Principal Bump when Luz So much as thinks of mixing magic: NO HOW DARE YOU THAT’S IT YOU VIOLATED THE RULES AND THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES
Principal Bump when Willow does some advanced plant magic even though that’s not the magic track she’s enrolled in: YES THAT’S AMAZING THAT’S FANTASTIC GOOD JOB KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
As the one and only person in my school using Zoom rather than just going in person, let me just say. My school really doesn’t know how to use technology.
I know I keep posting but it’s the first day of 12th grade aaaahh this is so cool
I’m almost done with this!! I’m almost done with high school!!!
First class I have is history
They didn’t send out a zoom link yet so idk what to do… class starts in 10 minutes and I’m the only one zooming wow this is stressful
And like. I emailed them REPEATEDLY to send me the zoom link and they kept saying they’ll send it later
Update: they sent a zoom link, but they kept on accidentally closing out the class and muting themselves. I learned absolutely nothing so far. I think people were singing in history class but idk and I’m very confused
I know I keep posting but it’s the first day of 12th grade aaaahh this is so cool
I’m almost done with this!! I’m almost done with high school!!!
First class I have is history
They didn’t send out a zoom link yet so idk what to do… class starts in 10 minutes and I’m the only one zooming wow this is stressful
And like. I emailed them REPEATEDLY to send me the zoom link and they kept saying they’ll send it later
Update: they sent a zoom link, but they kept on accidentally closing out the class and muting themselves. I learned absolutely nothing so far. I think people were singing in history class but idk and I’m very confused
They literally didn’t bother setting up zoom for most of the classes and lied about the whole zoom option. Also no one was wearing masks. Wow.
“Bruce Wayne will save us from the billionaires,” this. “Batman,” that. Enough of this bullshit, where’s the Count of Monte Cristo to kidnap Bezos and swindle him out of his ill-gotten billions and coldly murder all the rest?
Edmond, after messing with the stock market: so Bezos, how are your stocks doing?
Bezos: …
Edmond: well that’s good to hear. Then you should be find, so long as no one digs up any scandals you’ve buried.
Bezos: …
Edmond: Do any of your family members have any interest in.. say.. poison, by the way?
Bezos: ….
Edmond: and while we’re at it, I sure hope you didn’t commit any war crimes. yup. That wouldn’t be good.
Bezos: *flees the country with his money and never returns*
Vampa, silently watching this whole thing:it’s my time to shine
I know absolutely nothing about actors, other than the fact that Jeremy Jordan is almost always type-cast as “guy who wants justice, who may or may not use an alias to get said justice”
I missed one REALLY obvious parallel and so I gotta tell you all about it now.
CADEROUSSE = RODERIGO
For all of you who are like “who’s Roderigo?” And “what does Caderousse have to do with Roderigo?” It’s ok. I’ll tell you the similarities right now.
SO They both have this “friend” who gives them bad advice in a way that sounds like good advice, so they take the advice, which turns out to not end too well for them. And that “friend” ends up stabbing them and they die. But they happen to have a letter in their pocket at the time listing the crimes of this “friend”, which is later found and used against the “friend”. SO YEAH I THINK IT’S A PRETTY GOOD PARALLEL.
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Do it and I’ll also tell you an in depth analysis of them (or just a paragraph of my opinion)
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OK LET ME TALK ABOUT HORATIO
Horatio is such a good foil to Hamlet. And such a good friend. And also the fact that Horatio is even friends with Hamlet in the first place says *so much* about pre-dead dad Hamlet. Because Horatio’s a very sensible guy. He wouldn’t be friends with just anyone. Which means that pre-dead dad Hamlet would have to have been 1) at least somewhat of a polite and respectful person, because I can’t imagine Horatio being friends with someone who isn’t at least moderately respectful 2) not overly intense, because Horatio seems to be more of an introvert, and (generally speaking) overly intense people would be exhausting to hang out with. Not saying he wouldn’t be friends with *anyone* like that, just saying it would be hard to become super *close* friends with intense people. Both of those two things change post-dead dad Hamlet. But we can be nearly certain that Hamlet was somewhat polite and chill back when he met Horatio.
