#CommonCore

[wisdomfish]

As long as we are in this world, we are vulnerable to becoming deceived with what Paul calls “empty words”

First-century societies, just like ours, had their broadly acceptable sins, their celebrated evils. They also had scoffers and false teachers who shrugged off the judgment to come. And Paul knew that, over time, such a society could subtly dull the Christian conscience. God’s people could slowly become swayed by “plausible arguments” (Colossians 2:4): “You really think God cares about what we do in our bedroom?” “How could so many people be wrong?” “You seriously expect God to judge something that so many do?”

Such questions, spoken or merely suggested by a pervasive societal mood, can create an atmosphere where hell sits uncertainly on the soul — where eternity becomes a vague, weightless idea, a peripheral thought that holds little power against the most popular sins of the day. That is, unless we regularly hear Paul (or a pastor or friend) say, “Let no one deceive you” (Ephesians 5:6). No matter how common, no matter how lauded, “The Lord is an avenger in all these things” (1 Thessalonians 4:6).

We need such warnings today, perhaps especially from our pulpits. What sins are so normal throughout our cities, so typical in entertainment, so characteristic of our own pasts that we are in danger of becoming numb to their hell-deserving guilt? Pornography and fornication? Casual drunkenness? Love of money and luxuries? Internet reviling?

If the vulnerable among us (and to some degree, we’re all vulnerable) are going to see the deep pit at the end of such well-traveled paths, then someone needs to point it out — and not only once.

~ Scott Hubbard

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[caelumwingstar]

List: MegOp Recommendations

COMPLETED

THREAD: Advice - Interface Dream About Best Friend?? - auri_mynonys (7ch | TFP Gladiator!Megatronus/Archivist!Orion Pax)

Ethics and Employee Management: A Love Story - perictione (leclairage) (7ch | both leaders disguised & obliviously met up)

Ride Eternal - spaceliquid (20ch | TFP, post-apocalyptic Cybertron AU, Imperator!Megatronus/Scribe!Orion Pax, bittersweet ending)

War Bride - Kit_SummerIsle (11ch | Barbarian Tribe AU | Nomad!Megs kidnaps CityDweller!Orion)

Plus One - auri_mynonys (19ch | Gladiator!Megs/Archivist!Orion)

Contact - auri_mynonys (11ch | Orion committed accidental marriage proposal to Gladiator!Megs)

Spin the Bottle - auri_mynonys (4ch | TFP, with illustration)

Head Strategist - Yuna Yami Mouto (26ch | FF.net, a sparkling discarded)

How Sweet He Sounds - Zira (18ch | TFA OP works as a phone call role player)

Take me out - jeune_hibou (12ch | Hitman!Megs/SugarBaby!OP hired by Jazz to target a Senator, misconceptions ensue)

All I wanted was to be more - AenElle_Undvik (20ch | TFO D-Pax sold to Tarn, Warning! Slavery but HE)

Dancing Around the Pole - Rinny636 (4ch)

ONGOING

Primus' Rising Prophet - IsekaiGirl (33ch | OC reborn as OP)

Optimus Prime is Destined to Die!! - Chuzilllaa (13ch | Orion reincarnated into a NOVEL, Royalty AU)

caught in the undertow - callalypsolily (6ch | TFO AU Miner!Pax/Imprisoned Megatron, Friend!Sentinel/Bumblebee)

Can't survive with you, can't survive without you - Tf_Tere (Tere706) (32ch | TFA Megs/OP survive together on wild, hostile planet)

Forged/Bound - taiyari (3ch | DataClerk!OP/Miner!Megs before the war, with COMIC illustrations)

Lion's den - VioletCringe (Glyphthedragon) (61ch | TFA, Captured!OP treated well by Megs who wants him to defect)

Pandora's Box - StrawberryErotica (4ch | TFO D-16 given a interface data chip)

