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(more here and here if ur curious abt my previous yapping)

so. sieun has this one early morning lecture that heis always on time for because he wants this particular seat. it's not too close to the front but not so far that he can't hear the professor, perfect distance from the windows etc etc. he picked his seat the first day and has sat there every single lecture since. that's his seat.

there's this girl that sits next to him. she greeted him brightly on the first day and introduced herself, initiating some polite small-talk. he didn't totally give her the cold shoulder (his friends have softened him up enough in that respect) but he's not exactly friendly either.

then one day, sieun shows up late to class, (very rare for him, but that morning a certain someone wouldn't let him leave their bed) but when he gets there, his seat is taken. there's a boy he's never seen before sitting where he always does, very obviously pestering the girl sitting beside him. aka. the girl that is always sitting to sieun. this boy is leaning into her space, greasy hand on her arm, talking and talking and talking despite the very obvious signs that she is not interested. she looks uncomfortable, almost scared and they're not friends, and sieun has barely spoken a word to this girl beyond lending her a pen once or twice, but...

he walks up to them, stares down the guy and without any introduction or greeting just says "that's my seat."

the guy is obviously like ?? uhm hello? but sieun doesn't stop glaring and just repeats. "you're in my seat. move."

and (if it isn't already obvious) mr seat stealer is an asshole, so all he does is laugh and just say: "last i checked there weren't assigned seats. go sit somewhere else."

but sieun doesn't budge. he stares the guy down, pen in hand, and says "move."

the guy makes a show of finding him stupid, huffing and muttering curses under his breath, but it doesn't take much more before he's averting his gaze and standing up to slink away.

when sieun slides into his seat after he's gone, the girl immediately pulls up close and goes omg omg thank you SO much he was so creepy and wouldnt stop bothering me you're a lifesaver. sieun just looks at her straightfaced and is like "ok".

despite him being dry af the girl takes the incident as the ice-breaker to start talking to him so whenever they meet in class she's always like "morning sieun-ah!! how are you??" and despite him him not matching her energy in the slightest (he always responds "fine" and sits down without another word) she isn't deterred and keeps making the effort to be friendly to him.

then one day after class has wrapped up she goes "hey sieun-ah, you know? i feel like i never got to thank you properly for you saving me that day.. you should come with me to a cafe or something and i can buy you a drink!"

and ofc sieun is like "no. it's fine." but like we saw with suho and yeongyi and then with baku and eunjangz he just gets... dragged along anyway.

so he's at the cafe with her sitting down drinking their coffee and some of her other friends happen to come in and see them and are like OMG WHO IS THIS CUTIE?? IS HE UR BOYFRIEND??

and before sieun even gets to shut it down the girl is immediately like no!! i'm just buying him a drink bc he saved me from the creep i told you guys about <3 and hearing that the girls immediately clamber to sit with them and gush over sieun like omg!! that was so nice of you!! she told us about you, you're yeon sieun right? engineering? and sieun is just like... yea...

he ends up staying there for almost an hour getting peppered with questions from all the girls about increasingly personal information, and it's overwhelming yes, but? they're actually really nice? when he answers most of their questions with a blank stare they don't press or get pissed abt his lack of energy they just.. fill the silence with their own answers, making an effort to get to know him without being overbearing. they also make it no secret they think he's cute as hell.

"you have this whole grumpy cat thing going on," one of the girls says. "but i can tell you're really warm-hearted."

sieun goes home that day with 5 girls phone numbers in his phone that have personally-picked strings of colourful emojis affixed to their contact names and he's.....

not mad about it.

when he sees main girlie again the next time they have their morning lecture together she goes "hey me and the girls are going to study in the library after this do you want to join?" and sieun just goes "sure"

(suho is working today and won't be free for hours. he has time to kill anyway)

she looks surprised when he says ok, but it quickly changes to a bright smile and she goes "awesome!! ill text the girls"

when they go to study hall and get their stuff open on the table, he can't help but expect something similar to his past group study sessions. i. e. him studying, and all of his friends doing anything but and disturbing him heavily in the process.

but the girls?? actually study?? like yes they laugh and chat for a bit but they don't bother sieun and do their fair share of notetaking between the scrolling and gossip. i mean of course it makes sense that they care moderately about being good students considering them having gotten into university (a very presitigous university at that) but sieun is kind of impressed. he misjudged them a bit, he thinks. and they're... actually kind of nice to be around.

so sieun just. keeps being around them.

once it becomes very clear that he isn't resistant to their friendly advances the girls eagerly pull him into the fold. he gets added to a groupchat (to which he reads, but never replies) and attends weekly cafe dates and bi-weekly study sessions in the university library. he very quickly becomes close with all of them, as a group and individually, softening up more and more. when they're at their weekly cafe date filling each other in about the latest gossip about who's in the talking stage with who and what happened at the party last weekend sieun actually makes the effort to ask "who?" "what happened?" and the girls lose their minds bc sieun-ah!! you care!!

and its nice. ofc he's still friends with eunjangz (and something more than friends with suho) but they're all on different paths, and he doesn't get to see them nearly as often as he did when they were going to school together. he wasn't lonely at university (he could never be lonely again like he used to be now that he has people waiting for him and constantly blowing up his phone) but his days studying at university are quiet. it's nice for them to have a little colour.

and if anybody dares to fuck with them, they won't know what they're getting into.

(+ bonus ++ suho and eunjangz seeing sieun get notifications from people who have pink hearts and glitter emojis in their contact names like?? who tf?? and sieun is like oh thats _____ from uni. and they're like?? SINCE WHEN ARE YOU FRIENDS WITH GIRLS??

baku immediately wants their numbers ("just one sieun please!!!!"). juntae and gotak are just baffled by the fact sieun was able to make friends other than them. suho acts like he's not jealous even though he very much is.

so those guys from my last post, right?

mumbos hungry is all nws chat....

ChatGPT uses so much energy that the US is literally reversing course on coal and gas usage to make up for it. In Santa Clara, for example, data centers used 60% of the ENTIRE CITY'S electricity.

ChatGPT uses 1-3 bottles of water for cooling for every query you put into it. This is FRESH WATER, which is evaporated and eventually mostly returns to the ocean, effectively removing a lot of it from our already dwindling fresh water supply on the planet. It also consumes 17 THOUSAND TIMES more electricity than the average American home.

The AI boom wastes so much electricity that we are very immediately risking US cities having to have rolling blackouts just to keep up with the energy demands, as early as NEXT YEAR

Gen AI's water usage is projected to hit 6.6 BILLION meters cubed by 2027

if you can please i request a silly light of the server grian

preety pease with all cherries on top

Anything for you Moku and his madness,,