#i came up with this in class

[avocadosockz]

what do you call an ethical slay

serving kant

#i came up with this in class #laugh at my joke please #jokes #haha #i’m so funny #and i’m a woman #crazy how that works #grace rambles in the tags #THIS IS ABOUT IMMANUAL KANT #BITCHASS PHILOSOPHER THAT MADE MY PHILOSOPHY 205 HELL #immanuel kant

[aerodaltonimperial]

so back when i was teaching, one of the things i learned to look for were the "mood makers", as i liked to call them, of the classes. there were always 2 or 3 per class, and it was easy to find them in the first few days. you got those kids on your side, and it was a ripple effect with the rest of the students - they would all follow. so winning those kids over was huge when it came to how the year would play out. and from time to time, whenever the class was sort of faltering - middle of winter, of a big project, burn-out high - i would lean back in on those mood makers again to turn things around.

one particular class, when we had a big multi-month group project happening, were just... really struggling with getting their shit together lol. they were supposed to be practicing their presentations (english speaking class) and they were doing pretty much anything but, and their presentations were supposed to start the next class day. they were also PANICKING as i started giving out some feedback - which was NOT GREAT - as they were running through the lines they were supposed to be remembering. after realizing all of them needed so much extra work, i decided we needed to have a turn-around, so i invited one of the mood makers up to the front. i held out a cup to him, with two papers inside.

"one of them," i said, "says tuesday, and if you draw that, presentations go as planned. but one of them says thursday, and if you choose that one, everyone gets extra time to practice."

everyone was like OH SHIT. OKAY. THIS IS IT. and this mood maker, he was a big personality (they usually are) so i knew he'd really ham this up, and he did. we made a huge deal, with drum-rolls and everything, of him picking one out of the cup. he opened it up the paper and announced THURSDAY to a round of huge cheers. he was the class hero. everyone had TONS of motivation to work super hard on this gifted extra day, and really put the time in. their presentations were great. morale SOARED.

the plot twist was that both papers said thursday, because they all needed the extra time. my forever teacher advice: find creative ways to make things happen so that you get the buy-in from the class.

#this memory came up in my facebook #and i was like OH THAT CLASS #i remember this hahaha

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

#ethan winters #mia winters #mithan #resident evil #resident evil fanart #rebhfun #re7 #resident evil 7 #ethan being a horrible liar because he gets so embarassingly red #hc me and my friend came up with that mia actually was a car girl and bought ethan is car in re7 😭 #mia picking ethan up at his coding class in a really fancy car and revving it to get everyones attention #get in babe #were going shopping #i hc that mia rides a motorcycle too but ethan is too scared to ride on it

[chiocchi]

Harry doesn't understand how Tom's political campaign works, but he's still supportive.

#I saw some girls in my class getting yellow flowers because of a trend #and i wondered who is more likely to give flowers Harry or Tom #and my friend came up with this scenario dlkasjdlak #tomarrymort #tomarry #fanart #harry potter #tom riddle #hp fanart #harry james potter #my art

[gamoraswonder]

#how am i supposed to focus in school now?!?!?! #kathony #kanthony #bridgerton #bridgerton spoilers #today i woke up happy because it was raining #the leaves are getting yellow and red fall is coming<3 #and i bought a donut came home from class and made coffe #and then... BAM!!! kathony dancing :') #the gods from above really said “let give this bitch a break:)”

[arctic-hands]

#this type of class division fascinates the hell out of me #my bestie went like every year my roommate went twice and I've never been #which fits up with the fact that bestie went to private school where soldiers never came to recruit #roommate went to a middle class public school where soldiers didn't come to recruit until junior year #and I went to a sixty percent poverty rate school where soldiers were coming to propagandize to us in fourth grade

[amygdalae]

Henry Fuseli, Silence (1799-1801)

#i think this painting is neat ^u^ #it came up in art history class #art #aesthetic

[cupidswurld]

1x01 pilot spn / dust bowl (unreleased) ethel cain

#its them #sam and dean #supernatural #sam winchester #dean winchester #ethel cain #ethelnatural #winchester brothers #screencap #dustbowl #ok if you read the my tags i am kissing you on the mouth but basically #i offhandedly mentioned ethel cain in one of my classes and this girl came up to me a few days later and was like #i listened to her (ethel cain) and i really liked it! (specifically american teenager and strangers) #is that not true love... #she LISTENED to ETHEL CAIN bc i made an OFFHAND COMMENT #then i suggested chapel hill #what song should i use to confess undying love be honest #spn

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 210

The battle had been long. Long and destructive, power rolling from both combatants as they launched at each other and tore through armor and flesh alike. 

