#we know it. bob knows it.

[inkskinned]

it is totally okay to be hurt and tired and fed up with the american schooling system but i need you to understand that we need to be better about loudly and routinely defending public education.

yes, many teachers suck, many schools utterly suck. i also got bullied and was absolutely not given the right support for my needs. i am not defending public education because it was kind to me. i am defending it because it needs to exist.

right-wing republicans do not want an educated population. they want kids to be homeschooled or in private school. there is a huge religious undertone to this.

the most common argument is that despite high costs, the "result" is not "good" enough. they point to failing schools as proof that public education is just never going to work out. there will be arguments made here that you actually agree with: that teachers can be bullies, that we taught online for 2 years and still charged the same amount of tuition, that we have no recourse for students to actually have agency or a voice, and that schools are now unsafe for kids due to risk of illness and gun violence.

these are all placing the blame in a fraudulent way, one intended to get your parents to homeschool you. the less kids in a school, the less federally-awarded funding for that school, the less any school succeeds. they will not mention the fact it is their legislation that takes away important funding opportunities, that teachers are living at or below the poverty line, that buildings are not kept up to code, that administration is overpaid and forces specific curriculums, that corporations like (my personal enemy) Pearson Education control certain classroom goals because teachers can't afford other options. they pretend to be ignorant of the gun violence and say "oh just get a gun" - but these are the same people who will be sending their child to a private school with a bulletproof backpack. they don't care if your kid dies, though. they "don't believe" in covid, but they did get their kid vaccinated, because of course they did.

it is a closed loop. conservative parents hear the fearmongering and remove children from the system. frequently these parents are also deeply religious. the kids are raised without access to other media & learn to parrot their parents. you have now created a new generation of conservatives. additionally, one of the parents/caregivers must stay home and homeschool the children, usually for free. i will give you 1 guess which parent tends to stay home to homeschool the children. these parents are encouraged to have many, many children. those children are most likely not getting access to safe sex ed.

we might laugh at fox news suggesting teachers are forcing children to use kitty litter but: first of all, there is kitty litter in the classroom. it's part of an emergency kit in case children are locked in due to a shooter. so that's fucking dystopian, and the fact they've completely reimagined the scenario to somehow make the teachers look bad when it's instead a fucking huge symbol of our failure as a country to protect our children.... it feels a little intentional.

secondly: don't just dismiss the situation. because, yeah, obviously, no teacher is encouraging kids to be a catboy. but the actual undertone that fox news is trying to sew is an outright distrust of teachers and of public education. they rely on the dehumanization of trans people as a common touchstone to hide the fact they're pushing two agendas at once. (which is ironic. because the thing they accuse teachers of. is pushing. an agenda.)

whenever someone tells you they want you to read less, you should be suspicious of that. when someone tries to separate you and your education, you should be suspicious of that. i don't even like incel rhetoric nor would i want my kids exposed to it - but i would not take away my child's (age-appropriate) access to the internet. i would just provide more educational materials, not less. the difference here is that i believe we can resolve ignorance with knowledge; whereas conservatives believe that ignorance is bliss.

they misappropriate funding and demonize teachers. they pull the same trick each time - the same thing we are seeing with anti-trans rhetoric. they do not want you to have access to safe sex ed, so they act horrified, claim sex ed teaches you how to thrust deep, claim that we have no idea what "age-appropriate" means. since the mid-nineties, the united states has spent at least 2 billion dollars on abstinence-only education, even though to quote the above link: "a preponderance of studies has found no effect of abstinence education at reducing adolescent pregnancy". conservatives want you to think less of any person struggling with addiction so they can continue their racist "war on drugs", so they spend up to $750 million dollars a year on the DARE program which has absolutely no effect. acting like teachers "must" be "grooming" children is just the same thing - so they can demand that funding either goes to their causes or the funding doesn't "exist" ("i'm not paying for our kids to learn that thing!")

and they want you to feel uncaring about this. they are aware that you will hate some parts of your school experience. pretty much everyone does. they want to lean into the parts that you hate so that you don't put up a fight about it when they take it away for not being "good enough."

i know i maybe sound like a conspiracy theorist. but truly. truly. it is beneficial for conservatives to reduce your faith in the american public schooling system.

one of the explicitly stated campaign promises of the conservative party: to axe the Department of Education in 2024.

i know we are all tired and burnt out and there is so much else wrong with their entire platform. but maybe just - pay attention to this one.

