#to my fucking. ENGLISH TEACHER

[inkskinned]

one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.

one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.

i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.

the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.

my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.

i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.

#writeblr #i was doing a lot with high school students. over and over again #other teachers kept asking me what i was doing differently - why the kids listened to me. i am not particularly foreboding #and i have a pretty firm personal policy of never reacting in anger #godhelpme. #i was always kind of taken aback #because in general the kids were pretty easy. i explained i needed to keep everything “PG-13” because this was my workplace #and it was kind of their workplace #too. besides #i love swearing #and since i couldn't swear #neither could they - so if they were going to say “fuck” or become violent #they needed to choose a really specific time #because we only get “the one”.. sure enough - nobody wanted to waste the one very specific “fuck” utterance. kids listened. #i think just because - that rule makes sense. the kids understand that i don't want to be unfair to them #that censorship is stupid #but that i'm under these rules too so like let's ride it out together #also i look young and tbh between me and u nobody wants to make the nice english teacher cry #the way these kids defended me to their friends was really genuinely so heartwarming bc the Grouchy Frat Boy #would be like MISS RAQUEL DOESN'T DESERVE THAT KIND OF AN ATTITUDE BRO DON'T TALK BACK TO HER

[monstermoviedean]

if you took a language class in school (any level, any language) did your instructor assign you a name from that language? like, when i took french in high school i was assigned a "french name" that i had to use in that class. did anyone else experience this?

#my french teacher was batshit insane so usually i'd chalk it up to that but all the other teachers did it too #that's really fucking weird right? #also for context. i do have a degree in teaching english to speakers of other languages like i do understand language learning theory #but i don't see any rationale for this that makes sense

[vse-kar-vem]

""therapy"" ""sessions""

#how to tell my teachers i failed all my mocks because i was busy drawing mildly kinky slovenian guitarist x english photographer fanart #joker out #kris guštin #damon baker #bakery #damkris #im not kidding im actually so behind 😬 #anyways THOSE PICTURES seeing them was like punched in the face. what the fuck is their problem #my art

[slocumjoe]

Biggest complaints about each companion

Warning, reference to in-game dark subject matter.

This is subjective and mostly me wishing for a more thoughtful story, with themes beyond robot racism.

Cait: TDLR; Her backstory is too much for how it's handled

It feels like Cait got thrown every bad thing she could have. With trauma in characters, less is more, and in Cait's case, it doesn't help that her writing is more interested in her trauma than who she is as a person. Like Cait only matters as a character because of what she went through and what that demonstrates about the wasteland, rather being a person first.

I would like to point out, her parents waited until she was 18 to sell her. Because, apparently, age of consent matters to sex slavers. It demonstrates a lack of commitment to the dark topic, which usually means you should tone it down. Leave one aspect, and keep the other. Abusive parents or slavery, not both.

Since Cait is our only basegame raider companion, you could use her to humanize raiders by showing how the cycle of trauma creates them. "But Gage—" is a little bitch.

Codsworth: TDLR; Focuses too much on his pre-war relationship to the player

What was Codsworth doing those 200 years? Did he just hang out in Sanctuary? Did no one ever come to Sanctuary in the meantime? Codsworth has no relation to the plot or world beyond Sole.

I think Codsworth should have had a quest about how he went out and tried to help where he could, but now doesn't know where those people are, and wants to know what became of them. Something to give Codsworth a connection to the wasteland. Or maybe Codsworth shouldn't have been the Sole Surivor's robot at all, just one that wandered into Sanctuary and met them. Then you could have a point that the first human the Sole saw after freezing (Kellogg) was cruel, but the first 'soulless' machine was kind, which makes a point about the main plot and the idea that being human doesn't make you 'human.'

Curie: TDLR; Should have been related directly to the main plot

Curie is a robot that is put inside a synth—which is, biologically, completely human in all but a chip in their head and the circumstances of their creation—and is totally fine. She learns to breathe, gets thoughts and feelings in a way a Ms. Nanny wouldn't, and handles sensations without bricking.

Send this bitch to the Institute and BOS, are you kidding me? Curie is walking proof of synths being more than machines. She has wants, imagination, potentially even dreams and nightmares. This is never brought up by anyone.

Also, Curie is a robot, and then inhuman, but still a person, and she uses science and her compassion to help the wasteland, where those who would destroy or enslave her use it to further their own egos.

