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romefm · 4 years

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i’m like 95% sure i have an assignment due tomorrow and it’s already midnight ........ so naturally i’m procrastinating so my world title of Captain Dumbass doesn’t ever come into question 👸👸 this is recycled bc i’m chronically incapable of effort but tl:dr he’s literally the embodiment of every shitty dude u have the misfortune of running into at the bar :/ but he’s held a door open for an old lady 1.5 times in his life so all is forgiven 😉

𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 here and do i have the tea for you . rome is back on campus , which is surprising considering the threatening note i left them . yes , i know all about him crashing his car while drunk and attempting to flee the scene because of their pride. imagine the tabloids and how the pierce family would feel for such information to come out , not to mention the reputation of pike because of their actions . at this rate , he is better off staying put in atlanta , georgia and living off that 500m family net worth. what’s the point in studying psychology with plans to play in the nfl , is it worth it with what i know ? anyways , they may want to continue to be protective & lion-hearted because the irascible & machiavellian attributes make me want to spill .

𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊 : roman gabriel pierce

𝖆𝖌𝖊 : twenty - one

𝖉𝖔𝖇 : june 15th , 1998

𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗 / 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖘 : he / him

𝖘𝖊𝖝𝖚𝖆𝖑 & 𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 : 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙: 6‘2″ 🤡

𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊: having graduated from the title of white man’s wh*re , he is now cordially referred to as the white man’s beefcake . he treats gym sessions like a therapy visit , clocking in at a friendly 220 lbs . like all gym rats w/o a personality , he keeps his hair short on the sides n longer on top , a la this look . he has a scar running along the inside of his right arm from when he broke it , and another that splits his left eyebrow from his eighteenth birthday

𝖔𝖈𝖈𝖚𝖕𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 : resident waste of space , quarterback for the hollingsworth mumbles ( update : it’s panthers ... they’re the panthers ) , least favorite son of the year recipient 1998 - 2019 .

𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖔𝖜𝖓 : atlanta , georgia .

ii.

second son of hall of fame ex falcons qb , miles pierce , and entrepreneur and daughter of a famed manhattan - based art collector , amélie pierce – rome’s future was pretty non - negotiable since day one . as soon as they could stumble around enough to pass for walking , miles had his sons enrolled in as many football programs as he legally could .

when rome was young , he loved it . the attention , the praise he received for his quickness despite being one of the smallest kids on the field . plus , going to his father’s games and being recognized as miles pierce’s kids was also fun . soon came time for the inevitable retirement on the heel of a downward - trending career , and after that things … changed .

suddenly , it was less praise and more demands . earlier practices , with his father making rome and his brother run drills until they were sick . suddenly , things that were previously good weren’t good enough , despite how much better his sons continued to be .

as anyone with half a brain could guess , these pressures eventually began to take their toll . with interests in anything else repressed by his father’s insistence that football is and always will be the most important thing in life , rome began to emulate his father’s aggressive attitude , first bringing it to the field and then , more notably , to his personal life . failed relationships , fights at school , sneaking home late absolutely blitzed out of his mind – none of the behaviors were healthy , but they were enough to take the weight of his father’s hands off of his shoulders , if only for a moment . until papa helicopter parent found out , that is .

tw abuse : despite his sons catering to his every will , miles’ incessant anger began to worsen , and soon a lot of the verbal abuse had started to become physical , too . sure , rome knew that it was wrong , but he also thought that maybe if he’d been better in the game last night , or worked harder at practice , maybe he’d stop .

he made varsity his freshman year of high school and took his team to the state championships , expecting his dad to finally approve of something he’d done . instead , he came home to the news that his mother was leaving – that his parents were splitting up and that this had been a long time combing . safe to say this mama’s boy ass bitch was devastated.

tw death : his dad only sunk deeper into his madness , but all that anyone else could see is that rome was throwing further , moving faster , and making better plays . a non - football related injury left him with a broken arm , and it was on the way home from the hospital that his father received the call that his ex - wife had taken her own life . devastated part ii , coming soon to a theater near you !

tw drugs , alcohol , general debauchery : the partying worsened . rome had entered a phase in his life where he was looking for something – anything to completely wipe his mind of any and all thoughts . the drugs , the alcohol , it was all a coping mechanism , but it definitely wasn’t a healthy one . soon , his brother left for college thousands of miles away , and rome found out that that fifth of rum goes down a lot easier after doing a few lines beforehand .