I Am The One Who Sleeps - Anonymous (4ch | Senator Megatronus/Orion Pax, Unrequited!SenatorShockwave/OP)

Pull the stars down to us - Blackberreh (4ch | TFP Optimus time travelled & forced into the Gladiatorial Arena, Megatronus & Soundwave mistook him for Orion. Fic comes with the author's own illustration, Warning! Updated 2020)

And yet (I want you more) - wasureukiyo (3ch | OP's secondary job is a cyberbunny)

SERIES

Cops and Mobs Collection - GeminiWishes (4 works | 5 times Megs try kiss OP)

Designation:Mine - auri_mynonys (2 works | mutual pining & eventually coupled)

Under the Beast's Claws (2 works | Sequel Updated 2020, Warning!: Forced Preg)

Symphony of Life - BlairDrakko (2 works | Sequel Updated 2021, Warning!: Slavery, Flight Frames are the leaders of Cybertron)

ONESHOTS

The Bot Who Went Through Time - Commoncoral (TFA | so emotional, so sweet)

The Con Who Remembered - Ghost_Library (inspired by the above link | Megs POV)

To the Victor - eiseedoesit (There is a story about a certain lake hidden beneath the Hall of Records)

A Couple Promises - loserVillain (TFO Miners!D-16/OP, best friends sharing a couple's meal)

Quarter After One - auri_mynonys (A drunk ex-gladiator & warlord comms OP)

(Restricted) Unfold Me - orphan_account (Megatron searches the ruins of the city for his beloved courtesan)

Helpless - platonicharmonics (Orion dragged to an elite midnight gala by Alpha Trion)

OTHERS

The Day The War Ended - Or At Least Was Put On Hold - And_The_Rest (35ch | Megs/OP/Jazz)

Amalgamation - Maunakea (22ch | slave coded OP/Warlord Meg/Starscream | Warning! SE Megop, HE MegsStar)

Bad End Office - Anonymous (1ch - ongoing | Mainly MegOp, Orion Pax/Jazz, OP/Everyone)

[cobra-wives]

that scene with the lawrence-diaz fam with robby and the high school counselor makes me wanna throw up in my mouth. tell me you actually don't understand the education system without telling me

like. that counselor fucking sucks?? pigeonholing your students to one fucking academic route, when she can be providing options. robby has an entire family of support. the state of california has one of the LEAST rigorous graduation requirements - less math and science than the national average - robby should be fine to close out the year and graduate with his friends with just enough credits, PLUS some if he's made them up from his junior year with summer school and online credits.

messing up the education system with college plots like this like "oh, these are the hs classes im taking" "here's where i'm going to college" "will i be able to graduate" without actually considering the alternative paths that prospective students (their viewers) are taking is actually so fucking stupid. it only makes teenagers feel anxious and pinholed to one academic path and representing those alternative routes for a student to take would be really helpful to some people whose minds aren't singled on UNIVERSITY. it's just super reflective of reality when people try to push the commoncore pathway on kids when everyone's academic journey is super unique and dependent on what the kid needs.

if this show wants to bring this plot in, they could at least stand to do it fucking right instead of trying to fit its scapegoat character into a one-shoe-fits-all non-college solution to all their post-secondary education madness.

(also, high school counselors should be OFFERING. OPTIONS. NOT PIGEONHOLING. it's already very obvious that she sucks, but do BETTER, blatt.)

[story-weavr]

A Hidden Story

Notes:

Inspired by The Bot Who Went Through Time by Commoncoral

This can be read as just TFA or a mixed universe.

The Autobots led by Optimus Prime were in a covert Autobot lab where experimentation for an energy source was underway. Due to the dangerous nature of the experiment, a secluded and hidden location was chosen for a lab.

Unfortunately, the Decepticons found the lab and attacked!

During the battle, an explosion occurred.

Waking up, Optimus Prime found himself on a Cybertron of the past. Unfortunately, he was smack-dab in the territory of Tarn. The most dangerous city-state on Cybertron, where crime, corruption, & brutality go hand-in-hand.

