#to be fair it started with my teacher showing us a short documentary

[computermaus]

Some HC's :) Older teenage

Stan

Decided to leave the footballteam in 6th grade

Has become vegetarian in 8th grade

He has book of whales and dolphins

Enjoys watching sea documentaries

He is against Sea World or any whale shows who hold whales and dolphins in captivity. Has lead many protests against it.

He has a very good aim

He goes to a shooting range when stressed. Nobody knows this until 11th grade.

Favourite class his biology. It's the only class he is in AP at.

He bought a Star Wars Millennium Falcon on his 16th Birthday. And Kyle thought it was absolutely stupid paying 800 Dollars for that. (Stan is the type of person to do that. Can't convince me otherwise)

He likes to ride a bike occasionally for a few hours

He learned snowboarding by himself and enjoys it much more than skiing

He has learned to play the electric guitar in 6th grade.

He likes to sing when he is on his own or makes up songs on his own and sings them.

He has habit how losing things.

He is very scared to become like his father. He likes to keep himself busy so he won't fall into his addiction tendencies.

Is still fair skinned. Eventhough he had been living on a farm slnce he was 10. He doesn't get a tan.

He goes to the Spa on special occasions to relax

He was born with small breathing tubes. He has to carry an asthma inhaler in case he is short of breath

He gets nauseating from using the swings. But has no problems being on a boat

He can't dive for longer than 5 seconds without any equipment.

He passed his driving test after two lessons and at the first try without any mistake.

Kyle

He got in the basketballteam in junior year of Highschool

He got in a fight with with Cartman on the first day of Highschool.

He's the leader of the Math Quest

Has installed an app or software so teachers won't have to deal with computer viruses. ( Look I have no idea if this is accurate or not. Just roll with it)

He's in AP math, computer science, history, physics, geography, and english.

He's good at saving money

His anger has gotten worse at the beginning of his teenage years. Forcing him to take Anger Management classes.

When he's drunk he spends money on stupid things he later regrets when sober.

Kyle uses hand sanitizer before entering any building

He doesn't like it when someone or himself lies on his bed with their streetclothes and only lies on his bed in his pyjamas.

He sometimes helps out his father in his law firm. His father wants him to become a lawyer but Kyle is unsure

He can't deal with situations he didn't plan beforehand and doesn't like spontaneity.

He looked up spoilers when watching Game of Thrones with Stan but never told him.

He hates to cry in front of people that aren't his friends or family and rather gets angry.

In Music class they had to sing a song. Because Kyle didn't want to hear his own voice he had worn headphones. (They were allowed to do so). Some students started to laugh.

Kyle hates music class. He has complained many times how useless it is to force students to sing in front of their classmates only to embarrass them. When they have no interests or talent in singing (my personal opinion and I'm still traumatised. look i was a shy 14 year old girl. You can't expect me to sing in front of two classes.)

He likes when a student preferably in math class doesn't understand something, so he can explain it to them. ( THis is NOT what I did. 👀)

He started to smoke in junior year and quit after 5 months

He was in double as much detention as Stan and this because of the many fights Kyle got into. When Kenny showed him that fact Kyle didn't want to believe it was true.

Kenny

He collects snails in his backyard. He then organises a snail race and lets people pay entry. And also makes bets

Inspired by the movie the Kissing Booth he also wanted to make on in Highschool to raise money for some trip. This idea was declined

He likes Poetry

He goes to singing classes to master his oper singing skills since 8th grade

He has watched every episode of the Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girls

He is never much prepared when holding presentations and never has a poster or any visual presentation than himself. When the teacher pointed this out at one point, he said: Watching him should be enough.

He wouldn't go on a rollercoaster

He doesn't listen in class and asks Kyle what they have for homework.

He still does okay in tests

He made a pseudonym called: " MC the Lovedoctor. And gives advice for love sick students, he read from Cosmopolitan

Yes Kenny unironically reads the Cosmopolitan

He bites his nails

He has trouble opening up emotionally in relationships and that's because of the neglect he got from his parents

Kenny saves the money he earns for music college

He uses alot of self deprecating jokes.

He got his first phone in 7th grade

He is still a fan of NASCAR

He teaches Stan self defense. He teaches him stuff he learned by himself from living " In the Hood" he so nicely calls it. When Stans old house is like 20 steps away.

He found a possum in a trash and called it Louvre. And has adopted it. Kyle is absolutely disgusted by that thing. And one time when Stan, Kyle and Kenny were hanging in Kyle's room Kenny has brought that possum with him. It broke free from Kennys grasp and jumped on Kyles holy tempel. His bed.

The possum hates Kyle and attacked him several times

The possum loves Stan

He needs braces but can't afford them

He told Stan to invite him to a Spa trip with him.

He once jumped out of the window in the 8th floor when he didn't want to be in Detention anymore. The next day everyone forgot Kenny killed himself and that he was in detention. He regrets doing it and won't do it again. During is death Satan has scolded him out and how reckless he was acting.

Cartman

He loves the Possum for attacking Kyle

He likes to wear shirts that don't fit him

He got diabetes type 2 at 16.

He eats in class when he feels stressed. Its almost all the time

He likes to provocate Kyle so he will fight him and get detention for it.

He runs a club in Highschool called: "the Abstinences" They had sworn out any sexual activities and it doesn't belong to his Christian beliefs. He hides the fact he is scared of it and insecure. He shames people who are more promiscuous.

He believes because of this club he will go to Heaven

When partying he is unable to stop with the alcohol. Because of his fat it takes him longer to get drunk

He doesn't know how to shave and goes to school with razer cuts on his face.

He gets results from tests and sells them to other students

He still does terribly in school because he sucks at memorising.

He has a dream of owing his own slaughterhouse.

He gets defensive when someone asks him about his father

He has poor coordination skills.

He is to lazy to do the driving test and uses the excuse that his friends should drive him around

He won a eating contest. He ate 50 Burgers in 15 minutes.

He does good presentations in school and enjoys doing them

He has complained many times that students weren't allowed to use the elevator in school and had to use the stairs. The teacher told him to lose weight. In which Cartman told the principal the teacher was fat shaming him.

He cuddles with his cat before going to sleep

#south park #stan marsh #kyle broflovski #eric cartman #kenny mccormick #sp headcanons

[theassociatedpross]

When Math Doesn’t Add Up: A Defense of Anti-Racist Instruction & Resources in Mathematics Classrooms

Recently, a friend posted an article from Fox News on their Facebook page, called “Oregon promotes teacher program that seeks to undo ‘racism in mathematics’: A toolkit includes a list of ways 'white supremacy culture' allegedly 'infiltrates math classrooms.’” The article was posted with concerns that mathematics instruction was being eroded by the curricular toolkit mentioned in the Fox article. In the comments to my friend’s post, there was a mix of responses. Some responses sought to understand the tool and its use and some expressed deep frustration and confusion. One such comment provided, “I wasn’t aware arithmetic could even be ‘racist’…so confused! I could see if something was subjective, but math …change my mind.” Others questioned the validity of the article because it was from Fox News.

After reading the thread I read the article, and after reading the article I explored the part of the toolkit singled out in the article: “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction.” I didn’t read all 81 pages of it (many of the pages were reflection guides for teachers to complete), but I did explore it thoroughly. I then posted a response, which I have shared below. After examination of the resource, I concluded that Fox mischaracterized the toolkit. My response in the thread intended to correct Fox’s mischaracterization by providing an example of how and why anti-racist practices are relevant and necessary in mathematics instruction. The response to my post has so far been positive and appreciated. Here is the response in its entirety (edited only to embed hyperlinks and for structural clarity):

There seems to be a lot of confusion about what this curriculum is and isn’t, and I think I can help clarify. Background for those who don’t know me (which will be everyone but [my friend]). I’ve been an educator for over a decade. A middle school social studies and ELA teacher for a decade, a high school assistant principal for two, and was a lawyer before that. For transparency, I’m what you’d call a progressive liberal and am fully invested in dismantling oppressive systems from public education. That said...

This resource is designed to provide teachers a tool to improve their instruction. One way any teacher can improve their instruction is to identify the ideas and beliefs they have that are rooted in bias (typically implicit bias, in that they aren’t aware they have the bias) and replace those ideas with more accurate ones. And I mean this broadly, in terms of their practices. Here’s an example. In college I had a professor that stopped using multiple choice tests because the evidence he came to learn was multiple choice tests (for whatever reason, you’d have to read the research) favored men over women. Men scored higher on average on such tests, consistently, in a way that revealed the test had embedded biases. These affects were eliminated when the same content was switched to short answer. And it makes sense, right? A multiple choice test frames answers in specific ways, limits choice to only those phrasings, and if the test is largely written by men, then the language chosen will reflect the point of view and experiences of men. I’ll note this wasn’t a math class - it was a law and policy class - but the idea remains that written course materials aren’t written in a vacuum; they are written by people with their own experiences, and those experiences can bleed into content, even if unintended.