So yeah I know I’m supposed to be talking about Horatio and I went off on a tangent about Hamlet. Oh well.
Anyway in conclusion I think Horatio’s neat and kinda underrated (not by the fandom, but by High school students as a whole).
Also. Can I just say. I have no idea how he puts up with Hamlet throughout the play. Don’t get me wrong, I love Hamlet. But I love him as a fictional character. If he were a real person and I were Horatio I’d probably tell him to shut up and leave me alone. So yeah congrats to Horatio for somehow tolerating him.
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OK NOW LET’S TALK ABOUT LEAR
So. He’s an idiot. An absolute idiot. I wouldn’t necessarily say he’s an abusive parent or anything, because that’s more of a headcanon and not directly for the text. But based on his actions in the play alone I’d say he’s an absolute idiot. He literally goes from “oh yes my favorite daughter is Cordelia I love her so much” (and anyway dude why are you choosing favorites?? Now you just gave your other two kids valid reasons to hate you!) to “Oh man I hate Cordelia she’s the worst because she won’t play this game called “Praise me endlessly!””.
I mean I’m no therapist. But I think he maybe should go see one. Is there such a thing as family therapy? If there is the Lear family and the Gloucester family should definitely go.
By the end I sort of felt bad for him because he was finally getting it that he messed up. Maybe if he would have had more time alive he would have realize that he mistreated all 3 of his daughters and not just Cordelia. But nope. He died before he could figure that out.
Also I guess I should take into account that he did the standard Shakespeare character move of “going mad”. Which probably has a medical term nowadays but I’m no doctor so I’m not going to try to diagnose him. Anyway. Regarding said madness. Maybe some of his actions could be excused as just early signs of said madness and not really his acting out of free will? Idk. I’m not a doctor.
It’s currently the beginning of August and I have 2,222 liked songs on Spotify
Let’s see how many I have by the end of August
OK IT’S THE BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER AND I’VE DEDICATED THE ENTIRE MONTH OF AUGUST TO LISTENING TO AS MANY NEW SONGS AS POSSIBLE
AH YES THE SONGS HAVE INCREASED BY A SATISFACTORY NUMBER
ARE YOU INSANE
I had an entire month and absolutely nothing to do- I couldn’t leave the house for the majority of it because of corona- I have no hobbies or interests- I don’t like watching movies or shows often-
As for the original question asked here- Yeah I might as well be, tbh. I haven’t had a normal social interaction since March 10th. At this point I simultaneously miss and hate my friends, and would gladly spend time with people I couldn’t stand prior to quarantine. So uh yeah.
There’s a chapter about drugs in my Psychology textbook, and I just know we’re gonna skip it, the same way we skipped *the chapter* in the Biology textbook
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OK LET’S TALK ABOUT MERCEDES
SHE DESERVES BETTER.
Ifeel so bad for her. Like. I would love read tcomc from her point of view. She was about to get married to the man that she loved, when suddenly he’s arrested on false charges. She waits for him to be released for SO LONG. She helps his father in the meantime and tries her best to make sure he’s ok. But his father dies, he never returns, and to make matters worse, Fernand, her one friend, is drafted and goes off to war.
At this point her life is so tragic that it’s starting to sound like a villain origin story. But did she become angry and bitter? NO. Eventually Fernand came back and she agreed to marry him. They had one son together. That son was literally the best human being ever. So everything looks like it’s going well now, right? Her husband’s a rich fancy Count and she’s a Countess and they’re happily married with a smart talented son. BUT NO. The guy she was supposed to marry is back! And oops looks like he’s trying to duel her son, with the full intention of killing him! Also it turns out that her husband actually 1- was involved in sending her fiancé #1 to prison, and also 2- committed multiple war crimes and got their entire fortune through pretty bad means.
AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE SHE BLAMES HERSELF FOR ALL OF THIS!
AND NO ONE CORRECTS HER!
