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charmedreincarnation · 5 months

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Hey guysss! A lot of people have been asking for me to make a challenge for a while now. I honestly didn’t want to, not because I’m against them or anything but because the law will be different for everyone. Sometimes, it feels like tumblr needs a reminder - you are the only person who knows what you need to do to succeed. I wish I could imprint this realization on everyone's minds. I’ve also gotten so manyyyy asks about things that genuinely just feel like your doubts repeating in your mind constantly so I’m gonna talk abt my beliefs bc y’all are spiraling really hard. I get it you want your desires for Christmas and new years. It’s okay take a breath, you're alive and will be okay.

Firstly: at the beginning I used to spend countless time spiraling into depression, constantly changing my methods every time I saw a new success story, and every time I found a new foolproof' tumblr method. Methods that were supposed to guarantee results in a day so when they didn’t I felt rlly useless. It was annoying, to say the least, and I don’t want to help others do the same thing, but really all I can do is reiterate what I always say and hope you apply it to everything!!

A lot of you guys wanted something that didn’t involve the void state, so that’s what this will revolve around! But feel free to make this void orientated if you desire, and I’ll also add a void section so all my babies can eat!

Ok so you’ve over consumed, you have dropped the void, and now have switched to just assuming and knowing that you would wake up with your dream life - embracing states. Great! At first, it will seem like you're doing nothing but you aren’t! For example, I knew I was dwelling in the state of wish fulfilled when I went to work without shedding tears, when I looked in the mirror and didn't think I was ugly because, well, I'm beautiful! I didn't care abt not performing well on a test because I could revise my past etc. this isn’t to say ignore the 3D: don’t do that, please try and make sure you’re safe and okay. But know life is malleable. Slowly, things that used to bother me—my parents, grades, anxiety, self-deprivation—started to fade away. Even though my dream life hadn't reflected in my 3D yet, I felt the switch. That's when I decided, I know what to do.

I also remember finding this cute website a long time ago that I want to share that summarizes it in such a great and simple way.

So Before I knew or understood what LOA was, I found this gem of an article on I am Love'- "How To Shift Into A State & Stay There". I think I have a post abt it somewhere on my blog but I’m too lazy to find it so here it is again.

Basically it explains that the essence of shifting into a desired state and staying there. What resonated with me was her choice to dwell in the state of knowing that her desires are hers, no matter what.

The way she used colloquial language made the content relatable and easy to understand. It's like having a conversation with a friend who's guiding you through hard concepts with “dumbed down” language because at the beginning states made 0 sense to me.

Posts like this really helped me particularly because when I discovered Neville, it required three attempts on my part to not only intellectually grasp his teachings, but also to truly comprehend him as a whole, given his non-contemporary speaking tbh.

I recommend it if you find yourself stuck or not really grasping the law yet (which is more than okay) but, if you're looking to understand the loa better or just learn more give this article a read.

There’s also a particular quote from Neville that really got me to dive into his work after finding this article and it was- “The being that you really are, descended to the weakness of the flesh, causing you to experience the state you are now in. Contemplate another state, and the same being who brought your present form into being will restore and make alive the other state, the state desired. This he will continue to do until his purpose is fulfilled. That purpose is to follow a certain pattern back into the unity of being. You see, in the beginning we were drafted. We did not volunteer to fall into these states. We were made subject into futility, not willingly but by the will of him who sent us. But when we return we will discover that we are the very being who subjected us. We are now the sons, destined to return as God the Father!”

Now that you understand and are ready to apply state, Here’s a routine I’ve created to hopefully help you guys! It is very simple and not time consuming at all.

Scripting and writing: I love writing and feeling like the author of my own story, literally bringing my creation to life. I would write when I felt like it. Whenever I wanted to dwell in my state, I would simply write, "I have my dream life." It's so simple, yet it embodies everything I need. If you’re more of a picture girl, use Pinterest instead. Or both if you prefer it doesn’t matter.

Edward arts' "I am creator meditation": Again, do this whenever you like it. It's one of the few meditations that didn't bore me to death and seemed to work with my ADHD. I also love reading, so I would read his pdf whenever I felt like it and take mental notes. Reading his work was a reminder I was doing everything right, it resonated with me very well.

During doubt and overstimulation: When things get overwhelming, close your eyes and let the emotions pass. They’re just thoughts! repeat the words "I am" until your heart returns to its normal rhythm. It's a simple yet powerful way to ground yourself amidst the whirlwind of emotions. And guess what? You can use this technique for doubt too! So the next time you're feeling overwhelmed, remember the power of "I am". It's a gentle reminder of your existence, your resilience, and your capability to be whatever you want despairs any emotional turmoil.

Thank god: (yourself!!) When reminded of your desires. Thank you god. When you see your desires, (eg:Pinterest, online or you’re just reminded) thank you god! When you see an image of your desires, thank you god! When you dream or think about your desires. Thank god! Always thank the person fulfilling it aka you ;)! If you’re religious just thank the god you actually follow.

Nightly reflections: At night, ask yourself , "What would I do if I woke up in my dream life right now?" repeat this question throughout the night. Then, imagine whatever scene you want. What would you do if you could not fail? What would you do if you had all the money in the world right now. What if you looked in the mirror and saw the most ethereal being and it’s just you? What about if you woke up in your dream house with your dream family and pets? This is inspired by one of the first shifting methods I created that helped me fulfill my imagination before I knew what that meant. When you’re ready to sleep just remind yourself it is done, and drift off into your desires.

As I've always said, I've been a great daydreamer. I knew exactly what I wanted my life to look and feel like. I envisioned my walk-in closet filled with luxurious outfits, waking up in my dream room on a soft mattress with my pets purring nearby. I saw the decor reflecting my personality in every corner of my large, and pretty room. I imagined walking into my bathroom, seeing all my cool Sephora products lined up for my skincare and shower routine. I love taking care of myself because I know I deserve it. I saw myself looking in the mirror, knowing I'm "that girl" who turns heads wherever she goes.I visualized going downstairs in my boujee dream house,and seeing my family stress-free, smiling, and eating well. I saw plans being made on my phone, my friends were excited to see and talk to me. I went to my kitchen, filled with expensive ingredients ready for me to cook meals for my loved ones - because I love cooking. I saw myself checking my bank account and seeing multiple seven figures in my savings, checking, and investment accounts and opportunities easily presenting myself to make more if I wanted. I saw myself running errands in my car, shopping, getting Starbucks, having expensive lunch with friends, and making a trip to Target. Despite the simplicity of the day, I would come home and be like, "Ugh, what a long day!"like that one khloe kardashian meme. What if all this happened today? Visualize and feel the scenes so clearly that it felt like it's already happening.. not just in your imagination.