So let’s look at mathematics instruction and the use of this particular tool.

The biggest concern I see above, a fair one, is that the implication here is that math isn’t objective, and teachers are going to start teaching 2+2=5. This is not what the tool is saying, and I can assure you no math teacher would agree to teach 2+2=5. The objective/subjective description in the tool isn’t about the computations. Rather, it’s about the presentation of mathematical problems and the insistence that, for the application of math to real-world problems, there can be only one solution.

Let’s consider a relevant example. If we look at COVID, we can find concrete numbers about the rate of its spread, the distance it travels in the air, the permeability of masks and their degree of protection, etc. If you were to take this information and phrase it in a math question: In a city of 100,000 people, how many citizens will contract COVID given these concrete data points? This question seems fair, right? The virus doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t know if a person is white or black. So, this seems like a straight-forward, computational problem. If it were, you could run the numbers and find an answer. The math used, the computations, would be the same for anyone who answers this problem. The computations are objective. This isn’t controversial.

But, the above question is problematic, and it’s the implicit problems that this anti-racism tool is seeking to remedy. Let’s explore why it’s problematic.

In the problem I imagined, I provided you with a specific scope of information. I stipulated what was relevant to determine the “correct” answer. But, there are relevant conditions that would need to be considered to answer a question like this in the real-world that were omitted from my presentation of the problem. What considerations were omitted that would need to be considered if we were trying to solve this problem in the real world? For starters, you’d have to consider population density. We know the virus spreads faster in areas where there are more people. If each person is a vector of transmission and you place more people in a smaller space, then density matters. And if density matters, you are now opening up the data and history of population density. This includes neighborhood designs and housing designs (single-unit, multi-family, apartments). Now you are including social context, social data, into the mathematical data set to arrive at the accurate answer. But there’s more. We know that neighborhood design in the United States was not created in some objective way. Neighborhoods were explicitly segregated (through redlining and other explicitly racist policies and practices), neighborhoods continue to be de facto segregated (through gentrification), and this plays a role in who lives where - in the denser cities or the less-dense suburbs and rural areas. Specifically, the data shows that Black families tend to live in areas of higher population density. These facts are relevant in terms of  generational wealth (who can afford health care), access to health care (how easy is it to get from home to my doctor), access to healthy food (e.g. less fresh produce in high poverty areas, which include the denser cities, which affects community health), and access to good paying jobs (e.g. higher paying jobs that can accommodate working from home, which decreases a person’s risk to contracting COVID, versus working in jobs that have to be done in-person). So now, if we’re looking at what seemed to be a cut-and-dry math problem, an “objective” problem, what we see is, to get to the most accurate answer, to really know what the rate of spread will be, the mathematicians in the real world would have to include these data sets from the realm of social science. 

And it’s the inclusion of data like this, that most teachers wouldn’t think to consider, that this tool is seeking to help with. So, when a teacher says there is only one right answer, we can push back to say “what do you mean by that? Do you mean that we just run the numbers from the initial question?” Traditionally that is yes. But this tool says, “Hey, we need to be able to identify, and teach students to identify, those problems that omit essential information relevant and necessary to truly arrive at the correct answer. At what the true rate of COVID spread is.” And this is so important! If we don’t include this data and miscalculate the rate of spread, then our policy decisions will be misinformed, and our own personal behaviors will be misinformed. And we know that my characterization above is accurate because it’s supported by the evidence. (No less than the CDC outlines the above, too: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/race-ethnicity.html). Black people are 2-3 times more likely to contract COVID as a result of the system’s design, which is rooted in systemic-racism and white supremacy (PBS has a wonderful documentary and resources on the history of redlining and its affect on the ability of communities of color to accumulate wealth). But Black people are far less likely to have access to the vaccine (see Scientific American article).

When we look at this question now we see that the initial framing was problematic, and indeed racist. Omitting data sets that affect Black communities is racist. Framing the question in a way that only considers some raw numbers, and implying that those are the only numbers needing to be considered to arrive at the “correct” solution, is racist. Training teachers to spot weaknesses like this in a curriculum, or in their own practices, to ask deeper questions and train their students to ask deeper questions, is good for math instruction and good for student learning. 

So the tool isn’t eroding the objectivity of numbers. Rather, it’s examining the subjective role that teachers play in the creation of math problems, the subjective role of defending which numbers are considered relevant to answering a problem, and the subjective role of limiting or allowing discussion on math problems like this. If the initial question were asked in class and a student raises their hand to ask: “Do these numbers take into affect the increased rate of spread in high-poverty neighborhoods and its disparate impact on Black communities?” will the teacher say, “Wow, that’s an important question to ask if we’re to accurately model and calculate the impact of the spread,” or will the teacher say, “Those numbers don’t matter. Just calculate the numbers in the problem.” This matters. Because either we will honor the lived experiences of our students and examine questions relevant to their lives, or we will gate-keep and shut down inquiry that explores questions raised by students. The tool is designed to prepare teachers in mathematics to have these considerations in instruction. 

No one is being told to change how numbers work, but they are being asked to change how they develop questions and to change how they consider which numbers are relevant to a problem’s solution. When they say math isn’t objective, this is what they mean, that real-world calculus doesn’t exist only within certain numbers, that there are variables we often omit, and that those variables are often directly tied to systemic and structural racism and white supremacy.

#antiracism #equity #EquityInstruction #AntiRacistTeaching #AntiRacistInstruction #EquityInMath #Teaching #SocialJustice #Math #MathInstruction #Mathematics #MathematicsInstruction #TeachingResources #TeachingEquity #TeachingAntiRacism

[justanoutlawfic]

if you don’t mind a prompt, could I request some snowing? I’m having a rough day and it would really help. Thanks

Hey, I hope your day gets better ❤️ To preface, I don’t watch any Bachelor shows but was watching a video criticizing one and got this idea.

Mary Margaret shifts in her short red dress, the fabric irritating her fair skin. It’s going to leave a rash, that’s attractive.

She looks around the room at the crowd of room waiting for her and sighs, sloshing her martini glass in hand. She hates martinis, she’d much rather down a beer at any point. But the producers say that martinis look better in a girl’s hand.

Why did she agree to this again?

Oh right, her father. Leopold Blanchard was a high level executive of Fairytale Productions. They wanted to create a dating show to rival the other networks but needed a test bachelorette. So, they picked his daughter. Mary Margaret had said “fuck no” at first. Then her father told her if she did this and dumped the fiancé after the press died down, he’d agree to pay for her new condo. She couldn’t turn down the offer. Not on her teacher salary. So, she put on a smile and was trying to figure out who she hated the least.

If she could send someone home right away, it’d for sure be Victor Whale. A slime ball from the minute he stepped out of his limo, Mary Margaret just had a bad feeling. He wouldn’t stop following her around, interrupted her conversations with other men and kept bragging that he was a doctor. She had wanted to make him leave the first night, but the producers claimed she had to keep him around for “drama”. So, now she just avoided him like the plague while he instigated the other men.

There was Killian Jones. Piercing blue eyes, Navy vet. He had shown up in his dress uniform and a guitar, serenading Mary Margaret whenever she wished. When the cameras went away, she texted Regina and found out that he was an aspiring musician…with a girlfriend named Milah. He was doing this to push his music career. Another one she wasn’t allowed to vote off for “drama purposes”.

Harry “Herc” Olympus wasn’t too bad. A lumberjack from Kansas, he was kind and liked that Mary Margaret was into archery. Apparently, he was too. According to the producers, he was the “fan favorite”. Cute, sweet, polite. He’d make someone a fine husband, just not her.

She needed a break. As the guys debated who would ultimately win her heart like she had no choice in the matter, she snuck out of the brick mansion overlooking a gorgeous pool that she wasn’t allowed to swim in. Mary Margaret made her way down the steps, far away from the cameras and the noise of the gathering. She dug through her beaded black clutch and pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. She lit one up, taking a long drag. Drinking was okay on air, but not smoking for some reason.

“Can I bum one of those?”

Mary Margaret stiffened, wondering which guy had followed her. She turned and slowly lightened, smiling when she saw it was David. Over six feet tall, shaggy blonde hair and blue eyes, he wasn’t one of the many fawning for her attention. He was on the camera crew.

“I thought you were Victor for a second,” she said, holding out the pack.

“I don’t know if I should be offended or not,” David replied, taking one.

Mary Margaret chuckled. “He’s everywhere I turn, it’s annoying.”

“If it helps he’s a pain for us too, yelled at me for not filming his good side.”

