Cassandra Reincarnate

Marzina/Z/Zahara/Cassiopeia/Marina // she/they // demiromantic bisexual // 18 // ADHD // multifandom // Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[bellonaschild]

About Me

names: Marzina (most preferred), Zahara, Cassiopeia, Marina

nicknames: Z (most preferred nickname), Cass, Mare

pronouns: she/they

sexuality: demiromantic bisexual

age: 17-20

enneagram: 8w9

mbti: infj

frequent fandoms: supernatural, dc comics, all for the game, 911verse (probably more that I’m forgetting)

interests: history, greek mythology (especially the trojan war), classics

[bellonaschild]

permanently dead -- moved to @shxnehollxnder

[stormsthatrage]

Heated Rivalry AU where Ilya dips out early from a post-game party with Boston, and someone gets the idea to put on a Hollonov compilation as a joke.

The whole team settles in with rapt attention, ready to roast the shit out of Roz over it via group chat, only to see. Well. It's a series of interview clips over the years. It's made up exclusively of three things. One, clips of Hollander "stealing" linguistically challenging questions that the whole team knows Rozanov hates. Two, clips of Rozanov derailing questions that are about Hollander's "representation of his community," which gossip on the street says makes Hollander uncomfortable. Three, Hollander and Rozanov commenting individually on the rivalry, with vicious comments such as. "He's of course a great player, but he'll find us difficult to beat." Such fire in Rozanov's comments are especially damning, given his whole chirp-king-schtick. The video editor, with all the obsession and perception of a true fangirl, makes sure to circle every instance where you can see the shadow of Hollander and Rozanov pressing their feet together - and in one instance holding hands - beneath the interview table. (You wouldn't see it unless you're looking for it - or unless someone circles it in red for you.)

The video finishes, and the team sits in a kind of shocked silence as the next video auto-plays. This one is a compilation of Rozanov chirping Hollander on the ice. Here, the editor has helpfully drawn an arrow to Hollander's face whenever he blushes. The editor has also inserted text overlays with comments like. "Look at how fiercely Rozanov insults his rival." And then puts smaller arrows pointing to Roz's body language, with helpful texts like "excited wiggle indicating absolute fury," and "besotted grin indicating deep hatred." The sarcasm is distressingly accurate in its point.

(Listen, the whole team knows what Roz looks like when he's chirping someone. This - this is not it. This is not it at all. This is him when he's being silly with people he really likes. What is going on.)

The video finishes, and this time someone has the presence of mind to stop the auto-play before another mind-breaking thing comes up.

Someone else, trying to lighten the silence with a joke, and maybe dismiss it all as a fever dream, says, "Montreal Jane? More like Montreal Shane, am I right?"

And. Well.

Once it's out there, there's no coming back from it.

Cliff asks aloud, to no one in particular, "Are we just stupid?"

[bisexualbatarang]

for fic writers — how to write the ivy (and little ivy) leagues

having just finished the game changers series and now having come across multiple HR fics set at ivy leagues I feel I have the obligation to correct / give out information on how to write these places for my own sanity and because Rachel Reid’s portrayals are so abysmally incorrect they haunted me for days (this does not just apply to HR I see these errors all the time and just want some source to be out there)

(my credentials: current english literature and classics student at one of these institutions — will not say which one out of fear of being discovered by my classmates who I know are also on this app)

the ivies are more than just the big three of harvard, princeton, and yale and all the other institutions (I’m looking at you in particular dartmouth) will Never Let You Forget That

there are a Lot of “little ivies” or old, prestigious, hard to get into often private schools across America with similar academic rigor and requirements to the Ivies — some of the most famous at UChicago, NYU, Norte Dame, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, WashU, and Emory

the culture of many little ivies is something called “ivy reject culture” where students only came to the university because it was the best non-ivy one they got into for example washu kids often complain that they didn’t get into brown particularly in literary circles

