#bloodcoded

[lsdelf]

[rcguna-archived]

Good grief.

[dcviated]

What is this dude’s damage? Did he hit his head super hard?

She doesn’t even know what he’s talking about. The female Shinobi doesn’t even know what she did to earn such a response. She scratches her cheek as she tries to think of how to respond to this absolute weirdo. What even was his get-up?

Something out of a Saturday morning cartoon…

Maybe he’s insane…

The idea makes her pity him a little.

“Are you well? Did you hit your head? I can totally call you an ambulance.”

Shiki then makes a suggestion born out of newfound concern.

@blood-coded​ continued from here

“What? Hit my head? Of course not de gozaru! I’m perfectly healthy I’ll have you know de gozaru.” And yet, dramatic his mannerisms remain. Of course not aided by the fact that his expressions are being done for him by the cap on his head. Brows above its bill currently furrowed. But at least, he has calmed down enough he’s no longer pointing at the stylish lady.

“Ah yes yes, as a result of my daily training. However! I can’t help but think you’re looking at me like something must be wrong with me de gozaru.” He says, as if he isn’t some techno-caricature of a ninja with the uniform and flowing orange scarf. His pride is a sensitive thing however, perhaps the one point that reveals his backbone in an otherwise subservient individual. “You are a ninja as well, aren’t you? You may call me Tenzou, de gozaru.”

[kinships]

@blood-coded​

“Yakumo, if you do not leave, I will smother you with a pillow.” She’s not serious.

[quasimyth]

🔥🔥🔥

Elite colleges do absolutely have minimum GPAs and test scores that they accept. This is something I learned from my last place of work. They try to hide it to encourage more people to apply so that they can reject the ones who “aren’t good enough” and deflate their acceptance rates even more to look more exclusive. It’s fucking evil and shitty, but it’s the truth. And even if these minimums don’t exist, the number of people below them who get in are so few that it’s negligible.

Speaking of the college process, I used to work as a volunteer college counselor for low-income kids. I got them into pretty good schools--Emory, Georgia Tech, Wellesley and Haverford. But one of the most crushing things I learned after I graduated was that it’s not your college degree that matters, it’s your grad school degree--and I think it shouldn’t be that way. Like don’t get me wrong, my work is it’s still important, because you do need to get to a top college in order to get to a top grad school. But you shouldn’t have to go to grad school in order to get a good career. And I’d say the only reason why so many people do is because the rich and powerful in this country want to bury our generation under even more school debt.

Oh and as for my last unpopular opinion. Something I wish I could say to every single top college in America: I don’t care HOW fucking exclusive your college is, the expectations you set for children are ENTIRELY unfair. Literally, the process for getting kids into top colleges is that you have to basically pick what you want to do for the rest of your life in 9th grade and spend the next 4 years overachieving in it--or at least pick something that you’re passionate about enough to overachieve in. Then, once you reach senior year age 17-18, you need to be able to write about your chosen subject with all the eloquence and insight of someone who’s already in fucking college. Where the FUCK does that leave all the brilliant kids who don’t have a direction yet and who deserve to find it at a top institution? Nowhere? I guess so…

The thing about setting expectations is, you’re always going to exclude someone. But the way the college system is set up, it excludes kids who have taken the time to explore different passions and “just be kids”--and that fundamentally disgusts me.

[vallablooded]

( @blood-coded 

I’m not over the Nin Nin Ninja phase in FEH. So I drew your Hamako as a Ninja alt with my girl!)

[vixlenxe]

Thank you~

Now Genshin just needs to stop holding out on me & give me Xiao & Venti & I will have all the wind characters.

[wackywoohooborschtman]

@blood-coded​ wants to hurt me with Teucer

“Teucer--? I told you not to come out here, much less on your own.”

Though muffled through the large door, the severe scolding in his voice is quite palpable, as well as the exasperation. Thankfully, he hasn’t drawn closer to the symptoms of a Frenzy, but....Well, it was only a matter of time at the end of the day. He would hold out for as long as he could, his burden couldn’t possibly compare to Silva’s. 

Tartaglia had to do his part.

“Eirene, is he showing any signs of hunger or nearing frenzy? Can I ask you to find a blood bead?” “No....He is well....I apologize, but he wished to see you....So I guided him rather than to have him wander....” “...I see. Thank you.”

A deep sigh fills the chamber of his Crypt.

“Teucer, you made sure to thank her, yes?”