Most importantly: Define the law for you! Stop parroting bloggers and intertwine your own beliefs with the law. The only principle of the law is that through persistence assumption will harden into a fact. Other than that anything goes except for facts that are wrong.

Here’s old notes I found in my phone lol just so you know what I mean by define the law for you: ignore the writing I was kinda dumb and new to the law 😭😭

Now this is for my void babies if you made it this far.

Read this post.

This is it copied bc the links are wonky sometimes

“My previous method is based on the persistent assumption, which a lot of people don’t know how to do right and it might take some time even for those who have the right self-concept and the mindset, so today I was in the process of manifesting this method.

And I was successful!

This method is for everyone. It’s the easiest Void method.

Do you know that you get into the Void state at night automatically? At that time the whole perceived world disappears for you. Every single perception and assumption you have disappears while your consciousness in the calm and natural Void state.

Use it to your advantage. Now that you know about the Void that you enter when you sleep, the perfect state to manifest anything that you wish to perceive, with no “resistance”, no illusions of annoying solid things around, you only need to remember your scripted starting point in your DR and practice watching it all coming out of the Void.

Practice that scene with your eyes closed, say to yourself:”That is what I perceive. Next time I’m in the Void, I’ll experience this”. You won’t even need to be fully aware of yourself that way when you get into the Void while you are asleep. Your subconscious would do all the work as it now would have the instruction and a clear image of you expecting it.

Personal experience: as I was receiving information on this method, I almost stepped into my DR! I wasn’t even in the absolute void state, I was only creating the scene for this method and I felt it materialise with my senses!

I have great feeling that it’s going to give fast results for others! Try it, teach your subconscious what it needs to bring forth while in the Void, let it do your work for you!”

Lastly, I’m gonna talk abt my beliefs real quick bc the fear of shifting vs manifesting makes me sad for y’all. I understand you don’t wanna leave behind the people you love and that’s not fear to feel ashamed of having! I personally hate the npc mindset a lot of have people have adopted. The only thing we know for sure is that assumptions create realities, and consciousness is the real reality. Everything else boils down to assumptions, except for principles. For example, shifting is not lucid dreaming, even if you assume it to be. That is the principle. I’m just going to copy what I told my mutal bc I’m lazy and need to finish Christmas stuff 😭😭 but Our imagination and the 4D realm are products of our consciousness, which is indeed real. Our view of reality is shaped by our consciousness, since we can't experience everything all at once.

Unless, of course, you shift into a super omnipotent god. Even then, you’d probably still struggle with the concept of infinity because, well, infinity is infinite. And it’s constantly a never exnding expansion. As humans, we're finite beings, and our understanding of the infinite is naturally limited. Because you can’t and won’t ever experience everything at once, infinity is always expanding. Our awareness can be thought of as fragments of consciousness; it's like being a drop of water in a massive ocean. Even though our perception is limited, the infinite is always there, always existing. We simply adjust our awareness to perceive this infinite reality.

And through our consciousness, we are able to tap into other realities or 'multiverses', which give us a broader understanding of existence. This exploration of consciousness and the multiverse is a significant part of my journey into the world of manifestation.

The law of consciousness explains why, when you "shift" or change your perspective, you don't physically move. It's all about altering your state of awareness. This is also why time doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. You can become aware of any time or day you want, as long as you choose to be aware of it. It's like having a mental time machine. This law is why infinite universes exist. As long as you can be aware of it, you can assume and embody the state of that person. Whether that's someone with a billion dollars on Earth, or a person who lives in the Attack on Titan world, it's all about your awareness.Our awareness is just a fragment of the larger consciousness – hence the idea of the multiverse. Each universe is a different fragment, a different state of awareness. And we have the power to “shift” into any of these states, therefore shifting into any of these universes.

I’m telling you this bc there’s no need to be afraid of manifesting or being in a reality with robotic versions of the people you love. Ariana grande and Marilyn Monroe for example talk about loa without acknowledging it and we see their success. Neville Goddard and his followers saw each other’s manifestions and I manifest for my friends and they mnaifest for me.

Take a deep breath and let go of the tik tok clone mindsets y’all have they don’t exist. You can manifest and assume anything you want in your imagination. Y’all literally want to manifest things like millions of dollars, revising deaths, living in new countries, having immorality in your waiting rooms, and never aging which is all possible of course. So be for real, why assume and know that you can achieve all that, but it won't manifest exactly how you want? I've also wondered about what happens to the "old version" of people when they manifest their dream life. As far as I'm concerned, they dont exist because you choose not to be aware of them.

I really want to talk about this too, as I've received similar questions and, oh my god, I thought I was alone. I've always been a bit delusional and lived in my head, but when I became conscious of the law, did anyone else feel a sense of self-embarrassment? I don't know what that was, but I'd genuinely feel my soul wanting to throw up envisioning my desires that aren't mine, even though I've always been a daydreamer. It's kind of like when you feel you can't have them or it's strange to envision yourself with something you can't have, so you just purge yourself. 😭

I was thinking back to why that happened and laughing at myself because we need to be serious right now. Why are you getting sick by your own mind? Imagine if Van Gogh, anytime he pulled out a canvas and held a brush, was jump-scared by the brush. Picture him holding out the brush and just staring at the canvas crying because "well, the painting is going to suck 😐," "I don't know what to paint☹️☹️," "I already know it won't be like what I envision in my head 😡😡." Like, bro, the canvas is blank, just fucking paint. That’s why I really like his quote that's like...

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” So If you’re scared of failing, if you’re scared of your desires, or scared of how it will come to fruition, for that reason alone is more so to and manifest it anyways.

But happy holidays guys! make some tea, scroll through Pinterest, read a good book and watch some Christmas films and remember if you can imagine/think your desires you can embody them bc where are you getting it from??

