote-out, having one of the people with no partner come back would also limit the number of people with immunity next time from 5/10 to 4/10.)

And, you probably know the rest. Ted's story feels the most unfinished out of those eliminated thus far, he's a guy that would be a number for the non-women coalition while still not being a subservient footsoldier, etc, etc. Honestly, I think it'd be really interesting to give Ted a shot at talking to Spencer; I don't think they've ever gotten a chance to chat before. From one fuck-up to another, I feel like Ted could actually give him some solid advice.

While I don't think it's a 100% lock that Ted will come back, if I had to pick one contestant to return in a vacuum, at this point I think it'd be Ted. I mean, he's pointing to himself in a special position on the poster and everything.

Now that I've transcribed my thoughts on each of the contestants individually, what do I think about them together? In total, I think some of the most likely pairs are:

Ted and Benji, my #1 and #2. They help to dismantle the womens' alliance (as I speculated, by taking out Natalia) before branching out into their own paths. Benji makes up with Zaid and draws attention to Jade's threat level, while Ted, potentially, keeps it real with Spencer and brings some Lynda-style torment back into Anastasia's life.

Benji and Tristan. They reunite with Hannah, reminding her to not take the game so seriously, and their good vibes eventually melt Zaid's heart as well. Meanwhile, they continue their romantic inclinations, likely becoming a canon relationship before the end of the season.

Ted and Diego. A popular choice since the returnee challenge was announced, Diego can incite new drama in Spencer and Logan's situationship while Ted... I don't know, tries to fuck with Jade and Isabel, or something. Bringing back "bad decisions" of Logan and Spencer's will help to make the more severe tone of the merge even more consequential.

Benji and Diego, the silly simp sweep. While Diego's return would impact Spencer, Logan, and also possibly Jade, Benji would alter the course of Hannah, Zaid, and possibly Jade's games. As characters who were on the same team but didn't talk all that much, it would be interesting to hear Diego actually look to Benji for advice on how to last longer in the game and get the object of his affections to return interest.

Ted and Alessio, in case you really don't want to fuck with Hannah's depression arc. The two would probably act as a bickering duo that still stays loyal to one another, possibly paralleling Jade and Spencer. The introduction of two untethered, chaotic elements would force the more strategic players to suddenly think on their feet.

Well, hopefully I didn't bother you with this overly wordy answer! I'm somewhat relieved to know that this will almost certainly be the last major update on this particular analysis, such that, if I want to do a big DC theory again, I can focus on, like, the winner or whatever instead.

Thank you for sending in this ask! Also, I'm curious: since you gave your thoughts on who you thought would return before, have your opinions changed now that more time has passed, and a couple more options have been added to the pool? If you have the time to write anything up, I'd love to read it!

[clowndensation]

getting to the point at work btw where i'm actually being like. combative.

like we're trying to decide on a company vehicle, and they chose my vehicle for it. while ignoring the fact that i've already told them my vehicle isn't ideal for this job (and it like Really Isn't. it sucks for this job. i put up with it because as a personal vehicle, it rules). and then they went out and bought two of them before they even finished creating the new standardized equipment we're supposed to use. and now we're testing it all out and it's not working. shockingly.

so i told them point blank "i chose this car because i'm willing to be frustrated with it at work just so that i can use it for fun on weekends. solely as a work vehicle, it's a bad choice, and all of your workers will be unhappy with it. we can't get the new standardized cart to work in it, and we're coming up with a bunch of convoluted solutions instead of facing the real solution: we need a bigger car for this to work well."

and the stupid ass motherfucker i was talking with was like "welll actually we asked people, and they said this car was workable (i know this. you asked ME. because it's my car model. workable doesn't equal ideal, and i TOLD YOU THIS. i SAID that my car is adequate but NOT actually great for the job) and also they said that if the choice was between a less than ideal (but cheaper than a van) car, but the amount we save goes into their pocket via benefits and pay, vs a more ideal van that costs more, meaning we can't give you guys the benefits we otherwise could, everyone agreed that the cheaper, more frustrating car would be better"

and i went. "interesting. when did you ask this, because i don't remember hearing about it, and nobody i've spoken with agrees with what you just said."

and he had to backtrack and be like "well i didn't mean to imply we asked EVERYONE it was just generally what i've heard from some people"

and i full stop was like "well it sounds like you've made up your mind. if you've assigned a dollar value to the comfort and happiness of your technicians, and the math works out that the money you're saving with these cars is worth more than that dollar value, then there's not much more to say." and left.

but also for the record. techs are not seeing a fucking dime of the money they're allegedly saving with these cars lmao. "you'll see it reflected in your benefits" what a nebulous thing to say. show me the math you're doing that proves that. set me up with some solid number expectations that i'll see reflected on my paycheck. fuckhead.

[002yb]

OMGGGG can you write a more extensive fic or more hcs of ur recent post:3c it was soooo cute i need more

In relation to this post with Jason's first love being circus boy!Dick.

Bruce having full faith that Jason's sweet little first love story will fizzle out after some time spent apart

A foolish thing to convince himself of, given that phones exist

Bruce doesn't know what he was expecting, but a circus boy having his own phone was not one of them and he has to level with himself on what the assumption says about him l:

Digression aside, Bruce being an exasperated dad because Jason won't put the fucking phone down; he's always smiling at it, too and he needs to know why

The only conclusions he draws involve Dick corrupting his babygirl via dirty texts and requests for salacious pictures.

And there are photos - so many photos - but they're all harmless, ranging from dumb to pretty to thoughtful. It's just Dick sharing his life with Jason and showing how Jason fits in it and Bruce is OTL because this fucking charmer bastard how sweet.

Then things escalate and all at once there are phone and video calls. And Bruce doesn't realize it at first until he's talking with Jason one evening and Dick chimes in and Bruce is D:< because his time with his babygirl has been infringed upon more than usual!? Unforgivable.

Only it is [forgivable] because Dick was helping Jason with an assignment for school. Or talking him through some social struggle he didn't want to come to Bruce with (because Bruce's solutions, while appreciated, are dramatically passionate and sometimes bring about more issues because Bruce has a Jason complex that's so big omg).

(Dick will develop a similar complex; it's how he'll bond with Bruce it's chill).

But yeah, Dick existing in the life of the Wayne household via phone. Bruce doesn't realize he's come to enjoy Dick's company until one day Jason isn't on the phone with Dick and Bruce asks after him and is disappointed when Jason says Dick is busy

And then Bruce catches himself and gets petulant, only Alfred totally caught him and, 'smugness is unbecoming, Alfred )<' while he leaves the room and promptly OTL because damn it.

In addition:

Years into their friendship/relationship, Jason works with Dick's parents to visit during Dick's birthday

Which gives Jason all sorts of butterflies, only not for the expected reasons. Like, yeah. He's excited to see Dick. More wonderful though? Dick's parents acknowledging him.

Which arguably they did a while ago, but to be invited by them personally to something is so important to him

And Bruce is sitting there, wondering if Jason is genuinely awestruck or dropping heavy-handed hints for Bruce to invite Dick to their home for Jason's birthday and Bruce straight up plays dumb about it

Also:

Dick visiting Jason during some downtime. A brief stint because he still has to train and work on new routines, but a solid week with spent visiting Jason and spending time with the family

Bruce stalking the halls in anticipation of catching Dick sneaking into Jason's room.