#i can't believe i have to say this #the conservative party is legit like ''is it anything good? okay we hate it.'' #''lets kill lgbt people and ummmmm school children shouldnt be able to read they should be at home watching jordan peterson :)" #the fact that it's like all related is. wild. #like it's wild bc if u start being like. actually making it impossible to afford housing is part of how they keep the nuclear family..... #it's just like lines connecting to lines. EXCEPT ITS OBVIOUS? #what's wild to me about most conspiracy theorists is that they're like . ohhhh the govt is hiding shit!!!!!!! they don't want u to know!!! #and im like. this old man literally got up on stage and said he hates public education and will let our kids die before taking away ak-47s #and ppl are like: lol thats just bob's sense of humor he didn't mean it literally uwu

[aroaceleovaldez]

It's honestly wild to me that ToA went through so much trouble to emphasize the fact that Will did not magically fix all of Nico's problems and was explicitly not Nico's only doctor.

Only for TSATS to have Will fix all of Nico's problems and have Nico be entirely reliant on him the entire book and literally helpless without him and LITERALLY have Nico's problems be magically removed.

#pjo #riordanverse #tsats crit #nico di angelo #solangelo #it doesnt make any sense too cause. in HoO we KNOW Nico was fully capable of handling himself in Tartarus #we already knew he was explicitly on his own. we know he had it worse than Percy and Annabeth did #because we are explicitly told that Nico saw Tartarus' true nature the ENTIRE TIME versus Percy only getting a tiny half-glimpse of it once #and Percy acknowledges that he would not be able to withstand actually seeing Tartarus more than he did without just dying on the spot #and Nico was down there for as long as Percy and Annabeth at least. on his own. flying blind and explicitly having it worse. #so it doesnt make sense to totally retcon Nico's ENTIRE experiences with Tartarus to make him sopping wet and pathetic about it #needing to be helped and only being down there for twenty minutes and crying the whole time #and then all of the book he's literally functionally helpless without Will for some reason. despite being in his element. #could not get more in his element than being in the Underworld. my guy literally lives there. that's his HOUSE. that's his YARD. #and he's still just totally sopping wet and pathetic in Tartarus the second time around #like im sorry. no. we literally have previously established canon indicating this is absolutely not the case #that is not something you can retcon. that is an entire major event. it was not glossed over. #unless you are doing time travel and it's a canonical retcon a la Homestuck im sorry the events of TSATS just could never occur #(not to mention Damasen is just never acknowledged in TSATS and him and Bob were absorbed by Tartarus the god and ergo dead in HoH) #(so Bob and Damasen are like. *Gone* gone. they didn't just die to be reformed later they got ERASED.) #(and Nyx sure as hell isnt gonna be the one to have Bob trapped for whatever reason. definitely not cause she hates light/change/whatever) #(nyx is literally the mother/sister [depends on version - sometimes a mitosis situation] of the personification of day? and sky?) #(and FRIENDSHIP? and the nymphs of sunset? sometimes also CHEERFULNESS? and THOUGHTFULNESS? and old age) #(ah yes the mother of concepts such as love/friendship and aging and. day. would HATE [checks notes] love/friendship changing and light) #(she INVENTED THOSE) < anyways thank u for coming to my aside rant in the tags #in parenthesis to indicate this is an aside/tangent rant. anyways i have so many problems with this plot. it just DOESNT WORK #on NO LEVEL DOES IT WORK AT ALL WITH ESTABLISHED CANON

[rainebownerd]

You guys he was being so plain because he knew!!!! He knew that if he went all out all the time like Aabriya, we wouldn't survive it

#you all kept mocking him for wearing the same shirt #now just know that we are not surviving this season #it's a tpk for all of d20 fans #LOOK AT HIM!!!! #AND THIS IS JUST THE FIRST EPISODE FIT #CAN YOU IMAGINE THE REST OF THE LOOKS HE'S GONNA PULL??? #d20 fanbase found dead at the end of pride month #reason of death: brennan lee mulligan serving looks #I'm sorry i cannot #d20 #dimension 20 #dungeons and drag queens #brennan lee mulligan #i need an izzy reacts series to accompany all of the episodes #much like adventuring party #idunno dropout make it happen #someone @ sam reich i know he's on tumblr #dimension20 #bob the drag queen #alaska thunderfuck #monét x change #jujubee #guys i'm being so normal about this

