#at this point classroom teaching feels like Not An Option

[coldfanbou]

Made For One

Alrighty, here we are with the fem reader peace. I went rough with this one. There is slight choking, mommy kink, a little BDSM, and a small bit of exhibitionism. Also, it's set up to where I could always do another part, you know, if there's enough interest.

Length 2.1K

Fem Reader x GP Hwasa

As you were walking down the hallway, preparing for your next class, you were approached by your classmate, Karina. She flirted with you a little, touching your shoulders as she asked if you could study together sometime. You think about your schedule quickly before telling her when you’re available. “So Sunday? You could spend the night over at my house,” she suggested.

“Yeah, that sounds good,” you tell her before you head off to class together. It was hidden at the end of the hallway by itself. You couldn’t find it to save your life on the first day of class, but you now have a handle on it. Outside the classroom was your professor, Hwasa, with an annoyed expression. She wore her usual outfit: a tight white button-down shirt and a short gray skirt. Hwasa’s muscular thighs were visible to everyone. “Hello, professor,” you greet her.

She places her arm on your shoulder, “I need to talk to you for a second after class.” You nod your head, gulping as you sit in the back of the class. You worry about what Hwasa wanted the entire time before you even knew it; the class was over, and you were left alone with her. Hwasa locks the door to her classroom before walking toward you. Your eyes move upward, catching Hwasa as she walks over to you, unbuttoning most of her shirt, her tan bra poking out. “Who was that you were talking to?” She asks, already knowing the answer. Hwasa sits on your desk, eyes cast down at you. 

“S-she just wanted to study together.” 

Hwasa places her hand on your shoulder before moving it up, her fingers running along your neck before she forces your head up. “Don’t lie to me. I saw what she was doing. You had a big grin on your face, too.” 

“I’m sorry.” You reply meekly.

“I think you’re missing a part,” Hwasa replies as her grip strengthens.

“I’m sorry, Mommy.” 

Hwasa grins, and she lets go of you, “That’s a good girl, but I still have to punish you. I’ll be nice and give you the option, here or home?”

“H-here.” You knew your answer didn’t matter. Hwasa was going to take you whenever she wanted. You knew the punishment was going to be rough and leave you bedridden for a while; you also knew who you became during Hwasa’s punishments. Your eyes move down, stopping as they see the bulge pressing against Hwasa’s skirt.

“Mommy’s going to teach you a lesson,” Hwasa whispers into your ear before hopping off your desk. Come over here,” she says as she walks to her desk. She waits patiently, tapping her nails along the wooden desk. You walk over to her and feel her hand move to the small of your back. “Get on the desk, now.”  You follow her orders, sitting on the table. “Lay down on your back.” Again, you do as Hwasa says, lying down on her desk. She moves you up, pulling you until your head is off the edge of the desk.  You watch her unzip her skirt; her panties do little to hide her cock. It was long and girthy, pointing straight to Hwasa’s stomach until she dropped them, too. “You know what’s coming, right baby?”  You nod your head slowly. Hwasa drags the tip of her cock against your lips, tracing them. You stick your tongue out slightly, knowing what Hwasa likes. You hear her groan as she feels your wet tongue touch the tip of her cock. 

Hwasa pushes the head into your mouth slowly; your lips stretch as she pushes her shaft in. “That’s it, take this cock down your throat, whore.” With that, she rams the rest of her cock down your throat. You feel her cock stretch it, and her balls smack against your face. Hwasa stares at your throat, watching it expand as she begins thrusting. Saliva drips from the corner of your mouth, flowing down your face as Hwasa uses your throat like a fleshlight. You feel yourself getting wet, your panties quickly becoming soaked as you give into your mommy’s demands. You don’t even react as Hwasa tears open your shirt and rips your bra off. You curl your toes as you feel Hwasa slap one of your tits. “Dirty bitch. I bet you were hoping to get some dick from someone else.”  Your moans are muffled, leaving you unable to respond. You catch glimpses of Hwasa taking off her shirt and tossing her bra onto the ground, shaking her head to adjust her hair as she continues to use you. You feel the pain from another one of her slaps before she grabs both of your nipples, pulling on them harshly and making you scream out from the pleasure. You end up gargling your saliva, your throat still blocked by Hwasa’s cock. 

She lets go of your nipples before dragging her cock out of your throat, making sure to rub it against your face and cover you in your spit. You couldn’t help yourself. You reached for your right tit with one hand while running your fingers along your slit with the other.  You feel Hwasa’s hand connect with your cheek a moment later. “Who told you can touch yourself?!” She yells at you, and you feel the sting from the hit, but it all blends together with the pleasure. 

“I’m sorry, Mommy. I’ll be a good girl from now on,” you tell her. Hwasa gives you an annoyed look before spitting on your tits. She climbs the table, sitting just under your head as she places her cock between your tits, pressing them together before beginning to thrust. You feel the heat from her cock as she moves between your tits. You run your hands along her thighs, only for her to chastise you. 

“Oh, you want to touch me?” Hwasa adjusts her position, fully sitting on you before grinding her ass against you. “If you want me so bad, here you go. Why don’t you be a good girl and eat me? Maybe I’ll go easy on you later.” Without a second thought, you tease Hwasa’s ass with your tongue, moving it around her puckered asshole. You can hear her groan, and it pushes you to do more.  You greedily squeeze at Hwasa’s ass as your tongue pushes inside her. She rocks back and forth and applies more pressure. You struggle to breathe but continue to please your mommy. Hwasa rewards you by twisting your nipples, making you moan as you eat her up.  “You’re a hungry little bitch aren’t you?” She says with mild amusement. You were running out of breath and trying to tell Hwasa. Still, she remained sitting on you; just as you were about to pass out, she climbed off you, stroking her cock and painting your barely conscious face with her cum. “There, you have something else to eat.” She says before walking to the side of the table, stroking her cock as she thought about what to do next.

Hwasa gave herself more time to think by stripping you of your skirt, leaving you in your panties for a second. She slapped you pussy, with a hard smack that nearly made you cum. “You’re such a dirty whore, getting off on this. I bet you want to cum, don’t you?” 

You nod quickly. “I want to cum, mommy.”

“Okay, mommy will let you cum.” Hwasa says as she climbs onto the table, grabbing your legs and folding you into a mating press. Using her weight to keep you in place, she reaches for you, wrapping one hand around your neck. “I don’t want you talking to anyone else. You are mommy’s fleshlight. You’re going to do whatever I say. If I tell you to strip in the middle of class so I can fuck you, you will do it. Understand?” Hwasa moves your panties to the side and drags her cock between your lips, making you whimper. “I said, do you understand?”

“Yes, Mommy.”

“Then what are you?”

“I’m Mommy’s fleshlight.”

Hwasa lets go of your throat and caresses your cheek, a soft smile forming. “That’s a good girl. That’s all I wanted to hear.” Hwasa points the tip of her cock right at your entrance and impales you with her first thrust; you feel her cock tear through you as she stretches your tiny cunt and splits your walls apart. “You’re you tight for mommy. Tell mommy how much you want her to fuck you.”

“I want your cock, mommy. Please fuck me,” You tell her in a small voice. Hwasa smiled as she began to move inside you. Her cock moved in and out slowly at first before it started to pick up speed. It was deep inside you, practically kissing your womb as she pushed every inch inside you.  Your moans filled the classroom as Hwasa leaned in and nipped at your neck, leaving hickeys all along it. 

“If I ever see you with anyone else, I’ll teach you a much rougher lesson.” She whispers before nibbling on your ear. You’re overwhelmed by all the sensations and feel yourself about to cum. Hwasa feels it, too; your walls were clamping down on her cock. You could feel its veins and the way it began to throb. 

