#school readings

[sophsicle]

it is not merely a question of whether or not we have learned to analyze in particular kinds of ways, or whether people are able to intellectualize about a variety of experiences. It is also about coming to believe in the possibility of a variety of experiences, a variety of ways of understanding the world, a variety of frameworks of operation, without imposing consciously or unconsciously a notion of norm - Elsa Barkley Brown

#school readings #but like it feels relevant to the conversations i feel like i have on here #about whether or not characters are good or bad #or whether or not they are redeemed #and about the right way to read texts #and the right way to write stories #and like multiple things can be true at once #every situation is made up of different people coming from different places who are effected differently #and most of the time there are not absolute villains and absolute heroes #depending on your experience of the world #depending on your framework #your hero might be someone else's villain #or vice versa #it is all so messy #and you need to be able to hold multitudes in your head #to see humanity as a kaleidoscope not a window #or a mirror #i might have lost this metaphor #tedtalk over #soph rambles #text post #quote #wow fully misattributed that quote by accident because i am a terrible academic #i have fixed it now #from a paper by joy parr but she is quoting brown #no one cares probably but i do #my bad ELSA

[rat-hand]

I am going to pretend all my school assigned readings are ✨fanfiction ✨

#I hope it motivates me because otherwise I am doomed #fanfiction #school assignment #school readings #dark acadamia aesthetic #light academia #academia aesthetic

[shitty-check-please-aus]

What we need to do is convince all the disney adults in america that high speed rail would be a preferable way of getting to disneyworld compared to driving or flying. We could maybe harness their fondness for the monorail or something, but this is a group of people that has time, income, and passion that we could leverage. If we could direct 5% of the enthusiasm they have for limited edition popcorn buckets into calling their representatives and demanding high-speed interstate rail, we could get it by 2030

#at this point I don't care whether rail is privately or publicly funded #I'll ride the Mickey Mouse Express if it means not having to drive or fly everywhere #if you're on the disneyland side of the country I just don't have as strong a grasp on your psychology as a demographic #but I went to school with some twice a year disneyworld people #if you are a disney adult and you're reading this please don't take it as an insult #I don't think it comes off that way but you never know

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

#relistening to tma again #i think the last time i’ve drawn anything related to it was like may 2020 #god it’s been a while #have been listening to the magnus protocol and my god it’s so good #but heres good old jonathan as a treat #the interest has been in deep slumber for the past 4/5 years only periodically coming back to life #i’m very normal about this podcast actually #on other note i also started a taz balance relisten #what’s up with me and revisiting my middle school fixations lately #anyways #if you’re still reading these tags i’m impressed i could never with my abysmal attention span #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus pod #jonathan sims #the archivist #tma jon #fanart #my art #digital art #illustration #doodle

[ilyberrymuch]

you can also put in the tags how old you were, again im nosy lol

#my polls #polls #berryposting #I didn't include it in the options but one of my friends in highschool printed out fanfiction at school to bring home to read #like every week she would print out another chapter in our computer classroom #honestly an icon and a hero #also guess which option was my device of choice lol

[trashmakerarticle]

Everyone thinks that dick was the golden child when in reality it was Jason.

Clark: Bruce who was your favourite robin?

Dick: obviously it’s me?

Tim: it’s dick

Damian: I am superior robin, it will be me.

Bruce: it’s Jason

Everyone: WHAT?!?!???

Bruce: why are you so surprised? He didn’t jump on too my chandeliers which I had to replace each week

*everyone looks at dick*

Bruce: he didn’t drop out of school

*everyone looks at tim*

Bruce: I didn’t have to stop him from killing everyone who annoyed him

*everyone looks at Damian*

Bruce: in fact, he enjoyed school and handed all his homework in on time, we would spend hours in the library reading his favourite classics. He even helped Alfred with most of the cooking, He was my little boy

Jason: stop spreading lies, I hate you go away

Bruce: my precious little boy

#jason todd #Bruce Wayne #dick Grayson #Damian Wayne #tim Drake #clark kent #Batman #alfred pennyworth #Bruce: he my little baby #jason: I’m 6’2 and have the ability to kill you if I wanted #Bruce: my baby my little son #jason: GOD YOURE SO EMBARRASSING DAD #jason was probably the most behaved child before he went boom boom and I stand by that #he enjoyed school #most likey hated it when he missed it #and he loves classic literature??? #bros a huge nerd #yea dick is all smiles but probably gave Bruce’s near death heart attacks everytime he swung from chandeliers and rooftops #jason just wanted to live his life in the library reading his fav books and homework

[raynedayys2]

Normalize letting trans kids live.

