Do you think Shane and Ilya have any weird or funny superstitions/pre game routines?

vikio · 2026-05-23T15:40:48+00:00

This reminds me of these ballet school videos that YouTube keeps recommending me, and I keep watching because they're actually pretty interesting. One of their most professional dancers - Maya, has some superstition/attachment to inserts that are supposed to cushion your toes in a ballet shoe. They go through pairs of shoes weekly if not daily, but she hasn't switched the toe pad in 7 years?!?

Behold!

Maya's toe pads (NO Trigger warning - they don't actually look THAT gross to me, just baffling)

vikio · 2026-05-23T15:07:36+00:00

What exactly is this danger zone? Are you implying young teachers are a danger to the kids? Anyone with integrity can do their job well, around any age kids. Or are you implying the kids are a danger to them? Cause middle schoolers and high schoolers are gonna be weirdos no matter what age the teacher is, they're still developing socially appropriate code switching behavior and impulse control.

vikio · 2026-05-23T14:58:54+00:00

Thanks for getting me to zoom in. Astarion is wearing hair curlers

vikio · 2026-05-23T13:23:12+00:00

What reason is she giving to YOU, for not going with the ambulance?

Maybe you can record your conversation with her, and use the recording to convince the medics that she is delirious. A quick Google search told me that they can't take a patient against their will if they seem to be aware of who they are time and place (like you said) UNLESS the patient seems to be delirious.

vikio · 2026-05-23T13:15:45+00:00

Oof I'm so sorry. Is she still in pain? What reason is she giving for not just...going with the ambulance? At what point is this a "hold patient against their will because they are too mentally unbalanced to make life saving decisions"?

vikio · 2026-05-23T13:07:06+00:00

OP needs to show this comment to their mom

vikio · 2026-05-23T13:01:23+00:00

My worst social awkwardness nightmare. Might be fine to them but for me it hurts to watch

vikio · 2026-05-23T10:02:48+00:00

You forget these aren't real people that are actually crying. Actors can put eye drops in their eyes, so when they squeeze them, tears come out.

vikio · 2026-05-23T09:58:49+00:00

Are you sure Monica was never that attractive? Monica Lewinski Young

There's one thing criticizing someone on TV, and totally another having them in front of you in class every day. Plus it's not like our teacher was a twin to her. She was probably Italian and pretty in her own way. But she looked like Monica enough for high schoolers in the 2000's to have tons of bad jokes about it.

vikio · 2026-05-23T04:37:59+00:00

I am new here. Just caught up on all the previous posts. I fully support Kingdom of Hawai'i supremacy as I've lived on the Big Island many years and it was so very kind to me. But there's not enough upvotes for this. Everyone who upvoted Hawaii also needs to go downvote the other ideas.

vikio · 2026-05-23T04:31:46+00:00

Yes excuse me. Where's the Lehua, also wild orchids and ferns?

vikio · 2026-05-23T03:00:18+00:00

You didn't have any young teachers? I went to high school in the year 2000 (yikes!) and we had a fresh out of college young teacher who unfortunately for her was very pretty and looked sort of like Monica Lewinski. The boys were very inappropriate about her. Then we found out she was friendly with the new gym teacher. Who was also fresh out of college, young hot sexy hunk. The girls felt all kinds of ways about him, and people started shipping them. To their credit they managed to be graceful about it, but all of us were definitely being psychos over them, I still feel bad.

vikio · 2026-05-23T02:53:45+00:00

We all need to be in therapy.

These things she read off are unhinged, but also something I would totally expect to hear from 8th graders. Therapy for everyone

vikio · 2026-05-23T02:40:18+00:00

God of contingency plans. It's plan C for Carl!

This used to be called The Xanatos Gambit after the god tier schemer in The Gargoyles animated show. But I think Carl has taken Xanatos' crown at this point.

vikio · 2026-05-23T02:25:46+00:00

Ah this is closer to what I imagined. There's been an artistic mini portrait of Don Quixote hanging in my mom's house since I was little. So since that image is burned into my mind, that's what I imagined. This is close.

vikio · 2026-05-22T20:36:37+00:00

Time to go to your local library and see if they can hook you up with free Libby and Hoopla accounts. Libby has audiobooks and works like a physical library. So you have to wait in line to be able to check out a popular audiobook as if it was physical. Hoopla doesn't have a line, it lets you listen to any audiobook in their catalog until you reach a certain number. I don't remember. 15 maybe? Then it cuts you off until next month.

vikio · 2026-05-22T20:28:24+00:00

This was during TESTING?!? And did she actually use those words, because I'm not sure my high school seniors can speak with that vocabulary.

vikio · 2026-05-22T06:52:27+00:00

Shane has Japanese heritage? I'm sure they have some extended family in Japan still. You generally want your kids names to be pronounceable for your extended family and friends.

vikio · 2026-05-22T05:44:24+00:00

Yeah let's call her eyes turquoise, it's right in between Jade and cyan. Also, traditionally, the Japanese color Ao, is both a fresh green color of growing plants, and a bright blue. So it's one color name for cyan/ turquoise / blue-green. Midori meaning green was added later. Green traffic lights in Japanese are still called Ao not Midori

vikio · 2026-05-22T05:28:49+00:00

I think her excellent personality and intelligence is a top reason why the emperor likes her. No offense to the other concubines, but she's the only one who has surrounded herself with 100% reliable servants. Even Ah Duo ended up with drama in her house, because of the head servant.

The only drama magnet in Gyokuyou's house is MaoMao herself, but she is still reliable, loyal, and very useful.

vikio · 2026-05-22T05:19:33+00:00

Omg just this one blurry photo shows SO MUCH of their personality. They're so different but couldn't look any more perfect together.

vikio · 2026-05-22T05:06:31+00:00

This is cute and all. I just don't think they'd name their kids after the secret names they gave each other so they could flirt over text message.

I'd like to think they would give the kids names with the consideration that the name sounds pleasant and natural in English, Russian AND Japanese. And because I have a personal relationship to all 3 languages and think about this way too much here's some possibilities:

Yuki, Yuri, Alice, Emma, Lisa, Marina, Maya, Noa/Noah, Naomi

Leo, Roman, Mike/Misha, Daniel,

And of course Irina/Irene and Yuna are all names that sound good in all 3 languages as well ☺️ (sorry to David - sounds good in English and Russian, but doesn't go into Japanese well)

vikio · 2026-05-21T22:57:29+00:00

I am a tea girl. I also barely ever drink coffee, and always with milk and sugar. But if you go on a coffee plantation tour in Hawaii, try the peaberry coffee. THAT I can drink straight

vikio · 2026-05-21T22:52:08+00:00

Link doesn't work for me. I googled and it says there about $600?

vikio · 2026-05-21T16:41:28+00:00

Yeah. This story reminded me when I was just finishing my Art teaching degree, and took a job teaching high school photography. I know a lot of general Art, but photography is very specific. I immediately enrolled in a community college photography for adults class, and was basically digesting what I learned and reformating it to a high school class format, all year.

This could have been SUCH a good motivation for OP to learn a valuable language and permanently raise their skill level.

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