She rolled her eyes and David held out the cigarette, so she lit it for him. “What I wouldn’t give to vote him out.”

“Any idea when they’ll allow it?”

“Final four.”

“Ew. I’m sorry.”

She shrugs. “I sort of signed up for it.”

They each take a drag of their respective cigarettes, staring out at the pool.

“Who do you think you’ll pick?” David asked after a bit.

“I honestly don’t know. Herc, maybe? He’s the most down to Earth. But it won’t last long.”

“What do you mean?”

“I don’t like any of these guys enough to date them, let alone marry. Once press for the show is done, I’m breaking up with the guy.”

David raised an eyebrow. “Why do it at all then?”

“My dad asked me to.”

“Ah. Hollywood politics.”

“You get it?”

“Sort of. My mom tried to become a singer for years and used to drag me on auditions. I learned about to the business along the way.”

“I take she didn’t have much luck.”

“Not really. She ended up in her own swing band, they did gigs and stuff but never the real thing. It’s how I got interested in camera work, I used to record all their performances.”

Soon, they’re sitting by the pool, David showing her videos from Ruth’s old band and some of their other work. They talked about their interests. David wants to make documentaries, took this job for the resume but doesn’t like it. Mary Margaret told him about the kids she works with as a teacher. She’s never liked being in the spotlight. For once, she could tell someone how uncomfortable she felt.

As they talked, Mary Margaret felt the most comfortable she had since she started the show. David was kind and not because he wanted anything from her. They could just talk, without someone yelling cut and telling them what to stay instead.

Eventually, David looked back at the house. “They’re gonna come looking for us and we’re not supposed to talk to you alone.”

“That’s a stupid rule.”

“I know, but they don’t want you falling for one of us instead.”

Too late for that.

Mary Margaret smirked. “Yeah, that’d be a shame.”

David smiled. “Tomorrow they’ll be filming the guys’ diaries at 7:30 AM. I don’t start until 9. Fancy a hike?”

“I’d love that.”

#snowing #mary margaret blanchard #david nolan #ouat #once upon a time #anon asks #asked and answered

[liaratisoni]

When you're studying jewish traditions in your high school religion class and suddenly you're the expert because you're the only one who's been to a bat mitzvah 😆

#just remembered this for no reason haha #to be fair it started with my teacher showing us a short documentary #where they interviewed a rabbi from stockholm and me going 'oh hey it's my related-by-marriage-distant-relative cool!!' 😄 #an absolutely random post #text #me

[bangtan-spells]

Jimin Scenario: My One and Only.

Request: Teacher jimin au he's a literature teacher in highschool he had an intellegent student who admire litreature just as much he mention her name often to his wife tell her how good she is and the book she recently gave him to read, but his wife start to get jealous even though she know nothing is happing, so she start reading when she don't like books, and do some research in litreature so they can talk about it. He'll notice tease her a first about it, then show her who's the only woman he love. 

Genre: Romance

–Hyemin gifted me a book in the lunch break, I was talking with Namjoon, do you remember the new philosophy teacher? Well we were there, she came in and…–

–She what? – your hands stayed frozen on the buttons of your husband’s shirt, you’d been helping Jimin undress while he went about his day at the high school and what a surprise, Hyemin was mentioned once again.

–Gifted me a book – Jimin licked his lips and smiled softly, maybe remembering his ever so charming student. –She said I should read it and that she was sure I was going to like it, isn’t that so kind of her? – Jimin laughed, shaking his head. –Oh and she also said that now she was considering majoring in literature all thanks to me, isn’t that amazing? –

–Hmmm…amazing indeed– you undid the last three buttons of Jimin’s dress shirt and took it off from him, furrowing your brows a little. It had been four months since the new school year started and you’d been hearing Hyemin’s name quite often from Jimin’s lips.

He continuously mentioned how she was so clever, how she got all his questions right, she stood out to him since class one with her interest in literature, but going from that to giving your husband gifts made you feel unease and embarrassingly jealous of a high school girl. Jimin had been so excited since this particular course stared and now you wondered if it had everything to do with Hyemin.

You took a deep breath, it was ridiculous to think of your husband feeling more than simple admiration for his student, you knew Jimin yet the uneasiness was still there and you were afraid of the path your thoughts were taking. You yanked Jimin’s belt off with more force than needed.

–Y/N, what is it? You seem suddenly, um… tense– You pressed your lips together, undoing the button of Jimin’s pants and his hands joined yours to finish getting rid of them.

–It’s just tiredness babe– you sighed and Jimin nodded, taking off the knot of your bathrobe and coiling an arm around your waist to pull you closer to his body.

–Let’s take that bath then, I’ll give you a massage, make you feel alright –

You smiled with Jimin’s words, with the kisses he was pressing down the sides of your neck and let him pull you towards the tub where the steaming water was waiting for you. You let Jimin spoil you and didn’t mention your worry because of this new student of his, you should be glad your husband did so well at the classroom that he managed to inspire his students, even if it was one with a possible crush on him.

You sighed when Jimin’s hands massaged the middle of your back and went up to your shoulders in a steady rhythm, he kissed your nape and you rested your forehead on your knees, trying to will away the jealousy. You hated to be getting jealous over practically nothing, over a name, over a young girl you didn’t know, over a book with a blue ribbon and a card resting on Jimin’s nightstand.

Everything changed after that night, even if you tried to stay chill and pretend otherwise. Jimin had fallen asleep by your side with a contented smile and you were still thinking of Hyemin and his fixation with her. What was so nice about her anyway? He’d had good and smart students before too but Jimin had never quite talked about them so much. You turned on your side to observe his sleeping face then placed a flutter kiss on his shoulder before standing up from the bed.

You went to the room both of you used as office and where Jimin’s personal library was. He was clearly allured by Hyemin’s liking of literature, books had never really been your thing and you didn’t like to feel like you had to compete for your husband’s attention, but if putting up a fight against that student was what you needed, then that’s what you were going to do.

    Something was definitely going on with you, the first few times Jimin couldn’t exactly put his finger on the main issue, first time he caught you with his favorite title in hand, he thought you were reading it just by chance, maybe out of curiosity since he talked about it to you often, but then you said you were actually reading it and Jimin had laughed, not to make fun of you but he’d been too surprised because the books lover in your relationship had always been only him. It happened more times after that and you were even talking to him about titles like Anna Karenina and The Odyssey so he’d teased you about it, asking more than once you if you’d changed spots with his wife overnight.

Jimin liked the way you seemed to be so interested about the subject he taught at school and so eager to talk about it with him, but even if he enjoyed the novelty of it, it also felt forced somehow. He didn’t want to judge you, people could change and start getting interested in things they weren’t interested in before, but it was getting suspicious in his opinion. Maybe now you felt like you had to like literature because of him? Jimin frowned, opening quietly the door to your house, he’d been thinking nonstop about this all day.

He made his way inside and stopped short before fully entering the living room, you were sitting on the couch unaware of his arrival and had connected the laptop to the TV to watch a documentary of some university teacher speaking about the book Hyemin had gifted him, making a summary and simplifying it. Jimin watched in silence for some minutes until it clicked on him, this had to be the real reason of your behavior.

–I’m home – he said and you flinched on the couch, rushing to turn everything off.

–Honey! I didn’t hear you –

–Perhaps because you were too focused on the TV – Jimin smiled, making his way to you. You were wearing a pale blue dress that he loved on you and looking flustered, you were quite something, he’d knew it since he met you and he loved every centimeter of you, every bit of the crazy workings of your mind. He’d been talking about Hyemin and his course so much that he should have seen it sooner.

Jimin leaned down with a knee on the couch to greet you. –If you wanted to learn so much, I could have taught you babe – he kissed you deeply until he had you resting your back on the couch, molding your body against his and making space for him there. You laughed a little breathless and avoided his eyes. –You don’t have to do this to get my attention Y/N –

Jimin smiled tenderly at you, caressing your waist softly over the fabric of your dress with his right hand.

–How’d you…– you blushed a little under his gaze then, biting on your lower lip. –I just thought… you are so mesmerized by Hyemin and all her knowledge of literature…– You sighed, still not meeting his eye. Jimin nuzzled your neck, you smelled like him and like you too, he was already used to the mix and he loved it.

–You think I like her? – he didn’t want to sound amused because you could take it wrong, he cupped the side of your face and lifted it a little for you to look at him, but you only did so for short and Jimin hated to see you doubt, you were everything to him and no smart student could change that. –Y/N, baby, look at me–

You did as he said and he spoke softly to you. –First of all, I don’t like Hyemin, she’s practically a child so don’t think I feel something for her – he kissed you with all his might then, his hands held onto your waist firmly and he only parted when both of you were breathless and your chests were heaving, so much he had to clear his throat to continue. –Second, you’re my wife Y/N, I can’t even look at another woman because I only have eyes for you–

Jimin’s hands went lower to squeeze your hips and his lips kissed your neck, your cleavage, peppered your clavicles with flutter kisses.