Every trans child on this planet deserves to be safe & supported.

#text post #lgbtq #lgbt #trans #transgender #nonbinary #queer #gender queer #genderfluid #nex benedict #say their name & the name of every other trans people killed from hate #Nex deserved to grow up. And they deserved to feel safe at school. neither of those things will happen now. #when I first saw this story a couple days ago I was enraged to read that not only were they denied medical care they were also suspended

[pinespittinink]

got thoughtful about opinions on bad books so here’s an inverse: what’s a book you had to read for school that you actually enjoyed/have grown to like? mine is Lord of the Flies

#me seeing people hated reading the giver: damn wish I’d been told to read the giver in school #books #writeblr #writeblr community #shout out to Wuthering heights I also didn’t read her in school but I love her so much

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

actually, it would be really funny if gerry shows up in a statement in tmagp considering the arg confirms that he & sam were in the same unethical magnus experiment. like he just just up in the middle of a talker & goes "gerard keay??? the gerard keay from traumatic childhood??? my fucking trauma buddy gerry???"

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #you know how schools have like 'most likely to be....' #sam reads about gerry burning down a building & goes. you know what. yeah thats fair #aster speaks

[blackpearlblast]

Brown University students are launching an indefinite hunger strike for Palestine

they are asking for their university to divest from companies profiting from the genocide in gaza and openly call for a ceasefire and will not eat until the university governing bodies hears and considers a divestment resolution. if you are not familiar with the physical toll a hunger strike takes on the body, it might be worth looking up to get a better sense of what a significant action these students are taking. the university's highest governing body is having their first meeting of 2024 on february 8-9th so let's rally around them to muster even more pressure on brown university.

brown university contact page: let's state our support for these students and let brown university know the world will be watching what happens next!

additional reading: coverage of this story in the university's student news paper - get to know some of the hunger strikers

#a lot of hunger strikes are effective simply because it looks really bad if certain people die under your care because you were denying #them something they believed so important that they'd stake their life on it. and i think students who are in care of a school #are very much in a position to hunger strike powerfully. #there are even more articles on the brown daily herald that are worth reading i think shorter posts tend to get more traction but #i might make a follow up later #free palestine #free gaza #brown university hunger strike #hunger strike

[1892]

just wondering! i'm sure i forgot many things but just pick out of these ok???

#also i wanna see the % on this website of ppl that read fanfic All the time so reblog if u care about that statistic #polls #me picking philosophy/theory because it's all i fucking read for school

[anglerflsh]

"people didn't get canceled before these sjw" Dante put all the people he disliked in literal hell

#[.txt] #we're at paradiso now because i finished inferno and purgatorio in the last school years and. Babygirl stop staring at your wife in awe #no but it's. it's so fun to read. Blorbo from 1300s #i wish i could meet Dante he's a bit of a bestie to me. Wrote what is now the general consensum for hell and purgatory and paradise #and explicitly said in the beginning of Paradiso that he was just a spark and hoped better flames would grow after him. girl... girl. #i'm normal about historical figures trust me #divina commedia #<-se diventa un post con più di mille note ci finisco io all'inferno

[payasita]

God's Mouthpiece (Echo + Narcissus)

silent protagonists, yknow

#cotl #cult of the lamb #narilamb #not a serious au but an idea i had at the grocery store parking lot that made me haul ass back home #at least one of these lines i remember verbatim from reading a version of the myth in school #doodles #comics #i cut so many corners on this but im resolving this year to just. get things FINISHED #SO TAKE IT

[wheatormeat]

Haven't read the last chapter yet but hhhhh I'm gonna miss these guysss

other cast members

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #laios touden #marcille donato #chilchuck tims #senshi of izganda #izutsumi #my art #digital art #click in the image for better quality #im in school rn i am scared to read it caise i know it will do something to my psyche #fanart

[fangtastic-vampyra]

buying books & reading books..two different hobbies.

#books and reading #books & libraries #books #bookstagram #bookstores #reading #used books #currently reading #book recommendations #booklr #comic books #library #support your local library #public libraries #school libraries #libraries #librarians #bookblr #book quotes

[add1rall]

If this gets 5000 notes I’ll read the Percy Jackson books before the tv show comes out

#percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #I haven’t read them since middle school #that was 8 years ago……. #I’m excited for the show but I’m not sure if I wanna reread them or not #1k