#BUT I MUST CRAM

[jeena-says-hi]

God gives his toughest of battles to his silliest of soldiers

(Me getting a bad cold the weekend before exams)

[cafulur]

sometimes i wish i was medicated for my adhd again just so i can finally finish my massive pile of half written fics

[onlyswan]

not only am i deeply in awe of jungkook’s many talents displayed on stage today… from dancing, singing, and directing… but also the pureness of his heart 🥹 the way he looked so genuinely happy interacting with armys during the breaks, smiling and giggling, speaking so kindly and softly… expressing his gratitude and love for us over and over and over again… feeling comfortable enough to tell us in the moment that he was feeling very nervous but he was still determined give us his best… the intimacy and vulnerability in that… god i feel so damn emotional. i’m so grateful that we exist in the same lifetime and i was given the honor to love him and be loved by him in such a beautifully unique way not everyone will understand. i’m so proud of jungkook, not only for being an amazing artist, but most of all for having grown up to be an amazing human being 🥲💜

[yasmeensh]

This is what I have been working on this week. A4 paper in gouache. It's a rather difficult medium to work with. I do like the consistency, and the matte finish. But I found it hard to make the colours come out bright (I suppose gouache is like that?). I used coloured pencils and what is supposed to be oil pastels (it was straight up chalk lol). I think it could still use more work, but I fear I would just ruin it if I work any further. Overall, I'm happy with the result! Next up will be acrylics! Progress shots under the cut:

[reanimatedguts]

i really hope i’m wrong, but ofmd s2e8 felt more like a series finale instead of a season finale? did anyone else get those vibes? :(

[timetravelstudies]

the way we have fully lost the plot

[flawedemerald]

Victor Frankenstein (2015), my new favorite movie the camp I've always wanted. Nothing has hit the craving for absolute CAMP like this movie. Every scene packs a punch, including the one with the meat monkey and then the one where James McAvoy sucking cyst goo into his mouth.

[tkbrokkoli]

just thought about that sherlock relapsed without his support system after being "dead". he's not wearing his sobriety pin anymore. he hasn't told watson about it. watson says he seems happy and he says that working as a detective abroad but not as himself was the best time of his life. I'm not sure if that's actually true????

[rubberbandballqueen]

tbh sometimes giving people younger than me the space and freedom to explore the world for themselves instead of like. yoinking their phone out of their hands and making them a tumblr acct with a specialized cocktail blend of blogs i formulate for their own specific starter dashboard. is just so hard.

like yes i value you learning to formulate your own opinions after spending way too much of your life trying to parse discourse on both sides instead of just feeding you my own thoughts n opinions but also i want you to understand gender essentialism right now. i want you to understand that sometimes boundaries are put in place not for YOUR safety, but for the comfort of the people running the show. i want you to understand that it's normal to be wrong sometimes. i want you to understand that maintaining privacy online is important even if you don't care it matters now. i want you to understand that fiction is not real life, and that disgust is not a viable moral compass. i want you to know what a dogwhistle is so that you can start listening for them. i want you to understand that girls can kiss other girls too, like in real life.

and i'm sure if you muck around on the internet long enough, you might end up exactly where i am today. but i'm sure we could also just cut to the chase and get you started on the right path For Sure if i just picked you up and plopped you down on it myself.

unfortunately, people younger than me are still people who have to lead their own lives and experience at least some of the world for themselves, lest they never realize that they have to put their money where their mouths are.

[soft-serve-soymilk]

Random take but I feel like my art style is undergoing puberty

[ghostofasecretary]

oh i Put Off grad apps. oops! fuck. oof. guess who's got one due November 30th and another due December 1st! that's right it's ME!

i'm gonna be fine and it's not the end of the world and all my rec writers are great and also my brain is on fire and i feel like a wreck. i can write well, i am surely qualified to *get in* to an MA, i'm alive, whatever whatever whatever

[gemwolfz]

countryhumans were weird as shit because half the thing that made them so controversial was people just doing Whatever with them (catboy nazi germanies were a popular point against them at their peak) and its like. Bro if youre gonna do that why even bother making them countries in the first place. just make a fucking oc

[true-blue-sonic]

Espio needs to go grocery shopping, both Charmy and Silver want to come with him but he can't handle both of them at the shop by himself.

