GoodbyeProductivity

TW: child abuse

Should i talk about viruses for a second? They’re bad. I don’t recommend getting one.

This is how i know Corbin is a dad. He’s got dad-gression: not a mean handling but rougher than it needs to be 😗. I feel so bad for Liam here. hes not only wet and outside in Canada, hes also getting the shit scrubbed out of his head! I hope he got to eat the entire Kraft service snack bar after this.

This is 1000% James and it just so happens to coincide with Shawns ADD. Major kudos to Dulé for playing along. I guess by now he’s used to James playing with the props 😆

THIS IS THE CUTEST FUCKING THING I’VE EVER SEEN. And Shawns reaction to making him smile 😍😍😍 i ship it. They’re end goals now.

Shawn is a team player after all ☺️ by the way JUDD FUCKING NELSON we’ve got the two best characters from the breakfast club now! I really enjoyed this character and again, wish we could have seen more!!! (i realize ive practically been saying that for all of them, but it’s my truth!)

I know he ends up being the bad guy, but they didn’t know that yet. Didn’t have to read him like that Shawn, damn. Especially after you playfully walked around like astronauts with your bff from childhood. Oh, the duality of man.

Gus is right. corn nuts smell awful. They taste okay, but not worth the smell.

See, cause Lassie was acting like a pompous jackass to juliet earlier (sidenote: all the people carrying their luggage in the background because wheels be loud)

Im going to be an asshole right now, but how did juliet cut her finger in the cooler?!?!? Those vials are packed in foam to keep them from breaking! She would have had to really shove her hand into a very small container for no reason. This isn’t a big deal but i was so distracted by the ridiculous nature of it that i didn’t take the threat seriously whatsoever. Not even when i watched it the first time as a child. This is a me thing, im aware haha

Now the hospital scene.

SHAWN YOU BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL COWARD. You were so close! She was waiting for you to say it! But ill tell you what, Gus was a real one for interrupting and ill tell you why. He knew this was a reaction to the circumstances. If shawn had gone through, rushing things because he thought he might not get another opportunity, then found out she was okay and suddenly had to come to grips with that decision afterwards, he knew it would sow doubt later. Like, have you ever impulsively bought tickets because they were selling fast and you didn’t want to miss out, but later regretted it (i once excitedly bought tickets for a show only to realize it was for the middle of the week! Who does that? Bish i have to work in the morning!)? And, turns out, shawn wasn’t ready. Because he knows Juliet would be it and that kind of commitment is something he isn’t prepared for yet.

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And it turned out I also couldn't watch the movie. I fell asleep in class both days we were watching it.

This, of course, meant I had to cheat on my essay.

And I got an A.

The essay was to compare the book and the movie and discuss the changes and how that affected the story.

Well it turned out Sparknotes had an entire section devoted to comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. Using that, and flipping to pages mentioned in Sparknotes to read sections of the book, I was able to bullshit an A paper.

But see the thing is, that this kind of 'cheating' still takes skills, you still learn things.

I had to know how to find the information I needed, I needed to be able to comprehend what sparknotes was saying and the analysis they did, I needed to know how to USE the information I read there to write an essay, I needed to know how to make sure none of it was marked as plagerized. I had to form an opinion on the sparknotes analysis so I could express my own opinions in the essay.

Was it cheating? Yeah, I didn't read the book or watch the movie. I used Sparknotes. It was a lot less work than if I had read the book and watched the movie and done it all myself.

The thing is though, I still had to use my fucking brain. Being able to bullshit an essay like that is a skill in and of itself that is useful. I exercised important skills, and even if it wasnt the intended way I still learned.

ChatGTP and other AI do not give that experience to people, people have to do nothing and gain nothing from it.

