#we were watching in class

[fagidarity]

honestly that anon reminds me of my teacher from highschool, she was always rlly cool and supportive of my interests and i still think of her very fondly

#.txt #we’re friends on fb now but i also don’t rlly use facebook so. shrug #my one gripe with her is one time she complained about me asking to put subtitles on a movie #we were watching in class #i think it was the breakfast club #but yeah she thought subtitles were annoying but the rest of my class backed me up so it was fine

[humming-fly]

given how gluttony is shown being "born" in the anime I can only imagine the horror show that must've gone down with envy

#given how we see gluttony being reborn in the anime natural homunculi childbirth is a helluva thing #ya'll remember those videos they made us watch in middle school health class #anyways #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #greed #lust #envy #sorta~ #my art #doodles #comic #realistically envy was made to eat other people and was probably born with less souls as a result #but the alternative is way funnier #it's been a while since i did a shitpost in this style haha #always a pleasure to break it out again #what's funny is drawing this i could immediately tell the angle of greed's arm was wrong in the second panel as it were #but it worked so well with the overall posing i just left it lmao #as the artist i can ignore the anatomy errors when i think they look good

[peteypiessuperfamily]

Today my english teacher was explaining the plot of the movie Brooklyn (which ive never seen) to me by saying, "Basically an Irish immigrant moves to brooklyn and falls in love with an Italian guy."

And I sat there thinking... is this not literally a movie about stevetony

#COME TO FIND OUT #THE LOVE INTEREST IS NAMED TONY??? #guys I might have to watch this movie #(and write the AU) #im gay #idk if I can muscle through a het romcom though #god gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers #truly #stony #stevetony #tony stark #steve rogers #iron man #captain america #superhusbands #brooklyn the movie ig #(it was brought up because we were reading an excerpt of it in class)

[cheezy-str33t]

dook n dingo from the past few weeks

#these were in class while we were watching a movie about war or something #rock afire explosion #dook larue #dingo starr #wolf pack 5 #animatronics #my art #showbiz pizza

[floydsteeth]

Yves <3

Just a few doodles I did Friday in class :P

#Not super Happy with them but hey I tried :3 #ikemen prince #ikepri #ikemen fanart #ikepri modern au #modern au #arsons art :p #ikepri yves #yves kloss #ikemen yves #cybird ikemen #ikemen games #ikemen series #If I'd spaced things better I could of absolutely fit more doodles #But I did this whole thing without reference #Cause I was in class and we were watching a movie #So I couldn't open my phone in laptop #Not having references was a bit confusing #Like I know how I want him to dress #That wat easy enough #It was the poses #And like all thay #Queue

[simcardiac-arrested]

ability to draw and its consequences

#Hi . not to make another group of iterators But i did . for funsies #going back to class and its consequences #somethhing bad already happening to me #the coloring for these guys was so difficult i thought it was so over. But we were so back. all of them kicked my ass #except maybe drc and fmn those two were kind of fine. everyone else kicked my ass majorly #i completely had to recolor bug and home a few times to be satisfied with their designs #sorry for saying their acronyms with zero explanation hold on #oc: watchful eye #oc: in case of emergency #oc: delicious rainbow’s colors #oc: betwixt umber gleaming #oc: homebound oddly magnanimous everlife #Long asf name but it is what it is #oc: forget me not #ok. that’s all #Hold on they just made me get up from the bed #ok it’s fjne i lied back down #umm #myart #rain world #iterator oc #Not sorry for party rocking and making ten billion iterators #you can ask things if you want. i dont know anytning but it’s okay we will find out things together

[dramatic-dolphin]

writing essays got me saying shit like "azonban" and "példának okáért"

#we used to joke in high school #that the more desperate we got in our novella analysis essays for lit class #the more “azonban”s there were in the essay #they multiply if you're not watching them #i never reread my essays because i wanted to claw my eyes out at every azonban and they just kept coming #🌌

[jay-wasstuff]

Bo-Katan: *blames din's 'cult' and asks where he was during the purge*

Din and everyone:

#Ma'am he was a whole ass child probs in class learning maths then #the real question was WHERE WERE YOU?? #the mandalorian #jon favreau #dave filoni #pedro pascal #din djarin #bo katan kryze #star wars #we have watched clone wars sis and as far as im concerned it seemed you did more damage than Din and his 'cult'

[ihopeucomehomesoon]

i won’t hold people to the same standards i have on myself in terms of friendship bc everyone shows they care in different ways