Here are some helpful documents I have read plus a cute vid I saw on insta reels : (let me know if the links are being weird)

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rebeccathenaturalist · 2 years

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Before Monocots and Eudicots: The Basal Angiosperms

Originally posted at my blog at https://rebeccalexa.com/basal-angiosperms/

One of the nice things about living on a lake is that I can go kayaking whenever I feel like it–or, more realistically, when I have the time to do so. I hope someday to be the kind of person who can start every day with a serene glide across the water, but for now I take my opportunities as I’m able to. One of my favorite things about the experience is getting to start and end my journey by paddling through a huge patch of western yellow pond lily (Nuphar polysepala, previously categorized as a subspecies of Nuphar lutea). And it was this plant that was my introduction to the concept of basal angiosperms.

See, when I have a species I really like, I spend time researching it. So I decided to dig into the natural history of this plant, one of eight extant species in the genus. In addition to finding out that the seeds are edible, and the roots are a traditional medicine, I also learned that they are an example of basal angiosperms–something that piqued my interest in tracing the evolution of various beings.

Nuphar polysepala

Basal angiosperms are essentially the oldest orders of flowering plants. Prior to the first angiosperms, plants either reproduced with cones like today’s conifers and other gymnosperms, or through spores and gemmae as with bryophytes (which may also reproduce through fragmentation.) Flowers were a new mutation that used visually appealing structures and scents to attract animals as vehicles for spreading pollen to other members of the same plant species. Flower-producing plants–the angiosperms–have since exploded into countless species, with about 300,000 known species in existence today. The most ancient lineages are known as ANITA grade.

ANITA is short for a group of five orders: Amborellales, Nymphaeales, Illiciales, Trimeniaceae, and Austrobaileya. More recently Illiciales and Trimeniaceae have been folded into Austrobaileya, leaving the acronym shorter at ANA, though some recent papers persist in using ANITA.

Angiosperms are commonly thought to have evolved during the early Cretaceous Epoch, around 135 million years ago, though pollen that may be angiosperm in origin was found dating back to about 250 million years ago. Soon after angiosperms appeared, their lineage began to branch out. The earliest branches to diverge were the basal angiosperms. Amborella trichopoda is the sole representative of the oldest branch; all other flowering plants share the same common ancestor from which Amborella‘s ancestors diverged.

Amborella trichopoda. By Scott Zona, CCA-2.0

Amborella lives all the way on the other side of the planet from me, on the island of Grand Terre in New Caledonia, which means my chances of getting to see it in person are pretty slim. However, there are lots of basal angiosperms out there, and they have some pretty interesting qualities.

If you learned about plants in middle school or junior high, you very likely learned about “monocots and dicots” as being the two main divisions of flowering plants. In truth, these two are joined by the basal angiosperms, and a fourth group, the Magnoliids. These latter Magnoliidae are the next-oldest group of angiosperms, and they and the basal angiosperms both pre-date the emergence of the monocots and dicots (now known as eudicots). Species in these older lineages have physical traits of both the monocots and eudicots, giving a glimpse of what flowers were like before these more numerous groups appeared. This also shows that monocots and eudicots have a common ancestry, rather than one evolving from the other.

The Nymphaeales, of which my beloved western pond lilies is a part, are a good example. If you examine the structure of a stem of a pond lily, it looks very much like that of a eudicot. Rather than having vascular tissue distributed throughout the the stem’s tissue as with a monocot, the vascular bundles are arranged in a circle like in a eudicot. But the stem lacks the eudicots’ cambium, which creates xylem and phloem.

Like the monocots, Nymphaeales flower parts are arranged in multiples of three, whether petals, stamens, etc. However, this does not mean the basal angiosperms are the direct ancestors of monocots. Compare Amborella which has varying numbers of tepals (the forerunner of sepals and petals), stamens, carpals and other parts depending on whether the flower is male or female. Neither sex of Amborella displays a trimerous (parts in multiples of three) flower. And, just for the record, eudicot flower parts generally show up in multiples of four or five.

The relationships among these various groups of flowering plants aren’t just dependent on the physical characteristics, though. A lot of what we’ve been learning lately about basal angiosperms comes through genetic research. For example, a recent debate concerns whether Amborella is the oldest basal angiosperm, or whether Amborella and the Nymphaeales together are the very oldest lineages, closer related to each other than the rest of the angiosperms.

Kadsura japonica

If you live in Australia, east Asia, or the Caribbean, you have species from the Austrobaileya in your region. Austrobaileya scandens is the only member of its genus and family, and is located in northeast Queensland. The Schisandraceae and Illiceaceae are woody plants found in tropical areas in east Asia and the Caribbean. While in tropical Southeast Asia, you might look for the Trimeniaceae, various species which may also be found in eastern Australia and the Pacific Islands. Amborella, of course, is limited to New Caledonia.

The Nymphaeales includes the better part of a hundred species, including the various water lilies, fanworts, and similar plants. They are quite widespread, found commonly (to include as invasive species in some cases) on all continents except for Antarctica.

As for me, I will continue to enjoy the presence of my local western yellow pond lilies. Now that I have a deeper understanding of their evolutionary history, I can better appreciate what unique neighbors they are!

Did you enjoy this post? Consider taking one of my online foraging and natural history classes, checking out my other articles, or picking up a paperback or ebook I’ve written! You can even buy me a coffee here!

#long post #botany #plants #evolution #prehistory #flowers #angiosperms #nature #ecology #science #scicomm #science communication

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yarrayora · 8 months

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hiiii ive said before that i miss the concept of kinkmeme where you can write down a prompt and several people can fill in on that prompt but i don't feel like making dreamwidth for such a small fandom so let's do it on tumblr, servamp fandom

send me a prompt of a story you'd like to read and i'll post it on my blog so other people can see it. you can add bonus points for specific things you want to see in the fic

here's an example of a kinkmeme prompt format:

([put ship name here or tag it as gen]) [put prompt here] ([put possible tw or kink here]) +put bonus point here -put what you don't want to see here ex. (Kuro/Mahiru) Mahiru introduces Kuro to Ryuusei and Koyuki +bonus point if they don't know about vampires yet -no sakuya wank please ex2. (Touma/Tooru) Touma drags Tooru to a love hotel on the day he promises his nephew to watch his play for the school festival (dubcon) +pre-canon please, preferably when Mahiru is still in grade school +i want to see Tooru's guilt for breaking his promise :3

anyway ask is open

#servamp #servamp kinkmeme

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acesolaris · 1 year

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Education in a Solarpunk World

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. ~ Socrates

I'm very passionate about knowledge. I'm extremely curious and love to share everything and anything. As you might notice when scrolling though this blog, I love to deepdive into topics and pile and sort the informaton I find, both for me but also for others.