When she’s apologizing to Edmond for everything he’s just like “welp. You should have waited. You shouldn’t have married him in the first place. Sucks to be you, I guess.”
Like. I like Edmond, ok. But he should really have told Mercedes that it’s not her fault. It’s literally everyone else’s fault. She’s completely innocent.
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OK LET’S TALK ABOUT MAXIMILIEN
SO. He’s just. So pure and innocent. But also he’s a soldier- which is something I keep forgetting- probably because the entire fandom portrays him as pure and innocent.
Also I think he’s like cannonly 30 something? But everyone’s like NOPE he’s totally in his early 20s. Which is kinda the same thing we all do for Hamlet. I guess when an author decides a character’s too old, we’re all like NOPE he’s whatever age we want! Because yeah a 30 something guy with an ~18 year old girl is kinda not too good…
Anyway. Something else no one mentions is how he saved Chateau-Renaud (or however you spell his name) this one time, and because of that CR was like “hey I’m gonna introduce you to The Friend Group.” And ever since that day he started hanging out with the cool kids. Good for him!
AND OF COURSE I have to mention that his relationship with Valentine is one of the most stable and functional relationships in the book. The rank list of Stable and Functional Relationships is:
1. Emmanuel and Julie
2. Eugenie and Louise
3. Teresa and Luigi
4. Maximilian and Valentine
You may be thinking that that’s not too high up on the list. But there are a ton of relationships in the book, so compared to all of them theirs is impressively stable and functional.
So as it turns out, there are only 11 people (including me) in my Spanish class, and only 7 people (including me) in my ap lit class.
This is going to be an interesting year.
Oh and it’s not like other people are taking the class at other times and there are only that many in my time slot. NOPE. That’s it. In the whole grade, there are really only that many people taking those classes.
One day autocorrect is going to change Fernand to Ferdinand or vice vera, and either the entire tcomc fandom or the entire fandom of The Tempest is going to be yelling at me in the comments
Lear: I’m gonna exile the one child that loves and respects me.
Gloucester, to Edmund: wow, that seems pretty stupid
*a few minutes later*
Gloucester: I’m gonna send my guards to find and kill the one child that loves and respects me
WAIT. So I finished watching The Umbrella Academy a few weeks ago, but I just had a thought. Could Allison go up to one of her siblings and say “I heard a rumor that I got your power” and just.. take their power? And keep it? And use it? Because if so she’s wayyyy more powerful than I originally thought.
WAIT. So I finished watching The Umbrella Academy a few weeks ago, but I just had a thought. Could Allison go up to one of her siblings and say “I heard a rumor that I got your power” and just.. take their power? And keep it? And use it? Because if so she’s wayyyy more powerful than I originally thought.
wait
Ok ok wait let me explain why I think I may be right about this-
In the episode where it has the flashback from when she made Vanya believe she didn’t have powers, she phrased it like “I heard a rumor that you thought you were ordinary”
Which implies that if she would have said “I heard a rumor that you were ordinary” or “I heard a rumor that you didn’t have powers”, Vanya’s powers would have been gone. For good. And wouldn’t be able to return.
Which means that Allison’s ability is powerful enough to cancel out/ take away other abilities.
And if she can take them away, why not also be able to give them to yourself?
WAIT. So I finished watching The Umbrella Academy a few weeks ago, but I just had a thought. Could Allison go up to one of her siblings and say “I heard a rumor that I got your power” and just.. take their power? And keep it? And use it? Because if so she’s wayyyy more powerful than I originally thought.
wait
Ok ok wait let me explain why I think I may be right about this-
In the episode where it has the flashback from when she made Vanya believe she didn’t have powers, she phrased it like “I heard a rumor that you thought you were ordinary”
Which implies that if she would have said “I heard a rumor that you were ordinary” or “I heard a rumor that you didn’t have powers”, Vanya’s powers would have been gone. For good. And wouldn’t be able to return.
Which means that Allison’s ability is powerful enough to cancel out/ take away other abilities.