Alfred catches Bruce in the act and points out how the boys are staying in one of the lounges

To which Bruce sprints off down the staircase and crashes the sleepover and Jason is so indignant and embarrassed although Dick laughs and welcomes Bruce like it's nothing

Bruce being charmed left and right because Dick and him click somehow, some way. Alfred throwing out a choice comment about how daughters find loves like their fathers and Bruce is ;A; suddenly seeing all the ways Dick is like him ahahahaha

Also, typical coming-of-age story dramas:

Jason, distraught because Dick gets a girlfriend and she's actually wonderful fuuuuuuuuuck

Bruce, internally very smug, outwardly cooing at his babygirl because it's okay Bruce has got him it's okay jay bb

And like, let it be a legit relationship. It doesn't last, but post-breakup Jason drops everything to fly wherever and surprise his bestie

And Bruce is pissed because he isn't raising a rebound ):<

Which Jason flusters because that's not what this is about stop embarrassing him omg

[professorfaber]

it’s that time of year again

books finished in 2024:

Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890–1939 by Sandra McGee Deutsch (February 24)

Found this in the bibliographical essay of Paxton’s Anatomy. Vibrantly and readably traces the evolution of the far right in the ABC countries over three generations, from intellectual exploration to vague patriotic militias to fully-fledged fascist parties. Pays close attention to the roles of gender and class, and uses Stanley Payne and Ernst Nolte for a very solid treatment of fascism in part three.

Polish Politics in Transition: The Camp of National Unity and the Struggle for Power, 1935–1939 by Edward D. Wynot, Jr. (March 15)

Read Wynot both to learn more about the Polish fascist party Falanga and to explore Gregory Kasza’s concept of the kakushin or renovationist right, or ‘revolution from above’. Frequently felt dry, tedious, or even meandering but histories of bureaucratic squabbling might just always have a bit of that. It does contain interesting information about Falanga, along with a decent though undefined concept of fascism, and it is useful for dissecting the ‘guts’ of a renovationist regime.

The Golden Dawn’s ‘Nationalist Solution’: Explaining the Rise of the Far Right in Greece by Sofia Vasilopoulou and Daphne Halikiopoulou (May 27)

Started reading this initially as part of a research project on Golden Dawn. It’s short and often repetitive but actually very insightful, part of the authors’ larger research agenda of analyzing the Greek crisis as a fundamental crisis of regime legitimacy. Uses Roger Griffin and Michael Mann to integrate Golden Dawn into comparative fascist studies to a greater degree than anything else I’ve seen.

Who Were the Fascists? Social Roots of European Fascism edited by Stein U. Larsen, Bernt Hagtvet, and Jan P. Myklebust (June 29)

Gets cited all over the place, especially in work from the 1980s and ’90s; in particular it was Juan Linz’s chapter that motivated me to read. An absolutely mammoth collaboration attempting to unpack the socio-economic bases of interwar European fascist (and other authoritarian) parties and regimes; deeply imperfect but often deeply fascinating, probably best used like an encyclopedia. I have said before that fascist studies ought to recapture the spirit of this book because the cultural approach is getting a bit stale.

New Right versus Old Right & Other Essays by Greg Johnson (August 7)

Probably found on Johnson’s Wikipedia article to be honest. One of the most lucid and tolerable fascist authors I’ve read, though the bar is low and content warnings apply for white supremacy, antisemitism, and misogyny. In my opinion, required reading for understanding what the alt-right was and what they were trying to do, as well as the place of fascism in contemporary white nationalist thought.

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (October 30)

Assigned for a class. Very approachable, actually almost to a degree that the writing feels like YA fiction but that probably isn’t fair. Impressively weaves a compelling story and a concrete sense of life for a black woman in the early republic out of very little documentary evidence, often having not just to read between lines but to juggle multiple alternative interpretations in places where we simply do not know.

The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War by Leo P. Ribuffo (December 27)

Not sure where I found it specifically, possibly Paxton’s Anatomy. A famously sharp and innovative intellectual history of the American far right through profiles of three key figures, contributing the concept of the “Brown Scare” and providing an early critique of ‘counter-extremism’ frameworks. To a degree Ribuffo does for the American right what the ‘new consensus’ did for fascist studies in attempting to take these people and their ideas ‘seriously’ through methodological empathy.

Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts by James C. Scott (December 30)

Also assigned for a class, which is funny since it’s the first anarchist theory I’ve read in ages. While self-admittedly schematic and groundwork-laying, Scott still manages an extraordinarily perceptive study of power relations and their impact on everyday life at a very granular level, especially those ‘quiet’ forms of resistance to oppression that often go unrecorded. Despite some partial disagreements, I do think probably everyone ought to read this.

[witchofthesouls]

More thoughts about I will not speak of your sins AU 'cause why not?

Pharma is into forms of painplay. He really enjoys sinking his teeth into a partner: a neck, a shoulder, a form of kibble, a thigh, it doesn't matter as long as he can bruise protoform and scrape to the bare metal.

It surprises the hell out of a lot of mechs since Pharma doesn't have a preference for being a driver or a rider, nor does he care for damage, only that his occupied mouth leaves tall-telling marks.

He leaves bleeding scrapes on Revelation's neck and bite marks on their wingspan. And enjoys it when they do the same to him.

Pharma won't admit it, but he does get a little thrill down his spinal strut when Revelation uses their strength to pin him to place.

Of course, he fixes all the damage. The dents popped and buffed, the grooves filled and sanded, and the paint is retouched because medics have an image to maintain.

To say things are awkward in the medbay is the understatement of the millennia. Not only there’s heavy tension between Ratchet and Pharma (understandable) but with Ratchet and Revelation as well.

Ratchet doesn’t trust Pharma in the medbay, but he definitely doesn’t trust the mech anywhere else and away from his purview. Because he’s the CMO, he can assign shifts and duties and has Pharma on more of the grunt work and mixing more needed compounds and solutions. Time-consuming tasks where he can keep watch and immediately know if anything goes missing or recorded wrong. He knows his own medbay down to the last gram and thinnest roll.

Revelation doesn't want to switch providers. They are quite content with Pharma's care and will definitely wait for the flyer, waving off the other medics, and will directly hail his comms if the spark palpations get too much or other complications arise.

The first time that happened when Revelation finally commed after waiting through two shifts, Pharma and Ratchet had a Scene in the office.

Tyrest may have controlled all the information Revelation had access, but he ensured that his Conjunx did have a solid education, including in legalities. It would have been a shame if his darling couldn’t follow along with him.

Revelation will shove every bit of case and code to remain with Pharma, who’s been with them through everything. They even moved into Pharma’s room with little care to anyone else’s thoughts on the matter.

Pharma and Revelation will have their own issues to sort out, especially when Rev starts to get an inkling just how much Tyrest stole away from them…

Menace/Mercy is having the time of its life on the ship. Outside the medbay, there's a growing belief that there's a ghost haunting the Lost Light.

Fast and nimble on their little paws, Menace ensures that it isn’t seen by others outside of the med bay and Pharma’s habsuite.

The medics think that the rest of the crew is freaking out over nothing, and it’s just the thing of the week. The crew is being extra paranoid on where they sit since Mercy isn’t afraid to sink claws on that expose seam of thigh when mechs aren’t paying attention.