[https-hunter]

#it was gonna be a m/f ship appreciation post but trobed is just that good #I LOVE THEM ALL #was gonna put t/jj but we all know I adore them #sitcom #modern family #bob’s burgers #brooklyn nine nine #b99 #parks and rec #friends #f.r.i.e.n.d.s #how i met your mother #himym #community #community show #the good place #the office #abbott elementary

[theloveinc]

yes this is just a tik tok but bkg when he gets home drunk after a night with the boys

#it’s bobs burgers I don’t even watch that show but I’ve watched this clip like 80 times #didn’t know if I should post it but egg it we ball #lmao my mom callls tik toks tic tacs lmaoooo I wanted to say that here #anyway bye now #caitie blabs

[siriuslysirius05]

Ice, wearing his Admiral Face™️: yeah I’m so glad Pete adopted those kids. They’re so helpful and they never cause any trouble.

(In the background:)

Phoenix is chasing Rooster, who is holding something of hers.

Hangman is cheering his boyfriend on, standing beside Coyote who is cheering for Phoenix.

Bob is laying facedown on the ground, with Yale standing over him posing for a picture (taken by Harvard) with duck lips and a peace sign.

Fanboy and Payback are making out, not paying any attention to the chaos.

Halo and Omaha are playing a very heated game of Mario Kart. Halo has a hand in Omaha’s face so he doesn’t hit her with a shell.

Fritz is sneaking up on Ice with a water gun.

Maverick is behind everyone, facepalming.

Ice: they’re such good kids. Complete professionals. The Navy should trust them more.

#top gun #top gun maverick #maverick is so done #iceman is trying his best #gotta keep them on their toes #hangster #icemav #wingmen? more like boyfriends #ice needs to keep up appearances #video taken seconds before disaster #is bob dead or just concussed? #we don’t know

[drawthething]

"Get your waterballoons ready, we're going to war" 👊🍔

I know I said I was gonna draw them muppets for this one but I got bored so I tried something else (with precious lil bean mouths 🥳)

#waited my whole life to draw Louise making the L sign just to realize that I let her use the wrong hand so we get an mirrored L 😐 #I used like 30 layers to get this done you better appreciate it and not say anything about me not knowing how to draw a bra #one last coloured art before I jump to the boblin week bandwagon 🥳🥳🥳 #bobs burgers #bobs burgers fanart #bob's burgers #bob belcher #linda belcher #tina belcher #gene belcher #louise belcher #calvin fischoeder #jimmy pesto jr #zeke bobs burgers #andy and ollie #jimmy pesto sr #teddy bobs burgers #edith bobs burgers #harold bobs burgers #oh look at that I actually tagged everyone

[fukirvana]

WOE BRICK BE UPON YE

#wdym the new divine key for senti is a brick #who did she kill??? #herrscher of building??? #bob the builder????? #we will never know #herrscher of sentience #honkai impact 3rd #honkai #hi3rd #hi3 #honkai impact #honkai 3rd

[helioleti]

Unpopular opinion but I don’t think Will & Jonathan would love Jim emotionally-constipated-violent-cop-who-yells-at-everyone-when-he’s-mad-including-Joyce Hopper as their new Dad

#sounds like someone we know minus the cop part #he needs some real character development & redemption before he can earn that badge #like what he had in s2 but got completely destroyed in s3 #i miss bob #will byers #Jonathan byers #stranger things #stranger things 4 #jim hopper #joyce byers #byers

[stone-stars]

a while ago i saw a post by @sideblogdotjpeg about how the cycles in c3 seem a lot more personal/familial. and i kind of went insane in the tags at the time and i’ve been thinking about it a lot since because like…

you have the heroic cycles that the band of boobs parallel/break on this large scale. the idea of these broken trios of adventurers is there throughout the campaign, but they really start to engage with it towards the end— with the divine hearts, and thiala, and the wheel of suffering/wheel of joy idea. the thing hardwon says as he takes the divine heart, that no matter what anybody chooses from then on it’s with love in their hearts, i feel is very relevant to how they break the cycle. they love each other, and they choose over and over to hold each other tighter rather than be driven apart.

