So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we’ll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she’ll be back in a couple of minutes
Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl’s balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it’s quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us
After a long moment, she says, confused, “You didn’t pop the balloons.”
To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, “We’re allowed to pop them?” and immediately turns around and stabs his friend’s balloon with the pencil
There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates’ balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. “I can’t believe you didn’t pop your balloons.”
Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever
any english teacher should have known that lord of the flies is what happens when privileged entitled rich kids who are used to getting away with everything get stranded, not normal kids. Normal kids actually have to face consequences and wouldnt immediately devolve into anarchy
this is by far the LARGEST update in homestuck history, i went through both epilogues, copy/pasted all of it into word documents and found out that candy route is 94883 words long, meat route is 87232 words long, for a total of 182,115 words according to readmspa the second highest day had 18,903 words this update is 163212 words longer than the second place for largest update additionally, this update puts homestuck at a total of 1,007,370 words with meat being 8.66% of homestuck, candy being 9.42% of homestuck and this update as a whole being 18.08% of homestuck
That feel when people talk about autism or adhd as if none of the people they’re talking about can hear them, as if we’re too rare to enounter unless we’re your child… what do they think we are, neuro-cryptids?
I was at a trading card shop the other day and two of the workers were making shitty “REEEE autism screeching” jokes and like I was right there. One of the guys is generally pretty friendly toward me so I assume he has no idea I’m on the spectrum but hoo boy at least now I know he’s on the spectrum of asshole
I’m bringing this back because “on the spectrum of asshole” kills me every time I look in the notes of this post
I’m reblogging this because of ‘neuro-cryptids’. there’s a lot to appreciate here
