Hi, Anon, and thanks for the question! No worries. I actually have a couple more that just recently came in, and that’s 100% okay. I love all the interesting questions people are bringing. That said, you probably weren’t expecting such a massive reply. Sorry! My words got away from me.
I absolutely agree with you.
I have never liked slapstick comedy. Falling down stairs? Nope. Getting punched in the head or knocked senseless by a revolving door? Not my thing.
Jokes at the expense of someone else’s pain, physical or emotional, have just never been funny to me. I know they are to a lot of people, and that’s great! Sometimes it’s cathartic to laugh at pain because it’s like we’re laughing at our own. While I guess I can see why people think it’s funny and joke about Sam’s dead girlfriends in fandom, it also kind of horrifies me that it’s sort of a joke in the show. It’s remarkably disrespectful not only to Sam, but also to the women he has loved--especially to those women.
There are at least two times I can think of where he’s been on the receiving end of jokes about his relationships in canon:
[8.16 – Remember the Titans]
SAM:Well, that’s not–never mind. Um…We need to think. Dean, what do we know of that has Jason Bourne fighting skills, dies a lot, and has a history with violent women? DEAN: I don’t know. You?
[8.20 – Pac Man Fever] CHARLIE:[to DEAN] Thanks for saving the world and stuff. [to SAM] Sorry you have zero luck with the ladies.
Both Dean and Charlie are the type to make light of a bad situation in hopes of getting a smile and lightening the mood. It doesn’t make it easier to hear, but it absolutely makes sense and I can see why they’d say something like this.
But jokes about Sam’s ‘dick of death’ or about how Sam’s hookups are usually evil b*itches do not sit well with me. Here’s why.
Sam’s ‘dick of death’
People like to laugh about Sam’s sexual partners dying. But let’s take a look at what actually happened. Sam having sex with them has nothing to do with it (unless you want to count Jess, which was more because he loved her and wanted to have a life with her, and that’s still not something to laugh about).
Jessica – We can assume that Sam and Jess had a sexual relationship, but they might not have. That aside, the woman he wanted to marry died so Sam would get back into hunting and was killed by the man Sam thought was one of his closest friends (Brady). Not funny.
Sarah – Sam only kissed her. Crowley murdered her while Sam watched because he intended to systematically kill the people Sam and Dean had saved to get them to stop trying to closethe gates of hell. Also not funny.
Madison – They fell in love. They had sex. She was turned into a werewolf against her will when she was physically attacked one night, and she begged Sam to kill her so that she wouldn’t hurt anyone else. Again? Not laughing.
Ruby – Ruby got Sam addicted to her blood and then used it to control him. She found him, drunk and literally suicidal (she recognized that even after he met her, he fully intended to die trying to kill Lilith) and told him what he needed to hear to get him to do what she wanted. She may have fallen in love with him along the way. Angered by her betrayal and manipulation, Sam helped Dean kill her. I don’t see the humor in it.
Cara – Sam met, talked to, and had sex with Cara in s4. She didn’t die. She’s alive and well. No one talks about her.
The people Sam had sex with while soulless – Some are dead, some are alive. Thanks to @optimisam for mentioning that the MOTW in Unforgiven targeted some of the women Soulless!Sam slept with in an attempt to grab his attention. The fact that these women were murdered as part of a grudge a man had against Soulless!Sam also isn’t terribly amusing.
Amy – Sam’s first crush, not acted upon. Dean cruelly murdered her after promising a hallucinating Sam that he wouldn’t go after her. Her son, the reason she’d resorted to such desperate measures, watched his mother die for no good reason. This is literally the farthest thing from funny.
Becky – Still alive. Additionally, any sex she may have had with Sam would have been non-consensual, the product of supernatural roofies. Not funny. Actually disgusting.
Amelia – We only got after shots, but we can presume that their relationship was sexual. Still alive.
Piper – Sexed up by Sam. Still alive as far as we know.
Sam’s ‘history with violent women’
A lot of people also, confusingly, claim that Sam has a history with violent women, even though only one or two people he’s willingly pursued a relationship with could be considered overall ‘violent people’
Jessica – Jessica was the farthest thing from violent.
Sarah – Same. She was kind, peaceful, caring. Not violent.
Madison – Are we going to characterize her as a ‘violent person’ just because, right at the end of her short life, she was infected with a virus against her will and killed people without even realizing it? That sounds fake, but okay.