“Mommy, I want your cum. Please give it to me.” You whine as you grip her arms. Hwasa grunts as she continues to pound away at your body. Each thrust brought you closer to the edge until you weren’t able to hold it together anymore. You cum on Hwasa’s cock, forcing her to climax a moment later. Your mind melts as you feel Hwasa’s warm cum pours into you, painting your walls white as she claims your body. 

Hwasa pulls out slowly, her cock covered in a mixture of cum and your nectar. She climbs off the table and gets by your face, smacking it with her dirtied cock. “Come on, baby, clean it up.” She says, placing her hands on her hips as you open your mouth and use your tongue to clean her cock. You taste yourself on it. It arouses you, and you begin to touch yourself, your fingers playing with your clit as you massage one of your tits. You can feel Hwasa’s cum flow from your cunt, making a small puddle as you masturbate. 

As you were finishing, Hwasa dragged her cock out slowly, rubbing it on your face. “We’re done here, sweetie. You can go.” Hwasa says cooly as she gathers her clothes and dresses herself. You remain on the table, masturbating until you cum again, coating the desk in a layer of your nectar. “Clean everything up before you go,” Hwasa says as she leaves you alone in the room.

Hwasa told you to arrive early in the morning the next time you had class. When you got to the classroom, Karina, who had flirted with you the other day, was standing outside. The door to the room opened, and Hwasa said, “You’re both here. Great. Come inside.” The two of you stepped inside, and Hwasa told the girl to sit down as she locked the door behind you. As you passed Hwasa, she wrapped her arm around you and whispered. “Strip for mommy.”

“But”

“Now.” Karina watched as you stripped down to nothing. This was Hwasa showing her just who you belonged to. She got behind you and continued the show, “Suck me off.” You kneel before Hwasa as she pulls out her cock, stuffing it into your mouth. You glance over at Karina, noticing a slight bulge under her skirt before Hwasa pushes you to her pelvis. Hwasa poured her cum into your stomach before pulling out. You open your mouth to show her you drank it all, earning a smile. “Good girl,” Hwasa says as she helps you to your feet. Hwasa sits at her desk, facing Karina as she plants you on her cock. “Karina, this one is all mine. Isn’t that right?”

“Yes, Mommy.” You moan as you bounce on her cock. Having Karina watch you turned you on, she could see everything, from your bouncing tits to your bare cunt. She was stunned.

“Oh? It looks like you're hard, too. You can jerk off if you want to.” Hwasa says, licking your neck as you near your climax. As Karina pulls out her feeble cock Hwasa humiliates her. “That’s all you have? You couldn’t please her if you tried.” Karina jerked herself off quickly, cumming over herself in a matter of seconds. You came a moment later, your walls tightening around Hwasa’s cock as she dumped her cum in you. “I think this could be fun,” Hwasa whispers. “I think I’ll make you both mine.” She whispers into your ear.

#kpop smut #f reader #fem reader #mamamoo smut #hwasa smut

[peachyteabuck]

the more & more i think about my career i’m like. i could probably never work in a public school. a private school however............also probably not. but more likely than a private school

#at this point classroom teaching feels like Not An Option #im having a very 'i hope this sorts itself out' approach to my future rn which is. Not Good For Me #as A Planner #but at this point im like i know i asked for this but also jesus christ #lukis says things #my advisor did call me one of her favorite students the other day #so im riding that high #thank u shawntae bb love

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

what about teachers who are passionate about their students’ right to be able to read and comprehend text written for educated but nonspecialized adults, including tracking the nuances of literary writing, understanding paragraphs written in the nineteenth or [gasp] even eighteenth century, and following the ideas and arguments being put forth in informative or opinion-based pieces, which, imperfectly and inadequately to be sure but not ultimately to the point of failure, are the skills the SAT sets out to assess. what about teachers who feel passionately that students should encounter literary prose written for adults, articles in magazines and other publications written for the educated layperson touching on topics relating to science and social science, and literally any fucking text at all more than a hundred years old - aka the types of text that appear on the SAT - sometime before they graduate, and maybe ideally not just on SAT practice tests. what about them.

#personally i think if you’re in k-12 in a core academic subject and your goal is to share your passions with your students #you should get a different fucking job #but i’m an asshole who became disillusioned with the classroom partly because #it was becoming increasingly and distressingly obvious to me #that every elementary school teacher i’d ever met thought they knew how to teach kids to read #and pretty much none of them were right #and personally i found it extremely hard to care about… uh… anything else we were doing after a point #when i had started to feel like we were not giving kids what they needed to become competent mature adult readers #which sorry is: specific skills and knowledge passion optional

[n0sewise]

Hi friendddd! Long time no chat 😂

I have a little idea KILLUGON BUT AS TEACHERS (do you see the vision? Huh? Huh?)

I just have a feeling that they would be good teachers for some reason! What subjects do you think they’d teach and what grade?

hey! ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

I love this and I Absolutely see the vision!

Ok, so I do have a strong bias toward Gon in the sciences, specifically biology. It gets to tie in his love of nature and animals and I think he’d be so cute infodumping about different animals with unique adaptations to anyone who would listen, plus he could fill his classroom with tons of plants and colourful posters. He’d be a really approachable teacher and I’m going to give him… let’s say grades 10 and 11. I think he’d coach a sport too, like maybe soccer. Gon is also super perceptive and I see him as the teacher who notices if his students are tired or feeling off, and sends them into the cafeteria to get a muffin or something. Honestly 10/10, his classes would always have a great average, and I think kids would respect him a lot because it would be so obvious that he cared.

I sooooo badly wanted to give Killua English (because it was my favourite subject) but I actually think he’d teach something tech related. Do high schools still have computer labs? Is that a thing anymore? Because mine had a graphic design class (that I retained zero knowledge of) where you could learn photoshop and illustrator, and the teachers that taught those classes also did photography electives. Anyway, that’s the type of thing I think Killua would teach. I just love the idea of Killua as a design snob, and I see him being the type to keep up with trends in tech and art and showing up for class looking like a college art student. I’d give him grades 11 and 12, and there would always be at least ten students with a crush on him at any given point in time (he’d have no idea). He’s got such a great sense of humour so I see him making dry things really entertaining and making his students laugh with stupid jokes.

Maybe Killua helps out with yearbook, and he’d run into Gon when his students had to take pictures of the soccer team or some sort of biology project that won an award

OR maybe Gon is in the teacher’s lounge and Killua’s just been transferred to the school and he walks in with a massive iced mocha latte and a really tight turtleneck, and proceeds to complain about the terrible parking in this place and Gon is sort of smitten immediately.

Literally so many options I could go on forever, but I’ll try to be chill and restrain myself. I loved this ask and thinking about this au!

Thanks as always for your amazing asks 💕

#nosewise writing tag #asks

[sybill-the-seer]

In your opinion, in Harry Potter couldn’t become an Auror for whatever reason, what job do you think he be happy doing?

Hmm good question! (And sorry I’ve been so slow to answer this!)

I am very pro Auror!Harry, and feel like it’s the best career for him, but if it wasn’t an option…I feel like maybe he could be happy being a healer or a curse breaker. (I still don’t think I would read an AU about Harry being a healer or a curse breaker though — I am still very committed to Auror!Harry.)

While not as perfect a match as being an auror, I think that both healing and curse breaking would at least give Harry these two things that I think are important for him to have in a job:

I believe that for Harry to really thrive in a job, he needs a bit of a challenge (for example, I don’t think he would be happy just helping out at the shop for Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes) — Harry needs something to keep him thinking and on his toes a bit.

Harry likes to help people — in fact, he almost feels it’s a moral obligation to help people whenever he can. He needs a job that makes him feel like he is making a difference.