Using AI is absolutely different from other ways students have cheated in the past, and I stand by my opinion that its making students dumber, more helpless, and less capable.

i. Peter had thought many times about dying for his brother, killing for his sisters, as all oldest children do.

ii. He'd imagined it a hundred times: how if his mother and father were ever killed, he'd get some low-skill job and make sure Lucy's clothes still fit her as she grew. How he'd make fists and fight dirty if Susan was ever threatened. What he'd do if Edmund ever had to flee the country on a dark, windswept night.

iii. Yet when he heard Susan's horn that day, he still froze. Only for an instant, he thought, "this can't be my job, right?"

iv. The blood on his sword shone red when it was all over. When he wiped it on the grass, the stain it left was almost black.

v. They'd put Susan in his arms when he was two years old. Peter didn't remember it, but he knew he'd been waiting for her till then. He wasn't a real person until he was a brother.

vi. And when they walked back to the pavilion, Rhindon bumping Peter's hip, all he could say to his sisters was, "I'm sorry I didn't come faster."

vii. The High King was almost obsessive in the way he cared for Rhindon. When he grew older and required weapons larger than those made for a child, he obsessed over them too.

viii. He told the others, in no uncertain terms, that if it ever came to it in battle, they were to leave him and live. As their brother and high king, he commanded it.

ix. The first time Edmund risked himself for Peter's sake, Peter didn't speak to him for a week.

x. He was oiling his sword when Edmund found him. "See, the thing is, Peter, being brothers goes both ways. If you can love me enough to die for me, than I get to love you just the same."

xi. Peter agreed with him then, to avoid the argument. He was sick of not talking to his brother. Yet privately, he knew that Edmund was wrong. That sacrifice was Peter's special prerogative, as the first-born.

xii. Back in England, his mother noticed that Peter had become more fastidious. She didn't notice that his protective streak has grown - and maybe it hadn't, really.

xiii. It was uncanny, how Peter would always show up just when his siblings needed him. He'd round a corner, and there was Lucy stamping her feet and scowling at a bully. There was Susan, crying, and now his knuckles were bloody.

xiv. He cleaned the blood off in the sink so carefully. The water ran red for a second, and it almost seemed black.

xv. When Caspian asked for the High King's advice, looking so very young, Peter jerked his chin towards the sword a Caspian's hip. "Be ready to use that," he said. "Keep it clean, and close."

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Girls night out job part 2!!

Parker v astrid then parker + astrid team up!!!

Breanna having a crush on Tara being the most relatable part of this entire episode

Silly costumes!!

Sophie being "kidnapped" but then just grifting her way through the whole thing until she just shrugs her handcuffs off at the end. For funzies.

Lets go steal a Sophie Devereaux. You got it in one bitch!

I can't even go through all the amazing dialogue but there was a lot!

Tara calling both Parker and Breanna babe.

Love the big bad from s1 being the one off villain in s3

Parker stepping back into mastermind/team leader role like she never left

You messed with my family. 😭

The women at the ball being just as shitty and vapid as any of the evil rich men we've seen but then our ladies showing up for each other, some within seconds of meeting each other, all to save one of their own. Beautiful contrast.

she doesn’t really like being the pool player in cons so she just pretends she can’t play. i have the same theory about how she canonically went to pastry school and yet we’ve never once seen her help eliot in the kitchen: why would she let him know all that when she could keep getting eliot’s homemade meals without doing any work?

Sophie Devereaux (the alias) can’t play pool. but sophie (the person) can.

rashomon job part two: they all once ran into each other pre-leverage on a pool-related con, sophie is the only one who realises this, and she’s decided to avoid jogging anyone’s memory. she remembers how much they butchered her accent last time, she’s NOT giving them another opportunity.

the story of how she learnt to play pool that good can Never Be Told.

if the team knew she could play really well, they’d want to compete with her every time they went to a bar with a pool table. but when sophie’s at a bar, she just wants to have a drink and relax. this would have especially been a problem back in og leverage when nate’s condo/their HQ was literally on top of a bar with a pool room. so she just "can’t play". oh nooo, too bad, oh well, time for a glass of wine :)

making stuff up randomly = grifting practice session. she can’t let her skills get rusty!

in the job we saw in those flashbacks of her pool failures, she decided that her grift persona for the job should be incompetent at pool, despite that being very inconvenient. much in the same way she decided that the ridiculously valuable emerald necklace was something her persona in this episode would wear. she committed to the bit way too much and everyone got pissed at her so she had to pretend that she really is that bad at pool and it wasn’t just an acting choice (no one understands her artistic vision 😔 *dramatic sigh*).

it’s the reverse of her acting skills: she can only play pool when she’s playing for real, as opposed to how she can only act when it’s for a grift.

she will eventually make a bet with someone on the team about something, and whoever wins a game of pool wins the bet. it’s an extremely, unnecessarily long con she’s pulling, almost certainly for a petty reason. maybe she’s gonna ask parker to give her the stanley cup back lol.