Ruby – Yep. She could be violent, but up until the end, and perhaps in service to… you know, keeping the Winchesters from getting too suspicious, she was actually very reasonable–more reasonable than the Winchesters themselves, at times, who used her knife to murder vessels. She was more wily than violent, but have it your way.
Cara – Adventurous? Yes. Confident in her sexuality? Yep. Violent? No. They suspected her, but she was not the culprit. Cara Roberts is just a doctor.
The people Sam had sex with while soulless – Not violent. One was an actual hippie.
Amy – About as violent as the Winchesters on a good day. Yes, she killed people. Yes, murder is wrong. She didn’t do anything worse than what the Winchesters do on a daily basis to save their family. Don’t see anyone talking about that, though.
Becky – She forced a love potion on Sam and aggressively pursued him. You could definitely call that violent. But why in God’s name would anyone consider Sam to have had a relationship with her? That’s disgusting. It’s like saying a rape victim had a relationship with their rapist. Sam had absolutely no input in their ‘relationship.’ They did not have a relationship. It’s closer to assault.
Amelia – Traumatized, grieving, hurt, and a little free with her words? Sure, but not violent.
Piper – Beautiful and open to new experiences? Certainly. Violent? Nope.
What drives me crazy about both of those popular jokes is how absolutely untrue they are. It’s sickening, and it’s dismissive of the amazing and well-developed women Sam loved, so I’m glad you brought this question to me.
okay we watched love actually so who wants to hear my proposed plot changes so it’s not mainly white straight people??
i don’t even care if no one does here goes:
first point, get rid of all the fatphobia, it is rife within this movie and needs to go
now the plots:
the harry, karen, and mia storyline – karen, a trans woman and harry, her husband. they began dating before she openly identified as female but due to harry’s bisexuality he is supportive and they get married and adopt two children. in later years harry has come to realise that he is gay and is attracted to his new temp, max. he still loves karen but he’s not in love with her. their relationship begins to crumble, she discovers his infidelity, the joni mitchell scene happens (and i cry, again), confrontation, discussion, eventual amicable divorce following which they both lead happier lives (and karen receives actual helpful loving support from her brother)
the david and natalie storyline – newly elected openly lesbian prime minister davina meets and falls for her head of catering staff, natalie (who is of south korean descent). slimy us president still billy bob thornton hits on natalie, davina defends natalie in the room as opposed to passive aggressively in a press conference. natalie thanks davina following the later press conference (that plays out like a real one, not like the movie one) but ultimately quits bc feelings. the christmas card scene and play scene happen the same way as the film and everyone is happy for the prime minister and her new girlfriend bc fuck you this is my future version
the colin storyline – colin god of sex is bisexual. he meets stacey, john and carol-anne in america and they go back to their house to have sex. he is then introduced to and falls for their friend hana, a muslim woman. they decide to move to the states and hana’s sister maria joins them. she subsequently meets colin’s best friend tony who is instantly enamoured by her
the john and judy storyline – pretty similar except both characters are asexual and spend their time together after filming the sex scene building up the courage to tell the other person. cut to judy’s doorstep scene. john chickens out but she pulls him in and kisses him. when she leans back she tells him that she’s ace and he grins and says that he is too. they kiss again, she goes inside and he does the happy jump off the step. they get engaged and there’s not dumb line about ‘finally getting a shag’
the juliet, peter and mark storyline – focus on peter who is actually in love with both mark (who is jewish) and juliet (who is venezuelan) but marries juliet anyway, trying to push past his conflicting feelings. mark has been in love with his best friend forever and eventually tells him (he does not creepily film him at the wedding!). rest of movie is spent negotiating terms of polyamorous relationship, gross card holding carol singer scene avoided (unless it’s something like peter declaring his love for both of them and it doesn’t shame anyone or indicate symptoms of sociopathy)
the billy mack and joe storyline – pretty similar except they end up in a stated queerplatonic relationship
the daniel, sam and joanna storyline – (daniel is black just fyi) daniel is encouraged by karen to seek therapeutic help following the death of his wife. after a few sessions he notices similar symptoms in his stepson and after some good old fashioned talking they begin attending joint therapy. during these sessions, sam’s feelings for the girl in his class, joanna, come out. as a result of their developing trust and new found bond, the father and son confide more in each other and daniel, like the movie, helps sam tell joanna how he feels (and then the airport scene plays out the exact same bc it’s perfect). daniel does not meet claudia schiffer (sorry) and instead remains single
the jamie and aurelia storyline – doesn’t change all that much, just a more developed slow burn romance instead of somewhat underdeveloped heterosexual romance that we’ve come to know and hate
the sarah and karl storyline – starts the same and they end up back at sarah’s flat. the second time her brother calls, instead of being a sex-needing loser, karl understands her compulsion to answer and comforts her. he then tells her that he is on the autistic spectrum like her brother. he deals with sensory overload often. he also discusses his special interest in graphic design. they talk for the entire evening, becoming more understanding of each other and eventually sarah introduces karl to her brother
so yeah this ran away from me but still
also rowan atkinson is still in it doing the exact same bc why wouldn’t he?
