I love this photo of Tom Holland because he looks like a kid that’s been listening to his racist relatives argue over Christmas dinner for the last half hour:
him and that frog are about to go off
am I going mad?? Where the fuck is the frog in this photo??? help!
This made me nearly bite a pencil in half in enraged memory.
@ THE REST OF MY ANCIENT HISTORY CLASS; Y’ALL ARE WELCOME FOR THAT FUCKIN A THE REST OF YOU DID NO GODDAMN WORK FOR
Oh man, so I know everyone hates group projects with ample good reason, but lemme just tell you something that happened to me in my final year of uni. My dad got real sick and was in and out of hospital numerous times, one time with a suspected heart attack. Which meant my mum ended up caring for my dad, and I wound up caring for my disabled brother, on top of working a part time job and going to university full time.
My grades slid dramatically. I was having to appeal nearly all my results with my professors, and was mercifully granted extensions by all but one of them. (Which, if you’re out there Ronald: stub your toe and step on lego for the rest of eternity.) And then our Revolutionary Cultures prof. assigned a group project, and paired us at random with our classmates. And I knew, I knew I was just going to be a dead weight so I went to my new buddy and told them we should go to the profs office and ask for her to be switched to someone else who wasn’t just going to drag them down. And my new best buddy for the rest of the semester looked at me, looked at our assigned project, and very gently started to cry as she told me “I was just about to say the same thing to you,” and then tearfully told me her mum was dying, and the only reason she hadn’t dropped out to take care of her was because her mum wanted to see her graduate. She’d been given six months and we graduated in five. Provided we finished this class. And we were both out of appeals and leniency time.
It’s probably one of my most vivid memories from the whole college experience, just sitting on the floor of the Renaissance Lit corridor hugging someone who until a moment ago had been a relative stranger known only in passing, and trying to tell them it would be okay, we’d get the paper done. And we did. We scraped a C- together between the two of us and we managed to coast over the passing mark for the class and were allowed to graduate with abysmal but passing marks.
And I still think about her all the time. Especially when I wind up in group projects for work, and it feels like no one else is shouldering any of the burden, I make a note to reach out and say “hey, you don’t seem to be engaging with this much, are you okay?”
And a lot of the time it shocks people. They’re not expecting earnest concern for their lack of interest, and you find out things like their kid is sick, their dog just died, they’ve got health issues going on, or sometimes they just don’t know where to begin with the project and didn’t want to tell you that because they were frightened of being judged or perceived as lazy when they’re just overwhelmed.
And I honestly wish things like this were taught in team building exercises, cause that’s what group projects in school are. They’re supposed to be teaching you how to work well with others and achieve a common goal, while at the same time totally skipping over the fundamentals of human interaction and how to engage socially with others, and it’s fucking bullshit.
omg @redartpanda sent me a prompt about Foggy meeting Daredevil and instantly recognizing his voice because Matt’s bad at what he does, which made me lol forever. Also, this one’s almost a real drabble because my self-preservation instincts are starting to kick in. <33
Matt gets a little bit caught up in beating the guy up, because it’s Foggy who had a gun in his face, and Matt feels the closest thing he’s felt to out of control in awhile. He doesn’t realize that he’s talking until he’s talking, and the guy’s nodding helplessly and curled up on the ground beneath him and Foggy’s saying, “Okay, dude, thanks and all, but mugging me is not an offense punishable by death. Really, all he was going to get out of my wallet was, like, three dollars and a condom that is definitely expired, he’s suffered enough.”
Matt takes a deep breath and lets the guy go.
“Call the police,” he says, “then get home safe.”
Foggy goes still and quiet for a long moment before his heart starts racing even more than it did when he was getting mugged.
“Matt?”
Matt freezes.
“…no,” he says.
“No?” Foggy asks. “That’s what you’re going with? No? You think I don’t know your voice?”
Matt opens his mouth to say something, then, thinking better of it, flips backwards to jump off a dumpster and head up the fire escape. Below him, Foggy yells, “I know where you live. I have the spare key! How the hell did you just do that!”
OKAY LIKE I KNOW YOU ARE AWASH IN A SEA OF PROMPTS AND THERE’S ONLY SO MUCH WORDING YOU CAN DO BUT I WANT ALL THE WORDS FOR THIS THIS THIS
wupacing 