Islands fell from the skies with every clash, swaths of utter annihilation following as they fought long after their armies had finished. Wings swept great gales of wind that shadows raced to block, fire meeting fire and claws meeting blade as two beasts brawled. 

Finess was no longer a thing needed- this was all about who could last longer now. One who fought for itself, for its legacy of tyranny, and another who fought together, as one. 

The battle was long, no one quite sure how long but enough to be called as such. It could have been hours, it could have been days, it could have even been centuries in this mauling of what was and what could be.  

And finally, the One-That-Was-Many rose victorious over the king before it, dead once more at its talons, wings spread to usher in a new era for the realms. 

Or at least, that was how the tale went, according to Marvel. Even he wasn’t sure what parts of it were true or simply legend, but it was an interesting story all the same. It kept the kids entertained at least, and caught the others attention so there was that.

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #The Class Pulls a Tiamat #Why let there be a Ghost King when they can split it between the nine of them #Dora helped them a lot in the beginning in getting used to battling in the form of a hydra #Clockwork helped with figuring out how to do things with a hivemind of sorts #Pandora helped them train in using multiple arms in their humanoid fusion form #Frostbite made sure they stayed healthy and didn’t push themselves with Nocturne’s help #I need yall to know that they give off galaxy vibes in both forms #The zetas were shut down so people decided to start telling stories & mythology came up at some point #Billy likes to read the books in the Rock of Eternity & found the story there #Jordan & Ellie are the prince & princess of the Infinite Realms & are learning how to do the whole Fusion deal #I say this to give people the most amount of things to be able to use this prompt for #Does this count as Ghost King Danny? #Fuck it this is now a shared monarchy via this loophole of them sharing a body when defeating Pariah

[old-desert]

Damn that homosexual epilogue

#in stars and time #isat #sifloop #loop isat #siffrin #desert art #my art #art tag #the entire game they were so fucking fruity and then the epilogue came and was like “i can make this fuck even better” #siffrin is like that one haha funny guy you knew in school and then years later #on a same class graduates meet up you see him and he's married to an honest to god diva (loop) #also the coin exchange in the epilogue??? that's bonding right there. they got bonding coins.

[bonefall]

no joke you turned star flower into one of my least favorite characters into one of my favorites. this is why i follow you and this is why its important to talk about this stuff. even when people are aware of these issues, it can be hard to see just how deep they run until somebody points it out

Star Flower deserves better, most of the cast of DOTC deserves better but Star Flower, Snake, and Bumble deserve the most better

She didn't DO anything man. She's not even that mean. It's super popular for people to just end up absolutely hating her because of Thunder being jealous and angry at her, but she didn't fuckin "betray" anyone, and everything Thunder is saying about her is SUPER messed up and should really have been examined!

Like... how do they unironically write Thunder looking at Star Flower, saying "YOU ONLY LIKE MY DAD BECAUSE HE REMINDS YOU OF YOUR FATHER" and just let that hang in the air?? And leave Clear Sky's internal monologue about how she's going to obey him, be more loyal to him than his "own kin" (Thunder) whomst he's actively abusing, and how he finally has someone who won't question him?

I need her to get therapy, man. I need her and Thunder to get therapy and Clear Sky to blow up.

#It's not ''betrayal'' to warn your father about an assassination attempt #the moor cats broke the terms of their deal first THEY were the ones playing dirty #But that doesn't matter because One Eye is a stinky rogue not WORTHY of a fair fight I fucking guess!! #For how much this series cries and whines about being Just As Bad or whatever the fuck #it sure does fall apart the minute that our antagonist isn't part of the in-group! #''THIS ISNT UR FIGHT :(((('' shut the fuck UP thunder it's not YOUR FIGHT either you're just assmad he came prepared!! #star flower #They don't even need to get better in therapy btw I'll be fine if they go to a class that comes up on the credit card charge as THERAPY #but they just go to pipe bomb building class or something #bone babble

[collieii]

one line in trimax that's always stuck with me is from chapter 65, right after wolfwood's death. when vash is sticking the punisher by his grave and he says "it was part of his life". that phrasing is so interesting to me. the neutrality of it is one thing that gets me, i think. it was part of his life. for better or worse, whatever it was, the punisher was wolfwood's.