Concept: instead of taking classic literature and adding zombies, take classic zombie movies and remove zombies.
Two possible outcomes as far as I can see: Option A) REPLACE zombies with something else entirely. Night of the Living Dead? Now it’s about a vampire apocalypse ala I Am Legend, or maybe the zombies are replaced by Frankenstoid monsters. Option B) DESTROY any hint of zombie plot. This has the most potential for drastic overhaul of the work – what is Night of the Living Dead about if no undead monsters rise from their graves and there is no looming threat to society in the slightest?
I can think of three major approaches that would retain the broad outlines of a typical zombie yarn without copping out and directly replacing the zombies with some other sort of supernatural critter.
The Straightforward Approach: Use a natural disaster instead.
The Metatextual Approach: Most people are gone, and the tiny handful of survivors we’re following know they have to find a fortified hiding place, but nobody can quite seem to remember why.
The Honest Approach: Just ninety minutes of white people being anxious about immigration.
I think everyone is forgetting the Absurdism option: just remove all the zombie and leave empty space behind. People run screaming from nothing. Pure chaos, no logic. Dadaism reinvented.
I feel like zombie stories generally ignore the sticking point that it isn’t actually the zombies that were the true executioners of society. It was the disease that created them. Zombie stories are basically just stories about the aftermath of an immensely destructive pandemic, except the corpses are coincidentally moving around. Keeping that in mind, just keep the pandemic and do away with the zombies.
I actually saw a film that did exactly that, and it really hammered home to me just how fundamentally boring and generally morally questionable zombie stories really are. It was the same narrative of survivors being assholes to one another, except that there were no wandering corpses to shoot, so it became patently obvious just how weak aftermath stories generally are.
I don’t remember the name of this film, unfortunately, but it really was exactly like a typical zombie story sans any zombies. Worth seeing just for how it, probably completely unintentionally, deconstructs the concept of zombie stories.
we’re all missing the true potential: zombie stories where zombies are replaced with classical literature characters
philosphers stone: for harry’s 10th birthday he got Dursley’s old socks, excellent present. He also found a spider on his socks, cute! And of course Dumbledore’s infamous: “I see myself holding a pair of thick, woollen socks”, in the Mirror of Erised. A noble desire indeed! and “One can never have enough socks,” said Dumbledore. I live by those words, give socks to everyone you know. 8/10
chamber of secrets: Well, we all know what’s coming. First of all, the obscure. Professor Sprout put socks on mandrakes to help them save all the petrified people, socks saving lives again. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY: “And he forced the smelly sock into Lucius Malfoy’s hand.” SAVAGEEE: then “Master has given Dobby a sock. Dobby is free. YASSSS PRIME USE OF SOCKs 11/10
prisoner of azkaban: Ron got a pair of maroon socks for xmas even though he doesn’t like maroon! Poor form. Harry kept his sneakoscope in his aforementioned birthday socks. MEh nothing exciting in the sock world. 0/10
goblet of fire: Harry’s socks got wet, horrible -5 points. But, then the tables turned for socks. Harry gave Dobby mustard yellow socks, and Ron gave him violet socks. Little did they know in 2016, that would be a fashionable colour scheme. Of course Dobby is wrapped! “Socks are Dobby’s favourite, favorite clothes, sir!” Thus, he in return gave Harry hand knitted snitch and broomstick pattern socks. Moody himself complimented Harry on his chic socks. Harry proclaimed: he was going to buy Dobby a pair of socks for every day of the year, and he then gave him screaming and flashing socks. Dobby said he had 7 socks- symbolism?? EXCELLENT YEAR FOR SOCKS 10/10
order of the phoenix: Mundungus smells like burnt socks -4 points. Hermione knitted a bunch of socks for the house elves but only Dobby wore them…. Ron used socks to hold his prefect badge. not a great year. 2/10
half-blood prince: wtf is with harry and using socks as a storage device. Felix Felicis stored in socks. Nothing else so -1/10
deathly hallows: Hermione brought Ron’s maroon socks that he hated from CoS. Socks are again used a storage… with Hermione’s beaded bag placed in her sock. Now, when Dobby died, Ron took off his socks from his feet to place onto Dobby, out of respect for his passion of socks. I’m not crying, you are. sentimental socks… It made me sad but it’s a beautiful tribute 9.3/10
You might be surprised to learn there are a lot of different species of raven and crow! The taxonomic difference between a raven and a crow (that is, whether a species gets named of or the other) is size and lifespan rather than genetic grouping. When comparing the species most of us are most familiar with – the American crow (C. brachyrhyncos) and common raven (C. corax), which will be the two I’m focusing on here – you can’t exactly tell the bird’s age most of the time, so if you have other animals or objects to compare the bird to, size is often the first clue.