Menace is a Tarnian Mine minx. That particular breed are well-known for their thick armor and thicker floof. That dense silicon fur helps convert the thermal energy of their native mineshaft environment and protects them from extreme temperature damage. More energy means more fluffiness.

Revelation and Remedy become a fixed sight in the medbay. Where Revelation goes, Remedy is in their arms, and with the second carriage taking a faster toll on them, especially when it’s found that they have two sparklets in their belly, they need the extra help.

Pharma is already on top of it, synthesizing more supplemental infusions. He and Ratchet constantly argue over the ratios. Ratchet doesn’t have the full history, but he knows something isn’t right. He monitors passively because he doesn’t want Revelation to crash from stressed, overwhelmed systems or get compound toxicity.

Pharma’s also on top of Revelation. Medics have a duty to perform for health safety, including ‘facing. They have particular buffers and programs that not only allow them to exude a calm, neutral EM field that won’t clash with others, they hook into other frames without triggering certain reproductive-related quirks and coding. They can sense but won’t be overwhelmed.

Medics typically stay in the med bay or hospitals, so no surprise there’s already rooms or at least cots for them, so-

Cue Rev sleeping in a nearby cot as he works. Just like old times.

Eventually, the medbay absorbs Revelation into their crew since they start handling their servo maintenance and recalibration. They did it for Pharma in the Atrium, so they start doing it for the other medics due to the high volume of work they oversee.

[tarrarre]

This is math anon. I know European high school calculus (differential, integral), statistics and analytical geometry/linear algebra. So the reason I'm scared shitless is that my country has a system, where everyone can get into engineering, but they try to weed out as many unworthy ones as possible during the first year. Other engineering students have only told me horror stories of extremely difficult exams you have to complete in a short time frame, coupled with minimal support from professors that just read off their powerpoint to a lecture hall of 700 people. I'm talking fail rate over 80%, even the geniuses scraping by on a D-. I'm goodish but NOT a genius and now need to concentrate on maximum preparation and self-teaching to survive this first year. Thanks for any advice

The only way to get better at maths is to do it. Practice drills and putting pen to paper.

If your university website has a brief overview of modules that may be offered in the upcoming academic year, take a look at those and start practicing those topics. Look up youtube videos on the subject, and do practice problems. I usually do any practice problems offered in the video on the subject, and I google "(topic) worksheet" (make sure the worksheet has solutions) or "(topic) exam" (again, with solutions). This way you'll be able to learn while also rehashing your previous knowledge as mathematical knowledge is cumulative.

Keep a note on the topics you're currently doing so that you can have a more structured leaning path for maximum efficiency.

I'd say that if you want to be prepared for next year, have at least a working knowledge of the topics you're going to be starting next year before the academic year actually begins.

On the lectures, I know what you're talking about, I had lecturers just like that. In this case, you should create a system where you can self-study. Not that I recommend this, but personally, I would usually skip those lectures if I knew the material was going to be online anyway because I wouldn't really get anything from sitting and listening to someone talk about the topic at hand when I could actually be practicing it. I'd go home and just employ the same strategy I told you about. Watch videos, do practice problems, DO EXAM PAST PAPERS.

When you're actually in college, the most important thing, like I said, is put pen to paper. This means handing in your assignments on time, doing any practice work that your professors may put up. You don't want to find yourself in a position where you're 3 weeks behind, and have to go back and do 3 weeks worth of learning because you did not do the learning on the week that the topic was presented to you (but if this happens, it's not the end of the world, I think literally every student has found themselves in a similar position at some point).

Maths is cumulative, and you want to make sure that you have a solid foundation. I think that this is the reason why most people fail maths. They skip assignments, don't hand in work when it's due, don't rehash their knowledge, and unfortunately that means maths gets increasingly difficult for them as they don't have a solid base of knowledge and experience on past topics.

In summary: during the summer, have a study plan laid out for topics that might come up, in college, keep up with your work, hand in your assignments, go to your tutorials (if you have such a thing).

If you have any questions about what I've said, any comments, etc. you can send me another ask and I'll answer you. Hope everything I said was clear.

[squish36-writes-and-draws]

All the Lemon Squares Argon

Summary: Another renamed fanfic from my creative writing class, this one's assignment was to use setup and payoff in a major element of the story. In the story, Fitz and Dex have a final chemistry presentation project where Fitz has chosen to bake lemon squares, but they've been stolen. I'm not sorry for the pun that is the title.

Word count: 6946

Tw: mild sexual innuendo, jokes about poisoning baked goods, food

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    Fitz doesn't even get a chance to sit down next to Dex before Dex’s gorgeous periwinkle eyes glitter up at him with a thousand new ideas. This is going to be…interesting. 

    “What if we could get powdered galactose?  Or lactose? Hm. That’s probably not the best idea. Milk sugar might do weird things chemically. Although that might be the fact that it’s a solution of water and butterfat. Or we could get fructose. That should work.”

    He’s so pretty when he gets like this—especially when I can’t understand half of what he’s saying and I know I’ve missed a lot of context.  

    “We’ve already decided on the parameters of the experiment. We are going to stick with the plan,” Fitz pleads, trying to appeal to Dex’s sense of pretending to be organized. 

    It doesn’t work very well. 

    “What about aspartame? Or Splenda? Is that a brand name? Yeah, it probably is. I should look that one up before putting it in the presentation. Generic Splenda.” 

    “Dex,” Fitz starts, hoping Dex’s name recognition reflex is strong enough to get through this whirlwind of thoughts. “We are not doing any more of this. We have enough. It’ll be fine.” 

    “I wonder what the sweetest one is. Then again, that might not be the best option. Ratios and all that.” 

    An image of the crumbly mess that would follow flashes through Fitz’s mind. He’s forgotten sugar before and it was not a fun result. Better than the three sticks of butter incident in terms of the clean-up, but at least that remained edible. Not that the sugarless one was inedible—that’s a very difficult bar to overcome, but it wasn’t pleasant.

    “It would. But, honey, will you please—”

    “Yeah, honey would be fun!”

    I was calling you that. I realize my error now.  

    Dex’s tirade is finally ended by the school bell ringing in the last hour of the day. It takes a solid five minutes for Mr. Sweeney to take attendance and get the presentation loaded for the group unlucky enough to get drafted on this fine spring Monday. 

    Because AP Chem isn’t already enough of a land of suffering, Mr. Sweeney has graciously decided to fill the time between the exam and the final with a little presentation on whatever chemistry experiment each pair of lab partners wants to do. 

    It can be live or in a video that contains both of you, and it should be relatively safe. This group—composed of Stina and Rissa—has decided that they want to spend an absurd length of time talking about baking soda. Heating it up, predicting the products, hearing about both its and sodium carbonate’s use. Because those are definitely not the same thing. One is used in baking and the other is used in soap. Our class is all in for a riveting ten minutes. 

    Fitz is pretty sure they just found a lab on the internet and followed it, which is a valid method to do things. Once you’ve crossed that mental boundary, though, you should at least try to find an interesting one. He’s heard one group arguing about plating a penny in brass or something. That’s fun. 

    It might be considered defacing currency, but it could easily be argued that that’s the appeal of it. 

