Pope: *holding antique bottle* Is this whiskey or perfume

JJ: *Grabs the bottle and chugs the whole thing*

JJ: It’s perfume

*Gossiping after their respective mission briefs*

Rex: I’m probably gonna die.

Cody: Well you’ve lived a good life.

Rex: I’m ten!

Cody: *unbothered, sipping his caf* I said ‘good’ not ‘long’.

Thinking a little bit about that one "I'm an English major and a professional as opposed to you amateurs" anon. Gonna roast 'em a little bit, but with the intention of addressing a thing we've had in mind for a while.

Real talk, coming from someone who WAS an English major; majoring in English is not necessarily a guarantee that someone is a good writer. For one, you can be bad at your major, full stop. For another, it's not even a guarantee that someone identifies as a writer to begin with. English as a major is pretty broad, and it covers reading too, among other things. There's library science, analytical academia, historical preservation & interpretation (MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS HELL YES), editing, nonfiction trades (often crosses over with STEM majors), marketing (crosses over with business majors), and also book design and typography (<3 <3 <3 our favorite, crosses over with art majors).

Someone can major in English and take a specific minor with the goal of falling into a trade that is not writing literary fiction. In fact, we would argue that most people who get something useful out of their major are the ones that do that.

It's also worth noting that it's possible to be an English major focused on "lowbrow" fiction. There are people who major in English and use the experience towards the end of writing erotica. There are people who major in English with the intent to write genre fiction. There are people who major in English to study the history and social context of fanfiction.

These things are, in fact, worthy fields of study! The realm of the "amateur" is the realm where a lot of cultural conversations and innovations happen!

Expecting English as a major to be a tract specifically for producing acclaimed literary fictionists is not realistic, not how the discipline typically works, and it's certainly not a thing you can use to hold over other writers' heads. It is perfectly possible for people to write good things (professional-grade things even) without ever touching a college course.

I sat through so much bad writing in college. Technically bad, thematically bad, gramatically bad. And I routinely bump into non-graduate authors who write texts, formal and informal alike, that blow my own writing clean out of the water with their quality.

In short, dismissing other people in your general field as "amateurs" who are beneath you is an incredibly unprofessional thing to do.

y'all. canaries should stay above ground. and sam, our narrative canary, fell through the floor. he ignored the warnings, went to a dangerous place, and ended up below ground. he's literally doomed ://

I haven't peeped much of it, but I did see people calling Sejanus a spoiled kid and I'm like I LOVE HIM EVEN MORE BC HE IS A SPOILED KID AND HE DIDN'T KNOW HUNGER AND HE STILL KNOWS THAT KEEPING THE STATUS QUO ISN'T THE WAY TO GO.

the empathy of this man

especially when you compare him to mf Coriolanus Snow who KNOWS hunger and STILL thinks people deserve this because they're not people but animals

the parallels between those two; Sejanus, kind because of his nature and nurturing of his mother, ten years in the Capitol and not letting those bullies erode his soul, not letting them harden him, he does NOT betray his kindness even as it could help him integrate better, no, he chooses loneliness no matter what over spoiling his soul

and over there is Coriolanus Snow, who does EVERYTHING for image and status, who fake befriends people on the basis of how they benefit him, having poor Tigris, the literal kindest baby, try to nurture him and pull something good out of him, and she just.. fails

and like, yes, Snow had trauma. but sorry it doesn't excuse becoming a dictator

Sejanus, too, had trauma. they all went through war. while, yes, Sejanus had food to eat, he was plagued by loneliness and guilt all his life and let me remind you this is a KID

people expecting him to be crafting plans just don't get it. he's a teenager that feels guilty as fuck and wants at least a few people to do better if he can't save everyone. because he can't, he can't stand by and watch more cruelties until he MAYBE inherits his father's money. and then what? he's not the only rich person in the Capitol.

either way, it's unlikely he could have led some revolutionary rebellion (he certainly had the grit and passion, though) because he had no backing and the ONE person who he trusted was a mf SNAKE and was actively sabotaging him

where was he gonna get allies for a rebellion? Capitol where he was hated because he wasn't like them? District 2 where he was hated because he didn't belong to them either? District 12 where he was a Peacekeeper, the police of the Capitol?

he was doomed from the start. he was too good and he couldn't play the long game because he was feeling so powerfully about everything and was NOT calculating like Snow. he was not the strategist Snow was.

he was a smart, kind, lonely boy who wanted to do good.

as much as i'd love to see george russell and alex albon as teammates at mercedes, toto wolff has already lived through managing one set of childhood best friends as teammates and has probably taken a sacred vow to never do it again

Been seeing too much Arthur as the responsible reasonable person and I just wanted to remind everyone he has willingly put himself in the position to be beheaded twice and the 3rd time he was in the position unwillingly he basically told his be header he dgaf and that he’d see him soon.

Michael and Gregory, after preventing Elizabeth's death

Michael: Hey didn't you said you went inside Freddy's stomach hatch-

Gregory, lying: I PERFECTLY KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING AND I WAS 100% SURE IT WAS SAFE, YUP, HAHAHA-

gregory’s getting an earful later

Tony: WHERE are your self preservation skills?!

Peter: I put 'em in a locked jar and eat them on my toast!

listening to the magnus protocol 5: private screening and thinking about how this is exactly some bullshit I would willingly find myself in also

Shadowheart: So let me get this straight-

Astarion: That's a hard ask in this group

Shadowheart: Regardless, you dating Willow is mostly for protection?

Astarion: Yes.

Shadowheart: The one who will leap off high places even if it means taking damage?

Astarion: Well I-

Shadowheart: The one walking through her own Cloud of Daggers as a shortcut?

Astarion: Audacity wins half the-

Willow: Do not get closer to me I will blow up this glyph of thunder with myself in it!

Astarion: .... I just need to get her to the castle alive.

Shadowheart: Good luck with that.

Slay 💅🏼

u see Rolan in the corner of a dark tavern playing with a Produce Flame cantrip what's ur pick up line

Part 2 of my 'Tieflings in Slutty Little Crop Tops with Dumb Slogans' series. The accompanying Dammon Crop Top post is here 🤭😳 and a Zevlor piece coming soon!

Wylan: I need to walk away before I lose my shit on you

Kaz: Seems the apple didnt fall too far from the tree

Wylan: THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY

Jesper: Oh dear

Inej: Why would he say that

Jesper: Hes going to die

Nina: This is gonna be good

Matthias: Little demjin is going to murder big demjin

moon: 😈

y/n: 😳

Listen, I love Boo; really I do.

But, if they have another ‘one on one’ with a convicted criminal or potential dangerous person, I swear to fuckin’ god—