And if she can take them away, why not also be able to give them to yourself?
ok discussion time
fyi, i fully support this idea, but honestly the fact that allison just made vanya forget her powers didn’t make me think she could’ve taken them away - it actually made me think the opposite
You’re 100% right, I’m mainly basing the theory off of what I already said and off of the wiki page that says something like “her ability is to manipulate reality through saying “I heard a rumor””, so since it says “manipulate reality” and not “control people”, she might be able to do more than just get people to do what she wants.
( and also the phrasing- that’s still what I’m caught up on. If he really wanted Vanya’s powers to be permanently gone, why would he have Allison say “that you thought you were ordinary”? He could have just had her say “that you have no powers”, and if that would have only caused her to believe she had no powers, then so be it, but if it actually worked, then even better.)
I have a whole bunch of files of parody songs I wrote about random Shakespeare stuff, but the fanbase of Shakespeare and the fanbase of the original songs (broadway) seem to have nothing to do with each other and so no one will properly appreciate my song re-writes.
( @sargent-major-jane I deeply apologize for how disappointing this is gonna be- re-writing songs really isn’t one of my strong points)
Ok. So here’s probably the only parody song I put even a drop of effort into-
It’s a parody of Hans of the Southern Isles from the broadway version of Frozen
(And here’s a link to that- please listen to it first if you don’t know it- it’s very short so don’t worry about it taking up too much time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIuNPArM6Y )
And here’s the re-write version, replacing Hans and Anna with Edmund and Goneril:
“Wait! You don’t have to hide your intentions! Mrs. “oh,.. I love my dad!”… because I’m well aware that you have reasons to be mad….
I’m only the bastard son of an earl
Of a boring city
Full of boring people
Living their lives
So no one remembers my humble face
Or my charm and grace
Of all praise I am deprived
I’ve spend many nights thinking
And finally made a plan
To claim my rightful title
To get revenge, the money and the land!
So please allow me to work beside you
Trust that I will do my best to serve and guide you
I can relate- my father’s crazy and my brother’s gone!
So you see, we are quit the same
So let’s win this game
And together we’ll live on”
And that’s that- enjoy this beautiful train wreck of a song
So now that all my friends agree that there’s a demon haunting my room, we have to come up with a name for the demon.
So I present you all with a “Name the demon that lives in my room” contest.
May the best demon-namer win.
All of the names my friends have suggested are pretty bad, with the worst being George and the best being just naming it after myself
Also they’ve come up with a ship name for me and the demon, which I approve of approximately 0%.
“wait so why don’t you wanna be shipped with the demon?”
My dear friend. Why WOULD I want to be shipped with the demon? He’s annoying.
Also we have not yet come up with a suitable name for the demon. So far the best suggestion came from @2o2o-kit - who suggested Lady Macbeth
if it’s Lady Macbeth i’m personally offended that you don’t want to be shipped with her
If it was Lady Macbeth herself I’d be fine with it, but considering it’s just a demon named after her, yeah, I’m not really into my room demon which cracked the ceiling above my bed and opens my door while it’s still locked somehow.
Vanya: So I had a traumatic childhood where one of my siblings used her powered to make me forget that I have magic abilities and I was an outcast in my family because of that. I wrote this book called Extra Ordinary about my experiences in this family, but it didn’t really make me feel better. In the end I unleashed my powers and almost killed everybody.
John: So I also had a traumatic childhood where I was the only person at my school with no powers, and when I finally got powers they were too strong and I was irresponsible with them. I was taken to some facility to learn to cope, but instead of learning to cope I learned that the best thing to do would be to pretend that I have no powers. My dad wrote this book called UnOrdinary to help me cope, but it didn’t help me cope. And eventually I used my powers again and almost killed everyone.
Albert: Count! You have to help me- someone wrote this horrible article about my father’s war crimes!
The Count:
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Albert: *discovers that Danglars was investigating his father’s past*
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Danglars: Wait, you think I was responsible for all of this? Ha no, the Count of Monte Cristo told me exactly who to ask and where to look for information on your father.