Silver would at least respect Espio's rule of not touching anything in the aisles without permission and asking first before grasping something to put in the cart... Charmy meanwhile has already flung two jars of honey and six packets of cookies in there. But Espio's got a trick up his sleeve in a situation wherein both of them have to come along: call into Silver's sense of responsibility and rule-following to ensure Charmy does not break any of Espio's rules, and while the two of them bicker about it Espio's already gone on a mad dash through the shop to grab everything they need in three minutes tops. And another means of self-protection he has is pointing out to Charmy how it is supermarket law that anyone under ten goes into the children's seat of the shopping cart, no, really, they're even looking into increasing it to twelve, if Charmy doesn't follow that rule they cannot enter and thus cannot take home any cookies... When it comes to Charmy, I figure all Espio's morals fly right out of the window immediately at times! And Silver doesn't know better, so he can't call anything into question. Everything to make grocery shopping as quick and painless as possible for everyone involved!

[meyerlansky]

i acknowledge that, because i reblog polls immediately and therefore when i do catch up on my dash it's just a fucking wall of polls for followers, i should probably have a poll tag to minimize the annoyance

the thing is, i don't have the time for all of that

[egoarc4de]

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[artemisiatridentata]

As an educator it never fails to floor me (and, often, nearly bring me to tears) how kids react and open up when I give them positive feedback. Often it seems like no adult has ever bothered to engage with them and center them in the conversation. Maybe it helps that I still enjoy “childlike” things like drawing and star wars and dinosaurs, but like. still. any time I treat them like the complex, fully-formed human beings that they are, any time I ask questions that get beyond the surface level, their eyes light up and they transform.

Like once on a five-day field program, I complimented a shy, quiet kid’s watercolor painting, told them I liked making art too and asked them more questions about it — what their favorite medium was, if they found watercolors tricky like I do, etc. — and it was like a switch was flipped. They told me all about their art classes and what they liked to make, what techniques they were struggling with, AND we found out we both were interested in herbalism! The kid stuck to me like glue for the rest of the week and kept showing me all the art they were making, as well as asking me all about the edible and medicinal plants in the region. And all it took was me saying something like, “Whoa, that painting is amazing! The detail on the trees is so realistic, and you really captured the texture of the sandstone! I like to paint, too, but rocks are really hard for me. I can never get them to look right. How did you make them look so 3D?” instead of just “wow that’s pretty!”

And that happens over and over. A little boy who didn’t really talk to anyone saw me drawing a mandalorian with sidewalk chalk and the next day he brought a bunch of his drawings of clone wars battle scenes to show me, and after I told him how impressed I was with his creativity and attention to detail, he wouldn’t stop talking to me and asking me how to draw various characters!! Recently I had a long and delightful conversation with an 8 year old about his favorite species in the ceratopsidae family. I’ve had hours-long discussions with teenage boys on the various merits and minutiae of legends vs. canon star wars material and the ways that universe mirrors our real-life sociopolitical landscape. 9 year old girls talk a mile a minute when they find out I like horses and ask them about their favorite breed, and shy 18 year olds suddenly can’t stop smiling and bouncing on their heels when I ask them to tell me more about their favorite music artists and mention that hey, my 25 year old best friend is also into K-pop, just like you!! Who’s your favorite group?? 12 year olds have asked me if they can have more free time instead of a structured lesson and are shocked when I say yes, and then confess to being stressed and sad because they’re already so exhausted and burnt out from the school-homework-extracurriculars grind and they can’t imagine doing it for six more years and then working for decades like their parents. and then they ask if I want to come see the fort they’re building out of fallen branches and maybe help them build it? or would I like to come catch crawdads or build a little snail hotel?

Kids of all ages are dealing with so much stress and negative feedback. They’re often made to feel — whether directly or indirectly, by their parents or teachers or peers or bosses or church elders, etc. — that they’re not doing enough. That they’re lazy and always on their phones and that their interests are frivolous and that they’re too loud or in the way or annoying. Hell, I was made to feel that way when I was their age, and it breaks my heart that many kids are still not getting the positive feedback they need to thrive. So I make a point of giving them the level of respect and autonomy and engagement that I give adults.

The least us adults can do, especially those of us who teach kids or are otherwise around them a lot, is show them through our words and actions that we genuinely value their interests, opinions, and presence in our lives.

consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about