he chose to go to college in cali not because he wanted to , but because his dad knew that hollingsworth was a great school for scouting attention . in his midst of an extended bender compounded by having training now twice a day everyday on top of college courses , he decided to join pike – and he absolutely loves it .

he chose to major in psych because he wants to understand why his dad hates him so much skjfjks dumb b*tch .

also last summer he may or may not have allegedly accidentally wrapped his masterati around a telephone pole and gotten a dui . in reality , it was his brother’s accidental doing after a rather... heated argument between the two , but roman told him to gtfo and he’d take the fall because his bro finally managed to escape his dad and rome didn’t want him to suffer the same fate . it made headlines , but his dad pulled approximately 6 billion strings to get him conditionally reinstated to the team .

spent the summer before his junior year chillin in rehab , but he relapsed shortly after . consistency is key here , kids.

still bender - adjacent , but he’s kept it more lowkey because the nfl draft is coming in hot .

iii.

he really ………….. kinda sux , objectively sfdkjsdfjk . personality-wise and bc he has a southern accent .

he has so , so much pent up frustration and anger directed at his father and himself that it manifests in some pretty shitty behaviors .

he’s definitely controlling ( as a consequence of having v v little control over his own life ) , and he’ll manipulate any situation he deems worthy of his effort just to assure that he isn’t in any state of vulnerability .

i know yall get it , he vapes , but he’s definitely the kind of guy to try to keep the party running til 5 am and get pissed when people tell him that maybe he should stop .

he will provoke anyone and anything ( even inanimate objects ) if found in a self - destructive enough mood .

has a notoriously short temper , but what kind of gym rat doesn’t .

manages to still attain a 4.0 ( and in his words , psych is easy ) , so that’s another thing that makes it difficult for him to understand that his lifestyle is … per se … problematique .

10000% has sent a plethora of u up ? texts

kinda gets a little .. hm .. sad sometimes but that’s only after everyone bails from the party n he’s left alone in a dirty ass frat house sdkfsdjk

definitely an irredeemable trash bag and pls don’t think of him any other way

is definitely fiercely loyal to the 2.5 people who can tolerate him .

currently in an uber ride to hell , but 10/10 hit the option so that his uber driver can’t talk to him 🤡

#listen IIIIIIIIIIII didnt even read this when writing it so i honestly don't expect yall to either ksnfsnkdf #holling:intro

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purplerakath · 6 years

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Degrassi: Parents & Children and Shaping Romances

Miles Hollingsworth III is physically and emotionally abused by his parents. His father actively does it, his mother stands aside and allows it. Ignores it, and deprioritizes it based on her wants. This is, all in all, shit. And it pretty much shapes how terrible Miles’s romantic choices are.

(Hunter and Frankie are slightly better, but also really bad? They won’t be at the forefront but Hunter treats all women as worthless until they prove themselves his equal like Arlene and Yael. Frankie’s most stable romance was Esme and Zig and yes I just said that. But the abuse they suffered is different from Miles. So they react differently.)

Each Miles ship, in canon, has some glaring feature as to how it is destined to fail, either due to his partner’s attitudes or his partner’s station. I won’t be going into the second attempt at Zoe (Don’t Turn Back) as that isn’t really romantic in nature. They are friends, who bone, because it’s summer and their parents suck.

Zoe Rivas (Season 13 A)

...This is his most healthy ship of the whole show. Not because it was healthy but the moment Zoe started acting like a crazy possessive stalker he dumped her on the spot. There isn’t much to say here? She’s pretty, Miles is easy, they made out a bunch. Zoe poured a drink on Maya for zero reason (to Miles), and he dumped her on the spot.

Now, Zoe is just as damaged as Miles and this is sorta a key feature to all of this. We knew Zoe was abusive (not to Miles, to others), and controlling (to Miles and others) and generally had to be in control of everything. Because if she lost control she’d realize she’s gay and her mom is evil. And Miles was chill with it so long as it didn’t seem harmful. Making Maya beg like a dog was fine.

Pouring wine on her was too much.

Maya Matlin (Season 13 B-D)

So while Maya isn’t directly abusive either, she is a bit more demanding than Miles could handle at the time. Maya is, at her core, a goodie goodie. Miles isn’t, that’s the bit. Miles tries, Maya’s standards are higher than that, Miles expects to fail any standard, Miles expects this to fail.

Maya’s insane desire to rescue everyone from everything at all times, also, was more than Miles could handle. He tried, so hard, but all of this was him expecting to fail. This is why Zig could just kinda blow up Matlingsworth with a few choice words to Miles. And acting like a sweet innocent horny puppy to Maya. Maya is also dumb and couldn’t do basic math that season on all this.