I know that a lot of people imagine Harry being a Hogwarts professor if he never became an auror, but I’ve never been a huge fan of that concept (no hate if that’s your thing though!). I just personally think that going back to Hogwarts so soon after the war would be difficult for him. He loved Hogwarts, and while I don’t think his love for the place would ever change, it was also a pretty turbulent time in his life, and I think he would be ready to move on after the war. I also think he would get tired of teaching after awhile. Others have pointed out that while Harry enjoyed teaching the DA, he might really struggle with the annoying parts of teaching that come with teaching as a real professor (as opposed to a leader of a student rebel group) like grading, classroom management, and meeting curriculum requirements. I do like the idea of him maybe becoming a professor for a short time as an older man, though, after retiring from the aurors (@floreatcastellumposts writes about this a bit in her fics.)

Thanks for the ask! :)

#asks #harry james potter #auror harry

[strawberry-cowmilk]

Hey!! I hope its okay to request this (I saw ur bio and it said its open haha)

Can you do Dateables dropping there child in a day care for the first time? Thank you!

Hi! If my bio says requests are open, then the requests are open, so don't worry! Also it's about time I made the side character version of the brothers dropping their child off. I hope you like it!

the side characters dropping their child off at daycare for the first time

-> side characters x mc (without luke)

mc's gender is not mentioned, but it is implied they have given birth. I'll be tagging this as gn!mc, let me know if that needs changing. Not proof read

a/n: the children are the same as from my (character) as a father series, and let's say they're around 2 years old here

content warnings: implied past pregnancy

-----

Diavolo

diavolo has important matters to attend to as the heir to the throne, but sometimes he neglects his duties to play with his son

it's sweet, but it's becoming a problem

that's why barbatos suggests to sign your son up for a daycare

diavolo does not like the idea at first, but it's important your son goes outside and makes friends instead of staying in the castle the whole time, so he agrees

you were always pro-daycare, so it's settled then

the first time diavolo takes his son there, he is more emotional than the child

he gets down to match his level, fighting tears, and gives him a speech like 'honey, I know this is hard, and seems scary, but it's good for you, it's only for a little bit-'

the little boy eventually gets bored of it and gives his dad a hug before running to the other kids

barbatos, who was waiting outside, has to comfort diavolo in the car

Barbatos

even though diavolo gives him many days off to play with his daughter, barbatos gets restless when he isn't working

so, he still works on his free days, and his daughter likes to stay close to him as he does so

eventually you told barbatos it might not be best for your child to always sit on the floor next to him as he is cleaning some couch, and he agrees with you

so, you come to the conclusion to drop her off at daycare, that way she gets some social contact

when barbatos goes to drop his daughter off, she refuses to go inside the building

he's standing outside of the entrance with his child clinging to his leg, trying to convince her it will be fun until she was willing to try it

however, after barbatos arrived home again, one of the daycare workers called him

they told him his child really hates it there, so he goes to pick her up

after that day, barbatos actually uses his free days as intended

Simeon

when your daughter was born, you knew you had to let her go to daycare at some point

you started to doubt that once you saw how good simeon was with his child, and luke was a nice older brother figure, you thought they won't be willing to let her go

but you were wrong, simeon told you daycare might be good one night

after all, the little girl needs to socialise with people that aren't her parents, luke or solomon

your daughter didn't like the idea, because she didn't want to be in a room full of strangers

so, simeon thought he would stay by her side for a day, that way she'll see there's no harm in daycare

little did he know the workers would kick him out of the classroom

both simeon and his daughter were not pleased with that, so simeon calls leviathan to teach him how to leave a one star review of google

Solomon

let's face it, you or simeon can't wake up early to make breakfast and lunch for your son to prevent solomon from cooking up some biohazard every day

that was one of the factors that made you decide you needed to discuss daycare with solomon

you did not know solomon was thinking about the option too, so it's settled then

the day before your son had to go, solomon taught him some handy spells to protect him from any potential bullies

the day he had to go, your child didn't really feel scared, so that's good

remember the spells though? your son may or may not have set something on fire because he did not want to nap when the workers told him to

now you and solomon are banned from that daycare

you both still had to lecture your son about why what he did was bad, but deep down you two think it was the funniest stunt ever

#obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me swd #omswd #obey me imagines #obey me scenarios #diavolo #obey me barbatos #barbatos #obey me diavolo #simeon obey me #simeon #obey me solomon #solomon #om #gn!mc #tw pregnancy

[theresattrpgforthat]

Hii, do you have any recommendation for games the take place in a magic school?

THEME: Magic School

Hello! I certainly do! These recommendations are meant to give you options that allow you to explore new ways of playing in magic school settings, especially pushing the boundaries when it comes to playing in magic schools. Even better, these games don't line the pockets of influential bigots!

To Teach Their Own, by Mousewife Games.

To Teach Their Own is a game about a small group of grown-up witches teaching student witches valuable lessons about magic. It pulls from things like The Magic Schoolbus, The Wizard of Earthsea, Little Witch Academia, Strixhaven, and more, to tell classroom-adventure stories from a new point of view.

Instead of retelling the same stories of plucky students in a boarding school with the world on their shoulders, this game invites you to witness and play from a different point of view: you'll play teachers who have come together to take a group of magically-adept students on a field trip to remember, where everyone has the opportunity to learn something new.

To Teach Their Own is a Forged in the Dark game with some significant twists. You build your instructor by writing Expertises, which stand in for stress and quirks from other Forged in the Dark games. To refill your Expertises in-play, you'll pick two triggers specific to your playbook, each of which you'll hit during the course of play, like the keys in Lady Blackbird. For me, the mechanics plus the motivational keys are what really stands out - and on top of all that, you have a new way of looking at a magical school. Rather than children, you’re adults in a magical world, with responsibilities and consequences that make every decision that much more important.

Magical Pets, by Plotbunny Games.

"Magical Pets" is a cute little game where you are the pets of students or staff members at a magic school. Since your humans are busy all the time, it falls to you to take care of various problems that befall the school...

Be a gruff miniature unicorn who can read, an elegant sheep with an excellent nose, an eccentric cat who can levitate small items, a clumsy raven who specializes in fluffiness or any other talented, magical pet you want to be.

This rules-light game (a hack of Lasers & Feelings) is ideal for a no-prep/low-prep one-shot or few-shot. You can also use it as a starting point for a longer campaign and just keep playing to find out what happens next.

Magical Pets is a great way to explore a magic school from a point of view outside that of the student’s! What do the pets get up to while their caretakers are in class? What areas of the school might be off-limit to students that the familiars can get into? What adventures happen around the school that none of the magic-users are aware of? This is also a perfect little game if you need a pick-up game on a week that everyone can’t make it, or even to tell a new story in a magic school setting that you’re already invested in.

Adiotopia, by Minakie.

Adiotopia is a micro TTRPG (for 3+ players) about collaboratively telling the stories of a group of young Protectors in training, who travel between their world (Sanubari) and Fäerie with their mentor in order to help both Saubi and Fae deal with their everyday problems, enforcing the law, mitigating conflicts, protecting people, studying the indigenous fauna and flora and potentially solving mysteries, while always being on the lookout for the dangerous darklings and the unpredictable undead. If you're lucky, you might befriend the dragons or the elves, or even learn a magic trick or two along the way.

The premise of the game is that the world is full of creatures and mysteries worth investigating and that, while some of them might have a simple and rather ordinary explanation, others might not be what they seem at first, and be somehow connected with the multitude of mystical creatures that inhabit the land. 

This is a fundamentally different kind of magic school game, in which magic is connected to another world, rather than your own. Your school isn’t inherently steeped in magic - rather, your characters are being trained to interact with items, creatures, and people who are magical, without having any inherent magical powers yourselves. This doesn’t mean that you don’t have any magical powers - but rather that uncanny abilities are few and far between. This represented by the special number you see in many Lasers and Feelings games. Rolling over or under a predetermined number is what’s required for basic success, but hitting your number exactly? You get a moment of sudden clarity, and are able to use a magical ability to give your character an edge.