Knowing the danger he was in as well as the risks, Optimus opted to disguise himself with a new body and identity: Convoy.

He quickly found work where no one really cared who you were: Mining.

Luckily, he quickly made friends with another miner, Dion. He showed the young Convoy the ropes, and the two quickly became inseparable.

One day, a cave-in occurred. Convoy, furious at the foremen’s disregard for the trapped miners, immediately started the rescue effort. He, Dion, & others managed to save them.

The group was punished with cut pay and overtime for the resulting effect on production. Convoy, for leading it, was put on half-rations.

Later, at his hut in one of the miner camp-towns just outside the Tarn mines, Convoy received visitors. All but one were the mechs his actions saved.

Terminus, unfortunately, could not come with the others due to his damaged legs. Instead, he sent his son, Kilotron.

Kilotron was a gentle and noble soul within an intimidating frame. The mech was often visited by those who wanted him to work as a thug or a gladiator.

But Kilo was uninterested; he wouldn’t risk dying or killing.

After becoming closer with Kilo, Convoy later learned the young miner’s dream: to become a writer. One who could help, not just Tarn, but all of Cybertron to become better.

Something his grandmother, a Tarnian politician, failed to do. This resulted in her becoming a mining prisoner, and her son born in mining.

Over a short period of time, Convoy and Kiltron’s feelings became that of love. At first, Convoy tried to keep it platonic. But he started to lose hope that he’d ever return to his time.

One day, another cave-in occurred. This time, Convoy and Kiltron were trapped alone.

When they dug themselves out, something terrible greeted them. Among the casualties, Dion and Terminus had passed.

Convoy knew then: he or Kilo could die at any time.

That day, Convoy and Kilotron moved in together. In mining culture, they were now Conjux.

Time passed. Kilo moved up the miners’ informal ranks becoming a Head for a large team. Convoy had been reassigned to logistics and was now expecting their first sparkling. The two had become respected figures in their camp-town. They often met with other leaders to better organize the mine work and supply distribution.

One day, however, something terrible happened. The city-state of Vos, eternal arch-rival of Tarn, sent a squadron of bombers to various mining sites on the outskirts of Tarn. The plan was to take the mines for Vos by hitting the headquarters that were always a fair distance from the valuable mines themselves.

Unfortunately, Convoy and Kilo’s camp-town was right next to one of the targets.

Kilotron was still deep in the mines with his team. Convoy was surrounded by flames and panicking miners and civilians. He helped as many as he could escape.

Unfortunately, he himself became trapped. All hope seemed lost.

Then a portal appeared in front of him. Ironhide screamed Optimus’s name. Desperate, Optimus Prime ran through the flames and passed through.

Back in an Autobot lab, surrounded by old familiar faces, Optimus screamed in Ratchet’s familiar arms.

His Conjux was gone. Possibly dead in the attack. If not, he would die by the mines, Tarn’s corruption, the Vos’s attacks, by the Decepticon-Autobot war.

But worse than that, if Kilotron did survive, he’d be completely alone.

And the only thing Optimus had left of his beloved… was the sparkling he carried. The sparkling he would name Windblade.

When Kilotron finally came out of the mines, all he wanted to do was go straight back to Convoy and their unborn sparkling.

When he got out however, he was greeted by a group of miners led by one of the other camp leaders.

What he said caused Kilo to drop his tools and take off running. He ran, and ran, and ran.

Until finally he reached the hill that overlooked his home.

Where a dilapidated but lively camp-town once was, there was only smoking ruin and the smell of ash.

Kilotron let out a ROAR. One of grief… and rage!

That day, Kilotron… the miner… the writer… the mech with a family…

Was dead.

A short time later, Tarn’s infamous gladiator circle was shaken by the criminal lord Cryotek’s newest talent!

Megatronus!