The common raven is is massive for a passerine. It’s the size of a red-tailed a hawk, with a wingspan over four feet. Crows, on the other hand, are typically about the size of an African grey parrot. Compare someone holding a crow vs someone holding a raven:
And lemme tell ya, it’s one thing to READ about how big they are, but it’s another to SEE it.
If you see a corvid in flight and can’t get a bead on its proportions, the shape of the tail and flight feathers is another good identifier. A crow’s tail is triangular or fan-shaped, while a raven’s is wedge-shaped (ie the middle tail feathers are longest). Both have well-defined primaries, but a raven’s are much deeper and tend to spread wider. Ravens tend to soar a lot, too; crows are consistent flappers.
Finally, if you can get a good look at the head, the differences are pretty obvious. A raven has a beak that hooks at the end and is as long as its head (or in the case of a Chihuahuan raven, longer than!) while a crow’s beak is straighter, shorter, and lighter-looking in general. Both have nasal bristles, but the shape these bristles form is different due to beak size (a raven’s often looks squared off). Crows are kinda shiny and a bit fluffy; ravens are iridescent and have a very distinctive “beard” of shaggy feathers at their throats which bristles up like hackles when they call.
Finally, their voices are a bit different – a crow’s flat, high caw vs a raven’s deep, resonating kronk – but both species have a very wide range of natural vocalisations and are accomplished mimics. [This video] has some great examples of the caw vs kronk sounds.
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Nickname: I don’t have any 😦
Star sign: Pisces (does xkit blacklist your own posts? I have pisces blacklisted am I not going to be able to see this post)
Height: 5′5″ish
Time right now: 11:58PM
Favorite musical artist: Darlingside
Song stuck in your head: Durban Skies by Bastille
Last movie watched: I watched the end of Love Actually last weekend but I think the last full movie was What’s Your Number
Last TV show watched: Supergirl
What are you wearing right now: a blue life is good tshirt and pajama shorts
When did you create your blog: I don’t know
What kind of stuff do you post: who knows
Do you have any other blogs: yeah
Do you get asks regularly: haha no I wish, sometimes if I reblog an ask meme thing I get one or two and this month I’ll be getting some les mis secret santa messages but otherwise nothing
Why did I choose my url: it’s from Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe which is my favorite book and I liked the way it sounded
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw but I identify with all of them
Gender: cis woman
Pokemon Team: I don’t
Favorite color: currently probably like a teal? but also purple always
Average hours of sleep: about eight
Dream job: Editor or something at a museum (also beekeeping on the side)
How many blankets do you sleep with: it depends on what time of year it is and whether I’m at home or at school. currently I’m just using a sheet but when I go home for winter break I’ll be using at least four blankets probably
for chinese new year they get all these famous actors and comedians together and they do a lil show and one of the comedians was like “i was in a hotel in america once and there was a mouse in my room so i called reception except i forgot the english word for mouse so instead i said ‘you know tom and jerry? jerry is here’
jerry is here
my chinese teacher once shared this story in class about someone who went to the grocery to buy chicken, but they forgot the english word for it, so they grabbed an egg, went to the nearest sales lady and said “where’s the mother”
When I was a teenager, we went to Italy for the summer holidays. We are German, neither of us speaks more than a few words of Italian. That didn’t keep my family from always referring to me when they wanted something translated because “You’re so good with languages and you took Latin”. (I told them a hundred times I couldn’t order ice cream in Latin, they ignored that.) Anyway, my dad really loved a certain cheese there, made from sheep’s milk. He knew the Italian word for ‘cheese’ – formaggio – and he knew how to say ‘please’. And he had already spotted a little shop that sold the cheese. He asked me what ‘sheep’ was in Italian, and of course, I had no idea. So he just shrugged and said “I’ll manage” and went into the shop. 5 mins later, he comes out with a little bag, obviously very pleased with himself. How did he manage it? He had gone in and said “’Baaaah’ formaggio, prego.”