and on the other hand, you have duck team’s refusal of fate vs their family’s resignation to it. look at swag working with mothership, oliana’s contrition, and the stuff that is currently ongoing with gowan. you know— sol is a version of swag who fully rejected mothership and found his friends instead. callie refused to be a part of her family’s business, and her love for the wild and the serpents is giving the world a chance. calder, when he makes the deal with ultrus, telling callie and sol that he trusts them to save him. and now calder is refusing to sit back and let gowan handle things in the ice knife.

it's not that duck team aren't trying to save the world. they are. and it's not that the boobs didn't have a personal connection to the cycles they were breaking. they did. but it's like... well... how do i put this into words. right--

the song melora's boon plays when the boobs arrive at the heart of the world and speak to melora. when she talks to beverly about duty, shows him the places he faltered and how at the last second, he gets back up. (later, when they face thiala, bev doesn't go unconscious once. at one point, he's the only one standing.) for sol, this is the song that plays when he expresses his fear of going down again. when he admits to callie that he's scared of the day that she and calder are down and he's the one that needs to stand up alone. when callie says she's not afraid of that day, and sol finds himself empowered by the mushroom in his chest. the moment that sets up sol's long death monk ability, where he's able to refuse to go down and keep on fighting.

melora’s boon is also the song that plays for moonshine’s boon at the heart of the world. there are actually two songs in this scene, hardwon’s is different, and the transition back happens when melora says there’s a part of herself that moonshine hasn’t embraced. when she speaks to moonshine leading her people to a better future like an alpha wolf leading her pack. for callie, it plays when she tells hardwon and sol that she’s a liability and she needs to change— to embrace winter— in order to get calder back, even as they reassure her that she doesn’t. it also plays when callie asks the others to help her protect honeysuckle while he’s weakened. when they promise to lead honeysuckle home and free him from his connections to gromdal.

the writing on the wall plays when the boobs reach the court of gods. there's the wall of prayers there, and they hear the prayers of the people of bahumia, reaching out to them. prayers of protection-- for and by them. prayers that put the future of bahumia in their hands. for callie, this is the song that plays when she sees aryox's carving of her reaching the cave. when she realizes her mother acted the way she did because she could see what was coming in the future. when she realizes her mother was leaving the world in her hands.

the songs that the boobs first encounter at the end— when they’re basically demigods stepping up to face thiala— return for duck team in these personal moments. when sol finds the strength to refuse death. when callie talks about embracing winter, her mother’s season, something she eventually finds strength in, to save her friend. when callie asks the others to help honeysuckle, one of the serpents that she’s promised to protect partially due to the harm her family caused to the wild. and when callie realizes her mother saw the future and acted as she did because of it, pushing callie to walk the path she’s walking now.

anyway. this was a post about naddpod music.

#naddpod #ba2mia #naddmusic tag #sorry to leave calder out his story is too ongoing to fit yet #(and we haven’t had any songs that fit in his arc either) #if we get a late stage bahumia song during this arc #for calder and gowan im gonna fucking. die. #truly just going insane over here anyway #like obviously on a meta level the reason the songs were never used for the bob #before the endgame is bc they weren’t written yet #but like. when you start to think about it #it kind of fits that it happens like this #there’s also more examples like i just want to know you’re taken care of #which is used in c1e91 for moonshine and paw paw’s convo #being used for callie and foster in ep10 #of c3 #specifically in the context of callie’s love and her fear of loving big #(contrasted against moonshine resigning herself to hell and her fear of that future) #anyway if i keep talking abt this i’ll explode so #enjoy? i guess? #hanbles

[confetti-cakemix]

Dagger Squad stealing Rooster's phone and then sending all these pics to his S/O

#rooster x reader #bradley rooster bradshaw x reader #bradley bradshaw x reader #bradley bradshaw #bradley rooster bradshaw #rooster #rooster bradshaw #top gun maverick #top gun #natasha phoenix trace #robert bob floyd #jake hangman seresin #javy coyote machado #reuben payback fitch #mickey fanboy garcia #we all know Hangman and Phoenix are the culprits #my collage

[rodeoromeo]

