"I still need to step up my fit game as the kids say."

"I'm not dressing to my science teacher potential. I need to step up my game—"

"Summer program, plus it keeps the bills going otherwise it's part-time work until the school year starts up again.." A stack of mildly creased papers in hand, he'd wave them. "So. Summer grading. Some of these guys need it, afterall."

// I have to apologize for my influx of Rygos muses. I am mentally ill. I considered making Lars but I wasn't ready for his level of sorrow. It was a flip of the coin between Holland and Driver. Driver appealed to me in ways God would frown upon tho.

// they are the Goslings and theyre hungry

// The Rygos cinematic universe has me by the balls with an iron grip. And it's not gonna let me go until I'm absolutely mentally insane about it all. Red rot, firm handed grasping the full package and squeezing.

"There's nothing better than it being Monday and someone coming to remind you of the horrors you faced. Between gradings tests. No, no. I love that."

// Driver <3 heeheehooo

"You know I was almost starting to enjoy life again. Almost. Thank you for that."

"I need to find an ethical way to inject coffee into my veins.."

"I'm not sure I've ever been.. psychoanalyzed I don't even know where to begin.." His leg bounced with his nerves, eyes sporadically shifting in every which direction with tensions on the rise. Something felt off, though he couldn't place it. "I just find it unreasonable that they can be so ++

𝖧. 𝖫𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝗋.@cannibalizing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Your ideas and thinking are unorthodox, unusual. That can be frightening to some, an adverse reaction can arise when opposing thoughts clash together. 'Outside of the box' if you will. The box is safe for them, comforting. You threaten that comfort. Does that threaten yours— the idea that they

"Strive for a positive response." Ryland rolled his eyes at the notion. "It'd be nice to not be written off as insane for insisting that life out there can exist without a need for water." He would always hold a grudge over the responses recieved on his papers — but then came a pause. He sighs+

𝖧. 𝖫𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝗋.@cannibalizing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Do you strive for a positive response for your peers? Being an outcast so to speak, can have a negative impact on ones mind." Session started. "Does that crisis depress you? What makes it real?"

"I mean it wouldn't be the first time I haven't exactly had positive response from my peers. Not that I was sunshine and rainbows myself—" He's relaxing now, speaking as though he'd accept this impromptu session. "My outlook currently is shaped by the very real crisis we are undergoing. "

𝖧. 𝖫𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝗋.@cannibalizing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"I did not say they are not valid; nor that you have a poor outlook. Do you perhaps fear your reasoning can be found invalid by your peers? That their reasoning can shake your outlook?" Psychiatry session ..

"I don't have .. existentialism. I have a very ... bright outlook. Depending .... who you ask." He strung his words together slowly, great consideration with each spoke vowel. Though he held no certainty with it. Convincing not even himself. "Look. There are reasons that are extremely valid."

𝖧. 𝖫𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝗋.@cannibalizing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Psychiatrist. There is no shame in needing one, not given your unique view of the world and its understanding. It can cause.. existentialism."

"I don't remember getting a psychiatrist... when did I get a psychiatrist??? I think I'm working too much.."

"I'm a functioning — barely, but still functioning middle school science teacher. I'm not so derranged I'd forget I had a whole therapist!" "Jiminy Christmas..."

𝖧. 𝖫𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝗋.@cannibalizing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Sleep deprivation can cause a multitude of symptoms, Mister Grace. Memory loss is common, as is confusion, irritation, so on."

"Psychiatrist..? Okay, I think I'd remember having a psy—" Though it had dawned on him that his sleep as of late was .. little. "I am not that crazy."

𝖧. 𝖫𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝗋.@cannibalizing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Your psychiatrist, Doctor Lecter. Not sleeping well? Those thoughts are still plaguing your mind."

// Spooky's gonna harass my Rygos boys with Hannibal...

"Alright then. Fine. Maybe we shouldn't go around encouraging the idea that no means .. Nothing? It means plenty as it is. And you don't want someone younger hearing something like it— Young minds are impressionable."

⊹ ࣪ ˖ 𝘽★ᏰᎩ 𝙂ᵤₜₛ ༘⋆@seasaltnawax.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ㅤ ㅤno, no. not that this is a safe space, but you should say what you were thinking anyway ㅤ

"No — No, I'm not excited about having a TA. I don't need a TA." He explained though with a great deal of effort in his attempts to remain calm. His efforts were in vain, howrver, for Ryland did not do well to hide his stress. Two hands ran over his face, pushing glasses off the bridge of his ++

𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙨~⛱️@batstalker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tim looked at him a little oddly, but nodded nonetheless. And just stood there as Ryland only turned around and started loudly talking to himself, having some sort of crisis over ‘Alvin Draper’ being here and it being a set-up. Somehow. Tim was really curious about what enemies this guy thinks —

"A lapse? No. Why would I be .. Have we met?"

𝖧. 𝖫𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝗋.@cannibalizing.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"I walked to here, Mister Grace. Having a lapse?"

"Deja vu .. Yeah. Sorry — Where did you just come from?"

𝖧. 𝖫𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝗋.@cannibalizing.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Deja vu, perhaps?"

"There's a disturbance in the air I can't place.."