#this is a part affirmation and part intro to a rant i need to unleash #but i’ll leave it in the tags here bc it feels safer lol #it’s abt my housemate the other day when we had our last class which is online but our previous classes were in person so as a class we #usually just pull it up on the main computer and broadcast the zoom in the classroom #but on this day the class before this zoom class got out early so lots of people went home early to just watch it on their own zoom or wtvr #so the row i sit in was pretty empty except for me my housemate and our two friends #and usually my housemate sits on my right but she got up and moved to sit on the other side next to our other friend and said nothing #and i didn’t want to say anything bc i was kinda sad/offended even though #her moving seats probably has nothing to do with me and much rather her personal preference i can’t help but think negatively abt myself #also one morning we were both off she went to the smoothie shop and coffee shop and just went to pick up her orders and i felt the same #reaction of like sad/offended bc she didn’t consider me at al like what if i wanted a smoothie too! TF #or coffee even though i don’t drink coffee anymore wtvr #my thoughts on her and my friendship are kinda rocky bc we feel so out of sync #i feel like she’s always in her own world and it’s hard to get through to her and become real friends #it’s whatever not all friendships can be deep and meaningful

[benetnvsch]

oh wow kite's drawing furries again,,,,

#u smell like u have all ur rabies vaccine baby grill #thats my favorite one I may digitalize it #also maybe the cuddling one who knows #had classes for 6 hours straight to day this is just like hs again :headinhands: so I drew furries like I did back in hs hashtag consistent #kite draws #kite watches bsd #Dazai osamu #kunikida doppo #kunikidazai #what if we were two weird dogs and we held furry hands #kunikidog

[punkymonkeehat]

I shit you not, guys...

My 7th graders, after putting things away and working really hard today, asked why we haven't watched The Monkees in a long time. I said that I thought they didn't like them anymore (cause middle schoolers always change their opinions all the time lol) and a out the entire class were appalled that I thought that and kept saying "We wanna watch the Monkees!! Can we have Monkees Friday? Can you bring in more episodes? I wanna see Davy and Micky again" (this class' favorite). Like, it almost turned into a riot!

I showed them the show last year as a reward for having a great concert and I guess they've been hooked ever since without me even knowing lol

So I put on an episode and all of them gathered around our TV and I was going to skip the theme song to get to the episode (it was the last 5 minutes of class) and they all got so upset and said "No don't, I wanna see the theme song!" So we only saw like, maybe 3 minutes of the actual episode and when the bell ring they wanted to stay and watch more 😆

Band to Monkees pipeline lol

#Idk why this touched me so much #it was such a wholesome moment and even the kids that aren't into it were happy to watch the show for a #we are now the Monkees class #theres literally a war over whether or not Davy is the best or of Micky is the best #they also think its really funny that Mike is my favorite 😍 none of them like Mike 😆 #they caught a lot more jokes this go around too! #just the 32 yells of children that wanted to finish the episode 😭 #the monkees

[nintendont2502]

like genuinely i know im being overdramatic but also. do you know how fucking exhausting it is having to essentially learn an entirely new culture. i dont even have a choice its just constantly forced down my throat because the internet is obsessed with talking about nothing but america at all times. and then they try to act like america is all unique and special like no it isnt and even if it was its literally all i hear about im desensitised at this point

#i know more about your politics than i do mine #we were watching the presidential elections in class #we had qanon rallies in my state #i know far more about america than i ever wanted to and every day i see my countries culture being replaced with americas more and more and #i hate it #we dont even have that unique of a culture! we're just a britain offshoot thats only been around for a few hundred years!! #and it still sucks!! #i can only imagine what its like being in a country with centuries of history and having it all be wiped away by americanisation #sigh #im gonna go watch abc iview i think #aussie arts save me. save me aussie arts #me.txt

[itspileofgoodthings]

Well, I actually have the most mundane of questions, but it’s been so long since I’ve been in an English class that I feel like I’ve completely forgotten (and I’m curious how you do it): how do you go about reading a book as a class? Do you assign them the chapters to read at home and most of them actually do it? Or do you give them class time to read? Do you have the kids who try to spoil the rest of the book for the class? Basically, how does one teach a book in the year 2024?  😀

And do you have your students annotate inside their books? (I know the English teachers in my school require the students to do that, and I get why, but I inwardly shudder every time I see a student marking up a page.) 

Haha I love this question because I too am always asking myself how DOES one each a book in 2024?

It’s sort of a combination. I absolutely assign reading every night (almost) unless it’s Shakespeare or any play in which case we read it all in class. But for a novel there’s a couple chapters a night. I read aloud to them a lot too. Sometjmes I make them read aloud to the whole class, rotating kids who read. Sometimes I assign a chapter to be read in class silently with questions or quotes due at the end of the reading. Sometimes I put them in groups and make them read aloud to each other. There’s no one way that works for sure and of course ultimately I have no control over how much they read and I’m not naive enough to think that most of the reading assigned for homework doesn’t get skipped most of the time buuuuuut.