Magic School Mystery, by Tannerjwil.

You’ve been accepted to wizard school!

Can you solve the mystery before it’s too late? 

Become a student and investigate the mysteries of Magic School Castle. Solve clues, cast spells, and cause mischief in this genre-focused and rules light tabletop role-playing game!

Magic School Mystery takes notes from games such as Apocalypse World, and Damn the Man, Save the Music. It follows player characters over the course of a school year, as they attempt to uncover a mystery. The mystery itself isn’t set out by the GM - instead, it’s discovered collaboratively, with a rough concept established by the GM and questions answered by the Players as they investigate.

Apart from the basic rules and character creation, this book also comes with an outline for spell creation, GM advice, and example NPCs and mysteries to put before your players. If you enjoy the idea of discovering the nature of a mystery together, Magic School Mystery might be worth checking out!

Tailfeathers, by Jimbozig.

In Tailfeathers, you play as a student at a magical school. Your character is part of a group of friends at the school, and together you will through curiosity, bravery, greed, and tenacity find yourselves in over your head entangled in the machinations of older wizards. 

You will also play Kazzam, a sport of spellcasting and tactics with a capture-the-flag element and dangerous monsters. Based on the tactical combat of Strike! RPG, Kazzam brings the feeling of real competition with unexpected combos, wild comebacks, the thrill of victory and the sting of defeat.

Tailfeathers works in a cycle of play, where your characters will move from a match of Kazzam, to a series of Investigation actions, to a Downtime. Kazzam is a structured mode of play similar to combat, with easily defined goals and a special separate rulebook that details the goals, obstacles and character options available for your characters on the field. Investigation is a combination of social role-play and shenanigans, with graded levels of success and a special result called a Twist. Downtime allows for you to do character upkeep - resolving injuries, managing their social life, working on projects, and advancing your character. 

This is a game with a lot of pieces that put your game together, but the result is structured play with a lot of potential for a rich, complex campaign.

While the Tailfeathers Core Book is available for Pay-What-You-Want, there’s also the GM’s Toolkit, a supplement that contains Kazzam content, a mystery map, GM advice, items, and a first-year framework to get your campaign up and running!

Kids on Brooms, by Renegade Studios.

You pull your wand from the folds of your cloak, and its glowing blue end illuminates the door in front of you—the entrance to the banned books section. You watch as the copper snakes twist and turn around the lock that keeps students like you out. But you’ve been left with no choice. Your barn owl hoots softly upon your shoulder as you raise your wand to the knob and whisper the unspoken words.

Kids on Brooms is a collaborative role-playing game about taking on the life of a witch or wizard at a magical school you all attend- a place full of mystery, danger, and thrilling adventure. From dealing with strict professors to facing down mythical beasts, players will get the opportunity to ride brooms, brew potions, and cast powerful magic as they uncover the incredible secrets their school and its inhabitants hold. Built using the ENnie Award-Winning Kids on Bikes framework, it is a rules-light, narrative-first storytelling game perfect for new players and gaming veterans alike!

Kids on Brooms provides you with a chance to collaboratively build a magical school, which means that everyone has a chance to contribute to the kind of story that you’d like to tell. You get to decide where you school is, what kinds of rumours surround it, and the activities your kids get involved in together. Does your magic school have mermaids? Robots? Does it teach necromancy? Is it well-known or a well-kept secret? You get to decide!

One of the things I like the most about this line of games is the character connection questions - your characters will have some kind of connection, whether it’s a positive one, a negative one, or just a rumour they’ve heard about each-other.

Academies of the Arcane, by Melsonian Arts Council.

Academies of the Arcane is a role-playing book and the next official release for Troika! Numinous Edition. While it is intended to support Troika!, this new book is a comprehensive toolkit—it will work as well with any game where you might need magical schools, students possessing horrifying cosmic powers, and manipulative and petty faculty members. Within you will find robust tools to create your own magical school: locations, classes, staff and student body, as well as new tables for calamity and magical overload. How you choose to use these items to define your game’s tone and setting are entirely up to you—the book even includes advice for changing around the terminology, descriptions and structures to fit your preferred wizarding world!

If you like Troika, this is probably the easiest way to pick up and play a magical school game - you’ll already be familiar with the rules and you can go from there. If you aren’t familiar with Troika, the rule system is easy to learn and works great for players who don’t want to limit their creativity, but do really enjoy keeping an inventory. If you have another system that you like, this is still a great option for giving you locations, NPCs, events, and other set pieces to make this feel like a fantastical, weird, slightly horrific magic school! Definitely worth checking out.

Pigsmoke, by potatocubed.

Step into the shoes of the faculty of Pigsmoke School of Sorcery, America's finest learning institution for the magically gifted. Teach classes, publish research, and try to navigate the cutthroat world of academia when the demons are real, the auditors are constructs of pure order, and imposter syndrome might just mean you're a doppelganger.

Students exist to make your life difficult. Your department head is an arch-conservative taskmaster who leans on you to make their department look good. The Dean's Office wants to ensure you're following all of their ridiculous rules. The bursar won't give you any money, your peers want their names ahead of yours on your latest paper, and your personal life is a garbage fire. Chase tenure, avoid burnout, and try to resist the urge to go adventuring: like all get-rich-quick schemes, it'll probably just end with a humiliating death.

Pigsmoke doesn’t just give you a new take on magical schools; the designer also points you towards magic school media that may not be the first thing you think of when you think “magic school,” such as the Unseen University of Discworld, or the video game Ikenfell. The game is Powered by the Apocalypse, so expect actions that push the story forward regardless of success or failure, and a sliding-scale of tone that can lean towards humorous misadventures or a thoughtful representation of academia and how it treats its workers. 

#asks #magic school #witchcraft #tabletop games #dnd #indie ttrpgs #game recommendations

[aquaquadrant]

I'm happy to hear the surgery went well! I'm not sure if you've talked about it before (I only started following recently) but I was wondering what made you decide to become a vet?

AWWW hi there, that’s kind of you to say!! god, i’ve wanted to be a vet since i was like… probably six or seven years old?? as soon as i found out that horse ranching is no longer a viable career option in the 21st century 😂

it was def spurred on by my love of animals. here’s some deep aqua lore: i was a Horse Girl for my entire childhood and even took riding lessons at one point. but funnily enough, i’m not actually going into equine medicine (at least not right away). these days i’m solidly in the Cat Person camp and going into small animal practice, potentially ER (i’ve got an externship this summer that’ll let me know if that’s the right choice or not HAH).

ofc, love of animals alone isn’t always enough to base a career off of. i’ve taken a lot of steps thru highschool and undergrad to make sure this is the field for me, cuz it’s a LOT of biology and physiology and anatomy (which turned out to be a surprise love of mine). and even though there are specialists out there for just about everything, the average general practice veterinarian has to be a jack of all trades; a clinician, a surgeon, a radiologist, an internist, a behaviorist, a nutritionist, the list goes on- and usually for multiple species that can have DRASTICALLY different biology! that’s daunting, sure, but also really exciting.

i love vet med because it’s a job that involves lifelong learning (and not just by doing required CE credits) and it has nearly infinite possibilities. i can go into virtually any aspect of the field the day i graduate, with no additional schooling required except for a residency or rotating internship. and there’s so much freedom if i decide to switch gears later on! i have professors who have moved to different disciplines three or four times. there’s also great opportunity for teaching and mentorship, which i’ve also discovered i enjoy, without having to have any kind of degree in education because it’s all clinical-based. i’m already thinking that i might pursue some kind of teaching position when i’m old and i’ve had my fun actually practicing medicine 😂

anyway that was prob more in-depth than it needed to be, but HOT DOG i’m excited!! having our first surgeries this week made it all feel that much more real, rather than a classroom theoretical, and it’s always great to have reassurance that i’m def where i want to be.

