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I know we've all been a bit distracted lately, not only from the abrupt loss of two colors from the spectrum, but all the usual school madness that occurs in June. Grades are coming in, summer sessions are about to begin, and that's an understandably stressful time.

[To say nothing of sleep loss. Rosalind certainly looks exhausted as she glowers into the camera. Behind her, chalkboards are filled with equations, and someone with a particularly clever mind might be able to spot a trend towards space and time.]

However. Let me give a few of you a piece of advice. I know several of you are in university right now, or about to graduate high school and enter into it. If you ever send a professor who failed you something like what I'm about to attach, you will not change their minds. Point in fact, they'll be even more determined to fail you. I know I certainly am, and I'm not even the one dealing with this right now.

Rosalind Lutece shared a photo.
6/16 near Recolle University

Honestly, I preferred the bribes to this.

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How far the plebeians have fallen to resort to such uncouth methods of communication.

[Okay, on the one hand, what are you, Kaiba, a Shakespeare villain?

On the other hand: yes. Yes? YES.]

I don't even know what it's supposed to express. Disappointment? Irritation? Pleading?

[ He's hammy enough to be a Shakespeare villain??? let him live, Ros???? ]

All three? Some people don't understand clear communication, apparently.

I hope you sent back question marks in giant red font, that's only fitting.

Actually, Fawkes and I are still debating on how to respond, if at all. Be too impertinent in my reply and suddenly I'll have the boy's mother complaining to me.

... Ah yes, the ever present threat of overprotective parents.

They can be oddly persistent when it comes to (over)investment in their children's grades. I'm actually grateful my parents decided to do nothing of the sort.

Really? Because you never needed the attention, or because they didn't care much about grades?

A bit of both.

My birth parents were particular but that comes with growing up in Japan, but once I moved to the US it was a little more laissez faire.

Rosalind Lutece shared a photo. 6/16 near Recolle University