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My angels!! To celebrate there being 200k of you, I’m running a 50% off sale for annual plans (the biggest sale I’ve ever run) so that as many of you can access our bonuses (like access to the SYSCA’s ‘close friends’ list, membership to our book club, bonus essays etc) as possible!
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My babies!!! Over the weekend me and my housemates threw our ‘Hostelwarming’ party (we refer to our house as the hostel because people are constantly coming in and out) and the theme was ‘anything you’d wear in a hostel/ gorpcore.
We even have a guest book in our lobby (entranceway) for guests to sign:
Anyway, the night was unreal, everyone dressed to the theme SO well, but I am still replenishing my dopamine levels 𓆩♡𓆪
First: My annual April Fool’s Day fable: The time I pranked my ENTIRE School
Luce note: I wrote this back in 2021 so don’t judge the writing plz
Back in 2015, I was the Head Girl of my high school, and one of the things (for whatever reason) I really wanted to do was make a big deal out of April Fools' Day (ya girl loves a prank - ok?) The prefects and I had three things in mind. Two were simple and one was elaborate.
The first prank consisted of breaking into the senior management corridor before school and filling the deputy principal's office with balloons. It sounds harmless, but the balloons were literally top to bottom, and he had to pop his way through them to get to his desk. The next prank was telling everyone at our full school assembly that the year 12/13 formal was cancelled (damn we were brave - that event was the only thing keeping half of us in school!) I will admit, no one really bought that one (maybe they knew that there is NO world where I would cancel a party?)
The third prank was fooling everyone into thinking that we had a real-life celebrity band coming to perform on the quad at morning tea.
To lay the foundations of the prank, the prefects and I started a rumour on YikYak (remember YikYak? The anonymous app where you could literally say anything you wanted and everyone in your location could view it and vote on it?) About a week in advance of April Fools' Day, we started posting messages like “I hear something big is happening at MGC next week” or “omg, I just found out a celeb is coming to school and I can’t tell anyone.”
WE EVEN GOT THE LOCAL RADIO STATION INVOLVED, WHO SAID ON AIR THAT THEY’D SEEN A PRIVATE JET LANDING IN OUR SMALL TOWN. (I’m starting to think that maybe I single-handedly started this whole fake news business…)
Anyway, with the rumour well and truly started, we had to actually execute the prank. We gathered the four male teachers in the school at the time, and for some reason, they agreed to be our celebrities. We named them ‘Two Direction’ and had them learn “I Want It That Way” by the Backstreet Boys (they got to pick the song.) After about a week of rehearsals, they were ready.
Before first period on the big day, we set up four microphones on a stage in the quad, so the school could start chatting. YikYak was POPPING OFF (by this point we didn’t even have to post anymore, other people had just bandwagonned) with people saying things like “omg I just saw a black car with tinted windows driving through town - must be coming to MGC!”
When the time came, and the quad was packed with girls, the car we’d borrowed (it was one of the teacher's cars with tinted black windows - yes we really did think of it all) drove the ‘celebrities’ through the school to the stage. When they got out, they were met with the most wholesome mix of disappointment (we’d all been pranked!) and laughter (why do our teachers have wigs on?), but Two Direction performed their song, got their standing ovation, and it was just a great time.
Here’s a newspaper article that was written about it (yes, I did contact the local media, no, I can’t believe it either) but let me give you some excerpts:
“The promised arrival of mystery celebrity musicians at Marlborough Girls' College had hundreds of screaming students packed into the school quad for possibly the biggest April Fool's Day prank in Marlborough.
College head girl Lucy Blakiston said she and the prefects at the Blenheim school had been working on the prank for about two weeks; spreading rumours that famous musicians would be visiting the school towards the end of the term.
The ruse seemed to work, with social media abuzz about a possible visit by indie-pop duo Broods or reggae group Six60.”
More FM also got involved and fuelled the gossip fire by broadcasting that a private jet had been seen landing at Marlborough Airport, and an unidentified group of people had been whisked away in a car with blacked out windows.”
The prank came together when all the students were told to meet at the school quad during their first break this morning to see the celebrities.
Once they had been whipped into a frenzy a black SUV pulled up and the "band" 2 Direction – made up of four MGC teachers – appeared, much to the delight of the students.
Assistant principal and 2 Direction "lead singer" Julian Adamson said he and the other teacher-band members were really pleased with how well the prank had gone.
"They put so much effort into it and did really well to do something exciting that also didn't upset anyone," he said.
Lucy was equally pleased.
"It went as well as we could have hoped for," she said.
This just goes to show that I have always been the exact same weirdo who loves social media & loves to prank. Though, I can’t help but wonder what Two Direction are doing now…
A devastating earthquake in Myanmar
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar on Thursday, and the loss is staggering. Right now, over 2000 people are confirmed dead, thousands more are injured, and entire communities have been flattened. And to make it even harder—aid is struggling to reach people. Not because there aren’t people willing to help, but because Myanmar is also in the middle of a civil conflict that makes everything more complicated, more fragile, more dangerous.
The US has pledged $2 million in aid. Other countries like India, Thailand, China, and Singapore have also stepped in. But many areas are still cut off, without access to food, clean water, or medical support.
You can support here through the WFP xx
Heart-Shaped Box?? More like heart-shaped socks
Ok that title sucked but it’s the best I can do.
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s Brian Thompson, rocked up to court recently and was given a pair of argyle socks with little heart-shaped notes tucked inside them.
Yep, secret sock notes.
One of them said something like “know there are thousands of people wishing you luck” and was signed by someone from r/FreeLuigi.
The kicker? He didn’t even wear the socks because apparently they weren’t his style.
“Despite the discovery, Mangione was allowed to wear the socks, but he later took them off because he felt that ‘they did not look good,'" prosecutors wrote.”
A $10K “matchmaking” weekend for right-wingers to repopulate the earth?
Over the weekend, a conference in Austin, Texas called the Natal Conference brought together far-right influencers, tech bros, and anti-modern dating crusaders to talk about repopulating the world. And yes, that includes matchmaking sessions, onsite ministers, and the option to literally get married at the event.
The vibe? Think less “fun wedding expo” and more “eugenics-adjacent mixer for people who think dating apps are ruining society.”
A natalist conference featuring speakers including self-described eugenicists and promoters of race science, apparently including the man behind a previously pseudonymous race-science influencer account, and the founder of a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos, will be held at a hotel and conference venue operated by the public University of Texas, Austin.
Tickets were up to $10,000, and attendees had to fill out a pre-event survey asking how many kids they want (1–7+), their lifestyle values, and whether they’d be cool doing a lil Q&A onstage to introduce themselves to the room. A dating app founder called “Indian Bronson” was there. So were conspiracy theorists, Elon Musk fanboys, and a couple who want 13 kids.
The organisers say the goal isn’t political, just about "a world where our kids can have grandkids" — ones that will have the same values as them…
It’s giving Dystopian Bachelor Nation.
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