HE UHHHHHHH

#I THINK WE ALL KNOW!!!!!!!! #I CANT BELIEVE I FOUND ANOTHER OF THESE AGHHHHH #WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!!!!!!!! HELP ME! #bob dylan #neil young #op

[front-facing-pokemon]

#bouffalant #i forgot this pokémon existed. i don't even know what type it is #ground?? ground/normal?? #okay no it's just pure normal. this is like tauros's cool cousin #Tau Ross. 'cause. he has bob ross hair. :)! #did you guys know that the bob ross show was actually filmed at my alma mater #yeah. the college that i'm doing finals for Right Now. the joy of painting was filmed there i think #no one talks about it and i had to find out from random anecdotal evidence from my mom when we were on a road trip #dunno how SHE knew but no one who goes to this college ever talks about it. they only ever wanna talk about david letterman #i hate it here. so glad to be graduating soon #the only reason i'm okay with telling you all where i go to college is because as of this posting (december 13th) i will literally #be graduating in three days. that'll be commencement. which i'm not even going to because fuck commencement

[technovillain]

meanwhile in an alternate universe.....

gave them designs based purely on their PN1 stump portraits. i've always loved the style of those sm

#didnt draw ford bc screw that old man /j #we just already basically know what he looks like in pn1 so i diddenwantoo #lucrecia is my hard fave here. she slays. i love her portrait the most #this is not bob zanotto this is bob zanatto. canon stump misspelling #psychic 7 #psychic seven #psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #bob zanotto #helmut fullbear #lucrecia mux #otto mentallis #compton boole #cassie o'pia #kiwiarts

[duckmine]

i headcanon louise takes it the hardest once tina moves out for college. i always assumed tina would eventually get good enough grades and credit to get a scholarship to a good school and would plan to move into a dorm or her own apartment; meanwhile louise gets to take her old room, but she realizes it’s not worth the space if her older sister isn’t gonna be with her anymore.

#bob’s burgers #tina belcher #louise belcher #fanart #headcanons #louise is like 15 here while tina is 19 #this was a very avid daydream i had where louise has an unspoken deep attachment to her sister and doesn’t realize how much she needs tina #to be near her till she eventually leaves for college #i truly adore their sisterhood as it’s very clear how much they look after each other #especially now in season 13 we can see how much louise cares about tina’s presence and tina making sure louise feels supported #god 😭❤️‍🩹 i fucking love them dude you don’t even know

[jackfromthefairytale]

artists featured on bad omens' concrete jungle [the ost] + genres

poppy (v.a.n): post-genre, with elements of art pop, nu metal, industrial, experimental, electronic, metalcore, electro-pop synth-pop, grunge...

health (the drain): industrial, sludge, noise rock, experimental rock

swarm (the drain): edm, industrial edm, edm-metal

bob vylan (terms & conditions): grime, punk rock, hip-hop, rap-rock

wargasm [uk] (hedonist [recharged]): electro-punk, nu metal, post-hardcore

erra (anything > human): technical progressive metal(core), melodic metalcore, jesse cash co-wrote/co-produced artificial suicide, what do you want from me? and more from this upcoming album

iRis.EXE (nervous system): industrial goth rock, electro-pop

thousand below (artificial suicide [unzipped], the grey [unzipped]: post-hardcore, metalcore

we are fury (the death of peace of mind [we are fury patch]): edm, trap, melodic dubstep

so wylie (the death of peace of mind [so wylie patch]: electronic, alt-pop

dahlia (bad decisions [lofi]): machine learning powered femminoid trained on sevdaliza's voice (an iranian-dutch singer), unknown

let's eat grandma (just pretend [credits]): experimental pop, art pop

chief (just pretend [credits]): indie pop, michael taylor co-wrote/co-produced who are you? v.a.n, the drain and more from this upcoming album

#bad omens #poppy #health #swarm #bob vylan #wargasm #erra #iris.exe #thousand below #we are fury #so wylie #sevdaliza #dahlia #dahlia ai #let's eat grandma #chief band #this is a mammoth of a 'deluxe' honestly #couldn't find much about iris.exe tbh but i know she collabed with sysc recently #I'm not much sold on the ai stuff too but idk #i do wonder what 'unzipped' mean exactly like is that a stripped version how are they stripping down artifical suicide