    But no. They get to sit there for ten whole minutes, and half of that time is waiting for the sample to heat. Curse you, thermodynamics. Dex doesn’t stop suggesting ideas for how they could embellish their own presentation in a few short days, but Fitz isn’t even sure they’re going to finish what they already have on the agenda. 

    While they’re painfully waiting for the baking soda to heat up enough that it decomposes, Dex asks on the lab table in blue, fine tip expo marker, How are the lemon squares going? 

    The big idea for their project is that they’re going to be taking glucose and sucrose and seeing what happens when they react with Benedict’s Solution. Who’s Benedict? Some guy, probably. It’s a shame they’ve turned him into a soup. At least he’s blue from the copper(II) ions. 

    Fitz should know this by now, but that’s what Wikipedia at two in the morning the night it’s due is for. 

    Anyway, it turns orange in the presence of a reducing sugar, like glucose, and doesn’t react with others, like sucrose. Why do we care about those two? They were the most easily commercially available and it’s taken until today for Dex to start suggesting more sugars for them to try. 

    They’re also performing a taste experiment between lemon squares made with glucose and those made with sucrose. It’s good practice to bring the audience snacks while presenting. 

    Of course, it was a whole process choosing the variety of pastry to be used in this project. As in, Dex asked really nicely for it to be lemon squares—puppy dog eyes and all— and Fitz is incapable of telling him no. It was also convenient that the recipe Fitz had didn’t use brown sugar, and could thus be closer to a controlled test. 

    I made some last night, Fitz replies, and Dex has begun doodling either a chocolate chip cookie or an asteroid on his side of the table. It’s the most precious thing Fitz has ever owned and he will cherish it forever. 

    Dex pauses his masterpiece to say, That’s good.

    Yeah, um, so, about that, Fitz barely manages to write around Dex’s arm, this morning I woke up to find them disappeared. 

    Dex has to erase some of the previous conversation to ask, Well, what’d you do with them? 

    I remember specifically putting them into the back of the cabinet above the microwave. 

    And they weren’t there this morning? 

    Nope. 

    That marks the first time Dex has stopped talking long enough to think for the first time since last Wednesday. 

    Fitz erases a space to write, smearing a haze of blue across the table.

    Don’t worry about it. I’ll make more tonight.

    And then those are going to disappear.

    I’ll put them somewhere else. 

    Until that gets raided too. 

    Then I’ll make MORE. 

    I don’t think you have that many eggs. 

    That’s why grocery stores exist. 

    Before they know it, the presentation is over, and it doesn’t really affect a whole lot. There’s three presentations a day. It’s still going to take a week to get through all of them, but it does make it so that it doesn’t take longer than that. And that’s somewhat relevant. 

    This next one is over the most classic science fair project of all time: the baking soda volcano.  It’s not surprising that Jensi and Valin are the ones to try to blow up the classroom. 

     Dex writes the chemical reaction on the table with accompanying chemical structures before they’ve even gotten off the title slide. 

     NaHCO3 + HC2H3O2 → NaH2C3O2 + CO2 + H2O 

    Jensi also takes his time explaining acid-base chemistry like we’re all fifth graders, which likely isn’t that far off. “You see, class, baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, is a base, which means that when it comes into contact with water, it is able to rip off some of water’s hydrogen atoms, resulting in an increase in hydroxide ions. And then when vinegar, also called acetic acid, is dissolved in water, it releases hydrogen atoms, forming hydronium ions. Do any of you remember the chemical formula for hydronium?

    Crickets fill the room as Dex writes H3O+ on the desk without a single thought. Mr. Sweeney is probably off crying in the corner as their final grades slip lower and lower. 

    “That’s alright,” Valin continues, “it’s combining the two reactants that’s the fun part. When an acid and a base come into contact with one another, they undergo a double replacement reaction. In this case, sodium and hydrogen switch places.”

    The presentation flips to the next slide, filling in the products of the reaction as CH3COONa + H2CO3. 

    Sodium acetate can be written either the way Valin and Jensi did or the way Dex did. It’s a matter of preference or something about organic chemistry. Now, carbonic acid, on the other hand, is a bit more of an issue. 

    Jensi points at the second term. “But that’s not its final form. This last reactant here breaks apart into water and carbon dioxide, so there’s a second reaction inside of the normal reaction.” 

    Yes, yes, we all know how carbonates work, Dex writes. 

    Fitz laughs silently. 

    “And, with all that in mind,” Jensi flips to the next slide and lowers his goggles from his forehead to where they’re supposed to go over his eyes in true mad scientist fashion. “It’s time for eruption.” 

    Everyone has seen a baking soda volcano before. It’s not surprising when it bubbles up and oozes out of the beaker that Jensi and Valin didn’t even bother to make look like a volcano. It is nice to note that they did bring food coloring to make the lava foam orange and didn’t get it on the ceiling, which is a win for everyone. 

    And then Dex has to ruin it. Did you know this reaction is actually endothermic?

    That’s big fancy chemistry words for “it gets cold.” Curse you, thermodynamics. Lava isn’t supposed to be cold. Fitz is going to personally take this up with the second law of thermodynamics. It’s not going to work, but entropy deserves to feel bad about what it’s doing. 

    Valin and Jensi putz around for another five minutes after their initial volcano has stopped reacting, mostly just adding more vinegar or baking soda at random intervals to see how the increase in concentration affects the rate of the reaction. Definitely not just standing around to run down the clock for the next group. 

    That next group is the brassing a penny group, and it takes them so long to get to their experiment, the entire class is freed from the confines of the school building before it’s over. Except for Fitz. He still has to play chess for an hour. 

    It comes and goes with more blunders than Fitz would care to admit, but that very quickly doesn’t matter when he shows up at Dex’s house to work on homework. And by “work on homework” he means “desperately hope that he doesn’t get horrifically distracted before they accomplish a nonzero amount of progress on the chem project.” It doesn’t seem likely. 

    And then that probability crashes to zero. 

    Dex is found standing in his room at a bulletin board, winding a red string around thumb tacks stabbed into sticky notes. 

    In the middle is a picture of Fitz and a torn-off corner of notebook paper with a three dimensional lemon square drawn on it. Fitz can tell it’s a lemon square because it’s been messily colored in with a yellow crayon that doesn’t show up very well. 

    “Do I want to ask?” Fitz asks hesitantly. 

    Dex smiles into the board. “No, I don’t think you do. But that doesn’t stop me from explaining it. Here in the middle is you, of course. There’s only a few people that know that we’re baking for this project and that I made you do it.”

    “How do we know that the person who took them even knows about the project? Do you not realize how often I find myself baking? I have a problem.

    “Good point.” Dex adds a lopsided question mark to the sticky note with the word ‘project.’ “That doesn’t really change who might have had access to the stash. Which is where our suspects come in.” 

    Dex turns to face Fitz, gesturing widely toward the board like any of it makes sense. His handwriting is absolutely atrocious right now, a sure sign that he’s put more thought into this than it deserves. 

    “Our first suspect is Keefe. I don’t trust him. He’s got a long history of making things disappear. Case in point: Mrs. Cuddles. One day, she was here in all of her stuffed animal glory and the next, we’ve never seen her again.” 

    “We never proved that it was Keefe.” 

    “Well, we really should get around to doing that.” Dex points very intentionally at nothing. “He is also likely to know you well enough to know where you would hide things.” 