It's pretty easy to think that the punisher might represent violence, the eye of michael, the role of assassin that was forced onto wolfwood, the loss of childhood. but it's not really presented that way, not overtly anyways. we never see wolfwood shun the punisher, he's not conflicted by his use of it. he never considers abandoning it for some other weapon. it's his weapon. he doesn't discard it when he eventually decides to take a more vash-like approach and actually let people live. he pretty easily accepts it as his own, a tool he can use. (to be fair, at least part of that is probably because the punisher is a very good gun.)

the punisher can still represent the harsher aspects of wolfwood's character, the violence he's committed, that he's capable of. that's an important part of his life! and the idea of it as representative of his violent adolescence, childhood that was stripped away, goes along with this - it's literally a cross to bear. but besides showing his past as a burden, i think of the punisher as being a cross of responsibility. when you have a gun you have power, agency - you have a responsibility to make a choice. that's what wolfwood tells vash in chapter 4.

the ability to take a life, the burden of it, is literally his cross to bear. that ability - and that responsibility - was given to him by the eom, literally in terms of the gun, and in terms of his skills. but the eye doesn't think twice about killing people. for them it's not really a choice, a responsibility, it's just a given. but wolfwood can't accept that. he's constantly considering the choices he makes.

so the punisher isn't only a symbol of the eye of michael, of the path that he was forced onto. it's also a way of expressing autonomy. the eye gave wolfwood the gun, but he decides how to use it and what it means. for much of the story wolfwood struggles to decide what to do, he's a very conflicted character. but eventually he resolves to use it against chapel, against knives, to help vash, and protect the orphanage. the gun gives him agency.

so the punisher was part of his life. it was the tool that he used to commit acts of violence, acts that he was forced into, but also the tool he used to break free.

it's heavy for vash, too. he's not exempt from that idea, the idea of responsibility. as wolfwood said much earlier in the story, vash has always been able to sidestep the question of "what do i choose?", because he's only ever given himself one option - everybody lives. and he's always succeeded. but as wolfwood says, "the day will come when you'll have to choose". one day, it's not going to work.

and of course the story progresses, the stakes ramp up, and vash learns more, goes through more, and is pushed to his limits. i think by this point, by wolfwood's death, and maybe because of it, vash has realized that he might have to make that difficult choice in the near future. that's one reason why he wants to "do him proud". he has a lot of reasons to say this of course - to not let wolfwood's sacrifice go to waste, for example. but if we're thinking of the cross as responsibility, then vash is saying he doesn't want to forget the lessons he learned because of wolfwood. wolfwood has always grappled with responsibility, with what the right thing to do is. and the right thing is often not easy. vash hopes that when the times comes for him to make a choice, he'll make a good one, one that does right by wolfwood's memory.

#trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #trigun meta #trigun analysis #i have another post in my drafts abt wolfwood and autonomy so theres some stuff im not getting into but stay tuned #i hope this makes sense...the whole it was part of his life thing...it gets me for some reason #this is just me trying to articulate why #hopefully what im saying isnt too obvious and is actually insightful #this whole post was inspired by one of my art history classes #we were talking abt some of betye saars works and my prof mentioned the idea of weapons as symbolic of power and agency #so ofc i had to apply that to trigun #at that point i was only thinking of the punisher as 'eom = bad' but that just didnt feel right #so then guns...agency...it all came together #seems obvious in hindsight but i just didnt realize #too hung up on guns as violence and violence is bad #but obviously it's more than that #.lieii #.lieii txt #nicholas d. wolfwood #i just realized how long this post is uh sorry guys #i may have repeated myself too much with this one hopefully it's still legible #take a shot everytime i use the word agency or choice in this post #trimax spoilers

[anonymous-dentist]

Okay, so read this one-shot for context, but:

So Cellbit is a retired supervillain. Once upon a time, he was one of the most dangerous villains in Q City: Enigma- a dude so dangerous that the Federation of Heroes is still trying to find him.