I'm also living in a western european country and my school system is terrible. So bad in fact, I gave up my wish to become an schoolteacher and followed another passion. There are other well articulated and better researched sources that go into the why our school sytem is this way. I'll only talk about my vison to make it better.

The whole plan is creating an individualized curriculum for each student with a focus on creating citizens who are mentally-balanced, socially well-adjusted and know how to think, so the teaching would differ for each student.

My Solapunk version of education, has three pillars.

The first is free education. Free acess to the Institutions, but also the knowledge through libraries, free acess to the Internet, free acess to academic studies. Free acess reagardless of age. there is a minimum time you have to spend in education, but lifelong couriosity, learning and exchange is encouraged, even after you started doing your chosen daily labour in the community.

The second pillar is the fact that the concept of general knowledge is a construct by the society and state you live in. So let's completely revamp this. I strongly believe that general knowlede should be considered everything that helps you taking care of yourself when you don't have acces to the help of others. Examples out of my head are cooking, basic maintenance of your home/prosessions/garden, first aid, but also how to get and revaluate knowlede you need and don't have. That, and a basic understanding of numbers, reading and reading comprehension to evaluate what you are reading and be able to apply it to your life. To properly form arguments and comunicate in a non-vilolent way. Thats the basic curriculum, the shell so to speak. It doesnt matter how you learn it, via games, from your parents or classes you take. You can't leave education untill you have proven to function in those in your way.

Ok, so the kids earn those skills in peer groups of around five or six people for as long as they need in their own pace, but what about, you know, everything else? They get let loose. There might be some age restriction on topics, but what I envison is pure interest and passion driven learning. There's no classes or grades, just develloping skills and knowledge. Every day there are three or four discussion pannels or lectures to a weirdly specific topic, like the manuscrips of Timbuktu, the life and times of Ghandi or how to best craft a basket out of different plant fibres. And anyone who wants can submitt a topic, and if it interests you, you go, otherwise you stay and work on your linewight in your drawing or solve math problems. Depending on your learning style, there 're videos, audiobooks, texts and writings in differnt lengths in differnt formating from bullet points to tomes. There are workshops, and studygroups, games and media that cover every topic you possibly want to learn about. It doen't matter when you do it, it matters that you do it. If you are a night owl, you come at 9pm, if you only can focus for 30 min before having to switch the topic, you can, if you leave with 15 because you are sick of learning you can come back with 21 when you regrett dropping out. Time doesn't matter.

There is a third pillar which is the treatment of children as actual people. Up until I was 18 years and suddently an adult my no was never respected, unless I gave an essay on why I didn't want to. Simply because I was a child and my parents knew better- every adult knew better. Which I see everywhere, and people are wondering why consens is such a dificult concept to establish as we have to learn that No is adequate. No justifications, just a No. So the learning Institute has scientists and social workers present, who are accessible as someone the students might go to for advice when needed with whatever neeed might come up: assist in finding resoures or give input and correction on fake news, or they may act as mediators in case-you know- kids being kids. Overall however, there is the understanding that children have a certain autonomity they can adjust themselves to give up or keep. Children are people and are treated as such.

The students keep a portfolio of their skills, both as a resource of knowlege and memento. Plus, after spending a specific minimum time depeding on how easy you learn the "general skills" you would be allowed to submitt this portfolio to a council of scientist chosen by you who will certify you for your chosen field of studies. You don't need to, but from my own experience having a ceritficate of your skills is damn sattisfying. And you can do it immediatly when you are free to or wait five more years because you don't feel ready. Again, the choice is yours.

Remember, you can stay as long as you want and even after shifting your focus away to the application of your skills in the community, you are free to participate in the discussions and give lectures. Everyone is allowed to give them, after all. Scientists are conducting their reserach at specific research centres that are connected to the education centres and the students are allowed there after a certain age or reaching a level of knowlege deermined by the scentists working on the project.

There are questions up for debate of course, especially how we want to teach history, tackle the things we did to each other and the planet. My country is prized for how selfreflected we are but our political climate sugests otherwise so, it's still open.

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A small Linkspam on topic:

@safety-net-did muses about what should be considered general knowledge which inspired this post as well as @queerspacepunks contribution.

one of the many tumblr discussions on how children are a repressed class

another one on the same topic

a post of @missmentell on resources to learn basic life skills of adults

this reddit discussion on how to remember history.

~@acesolaris

#solarpunk #philosophy #future vision #education

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ga-wsc-fmp · 2 months

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Reviewing my initial timetable

When beginning this project i planned out a timetable of the things i expected to get done each week. Here I will review the accuracy of this, and at the end I will create a new, updated timetable based on current progress.

Here's my original timetable:

Weeks 1-3 were all about research, and I did spend this time researching the themes, however I also got distracted trying to learn some Unity as well, since at the time I wanted to attempt to do this project in a different engine to challenge myself. This led to the intended 3 weeks to last much longer. In fact development only started during week 7. This is an unacceptably long amount of time, and meant i had spent over half of the project time just on the initial research stages, leaving me with only around 5-6 weeks to actually develop something. This was terrible time management on my part and I fear my grade will be affected as a result. I intend to use the remaining time as best as possible so I can end this project on a high note, even if it means I won't be able to do everything I initially wanted to do.

Weeks 4-6 were supposed to be prototype creation. Here i would create an incredibly bare bones concept version of the project, which would act as a way to showcase the general idea of the project. Unfortunately during these weeks I was still in the research stage. I have only recently begun actual development and as such I am still in this phase, just multiple weeks later than I'd hoped.

Weeks 7-8 (In week 8 at time of writing) were supposed to be the final stages of the MVP, finishing up any necessary extra menus and getting people to play test. Unfortunately as previously stated this was not met, and I am currently in week 8 about halfway through the prototype phase.

I am sorely concerned about my ability to come out of this with a finished project. I expect i may have to skip out on a lot of aspects I'd have liked to have completed, such as creating an in-depth example battle, as well as some nice assets.

Absolute worst-case scenario, I do still plan on developing this further even after the FMP is over. I would love to realise the initial idea i had planned, regardless of whether it contributes to a grade or not.

With this, we can safely conclude that my initial timetable was terribly inaccurate and needs a drastic rework. So here's a timetable for the remaining time that's hopefully more realistic:

Weeks 8-9: Finish basic menu's and actions, creating a solid prototype. Get some feedback on this and make any necessary adjustments accordingly.