    “You have fun asking him. I’m not interrogating my best friend.”

    Dex’s eyes glimmer, and Fitz knows all hope is lost. “We should absolutely do an interrogation! With threats and everything!” 

    “Until he asks for a lawyer,” Fitz deadpans, trying to calm down Dex’s racing thoughts. This is both a common situation and one that Fitz is very bad at de-escalating. 

    “Your dad could be his lawyer.” 

    “I feel like that would make things objectively worse.” 

    “Yeah, it probably would. I think we should declare independence and therefore we don’t have to comply with constitutional rights. Who needs those anyway?” 

    Fitz blinks. He expected for Dex to increase his outlandish ideas in a short amount of time, but not that quickly. 

    “I mean, if you wanted to take the ‘the first amendment protects you from the government, not the Dex’ approach, that would be entirely reasonable without having to prove sovereignty. That would take a while.” 

    Dex smiles. “I forgot about that. That’s perfect. When do you think you can take Keefe into custody?” 

    “I’m not doing it, you do it.” Fitz pauses, trying to think of a good reason why because he clearly did not think through the implications of this before saying it. “You’re the lead investigator here. You’ve got the corkboard and everything. I’m just a guy who happens to be here.”

    Dex looks at him, not believing any of what he just said to be true, but accepting it as fact anyway. 

    “Please don’t let this end with Keefe having a restraining order against us,” Fitz adds. 

    “I make no promises, sweetheart.” 

        Fitz’s faded, once-pink hair falls into his face as he pushes his glasses up to pinch his nose. 

    Why did I know that was going to be his response? 

    Fitz shouldn’t be surprised the next day after school to find Dex in his basement, Keefe sitting at an old wooden table, the lights dimmed as low as possible before total darkness. The incandescent bulbs don’t much like this as they flutter in pain like they’re having a little bit of a stroke. 

    “About time,” Dex says, leaning against the wall. 

    Fitz turns on the lights. “This needs to be taken down about three notches. Keefe, I’m sorry he’s like this.” 

    “I’m not,” Dex and Keefe reply in alarming unison. 

    What did I sign myself up for and why do I do this to myself? 

    “Dex, if you would please proceed with the reason we have gathered y’all here today, that’d be great. Some of us have homework that we actually do,” Fitz suggests. 

    “That’s what study hall is for,” Keefe replies. 

    Dex interjects, “No, study hall is for Wordle.”

    “That’s what English is for.”

    “No, that’s when you do the homework you didn’t finish at home or in study hall.” 

    “Okay, yeah, that’s almost fair.” 

        It isn’t often that Dex concedes a point in an argument. Or maybe Fitz isn’t good at arguing with him. Fitz is very distractible when it comes to Dex and that might affect his debate skills. Or it could be that he knows Dex will pout for a month and a half if he’s proven wrong, and Fitz just lets him believe that he’s right. Yeah, that’s it. 

    Dex bounces off of the wall and slides into the chair across from Keefe. Fitz takes a seat, off center, directly next to Dex, close enough that Dex’s infamous left handed elbow jabs are a serious threat. 

    “First, I would like to confirm that you are, in fact, Keefe Sencen. Is this accurate information?” 

    “What, no middle name?” He looks at Fitz. “Do you not know it?” 

    A smirk tries to blossom on Keefe’s lips but quickly gets shut down by Fitz’s own. 

    “I absolutely know what it is. I didn’t think you wanted to acknowledge how you were named after your father, considering everything.” 

    Dex continues, “This is not a government-sanctioned interrogation, and, as such, you are not entitled to any of the protections provided by the Bill of Rights. Miranda rights do not apply here. You are not getting a lawyer unless you want one of my siblings, who are, by the way, not recognized by the bar association.” 

    “This is quickly sounding like more and more of a trap.”

    “It’s like five questions. You’ll be fine. The most severe sentence you will receive is mild disappointment.” 

    Keefe gasps sarcastically. “Not that, never that. How am I going to cope?” 

        “On the seventh of November of this year, it was discovered that a tray of lemon squares went missing. Do you know anything about this?” Dex asks. 

    “No,” Keefe replies, fast enough to not think but not too fast to be suspicious. 

    “Are you absolutely sure?”

    Fitz adds, “They would have been above my microwave.” 

    “Yeah, I’m sure.” Keefe shifts his attention to Fitz. “You made lemon squares and didn’t tell me?”

    “I guess you should’ve taken chem with me.” 

    “Well, I wouldn’t have gotten them either way, considering they’ve been stolen. But, now I know you have a recipe for them, which means I have the ability to annoy you enough to convince you to make them. Who’s the real winner here?”

    “So you’re sure that you didn’t take them? You’re not just being difficult because that’s your only personality trait?” 

    “Actually, I have two. Beauty is a personality trait. But I was very unaware of that particular stash. The one under your bed and in the back of the lazy susan are less safe.” 

    Fitz swears. “I just found that one a week ago and now you’re telling me I have to find yet another one?”

    “You could always use your closet. You’ve already got everything else in there.” 

    Dex snorts. 

    “You knowing where it is would take away the whole concept of it being a hiding place. And then you’d figure out how to sell it on the black market.”

    “I wouldn’t do that. That would risk my own stash. Although your sister is going to stiff it out with that bloodhound nose of hers faster than I’ll be able to raid it.”

    Dex interrupts, “Do you think there is a possibility that Biana was the one to find the lemon squares?”

    “Possibility? Absolutely. I don’t know why she wouldn’t have been your first suspect. She literally lives in the same house as the lemon squares. She would’ve had the largest window of opportunity.”

    “Like you aren’t there almost as much.”

    “That’s because Biana is usually off gallivanting with her friends.” 

    Keefe has a slight inflection on the word “friends,” but what he’s trying to imply there remains unclear. Knowing both of them, it’s probably more than a little gay. 

    Fitz waits a beat before saying, “I’ve got to go get to making another batch. If more go missing, I want you to expect that we will be seeing you again.”

    “I also expect you to come to us, whether it be in person, in an overcomplicated disaster of scavenger hunt clues, or anywhere in between, if you find out any information. We can offer a better bribe than those other people can.”

    “Dex,” Fitz hisses. 

    “What? It’s accurate. It’s not like this is going to lead to a crime syndicate,” Dex replies. 

    “You never know. Alvar could be involved.” 

    “He probably still thinks of you as a fifth grader. I know I do the same with my siblings, and I see them every day. Unfortunately. But that means he likely believes that you shouldn’t be trusted to operate the oven on your own.” 

    “Unless he’s been purposely watching you only to ruin your final project,” Keefe suggests. 

    Fitz holds his head in his hands. “There’s no reason to exaggerate this as much as you are. Next you’re going to be telling me that I should poison the next batch to find out who took them.” 

    “That’s actually a good solution,” Dex says. “You’d make sure there are no more stolen lemon squares…after those, at least.”

    A couple of bitter almonds crushed up into the crust would make that far easier than it should be. Cyanide is known for being delicious. 

    …And that’s exactly why I shouldn’t be allowed access to Biana’s Amazon Prime account. 

    “Are we done here?” Fitz asks tiredly. “Or are you two going to come up with a conspiracy theory to explain the entirety of thermodynamics or something? And do I really have to be here for that?”