My bottom line is that I believe it’s my job to get excited about the actual text itself (easier for me in some cases than others but overall pretty easy because it does fill me with excitement) and then commit to taking them on the journey of the story with me. And my goal—that I’m sure I often don’t reach—is to make that experience so much more fun if you have actually read. And the way that I teach is pretty text heavy which is why I always make sure I’ve read the chapters for the day and am not just relying on my memory because the way I do it is just sort of absorbing it all up like a vacuum-cleaner, schwooooop, and then either pulling stuff out of the reading to look at directly or directing them to do the same thing. So the big thing that I have going for me, if any, is buy-in. Is getting kids excited about actually reading the actual text. I also speak often and passionately about the evils of sparknotes etc. not because they help kids get better grades or whatever but because they present you with the husk and shell of a story, stripped of all that makes it interesting, and that by reading that alone they’re reading something so dry and dull and are not achieving what I always want them to achieve —which is, have an Experience with the Literature.

Again, it never works perfectly by any stretch and there are so many ways I want to explore in my quest to get better at it but overall I think, at my very best, I can create this wave of energy and excitement in the story itself which is the most organic and ultimately most helpful way to get them to want to read.

Also no haha. I don’t let them annotate! Though occasionally kids DO of course. But sometimes they bring in their own copies in order to do that. The spoilers absolutely happen and are annoying but I sort of get by it by moving on very quickly and/or talking about how it’s often not the ending but how you get there that makes it interesting. Because that’s just true!

#gosh does this answer make sense #I am so passionate about doing it well and there are huge gaps in my teaching in terms of concrete stuff #but I am doing ….. Something in terms of bringing literature closer to them #and that’s what I want to do! #also love love love the bonus of getting to reread great works over and over until they start sinking into my brain #and I think (well I usually don’t think about it) but I think that the experience for them of watching me read it again #(and sometimes literally I won’t have time to read I need 10 minutes to finish this chapter and tell them to shut up) #(while I sit there and read it) #reminds them that I AM committed to doing the work with them. that I am actually doing it and that I want to! #and idk I think that is both a rarer experience and one that’s kind of underrated in terms of how much warmth it can create #because I have nothing in common with 16 year olds we couldn’t be friends in real life without it being very weird/possibly inappropriate #but in class we have a Thing to be friends about #we have a shared goal! and not just an arbitrary one but a deeply beautiful one #idk. there’s still a lot of boredom a lot of pushback a lot of disinterest #but I’m always amazed at how often kids do want to …. idk sink their teeth into something real #it’s REAL food for their minds. and the hunger for it is there even if they decide they’re too lazy to join the group #my goal is to —merely by the situation itself—make you feel left out of the fun if you refuse to do the work #so you can CHOOSE that but it’s less fun. it’s cold. it’s boring and it’s isolating #because refusing to do the work and insisting on being a little toad SHOULD come with natural social punishments in the form of exclusion #from the best kind of fun. it often does NOT. but yeah. I think I’m also getting better at shutting down toad behavior from adolescent male #this is where teaching co-Ed helps because there are some girls who are like ‘if you stop my learning I will kill you’ #not ENOUGH girls but some #ooooof this is a long answer but literally always on my mind #thank you for asking!!! also haha I assumed you were an English teacher yourself!

[def-not-kaz-brekker]

So uh I might have a crush on my best friend?? And I think he might like me back???

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#go I hope he still doesn’t have tumblr #no but he’s so hot okay #and our lives are so similar?? #like I moved more than him but he’s still the only person who’s moved a lot #and that time I got tipsy #it was on a sleepover with him where we trauma dumped and watched sherlock together #and once I had an emotional breakdown and he helped me calm down #and we do dnd together #and we have to pick new classes for next year and he practically guessed all my choices #also I told him I thought his eyes were really pretty some time ago #which is true he has gorgeous eyes #and recently he told me I have pretty eyes #help?? #je suis confusion #he said that he hasn’t liked anyone in forever during our trauma dump session #but then again he might still like me #but I don’t even know if I like him #though probably I do let’s be honest here #ugh fuck this #emotions are fucking stupid #if I fuck things up in our friendship I will regret it forever

[gizkalord]

watching filoni try to imitate kurosawa kinda gives me the same vibes as when my friends and i filmed a parody of "please don't destroy" snl skits and we watched our first cut and we were like fuck this is so unfunny this videomaking shit is hard

#aka i'm trying to say that me and filoni both tried to imitate something that's beyond our skill levels lmaoooooo #in MY defense i had a grand total of 2-3 weeks of video editing experience in a college digital arts class before that #and we were just making funny videos for our classmates to watch #mags.txt

[fridayyy-13th]

y’all i’m sad

it’s supposed to be cloudy all day today

i’m not gonna be able to see the eclipse :(

#friday chats #weather gripes #been a while since i pulled out that tag! not happy about it :/// #the school’s been buzzing about it for days they were supposed to pull us out of class for two periods #and we’ve been watching videos in class about eclipses to get students interested #yet HERE WE FUCKING ARE