Weeks 10-11: Polish out the prototype and add any other needed features. Also import some assets such as music, sound effects, sprites, UI elements, and backgrounds. If there is time then create some of these myself otherwise find free to use assets online.

Week 12: Finish any unfinished features, or discard them if there isn't enough time. Spend rest of time testing and bug fixing. Do NOT start creating new features beyond this point unless absolutely necessary as well as realistically and easily achievable. Week 13: Project should be in an acceptable state to hand in. Fix any drastic bugs if absolutely necessary, otherwise spend week creating an itch.io page for the project, as well as a game play video and working on needed documents to review the project. Also make sure Tumblr blog is all up to date and any drafted posts are finished and posted.

Hopefully this timetable should be more accurate. I will need to discipline myself these remaining weeks and avoid any distractions. I will set myself schedules and reminders to keep me organized to the best of my ability. I should be minimizing my leisure time for the remainder of this project if I want a good outcome.

#gamedev #video games #game design #game development

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wc-confessions · 1 year

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Hi, I don’t usually come to confessions blogs for like mental health reasons but I’m the author of Follow Your Heart and i was told it was being discussed on here so I wanted to come talk about it myself.

I started writing the comic when I was in highschool, so I was a child myself. (I don’t remember my exact age, just that I remember drawing concept art while hanging out in my school’s library) That’s why the original “drama” thing was there between Mouseclaw and Sootpaw. Spottedleafs Heart came out and it was so bad that it made me re-examine that part of the story. Warriors romantizes relationships with age gaps like Soot and Mouse all the time, hence why I probably didn’t think anything of it back then. (See: Dustfern, Bramblesquirrel)

Yes, there are scenes where it’s implied the characters have had sex. There is absolutely nothing explicit however, and I have some bad news for the original anon about how babies were made if they’re that upset about it, because literally every child born in the series implies the characters had sex lol. Its even implied Daisy and Spiderleg had a one night stand! (He specifically says their kits were an accident!)

I also don’t appreciate the implications of what they were saying as someone who was traumatized by actual zooporn w real animals as a young child. That kind of thing is exactly the reason I don’t post or advertise my comic on twitter or tumblr, I knew I’d get accused of that shit. Idk if the original anon is reading this but please think about what you say before you say it :/

I’m a human being and I’m not perfect. But I like to think I’m doing okay, since multiple CSA survivors have shared their stories in my comments and thanked me for making the comic (im not trying to toot my own horn, im simply stating facts- i dont want to pat my own ass or anything) and I also had a CSA survivor as a beta reader of the comic.

I don’t think Spottedleaf experienced actual sexual abuse if that’s what the other anon was implying, I just think that the story was a VERY bad example of grooming and it was what inspired me to do better.

I’m doing this specifically because if there is the BAREST fucking chance I can educate a kid and keep them out if this situation, I want to take it. I feel incredibly strongly about this topic and that’s why I wanted to do something about it. I said this in a page description, but I was provided very little education on this in school, in fact I can only concretely remember one video and I have a vague idea that there was one other thing I was shown to educate about CSA- compared to the abstinence-only sex education that was drilled in my head from like, 6th to 9th grade. I’m just a blip in the sea of warcats comics on dA, but I can at least try my best to help where I can.

I have a warning page up that talks about the subject matter which is what I’m sure you saw, but I go a little more in depth in the description of chapter 5’s cover.

I don’t know you and you don’t know me, but I genuinely deeply appreciate you not immediately trying to crucify me when that anon came to your inbox. Like I said, there’s a reason I don’t advertise on tumblr. I really really appreciate you taking a neutral stance until you knew more. Thank you, it means a lot. :) sorry for the very long ask, haha.

thank you for your response and its no problem. in these sorts of situations its always best to pretty much get your own info so i took it very seriously. im very sorry about all that and dont hesitate to lmk if youd rather not be spoken about on here i'd completely understand.

#trying my best to minimize talk about creators anyway since lately they get out of hand or people spread misinfo #atp i just think its the right thing since Most ppl cant rlly handle simple discussions #not a confession #text #asks #nitethekitten #really sorry you had to come over here :[

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MINORS FUCK OFF, THIS IS A KINK BLOG. Christians who disagree with this post, you can fuck off too.

I have a steaming, hot, piping take this morning:

Purity vows are the stupidest fucking things and extremely damaging to young girls, trans men or AFAB folks. There's no reason in this day and age- or even years ago- to be putting emphasis on 'sexual purity' and virginity.

Girls/AFAB need to just be allowed to be kids. Not be twelve or thirteen and be forced to go to a class every Sunday, telling them they must remain virgins until marriage, God created sex for married couples only, your virginity is precious, blah, blah, blah.

Fuck off. Get that shit outta here. You never hear of men or AMAB going through purity classes. In my experience, this is just another way to control women. As you get older, you start realizing this is horseshit.

Girls/AFAB are told that if they even think sexual thoughts, it's impure and you have to ask God to forgive you. We are shamed for letting our minds wander, we are shamed for masturbating, even.

We are taught to suppress our sexual desires. We cannot even experiment with ourselves, because masturbation is 'wrong.'

We are even shamed for the clothes we wear, when we aren't the ones sexualizing our bodies. We're children for fuck's sake. Example?

The shitty Baptist church I went to, had this robe. It was called 'the robe of modesty' a concept introduced to us by my Sunday school teacher, when I was in fifth grade. I was eleven.

My mother still helped pick my clothes but mainly just vetted them, said what was appropriate or not. That morning, I showed her a simple tank and shorts. She said that was perfectly fine, it was very hot and muggy that day.

When I got on the church van, nobody said anything to me. But when I got to church, the teacher didn't even bother pulling me aside, announcing that my outfit was inappropriate and I have to wear the robe.

I was devastated but didn't think to have them call my mother. It had to be my fault as I was 'immodest.' I was also extremely indoctrinated and brainwashed.

So, for the next five hours, I had to wear that ugly, hot, piece of shit robe. When I got home, I nervously told my mother what happened. She called the church and went off on them as any good mama bear would. She assured me, it was not my fault. I was not immodest.

Stop. Sexualizing. Girls. Bodies. Stop shaming them for what they wear. Stop being fucking creepy with kids. Sex and boys were the farthest things from my mind at eleven. And yet the church said that

'our bodies are precious and we need to be mindful of what we wear, as we represent God/the church' Basically telling us in age appropriate terms, don't dress 'trashy' or 'slutty.' We were kids. We weren't trying to 'flaunt' our bodies, we were trying to keep cool.

