“Six months earlier, two of Wood’s Advanced Placement English Language and Composition students had reported her to the school board for teaching about race. Wood had assigned her all-white class readings from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me,’ a book that dissects what it means to be Black in America.
The students wrote in emails that the book — and accompanying videos that Wood, 47, played about systemic racism — made them ashamed to be white, violating a South Carolina proviso that forbids teachers from making students ‘feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress’ on account of their race.”
No, those little Rolfe ass kids are not worthy of being trusted, and also
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Darkness EP - Reviews
Darkness EP – Reviews
Das Reviewer Team
Herzlich willkommen zu diesem Blogpost mit dem Namen “Darkness Reviews Interview”. Das Brecon Indie Reviews Team hat sich meiner EP ‘Darkness’ angenommen. Für mich ist es stets äusserst spannend, was professionelle Autoren über meine Musik sagen können. Meist finden sich Verknüpfungen und Kombinationen, auf die ich selbst nicht gekommen wäre.
Die Songs der ‘Darkness’ EP
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'but girl she killed people!' so. she deserved to what do you want me to do about it
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You guys don’t get it, they used to be the high 5 heroes. They used to be the high 5 heroes guys. They used to. They used to be starry eyed freshmen. They had to choose each other. They had to have awkward introductions. They had to pick that name together. I’m never okay ever.
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Henry David Thoreau, from Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Leonora Carrington, from The Hearing Trumpet
Florence Welch, from Useless Magic: Lyrics & Poetry
Mary Oliver, from “How I Go to the Woods”, Swan: Poems and Prose Poem
Franz Kafka, from Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
Ivan Ivanovič Šiškin (1832–1898), Covert (detail)
William Trost Richards (1833–1905), Woodland Landscape (detail)
Bright Star, written and directed by Jane Campion
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In Blackwater Woods, Mary Oliver
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Wil wood as mary poppins?? :0
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Pittsburgh PA
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new craft alert!!!
and it's the green knight again!!!
"but mari, why does the bride have a moustache" – my conservative dad upon seeing the sketch for this out of context
close-ups and ramblings below!!
so there are. layers to this. if it reminds you of a wedding, you're correct! if it reminds you of tarot cards, you're also correct!
i also accidentally Did a Gender to Gawain by placing him on the right, which in heraldry is the wife's side, but that only adds to all the gender the poem does to him, really
what's that!! a pentacle that is also a flower!! inside an axe??? aka the only design that wasn't pulled from romanesque bas-reliefs/that one ancient celtic sculpture/an anglo-saxon brooch that reminded me of the seasons wheel in the movie. i'm kinda proud of it ngl
and to round up the "green consuming and corrupting" theme, dried botanicals in resin in the lid!
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Fox Mulder doesn't have the "I Want To Believe" poster there because he's crazy. He doesn't have it there to broadcast his beliefs or as a mantra or to remind him to always look for aliens.
Fox Mulder keeps that "I Want To Believe" sign above his desk to remind him of his own internal biases.
That sign hangs above Mulder's desk to remind him of his own shortcomings and flaws. He's aware that he's a hack with dangerous beliefs and prone to flights of fancy and maybe even delusions. He's aware that he's desperately searching for aliens and monsters where there are only men doing bad things. And he has to remind himself of that, constantly.
That's why he's thrilled when he meets Scully and she challenges his beliefs, says that logically aliens don't exist. He's thrilled when she tells him to cut the crap in the pilot episode. He needs someone to challenge him. He needs someone who won't take his shit and put up with his flights of fancy. And he knows it. He's been dealing with himself for years and he feels relief and joy when Scully comes in and says enough of your bullshit. We're doing this my way. With science and logic. He isn't smiling and teasing her because he thinks he's smarter and better than her. He's smiling because she's exactly the person he needs in his life.
That's why he tells her right away that he's a UFO freak with trauma about his sister and a true believer. Not because he's trying to convince her to believe, but because he needs her to understand where he's coming from and what's wrong with him. So she can understand that either he's a dangerous lunatic himself, or he's delving into a dangerous conspiracy and either way she could be collateral damage if she stays with him. He spends the pilot episode reckoning with the idea that either he's a maniac or he's pulling this young fresh detective into danger. When she starts agreeing with him he gets upset, talks her out of it.
Mulder keeps that sign above his desk to remind himself to look into the "reasonable logical" explanations. He keeps that sign on his desk because he knows he's flawed and biased and frankly, dangerous.