the dorms are just as shit as all other college dorms don’t let the virtual tours fool you I had no air conditioning for a week once and it took three maintenance requests to finally get someone out to fix it

sports are important But no one and I mean NO ONE is going to these schools just because the got an athletic scholarship mostly because they don’t do athletic scholarships like you Cannot Get One. guys if you want your characters to go to an academically prestigious school AND have a sports scholarship send them to Stanford or to a UC school, particularly UCLA

for your scholarship characters: if you are low income and on scholarship (also called financial aid), you Absolutely are getting paraded around. Galas? You will be there. Luncheons? You will be there. I have had three meetings with donors this week alone. These mostly consist of sitting around eating cheese and telling donors how much you appreciate their work. the emotions of these meetings range from intellectual stimulation to downright humiliation.

adding onto that, you will Not be taught the Rich People rules. A friend of mine once came with me as a plus one to the named scholars dinner and she corrected me halfway through because I had been holding my champagne glass wrong. I still don’t know everything but that’s fine because Rich People think I am Hilarious. they will accept failures of etiquette when they think it’s cute that you don’t know.

More under the cut

if you are from rural America (like me), city kids (especially ones from New England) will think you are a redneck and will ask you weird semi-inane, semi-common sense questions about rural life like have you ever owned a gun or have you ever killed a cow or can you drive a horse an buggy etc that will make you stare into the distance. Unfortunately For Me,,,,the answer to all of those questions is yes and so that causes more questions.

Full rides are hard to come by. You get a full ride by either being incredibly accomplished (most likely earning a named scholarship) OR you are incredibly poor (most schools have promise policies to give out scholarships to low income students)

being jump scared by random famous connections or people will happen. My friend’s sister is on the us women’s national swimming team and has multiple records at her school (also a prestigious university with a good swimming program with other Olympians). You can randomly run into bestselling authors you didn’t know were visiting campus that day. Some crazy name will be the commencement speaker. You will meet People or meet people who know People

being jumped scared by random academic connections. One of my professor’s phd advisor was andre aciman, author of call me by your name. One of my friends’ latin teachers in high school wrote multiple papers that I now use as evidence in my research and I can email him for clarification whenever I want

RESEARCH IS NON NEGOTIABLE YOU WILL BE DOING IT BY THE END OF YOUR FIRST YEAR

most students come premed and switch. premeds you survive the first year purge will make it your problem.

STUDY ABROAD IS NOT REQUIRED BUT HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

student body is often pretty international or at the very least diverse in American hometowns. in my six person suite alone we have me (rural midamerica), Chicago, Taiwan, Great Lakes region, Miami, and St Louis)

despite this diversity, there will be a large portion of the student population that are bay area cali premeds, prelaw, or compsci. you cannot escape them. in my experience bay area premed students are the least understanding of financial hardship and often cannot stop talking about being both Premed and from the Bay Area.

being bilingual is expectation, not exception. most students have fluency in at least two languages if not more

most students will humble brag — outward insane arrogance is pretty uncommon

your friends spring break trips will be Insanely Expensive. Most people go to resorts in Mexico or the Bahamas or go somewhere in Europe, though I know a few people who went to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the Maldives

Questbridge is an external full ride program for low income students. The process is long and hard and complicated but my roommate is Questbridge and just know QB students are to be feared. They are the most accomplished people you will ever meet.

sometimes in the middle of a party, someone will whip out their calc three homework and then everything stops as everyone locks in to help them finish it (unfortunately you are all intoxicated and only make this worse) (this has happened at three different parties I have been to)

speaking of parties they absolutely happen even if they are centered in greek life and often there are party cycles or weekends that are dominated by that most obviously Halloween but some also have crazy mardi parties and Valentine’s Day gets wild as well.