–You’re the only one for me, my life, the only woman I love – you moaned quietly into the kiss when Jimin’s hands slipped beneath your dress to take a hold of your hips and slid them lower to caress your thighs and coil them around his hips in the process.

–I just… I think I got a… a little jealous, you talked about her with such adoration…– Jimin hummed against your skin, working his hands further up your torso, your chest. –I wanted you to admire me too –

This time Jimin laughed under his breath, part for what you said, part for the little whine his touch elicited from you. –But I already admire you Y/N, and I love you too, I still can’t believe my luck for having you – he pecked your lips softly then. –She can’t compare, no woman can, for me it’s only you–

He kissed you again and he was willing to spend the rest of the night doing it if that’s what it took for you to understand how especial you were to him. You held onto him, carded your hands through his hair but complained softly.

–It’s not fair, you’re too attractive and possibly the hottest high school teacher on earth, you can’t blame me for feeling a little afraid – Jimin laughed, you always managed to make him feel too many things at once. –Besides,you don’t let me think straight when you kiss me like this Jimin…–

–You don’t have to fear, I’m only yours– He brought a hand up to caress your cheek and his heart swelled with your smile, your lips looked tender and moist and even if you had complained, Jimin wasn’t planning to stop kissing you like he was born to do just that.

He leaned forward and caught your lips again, to think of spending the rest of the night showing you how much he loved you and how he was only into you didn’t seem like a bad idea. Jimin smiled into the kiss when you sighed his name as he bit your lips. This was just the start.

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The Weekend Warrior Home Edition April 10, 2020 – Trolls World Tour, Sea Fever, We Summon the Darkness

Yeah, there isn’t a ton of stuff coming out this week that I’m particularly excited about, but lots of stuff to watch at home.

The world is still reeling with the decision by Universal and DreamWorks Animation to release their animated sequel, TROLLS WORLD TOUR, directly to digital and home download (although it might play in the dozen or so drive-in theaters still open nationwide, presumably). The original movie made $348.9 million nationwide, so it’s an odd decision to release the sequel in a format that almost guarantees piracy and little chance of further international expansion later. It’s also a choice that has annoyed a lot of theater owners who had been expecting for the movie to do well over this coming Easter weekend. I wasn’t considered one of the “chosen ones” that were allowed to see this movie before its release on Friday to review it, so this will probably be all I write about it.

Other limited releases that didn’t get a fair shake in theaters before the rolling nationwide lockdown include Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken, starring Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning, will be available digitally this Friday. I wrote a little about it in my last full Weekend Warrior column.

Before we get to the new movies on Digital and On Demand, I just want to mention that this Saturday, April 11, will be the first ever “Film Festival Day” with the participation of 30 film festivals associated with the Film Festival Alliance (including my beloved Oxford Film Festival). They’ll collectively be premiering Gary Lundgren’s Phoenix, Oregon, starring James Le Gros and Jesse Borrego as two friends experiencing their midlife who find an opportunity to reinvent themselves by restoring an old bowling alley and serving “the world’s greatest pizza.” Lundgren’s film was supposed to open on March 20, but a lot of film festivals were cancelled due to Covid-19 and weren’t able to get a proper theatrical showing, so you can buy a ticket to Film Festival Day here, and it will start on Saturday at 12AM Eastern and be available for 48 hours with a special QnA (hosted by Oxford’s executive director, Melanie Addington) on Saturday at 5pm PT/8pm ET.

The movie hitting digital airwaves this Friday I would probably recommend is Neasa Hardimann’s at-sea thriller SEA FEVER (Dust/Gunpowder and Sky), starring Hermione Corfield as Siobhán, a marine biology lab-rat, who has to spend a week on a fishing trawler with a tightly-knit crew, including Connie Nielsen. When something very big attaches itself to their boat, each of them begin to get infected with nowhere to go but the open waters. I generally like claustrophobic creature features like this, with Ridley Scott’s Alien and John Carpenter’s remake of The Thing being two of the best. I might need a few more years before I decide if Hardimann’s film is quite on par, but it’s pretty solid. I definitely like the way things build slowly as you try to figure out what is happening. Sure, there’s a few bits that are a bit too much like homages to those other two films, but Hermione Corfield is a great find, and Hardimann does a fine job with her second feature that really uses the environment quite effectively. I kind of wish I had a chance to see this in theaters but like Saban’s other films, it was always gonna be a VOD special.

There will be a very special live stream premiere of the movie on Thursday night at 5pm Pacific that you can watch for a fee here.

Just two short weeks after his last film Human Capital hit digital, director Marc Meyers is back with his second movie of the year, WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS (Saban Films). This one stars Alexandra Daddario as Alexis, a young woman attending a heavy metal concert with her friends where they meet three guys who they invite to party at the estate of Alexis’ fire-and-brimstone preacher father (Johnny Knoxville). That party quickly  turns dark. The movie also stars Keean Johnson, Amy Forsyth and Austin Swift.

I really wanted to like this more, because it was nice seeing Meyers doing something different, and it once again shows how good he is with younger actors -- okay, Daddario is 32 now, so I’m not sure why she’s still playing girls nearly half her age -- but the first thirty minutes feels very by the books in terms of it being a ‘80s movie. Yes, this is Meyers’ third period piece in a row, so he gets to play with lots of fun references, but he didn’t write this script (as he did with the excellent My Friend Dahmer), and it’s such a straight-ahead premise that you can kind of know where it’s going at any time. I guess I just don’t like movies like this where it seems violent for the sake of violence, and you never really like any of the characters much or understand their motivations. I mean, I’ve seen worse, but this is just kind of bleh compared to Sea Fever (and Meyers’ previous work). This movie just wasn’t for me, and the worst part was that the Johnny Knoxville role that seemed so promising? He doesn’t show up for an hour into the movie.

There’s also Sonejuhi Sinha’s Stray Dolls, a mix of cultures (oddly similar in terms of premise as Netflix’s Tigertail – see below) as it follows Geentanjali Thapa’s Riz who arrives in the United States to take a housekeeping job at the Tides Plaza Motel. There, he must contend with Cynthia Nixon’s Una, who hires other people who need help including Oliva DeJonge’s Dallas, Riz’s new roommate. Oh, she’s also the motel’s resident drugdealer. I haven’t watched this yet, so I’ not sure if it’s a comedy or a drama, but it’s another movie available digitally this weekend.

There’s also the documentary, The Mindfulness Movement (Abramorama / Mangurama) from Rob Beemer and exec. produced by Deepak Chopra and my mortal enemy, Jewel. It looks at how the use of “mindfulness” – a type of meditation that makes one focus on the present moment in a non-judgmental way – is the root to creating a happier world. There’s a lot of talk now about using meditation to deal with the stress, pressure and fears that go along with the current pandemic, so this doc couldn’t be better-timed! It will be available to rent via VOD starting Friday.

STREAMING AND CABLE

This week’s Netflix premiere film is TIGERTAIL, the new film from Alan Yang, who some may know from his collaboration with Aziz Ansari on their Netflix show, Master of None. This one stars Hong-Chi Lee as impoverished Taiwanese factory worker, Pin-Jui, who decides to leave his homeland and the woman he loves in the ‘50s to seek opportunities in America. Decades later, the older Pin-Jui (played by Tzi Ma) has been worn down by his work, a loveless arranged marriage and a daughter Angela (Christine Ko) who he can’t connect with.  This will debut on Netflix Friday but unfortunately, I’ve been embargoed until then, so nope… not reviewing.

Also on Netflix is the debut of THE MAIN EVENT, the network’s first collaboration with WWE Films, which I couldn’t get a screener quickly enough to include in this column. It stars Seth Carr as 11-year-old Leo Thompson who discovers a magic wrestling mask that gives him super-strenth, which he uses to try to become a WWE Superstar. Directed by Jay Karas (Break Point), it also stars Adam Pally, Ken Marrino and WWE Superstars, Kofi Kingston, The Miz and Sheamus. Should be a fun kids’ movie, but I’m not so sure about The Big Show Show, a new sitcom starring Paul Wight, aka WWE Superstar The Big Show, because it looks pretty stupid. Remember when The Big Show (once known as “The Giant”) was absolutely intimidating? (To be fair, this also seems to be meant for kids.)

Now playing on Amazon Prime is Hanan Harchol’s About a Teacher (Amazon Prime), following the journey of an inner-city high school film teacher (Dov Tiefenbach), who starts the job not realizing what is demanded of him as a teacher. Many of Harchol’s own former students are a part of the cast and crew of this film, which looks at the difficulties of being a teacher in New York City.

