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what if SHE’S doomed by the narrative, huh? what if it’s HER actions that are futile in the long run? what if SHE has to break the cycle? what if SHE has to writhe endlessly in a hell of HER own making? god forbid a woman condemn herself

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(thank you to @tolerateit for putting together a great list! we used that as an awesome jumping off point)

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Important if your in an abusive situation you can turn off this alarm

Please reblog to spread awareness

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no one should be killed for it but i hate this homework

#Emily Kaldwin #Corvo Attano

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Star Flower Bingo: A Somewhat Unhinged HP Fest

Our goal is to fill out a 14x14 grid of star name x flower name ships because (1) it’s fun (2) it’s fun to laugh at the attempts to make ship names that include stars and flowers when there are so many star name and flower named characters.

Ao3 Collection

Eligibility:

Fic must have been posted to ao3 after April 1, 2023 (no retroactively adding old fics before this time)

Word count minimum: 100 words

Art welcome

No content restrictions

AUs welcome (and sometimes may be necessary)

Gender bending characters welcome

Throuples/threesomes/poly ships welcome

Fest fics and art welcome (as long as it’s within the fest rules to add the fic to an open collection)

If there end up being multiple fics or art for one ship, no worries, but the goal is one for each of the 196 (!) possible ships. There is no specific timeline. The collection is open indefinitely.

Feel free to tag us, and we’ll reblog your posts. 

Once a new ship is added, I will make it off in the bingo grid. 

Happy writing! 

#omg #this looks fun though #hp #fest

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I like to think that being a Black wasn’t all bad.

I like to think that they loved each-other, once.

#I'm always a slut for the Sisters of House Black

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Aww I love black cats ♡

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When you’re going through some stuff but don’t feel like dealing with it like a remotely normal human being, lol

[ID: Spotify playlists: "Arguing with your philandering husband as a playlist," "Accidentally dating Barty Crouch Jr. as a playlist," "Tearfully seducing Alastor Moody as a playlist," "Alastor Moody destroying your enemies as a playlist," "There is Nothing I Wouldn't Do Anymore," “First War”]

#harry potter #Narcissa malfoy #barty crouch jr #alastor moody #mad-eye moody #i love mad-eye so much #I just want mad-eye to come protect me and tell me I'm an idiot for being vulnerable in the first place #hnnnngh

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My mom was a fourth grade teacher, which meant that she did multi-subject education. And she used to do what she called the NFL Project. The NFL Project was when students were randomly assigned NFL teams.

They had to write a letter to the NFL team they were assigned to, they had to do a research project to find out where the teams practiced, they had to write a letter to the mayor of the city the teams practiced in, they had to keep track of their team's statistics, they had to do research about the state history of the team they'd been assigned to, and they had to do a presentation.

It was a big project. She provided all the materials, she made sure there were copies of the newspaper sports section in her classroom so the kids could stay on top of stats. The students got this project in their first week at school and it wrapped up right around winter break, so it wasn't like it was an all-day "today we are doing statistics" thing or "today we do research, today we write a letter, today we make a presentation" one-week project, it was five to ten minutes a day in various subjects that got organized into a presentation at the end of the semester. The kids could work together, they could work independently, they could ask my mom or the librarian or their parents or their older siblings for help. They just had to end the semester with a report on the team's history, the stats for the season organized into a chart, copies of the letters they'd sent (and copies of any of the responses they'd gotten), a two-page social studies report on the state where the team played, and a presentation to the class about their favorite thing they had learned while doing the NFL project.

The kids fucking loved it. And for years I spent my winter break going to the classroom and organizing the bulletin board with a huge map of the US and materials from each student's report, showing the work that the students had done that semester. It was a way of getting kids engaged with classwork, because who cares about statistics at 10, probably nobody, but if you get a set of pencils from the Jets NOW you want to learn about the team. The Jaguars sent one kid a jersey one year. The city in Minnesota where the Vikings practice sent postcards for every student. Part of this was happening when Schwarzenegger was governor in California so one kid got the Terminator's autograph for part of his project.

I think maybe the thing that I admire the most about it in retrospect was the way that it taught actual project management to young students. I don't actually know of that many schools that have projects more than a month long for 10-year-olds, and I think it's a great concept. I didn't get something like that until I was a senior in college, and it would have been a great skill to learn younger.

