we've only been going out for three months. i mean, we were friends before that, but on earth, typically the uh... courting period i guess you would call it is a lot longer than on westeros, probably. people don't get married until they've dated for like, at least a year, usually. unless we're talking about vegas.
people don't really have Houses like that in central city. it's just not a thing anymore. so it was me being deliberately old-fashioned, as part of the joke.
[ awwww but arya was having fun imagining the wedding. not. that she would ever tell anyone. ]
It is probably good that you do not have Houses. Otherwise, you would need banners and words and sigils and truly I think you have enough of those on your Star Labs cups and shirts.
Yes, and for running a household. I would have to manage my lord husband's social engagements, guests at our home, what comes in and out of the household, assorted letters. That sort of thing.
[ This is one of those moments when Cisco has to explain something that seems so basic to him that he hardly even knows where to begin. ]
it happens because there are laws about it and stuff.
basically when a kid is like around 5 or 6 years old they start going to school. there are lots of schools all over the place - some are really huge and some are smaller. some get run by private organizations like churches but public schools get paid for and taken care of by the government. it's 5 days a week, from morning until afternoon. you just go in and sit in a classroom and learn stuff. kind of like we've been doing with science, except that it's one teacher and a whole bunch of students. there's things called grades, usually 1 through 12, and what grade you're in depends on how old you are. like, it's a progression. so after you're in first grade with one teacher, you move up to second grade with a different one, etc. and you get given stuff called 'homework' which is studying assignments that students are supposed to work on in the afternoon and evening after classes are over.
(i don't know how much of this stuff is the same as how people do lessons in westeros)
depending on how well you do on the homework and in class you get given grades (i know, same word as above, it's confusing) on a scale from A to F where A is the best and F is the worst. if you don't get a good enough grade you get held back and have to repeat a year, and depending on how well you do it can influence what kinds of jobs you can get later on.
anyway all kids are supposed to go, and your parents can get in trouble if you don't show up, until you're a teenager and then no one really cares at that point. so pretty much everyone learns how to read and write and do math, plus some basic stuff about science and history and sometimes other languages.
[ Well..... hopefully that hadn't come out too confusing. ]
i'm sure all that kind of stuff is important, but it sounds like such a pain to me. that's the kind of thing that would be a paid job in my world. like, rich dudes would just hire people do to that kind of thing.
i am glad you know how to read, though. i should give you some books for fun, sometime.
But how do children sit still for so long? I couldn't do it. And how can the teacher do what you do with so many students? I like our lessons because I can ask as many stupid questions as I like and you don't become angry or even a little annoyed, but I could not do that in a room full of so many because they're likely all asking questions and that takes a lot of time and I also wouldn't know if I could trust any of them.
But I think it is very impressive that everyone in Central City knows how to read. More impressive than cars or anything like that.
It is important. And it is a pain. But that's the job of a lady wife. It's like getting hired except you do not get paid, although I suppose living in relative comfort is payment enough.
i DID say it wasn't perfect. i always had trouble with sitting still, too. but you get in trouble if you don't do it, or if you ask too many questions or the wrong questions or whatever, depending on the teacher. they're just people, so some of them are good and some of them are bullies and it's really just down to luck, which kind you get. i had some really great teachers and some really awful ones.
plus the way the system's set up, to be so competitive and reward certain kinds of intelligence but not others, it makes a lot of people feel really bad about themselves. so the kids who get bad grades sometimes feel really hurt, and then they get resentful and want to take it out on the kids who get good grades to even things out.
so people like caitlin and me ended up skipping some grades, which meant we were always a few years younger than everyone else in our classes, and that made the other students not really like us a whole lot.
i guess it all sounds pretty strange to you. but where i'm from i guess people just... accept that that's the way things are.
That is very sad. :( But I suppose there is always a price, even if your schooling was supposed to be free.
(It's good that you and Caitlin did not know me when you went to school, because I would have likely punched them in the face for what they did to you, and insult their manhood as well.)
It does sound strange to me. But people on my world accept things that sound strange to you. It depends on where you come from, I suppose.
: D
I could write down the stories from my world. The best ones aren't always in books.
and it's not a high price. there's no way i could do the things i do now if it weren't for public education. it gave me a chance to make something of myself. make my life matter.
(please, if you'd punched a bully for me in school we would've been friends for life)
you should totally do that! i would read the crap outta those. 😎
I think you could do whatever you wanted if you wanted it enough. It'd just be harder. And you might not be allowed to wear cat shirts while you do it.
(Good. But I still would have gotten you in trouble, like i did here.)
Then I shall! Jon can write you some too, he likes telling stories even when he pretends to be a man grown and the best leader in the North or something like that.
Old Nan told us all most of them, but sometimes Jon would tell his favorites to me. Or my favorites. Especially when one of us were sad. He's very good at stories.