I’m super-excited that Sunday is the third season of Killing Eve on BBC America, but I still have to watch all of Season 2… plus most of Season 2 of Westworld… and rewatch Season 4 of Better Call Saul. So yeah, I’m glad there’s lots of stuff to watch, but I still just don’t have the inclination to watch all or any of it.

I guess Amazon Prime premiered the first season of the sci-fi series Tales from the Loop last Friday, and that’s another thing I’m hoping to get to soon.

Next week, more movies not in theaters!

By the way, if you read this week’s column and have read this far down, feel free to drop me some thoughts at Edward dot Douglas at Gmail dot Com or send me a note on Twitter. I love hearing from readers!

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To the Artist of the Decade,

So one of the reasons I started this blog was because I wanted a place to be able to share my gratitude for the people who have influenced my life but who I will likely never meet. I haven’t done a great job in general of keeping up with this blog but life is busy and luckily pretty darn good. I don’t have to search for things to be grateful for as I feel them every day.

There are lots of people who have influenced my life in many different ways, from teachers and professors to authors and celebrities. In thinking of who I wanted to thank first it was really a no brainer especially considering recent events.

So here it goes. I am grateful for Taylor Swift. I don’t think that there is any single celebrity that I admire more than Taylor. Her talent is unbelievable but more than that her actions and words show her as an advocate, a friend, and a person who genuinely wants the world to be a better place. I have been a fan from her first album, “Our Song” was my jam back in high school and I made sure all of my friends listened to it too. To this day I regret not going to the concert in my hometown where Taylor was the opening act. Little did I know that I would end up waiting nearly 13 years to see her in concert, from 2007 or 2008 (I can’t remember) to 2020. Over the years I have listened to all of her albums. My little sister got Fearless and Speak Now for Christmas and I promptly stole both of them. Speak Now went missing in a move during university but by that time we all had iPods so losing an album sucks but it happened. Fearless is still in my car, the only CD I had for years and have listened to so many times.

I remember when Red came out and people complained about Taylor moving away from country and selling out to be a pop star. It boggled my mind that people didn’t see what I saw. I was so inspired and so proud of her. I watched a young woman like myself step up and say “hey, I am growing up and changing.” That’s a scary thing to do when you aren’t famous. It’s hard to change peoples’ ideas of you when it’s just close friends and family. I can’t imagine taking on the world and doing it so boldly with such beautiful music. Taylor has always been vocal about the way the media treats her and her fight to be treated fairly has always struck me as important. Not enough people call out the bullies of the world and the level of slut shaming that Taylor has faced in her career is nothing short of barbaric.

Taylor’s shift in the last few years to speak out about politics and inequality has been so inspiring. From her sexual assault case where she stood fiercely in her own defense to her political activism in support of the LGBTQ+ community, Taylor has spoken and written with passion and conviction that the world could use so much more of. Her advocacy for young and up and coming artists will have long lasting impacts on an industry that has been historically exploitative particularly of women and minorities. I am proud to be a fan of a woman who stands up for what is right and is not afraid to make noise when things are not fair or right. The recent news that she cannot play her old songs at recorded events or release a documentary about her career is nothing short of extortion. The shut up and be a good girl mentality that men in power have is not new, nor is it a problem that only she faces. The more this is brought to light and confronted the less power it will have. So thank you Taylor! In standing up for your art and your rights you stand for all of us that seek to end gender based discrimination. To anyone that might say that these men have a legal right, I call bullshit. Art belongs to the artist who weave a part of their soul into everything they make, and if you don’t get it that’s because you have never truly made art. To hold art hostage is to hold a piece of that person’s soul hostage and really you can’t get much lower than that. So Taylor keep fighting, we got your back!

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The sciences are traditionally viewed as a set of difficult subjects for students, but in reality they are widely applicable in daily life and increasingly important for you to understand. Understanding science helps you better understand the world around you, and science may be an important part of your education up through college. Many people even seek out careers in science. Learning scientific concepts through creative, hands-on classroom experiences and at-home experimentation and investigation may help you better enjoy and understand the subject.

[Edit]Steps

[Edit]Learning in the Classroom

Play science games. Talk to your teacher about science games you can play with your classmates to learn and help reinforce scientific concepts. You can make up your own games, or buy some online or direct from an educational store.

Help reinforce basic concepts and vocabulary with crossword puzzles, which are easily downloaded online.

Create a board game with science trivia, asking questions such as “What are the states of matter?” “What are the names of the noble gases?” or anything that pertains to what you are studying in class.

Make a group. Try forming a club or group that meets once or twice a week before school or during lunch for science-related activities. Use it as a form of group study.

Use club time to play scientific games, watch documentaries, and try different experiments.

Have competitions between club members or participate in events like the Science Olympiad as a team.[1]

Ask your science teacher if they would be willing to supervise your club.

Perform experiments. Simple experiments such as making a papier mache volcano or the Cartesian Diver are easily done at home in your spare time. More complicated experiments can be undertaken for class projects and science fairs.

Work with a subject that is meaningful to you. If you’re interested in meteorology, for example, you could make a cloud in a bottle.

Ask yourself “Why?” questions frequently. Look up information on the sort of results you want to see, and ask yourself, “Why did my experiment produce these results rather than the predicted ones?”

Follow the scientific method. If you are doing your experiment for class or a science fair, it is important to follow the scientific method so that you can properly record and report your experiment. Remember to include background research, a hypothesis, and an analysis along with your methods.[2]

Draw a picture. If you are a visual learner, turn your studies into art. Draw pictures and diagrams to help you follow your course material, and use these to supplement your notes.

Be detailed and include labels. If, for example, you are drawing a plant cell, identify the chloroplast, nucleus, mitochondria, ER, vacuole, Golgi body, cell wall, etc. Make sure there is information to match the visual.

Be colorful. Creativity has been shown to help students actively engage in the learning process.[3]Get creative and colorful with your drawings, even if it doesn’t exactly match the models in the text books.

Learn with 3D models. Use interactive 3D models of topics like molecules, organs, or the solar system.

Ask your teacher if any models are available to the class. If not, create your own. There are a number of tutorials and DIY instructions for scientific models online.

Use your notes and drawings to help you take the models apart, identify their components, and put them back together.

Test yourself by seeing if you can name and describe individual components of the model. Try throwing all the pieces into a bag, pulling one out at a time, and listing all the information you know about that piece.

Use mnemonic devices. Make memorizing facts easier with little memory tricks, a rhyme, or an acronym. These are meant to help you remember confusing concepts, difficult terms, and hard-to-remember facts.[4]

For example, HOMES is an acronym for the 5 great lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior).

This mnemonic device might be of big help for you to remember the planets of the solar system: My Very Energetic Mother Jumps Straight Up North (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune).

Be as creative and as funny as you want as long as the facts can be easily remembered.

Find real-world examples. Science becomes more meaningful when you understand how it impacts your daily life and the larger world around you.

Tie basic experiments back into real-world examples. If, for example, you do a demonstration showing oil is lighter than water, pair it with a discussion of oil spills and what sort of impact floating oil could have on the environment.

Engage yourself in your surroundings by identifying hazards in local environments. Use rising sea levels or extreme storms to help learn about earth science and climate change. If you are in an earthquake-prone area, use that to study plate tectonics.[5]

Integrate chemistry with environmental studies by testing local water and soil samples.

Taste test more acidic and more alkaline foods to see how chemistry impacts what you eat.

[Edit]Studying at Home

Start early. Some research suggests that children already start to form negative opinions about science by kindergarten.[6] Start studying science concepts early in your everyday life to see how it is applicable and why it is important.

Supplement TV time with science programming. Watch shows like Bill Nye the Science Guy, Sid the Science Kid, and Mythbusters to introduce you to basic science concepts in an entertaining way.[7]

Ask yourself questions. When you first start with a new scientific subject, getting the concepts right isn’t as important as simply encouraging critical thinking. Ask yourself questions like, “Why do you think giraffes have long necks?” on trips to the zoo, or “Why does water solidify when freezing?” when you make a new tray of ice.

Remember, it is okay to be wrong. Instead of simply telling yourself that you are wrong, think through the process and guide yourself to new conclusions using new information.

Don’t rely on oversimplification. You might not get all the technical concepts of scientific processes, but don’t try to oversimplify too much. If you break things down to the point where fundamental information is missing or what you’re saying is simply inaccurate, you may suffer in the long run.[8]

Ask yourself, “Will this change the concept?” before you simplify something in your notes or on a paper. You may not need to understand nuclear fusion for a middle school astronomy report. Still, saying “The sun is a ball of fiery gases and metals”, is more accurate than stating “The sun is a ball of fire in the sky.”