Anyway, in 2006 my mom had to stop doing the NFL project because the district wanted to focus on raising their test scores. She was specifically told that if she kept doing the NFL project she would not be rehired at her school.

She even wrote up what standards each part of the project worked toward - the kids had to make graphs because "organizing information into a bar graph" was a specific standard for students that age. "Writing multiple paragraphs on the same subject" was a standard, which is why the letters to the cities and states were multi-paragraph. The project WAS standards based.

But the administrators wanted to make sure that the students had more practice with reading the kinds of questions that would be on the tests because most of the student body spoke Spanish at home.

My mom taught at that school for another ten years; the school's test scores never showed any marked improvement with test-based lesson plans.

My mom's project wasn't the only thing like that that got cancelled. There was another teacher who had a craft-based thing that was similar, and a 7th-grade teacher who did a kind of history/social studies Magic Schoolbus LARP thing who was told not to do that anymore. Eventually my mom was told to stop having her students write journals for ten minutes a day because it wasn't being taught from the textbook and wasn't being taught to the test.

People joke (haha, it's funny, it's a joke, right?) about American education being used to prepare students to be good employees instead of to be critical thinkers or independent people, but legitimately it seems like NCLB directly incentivized "students sit quietly in a box filling out bubble sheets and have no unsupervised or creative work time."

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I was thinking about all the stories of exploited workers explaining that they can’t leave work even if they’re sick, prompted by coronavirus concerns & I was thinking about when I was a *part time* librarian at a community college and was made responsible for making ALL college IDs for students and staff and how once I called in sick for 2 days (unpaid because no benefits but I took the pay cut to stay home) and when I got back I had panicked emails from my boss who had gotten panicked emails from their boss who had gotten a swarm of panicked calls from people who hadn’t received IDs cause no one took any photos or processed or printed them for a week (cause I was only scheduled like 3 days a week to begin with) & therefore people couldn’t register for classes or in some cases even get in the building, and an emergency meeting was called where I had to explain how I got so far behind. Because they had no one else who knew how to perform this vital function to the college except a part time, unbenefitted person working in the campus library, and just relied on the assumption that I would never call in.

I’m sure none of the students realized how absolutely dysfunctional their college was. They probably thought the delay was some sort of disorganized bureaucratic nightmare, which would have been a valid theory. But no, it was 1 worker who was sick for 2 days and it brought the whole functioning of the college down.

People really don’t understand how precarious literally everything is. So much relies on the sacrifice of exploited labor, and the precarity only reveals itself when someone in that position refuses to provide that sacrifice

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the fact that 2016 was 5 years ago and 2022 is just 4 months away is making my eye twitch…. need a support group for people who can’t process the linear progression of time

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“elvira has a butch wife who is her personal trainer” cresting the stormy hellscape of 2021 like jesus calmly walking across the sea

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COMMUNITY APPRECIATION WEEK - DAY 2: FAVORITE FRIENDSHIP

↳TROY AND ABED

#Darkest Timeline #Troy and Abed are in mourning

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listen I ended up regretting saying anything about this on my old blog because people will interpret literally any and every statement maliciously on this hellsite but I want to start like. a helpline for people who are like “hey I pretty much only read YA but I’m like 22 now and don’t relate to teenagers as much, it’s such a shame that there are no fun books written for adults :(” because boy HOWDY are there some fun books for adults 

#I wish I enjoyed literally any of the books on this list I tried to read #I have come to the conclusion that other people and I clearly enjoy drastically different things about YA and MG books lol #I cannot express enough how much I am not fucking interested in Gideon the Ninth #Also fuck Valente #anyway I just read YA and project onto the adult side characters lol #Luckily middle school teachers are weird for a lot of reasons #I think people just assume I'm really committed to the profession #Reading is just insanely hard for me now and I can't be bothered most of the time #at least if I'm reading a kids' book it's short and easy to follow and I can then use it for work #maybe this will be useful for someone else though #my DNF list for the past 2 years is longer than every book I've ever read in my life I'm pretty sure but oh well #I'm just cranky and tired from being an essential employee maybe