#personal #thanks for the chance to ramble LOL #i tend to keep my professional life and personal life pretty separate but it’s nice to talk about this stuff!

[shemsuji432]

Exploring Python: Unveiling Its Features and Advantages

To begin learning Python, it's like starting an adventure. Imagine finding a special course that teaches you all about Python. This course should cover the basics like how to write the language, how to work with different types of information, and how to make your programs do things like repeat actions and remember stuff. But that's not all! It's like finding a treasure chest if the course also shows you more advanced ideas like building special kinds of programs, handling files, and using helpful tools that others have created.

From my own experience, it's like joining a team of ACTE that really know their stuff. They'll guide you through all the important things you need to know. They're so good that they even offer different ways of learning: you can learn with them in a classroom or even on the internet. And guess what? They even help you find a good job after you've learned a lot!

When you learn with them, it's like becoming a superhero who understands Python really well. You'll be able to use Python to create things in the real world, like games, apps, and more. I started my own adventure at ACTE Training Institute, and now I'm really skilled at using Python.

My own Python journey commenced at ACTE, enabling me to progress to an expert level. Here are key points to consider before commencing your Python learning experience:

Course Content and Curriculum: A course that covers Python fundamentals comprehensively, encompassing topics from syntax and data types to loops, functions, and beyond. Advanced subjects like object-oriented programming and working with libraries should also be included.

Hands-on Practice: Practical exercises and coding assignments are crucial for reinforcing learning. Confirm that the course provides ample hands-on practice and projects to apply acquired knowledge.

Instructor Expertise: Evaluate the instructors' qualifications and experience in both Python programming and teaching to ensure high-quality guidance.

Student Reviews and Testimonials: Look for feedback from former students, accessible through searches for "student reviews" or "student testimonials."

Flexible Learning Options: Choose a course that offers flexibility, whether through self-paced learning, live online classes, or a blend of both, to suit your preferences and schedule.

Project-Based Learning: Emphasizing project-based learning is highly advantageous, as it enables the application of knowledge in practical scenarios and the creation of a portfolio.

Support and Community: A supportive learning environment is vital, providing access to instructors and a community forum or chat for interaction among learners.

Additional Resources: Access to supplementary materials like lecture notes, code samples, and top MNC questions is valuable for future reference.

Price and Value: Prioritize course quality over cost. A well-structured course with comprehensive content and robust support may be worth a higher investment.

Course Duration: Consider your learning style—some prefer intensive shorter courses, while others benefit from longer durations with more practice time.

Certification: If certification holds importance for you, choose a course that offers certificates to enhance your resume or portfolio.

If you want to learn more about Python, feel free to contact ACTE Institution because they offer certifications and job opportunities. Experienced teachers can help you learn better. You can find these services both online and offline. Take things step by step and consider enrolling in a course if you’re interested.

#python #developer #programming #python programming #technology

[loveemii]

𝐑𝐲𝐮𝐤 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫

𝑷𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑹𝒚𝒖𝒌 𝒙 𝑭𝒆𝒎 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓

𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔: 𝑺𝒆𝒙𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕, 𝑺𝒆𝒙𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑽𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝑴𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓

♥︎~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~♥︎

“hey! sorry i’m late.”

y/n said as she took a seat at her desk, her teacher excused her and continued to teach his lesson. after class he kept y/n from leaving the class as he wanted to discuss something.

“do you mind staying a while? i need to talk to you about the 1.01 quiz.”

“ok, what about it exactly?”

“well you have a low score and i was thinking maybe you could retake it and get that grade up.”

“oh yeah for sure, thanks!”

“unless.”

the male teacher stated as he put his coffee cup down on his desk, y/n looked at her shinigami ryuk with an eyebrow. he gave her the same look but then looked at the teacher with his sinister twisted eyes.

“unless what?”

“unless you want to get that grade up easy.”

“huh?”

y/n was an oblivious girl and thus never knew when someone was flirting or being disgusting towards her. ryuk knew though, he’s the one who always told her afterwards like “that guy was flirting with you ya’know.”

“just hop on my cock and make me feel good yeah? what do you say?”

her teacher said as he grabbed y/n’s ass. ryuk took action and took you’re death note out of your bag and touched your teacher with it on his elbow. y/n’s face was in shock and she couldn’t move.

“hey there, nice to meet you! i’m ryuk.”

ryuk said as he laughed like a maniac as the teachers expression. he let go of y/n and ryuk put her behind him. the teacher fell to the floor staring in horror at ryuk. he looked the teacher dead in the face before he spoke.

“i should kill you right now. how does that sound?”

ryuk said as he kneeled down to the teacher he grabbed the teachers face to look him in the eyes. y/n then began to laugh at her teacher who was helplessly terrified of ryuk.

“what the hell is this y/n?!”

“this is ryuk, and he’ll kill you either way. if you touch me or not you’ll be dead.”

y/n said as her eyes became sinister and less oblivious, ryuk let out a chuckle to her new behavior. he then turned back to the teacher with his glowing red eyes same as y/n’s.

“how should we kill ‘em?

“i don’t know ryuk, so many options. suicide? what do you think?”

“i think that’s just perfect.”

ryuk said as he stood up and went behind y/n who was writing in the death note. she pictured her teachers name as she wrote..while speaking out loud.

“Mr. Kouyan took his own life in his classroom by chocking himself to death with his very own work tie.”

“beautiful.”

ryuk said as he put his long huge hands over y/n’s shoulders. they laughed as they watched him slowly get up and tie his tie to his neck as he tightened it to the point he was gasping for air.

“let’s go kid.”

ryuk said as he opened the door for y/n, they walked out the school as if nothing happened, ryuk floating behind her as they made their way back to y/n’s house.

the next morning it was on the news, y/n was eating chips while ryuk was eating apples.

“he had it coming. people like him and many others deserve to die and rot.”

y/n said as she turned up the volume, ryuk saw a familiar memory that never faded away.

“you remind me of someone.”

ryuk said as y/n giggled a little before putting another chip in her mouth, ryuk continued to eat his apples.

♥︎~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~♥︎

ty for reading i hope you enjoyed :)

(please excuse any typos)

#ryuk death note #death note #death note lawliet #death note light #light yagami #death note light yagami

[prolifeproliberty]

I'm pretty much outing myself with this, but I'm curious to know any tips you might have about teaching as a whole.

As it stands right now, I've decided to pursue early childhood education as a major. I want to teach 4-5 year olds, specifically, but my major, from what I understand, will be starting me off with infants to toddlers. This decision isn't concrete, and with the way I'm currently behind with assignments, I'm being very bleak about my future in general 🫠.

But again, any general tips or things to consider when wanting to pursue a teaching career? Especially since I'll most likely be working in public schools to get myself started, should I continue on this path.

Depending on what exact program you’re in, early childhood education usually means preschool and kindergarten (3-5 year olds).

For example, I’m certified in Texas for Core Subjects EC-8, meaning “early childhood through 8th grade”, or preschool-8th.

I’ll tell you that public school is tough. Your first year with your own classroom will be exhausting. You’ll probably cry at least once. There will be moments that make it worth it, but don’t be surprised if you feel like quitting by about April of your first year, if not October. You probably won’t stay at the first school you go to work at - the easiest schools to get jobs in are the ones with the most turnover, and they usually have turnover for a reason.

Also, every time you switch content areas or grade levels, it will be your first year again. Once you have a grade level and content area you love, stay there. Automate repetitive tasks. Don’t grade every assignment. If at all possible, avoid taking work home. You might need to your first year, but after that you should be able to reuse things and streamline your workload.

Each year your campus/district will push a few new programs and tell you that you need to implement them by the end of the year. Follow the lead of the experienced teachers- most of the time there is no follow through, and most new programs will fade out by the end of the year and be replaced with a new program the next year. Don’t waste your time and energy on them.

