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watch my hero academia and think "man it would be cool if i had superpowers" because it's less painful than thinking "man it would be cool if i lived in a dorm with my friends and we had teachers who mentored us and taught us things that mattered about helping people"

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

· Nov 18, 2020

yeah that’s right i’m into anime and manga because of how it indulges all my impossible fantasies like having four friends i eat with every day

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

like fucking christ i don't feel like this should be asking for too much but i think this thing literally doesn't exist in 2021 and anyone claiming to do it is de facto running a cult and any attempt to make it happen de facto turns into a cult

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Jul 9, 2021

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@QiaochuYuan

it's so cruel to raise children on stories where children get to be heroes and then place them for over a decade in an environment where they don't get any real opportunities for heroism ever

Richard D. Bartlett (Berlin Aug 2-10)

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I think this is what

is doing with

. It's not perfect but it's not culty.

Edward Saperia

@edsaperia

Jul 9, 2021

It’s so unculty that nobody likes it and everyone hates me, you should try it!

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*experiences a couple of days of this on a glamping trip* *cries afterwards*

Simon Pepin Lehalleur

@plain_simon

Jul 9, 2021

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@QiaochuYuan

I suppose a very imperfect version of that thing would be medical school?

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Is this not at least a little bit being in the armed forces (particularly some form of officer school)?

shb

@himbodhisattva

Jul 10, 2021

holy shit great point

Christopher James Stough-Brown

@BowToChris

Jul 9, 2021

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@QiaochuYuan

If it's not out there, make it. The world is a battlefield of wills.

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I guess it does but you're the teacher, the friends are your children, and the dorm is your house. I'm not sure what you do between leaving uni and having a family. Immerse yourself in work and drinking, I think?

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just graduated uni and been feeling this a lot, esp as someone who may not really ever want a relationship