Danse: TDLR; MAKE HIM SAY SORRY TO NICK AND HANCOCK

Danse's real character arc starts at his final affinity post BB, and then it doesn't go anywhere. He never learns to accept himself, or synths, or ghouls. Danse is a character that shows the terrible function of 4 Affinity Talks, because he needs, like, 10 of the things.

Danse needed his likes/dislikes updated after BB, interactions with Nick and Hancock, and a proper character arc where he unlearns his worst traits and the BOS's bullshit.

Deacon: TDLR; Dead wife? Really?

Can Deacon not just be a goofball man who used to be a bigot, and now works hard to help the people he hurt? Because Barbara and her death implies that Deacon didn't change because it was the right thing to do, but because bigotry personally affected him.

If there must be a death, make it that his community tore itself apart trying to find synths among them. Y'know, like...a witch hunt? In Salem, maybe? Since we didn't do anything interesting with Salem, one of the most interesting places in the USA? Deacon sees this and sees that it doesn't matter if synths are human or not, hatred will inevitably hurt anyone, because it doesn't actually care who you are. Hatred doesn't need a reason, only a target. The Synth plot should have been an allegory for McCarthyism instead of slavery, change my mind.

Hancock: TDLR; He's a historical LARPER that doesn't do anything in terms of a narrative.

No, Todd. You can't make John Hancock a ghoul and call it an OC.

Hancock could have had a story about identity crisis, idolatry, and trying to escape your past. We also get hints at a complex political issue in Goodneighbor about the push-and-pull between the desire for total freedom/anarchy, but the need for some kind of law and order. Hancock has a casual friendliness, and acts like 'one of the people,' but he is the mayor. There's tension there. Can your leader be your friend? Can your friend call all the shots while still being on equal footing with you? Can you lead a group of people who look up to you as a hero, and still retain modesty and not subconsciously separate yourself?

I like Hancock, he's fun, he has a lot of interesting narrative stuff. But he doesn't do anything with it. It could have been a nice parallel with Elder Maxson, too.

MacCready: TDLR; Small inconsistencies + dude, go get your son???

Mac doesn't ever go back to Duncan, and Duncan never comes to the Commonwealth. I understand that the former is for game play reasons, but the latter feels like the writers forgot that Duncan exists.

MacCready has some issues with the likes/dislikes. I think they're mistakes instead of intended, but still. For example, in the Vault 81 quest. MacCready likes letting Austin die. He dislikes it if you give the cure.

There's also Sheffield, the soda addict in Diamond City. MacCready claims to have never seen someone with a sugar addiction, but Zip, from Little Lamplight, had an addiction.

Mac is mostly fine, aside from these inconsistencies. The Dead Wife thing sucks, but I allow it because it's pretty fundamental to his story, rather then being tacked on for sad points.

Nick: TDLR; Eddie Winter is a stupid bad guy with a stupid quest and Jenny Lands is a stupid tragic backstory

Eddie Winter being the first ghoul ever is mind-bogglingly bad. You're telling me that they made ghouls before the bombs? And even if they did, Winter couldn't be the first. How the fuck would anyone know that radiation makes you immortal if you do it right, otherwise?! So, that's a contradiction within an already contrived premise. And not only that, but he just. Leaves a bunch of holotapes with a number on the back, that make a code to the basement of his favorite sandwich shop, which just so happens to be on the same street Jenny gets fridged?

So, Eddie Winter (or one of his goons) was eating one day, looked out, saw the fiance of the detective hunting him and recognized her (????), shot her, and then presumably returned to his fucking sandwich??????

And then 2 centuries later, a clone of that detective somehow finds the holotapes, untouched, unmoved, still functioning and retaining the painted-on numbers. The numbers didn't...fade? Wipe off?

You can keep the concept of Nick wanted to finish something Pre-war Nick didn't get to, but this...this isn't it.

Like, Skinny Malone was right there. Maybe just Darla shows up when you free Nick, and then later Nick has to contend with Malone and the Triggermen in some grand conspiracy with Mayor MacDonough, Hancock, and Piper.

Preston: TDLR; The radiant quest mechanic fucked him over and his voice actor needed some retakes

The moment you get Radio Freedom, Preston should have stopped giving quests. Easy fix there. It would have saved him almost a decade of shitty memes.

