Jeb is a third-year at Grand Old Academy, and many consider him the most likely to win this year’s debate tournament. Jeb is one of the co-RAs of Sunshine Dorm, along with Marco, his protegee. Everyone at the Academy thinks Jeb and Marco’s senpai/kohai relationship is the strongest they’ve seen.
Jeb is cheerful and optimistic, and wears his heart on his sleeve. This comes across as endearingly earnest to some, but to others, it’s just pathetic. It also makes him an easy target for bullies. Especially one bully in particular:
In addition to the relentless bullying he faces from Donald, Jeb has his own internal demons. His father and brother were star students at Grand Old Academy, both winning the debate tournament during their time at the school. Jeb feels pressure to live up to their legacy of greatness. He sometimes even worries that Marco is his only true friend, with everyone else only pretending to like him because of his family connections.
But despite his troubles (or maybe because of them), America can’t help but feel some sympathy towards Jeb. He’s like a sad puppy that just needs some love. Or maybe he’s more like a sea turtle (Jeb’s favorite animal): he has a soft, vulnerable underbelly and a defensive emotional shell, but a warm heart inside.
Will America try to find love with Jeb? And if she does, will he open himself up enough to trust her after being hurt by so many of the people he thought were his friends? There’s only one way to find out.
But despite his troubles (or maybe because of them), America can’t help but feel some sympathy towards Jeb. He’s like a sad puppy that just needs some love. Or maybe he’s more like a sea turtle (Jeb’s favorite animal): he has a soft, vulnerable underbelly and a defensive emotional shell, but a warm heart inside.
thank you to the 374 people who have tagged me in this
remember how Martha Stewart got so big as an icon of post-Friedan pre-Pinterest crafty domesticity that someone tried to make their name as the prosecutor that brought her down?
In considering how to build a new esport organization with long-term economic stability, Blizzard took cues from traditional sports. Most notably, Overwatch League will run city-based teams, encouraging a local groundswell of fans, greater merchandising opportunities and the ability to run matches across many different cities.
“You typically see fans of esports teams are fans of individual players, and then they kind of stick with that team over time,” Nanzer said. “But we think there’s an opportunity to bring in people who are interested in esports but maybe haven’t engaged much with it by adding that geographic element. If you look at the way that teams make money in traditional sports, a lot of that has to do with local activity. When we think about adding stability to esports and to esports teams, we think localizing esports to some degree by having the city-based teams is going to unlock additional revenue opportunities for teams that don’t exist in today’s esports ecosystem.”
Blizzard is also chasing stability in how its players are compensated. While the developer promises an expected seven-digit prize pool for Overwatch League, it hopes to turn the conversation away from prize pools and toward more mature and long-term signs of a sports league’s success. For example, Blizzard plans to implement a guaranteed minimum salary for players and to require that team owners give them full benefits. The studio has also looked into starting a college fund for players, acknowledging that many esports competitors are young, and most won’t stay involved with esports forever.
“Nobody talks about what the prize pool is for the World Cup or the prize pool for the Super Bowl,” said Hunt. “Everybody knows that the athletes are very well compensated. They get bonuses for winning the World Series or the Super Bowl, but it’s not where the emphasis is in terms of the compensation. That’s because a much more stable ecosystem for players and athletes is where they have contracts and guaranteed compensation and benefits and everything else. That’s more along the lines of the approach that we’re taking.”
for going on six weeks now I’ve gone through a similar experience waking up
(I don’t wake up with an alarm)
For the middle third I have this dream-narrative that I’m dealing with a branching logistics chain, like a river delta or a train network with spurs, and if I like turn over to redistribute weight to my side that represents a meaningful shift in flow
The first third is like the setup for this, “hey ho I’m a dude in a straw hat pushing barges on the muddy Mississip”/“arrr, I be doin’ petty trading in the isles” with a skinflint plot
And the last third is inevitably being pissed that I’ve been manipulated into this AGAIN, in a sleepy and incompetent way that’s lashing out at The Bosses for calibrating my comfort for their purposes, before I actually wake up and get my shit together enough to go feed my cat
this isn’t a parable these are actual dreams I have
middleman between sharing economy hosts and local cultural tourist businesses
Like you’re the guy giving the Airbnb owners the bottles of localbrew and the pamphlets with ads and coupons for restaurants and dispensaries to leave on their Kinfolk-ass side tables
America happened because the king made tea and paper expensive and the Important Young Men who spent all day taking stimulants and writing down their Important Thoughts were PISSED
England happened ‘cause some Vikings stole it on a raid
everyone who saw this coming even close was an intuitionist. they ignored polls and studies and numbers and listened to taxi drivers and anonymous commenters and nowhere randoms