Maya expected a lot, and Miles pretty much decided, each time ‘that’s too much for me better get drunk, blow things up, and make out with a very naked Zoe Rivas.’

But Maya’s insane desire to rescue everyone from everything is also why Miles got fixated on her in S14 after all this, she’s kinda... you know, the mom he wishes he had.

The short of it is, Maya’s basically Mrs. Hollingsworth. Neglectful and harmful by accident. Wanting Miles to be better but going about it all the wrong ways.

Tristan Milligan (Season 14 A, Next Class 2)

Tristan is abusive, it’s not physical, hell it isn’t even conscious really. Tristan’s own crap about being abandoned, his own crap about his parents constantly fighting, mean that he just cannot accept that any of Miles’s past romances count. Miles is gay, he has to be gay, he can’t be anything else. Because if he’s bi he’s straight and he’ll ride into the sunset with Maya fucking Matlin like every other straight boy ever.

So Tristan lashes out at Miles, and honestly everyone around Miles, to keep Miles to himself. And Miles lets him, like, flat out Miles lets Tristan walk all over him for those scraps of approval he can get. Which is more than Miles gets from his dad, so... grading on a curve.

This is why Tristan forgiving him means more than Tristan actually respecting him. Miles doesn’t feel he deserves respect, and he definitely doesn’t fight for it. Honestly if Tris were to be biphobic directly in Miles’s face he’d probably ignore it too.

If Maya was Mrs. Hollingsworth, Tris is very much Mr. Hollingsworth. Lashing out to cause harm to make himself feel less terrible. Dismissing things and demeaning them because they don’t mesh into his master plan for things.

Esme Song (Next Class 1)

Haha, oh man, Esme. Esme wants to be loved as she is, she wants to be as she is. Because people trying to change her always feels like people trying to control her. And Miles, for his part, did that dance before. Maya held him to her standard, Zoe controlled who was around him, and Tris rejected him if he moved even a step away.

Miles, finally, wanted to be better. This is one of those things I harp on. Miles didn’t get better for Tris, or Zoe, or Maya. At best you could say he got better for Hunter, and Frankie. But really he finally decided to be better for Miles. For himself. And Esme wasn’t there. Esme was still very much where Miles was in S14 desperately wanting anyone to hug him and tell him he matters.

There’s also a weird disconnect between early NC1 Hollingsong and late NC1? Where it shifts from ‘a few pills evens you out’ to ‘you stole some alcohol from the bar and I lost track of you, I thought you were dead, let’s get nachos.’ Where Esme and Miles were a lot closer to codependent and then suddenly it was like a slow motion suicide pact. Still, Esme was abusive because Esme suddenly became okay with them both dying horribly on a bender. Because she wasn’t ready to change.

To round out the previous two, Esme is Miles. A version of him before he was ready to change. One who just wanted to feel better and would chase that into oncoming traffic.

Lola Pacini (Next Class 3)

Everyone else was very much a ‘you look at these two and this is a trainwreck in motion.’ Mola wasn’t that. It was just every other factor around them was ready to blow this up.

Cause secretly dating your sister’s best friend while your boyfriend is in a coma behind the backs of both her friends and your friends is innately stupid.

Miles needed someone to listen to him, Lola needed someone to put her first. It just sorta happened, but they could only get so comfortable because the both of them knew for a fact from the start this would blow up and neither gets to be happy. Because Lola’s damage is that ‘everyone abandons her’ and Miles’s damage is ‘he doesn’t deserve it.’ So of course they make a perfect terrible machine.

They weren’t ready to hurt each other, but oh man were they ready to hurt themselves. Just... through the actions of getting together.

Lola and Zoe weren’t anyone in Miles’s life, not to the same degree as the other three, just... really bad ideas.

Something Worth Noting...

Every one of these people? Nearly as messed up as Miles. Esme and Maya probably a bit MORE messed up if I’m honest. Each with someone in their past who damaged them to the point they can’t see what they’re doing anymore. Zoe’s mom, Maya’s Cam issues, Tris’s insecurity and Yates, Esme’s mom, and Lola’s mom all helped shape them into someone who both would be drawn to a similarly broken person, and not be equipped to help them either.

#degrassi #degrassi next class #miles hollingworth iii #cw: abuse #most degrassi relationships are not this level of messed up #oh they get close #and they are all messed up #but not Miles Hollingsworth messed up.