Say you don’t know. You will have science questions that you cannot answer on your own. That is alright. Tell your teacher you don’t know, but that you want help finding the answer.

Saying you don’t know reinforces the idea that scientific learning is not about memorizing facts, but rather about critical thinking and investigating.

Read through your class materials and textbooks thoroughly to gather the information already available to you.

If class materials don’t answer the question, look for online resources that can help explain. There may be videos, games, or even another teacher’s lesson plan that you could use.

Ask to meet with your teacher outside of class to help explain the concept. Tell them “I’d like to learn this so that I can better understand the course content and the subject as a whole.”

Learn about scientists. Get inspiration from biographies about famous scientists. Learn about what these scientists' lives were like and what they accomplished that brought good things to the world.

Find grade-level appropriate biographies about famous scientists such as Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Watson and Crick, and others. You can find these in bookstores or online.

Watch short videos to go along with what you’re reading. There are a number of online videos dedicated to celebrating great scientists. Watch them before or after you read so you can see why that person still matters today.

[Edit]Exploring Science on Your Own

Visit museums. Museums are great places to see science in action. Go to a museum and spend the day exploring new concepts.

Natural history museums are great places to find information about biology, ecology, and paleontology.

Scientific museums such as museums of science, museums of industry, air and space museums, and others often have hands-on exhibits that allow you to participate in scientific processes in action.

Planetariums allow you to explore the solar system, the stars, and universe beyond our earth.

Aquariums introduce visitors to underwater ecology as well as environmental and marine conservation.

Go to camp. Many communities have camps meant to foster students’ interest in STEM subjects. Day camp, weekend camp, sleepaway camp, and before and after school options are all available.[9]

There are different camps for different interests. There are camps dedicated to exploring engineering, ecology, physics, chemistry, and more. Explore a subject that interests you.

Contact your local community centers and organizations to see if they offer free or low-cost day camps or afterschool programs focused on scientific inquiry.

Check with local museums and scientific institutions to see if they offer summer and/or weekend programs.

Look at national programs such as Space Camp (https://www.spacecamp.com/) or Mad Science (https://www.madscience.org/).

Use technology. Technology is increasingly impacting the content and the ways students learn. Use new technologies to teach yourself scientific subjects in ways that make sense to you.

Programs like Crash Course, Khan Academy, and others have full subject content including videos, lesson plans, and assignments online and through social media platforms to help learners from the elementary school level up through college.

There are smartphone and tablet apps for almost any scientific subject you will study. Apps like Project Noah and Journey North allow you to participate in citizen science programs right from your phone. Others, such as NASA Visualization Explorer and goREACT, demonstrate concepts and allow for experiment simulations on the phone that would be too difficult in class.[10]

Become a citizen scientist. Get involved with a program that aligns with what you are studying in school, and help contribute data to real scientific studies all over the world. Many of these are no-commitment required programs, so you only contribute when you feel you can.

Help NASA identify interstellar dust particles with Stardust@home[11], or work with Galaxy Zoo to classify galaxies.[12]

Learn about synthetic biology by playing games that build machines out of our DNA.[13]

Contribute to biological research about dogs simply by playing with your pup and reporting your findings to the Animal Ownership Interaction Study.[14]

Search online databases such as SciStarter to search for citizen scientist projects relevant to your studies.

[Edit]Tips

For fun and easy science experiments for kids that are safe to do at home, check out online resources.[15]

Try not to encourage negative connotations with scientific study. Say things like “Chemistry is not my best subject,” instead of, “I hate chemistry.”

[Edit]References

↑ https://www.soinc.org/

↑ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/humanspark/lessons/experimenting-with-experiments/lesson-activities/?p=431

↑ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.10037/abstract

↑ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-mnemonics/

↑ http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/real_examples.html

↑ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/start-science-sooner/

↑ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-kids-television-inspires-a-lifelong-love-of-science-94268316/?no-ist

↑ http://time.com/4138251/science-space-education-kids/

↑ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1098-2736(199612)33:10%3C1083::AID-TEA3%3E3.0.CO;2-O/abstract

↑ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/JAAL.180/full

↑ http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

↑ https://www.galaxyzoo.org/

↑ http://scistarter.com/project/995-Nanocrafter?utm_source=Top+10+Projects&utm_campaign=Top+projects+of+2015&utm_medium=email

↑ http://scistarter.com/project/1043-Animal%20Ownership%20Interaction%20Study?utm_source=Top+10+Projects&utm_campaign=Top+projects+of+2015&utm_medium=email

↑ https://ift.tt/2xQBN66

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OkCupid Profile Examples for Women: Tips & Templates

If you’re having trouble with your OkCupid profile you’re not the only one. The app prides itself on having profiles that are longer than most dating apps, but you might be asking yourself what you could possibly say in 10 prompts that you couldn’t say in one short bio?

Well, quite a bit actually. I’m here to show you that you can (and should) say more in your OkCupid profile. Because on the OkCupid app, the whole game is to find your ideal match, whether your looking for a long-term relationship or one-night stand and that extensive profile is there to help two people (you and your future date) looking for the same thing find each other faster.

Here are some OkCupid profile examples for women as well as a quick overview of what the profile looks like and tips to give you some ideas and inspiration.

OkCupid Profile Overview Before we dive into profile examples for each section, let’s examine exactly what goes into an OkCupid profile since there’s more to take in.

General information This is the easy part and includes your gender, relationship status, orientation, height, body type, ethnicity, diet, drinking style, drugs and smoking style, religion, education, kids, pets, and language you speak.

My self-summary Well, in this case it’s your self-summary, but you get what I mean. This is where you’re going to need to use the bulk of your writing skills since it’s open-ended, is the first thing people see after your general info, and can include anything you want.

What I’m doing with my life This is included in almost everyone’s profile and can either be a short one-liner—something as simple as “I’m a teacher”—or a longer explanation of where you are in your life.

Additional profile prompts After the What I’m doing with my life section, OkCupid will give you around seven more prompts that include things like: I’m really good at, My golden rule, Six things I could never do without, The last show I binged, A perfect day, If I went to jail, I’d be arrested for, What I’m actually looking for, or Six favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food. Depending on the prompt you may want to answer with one sentence or a paragraph. It’s up to you but recommended that you do answer as many as you can.

OkCupid Profile Examples for Women

My self-summary Me: Just your neighborhood A dog-loving, marathon running, accountant. That’s me by day, anyway. By nighttime I’m tearing up the dancefloor at your local disco club. (Fair warning: I’m not a good dancer, just full of blind confidence.) You: Prepared to go on spontaneous adventures and luxurious vacations. Must love mountaintops and warm beaches. Sleep is for the weak.

Most people that know me would say I’m Fun-loving, funny, passionate and horribly addicted to my guacamole. Seriously. I’ll put avocado on anything. That said I’ll also share it with you, if you’re nice. Weekends are for binging BoJack Horseman reruns, improv, and picnics in the park. Mimosas anyone?

One day, I would like to climb Mt. Everest. Don’t you know it’s dangerous? Yes, I do, thanks. Aren’t you scared? Just a little. Don’t you think that’s a little… If you have any more doubtful questions, just move along. I’m a big girl and I’ve been climbing since I was a little kid. I want to stand on the tallest point in the whole world and no one’s going to stop me. Who knows? Maybe you’ll be end up in the party.

Tip 1: You in a Nutshell If you ran into the love of your life in an elevator and you had eight floors to catch their fancy, what would you say? This is a good exercise for writing a basic self-summary. Try boiling your life story down. It’s good to start with your job, your hobbies, your passions. Are your friends everything? Do you have a dog that you love dearly? Oftentimes, just this info can offer enough insight for someone glancing over your profile to decide if they should send you a message. So be genuine and be brief.

Tip 2: Passion is Sexy It’s okay if you’re not at the top of your career yet or don’t have it all figured out. The key is “yet.” Passion, confidence, and dreams are attractive, and you can share that stuff here. So whatever it is that you yearn to do in the bottom of your heart, shout it loud and shout it proud. It’s okay if you’re not quite there yet. There’s nothing wrong with that. And who knows, you might find a partner for the journey.

My patronus is A black and white cat. I was hoping for something noble like a lion or stag. Heck, a llama, even. Nope. I got a housecat. If you take the Pottermore quiz and get a dog or a mouse or something like that, feel free to message me. J.K. Rowling is trying to tell us something.

I like to make paintings. Wow, that sounds weird. I like to paint paintings. I’m a painter. Not quite Frida Kahlo, but miles ahead of high school art class. I’m self taught and always look for any excuse to get into my studio (read as tarp on my kitchen floor). Firm believer that there’s nothing quite like the feeling of a brush stroke on canvas or walking through half your house before realizing you’ve left trail of acrylic paint footprints. Artsy or fartsy, holler at me!