Befriend and experienced teacher, especially someone in your grade level/content area. Their experience will be an invaluable resource.

Ultimately, you’ll ask yourself how badly you need the money. Public school pays better than private school, tutoring, or micro schools. If I didn’t need the money/benefits, I would either do a private tutor/micro school setup, or I would be a substitute teacher. Although honestly, at that point I would just go full time doula, but that’s a different topic.

Definitely think outside the box and be aware of your options. You may have more open doors if you teach at the public school level for a few years, but if you find a private school that pays well or a good micro school setup, go for it.

Hopefully this makes sense. I’m not here to discourage you, but I want to make sure you have all the info.

[hjellacott]

Rant about autism.

So I've had it with people who rage against those who point out many autistic people cannot live fully independent lives and are in a very vulnerable position, because I know for a fact that many autistic people are no more independent than a baby. Hear me out.

The first people I ever met with autism were such normal people I was surprised to discover they had autism. One was a friend of mine whose only stereotypically autistic characteristic was his nerdiness and social difficulties, but otherwise he was just like anyone else. Then there was a friend's boyfriend, a man in his 20s with aspergers. And he was a bit more peculiar, but he led a fairly normal life: drove his own car, finished his studies, had a job, and nailed one hell of a girlfriend. And so I acquired the false idea that everyone who had autism were barely different from those who didn't.

And then flash forward a few years. I was hired at a school that only had autistic kids. 0bviously from my friends I thought it wouldn't be a big deal, but it was.

The school had students aged 3-18 and I began my training with 3-5 before working at a 13-15 class (students weren't divided by age but rather, by independence level and skills) covering for another teacher who was out on maternity leave and then, finally, I was properly assigned to a class of students 6-9, so I got to experience a broad range of ages and varieties of autism.

There were a few -very few- kids who fitted my preconceived ideas of autism. They were fully independent, talkative, skilled... they became obsessed with things and could be big nerds, but nothing difficult to deal with. The majority were the total opposite. Kids who if they weren't autistic would be talking, running around, learning Math or Sciences, playing football... but because they had a very severe form of autism, none of that was an option. These kids, and I saw them in all ages between 4 up to 16, couldn't do alone:

Going to the loo (they used nappies and adult assistance).

Preparing some food for themselves, at least a sandwich, without help.

Talk. At all.

Communicate it when they felt unwell.

Play alone.

Play sports (they'd just stand around).

Be trusted to be alone.

Go shopping.

Be left alone with smaller children (due to them communicating feelings in an occasionally aggressive way).

Perform a professional activity.

Read.

Aggressiveness was also a common issue with these children. They're not bad people, but because they can't tell you how they feel, they might just show you. More experienced teachers saw the signs to move away on time, but I was both bitten and punched within my first month on the job. And the later happened by total accident, just because the kid excitedly moving an arm without realising I was nearby.

These kids could also sometimes behave in ways that outside the safe environment of our classroom, would get them in trouble and even arrested. They'd sometimes masturbate, they'd spit, lick things, pull the hair of others, shout, throw themselves on the floor and refuse to move (record was in 9h straight), they might touch others inappropriately, might get very aggressive, and would on occasion pee themselves just for attention (as opposed to those who did it because they weren't able to tell us they needed the loo and yes, we could tell). It sounds like 4 year olds, but the majority of kids I saw do these things were 8, 12 or 14.

Working with these kids also constitute some of the happiest memories of my life. As challenging as they were, it was incredibly satisfying to be able to teach them to cook, to socialise, to healthily communicate emotions, to dance, to fix something broken, to play, to do the grocery shopping and to go to the loo or take care of their period on their own. But we couldn't get so far with everyone. The sad reality is that without more funding and teachers, we could only really help 10% of each classroom. The rest will always need a caretaker. And the saddest part is that many of these kids came from very poor families, or families that were suffering and their suffering affected the kids. One of my students suffered domestic violence, so part of our job was to check for wounds and bruises and be on the look out to call the police if necessary. Another's parents divorced, and this kid was so affected by it they'd drop on the floor out in the street every day on arrival and stay there accompanied by one of us all day, day after day, for two weeks.

I'm not telling you all this to horrify you or scare you away from parenthood or autistic people. I am saying it because there's a huge campaign going on to make it look like autism is always not a big deal, because autistics can always live a perfectly normal life. And I want to make you aware that there are huge amounts of cases where this isn't true. Thousands of autistic people that cannot be trusted to be left online, or with their sexual health, or to care for themselves or others, to have a job, to fend for themselves, to survive without a carer constantly there.

The reason it is so incredibly important to raise the awareness about these other autistic people, is because the misconceptions around them mean that them and their families are frequently ignored in education plans and politics. They don't get the enormous economical help they need, the parents go without psychological support, and we don't have nearly enough schools specialised in autistic kids and fully equipped to help them. Also because people aren't aware that autism can look like this just like it can look like someone with an exceptional IQ, they fear them more. Ignorance means they don't know what to do or how to behave when they meet a child or adult with severe autism. And so they push them away and leave them all alone.

If people had better awareness of severe autism, they wouldn't be afraid of it. They'd know it's manageable and there are techniques to deal with their challenges, and their families don't need you shouting at them in the park, but rather, your infinite understanding, comprehension, empathy. Schools would be better equipped thinking of these kids, bosses trained to maybe have employees severely autistic. And authorities such as police wouldn't cry insanity and madness the second someone behaves odd, but recognise signs of autism and know how to deescalate the situation. I mean imagine being a black man with severe autism in the US, nonverbal, masturbating in the park. The way things are right now, with the massive lack of awareness and racism, chances are you'd be shot dead by the police.

I don't think it's OK to pretend these severely autistic people don't exist or like autism is always just fine. It's not OK to ignore all these people, push them away and shove them in a box where we cannot see them. They need our help. And their families too.

#autism #autism awareness #social awareness

[bills-bible-basics]

Gay and Lesbian Agenda Graphic 39 Graphic created by #BillKochman for #BillsBibleBasics. Visit the BBB Graphics Library at https://www.billkochman.com/Graphics-Library/ to see all my graphics with related Bible studies. Whether some of you realize it or not, our nation has been slip sliding away for literally decades. However, the slide has been so slow, so gradual, and so subtle, that it wasn't until about halfway through the decade of the 2010s that a lot of people really began to wake up to what has been going on. However, sadly, by that time, it was already too late. Serious damage had already been done, and the victory had already been won. What has been going on since then basically amounts to mopping up exercises and tying up the loose ends. And boy are they doing a good job of it! So exactly what am I talking about? Well, do you remember a few decades ago -- back in the 1970s, actually -- when the LGBT crowd began claiming that they just wanted to be left alone to live their lives as they please? Fast-forward forty years. Then came gender reassignment surgery. Then came renegade, liberal circuit court judges who repeatedly overturned the will of the people. Then came renegade, liberal state legislatures who likewise overturned the will of the people. Then came civil unions. Then on June 26, 2015 came nationwide legalization of same-sex "marriage" by mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States, despite the majority of the American people being opposed to it. Then came openly gay or lesbian bishops, pastors, priests, politicians, actors, sports figures, and everyone in between. Then came same-sex union blessings in some of the churches. Then came adoption of normal, healthy children by same-sex couples. Then came law suits against Christians and Conservatives who follow their hearts and their faith, and who oppose the LGBT life style. Then came library books which openly promote the LGBT life style. Then came gender-neutral bathrooms. Then came drag queens in our public schools during children's story hour. Then came teaching LGBT history in the classroom. Then came liberal parents who encourage their children to act and dress like the opposite sex. Then came hormone injections, puberty-blocking drugs in young children and double mastectomies on adolescent girls in order to alter their natural-born physiology so that they could appear outwardly the way that they were being made to feel inwardly by misguided adults and parents. Then came a gender-neutral option on birth certificates. Now they promote their ungodly life style in every area of the entertainment and mass media industries where they possibly can, and constantly shove it in our faces. It is inescapable; unless one goes and lives in a cave. Yes, but of course, as they said, they just wanted to be left alone. Right? If you believe that nonsense, then you are seriously deceived! What about us? What about our right to live in a Bible-based, God-fearing society which honors and obeys God's natural order of things? How much longer will God endure this madness and rebellion against His holy Laws? When will His patience finally run out? When will His judgments begin to fall on the wicked who mock Him everyday, and who cast His Word to the ground? As the Apostle John wrote some two thousand years ago: "And‭ we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness." 1 John 5:19, KJV If John were alive today, oh how he would shudder! If you would like to further explore this issue, please consider reading all of the study resources which are listed below. God bless you, and thanks so much! Article: "The Gay and Lesbian Agenda: To the Point!": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/homosex1.html Article: "Future of Same-Sex Marriage": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/future-of-same-sex-marriage-01.html Article: "When Sin is No Longer a Sin!": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/whensin1.html Article: "Queen James Bible: Blasphemous Abomination Exposed!":