CAMPUS CONCERTS — they are real, fun, and always a big name. Oftentimes the school hosts a fall concert and a spring one. A lot of people go, at least to the spring concert.

classes are both as hard and not as hard as you will expect. there’s way more work and higher standards but I’ve never taken a class that’s impossible to pass or required me to destroy my health to do so

grade inflation and deflation is real. ivies inflate little ivies deflate I don’t know why don’t ask

the automatic assumption is that student have money and are at least middle class so many clubs, events, etc, will be free on paper but expensive in actuality because they will require specific dress attire, equipment, transportation fees, etc that anyone low income cannot afford. I have run into this a lot and been unable to actually be a member of a few different clubs because I couldn’t afford external fees.

there are so many other things but these are the main things that I see people get wrong !!

It you want accurate portrayals of Ivy Leagues, academia, or anything like that, some authors who you can trust because they have written about it correctly and attended one of these places are:

R.F. Kuang (Georgetown, Cambridge, Oxford, Yale)

V.E. Schwab (WashU)

Donna Tartt (Bennington College)

Zadie Smith (Cambridge)

Maggie Stiefvater (University of Mary Washington)

Jeffery Eugenides (Brown, Stanford)

Mona Awad (Brown, York University)

Xochitl Gonzales (Brown)

Chloe Gong (UPenn)

[belladoes]

Its so unfair that Destiel is legit an amazing ship. Like if you haven't watched spn and only know it through social media you might think "ah its probably exegerated. Sure it was queerbait and the angel was in love but it wasnt THAT special" but then you watch the show and its like. No, yeah, these two dudes have Shakespearian level of romantic drama and narrative importance. All their plots have deeply romantic undertones. They have intense eye-contact no other ship has come close to having. Truly Castiel's confession doesn't even reach the top 5 romantic/gay things Destiel has done in the show.

[curlychip]

The closest they came to "casually hooking up" in the entirety of their decade long situationship was Vegas and they both ended up in tears by the end of that night.

[doctorwillsolace]

oh this is killing me...

by h.hartes on instagram

[actuallysara]

Hudson Williams on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon | January 7, 2026

[hazzymayy]

Based on that one supernatural and Ken pose

[sabellart]

dean when cas fucks off for half the season

[gojoslefttoe1]

my take on true form cas

[frijolebean]

He's not human.

[doc-anders]

“Straight outta Gotham”

[ama-kuri]

i have so many timkon pictures in the works, yall arent ready

reference below!!

[abbaswift]

not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

[ace-misplaced]

i very much will be a number nerd on main and the 27th of September will be extra special...

[yourfavvgal]

okay eva just wanted to say THIS IS SO COOL???

[wileycap]

I have no idea what to do with this, but wouldn't it be neat if Aang started doing all of his bending using the wrong style of bending? Just because he can?

Airbending? No, actually, it's humid in here. I used the water in the air :) nope, just manipulated the temperature with firebending. Common mistake! They look very similar!

Oh no, that wasn't earthbending. That was airbending. I'm basically just compressing the air! Sokka came up with that!

Avatar Aang comes in to give a bending demonstration, and immediately 60-year-old masters start gnawing the furniture because what do you MEAN that was waterbending!!! You made flames!!!? We've been studying this all our lives why would you come in and do this to us

[ai0lisauce]

Do NOT leave these in tags OP

[catmask]

if i told you what rhis sounded ljke i dont think youd believe me so just listen

[lokh1]

the song is also on bandcamp for pwyw

the story behind the song is also very good

last year we needed new songs so in the style of the who's "a quick one" album where all the members wrote at least a couple songs each, we decided to challenge ourselves and each write a song to present to the band. alan wrote "how lucky am i?" emerson wrote "oxycontin" and matt wrote a yet-unreleased tune called "quarter two" our drummer casey, put it off til the last minute. on the day the song was due, with two hours left, he woke up in a panic, smoked a bowl, and presented us "Ængus, The Prize-Winning Hog" by plunking each note out on a piano with his index finger. it turned into a full polka-rock-nu-metal-1960's-British-car-chase-Queen-esque-mini-opera.