    “Hey, there’s probably a fourth secret law of thermo somewhere,” Dex argues. 

    “There already is. The zeroth law. If A is in equilibrium with B and A is in equilibrium with C, then B is in equilibrium with C, remember? You’d need a secret fifth law, and at that point, that’s unrealistic.” 

    Dex laughs. 

    “Please don’t figure out a way to violate any of the laws while I’m gone. I don’t want to deal with the consequences of that. That would imply that the project would have to change and I’m not putting that much effort in between now and Friday.” 

        “I hope you know that’s my goal in life now.”

    “I knew it would be.” Fitz sighs silently. “I’ve got too much homework to keep following this conversation. Just have fun doing whatever it is you find yourself doing this evening.”

         “Let me know if you need distracting from your homework.”

    I give myself fifteen minutes before I’m going to be taking you up on that offer. “I won’t, thanks. Have a nice evening.” 

    “I won’t. And I’m sure you won’t either.” 

    Keefe snorts. 

    “Both of y’all are legally required to have a nice evening. Because I said so. And now I’m going to leave you to it.”  

    Fitz leaves without any more argument, because he’s had enough of that for today. There’s a limited amount of coherent thoughts he can have while being faced with Dex’s dimples and that number is very, very low.

    The next day interviewing—interrogating—Biana goes much the same as Keefe. Which is to say, it’s a complete waste of time for everyone involved. She threatens them slightly more, but that’s to be expected. 

    Fitz spends far too many hours reading scientific papers about glucose and sucrose and a few other sugars just for fun instead of working on the actual project part of the project. 

    It’s to make it as accurate as possible. Yeah. That’s why he didn’t get to bed until two in the morning. 

    That might also be due to the fact that he spent a few hours surveying his house to look for the most advantageous spot to hide the next batch of lemon squares—and with two slices per person in class, it’s not particularly easy to find anywhere even remotely helpful. 

    There aren’t a whole lot of viable options left between Keefe and Biana’s incessant searching for hidden snacks in the walls. Even behind the fish tank in his dad’s office is no longer safe. 

    Eventually, he finds a light fixture that will surprisingly work quite well. They might get a little warm from the heat given off by the lights if they’re turned on. Curse you, thermodynamics. They’ll be fine. 

    Then, and only then, at like two in the morning, is he able to make more. Most of their cooking time is being stuck in the fridge and it gets left there overnight. 

    The next day is Thursday, and Thursdays are good days. Neither Dex nor Fitz have anything to do after school, which means Fitz can drive Dex home. 

        “I made more lemon squares last night.”

    “Oh? And how did that go?” Dex asks, staring firmly out the window. 

    “Well, they weren’t there when I checked them again in the morning.”

    Dex swears. “Is there anything else we can do?”

    “Not unless I don’t let them out of my sight until tomorrow morning when I let Sweeney take custody of them. Do you think I could maybe make and leave them at your house? I don’t want to get up at four in the morning and that’s pretty much my only other option. I’m not staying up all night just to make them at a reasonable time.” 

    “I would rather gouge my eyes out with my pencil than wake up at that heinous hour. Good luck to both you and your sanity. Stars know I’m not going to be doing that. I’d pull another all-nighter before I do that one.” 

    It takes a second and a half for Fitz to realize what Dex just said. 

    “What do you mean ‘another’ all-nighter? Dex, we’ve been working on this.”

    “Well, we’ve also been working on this project for a few too many days for me to just ignore this whole mystery situation we’ve got going on.” Dex’s voice cracks. “I have to solve this problem. I have to find out what happened. We’re going to be very lucky if I get anything tonight.” 

    “Then I guess we just have to make sure you don’t think about the problem. If we don’t think about it, it doesn’t exist.”

    “You’re not playing the object permanence game with me today, Fitz. We all know I’m going to lose and I don’t like doing that.”

    “There’s no such thing as losing. Either you win the game and pass out in the middle of our presentation tomorrow, pushing it to Monday as you get dragged to the nurse’s office, or you get to sleep.”

    Dex sighs. “You do raise a fair point. I can’t get on a first name basis. Keefe and Sophie may have been the first to accomplish that particular honor, but that doesn’t mean they’re ever going to let me live it down.” 

    That wasn’t the point I was trying to make, but whatever works, my darling. 

    Fitz reaches over and gently squeezes Dex’s hand. “We’ll figure it out. I’m not failing a project over this. That’s not something I’m physically capable of doing. Besides, if something does happen, we’ve still got Benedict’s solution and a hot water bath. It’s not as fun or as memorable, but it’s functional.” 

    “Ah, yes, copper sulfate soup. I’m sure it’s very tasty.”

    “The forbidden gatorade. The fact that it’s that shade of delicious, delicious blue is so unfair on so many levels.”

    “I thought you were supposed to be the responsible one.”    

    “Well, it’s not my fault it looks so drinkable. Also, you’re a very bad influence on me.” Fitz smiles. 

    “I know. But I’m just picking up what Keefe started. Can you feel the corruption sinking into your bone marrow?” 

    “Yeah.” Fitz says bluntly. 

    They unceremoniously get out of the car, and Fitz leads the both of them towards the kitchen. They’re trying to be productive today and making another batch of lemon squares before sitting down and getting distracted seems like something productive. 

    He checked after Biana’s interview yesterday to see if Dex’s house had all of the ingredients, and for some unknown reason, they did. Why do they own so much glucose? Normal table sugar is sucrose. That would be reasonable. Glucose is not. 

    It might be a little out of date, but at this point, Fitz’s just hoping to not have to do the conversion from baking powder to baking soda. After making the crust and throwing it in the oven, he discovers that his hopes aren’t fulfilled. 

    How am I supposed to measure a sixth of a teaspoon of baking soda?

    And also, why does this always happen? They should really standardize this. Make everyones’ lives easier. 

    Just to be even more difficult, it decides to spill onto his shirt, right next to the flour and powdered sugar from the crust. Flour has no reason to get everywhere and yet it does. 

    Dex leans over the kitchen island where he’s seated, looking up from his phone for the first time in several minutes. “Am I going to be allowed to quality control these?”

    “No. We barely have enough for our victims—sorry, classmates—as it is.”

    Dex snorts. “Have you poisoned these again? Fitz, we talked about this. This is a crime against humanity.”

     Fitz finishes whisking the second lemon filling—the sucrose one—and the oven timer goes off a few moments later. He checks the crusts, and they’re both beautifully golden brown. 

    I need to bake here more often. This oven is better than the one at home.  

    “Says the guy voted most likely to become a dictator by our chem class.”

    “That simply means I know what I’m talking about.”

    “That’s funny, because I’ve never known what I was talking about in my life.”

    “That seems like a you problem.” 

        Fitz pours the filling into their proper crusts—differentiable by one of glucose’s corners being less than all the way to the corner—before sliding both pans back into the oven. 

    That can be Dex’s piece. I just can’t tell him that yet. 

    “Do you have any other homework tonight?” Fitz asks, leaning across the island counter to match Dex. 

    “That really is your only mode of conversation, isn’t it?” 

    “Yeah. It’s sad, isn’t it? I’d ask if you had any new personal projects going, but I think I know the answer to that.” 

    “You do?”

