#class tension

[housemasterwilkes]

this week on ASHCOMBE:

izzy: i am a normal american transfer student and i am coping beautifully also izzy: what if communal showers were designed by the devil. what if neckties were a hate crime. what if my roommate was good at rugby. what if he fixed my tie. what if he picked me safe toast. what if he smelled like rain and cigarettes and outside. what THEN???

ASHCOMBE chapters 3 & 4 are coming this week to AO3, which means the boys are about to enter the dangerous stage known as “forming tiny rituals and pretending that is normal.”

[go read previous chapters?]

☁️ ASHCOMBE by housemasterwilkes ☁️ Rating: Explicit (later chapters - not yet. we're still wholesome.) Archive Warning: Underage Sex (also laters. you've been warned / summoned, whatever's your cup of tea.)

Category: M/M

Fandom: Original Work Words: 9,010 (finished around 170k) Chapters: 3/33

Original Fiction / Boarding School / 1990s / Slow Burn / First Love / 𝓇𝓊𝑔𝒷𝓎 / Mutual pining [link!]

[padawan-historian]

In anime, there are class tensions and there are class rivalries. One is Marxism the other is just high school drama.

[padawan-historian]

Me, a non sports watcher (except during the Olympics): Why don't they pay college athletes for their work?

Random sports enthusiast: Because college athletes aren't professionals.

Me: So you're saying an art major on scholarship can charge money for drawing lessons and independently make money off their artwork, but an athlete on scholarship cannot charge money to train people or profit from merchandising (EA Sports get to use their image, names and likeness but she or he gets no money)?

Random sports enthusiast: Well a lot of these kids come from rough backgrounds. So you shouldn't just throw them a bunch of money.

Me: So basically you're saying poor black, brown and poor kids shouldn't be paid for their work.

Random sports enthusiast: Why'd you make this a race thing? And a class thing?

Me, in a sports announcer voice: That's capitalism.

[thelongesttrainieversaw]

Conflict between rich and poor now eclipses racial strain and friction between immigrants and the native-born as the greatest source of tension in American society, according to a survey released Wednesday.

[eunych-born-eunych]

Watching a Ted and Ralph sketch,

and, I'm sorry, all I hear is

class tension class tension class tension

which is the sort of thing that actually causes me physical pain?