[ Cisco had kind of assumed for a while that Jon was just not interested in talking to him. He's not really used to thinking of guys who seem impressive and intimidating as being shy. ]
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That I understand. I do not exactly understand its connection to Houses, but perhaps they are different on your world.
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people don't really have Houses like that in central city. it's just not a thing anymore. so it was me being deliberately old-fashioned, as part of the joke.
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It is probably good that you do not have Houses. Otherwise, you would need banners and words and sigils and truly I think you have enough of those on your Star Labs cups and shirts.
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and the world would probably be better without those tbh
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public education's not perfect or anything but at least it means that most people in the country are literate
[ Not everyone, certainly, but it's clearly the exception rather than the rule in Westeros. ]
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Yes, and for running a household. I would have to manage my lord husband's social engagements, guests at our home, what comes in and out of the household, assorted letters. That sort of thing.
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it happens because there are laws about it and stuff.
basically when a kid is like around 5 or 6 years old they start going to school. there are lots of schools all over the place - some are really huge and some are smaller. some get run by private organizations like churches but public schools get paid for and taken care of by the government. it's 5 days a week, from morning until afternoon. you just go in and sit in a classroom and learn stuff. kind of like we've been doing with science, except that it's one teacher and a whole bunch of students. there's things called grades, usually 1 through 12, and what grade you're in depends on how old you are. like, it's a progression. so after you're in first grade with one teacher, you move up to second grade with a different one, etc. and you get given stuff called 'homework' which is studying assignments that students are supposed to work on in the afternoon and evening after classes are over.
(i don't know how much of this stuff is the same as how people do lessons in westeros)
depending on how well you do on the homework and in class you get given grades (i know, same word as above, it's confusing) on a scale from A to F where A is the best and F is the worst. if you don't get a good enough grade you get held back and have to repeat a year, and depending on how well you do it can influence what kinds of jobs you can get later on.
anyway all kids are supposed to go, and your parents can get in trouble if you don't show up, until you're a teenager and then no one really cares at that point. so pretty much everyone learns how to read and write and do math, plus some basic stuff about science and history and sometimes other languages.
[ Well..... hopefully that hadn't come out too confusing. ]
i'm sure all that kind of stuff is important, but it sounds like such a pain to me. that's the kind of thing that would be a paid job in my world. like, rich dudes would just hire people do to that kind of thing.
i am glad you know how to read, though. i should give you some books for fun, sometime.
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But how do children sit still for so long? I couldn't do it. And how can the teacher do what you do with so many students? I like our lessons because I can ask as many stupid questions as I like and you don't become angry or even a little annoyed, but I could not do that in a room full of so many because they're likely all asking questions and that takes a lot of time and I also wouldn't know if I could trust any of them.
But I think it is very impressive that everyone in Central City knows how to read. More impressive than cars or anything like that.
It is important. And it is a pain. But that's the job of a lady wife. It's like getting hired except you do not get paid, although I suppose living in relative comfort is payment enough.
Yes! We can read together. 😎
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plus the way the system's set up, to be so competitive and reward certain kinds of intelligence but not others, it makes a lot of people feel really bad about themselves. so the kids who get bad grades sometimes feel really hurt, and then they get resentful and want to take it out on the kids who get good grades to even things out.
so people like caitlin and me ended up skipping some grades, which meant we were always a few years younger than everyone else in our classes, and that made the other students not really like us a whole lot.
i guess it all sounds pretty strange to you. but where i'm from i guess people just... accept that that's the way things are.
i know some great ones about dragons. 🐲
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(It's good that you and Caitlin did not know me when you went to school, because I would have likely punched them in the face for what they did to you, and insult their manhood as well.)
It does sound strange to me. But people on my world accept things that sound strange to you. It depends on where you come from, I suppose.
: D
I could write down the stories from my world. The best ones aren't always in books.
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(please, if you'd punched a bully for me in school we would've been friends for life)
you should totally do that! i would read the crap outta those. 😎
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(Good. But I still would have gotten you in trouble, like i did here.)
Then I shall! Jon can write you some too, he likes telling stories even when he pretends to be a man grown and the best leader in the North or something like that.
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[ OH NO WHAT HAD HE BEEN THINKING, encouraging Arya to be violent is the last thing he should be doing, what kind of idiot is he? ]
well i wouldn't want you to get in trouble, true
he told you a lot of stories growing up?
[ It's a pretty heartwarming mental image. ]
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[ jon can be kinda shy sometimes. ]
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does he not have an easy time talking?
[ Cisco had kind of assumed for a while that Jon was just not interested in talking to him. He's not really used to thinking of guys who seem impressive and intimidating as being shy. ]
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He's not very good at being friendly to people he knows well. He always means well, though.
(Don't tell him I wrote this to you, but he can be rather shy.)
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(don't worry - not a word 🤐 )
(don't tell harry i said that about him, either)
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(He will never know.)
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better someone who is a good person and bad at showing it than someone who is a bad person who knows how to seem nice
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Yes.
But this is good. I'll let Jon know about our story exchange. 🦄