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romefm · 5 years

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what’s poppeeeeeenguh AURGH ! this was meant to be posted a century and a half ago , but due to some ... unforseen ( read : i was given a edible by thou who shalt.. not.. be named ? clearly i skipped all of my shakespeare english classes ) circumstances , it was delayed . but i’m here now to deliver u this steaming pile of degenerate fratboy douchebag on this fine saturday morning ( shoutout to chloe in australia idk what month ur in much less what time of day it is so bear with me SKJFJKD ) .

⋆ ╰ another year at hollingsworth , another year of the big six rivalry . i hear that ROMAN PIERCE is ensuring PI KAPPA EPSILON gets a solid pledge class and stays at the top of the ranks . oh , you’re not familiar with HIM ? ROME is the GREGG SULKIN look alike from ATLANTA , GEORGIA. apart of PC ‘16 , he is majoring in PSYCHOLOGY and has plans to PURSUE A CAREER IN THE NFL after undergrad . it makes sense they pledged their house , their ADEPT & MAGNETIC attributes make them perfect matches . however , their IMPETUOUS & SALACIOUS attributes keep their name alive on greek rank . if you don’t catch them dancing to MOUNT EVEREST - LABRINTH at a fraternity band party this year , you’ll be sure to catch them nursing their morning hangover at THE PIKE HOUSE. cheers to another wild semester !

𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊 : roman gabriel pierce

𝖆𝖌𝖊 : twenty - one

𝖉𝖔𝖇 : june 15th , 1998

𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗 / 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖘 : he / him

𝖘𝖊𝖝𝖚𝖆𝖑 & 𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 : bisexual , but definitely more on the low low . he’s only ever been seen publicly with girls .

𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙: 6‘1″ 🤡

𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊: having graduated from the title of white man’s wh*re , he is now cordially referred to as the white man’s beefcake . he treats gym sessions like a therapy visit , clocking in at a friendly 200 lbs . like all gym rats w/o a personality , he keeps his hair short on the sides n longer on top , a la this look . he has a scar running along the inside of his right arm from when he broke it , and another that splits his left eyebrow from his eighteenth birthday

𝖔𝖈𝖈𝖚𝖕𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 : resident waste of space , quarterback for the hollingsworth mumbles , least favorite son of the year recipient 1998 - 2019 .

𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖔𝖜𝖓 : atlanta , georgia .

ii.

second son of hall of fame ex falcons qb , miles pierce , and entrepreneur and daughter of a famed manhattan - based art collector , amélie pierce -- rome’s future was pretty non - negotiable since day one . as soon as they could stumble around enough to pass for walking , miles had his sons enrolled in as many football programs as he legally could .

as anyone with half a brain could guess , these pressures eventually began to take their toll . with interests in anything else repressed by his father’s insistence that football is and always will be the most important thing in life , rome began to emulate his father’s aggressive attitude , first bringing it to the field and then , more notably , to his personal life . failed relationships , fights at school , sneaking home late absolutely blitzed out of his mind -- none of the behaviors were healthy , but they were enough to take the weight of his father’s hands off of his shoulders , if only for a moment . until papa helicopter parent found out , that is .

he made varsity his freshman year of high school and took his team to the state championships , expecting his dad to finally approve of something he’d done . instead , he came home to the news that his mother was leaving -- that his parents were splitting up and that this had been a long time combing . safe to say this mama’s boy ass bitch was devastated.

tw drugs , alcohol , general debauchery : the partying worsened . rome had entered a phase in his life where he was looking for something -- anything to completely wipe his mind of any and all thoughts . the drugs , the alcohol , it was all a coping mechanism , but it definitely wasn’t a healthy one . soon , his brother left for college thousands of miles away , and rome found out that that fifth of rum goes down a lot easier after doing a few lines beforehand .

he chose to go to college in georgia not because he wanted to , but because his dad knew that hollingsworth was a great school for scouting attention and that rome wasn’t never too far away to yell at SKDFKJ . in his midst of an extended bender compounded by having training now twice a day everyday on top of college courses , he decided to join pike -- and he absolutely loves it .

he chose to major in psych because he wants to understand why his dad hates him so much SKJFJKS dumb b*tch .

also last summer he may or may not have allegedly accidentally wrapped his masterati around a telephone pole and gotten a dui . in reality , it was his brother , but roman told him to gtfo and he’d take the fall because his bro finally managed to escape his dad and rome didn’t want him to suffer the same fate . it made headlines , but his dad pulled approximately 6 billion strings to get him conditionally reinstated to the team .