The real problem with Preston is that his VA beefed it bad. I can quote some of his lines with perfect inflection because the VA just did it so poorly. X6-88's VA had to play a monotonous, little-emotion character, and he still nailed it and gave X6 a lot of personality and distinction. Preston sounds like a modded-in character. And Jon Gentry is a pretty good actor! He has a great live-action presence in his demo reels on IMDB. I think he just struggled to put his performance into his voice rather than his presence/body language, and they didn't let/have him do a retake.

Piper: TDLR; So much potential, so much failure. Piper is a shitty reporter, and that could have been a great opportunity to have commentary on the ethics of journalism.

Journalism is supposed to be a duty to the people. It has responsibilities and ethics that are very easily misunderstood or forgotten for the sake of the next article. A good journalist is not always accurate. An accurate journalist is not always kind. A kind journalist is not always good.

Piper is not a good journalist, because her writing is not informative, it isn't news or useful info. She writes about MacDonough being a synth—she's basically writing callout posts on her blog.

Piper is not an accurate journalist, because she never has evidence for this claim. She says MacDonough is a synth, that the Institute took the Survivor's baby even if the Survivor says no.

Piper is not a kind journalist, because she fearmongers and makes things worse for synths. She complains that no one believes or trusts her word, but the second thing you ever see in Diamond City is a man trying to kill his brother for fear he's been replaced.

This is all fine, if addressed and explored. But it isn't. Piper seems to be chasing the high of exposing authority, and both times, she's right. We, the player, know she's right because we find out later she is. Imagine if we didn't. Imagine that reveal scene never comes. Every issue of Publick Occurances is trying to start a witchhunt, and Piper doesn't notice that it's working.

So, let's make her arc about worrying about her sister.

X6-88: TDLR; BRUH HE HAS NOTHING

No backstory, no relationships with other characters, no quest, no character arc.

TODD. You had the chance to humanize the Institute, or at least show what it's like being an Institute synth that isn't free. And you, instead, put all that time into fucking KELLOGG. You think I give a fuck about KELLOGG? I don't even give a fuck about SHAUN.

🌠Honorable mentions🌠

Gage: Hypocrite that thinks becoming the problem is fixing the problem, also he has both eyes. What do you need an eyepatch for.

Strong: Bethesda Super Mutants suck shit. Y'know Erikson fron Far Harbor? Would rather have him.

Longfellow: Dead Wife Man. Again, would have preferred Erikson.

Dogmeat and Ada: Perfect, no notes.

Best companions are:

Dogmeat, for being doggy

Ada, for being robot lady

Preston, for being perfect aside from two technical, Doylist issues.

#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #paladin danse #piper wright #hancock #preston garvey #deacon #x6-88 #nick valentine #robert joseph maccready #old longfellow #i am SALTY ABOUT PIPER HOO BOY #like her articles genuinely suck #i will accept criticism on all of these EXCEPT PIPER #GIRL I LOVE YOU BUT GOD #GET A FUCKING BETA READER #IF I SUBMITTED THAT TO MY ENGLISH TEACHER I WOULD HAVE BEEN STRUNG UP IN CLASS AS A WARNING

[littlemizzlinguistics]

It’s very kind of people I speak other languages with to assume that my slow comprehension and endless requests for repetition are as a result of us not speaking my first language, when in reality, my auditory processing is just complete shit.

#linguistics #second language problems #I mean it’s definitely harder in my non-native languages to understand what people are saying #but it’s not fucking easy in my L1 either lmao #people are confused because I can see them thinking #‘oh they speak so well so surely they’re very proficient’ #‘and yet they don’t understand what I’m saying?’ #auditory processing disorder #auditory processing issues #adhd #neurodivergent #your local autistic linguist here! #*stares blankly at someone else speaking as I try to make my brain translate their mouth sounds into words* #I’m an English teacher and sometimes my students are like ‘my goal is to watch English shows without subtitles!’ #and I’m like ‘babe *I* can’t even do that and it’s my native language’ XD

[frnkiebby]

More English teacher frank pics??? (if you know what I'm on about 😁)

i’ve never…..english teacher frank????

p l e a s e

i’m gonna throw what i think frank looks english teacher-y in and then please fucking elaborate because holy fuck if i’m missing something here about frank-looks. I FUCKING NEED.~🎃

#english teacher frank w h a t??? #i mean i have alot of names for different looks that frank has #so i’m sure maybe i call english teacher frank something else in my head #but pls help bc now my brain is in a frenzy #one because is there something i don’t know #two because….fucking…..english teacher frank???????? #h e l p #frnkiebby #oddvanilla #frank iero #mcr #frnkiero #mcrmy #frnkie #mcr5 #my chemical romance #my chem #ilhsm