[commoncoral]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Megatron/Optimus Prime Characters: Megatron (Transformers), Optimus Prime Additional Tags: The Thirteen Primes - Freeform, Realm of the Primes, Inspired by the covenant of primus, Alien Mythology/Religion, Liege Maximo - Freeform, Solus Prime - Freeform, Resurrection, Reunions, Poetry, Regrets, Romance, Fate & Destiny, Suicidal Thoughts, Angst with a Happy Ending, Post TFP, pre rid2015, Canon Divergence, Fix It, I can't believe we were cheated out of a rid15 megatron appearance Summary:

After Optimus Prime's death, Megatron was left wandering in exile in regret for a long time, until he overhears a story about how the path of the realm of the Primes opens every thirteen trillion cycles in the well of allsparks. He is determined to reunite and resolve things with Optimus Prime but is given a trial by a vengeful Liege Maximo to find his spark or face judgement and execution.

[whenimpresident]

I would give more power to the states, but standardize education. The states know themselves best but education should be equal and the same no matter where they go.

Want me to be serious?

Remember CommonCore that went around during the 2010s as they attempted to standardize education in the USA? Instead of standardizing methods, standardize targets. 5 times 5 is still 25 regardless of using the box method, lattice method, or traditional long multiplication. Everything else with CommonCore worked except math, which standardized both methods and goals. Math, despite always being the same, should not force one method of thought. Require multiple methods to be taught, and allow children to figure out what works for them. Add tutors to schools instead of forcing overworked teachers to accommodate every student. Companies such as Edmentum, Clever, and McGraw Hill would be charged a fine each year if they wanted to promote whatever textbook they created for the school system, from which those fines would pay tutors. This would not be enough money to pay every tutor a living wage, but it would help compensate the costs.

Outside of president influence, the best practices is always the one that shows you uses for what you are taught. The moment I figured out algebra could be used to calculate probability, I consumed every book about the subject to predict percent chance and probability. Teachers, show your kids what they can use math for. Show them where science can be useful. Show them where history is necessary to understand the current world. Give them access to books beyond their age range if they ask for more. Never scold a child for learning. Tell them why what they are learning is important, and if need be, why they need to wait until they can learn something else.

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[edswoggle]

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[sataniccapitalist]

#thewaronyourkids

[wisdomfish]

"Sin is almost the only thing we have in common with everyone else, and so at the feet of Jesus where sin is cleansed is the only place where we can be one."

Roy Hession

[suriyarty]

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[cobra-wives]

Sniffling, Sam frowns before wiping her eyes with the back of her sleeve. “Dad, you haven’t failed me at all. At least, not with logs,” she professes. “That’s on Common Core’s standards.”

Daniel laughs. “That, we can both agree on,” he says. “But blame gets us nowhere. Not blaming the system, not blaming the teachers…”

A look of recognition flashes across Sam’s face. “I have a feeling you’re not talking about Precalc.”

Mr. Miyagi teaches Daniel about logarithms. 36ish years later, Common Core screws him over when he tries to teach his own daughter.

—

guess who’s horrible at reteaching the unit logarithmic equations, but great at writing characters talking in nerdy jargon turned normalspeak! ME!!! enjoy (as much as you can without being re traumatized back to algebra ii/precalc) my stupid karate-math-emotions allegory — and criticism of the commoncore system, lol.

[bitchywerewolfparty]

My roommate is a first-grade teacher and I found this in her class’s library.

[commoncoral]

Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Transformers Animated (2007), Transformers - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Megatron/Optimus Prime, Megatron/Orion Pax Characters: Optimus Prime, Megatron (Transformers), Megatronus, Orion Pax Additional Tags: Reincarnation, Battle, Kissing, Flashbacks, triple changer megatron, marauder megatron, Angst, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Romantic Tension, Drama, Ghosts, Mystery, Post-Canon Summary:

During Megatron's final moments, Optimus learns of the name Orion Pax.