    “You’re fully occupied solving my life’s problems. You don’t have enough time to start something else.”

    “It’s lines of reasoning like that one that make me want to start a new project just to prove you wrong, and I hope you know that.”

    “And now I can ask you very nicely to channel that feeling and work on the presentation we have tomorrow. Unless you forgot that it was tomorrow. Did I mention it was tomorrow? We have a presentation tomorrow and we are extraordinarily unprepared.” 

    Dex tilts his head, considering. “No, I don’t think you did,” he replies flatly. 

    “So do you think it might be a good idea to get the slides open so that progress can be made towards readiness?”

    “No,” Dex replies, getting his laptop out of his backpack and hitting the keyboard approximately fifty percent more than necessary to make it turn on and start functioning. 

     Its fan immediately starts running, producing a high-pitched whine on top of the normal laptop fan sounds. 

    Dex smacks the side of the keyboard, likely an effort to make it stop doing that. It doesn’t. “Curse you, thermodynamics,” he whispers, along with a few stronger suggestions for what friction can do to itself. 

    “I’m going to be hunted for sport if Bex hears this. I’m going to my room. If you need me, you can literally just text me. You’ve done it before. I believe in you.” 

    I don’t know which one of your siblings that is, but I’m not letting you go back in that room while that cork board is still there. I need a focused Dex and that would not be a focused Dex. 

    “Or we could head down into the basement,” Fitz suggests. “I can probably still hear the oven going off from down there and being in the room where we interrogated our suspects seems kind of fitting.” 

    “That’s fair,” Dex says, picking up his still-open backpack and laptop as he begins to descend the stairs. 

    Fitz tries to brush away some of the suspicious white powder dusting the front of his shirt. It doesn’t do a whole lot, but maybe now it won’t be as ground into the carpet lining the stairs and lower level. 

    Fitz finds Dex arguing with one of his siblings—it might be Lex, but it’s difficult to tell. All of their names rhyme because their dad thinks he’s hilarious, only making Fitz’s life more difficult. 

    “Why are you turning down the opportunity to go trash my entire room?” Dex demands. 

    “Why are you so willing to give me that opportunity? Last time you were this agreeable, you planted stink bombs under your bed!”

    “To be fair, that was objectively hilarious.”

    Maybe-Lex smiles. “It was fun banishing Rex outside for a week.”

    I remember that happening. 

    “Just find somewhere else to go live for the next couple of hours. If that ends up being outside, that’s your problem. I have the Fitz and since he’s a guest in our house, that means he, and by extension I, have superiority.” 

    The corners of Fitz’s mouth widen into a smile and his heart flutters slightly. 

    Hearing him use that argument never gets old. It’s kind of pathetic. I’m kind of pathetic. 

    More-than-likely-Lex huffs and stomps up the stairs. The carpet muffles most of his anger. 

    “Sorry about him,” Dex says as he sits at the table, friction causing the laptop to shriek as he slides it back because he put it down too close to the edge. Fitz’s ears want to bleed. At least the journey got the fan to stop screeching for whatever reason. 

    Fitz takes a seat across from him, the chair still ominously warm from probably-Lex sitting there. And then, from the all-encompassing silence left behind, comes the sound of Pop Rocks emanating from the table itself. 

    Fitz looks up to find Dex moving his laptop to the far end of the table so he can get a closer look. 

    “What on Earth was Lex doing here?” Dex whispers to himself. 

    Ah, so I was right on which one it was.  

    That’s not the takeaway you were supposed to make there.

    Fitz shrugs. 

    Dex pokes the table. “It’s sticky.”

    “Now I definitely don’t want to know.” 

    “Not like that. Get your mind out of—” An idea blossoms in Dex’s mind, and without any warning or elaboration, he runs upstairs. 

    A cabinet slams closed. “Where’d you put the baking soda?”

    “To the right of the pantry, top cabinet, bottom shelf, right side.”

    “Thank you!” he yells, running back down the stairs and to the table, becoming a living example of the doppler effect. He pours far more than the recommended serving size of baking soda onto the table, and the popping sound intensifies. 

    Dex swears triumphantly. 

    “Care to elaborate?”

    “No,” he says, looking at Fitz, dimples prominent and so close Fitz could probably count his freckles. “Bicarbonates react with acids to form a salt, water, and carbon dioxide.” 

    “I know. Why is that relevant right now?” 

    “I just dumped an entire mountain of baking soda on the table and it started reacting with whatever Lex left there. That means whatever he left there was more than likely an acid. And, no, it’s not that kind of acid. Probably. It wouldn’t leave gook on the table like that.”

    Fitz’s eyes narrow but he doesn’t ask why Dex would have this information. The answer is probably a Wikipedia rabbit hole. “Do you know what it could be then?” 

    “This isn’t a very helpful answer, but, no, I don’t, and I don’t know what other tests I can do to narrow it down from literally everything else.” 

    “Don’t you literally carry around a gallon of Benedict’s solution? I fully believe there’s something in your backpack that can solve this conundrum.” 

    “Not quite that much, but, yeah, I’ve got some. For reasons we do not discuss.” 

    It’s because it’s the forbidden gatorade flavor.

    “I’ve got the oven going if you need hot water. If that would help. I don’t know. There’s a reason I just let you do the chem labs without getting myself between you and a bottle of one-molar HCl.” 

    “That’s a valid solution to the problem. I wouldn’t get between me and my son HCl either. Benedict’s might be helpful. Then we’ll be able to figure out where to go from there.”

    “The presence of reducing sugars,” Fitz corrects, and he feels way too proud of himself at knowing that fact. Even when Dex already knows it. 

    Dex grumbles, “Close enough.”

    He runs back upstairs to get a spoon and a small glass, filled with a tiny splash of water. He scrapes off a corner, and it forms an off-white peak on the edge of the spoon before it gets dunked into the water and swirled into solution. A few added drops of Benedict's solution makes it a pale blue color before Dex runs it back upstairs once again to throw it in the oven. 

    “That glass better not shatter into my lemon squares!” Fitz yells, but Dex probably isn’t listening. One must respect the science, and the lemon squares get to deal with the collateral damage. 

    Yeah, the crunchy topping is on purpose. It’s isomalt. Totally. 

    Dex spends a very long thirty seconds pacing, the floorboards creaking with every step he takes. 

    He was probably counting in his head, because when he decides the timer is up, he’s running, once again, to the oven to get the sample out. 

    “It’s orange!” Dex yells, echoing through the house. That must be a wild sentence out of context. 

    “That’s a good thing, right?” 

    “That means you’re gonna move on to the next phase of inquiry: the smell test.”

    “Why aren’t you doing it?”

    “Do you really think I just let you sniff the chemicals in the lab for fun? I don’t smell things very well. I’ve got a library of, like, five things, and even then it has to have a lot of smell for me to even be slightly aware of its presence. We’ve been over this.”

    There’s so many reasons why this could very easily be a very bad idea, some of them involving ammonium hydroxide or chemicals like it, but Fitz is just going to trust Dex’s omnipotent chemistry knowledge. He’s done it all year, and he’s not failing AP chem yet. 

    So long as Fitz is well enough to take the final so that he can definitely not cheat off Dex on it, it should be fine. 

    Dex comes rushing back down the stairs, nearly spilling the forbidden now-orange juice on the carpet.