He tells Scully exactly what he thinks is happening and about all the crazy stuff he believes not because he's trying to convince her to believe too, but so she can be his sounding board. So she can throw his illogical bullshit back in his face and remind him to look past his own biases and paranoia and quasi-religious zealotry. Because he knows he needs that. He knows he's in a conspiracy brained echo chamber of his own making and having a slow-burn mental breakdown. And he sees Scully as salvation from himself. As another figure in his quasi-religious belief system. The savior.
As the series develops he relies on her more and more to reality check him. Literally reality check him and manage what he worries might all be a delusion.
Mulder pretends he's confident and all the constant criticism and sidelong glances don't get to him and that might be true because he doesn't respect those people but he respects Scully. And he needs someone he respects to tell him when he's wrong, when he's being biased or actively delusional. Scully is his salvation. She's compassionate about his trauma and the reasoning behind his beliefs, but confident and logical enough to tell him when it's all bullshit. She's his savior, his rock, and often his only real connection to material reality.
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Chameleon peacocks are talk of the town
Well word gets around on
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Brian Asman: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of FUCK THIS HOUSE
King: haha oh man! that title! that’s great!
King: i’m sold already!
Asman: good, cuz it’s kinda all downhill from here
Asman: so this family moves into a new house
Asman: and by the way the son in this family consumed his unborn twin in the womb
Asman: just getting that shit right out there on the first page
King: brian! you can’t do that! you gotta pace yourself!
Asman: naw
Asman: listen you think living in a haunted house is bad?
Asman: you should try it yourself!
Asman: that’s right, I’m giving away a FREE haunted house to one lucky winner!
Asman: and it could be
Asman: YOU
[showing off a haunted house]
Asman: now this house, we like to call it a ghostbuster’s dream
Barker: yeah right man i’ll be the judge of that
Poe: clive let him give his spiel
Asman: s-so this house comes equipped with hot and cold running chills...
Barker: what’s that smell?
Asman: ooo smells like the infernal fires of hell breaking theough the veil huh?
Barker: you were just baking charcoal in the oven to give it that welcoming haunted house smell weren’t you
Asman:
Barker: c’mon man i know all the tricks
Barker: i’ve seen HGTV
Asman: i’m sure you’ll find this house to your liking
Asman: check this out
Asman: walls continue upright, bricks meet neatly, floors are firm
Asman: [thumping door] hear that?
Asman: doors sensibly shut
Shirley Jackson: [mumbling excitedly]
Mary Shelley: yeah yeah i hear ya
Mary Shelley: how’s the silence lay here? steadily?
Asman: now if you’ll follow me into the master bedroom you’ll find a
Asman: oh did you hear that?
Poe: hear what?
Asman: [knocking on wall] that knocking! oh it must be the ghost!
Poe: you just knocked
Asman: IT MUST BE THE GHOST!
Barker: gotta be honest here, man
Barker: i don’t think this house is really haunted
Asman: no no of course it’s haunted
[wind blows through eaves]
Barker: is that the wind blowing through the eaves?
Asman: oh no no no
Asman: of course not
Asman: it must be the ghost
Asman: any questions about this haunted house?
John Wiswell: is it a friendly haunted house?
Asman: no, its the bad kind
Asman: next question
King: how many ghosts are in here?
Asman: 999 happy haunts
Asman: but there’s room for one more
Barker: if this house is so haunted, then maybe you wouldn’t mind a visit from the world’s foremost ghost hunters
Asman: of course not! i would welcome it
Arthur Conan Doyle: I’m arthur conan doyle
Charles Dickens: and I’m Charles Dickens
Dickens: together we are
Dickens & Doyle: GHOST CLUB
Dickens: so you say this house is haunted?
Asman: uhh yeah totally
Doyle: that’s good enough for me! case closed!
Dickens: NOT SO FAST
Dickens: if this house is REALLY haunted
Dickens: you wouldn’t have to play
Dickens: [dramatic reveal sting] THIS record of Walt Disney’s Thrilling Chilling Sounds of the Haunted House on loop!
Dickens: and you wouldn’t
Dickens: [dramatic reveal sting] need G.E. Woods to hide in the closet to make haunted house sounds!
Woods: [holding out peeled grapes] these are the ghosts’ eyeballs
Asman: Curses! And would have gotten away with it
Asman: if it wasn't for you meddling ghost club!
Doyle:
Doyle: i still think it’s haunted
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