I was done for the day.
This makes me feel better about every conversation I had in both Rome and Ghent.
I once lost my husband in the ruins of a French castle on a mountain, and trotted around looking for him in increasing desperation. “Have you seen my husband?” I asked some French people, having forgotten all descriptive words. “He is small, and English. His hair is the color of bread.”
I did not find my husband in this way.
In rural France it is apparently Known that one brings one’s own shopping bags to the grocery store. I was a visitor and had not been briefed and had no shopping bag. I saw that other people were able to conduct negotiations to purchase shopping bags, but I could not remember the word for “bag.”
“Can I have a box that is not a box,” I said.
The checkout lady looked extremely tired and said, “Un sac?” (A sack?)
Of course. A fucking sack. And so I did get a sack.
I once was at a German-American Church youth camp for two weeks and predictably, we spoke a whole lot of English.
When I phoned my mom during week two I tried to tell her that it was a bit cold in the sleeping bag at night. I stumbled around the word in German because for the love of god, I could remember the Germwn word for sleeping bag.
“Yeah so, it’s like a bag you sleep in at night?”
“And my mother must probably have thought I lost my mind. She just sighed and was like ‘So, a Schlafsack, yes?”
Which is LITERALLY Sleeping sac … The German word is a basically a one on one translation of the English word and I just… I failed it. At my mother tongue. BIG
My former boss is Italian and she ended up working in a lab where the common language was English. She once saw an insect running through the lab and she went to tell her colleagues. She remembered it was the name of a famous English band so she barged in the office yelling there was a rolling stone in the lab…
I’m Spanish and have been living in the UK for a while now. I recently changed jobs and moved to a new office which is lost somewhere in the Midlands’ countryside. It’s a pretty quaint location, surrounded by forest on pretty much all sides, and with nice grounds… full of pheasants. I was pretty shocked when I drove in and saw a fucking pheasant strolling across the road. Calm as you please.
That afternoon I met up with some friends and was talking about the new job, and the new office, and for the life of me I couldn’t remember the English word for pheasants. So I basically ended up bragging to my friends about “the very fancy chickens” we had outside the office.
Best thing is, everyone understood what I meant.
I love those stories so much…
Picture a Jewish American girl whose grasp of the Hebrew language comes from 10+ years of immersion in Biblical and liturgical Hebrew, not the modern language. Some words are identical, while others have significantly evolved.
She gets to Israel and is riding a bus for the very first time.
American: כמה ממון זה? (”How much money?” but in rather archaic language)
Bus Driver: שתי זוזים. (”Two zuzim” – a currency that’s been out of circulation for millenia)
that’s hilarious
I am officially screamlaughing at my desk from that last one OH MY
Does everyone know the prime minister who promised to fuck the country?
So in Biblical Hebrew the word for penis and weapon are the same. There is a verb meaning to arm, which modern Hebrew semanticly drifted into “fuck”: i.e. give someone your dick.
The minister was making a speech while a candidate, bemoning the state of the world. “The Soviet Union is fucking Egypt. Germany is fucking Syria. The Americans are fucking everyone. But who is fucking us? When I am prime minister, I will ensure we are fucked!”
What the hell Biblical Hebrew.
Just guessing: The path from something like “give someone a blade” to “give someone a blade, if you know what I mean ;)” is probably not that difficult or unlikely.
^Given that the Latin word for sheath (like, for a sword) is literally “vagina”, I can verify that this metaphor is a time-honored one.
Oh yeah and one time my Latin professor was at this conference in Greece and his flight was canceled, so he needed to extend his hotel stay by one more night.
Except he doesn’t speak a lick of modern Greek, and the receptionist couldn’t speak English. Or French. Or German. Or Italian. (He tried all of them.)
Finally, in a fit of inspiration, he went upstairs and got his copy of Medea in the original Greek (you know, the stuff separated from modern Greek by two and a half thousand years). He found the passage where Medea begs Jason to let her stay for one more day, went downstairs, and read it to the receptionist.
She laughed her head off, but she gave him the extra night.