    He finds Fitz trying to waft the airborne aromatic molecules into the air, his nose slowly inching closer and closer to it. 

    Something registers, and he has to have smelled it wrong. His brows knit together. “There’s citrus in there.”

    The pieces click together—the smell, the stickiness, the presence of reducing sugars in a place where they typically wouldn’t be, and the acid. Citric acid, malic acid, ascorbic acid. Maybe some other acids. 

    “...These are the lemon squares.” Fitz takes a deep breath, before quietly asking, a dark undercurrent running through his words, “Have you been the one taking them?” 

    After all this, all the work Dex has claimed to have done to try to find them, if he knew where they were the entire time that’s—that’s absolutely unthinkable. And if he wasn’t the one to squirrel them away, having them end up in his house of all places is terrifyingly coincidental. 

    Dex puts his hands up defensively, his voice rising in pitch and threatening to crack. “Let’s think about this logically. I would’ve known exactly why you made those. Do you really think I would take them? Do you really think that little of me?”

    Fitz stands. “Then how else would your siblings get their grubby little hands on them?”

    “Why do you expect me to know? Why don’t you go ask them if you’re so concerned with where my priorities lie?” 

    “Keefe,” comes a yelled voice from the great beyond of the upstairs. So quick to throw their source under the bus, but that also means Fitz’s best friend lied to both Fitz and Dex without so much as a moment of hesitation. 

    …I’m not even disappointed, Fitz thinks, and that realization is…kind of depressing. 

    But that also means Dex’s siblings have another source if they’re willing to give that one up so easily. 

    Just because this one case might have been solved doesn’t mean the possibility is removed from the future. They’re going to find a way. At least finals season is upon us, so the baked goods will be plentiful because the stress is plentiful. 

    “I’m sorry,” Fitz whispers, staring at the baking soda hills to deliberately avoid eye contact with Dex and his perfect periwinkle eyes. 

    Dex sits across from him. “I can’t apologize for their actions, but I can apologize for not thinking of them during my whole process. I just figured I would know if they were stashing it in my own house, you know?”

    “Yeah, that’s fair. I don’t trust Biana enough to use that same logic with her, but I get where it would be coming from if I did.” 

    Dex smiles softly. “How mad would you be if I were to join you on that particular endeavor?” 

    Fitz smiles. “So mad.” 

    Dex takes Fitz’s hand, smearing the baking soda across the table. 

    And then the oven timer goes off. The lemon squares are done, and all that’s left is for them to cool off and be powdered sugar. Then they’re ready to go for tomorrow’s presentation. It’s not the most prepared he’s ever been, but at this point, it’s good enough. Monosaccharides and disaccharides aren’t that bad to just completely ramble about with no notes. Dex knows too much for his own good anyway. Between that, some unhelpful clip art, and a four in the morning rabbit hole, everything will be fine. 

    Besides, it’s not like any of the other students will care. They get snacks. 

    “You, uh, might want to go check that before they get taken,” Dex suggests. 

    “Yeah, yeah, I know, I know,” Fitz mumbles, beginning the long journey of trudging up the stairs. 

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Critique/ Line Assignment 5/13/24

I will go over this selection of assignments on Weds.

Here is the information for now .

Those of you that need to make changes to your work or improve them can have additional time tomorrow Tuesday to resubmit them to your blog.

Line assignment submissions:

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We will review work on weds. For now, the work above is being graded on the following basis:

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Originality

Creativity

I am also reviewing your ability to follow directions and complete assignments with the purpose of creating an interesting and compelling composition.

The rule I follow is this:

If you are not going to hang the work you made in your living room for a year for everyone to see, then you are not producing your best work.

I can see by the submissions, many of you are rushing the assignment or working without concern for the space the design lives in or following guidelines and rules according to the Principles.

Ask yourself the following:

How am I subdividing Space ?

What kind of balance am I using ?

How is my design showing variety and repetition?

How original is my work , am I coming up with easy solutions or thinking about creating an interesting design?

Am I making an engaging and interesting use of space? ( the space is within the 8x 10 parameter of the 9 x 12 paper)

Am I using the correct materials?

( These assignments are being done on Bristol paper within an 8x10 space on a 9 x12 Bristol paper and using either solid black ink or black acrylic paint.)

How much time am I spending on each assignment?

At the very least each assignment should be a total engagement time of 1.5 to 2 hours each.

Finally, I will allow students to resubmit for a better grade.

You can use the class time tomorrow to do so, add a link to this post once you are finished.

If your work is not listed here is due to one of several reasons:

a) You did not do the work

b) You completed work but using wrong materials or not following instructions.

3) You have no clue what we are doing and need additional directions.

( That is why I ask you if you have any questions at the end of the lecture!)

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18 & 19 for tyr! :]

Both of these ended up being kinda interesting because I... expected to have a somehow both harder and easier time with them than I did, but sitting on them for a few days has not led me to new insights, so we're going with my first-instinct reactions. xD

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18. If they could have saved anyone the game didn't give them a chance to, who would it have been?

Hmm… Katha Niar and more of the Makeb team. I suppose, arguably, he’s given a chance to save them, the game just… doesn’t let it work out how he would like. It’s all rather most fitting for Tyr, former Cipher Nine in a precarious predicament of job necessity and security with the forces that remain post-collapse of Imperial Intelligence, to be assigned to a suicide squad, essentially.

To say he’s surprised to find the rest of the team is under a similarly twisted arm scenario is… a bit much, by the smallest of fractions. If there’s any sort of surprise, it vanishes quickly because no one on that team lingers upon it long. They’re all more than aware that this is how their Empire works and there’s no time or sense in begrudging it, unless they’d like to be exploded with the rest of the planet.

If anything, it… kind of offends him - that here is a loyal, incredibly dedicated, incredibly bright team the Empire is throwing at what is both a long-shot problem and a desperately needed solution. If they fail, it will be because they were weak. They will be scorned for losing when the Empire sacrificed so much for even providing them the chance. If they succeed? Well, Tyr’s never particularly convinced it’ll buy him security, but at least he’ll have one more card in his hand to bargain with. Maybe they all will. They were his team, his responsibility. And he meant it when he said he wanted to get everyone home. If anybody deserved that, Katha was surely one of them. But at least she died with her convictions. That’s more than Tyr could expect.

19. If they could have killed anyone the game didn’t give them the chance to, who would it have been?

If Tyr had been given the option to shoot Lokin on Taris, he very well may have. Since they didn’t, I can safely say it works out for all involved largely for the better and knowing what they become, it’s something I would’ve maybe regretted a little, lol.

I was… actually expecting to have a lot easier of a time with this one, but… ultimately, the people Tyr would like to show immediate consequence like this… usually get it one way or another, actually, lol. On another hand, there’s a part of him that… it’s not exactly regret or guilt, in the end, though I suppose it is for a time… I think part of him wonders what might have been if he’d acted more decisively on Quesh, when he investigated Dimalium Six’s link with the Castellan Restraints. Ultimately, he walks away from that, not confident that he has a solid enough explanation for his being there in the first place, let alone why he was there when a very secretive facility partnered with Intelligence goes up in flames. So, in a way, I suppose you could sort of count Administrator Kroius. He technically has that option in-game, but he doesn’t take it. Which is also still one of my favorite fics I've done for him.

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