spent the summer before his junior year chillin in rehab , but he relapsed shortly after . consistency is key here , kids.

still bender - adjacent , but he’s kept it more lowkey because the nfl draft is coming in HOT .

iii.

he really .............. kinda sux , objectively SFDKJSDFJK

he has so , so much pent up frustration and anger directed at his father and himself that it manifests in some pretty shitty behaviors .

i know yall get it , he vapes , but he’s definitely the kind of guy to try to keep the party running til 5 am and get pissed when people tell him that maybe he should stop .

he will provoke anyone and anything ( even inanimate objects ) if found in a self - destructive enough mood .

has a notoriously short temper , but what kind of gym rat doesn’t .

manages to still attain a 4.0 ( and in his words , psych is easy ) , so that’s another thing that makes it difficult for him to understand that his lifestyle is ... per se ... problematique .

10000% has sent a plethora of u up ? texts

kinda gets a little .. hm .. sad sometimes but that’s only after everyone bails from the party n he’s left alone in a dirty ass frat house SDKFSDJK

definitely an irredeemable trash bag and pls don’t think of him any other way

is definitely fiercely loyal to the 2.5 people who can tolerate him .

currently in an uber ride to hell , but 10/10 hit the option so that his uber driver can’t talk to him 🤡

#did this have a solid conclusion ? nope . just call me a yewchube-a #rank:intro

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purplerakath · 7 years

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The Psychological Effects of Mal’s Upbringing

AKA why everyone angry at how Mal’s acting needs to chill.

So as is my standard mode, I like to go at my points from the side. So my big point about Descendants will be… reached by talking about a dumb Canadian teen show I also talk about. In case you missed it, I mean Degrassi.

So let’s talk Miles Hollingsworth III…

So Miles has an abusive father, a passive ineffective mother, and the overall effects of the two on his self-esteem and freedom. He shows a great deal of personal autonomy provided he has no weight on his actions. That is the more he wants something, the more he’s afraid he isn’t good enough. When they really go in on this idea (especially during this latest season and his writing plot) they have him ‘humble himself’ by talking down his own ideas and traits. Saying ‘my least terrible idea’ in place of ‘my best idea.’

He has so many layers of self hatred from his dad it seeps into the rest of his life. Now imagine that level of ‘being told all you are is wrong’ came from an entire country.

Descendants 1 Mal

In the first film she had all the self hatred her mother just hit her with all her life lacking anything like fun or compassion, but she was the only source. Because the one thing that all of the Isle learns is ‘Evil is superior to Good.’ So the fact that all of Auradon fears and hates her wasn’t a bad thing. The only voice that mattered was Maleficent.

But Mal found people with compassion and decided maybe, just maybe, Good was the good call. And that’s kinda what… messed her up more.

Descendants 2 Mal

Suddenly Mal was expected to do things she had no experience with, be someone she had no experience being, and every move and action she did was being watched and scrutinized. And all this is before I get into the mental health of an abuse victim. That’s a lot of weight and expectation with very little in the way of support Mal can get. Evie helps her be a princess, but stops helping Mal be herself. Carlos never had Mal’s life, and Jay is… being supported and protected by being part of a team sport. He has a place for all his Isle activities.

Now, not only is Mal living with ‘everything you are is a disappointment’ from her mom, but she also has it from all of Auradon. And the difference is now their opinion matters, Mal accepted goodness. Using Magic is wrong, wearing leather is wrong, dark brooding colors are wrong, pants are wrong. You have to be nice, and not yell, and be sweet, and charming, and all the things Mal isn’t. And trying to be this is only going to end in failure, and failing just cements where Mal already was.

I don’t belong here, I can’t be this person, I’ll ruin everything.

And almost all of these weights could easily not exist. The expectations of her to be girly are dumb and could be solved by having her interact with ungirly Disney ladies (Mulan, Ariel, and Rapunzel). The ‘magic is wrong’ could be solved by characters who are strongly in support of magic (Merlin, Elsa, probably Cinderella). Ben telling the press to get lost when they hound Mal across school. Proper therapy and emotional support to four kids who spent their lives being turned into unloved child soldiers/slaves by their parents.

So In Conclusion…

Huh… I don’t really have a conclusion in mind. Hmm. Oh! I move Lonnie be permitted to punch journalists in the face if they get near Mal. Yes.

#descendants 2 #mal bertha #mal descendants #li lonnie #ben descendants #disney's descendants

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