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/queen-james-bible-1.html Article: "Biblical Marriage Ceremonies": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/marriage1.html "Homosexuality Lesbianism Bestiality Transvestitism" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse138.html Magazine Article: "The Overhauling of Straight America": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles-Non-BBB/overhaul.html Article: "The Gay Gene?": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles-Non-BBB/gaygene1.html By the way, when we come to Jesus Christ and are reborn in the Spirit, the Scriptures make it very clear that we should undergo a spiritual and mental change in our lives, and that we should in fact become NEW CREATURES in Jesus Christ. We should NOT remain the same, living our same old life style, and living in our same old sins. That means that people who belong to the LGBTQ crowd should NOT continue practicing their sexual deviancy. Here is Scriptural proof: "God's Desire for Healing and Repentance" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse302.html "Old Man Versus New Man" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse165.html "Washed and Renewed Mind" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse071.html Article: "Don't Ever Underestimate Our Spiritual Enemy": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/DontUnderestimateOurEnemy1.html https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/gay-and-lesbian-agenda-graphic-39/?feed_id=101151&_unique_id=65472fc1e118e&Gay%20and%20Lesbian%20Agenda%20Graphic%2039

#All_Posts #LGBTQ_Agenda #agenda #bible #bible_study #bill_kochman #bills_bible_basics #christian #gay #homosexual #homosexuality #king_james_version #kjv #lesbian #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #scriptures #transvestite #verse_lists #verses

[ramshacklestar]

@mostrohost sent || "You turn this knob here to adjust the heat." He motioned to the knob in question, pointing out where to find the pans and utensils in Octavinelle's dorm kitchen. While not as high-end as what he'd outfitted the Lounge with, everything was still in excellent order.

"For this exercise you will have 30 minutes to make something that shows your range of expertise. You may use whatever's in the fridge, so long as it's not labeled as dangerous or belonging to someone else. You may begin."

Yuu watched Azul move about the kitchen diligently, as though she was in class with Crewel and he had demanded the pups as he called them pay special attention to his teachings as whatever he discussed would be on a test. Much like within the classroom this was a test, this test not only mattered for her future potential of becoming a true employee beneath Azul but also her possibility of having a decent life if she was truly stuck here.

Though Yuu had only really cooked at the school of her own world she was still determined in the very least, her hair already tightly tied back and sleeves rolled up on her sweatshirt so not to dip the cloth into the food and be distasteful.

"I'll admit the fact you might have dangerous things mixed with where you keep food is concerning, but I'll check." The problem was what would she make? Perhaps something completely unexpected from her own world? She supposed that depended on the ingredients they had, but the younger kids at the orphanage had always enjoyed when Yuu made them Yakitori...so maybe? It was simple but a half hour wasn't a lot of time. Digging around the kitchen for proper utensils to start Yuu gave a small 'ahah' after finding a cast iron grill pan pulling it out and putting it atop the stove before temping it, going into one of the utensil drawers Yuu pulled out a couple packets of chopsticks, not perfect again, but they'd work then went on to pull out two knives along with two cutting boards.

Finding the stage sufficiently set up Yuu ventured to the fridge finally, noting thankfully that those dangerous items and other people's food were indeed marked. It had taken some digging but Yuu was grateful when she saw a packet of raw chicken, part of a green pepper and some of a pineapple left behind that at least appeared unmarked and still smelt okay for consumption.

Getting straight to work Yuu chopped the food she found up, skewered the cut up pieces on a chopstick seasoned it with a light dash of salt before putting it on the grill setting the heat to a medium to start and flicking the chopstick every now and then to ensure an even cook. Yuu hadn't honestly been paying too much attention to the time figuring Azul might say something if it was up as her concentration locked on the Yakitori. By the smell she certainly knew she was cooking it right and had a feeling if Grim was there he'd be jumping on her right about now demanding she give him whatever she was making.

After a time Yuu brought the heat back down to a low temp so the food might stay warm and picked up one of the ends of the chopstick skewer presenting it to Azul. "Caloric intake is about 300 but it's grilled so it's sufficiently healthier than the fried option. Maybe it's simple but it's quite the popular dish from my world and you can have all sorts of pairings with it, I just chose what was most convenient."

#//Oofs for how long that kinda got but was into it #i'm just me || ic. #mostrohost

[dlamp-dictator]

Thinking About Combat Schools

In an attempt to try and write at least one decently sized essay post that isn’t about Arknights for once (and god is that difficult) I’m going to talk about something else that is near and dear to my heart.

Combat School Anime/Manga.

Along side my thoughts of how Hypergryph is doing everything in their power to make Vigil suck as a unit I’ve been thinking a lot about the Combat School genre of anime and manga recently. It seems this odd sub-genre of the late 2000s and early-to-mid 2010s is making a mild resurgence with shows like The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World, Reborn to Master the Blade, The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World, Reign of the Seven Spellswords, and so on. The world is slowly but surely leaving the realm of isekai and going back the formula of classrooms about battle and facing enigmatic foes of various species and organizations.

And most of them suck.

Okay, I’m being a dick here, but they really don’t do anything I like and most of them feel like they have the same problems that Hundred. Few of them take the aspect of a school revolving around combat and martial prowess seriously since most of the students either don’t take the classes seriously or are at the schools for reasons aside from learning combat. Few of these shows give the protagonist a legitimately good reason for being at said school since most of them are unnaturally strong and dust through the classes with ease to the point of them being there is pointless. And very few of these series have protagonist that interest me since most of them boil down to the same Gary Stu archetype of being the best or having the most potential for greatness right out the gate with little trouble in terms of the combat portion of the combat school.

Like, folks, you can make this genre interesting.

But I digress. And rather than mindless complain about all I currently hate about the genre’s reemergence I believed it would be better to channel my venting into something worth a damn and just talk about some of the more interesting and fun points of the genre, maybe with a few recommendations thrown in as well.

But first, as always, a synopsis.

The Combat School genre of anime essentially focuses on a school setting that revolves around teaching students combat, martial arts, or efficiently utilizing their supernatural abilities in a semi-controlled environment for the sake of them graduating and using those abilities to better society. Most of the time the end goal of these schools is to work as a paramilitary academy to train students to either fight ambiguous monsters of some kind like in Katana Maidens or Hundred, and sometimes it’s to work under a government-sanctioned supernatural military force like in Absolute Duo or Chivalry of a Failed Knight. There’s also the third option of simply keeping all the super-powered teenagers under one concentrated location for the sake of keeping an eye on them, but that’s rarely done or discussed save for one series I can think of and mentioning it would be a huge spoiler of its premise so I’d rather not.

But anyway, onto why exactly I like this odd little sub-genre.

