Your chitin armor is no match for our iron-tipped stingers! Better go hide in your jars!' --common playground taunt

College Knowledge [Explained]

Can someone who understands linguistics tell me if the phrase "luceat siderum" really means "let the stars shine" or is Google translate lying to me?

College Knowledge

Subtext: "'Your chitin armor is no match for our iron-tipped stingers! Better go hide in your jars!' --common playground taunt"

just remembered that last night i had a dream that an old captainsparklez tweet surfaced where he was like “yeah i was bisexual in college” and i while i have no substantial evidence i blame tommyinnit for this one

also idc I love the citadel and all its wizard hubris I love the intersection of innovation and horror and progress and crushing others underfoot AND also clothes that magically put them on themselves and Citadel Made bouncy balls and secret societies and universities!!! and espresso and arcane discovery and and and

rick at various ages

I think the scariest thing about Nerdy Prudes Must Die is that it forced me to acknowledge TGWDLM came out 5 years ago

yesterday I put my eclipse glasses on over the top part of my regular glasses so I could look up at the sky through the filters but also look down and still be able to see where I was walking and I said “I’m an anableps anableps!” and no one knew what I was talking about

College AU where Wei Wuxian shows up to a lecture in leggings and assistant Lan Wangji is unable to focus on anything other than his current view of Wei Wuxian's thighs under the table of the front row.

Lan Qiren gets increasingly flustered as his nephew appears unable to hear his direction to load the next slide of the presentation or hand out the information sheets he printed.

And you best believe that Lan Wangji's view as Wei Wuxian walks out of the classroom right in front of him is the best part of his day.

cheeseburgers

Oh we are reaching warriorcats level of discourse

Being well-educated is the dream. Do not give up your career young. This world is cutthroat and the only way to survive is to have money. Learn. Grow. Conquer. Earn.

Audrey Klein and Leonard college AU because i love them and i wanted to draw different interactions between them

bonus colored Audrey below

thinking about queer!house, who would’ve been just getting out of medical school at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. house who loves puzzles and mysterious diseases. who probably did have to interview patients when he was younger and didn’t have the reputation to back up his behavior, having to deliver a diagnosis of GRID, that has only experimental treatments, a mysterious disease that nobody will fund the research for. the medical community can’t even agree on why exactly people catch it or on how it’s transmitted at first.

in the hallways, the unspoken consensus is that it’s spread through deviancy. degeneracy. queer behavior. that it’s more social contagion than real disease.

it would’ve made him furious. to watch people die, over and over again, from a puzzle that those with power didn’t want to solve. to hear so many become indignant or furious or hysterical at a diagnosis that labels them as queer. maybe it was worse to see those visibly gay men who only nodded their head, accepted that what had already begun killing their friends, their lovers, was killing them too.

everybody lies. whether they’re lying about their sexuality or lying about accepting an awful death shouldn’t make a difference to him. they’re going to die irregardless.

i think living through the epidemic as a young queer man would give additional explanation to a lot of house’s behavior. his general distaste for and mistrust for authority, his willingness to try any treatment no matter how radical or experimental, his conscious refusal to connect emotionally with patients, even down to less obvious stuff, like his consistent refusal to use heroin. he’s genuinely traumatized from living through an epidemic that killed people like him.