And then two years later I insisted on taking a purity class. It fucked me up for a very long time. I suppressed my sexual desires and feelings, thought there was something wrong with me. And it took until I left that church, converted to witchcraft, and grew up, to realize and understand just how fucked up and ridiculous purity vows are.

"Sweetheart, if you wait until marriage, what if the man you're with is terrible in bed?" My older sister asked when I was twenty.

"You have to allow yourself to experiment. Nobody knows your body better than you. You don't have to keep that vow. It's ok. Let it go.

(No Christian better fucking come after my sister in the notes, saying she 'turned you away from God,' I will tell you what a piece of shit you are before blocking you.)

And I did. I threw the ring away too and never looked back. It took me a long time to experiment and be ok with my sexuality though. Even now, I'm just letting myself experiment with kink.

If you're a Christian woman/AFAB, and you're questioning that vow, you are valid.

If you're a Christian woman/AFAB, and you think you don't want it anymore, you are valid.

If you are a Christian woman/AFAB and you're realizing just how horrible it is, you are valid. You are loved.

You are not 'dirty,' or 'impure'. Sexual thoughts, feelings, and desires ARE normal, I don't care what any church says.

My advice? Get out of the church, if you still attend one. Think for yourself.

God- or whatever deity you now worship- is not angry or ashamed, if you have sexual thoughts or feelings.

You are allowed to experiment with yourself and release those feelings. You are allowed to know what feels good for you. Sexual feelings are not a sin.

Ditch the purity vow. It's just another way to control you.

If anyone reads this and wants to vent or talk about it, my inbox is open.

If you're a Christian and think this post is sinful, Satanic or leading people away from God, fuck you and fuck off. This post isn't for you people and your shitty, wrong opinions are not gonna be tolerated on my blog.

#anti Christianity #anti purity culture #anti purity vows #hot take #christianity is a cult

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femmefatalevibe · 10 months

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Hey darling, an avid reader of your blog here! I want to say your advice and posts have helped me so much through the past year of my life and completely changed my way of thinking, but now I have a specific question for my situation. I am 22 years old, just graduated from university and I come from a middle-income family (not struggling but needs to be careful with spending) and am very ambitious - I want to live a life of ease and luxury and I am aware I can’t just wait around or expect a man to show up in my life and give me that, so I am also not scared of building a career. My parents continuously tell me they think I am too ambitious for my own good and that they think I can’t handle the stress of having such a career, especially as I have hyperactive thyroid issues due to stress.

On one hand, my diagnosis is correct and I am glad they are caring about me and worried, but on the other I am wondering if it’s their scarcity mindset playing a role in their opinion; for example when I was in school my mom fully thought having painted nails or putting effort into your appearance meant your grades were gonna be worse, which obviously isn’t true and also wasn’t true in my case (which she attributes to her theory, naturally). What do you think I should do in this situation?

Thank you in advance, I hope you have a wonderful day 😘

Hi love! I'm so glad to hear that my blog adds value to your life and has played a role in your personal growth journey <3

Your ambition, especially given any medical-related hurdles, is very admirable. I think this sentiment will help you reframe this situation (and potential conflict?) in a more objective light: People can't see your growth past where they've grown themselves. It sounds like they're projecting their struggles onto you, even if it's more unconscious than intentional. Like you said, I believe you're spot on in saying your family has a "scarcity mindset" and think you would love Carol Dweck's book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

If I were in your shoes, I would accept that I cannot help someone in a "fixed" mindset decide to expand their horizons and cultivate a "growth" mindset (concepts Dweck describes in her book – I've linked an article that summarizes these terms HERE). Additionally, I would focus on meeting like-minded people with a growth mindset, building skills necessary to my desired field, networking with people in my dream field/industry/role with informational interviews, networking/ charity events, post-graduate career programs, etc., and keep the parents on a semi-information diet.

Share information on your budding career on a "need to know" basis and news you know they will be delighted to hear. Reach for the stars with your career and life goals. Just don't let small-minded people ruin your exciting milestones ahead because they're afraid to see outside of the thinking patterns that have kept them emotionally safe for decades. Let them know you're doing well and happy with what you do. Once any bills you need to pay are paid independently, what you decide to do with your time is none of their business.

Hope this helps xx

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anti-katsuki-lounge · 2 years

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Hi! I’m a big Izuku fan so I have a burning hatred for bk, just thought I’d share my thoughts on why I hate him hoho.

In fics one thing that I have noticed is that often people will rather make characters who are friends with Izuku, be the one that are against him while making bk the “protective one”. How can one write a character that out of character?

While searching for “bk facing consequences” fics, most of them give him a detention at most and then send him to therapy “because society abused him and his parents aswell!”… I agree he should get therapy because he has major issues (anger, narcissism)but society had nothing to do with it. He himself is to blame for his actions.

The “he apologised” excuse. Izuku was in a vulnerable state + he had never got therapy so he STILL believes he is to blame for just being quirkless. Of course he would accept it, he never saw anything wrong with it. It seems sort of disrespectful to victims of abuse imo…

Anyway, if you happen to read this, I love your blog! Your takes are precise and have thought behind them :)

Thank you for the kind words 😊

I 100% agree that Katsuki’s issues stem from only himself rather than societal expectations and the like. Never do we see anyone state that Katsuki HAS to be a hero due to his power. He chose to be a hero simply cause in his eyes it would mean showing off that he’s the greatest. He’s not in it for a selfless reason, nor is he in it due to trauma/expectations the world has for him, he’s in it solely to affirm his status as the top dog. Now this could’ve been an interesting concept to explore, as people do constantly feel the need to be at the top due to personal reasons, but it’s never explored. Take for example those straight A kids who grind hours upon hours grinding to earn their grades cause they feel that anything worse would make them be a disappointment to their families. Katsuki could’ve gone that route and it would’ve added more substance to his character. Instead, he’s just a selfish prick. And yeah, a lot of fics don’t give him any real consequences. Therapy isn’t a consequence and imo it’s harmful to even consider it one.

100% agree about the apology. It was done at an awful moment, just amounted to him victim blaming Izuku, and was done cause he wanted to move on. He took no consideration for Izuku’s feelings.

