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I don't mean to harp on Maia's status as well-known individual outside of this shitty website or somehow imply that other trans women are somehow more deserving of victimhood from this callout BS if they haven't hacked the US government, but being so wrapped up in your petty vindictive callout post campaign against the shadowy cabal of racist pedo trans women Homestuck posters you're willing to bring in someone who is literally being prosecuted by the US for her anti-racist/anti-imperialist work (while being apparently unaware of that fact??) is whole new levels of out of touch fandom-brained callout-posting fuckhattery. Go the fuck outside. Join a protest. Give money to someone who needs to get out of Gaza. Literally do anything else.

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White ppl will say they want stuff with "representation" in it, but if theres a movie with mostly nonwhite people but 1 or 2 White characters then they'll obsess exclusively over the White characters, and if there's no White characters then they don't watch it at all

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i dont “have ptsd” that’s all just the wizard’s curse

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at my sketchbook. straight up “drawing it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. Nothing

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#prev tags was right so much shonen #AND YET #WHERE TF IS DRAGON BALL #THAT SHIT WAS AIRING ON NICKTOONS AND FATHERED MOST OF THESE SHOWS #SHOW SOME DAMN RESPECT

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so back when i was teaching, one of the things i learned to look for were the "mood makers", as i liked to call them, of the classes. there were always 2 or 3 per class, and it was easy to find them in the first few days. you got those kids on your side, and it was a ripple effect with the rest of the students - they would all follow. so winning those kids over was huge when it came to how the year would play out. and from time to time, whenever the class was sort of faltering - middle of winter, of a big project, burn-out high - i would lean back in on those mood makers again to turn things around.

one particular class, when we had a big multi-month group project happening, were just... really struggling with getting their shit together lol. they were supposed to be practicing their presentations (english speaking class) and they were doing pretty much anything but, and their presentations were supposed to start the next class day. they were also PANICKING as i started giving out some feedback - which was NOT GREAT - as they were running through the lines they were supposed to be remembering. after realizing all of them needed so much extra work, i decided we needed to have a turn-around, so i invited one of the mood makers up to the front. i held out a cup to him, with two papers inside.

"one of them," i said, "says tuesday, and if you draw that, presentations go as planned. but one of them says thursday, and if you choose that one, everyone gets extra time to practice."

everyone was like OH SHIT. OKAY. THIS IS IT. and this mood maker, he was a big personality (they usually are) so i knew he'd really ham this up, and he did. we made a huge deal, with drum-rolls and everything, of him picking one out of the cup. he opened it up the paper and announced THURSDAY to a round of huge cheers. he was the class hero. everyone had TONS of motivation to work super hard on this gifted extra day, and really put the time in. their presentations were great. morale SOARED.

the plot twist was that both papers said thursday, because they all needed the extra time. my forever teacher advice: find creative ways to make things happen so that you get the buy-in from the class.

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its nothing some ibuprofen and a blunt and 5 beers and a head injury and jacking off and killing myself cant fix

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#this is like baby sensory videos to me #could watch all day #started cheering when the cybertruck got hit

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I think we're starting to dilute the meaning of "terminally online". Like, no, it's not terminally online to have eccentric opinions about a popular TV show – people like that existed before "online" was a thing. Unless we're talking at least an "it's homophobic for gay furries to have rat fursonas because they're depicting gay people as vermin", the onlineness falls well short of terminal.

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When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

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STARs and EULEs

I usually prefer uploading finished stuff but I think Imma upload some rough sketchies like these once in a while.

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smoochies!

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#yeah no problem

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well have you considered that maybe the unstoppable force is in love with the immovable object

#this too is yuri

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in my thoughts always all the time!!!!

#they are so so so so cute like this #i adore this art style #so fluffy and cute