Midmarch

[junipercrane]

Forget spring break, I'm ready for this whole year to be over. Bring summer vacay and get me out of this stupid place.

Comments

[salem_wagonblast]

What's wrong June bee?

[junipercrane]

People suck For one, all the seniors and juniors are jerks to the sophomores.

[salem_wagonblast]

All of us do? I'm sorry if I was ever a jerk to you June bug :(

[junipercrane]

Maybe it's just something that happens when you become a junior. Its unavoidable. Suddenly sophomores are scum.

Juniper & Salem

[salem_wagonblast]

Seriously JuJu bean, if I did something I want to apologize. I don't think the sophs are scum. I definitely don't think you are.

[inksy]

Why so ready to escape?

[opencarefully]

I am really excited for spring break, even though I don't have any set plans. Is that sad?

Juniper & Salem

[junipercrane]

It's just the general attitude, Salem. Like, 'those ridiculous sophomores again', that kind of thing. Looking at some of the people here, I don't know how they think they are more mature. It's like we are nothing.

[junipercrane]

Better than staying here is all.

[junipercrane]

I don't have any plans either. I was going to visit my dad but he's busy.

[inksy]

What's up?

[opencarefully]

That's disappointing.

[...] Want to come hang with me? Richmond isn't much but my mom is so ridiculous it's funny and there are some cool shops and theaters.

Juniper & Salem

[salem_wagonblast]

I think it's tough sometimes, for your class. You have some [...] very loud and demanding personalities that can drown the rest of you guys out. Just like the juniors have this idea that we all best friends and the seniors are all [...] all over the place or stuck up. It's a really bad habit this school has, to lump people or groups into categories they can never get out of.

I promise, I'll do my best not to make you or any other sophomore feel like you're nothing.

Juniper & Salem

[junipercrane]

Thanks, Salem. I'm just tired of feeling like a joke. I think maybe Casey's whole exclusion thing was the proverbial straw.

[junipercrane]

We certainly aren't seen as much, are we?

[junipercrane]

My mom wants me at home. But maybe she'll let me come over for a day or so. I can ask. Virginia?

Juniper & Salem

[salem_wagonblast]

Yeah I don't really get that? Like the age difference isnt big. Three years at like most? My parents have a bigger age gap then that.

[inksy]

What do you mean? Like we are not seen as sophomores?

Juniper & Salem

[junipercrane]

I mean, I don't care about Casey or who he kisses. He can make up whatever rules he wants. But I felt [...] worthless because he didn't think to exclude sophomores as a group until I said 'sure'. It didn't occur to him until a sophomore agrees and then it's that we are all repellent. And the rest jumped right on that bandwagon.

I'm tired of [...] falling for things they say. I'm tired of being seen like that.

[junipercrane]

Sure, we're seen as sophomores. And sophomores are worthless.

[inksy]

Why do you feel that way?

[lachlangalbraith]

[...] I'm sorry you feel that way, Junie. But can I offer an observation?

[junipercrane]

Sure, but if you are going to #notalljuniors me, then save it.

[junipercrane]

Bad experiences.

[inksy]

Something recent?

[lachlangalbraith]

I'm a seni

I'm going to. And you can ignore it if you want. But I think you're making a generalization based on a few bad experiences and you shouldn't. Because no one speaks for everyone in their year, even if they act like they do. A lot of students have said well shit things about each other, sophomores and juniors and seniors alike. And I think it's worth keeping in mind.

[modestly]

It can't be that bad.

Juniper

[magitechnically]

HEY so like



Last year everyone underestimated us because we were sophomores or just generally talked down to us and that's like kind of why we all ended up banding together and being so close as a class??? If no one was gonna take us seriously then we were just gonna have to take care of things ourselves and prove them wrong you know??? We made our own Quidditch league and we held se [...] investigated the weird stuff that was happening even though all the older kids just wanted to shut us away in our cabins where we'd be safe. [.......] Which is like NOT to say that you guys should all go out hunting for mimics or anything since that's like super dangerous!!!

UM.

I guess I'm just trying to say that YEAH it can super stink and like if you're upset about kissing and dating and stuff then I know how you feel I got told all the same things by seniors and [...] I know it seems like all the cute boys are WAY older and that's what makes them so cute but if you look around you might notice some of the boys in your year are pretty cute too.

[bitterlysweet]

Hey. [...] Sorry things suck right now.

[junipercrane]

Sure. Everyone is capable of being nice. Everyone has said bad things, too, or at least questionable. But maybe if some kinder juniors and seniors called out those who claim to be speaking for the whole class, it wouldn't keep happening.

Whatever, we're all jerks. Its pointless for me to be upset.

Juniper/Essie

[junipercrane]

I don't care about cute boys. I don't care about dating. Sure, I've kissed plenty of girls and boys and I'm not upset because someone doesn't want to kiss me. I'm upset when someone says they don't want anything to do with me because I'm a sophomore. That discredits everything I am in one fell swoop. It doesn't matter how smart I am or if I'm kind or clever or funny. It's all made utterly irrelevant because of my year? It's shitty. What a way to make someone feel like crap. Especially when in six months that won't be true anymore. Are we insects who live our lives in microcosms? Is that reference too much for some brains around

Maybe I just don't fit in with my class as much as I want to. I like them all but I'm not quite as [...] superficial single minded as they are. And my two best friends And at the same time I don't like people talking down about them. Ugh, maybe I just need a break.

[junipercrane]

I'm an idiot for believing bothered because of some of the things said recently, yea. But it is what it is.

Shit But your brother, he's great. You know.

[junipercrane]

Of course it's not. But hyperbole makes us all feel better.

[junipercrane]

[...] I don't

Yea. It is what it is, I guess.

[lachlangalbraith]

That's not what I'm saying. If people treated you badly, you've got every right to be upset. I'm just saying I don't think it's productive to be upset with an entire year when most of those people didn't have anything to do with it. It just deepens the divide that's already there.

[modestly]

Or dramatic.

[junipercrane]

I am starting to feel like this arbitrary divide is both insurmountable and bought into by too many. Okay, poor example, but Casey's whole thing about no sophs? I mean, I couldn't care less who Casey Patterson kisses and people can make whatever restrictions they want on who they make out with. Its not that. It's the whole 'discount every sophomore' because it's repellent. Did anyone else go "You know, not all sophomores are immature" or similar. No, all the juniors and seniors on that post agreed and even made fun of it. The only people saying "that's a gross generalization" were other sophomores and they were discounted.

That's my reasoning. I honestly didn't even want to go into this because I'm just feeling bad in general, but I can at least try and articulate it. Of course not all seniors and juniors. There

[junipercrane]

What's your point?

[modestly]

None, really. I was just poking you to see if you would lighten up a little.

[junipercrane]

Has asking me to be less dramatic ever worked?

[modestly]

Hence the not asking.

What's really eating you?

[junipercrane]

Before I answer that, I want to ask something: how old are you?

[modestly]

Why? Are you agist?

[inksy]

Said to you recently? Or generally to the sophomores. cause I think

Yeah, my brother is pretty great.

June
Seriously, did something happen recently? What was it?

[colitaderana]

Wanna pack our bags and move to Cuba?