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Zuko having a connection to the spirit world but instead of it being something deep and profound, it’s just because he spent three years pre-finding the avatar running towards the first weird magical shit he saw.

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You know what you REALLY can’t kill in a way that matters? Mint.

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i know that "unalive" is part of larger worrying trend of self censorship but if you really are in a situtation where you have to avoid the words "die" or "kill" the english language already has centuries worth of much better euphemisms. the iconic and perennial "six feet under"? the lovely imagery of "pushing up daisies"? "shuffle off this mortal coil"????? literally anything from the monty python dead parrot bit???? you have so many options. please try to be more creative at least

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First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

#not described #if you didn't write shitty self insert fanfic were you even a teenager? /j #but yeah i posted 1 fic i wrote (it's awful and only got three chapters cos i fell out with the cowriter) #and i have multiple others that i wrote that were just me shipping myself with my favourite charactrs + crossovers w/ my favourite fandoms #now i'm writing a crack fic. very slowly cos i'm busy lol (but it being unserious is fun cos it takes the pressure off being perfect)

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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.

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girlhood is touching your necklace whenever you feel nervous

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a weird thing is that we got waves of people going "who cares if its cringe or youre annoying! have fun!" but no one really learned how to accept the fact that some people will find you annoying or think your art or your work or posts or anyrhing sucks and thats ok. rather it just became a weird "if people think youre annoying theyre just morally bad. let people enjoy things!". like no i think this yes man only biome sucks and people are allowed to not like artstyles and shows and media and other things

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they should let you end academic papers on "idk if this makes sense at all lol"

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a post-doc was doing a guest seminar at my institute and at the beginning of his presentation he was explaining why he chose birds for his evolutionary analysis - so he said "well first of all, because birds are the best and most interesting animals and it's fun to study them" and a few professors in the room gave him a very serious nod

#this extends to every level my lecturers all have favourite viruses/proteins/bacteria/whatever they specifically study #i had two microbiology lecture back to back where each lecturer argued for why their favourite special boy was the best virus #(herpes virues vs pox viruses if you're curious)

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#i get stressed around kids cos idk what to do with them but like everyone in my family knows me for being great with kids??? #honestly kids are fine once they get old enough to be enunciate the real struggle is talking to like 13 year olds #(i think kids are cool but like i'd prefer to not be around kids 24/7 yknow?)

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I love subjects and topics

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when the academic article is so good it has you giggling and kicking your feet

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The last three digits of your current follower count is the Dewey Decimal Classification subject on which you must immediately give a 15-minute presentation.

How would you do?

#philosophy and psychology #i could probs yap about those but like not well yknow? #like i would not be getting a first but i would get through it

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it's so funny how graffiti is like a non issue that effortlessly reveals peoples' reactionary tendencies.

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This isn’t commonly known but one of the rings of hell is actually being in a fandom wherein the popular bloggers have the worst opinions known to man that everyone else parrots

#prev i'm sorry DUCKTALES 2017??? #fucking insane thing to have discourse over sdkjfhgsdkjhgskdf #i honestly don't get the hierarchy or whatever of followers in fandom space??? #like one time i went to follow someone but they were such a popular blog in that fandom that ppl just constantly sent them discourse asks #and expected them to have a detailed opinion on all of it and like that just looked so stressful??? #like what happened to just having fun and vibing??

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this too shall pass