Thinks that OCD is “cool” and “quirky” (Meanwhile, she is being proclaimed some sort of hero of mental health for her work in Silver Linings Playbook. She is not my hero)
Talks about how her female cat has such a masculine energy that she decided to rename it Chaz Bono: “I’ve never met a cat where you assume first that it’s a boy. Because normally dogs are boys and cats are girls. But she has such a masculine energy that everybody always says ‘he’ and for the first week I thought it was a boy. I named her Oliver, she had a collar with Oliver. And like “boy, boy, boy.” And everyone’s like, “what’s his name?” And that’s just weird for a cat. So we call her Chaz Bono.“
philosophers stone: (5) the dursleys duck hagrid’s letters which is amazing and I hope that creased parchment gave them paper cuts. children duck from peeves on several occasions, and chaser pucey ducks two bludgers. glad Hogwarts students are agile but if i were a mum receiving these letters from home I’d have questions. (5/10)
chamber of secrets: harry ducks under a table to keep people from seeing him laughing. joy because harry is actually laughing. someone ducks molly’s soapy frying pan, which i hope is a metaphor but probably isn’t. harry ducks as hagrid tries to pat his shoulder again. ron ducks and vomits slugs, the babe. four random evasive ducking maneuvers. wizards are dodge af. i do not duck this much in my real life. bonus for the only movie add on that matters: “What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?” what were /you using for, Arthur? (8/10)
prisoner of azkaban: jo’s editor clearly got cottoned on because the we only have three duck mentions. ducking beneath diggory (it starts). harry randomly ducks. and a warning: duck, angelina that’s a bludger. (1/10)
goblet of fire: (13) ducking in and out of tents and to avoid awkward social situations. ‘I don’t think there can be any ducking out at this stage’ which is utter bullshit. i’d be asking for the terms and conditions and finding out exactly what would be worse than facing a dragon??? krum is on multiple occasions described as duck-footed, which i take to mean literally and you can’t stop me. (3/10)
order of the phoenix: wondering if ‘duck’ is code for ‘fuck’ because it’s mentioned a lot (23 times) and jk’s editor wouldn’t let her swear. harry ducks his abusive uncle more than once. sirius /ducks bellatrix’s jet of red light, but only one. every single adult ducks out of their responsibility in effectively helping traumatized harry james potter. (-10/10)
half blood prince: FAVE: herbert chortley, junior minister, loses his quackers and impersonates a duck. he will spend the rest of his life believing he’s a duck, which is…the dream. harry ducks under and out from the cloak so he can relentlessly stalk draco malfoy. lots of ducking under arms and under tables and ducking and running. (9/10. for herb)
deathly hallows: shout out to the experimental charms committee for accidentally-on-purpose creating a poisonous duck. wizarding galleons at their finest??? harry would not duck out of, excuse me while i sob, going to meet voldemort, not when he knew it was in his power to stop it. (4/10 but only because harry lives)
bonus: Lego Harry Potter, Ducklifors Jinx turns anything into a duck. (10/10)
please just take a few moments to consider how fucking awful being at school with les amis would be
fucking codependent nerds who go everywhere together and dominate the canteen/common room and have a bunch of inside jokes that they can link to anything
they’re all kinda dating each other?? everyone goes kinda mad trying to figure out who the actual couples are, because one day courf and ferre will be kissing in the halls and the next day courf and grantaire are holding hands??? but grantaire’s profile pic on facebook is joly kissing him on the cheek??? what the fuck is going on???
there’s at least three of them in every class. they dominate class discussions. it’s like they’ve practiced every possible debate that could come up. how are they so passionate about everything.
they’re probably definitely those kids who are always trying to organise school events and fundraisers and they put posters up everywhere and send messages out and joly asks you in class if you’d be willing to help out and he’s just so lovely and the next second you’ve agreed to spend next saturday at the local retirement home’s coffee morning
they seem to have a lot of parties and based on their snapchat stories some crazy shit goes down (pictures of grantaire holding stolen roadsigns??? bahorel with a black eye and a caption like “someone’s gotta defend enj’s honour”???? bossuet with his eyebrows on fire???) but if anyone asks they’ll just say they were watching movies or studying or something
grantaire joly and bossuet break into choreographed song and dance routines several times a day??? c’mon guys everyone’s just trying to pass chemistry they don’t need this
no one can really figure them out because most of them get really good grades and get involved in school activities so on the one hand their model students, but also everyone’s pretty sure they’re responsible for spray painting lyrics to pink floyd’s brick in the wall and an unflattering picture of the headteacher in the school canteen?
just. can you imagine. there are so many of them and they’d be so intense about everything.
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