The Appeal

Originally I was going to break this down into two different types of appeals but I’m scrapping that going with just a few key points. This sub-genre has a lot of fun bits and aspect about it both from a mechanical writing perspective and emotional one, and for the sake of your time and my sanity I’ll be doing the appeals in a semi-short list form of each aspect I like about this series.

So... with that said.

Easy Action: Action junky I am, it’s pretty easy to show off action in a setting that allows and likely encourages both organized combat and unorganized combat due to the school’s very setting focusing on the eventuality of battles, and those battles will have the narrative weight of not only our characters having to be good fighters for the sake of not getting hurt, but being good students as well. High school can feel like a battlefield at times, and this genre can make that very literal.

Easy  Worldbuilding: This one’s a bit tricky to do smoothly, but a combat school setting being a school usually gives us, the audience, a good reason to quite literally be lectured to about the setting when it is an in-universe lecture that the main cast is also listening to. This can get boring if it isn’t done well or the teachers in question don’t have interesting ways of give that information, but usually it’s excusable by the nature of use needing to know this information as much as the character, no matter how boring the exposition might be.

Cast Diversity: This often depends on the world’s settings and other specifics, but it’s pretty easy to get a wide and varying cast of characters by the nature of it being a school, especially if the main character is a transfer student of some kind. Not to the mention the chance of getting an exchange student or some other outsider that isn’t the region’s usual demographic or ethnicity. Things like that are easy to justify in a school environment and gives a good reason to explore the world outside the setting without leaving it.

Easy Character Arcs: Being a school, the amount of personal stakes you can attach to things like tests, competitions, and even romance will be both natural and in character with a cast of teenagers. Plus the more intense settings could have more straightforward stakes like risk of injury or death depending on how gritty you want to make the series. You can also focus on more tertiary that aren’t explored as the main cast of students to keep things varied without it feeling out of nowhere. There were plenty of Assassination Classroom episodes that focused on the D-Cast without it feeling weird after all.

Power Levels/Powerscaling: As much as I want write essays on this topic I’ll keep things brief. Being a school that often revolves around learning how to either fight or use the world-specific powers to fight grants the writer a lot of interesting ways to limit and expanse the magic system/power levels of the world, letting them increase the escalation of the level of threats and powers in a smooth fashion. Teachers tend to be the aspirations in terms of power with professionals and graduates of the school being a step or two about that. It varies, but that’s the gist of things to make it simple.

There’s a few more, but these are the immediate advantages of the setting I can think of. Overall, the Combat School setting is very inclusive to a number of different ideas.

And... I’ve honestly seen only a few that do this well, and the handful that do usual have a massive asterisks in front of them.

Quick Notes on Other Combat Schools

Just going to make a quick list here since I don’t really have anything worth endorsing with confidence. Like I said, most other combat school series tend to have some kind of asterisk to it that makes it hard for me to recommend. With that said...

Absolute Duo has a pretty decent opening with a more down-to-earth setting compared to other combat schools that really understands the school is about combat, but it falls into a lot of fanservice and harem tropes that aren’t needed since Tor and Julie’s narrative journeys and general school activities are already interesting enough to hold the plot together without a needless panty shot.

Chivalry of the Failed Knight also takes the combat school portion of it’s setting seriously, but post anime a lot of the more... specific issues surrounding the big tournament and spoilers of the events during it tend to break my suspension of disbelief in terms of the antagonistic force in the setting that isn’t Ikki’s family actively screwing him over because of political reasons.

Hundred... I’ve talked about already, but to keep it short feels like an action series that takes place at a school rather than being a combat school series.

Armed Girl’s Machiavellism is actually a good series all things considered, with a main character that’s fun to watch, a female cast that’s interesting without them all being completely tied to the male lead, and some decent action shots in it, but I consider it more a school with a lot of martial arts and combat in it than a proper combat school. The setting is mostly a school where the student body knows martial arts and swordplay out of convenience rather than it being a part of the school’s curriculum, so technically I don’t think it should count.

Overall it just feels like a lot the more recent combat school series don’t see the fun potential in the genre and instead just... have school with some combat in it. And that’s just not fun, or at least not interesting. If I had to be honest I’d say the only decent Combat School series out right now is Reign of the Seven Spellblades with it actually taking the whole wizard thing seriously and letting the characters learn and understand the wonder and dangers of magic as well as the kind of place a school that encourages magical growth and experimentation is like. And even then I consider it more a magic school series than a combat school.

I don’t know. All this talk about the genre’s potential now has me in the mood to try and write my own. Tempting, but... I’ve got enough on my plate already.

Anyway, that’s all I wanted to talk about. A bit meandering, but just wanted to get my thoughts out somewhere. Maybe I’ll talk about something a little more concrete in the future. Anyways, be seeing you all later.

#your dictator is speaking

[fractallogic]

so i realized that when I'm going through a medium-strength depressive episode, I want to learn languages and do vocabulary and stuff like that... so i turn to duolingo, usually

unFORTUNATELY, duolingo also makes me mad because everyone's like "oh duolingo is awesome, it's the best, you *really learn a language* with duolingo" and I'm constantly finding errors in the languages I know and inconsistencies with the languages I don't and it's only a small part of any given language pedagogy and it's just so FRUSTRATING, and possibly more so because they didn't fucking hire me to highlight and fix any of these problems any of the four times that I applied and did the initial interest interview

and now they're really going hard on "we teach ENDANGERED languages" when the navajo course is seven units long and the fucking high valyrian course is 29 units long. you don't learn shit in seven units. like idk if the hawaiian course is any better!! and there are, in all likelihood, issues with getting additional approval from tribes, etc. to share their language, and issues getting native or very good speakers to record stimuli, and honestly I started the navajo course because I wanted to see how they dealt with navajo morphosyntax (so far: not well) and that's probably also a stopping point... but you can't tell me you're going to Teach Me Navajo in any meaningful way, which imo is even more disrespectful than just like... not having it.

and THEN you even compare western european courses like french/spanish/german to, idk, finnish, and the former courses all have these extensive "guidebooks" for grammar, they include notes and conjugation tables, etc etc etc, and finnish has ... a list of some of the sentences and phrases that you learn. is it LIKELY that someone's learning finnish from english as their very first non-english language? no, probably not (and i KNOW duolingo's research scientists have the data that can back that up). would it still be USEFUL to have those same tables and notes and so on? ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY. is it useful to have cultural elements like a finnish instrument called a kantele and being able to say "matti is a finn with sisu"? YES. but do they fucking bother to explain what either of those things are? NO.

and like, the thing about duolingo is that they make these extensive claims and it's used in classrooms now (?!) and they're seen as this super high-prestige program among language nerds, and it's just WRONG, and it really pushes my buttons. memrise doesn't make the very strong claim that you use it to learn a language; it really bills itself as more of a vocabulary practice tool (which both of these are), and i'm happy with that. there are memrise-made courses and user-made courses, and they're like "here are certain guarantees we can make about the general quality of the memrise courses, which we cannot make about the user-made courses", which I am also very much fine with. memrise hides some of its stuff behind a paywall, which, fine (caveat: I paid for a lifetime memrise membership—which is a big reason why I'm so !!! MY ACCOUNT WAS STOLEN !!! about the whole thing), but there's so much free content that imo the paywall is really just a nice bonus and not actually the necessary things to have. more and more it feels like duolingo's paywall is blocking some of the necessary stuff (like a personalized practice session, which I feel like is simple enough to program in and not necessarily worth a whole-ass paywall) and is also really expensive, AND without any options for a lifetime membership/single-pay model, afact.

maybe I would feel differently if i worked for duolingo. i would definitely feel differently if i was just a language-learning enthusiast instead of a linguist who literally specializes in how people learn words and word pieces in languages that are different from their primary language. duolingo is just TOO BIG FOR ITS BRITCHES and self-important and it needs to be knocked down several pegs.