#anti katsuki bakugou #anti bakugo katsuki #anti bakugo #anti bakugou #mha critical

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This is an introduction to Herodotus from the blog Mistaking Histories of Classicist Helen King, retired professor of Classical History. Now, King is with no doubt a good Classicist, with work focused especially on ancient medicine and ancient conceptions of human body. However, the truth is that I find her introduction to Herodotus somehow superficial, because Herodotus is of course much interested in death, food, and (to a lesser degree) sex, but he is also interested for instance in institutions and their influence on human characters and in the conflict between the opposite aspirations to imperial expansion and freedom in history. Moreover, I think that she underestimates how often Herodotus gives reliable ethnographic and historical information and she is out of phase with the reappreciation of Herodotus’ work the last decades. Anyway, here is Helen King’s introductory text on Herodotus:

“DEATH, FOOD, SEX

Bed, Bread and Dead: The Dummies’ Guide to Herodotus

May 4, 2017

Herodotus has to be my favourite ancient historian. Hailed as both ‘father of history’ and ‘father of lies’, he wrote a history of the time of the Persian Wars that was everything the later Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian Wars was not: racy, dodgy and fond of tangents. It’s from Herodotus that many of the best stories of ancient Greece come. For example, in Book 6.127-129 he tells the tale of Hippocleides, who was doing pretty well in the contest to win the hand of the daughter of Cleisthenes until he drank rather more than he could handle and danced on a table, ending by standing on his head and beating time with his legs. Cleisthenes told him he’d blown his chances and Hippocleides replied ‘It’s all the same to Hippocleides!’

When I used to teach Herodotus to first-year students at university, I developed a simple way of remembering the basic points about how he categorizes different peoples: bed, bread and dead. That’s to say, when describing anyone, whether that’s the Egyptians or the Amazons, the main things that grip him are what they do sexually, what they eat and how they deal with their dead.

Different ways of handling marriage fascinate him. He tells us that the Babylonians run an annual marriage market in which the unmarried women of each village are graded by their looks and auctioned off, starting with the most beautiful. When these are all sold, the less attractive are given a dowry from the proceeds of the sale, so that all end up married.

He frequently goes into the details of burial customs. The Thracians lay out the bodies of the dead for three days. At the funeral of a king, the Scythians kill one of his concubines and various other personal attendants, then get high on hemp, before killing more servants – and horses – a year later.

He is particularly interested in those who mix up the categories of bed, bread and dead – for example, the Egyptian mummifiers who like to have sex with the corpses of attractive women before mummifying them, or the Issedones who eat their dead fathers, mixing up the flesh with some lamb, and then gild their skulls.

It’s still debated whether stories like this contain any truth, but they were clearly very appealing to Herodotus and to his audience. So why were these the big three areas of interest? The ancient Greeks had very clear ideas about what was ‘normal’ and ‘right’ in each of them. Marriage should be between one man and one woman, arranged by their families. The Amazons come out as pretty weird here, because in various ancient versions of their customs, they either have an annual sex binge with the men of a neighbouring tribe, or they have tame men who are lamed to stop them running away. And in Herodotus they need to kill three men in battle before they are allowed to marry.

Food should consist of what is cooked, not what is raw, and a key aspect of this was the staple product of bread. The dead should be treated with appropriate respect and placed in the earth; think here of the play Antigone in which the disrespectful treatment of the body of the heroine’s brother is at the heart of the drama. Those who had contact with a corpse were polluted. There were rules on how a corpse should be prepared for burial, on where people could be buried, and on how long the period of mourning should last. Eating people was wrong – but so was a completely vegetarian diet.

Bed, bread and dead: so important in ancient Greek anthropology, precisely because they were the areas of human life by which the Greeks defined themselves.”

https://mistakinghistories.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/bed-bread-and-dead-the-dummies-guide-to-herodotus/

Helen King (see how she describes her career and work on https://mistakinghistories.wordpress.com/about/ )

#herodotus #the histories #ancient greek classics #helen king

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prettyboysdontlookatexplosions · 2 years

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I taught intro literature to state uni students for a few years and my experience was absolutely that many/most of my students had basic reading comprehension issues with the amounts+types of reading i was told to assign, "liked"/"disliked" readings mostly in proportion to comprehension. but, the limited pedagogical training i got was focused a lot more on teaching me about how to manage students who didn't do the reading rather than struggled to parse it, a lot more strategies for being a hw cop than for explicitly building comprehension, etc. avg sats were "good", most students were native speakers+middle class! they did have high class hour loads and extracurricular/job schedules tho, so *some* of it was about time. but often they'd swear to me they'd done the reading and still only have a vague grasp on a bunch of details. anyway your ed blogging has been very interesting and also cathartic, it's so real

combining this with another anon i got:

your literacy education blogging has been so illuminating to me as a grad student teaching undergrads and slowly realizing that many of them do not know how to read, for my definition of read. i worked closely with a student who i gradually realized "read" by scanning texts for familiar keywords and could not actually parse the sentences and paragraphs these keywords appeared in, to the point where when asked about specific passages she often reported out their opposite meaning. and this was a straight-a student in a social science field at a “top” university! she was outperforming many of her peers! i really don’t know how to handle this stuff in the college classroom when literacy is presumed - there are no built-in opportunities to sit down with each student and figure out if they actually know how to read - trying to figure out strategies but it’s hard. your blogging has been really thought-provoking

honestly i find it very cathartic and also validating when i hear this stuff from people who work at the college level, and also really admire those at the college level who have picked up on the fact that this is an issue since my impression is that the vast majority of people in that field can spend their whole careers rolling with the assumption that students just don't care, aren't trying, are nebulously not very bright, are struggling at the level of the higher concept work demanded by the course but not because they are lacking prerequisite skills, etc.

it's really wild to me to consider and meditate on just how far a student can go in life without developing what i would consider full reading proficiency, and the fact that all high school english teacher discourse i see is about developing students' relationship to literature rather than building their actual literacy is like... lol. the fact that i work with affluent new yorkers means that even the students i personally think of as "struggling" on the reading section are doing fairly well in terms of their like, national percentile - not what very competitive schools would consider high scores, but more than adequate for the actual majority of colleges in the country. and these are kids who like, can't read an article in scientific american and summarize what it said. (this is a real example - idr if it was exactly scientific american but that was a close approximation, and his one-sentence summary was like, not only not very good but actually was just inaccurate.)