My weirdest quirk I was born with an extra toe on my left foot. (It was removed, so don’t ask to see it!) I’m also a competitive partner dancer, who can keep balance for the life of her outside of the dance floor. Is there a connection between ghost toe and my deficiency? I don’t know, mom, is there??

Tip 3: What do you do to pass the time For the doers and makers, movers and shakers out there, what are you doing and making? If you have a closet hobby, what is it? These little quiet passions add depth to your profile. They really help other daters get a feel for who you are. You don’t have to be a master cross-stitcher or certified metal worker, but these activities will make it easy for others to connect and give you something to chat about.

Tip 4: Quirky is in, so let your freak flag fly Yep, it’s true. We’ve officially embraced the weird. It’s a good time to be a nerd, geek, or just a little bit out there. There’s no perfect “normal,” so tell people what makes you different. Acknowledging the things that make you unique and loving them is a great way to show confidence, which is always attractive. Putting your quirks in your profile will always set you apart from the crowd.

Six things I could never do without Water, food, air, shelter, clothes, human attention. There’s probably more, but that’s the best I can do right now.

I value My family. I know it sounds corny, but I’m not ashamed to say it. Family comes first. Blood is thicker than water and all that. We’ve been through a lot together and in those hard moments our strength together is what gets us through. No doubt about it.

I spend a lot of time thinking about The universe and how small we are in it. I could watch space documentaries for weeks on end—that and listen to Neil Degrasse Tyson’s voice. I feel like I’m smarter listening to anything he narrates. Cosmos and chill?

Tip 5: We are what we need We all have the things we need—whether it’s family, god, or Taco Bell’s Crunchwrap Supreme, the things we love aren’t going to change anytime soon. Incidentally, they’re also a great way to show other daters what you’re about. Remember the key is to find common ground and show personality.

Tip 6: I am defined by If you have core beliefs that you can’t do without, best to get them out in the open. Waiting till your tenth date to reveal that you’re an environmental activist and ethical vegan may not be the best approach for finding a compatible mate. The things that keep you up at night keep other people at night too.

A book everyone should read The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. A friend group parties across France and Spain and teaches us that “classic” books don’t just have to be a slog. It’s a quick, fun read, but still makes you feel the feels. I finished it this summer in just one day and it left me lost in thought and wondering about my next raucous party.

My favorite bands in high school Smash Mouth, and Yellowcard. I know it’s embarrassing. Please don’t judge. I’m ready to be better now I swear! Message me with your most embarrassing fandom, so I know it’s real.

Best day of my life so far The first week after I got my puppy Benny we went to the dog park for the first time. He ran in circles for 10 minutes before tuckering himself out and passing out in my lap belly up. We spent the rest of the day munching on doggie treats and popcorn watching the Flintstones. It’s been three years and he’s still the love of my life, but we’re open to meeting new people.

Tip 7: Artsy and fartsy Talking about what we read and what we’ve seen is house we shoot the breeze. This is your opportunity to get intellectual with your obscure book recommendations or relive your angst of your teenage years with your favorite high school bands. This could be a genuine way to make a connection through sharing your refined current taste or poking fun at your poor past taste. That’s up to you.

Tip 8: The perfect day For some of us it’s finding 20 dollars on the ground. For others, it’s a day of hiking with your best friends. Either way, the little things that rub us the right way say a lot about what we like in our partners. Being honest and fun here will get you more messages (and will help give other singles some good ideas for dates).

My relationship with my mother is the perfect friendship, which is how it should be! We’re a tag team duo for yoga and brunch (sometimes back-to-back). I share almost everything with her, so if you’re going to be mine, you’re going to have to be hers, too. Proud mama’s girl through and through.

You should message me if you’re looking to date in a low commitment, long-term relationship. Finishing up school is my number one priority right now, and I can’t give too much to a deeply invested relationship. You should also message me you’re career driven (it’s attractive!) and can keep up a good banter (also attractive!). Driven, smart, funny, that’s the combo~

I will never date someone that thinks that vacations are for relaxing. Time away from work is for scuba diving, surfing, sightseeing, and anything else that involves not sitting still. I live for adventure and I’m looking for someone to tag along (and occasionally lead the way). Think you’re up for the challenge? Submit your application below. *Due to high volume of incoming applications, we sincerely apologize that we can only reply to the ones that we think are the best fit for this position.

Tip 9: Be upfront and open It’s okay to be genuine. In fact, it’s the best way to be. Being a vulnerable in dating means that you’re confident in sharing yourself, that you’re not worried about being hurt by what people think. Now that’s a good way to be.

Tip 10: Honesty is the golden rule Honest is the best policy. Always has been and still is. If you’re looking for a particular kind of relationship this is a good place to put it out there. Being forward about what you want may save some time and pain coming from mismatched expectations later down the road. On a more simple dating app, you might be able to leave this sort of stuff out, but because OkCupid is so comprehensive it doesn’t hurt to add.

So that’s it! Go ahead and get out there. OkCupid has a longer profile than most other apps, but in the end it’s not too different. As always, the key is to be funny, genuine, and honest. Your natural attractive qualities will shine through. Good luck!

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Thumbnails is a roundup of brief excerpts to introduce you to articles from other websites that we found interesting and exciting. We provide links to the original sources for you to read in their entirety.—Chaz Ebert

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"Elisha Christian on 'Columbus' and 'Everything Sucks!'": The Spirit Award-nominated cinematographer chats with me about his acclaimed work on Kogonada's 2017 film and this year's acclaimed Netflix series.

“[Indie Outlook:] How did you and Kogonada develop the extraordinary shot of Jin (John Cho) and Eleanor (Parker Posey), framing them in a mirror in a way that gives us a sense of their history. We feel as if we are peering into a reflection of their past.’ [Christian:] ‘That scene took place in the same inn where Jin was staying. There were only four or five guest rooms in the whole inn, and we had our pick of which room we wanted to shoot in. That location is so visually interesting — you could shoot a whole movie there. When we saw the mirrors, we knew where we wanted to place the camera, though my AC couldn’t even stand next to it to pull focus. She had to sit underneath the camera while reaching up above her head to pull focus because the space was so slim. We even had to pull everything off the sides of the camera in order to fit in that tiny area without catching it in a reflection. We saw that if John walks out and stops at a certain point after Eleanor basically kicks him out, he could turn back to her and we’d be able to frame them both in an interesting way. It was definitely a dance. I remember that we were running behind that night. It took a while to set up the shot and get it ready, and we probably shot about 7 or 8 takes of it. We had two other shots planned in the scene, but when we got the take that Kogonada wanted, he said, ‘We don’t need the other shots.’ That’s a ballsy decision, considering the length of the scene. It’s decisions like these that made the movie better.’”

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"Peak superhero? Not even close: How one movie genre became the guiding myth of neoliberalism": Brilliant commentary from Salon's Keith A. Spencer.

“Obversely, this is precisely how politics functions in neoliberalism: Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were presented as branded superheroes, who believed they knew what was best for us, and sought to install their elite wonks to enact their benevolent (to them) policies. There’s a relatively two-dimensional view of the world at work: there are good and bad people; they are generally born that way and seldom change. The state in neoliberalism and superhero movies is almost entirely devoted to oppression and surveillance. If the state overreaches, heroes must fix its excesses; if it fails to protect its citizenry, heroes must make up for its shortcomings. In either case, its social welfare function is invisible: because people are innately good or evil, there are no social workers or teachers or other welfare-state employees whose duties might prevent villainy (or supervillainy) through social work. Superheroes are, by definition, more powerful and more important than the state. More importantly, the superheroes’ work may save lives, but it never inherently changes the relationships of production: If the people are poor, they’re likely to stay poor. They don’t participate in redistributive politics except to attack the sort of universally detested social relationships about which there is broad consensus — for instance, slavery. Superheroes can’t and won’t save the middle class; many of them are rich anyway and stand to benefit from the kinds of inherent economic injustices that, say, Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn fight against.”

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"Turkey's Government Is Censoring the Movies, But the Istanbul Film Festival Is Soldiering On": According to Indiewire's Amy Nicholson.