[thepunkmuppet]

I don’t think I ever actually said this on here, basically for one of my mock english gcse exams for the “write a story” section I wrote a time travel / somewhere else jonmartin fic. literally. the prompt was “something surprising” I think, and I just went well. waking up in an alternate universe would be pretty damn surprising. and it was just jon waking up in bed with no scars and no eyepocalypse and going “wHEre’S mArTiN” and I got a grade 9 (A**). so yeah that happened

#I literally had no fucking clue what I was doing and I thought it was absolute ass but yeah the teachers ate that shit up #I guess because it didn’t make sense without the context?? so there was a lot of mystery?? idk man it was crazy #the one I did for my actual final exam was literally just how to train your dragon but with a griffin or a hippogriff or something #no point wasting your time being original for a gcse english language exam lmao #I got a 9 in the end btw so 👍 #jonmartin #jmart #teaholding #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #the magnus archives #tma

[evie-doesnt-write]

“Why doesn’t Toshiro just tell Laios that’s not his name??” He’s an immigrant, next question

#i have not met a single person who doesn’t mispronounce my name except my old arabic teachers in school #which is a shame because it’s really pretty in arabic #and instead people say it with that fucking long aa sound that I fucking hate #but i’m not going to sit down and teach every person i ever talk to how to properly say it #sometimes they can’t even say it because certain sounds aren’t in english #of course it’s not a complete butcher like shuro #but free my man i understand him so much #toshiro nakamoto #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #ryoko kui

[littencloud9]

kunichuu as teachers AU where chuuya is the physics teacher who’s pretty open about being married, always mentions his spouse etc and kunikida is the math teacher who the students know absolutely nothing about, but they see the ring on his finger. until one day kunikida stops by chuuya’s class to pass him lunch and all the students are like. YOU’RE MARRIED TO EACH OTHER???!!!

#i could also see chuuya teaching pe and kunikids teaching english. for the fuck of it #i had a teacher who taught both english and math AND geography #my god she was going through it #bsd #kunichuu

[fiendishartist2]

jon becomes an english teacher in their somewhere else and is completely baffled by how much highschoolers hate english class

transcript:

(left): "mr. sims, can we pls watch you play chess.com?" (macbeth essays submitted: 5/27) [i'm too old for this shit"]

(right): "and they're like obsessed with chess? but only on the computer" "at least they're engaged?"

#theres smth so calming about imagining jon in a classroom reading macbeth #like hes in his natural habitat or smth.... #idk if this is true in other schools but at my highschool kids fucking hated english class. like disproportionately #yeah math sucks and there were some shitty math teachers but across the board ppl could not stand our english classes #its esp funny to me bc of how much i imagine jon would love english classes + reading classic lit #he just cannot wrap his head around the fact that most of his class spends the entire period playing chess.com #my art #doodles #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #the day magnus protocol drops expect me to either never shut up or completely disappear #the hype is all consuming #i still dont have a computer nor do i have a job so all i can offer is these sketches #more to come....

[sleepinglionhearts]

Once again I am thinking about becoming an art teacher vs. thinking about how fast I'd get fired if I became an art teacher

#idk I work well with kids but I dunno if I'd survive a classroom overfull of 'em #and like ok sure I could try teaching in Austin or something but the thing is #I would WANT to teach in town or in some other middle of nowhere small town because I feel like #those are the students who like. NEED to have someone teaching them wild ideas about art and communication #and what art can do and what art does and what art has to say #i would get so fired so fucking fast lol some kid would be like 'guess what we did in class today' #and then parents would come down on me for teaching art history to their 12 year olds #and not in the conservative white friendly way hsgshsgshs #oh who am i kidding I'd get fired as soon as parents (or some other teachers!!) find out I'm queer #happened to my 10th grade english teacher #anyway. just having some thoughts tonight

[slavicwetcat07]

i for one wouldnt complain if gwen bouchard took lena kelley out by brutal pipe murder or suchlike. everytime lena's name is mentioned i prick up because lena is my legal name which i use and i think someone wants something from me. and they dont even pronounce it correctly (at least by polish standards)