See, Enigma was one of the first people to be born with an ability, and it was a fucking dangerous one. 'Cause he could make people scared. That is to say, he could control people's fear. He could sense their fear, he could amplify it, he could nullify it, he could find out exactly what they were scared of and use it to literally scare them to death and walk away with their wallets and the keys to their car.

But then Cellbit got arrested for a murder three years ago. One of the Federation's lower-ranked heroes attacked him as a civilian, and he killed them out of self defense. So Cellbit was sent to prison as himself, and Enigma seemingly vanished out of nowhere, never to be seen again.

(The Federation would like to offer a $500,000 reward for any information on Enigma's identity or his whereabouts. Please notify the nearest Federation office if you have any information.)

But then he got out of prison and now he's working as an "abilityless" reporter trying to support himself and his family- because somehow his friends all managed to acquire a kid while he was in prison. He's given up on his whole villain thing because, really, that was just his edgy phase. He's over that now.

...But he's also working to try and take down the Federation because it's corrupt and it's evil and it's literally running Q City like a dictatorship despite there being a fucking mayor and he wants it gone.

The problem with that is that he's alone in this. The Federation has every single one of the city's heroes on its payroll, and it sponsors the majority of the city's vigilantes. That leaves villains, who Cellbit is trying to avoid, and it leaves-

Spider-Man. He's one of the few vigilantes left not directly working for the Federation. He's a mystery. Nobody knows who he is, nobody knows why he's a vigilante or where he got his powers from, and- most importantly for Cellbit- nobody knows why Spider-Man has seemingly suddenly started sabotaging Federation operations. He's one big failed Federation mission away from being put on the city's official villain registry, and Cellbit wants him.

So he's going to find Spider-Man. He's going to explain his plans, and he's going to ask for his help, and the Federation will die, and it'll be beautiful.

...Speaking of beautiful, Cellbit is liking civilian life. He's got this new friend, Roier, an employee at a taqueria near the Federation's city hq. He might be buddies with a bunch of Federation employees, but that's fine. He's cute. He's a Spider-Man fanboy, he's a psych student at the local university, he's funny.

(And isn't this all convenient for both of them?)

#deli superhero au #i came up with this all during class today i love it #send asks!! i want to talk about it

[glowsticcc]

my new favorite thing has become complimenting peoples cc merch in at school bc i love seeing their faces light up

like my friend's friend who started sitting with us at lunch had a lovejoy sweater on yesterday and i went OMG LOVEJOY THATS SO COOL and they just went :)

or when i told a freshman i liked their genloss jacket and they just got that look of recognition that i would get when and upperclassmen complimented a thing i liked

its just nice to have that sense of community not just online but in real life bc idk about you but school social life has gotten me into the habit of being ashamed of publicly liking the things i like if they aren't mainstream??? and its nice to know that there are people out there who are less weird than me and like the things i like its like im in a secret club >:3c

#generation loss #lovejoy #i have other examples #like yesterday the person in front of me in line at the grocery store had a ranboo jacket #but i was with my parent so i didnt say anything but i got so excited #sophomore year i had both a friend in my pre-cal class show up in a tubbo hoodie #and that same year someone in my english class came to school in philza merch and it was so fun :DDD #i love getting to bond with people!!!! #i love the human connection!!!!!! #i love having shared interests with people that allows me to get closer to them!!!!!

[ilonacho]

drew this for younger me. happy easter🐰

#lola bunny #looney tunes #space jam #iloart #i like the plain colour one i did too but ill just post this one version #it was just supposed to be a quick lil scribble for the holiday but then i ended up experimenting #and i rly like how it came out so im sharing w/ the class <3

[blairamok]

went to bed early because i wanted to go to public skate today but then i woke up really early and man. wish they’d let me in the 7am freestyle sessions because i am not built for these afternoon public skates

#blair rambles #i had to skip my last class because something came up but now i’m trying to make up for it with two public sessions this week #my coach suggested i try to go twice a week anyway #downside of working night shift is having to do crazy things with my sleep so i can actually Do Things