Dude, this school shooting shit is getting the fuck out of hand. MSU (Michigan State University) had a shooter attack earlier tonight (2/13/23, ~8:00/8:30 est pm).

*Something* needs to be done. We *need* to figure out how to solve this fucking problem, and if that means tearing so much down just so we can rebuild the foundation, then so be it.

https://www.wilx.com/2023/02/14/shelter-place-shots-fired-michigan-state-university/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/13/police-shots-fired-on-east-lansing-michigan-state-university-campus

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/02/13/michigan-state-shooting-what-we-know-about-shots-fired-on-campus/69901251007/

redraw of some unexplainable gordon fanart i made in 2021

I'm perfectly aware that (other than being part of his general sense of humor) sarcasm was a sort of defense mechanism for Hiccup, one that he used less and less as he got older and became better at defending himself physically as well as not needing to bc.. yknow, he's not a social outcast anymore, but they really couldn't let him stay sassy??? Like I'll never not be devastated at how he mellowed out with age

we all know human vigilante… but what about… slightly human vigilante

there were so many things leftists could’ve boycott businesses over on this large of a scale but they waited until innocent Israelis were massacred horrifically and they needed to prove that it didn’t matter

Question to a fanfic writer: do you think that, in Marcille’s research ways *And* her love for romance novels… would result in her writing some in-universe fanfics of her own? Like, maybe she hypes herself up on something and get disappointed, or maybe she finds some character decision isn’t as ideal as she thinks it could be? Or it’s as simple as she wants to play around with the characters and see what happens?

I can’t help but imagine a scenario where she’s struggling with some romantic trouble irl and she’s struggling with deciding on what to do, but then the answer slaps itself upside her head when she rediscovers her fanfics and how she LITERALLY made a character or two do the exact romantic decision she needs to do? It would so silly but yet I can’t help but find it so charming. Hell, just the imagery of her writing romance fanfics of her own At All is just… delightful to me hehehe.

you know I've been rotating this in my head since I saw it this morning and. I went through a wild journey of opinions before I realized... Marcille wouldn't think about fanfiction like we think about it. In the modern age, yeah, she'd be a complete tumblrina -- but we're talking about a 17th century-ish fantasy setting.

Writing before the digital age was a physical commitment to investing ink and paper into your thoughts -- and this is even before mass production can make pens and notebooks kind of whatever to buy and use on a regular basis. I'm sure the situation wasn't dire, but I really can't see Marcille, perfect honor student, using her allotted supply of stationery at the academy on super frivolous things.

Fanfiction has been normalized incredibly fast in the past few decades. Think about now normal and popular D&D is nowadays compared to how much people looked down on it 20-30 years ago. Fanfiction was a freakass nerd thing to do until relatively recent history, something that was even considered offensive to the original creators.

Remember, we've already seen Marcille react to adaptations with disgust. She's kind of a hater and an elitist fan. She also considers herself a Reputable Academic. In a setting where a digitized culture hasn't reframed fanfiction as an act of appreciation and creativity, she would absoluuuuuuuutely think that fanfiction was complete loser shit.

If she did write anything about her favourite books... She'd. She'd be one of those assholes who writes huge scathing reviews of Dal Clan translations into Common. She'd be the fantasy equivalent of those Weebs/Japanese elitists on twitter tearing through every single localization choice in anime and JRPGs and being so so annoying about it.

If we're being charitable, we could say she'd be able to appreciate non-faithful translation choices that still do a good job of carrying over the original spirit of what was said. But I think we also have to acknowledge the possibility that, at her worst, she'd really really be like those guys who were malding about the Unicorn Overlord localizations so hard the (correction: Final Fantasy Tactics Creator, not the Unicorn Overlord devs) had to step forward and ratio them. (The silver lining is that she'd never get published in the arts review newspapers/journals that she submits her essays to. those poor editors just have to deal with her being persistent.)

AUUUU SO THIS PAST SATURDAY I FINALLY WENT ON MY RIDE ALONG WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THATS OUTSIDE MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT WAS FUCKIGNFN AWESOME

I was there from 8am to 8pm and we only got 5 calls the entire time I was there

First call: fire at a local fast food place

Second call: structure fire but we were called off en route, ended up going to Walmart to buy some stuff for dinner and breakfast

Third call: some crazy burning plywood in a burn barrel behind a gas station

Fourth call: lift assist

Fifth call: another lift assist

I REALLY WANT TO DO ANOTHER RIDE ALONG TO REALLY SEE IF BEING A FIREFIGHTER IS MY CALLING AAAAA

So sad that their main rig (ladder truck) was outta commission and we were using a pumper that belonged to a different station i think. I still had so much fun tho!! Im hoping I'll be able to do a ride along with the same station and shift when they get their normal rig back from the shop auauauauaua

……starting to think a lot of you do not know what the word empathetic means

every time i look up the tag of gojo satoru - i want to scream at the mischaracterization the poor man's going through 💀

the power i will receive in a matter of days will be astounding. watch out

nahhhh my university admitted like seven thousand trillion students this year and didn’t really increase the amount/frequency of buses, so I’m literally packed like sardines on a bus with tons of people multiple times a day, and I’m consistently THE ONLY PERSON wearing a mask. not trying to act morally superior or whatever. I just think that’s kind of fucking insane. like HELLO????

I submitted my essay a day before it’s due who am I???

i fuckign hate rtd stans bro im at my fucking Limit

literally how do I get a job I feel so fucking stupid bc I keep checking websites but I barely get anywhere bc everywhere needs at least 1 year of experience and I have never worked a day in my life so what the fuck seriously how do I do this

Bro it’s so funny seeing twitter user freaking out about how to use tumblr

Literally all you gotta do is ✨vibe✨

wow sims 4 unpirated is possibly the most disgusting experience i have ever had playing a video game and i literally have not started playing yet