#kl.txt #the magnus protocol #tmagp #gwendolyn bouchard #lena kelley #the pronounciation reminds me of that time i had an american teacher in an english course in like. 6th grade #it took me a few weeks to explain him it's l-eh-nah not leena or leyna #at some point he wanted to refer to me as lana. because easier #fuck no #you learn to pronounce it correctly or you dont refer to me #my own minkowski w359 arc

[hella1975]

ive got an essay due at 3pm tomorrow and ive not even looked at it i am so so unserious about my degree and by the grace of some higher being i somehow keep managing to crawl through it's actually getting a bit funny

#me and an old friend of mine used to have a running joke during a-levels that im just one of those people where shit Works Out #and it started bc we shared two a-levels (english and economics) and in BOTH classes i regularly didn't do the homework #or the reading etc and yet it would ALWAYS work out for me #like we'd walk into a class neither of us having done the homework and they'd get yelled at while i went under the radar somehow #or that one english essay i got the highest score in the class when i literally hadn't even read the fucking book it was on #and when we pointed the theory out it started just becoming really prevalent #like no matter how late i am for things i'll arrive and by some miracle the thing im late for is also late (e.g a train or teacher) #like im just one of those people that has very very mundane luck #and low and behold i am fighting this degree with bloody fists putting the absolute bare minimum in for my own sanity's sake #and i SOMEHOW keep pulling through. literally failed two modules last year and STILL got a 2:1 average #and the last essay i wrote was the worst essay id ever done in my life and i get my standards are higher bc ik im good at essays #but the point still stands and you know what? i got a FIRST #literally was pure waffle i have never blagged it so hard and i got a FIRST #and all this shit just makes me cockier and cockier and go even more by the skin of my teeth and it ALWAYS WORKS OUT #it's soooo silly but im not complaining. anyway ill keep u posted about this essay <3 it's econ history so is actually interesting #but the most ive done for it is ask the sc ai lmao and for context degree-level essays usually require a good few days of graft #live love laziness #hella goes to uni

[tgshydestan]

wait have i not told you guys about me technically being a published author. like do you guys not know

#and not in the fanfic author way in like the i was in a book way #lets set the scene: im eight. im in advanced english. teacher is like “write a poem and we’ll enter it for a competition #winner gets into a book” (this was like an actual competition btw not like school shit like an official competition) #i was like ok sweet. worked my fucking ass off. made this cool ass haiku about easter or something idk i cant remember i was eight #(i think that’s right tho) #FUCKING WON. AT AGE EIGHT. my poem got into the book. book was published. #became a published author at age eight #world flipped upside down #now i write angst fanfiction about my blorbos and post on tumblr #follow your dreams #shitpost. i think #shitposting

[xitsensunmoon]

This isn't a diss or anything but I've had difficulties with reading your stuff (dyslexia) & noticed your r's look like z's (to me as a singular person's perspective) and that's why I've been so confused when reading. I've solved the mystery and will be able to move forward stronger

Ahhh yeah I know some people struggle with my r's so here's my little personal tutorial how to read my handwriting?? XDDD

If it looks like z but doesn't have horizontal line in the middle it's 98% r

And my alphabet under the cut lmao

Sometimes when I write very lazily o mixes with l and create d, or t looks like f, etc, etc so... Errr hope it will help to be even stronger!! XD

#ask xitsen #man my handwriting is kinda mix of everything #like fucking cursive #but at the same time just keyboard style #like fucking what the hell are you #my English teacher honesty was mad at me for my g and y because of the tail #i think it's fancy #but it crossed the next line all the time bc size of my letters is usually small and the lines are very close to each other #so it looked like my tails just crosses out something but in reality it doesn't #sacrifices to have fancy tails... eh. lmao

[w98pops]

no big updates because i finally got a full-time job, and i have a lot of commissions and trades to draw. BEAR with me here guys 🥱

#fallout #fnv #courier six #oc: wendy #oc: aletus #he was supposed to be a goat but i recently found out that its an acronym for 'greatest of all time' #which he's not #chicken suits him better #ALSO if yall interested #i really like my new job #i was scared but my colleagues are genuinely so nice and the work is fun #i initially left uni because of how fucking alone i was and my untreated autism made me terrified of doing ANYTHING in public #it was. cosmically bad. that bad i fucking left the campus as soon as i could and just came back home 😭 #but now im here and i like my job and my mental health is not declining and im fine :) for the most part #these two semeters in hell were actually useful tho #i realised im asexual + i improved my english #YES for everyone asking YES aletus is a history teacher 😭😭😭