“No one is sure what the moral rules are. The Ministry of Culture won’t write them down. At least the Hays Code in classic Hollywood had 11 clear don’ts. Specific rules can be subverted. But Turkey’s veto power is capricious and vague. Filmmakers, especially documentary filmmakers telling unflattering stories about modern Turkey, could spend years on a movie that can’t be shown. Unpredictability pressures artists to play it safe. Some hire lawyers to help them guess whether their work might be rejected, and if so, hunt for foreign producers willing to take a controlling stake as international films don’t require a certificate yet. But as Saudi Arabia opens its first movie theater in 30 years with a screening of ‘Black Panther’—imagine women who finally got the right to drive this year beholding the Dora Milaje—Turkish people are alarmed that their government, which just disrupted the last major dissenting newspaper chain, threatened people over their footage of Taksim Square, intermittently shut off YouTube and Twitter, and is poised to ban teaching evolution in schools, is making it hard to share their stories with the outside world. Over a bottle of wine, a director sighed as she pointed toward the west, ‘News comes one way.’ The impact was everywhere. ‘I can say that there are less political movies than before,’ said current festival director Kerem Ayan on a group boat trip circling the Bosporus River. ‘But cinema is very creative. Everybody finds a different way to express what they want.’”

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"The Résumé: The Winding, Everlasting Career of William H. Macy": Another essential interview conducted by Sam Fragoso for The Ringer.

“I had never done anything that graphic or that sexual before ‘The Cooler.’ I’d taken my clothes off, but that’s different. And it was my adorable wife who finally said, ‘When you talk about it, it sounds like you’re planning to fail. If you don’t want to do these sex scenes, you should call the director and tell him you don’t want to do them. If you do want to do them, you better start thinking about how to make them great.’ It was a fabulous wake-up call. I married well. So I started to look at the sex scenes like any other scene—as an acting exercise. What’s different at the end of the scene than at the beginning? What happened? What’s the objective? What transpired? Where’s the moment where something changed the plot even though we’re just rolling around in bed? And to Wayne’s credit, I said, ‘I can’t understand the scene. I’m having trouble here. What happens here?’ And we talked about one or two scenes and he said, “You know what, you’re right. I can’t find it either.” And he cut them. He cut the scenes. Which is sort of the essence of art, I think: If you can cut it and still tell your story, then you have to cut it. I was shy but Maria didn’t care. She said, ‘I’m an old hippie. This is nothing.’”

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"50 Years Ago, a White Woman Touching a Black Man on TV Caused a National Commotion": Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte chat with Vanity Fair's Donald Liebenson about the moment that erupted into an inadvertent scandal.

“For his part, Belafonte thought there had just been a technical glitch. He did not think the touch was problematic: ‘Quite the contrary,’ he says. ‘I was quite pleased. That song, if I remember, was the last thing we shot. There was an enormous sense of release that we had pulled this off without a hitch. It was one guy—Doyle Lott—who said we had to re-shoot what we had just done. We were nonplussed as to what was the problem.’ NBC, alerted to the controversy, called Binder to say the network would back him (‘That was a great phone call to get,’ he says). With that, Binder and Wolff rushed to the studio basement to confront the editor and order him to keep the take where Clark touched Belafonte’s arm—and to erase the others so they could not be used in the broadcast. Somehow—Binder doesn’t recall what did it—word of the controversy got out early, resulting in breathless pre-broadcast news coverage. ‘Incident at TV Taping Irks Belafonte,’ said a March 7 headline in ‘The New York Times.’ The article quoted a statement from White: ‘If there was any incident . . . it resulted solely from the reaction of a single individual and by no means reflects the Plymouth Division’s attitude or policy on such matters.’ Lott’s Detroit office also issued a statement: ‘I was tired. I over-reacted to the staging, not to any feeling of discrimination.’ Binder remembers hearing that Belafonte was about to tell America to boycott Plymouth on ‘The Tonight Show’; he called the singer to tell him it wasn’t the car company’s fault, and reminded Belafonte of his conversation with White. On March 10, the ‘Times’ reported that Lott had been ‘relieved of his responsibilities.’”

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Parallax View's Richard T. Jameson lists his favorite "moments out of time" from films he saw in 2017, including Bertrand Bonello's "Nocturama."

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Alexander Jeffrey's short film, "An Aria for Albrights," stars Laura Bretan, the astonishing young opera singer who became a 2016 finalist on "America's Got Talent." Click here to read my interview with her at Indie Outlook.

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“What letter?? What letter??”

“Very good!”

Growing up, I have always manifested my bossy side. The short dialogue above is just how I would boss around my stuffed toys when I was pretending to be their teacher. Yes, I was that kind of kid who had her early years who was an only child. The want to go out, go to school, or go anywhere in public was innate since I craved for social interaction (foreshadowing: the case at the present is the very opposite).

When the social interaction I need is not available or my parents are too busy with the family business, my saving grace are my book. Since I guess, it is as good as talking to someone else. Different charts line the walls of my bedroom which also serve as my instructional materials back then when teaching my stuffed toys. Aside from these charts, my earliest memory of holding an actual book is a book that involved Elmo from the Sesame Street. I got it on my 2nd birthday together with another Sesame Street book. I have been curious as to what it is and all the colorful pictures inside. It was the only book I got as a gift for that birthday and I have never parted with it ever since.

Sunday mornings were the best mornings. I get to go to mass, eat breakfast with the family, and help my grandmother cook for lunch. Sundays also meant two sets of newspaper, we get our daily The Philippines Star and the Sunday edition of the Manila Bulletin. Around the age of 4, I got curious on these oddly smelling, weirdly shaped books that lacked pictures. I remembers countless minutes trying to right the folds of the newspaper because I got too curious, opened them, and got tangled in the mess in the process. Sometime this age, my mom showed me a section on the Manila Bulletin Sunday paper where called, “Spot the Difference”. As the name would suggest, I need to spot ten differences from the left picture to the right picture. During the beginning, my mother would help me answer and spot the differences until I was ready to do it on my own. There were times that I got too frustrated that I places small dots on the picture on the right just so I could say I was able to spot a difference.

During my preschool age, I also having three set of kits containing different reading materials. My parents got this from the school I was studying in. The kits had the following themes: alphabet, numbers, and color; each set had story books, an activity book, and an accompanying VHS with videos to supplement the story books and activity book. 

At that age, my parents also introduced me to books by the Adarna Publishing House, my first three books are, Si Tiktaktok at si Pikpakbum, Ang Munting Patak Ulan, at Ang Items na Kuting. I am not sure how accurately I typed those titles since I am remembering them through memory. My favorite of the three is the first book. It is a story about two siblings who would be able to settle their differences at the end. It was also around this time that I started asking (rather pleading and begging) my parents for a sibling. Being an only child could be boring and plain, I wanted to be with someone I could play with.

At the end of my fourth grade, the Summer Home Reading Program was introduced in our school. Each grade level would receive a reading list and choose one book to read from the list during the summer. During the summer before fifth grade my mother chose the book, From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. I really did not like the idea of being forced to read during the break; I felt that my break was being taken away from me and that I was being punished. The book was about two siblings who ran away from home and lived in a museum. At the beginning, I got extremely curious as to how they would manage running away with very minimal finances so I kept on reading. I kept on reading until I realized that I was already closing the book. 

I loved reading books like this during my pre-teens; it was short, exciting, and relatable. I also remember having a fascination on the Egyptian civilization. I would watch documentaries and read books about this matter. I was always on the lookout for these kinds of books during book fairs in school.

My least pleasant memory in reading was back in first year high school. My Filipino teacher gave out an exam which majority of the class was not able to finish because the story selection was too long. After the exam, she wanted to test us so she made us silently read a story from our book and signal her when we are done. I ended up being the last one to still be reading. While I was frantically trying to finish reading, she started ranting and going on and on in front of the class about how I was too slow in reading and how I did not fit the reading level of my age and year level. High school was also the time where many required reading materials per level were put in place. In my four years, I have truly and honestly only read half of the books asked from us to read and just got by with the use of summaries and SparkNotes. During these years, I lost my interest in reading; my comprehension skills were compromised as it showed in various standardizes tests and I dreaded or was too scared to read aloud in class.

The Harry Potter books series was my turning point. Around the year the eighth film will be released, I wanted to have the chance to first read all the books as a true harry potter fan. I was too intimidated by how thick the book was and that was the reason I never even tried reading in years back. I remember reading the first book, I was too terrified to start because it was so thick. Pages turns to chapters and chapters turned to books. I was surprised on how I was so immersed and lost in the series. Since then, I got the confidence to once again start reading and to take on books that intimidated me years back

I continue my journey as a reader now. As an English teacher to first grade students, I make sure that they see me read to encourage them to read as well. My heart swells whenever I see one of my students holding a book or shows great interest in visiting the library. At a young age, I was given all the necessary materials to jump start my love for reading but certain events and experiences could change that uphill path to downhill. If there is one thing I would like to do, it would be to go back to some of the books I skipped on reading during my years in the high school. I would want to go back and read the classics. With the help of the added years in age and experience, I hope that I would be able to take on these books with a new perspective.