second anon also re: your student, something i have begun to think about is that i think that being generally "smart" in a lot of ways but not a natural reader can be a specifically problematic combination, because like - if you can seem like you're reading grade appropriate or even harder books early on, without actually putting in the effort you personally need to put in in order to practice & develop automaticity in decoding, because you have these other language & thinking skills that mean you are a very good guesser, then, like - reading seems like this easy thing for you that everyone thinks you're good at. and it is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to convince a child, "this thing that you are used to doing quickly without much effort, actually i need you do change how you do it so it is difficult and less immediately rewarding." and then also you like keep flying under the radar in terms of even having gaps, etc. it's rough. it's all so rough!

anyway. the real like tower of terror moment for me is when i remember that all this stuff about literacy problems among college students (that mostly do not get addressed and remediated because as you both know firsthand colleges as a whole are not set up to teach skills of any kind - i actually listened to an interview with emily hanford recently where she shared that she got turned onto dyslexia as a story and then reading as a story because she was doing a story on remedial classes in college, where students would have to pay tuition to re-do high school level work and most of those students would not go on to graduate) - this is all also true of the segment of the population who, like, become teachers. so. 😬

#askbox

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albinism-awareness · 9 months

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Hi! Thank you so much for running this blog. I'm yet another writer with a character with albinism (OCA), and I find it invaluable to hear about people's experiences.

My question is about the best way to describe the character from someone else's POV. It's a historical fantasy setting, and the POV character is seeing someone with albinism for the first time in their life - it's likely they aren't aware of the condition at all. Do you have any tips? Are there any things you wouldn't want to see in a description?

Hello! ^^

Good question; this actually happened to me too, where I was actually the first person with albinism that poeple saw, so I can talk from my experiences.

So usually, people are confused for the most part. They think I either bleached my hair or am just naturally platinum blonde/white haired? But when they found out this wasn’t the case they kinda asked questions and such, sometimes asking kinda offensive things too? Like ‘oh are you a vampire’ or something like that, the worst was when people would ask me if I was ‘Satan’s child’ or tell me that I was going to hell and such? (I used to go to private Catholic school, I stopped going when I was in fifth grade) so that could be okay, if you deflected off of it with ‘no they aren’t a child of Satan’ and don’t keep bringing it up. Another thing I would try and avoid is like, the evil albino conception? Try to avoid having your character fall into that trap. It isn’t good for the albinism community.

Positive things could be like, having your character be able to explain their condition and such? It depends on how far ago this takes place, for example, if I was alive during say, the witch trials, I would’ve been killed because of my albinism. But if this was say the 1800’s, I would probably be looked at as just someone with a disability or something. So do some research on the timeframe your story takes place and try and make it work with the different ways your character would be treated.

If you need some extra help my ask box/dms are open ^_^

#albinism #albinism awareness #albinism help blog #awareness #disability #albino awareness #visual disability #anon #answered #asks #tempest talks

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omni-scient-pan-da · 1 year

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WKDKDOXKWJ OKAY SO UH-

Long story short, my math teacher has us make videos creatively using math problems as a little grade boost right before finals and he uploads them to his YouTube channel that no one ever watches unless they're one of his students looking for examples of good videos to base their projects on

This is my second time having him for class and so therefore my second project and I had,,, completely forgotten that both videos were uploaded to YouTube? And both the videos I made were top tier and now the goal is to become one of those videos high school teachers show in their class every year like

"Oh I found this on the internet and I think it'll help you guys learn about this math concept so we're going to watch this first"

I'm not going to link the video because the whole point of me having the blog is because I value the anonymity of Tumblr but I think it would be really funny if someone stumbled upon one of the two videos with me in it and it became one of those math video classics

#panda posts #math

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hilli98215 · 2 years

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What grade do u teach, and how are they at that age? Do some act rowdy and chaotic? Are some good & well-behaved? How do they handle the material of the class projects/activities? Just curious, cause I have a teacher in my family, and I know it can be a lot for one person, so hopes for tranquillity!

Hello Anon,

Thank you so much for the many questions! But first I need to mention that I am located in the US and so I use a lot of terms that are related to where I live. This may not be necessary for you, but it is for those who may read this and have no clue about the US education system.

Here we go in order of your questions:

I am currently teaching in a Junior High which has 7th and 8th graders in one building. The grade I teach is 7th grade English Language Arts which is around the ages 11-14 years old depending if they were held back when their birthday falls, or if they were able to skip a grade. This year we had a lot of 14-year-olds due to them being held back once or twice.

Because these students are hitting puberty by the time they come to us, their behavior changes from the beginning to the end of the year. Or some don't and it then is our job to create a connection or even understand why they are behaving that specific way. A great example of this is when one of our most talkative girls was suddenly snapping at everyone. We then learned that she was having trouble at home. Then we have the students who are very well behaved and we never have a problem with due to the fact their parent(s) care about their education and want them to succeed. One can never put their finger on student behavior. We just need to adapt and understand them. My mom (who is also an educator) uses the saying "Talk to a child. Not at a child." This means you are listening and talking to them like a person which is what every child (especially at this age wants.)

As for lessons, I am in a classroom that has ESE (Exceptional Student Education) students who have learning disabilities like processing disorders, dyslexia, ADD, and ADHD. I won't go into a lot of education lingo but because these students have learning disabilities, we need to follow paperwork that lists their classroom accommodations. The most common accommodation is extra time and because so many students have this accommodation, this means it is incorporated into the lessons themselves. So let's say a lesson normally takes 2 days. For these students, it would be stretched for 4 days.

So for the lessons themselves, it can be a hit or miss. If I hear crickets, that means the students either don't know the materials or they do know the concept and they don't want to say anything. This is where quick thinking comes in. I have to be able to quickly make the material understandable to the kids. That's a lot of fun too. Group activities are also a lot of fun since we get to see and hear how the kids apply the lesson or story they've read in class. Thank you so much for the ask! Being a teacher is hard and it irritates me when people outside of education say how easy it is. There's a lot that goes into it and kids are extremely intelligent and are aware of what is happening. If there is one thing I have learned in the 3 years I have been in education (especially secondary ages 11-18) is that teenagers still love what we think are little kid stuff like stickers, treasure box toys, and fidgets. Feel free to ask me all kinds of questions about education and if you want to see any of the other posts I have made about my experiences, you can search #teacherthings, #teacherlife, or something like that. The tags are listed on the pinned post on my blog.

#thank you for the ask anon #i love taking about education #and my experiences #teacher things #teacher asks

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