#SINK IS SO AMAZING

[writer-rider-flirty-thirties]

This is a piece I commissioned from @sinkdraws for my fic A Thing For Models on AO3! I love all the detail and the look on his face! This is amazng! Check Sink out! 

Thank you! 💜

[mitamicah]

My faourite set of pictures I got in Berlin is by no doubt this confused but supportive boy with a transflag- gah I love him so much 🥹🏳️‍⚧️💚

[steveharirngton]

These pictures are so adorable I can't 🥺🥺🥺

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(Non of the pics are mine, I found them on Pinterest © to the owners)

[kyouka-supremacy]

Well.

[submech]

You know it's getting bad when I look up at the night sky and am wholeheartedly surprised to see the stars so clearly

[itspileofgoodthings]

Well, I actually have the most mundane of questions, but it’s been so long since I’ve been in an English class that I feel like I’ve completely forgotten (and I’m curious how you do it): how do you go about reading a book as a class? Do you assign them the chapters to read at home and most of them actually do it? Or do you give them class time to read? Do you have the kids who try to spoil the rest of the book for the class? Basically, how does one teach a book in the year 2024?  😀

And do you have your students annotate inside their books? (I know the English teachers in my school require the students to do that, and I get why, but I inwardly shudder every time I see a student marking up a page.) 

Haha I love this question because I too am always asking myself how DOES one each a book in 2024?

It’s sort of a combination. I absolutely assign reading every night (almost) unless it’s Shakespeare or any play in which case we read it all in class. But for a novel there’s a couple chapters a night. I read aloud to them a lot too. Sometjmes I make them read aloud to the whole class, rotating kids who read. Sometimes I assign a chapter to be read in class silently with questions or quotes due at the end of the reading. Sometimes I put them in groups and make them read aloud to each other. There’s no one way that works for sure and of course ultimately I have no control over how much they read and I’m not naive enough to think that most of the reading assigned for homework doesn’t get skipped most of the time buuuuuut.

My bottom line is that I believe it’s my job to get excited about the actual text itself (easier for me in some cases than others but overall pretty easy because it does fill me with excitement) and then commit to taking them on the journey of the story with me. And my goal—that I’m sure I often don’t reach—is to make that experience so much more fun if you have actually read. And the way that I teach is pretty text heavy which is why I always make sure I’ve read the chapters for the day and am not just relying on my memory because the way I do it is just sort of absorbing it all up like a vacuum-cleaner, schwooooop, and then either pulling stuff out of the reading to look at directly or directing them to do the same thing. So the big thing that I have going for me, if any, is buy-in. Is getting kids excited about actually reading the actual text. I also speak often and passionately about the evils of sparknotes etc. not because they help kids get better grades or whatever but because they present you with the husk and shell of a story, stripped of all that makes it interesting, and that by reading that alone they’re reading something so dry and dull and are not achieving what I always want them to achieve —which is, have an Experience with the Literature.

Again, it never works perfectly by any stretch and there are so many ways I want to explore in my quest to get better at it but overall I think, at my very best, I can create this wave of energy and excitement in the story itself which is the most organic and ultimately most helpful way to get them to want to read.

Also no haha. I don’t let them annotate! Though occasionally kids DO of course. But sometimes they bring in their own copies in order to do that. The spoilers absolutely happen and are annoying but I sort of get by it by moving on very quickly and/or talking about how it’s often not the ending but how you get there that makes it interesting. Because that’s just true!

[m4ggotm0ld]

i would be such a good boyfriend honestly

[mooncalf87]

Shelia having a baby was the best possible thing to happen to this show

[laserlem0n]

BEAST OF HORNS

[eyeronmaus]

While Rover is one of the most iconic elements of The Prisoner, it was not initially conceived as the eerily luminescent orb it (fortunately) became. The first, failed incarnation was a bit of a poorly conceived, rubbery nightmare: “Rover was this thing in the script which was something that Number 2 could use to track anybody that tries to leave, so I said to Patrick, 'what’s Rover?' He goes 'well, it climbs up walls, it can go across the ocean, it can travel across anything.' I said 'Pat, I don’t know what that is.' So I got involved with all these special effects guys and they all came up with an idea that we didn’t get a chance to see in the studio, it was delivered on-location in front of hundreds of local people, the entire film crew, and it was demoralizing. It was this horrible round, cream-colored cake with a stupid blue light on top. And that’s when Patrick, David [Tomblin] and I just died, I mean, we were so embarrassed. I mean, this is futuristic? This is it?" - Bernard Williams, production manager "We sent it to Portmeirion knowing that probably it’s not gonna be successful, but we’re gonna have a damn good try at doing it." Ken Ryan, assistant art director “It was actually divided into four sections with ridges running down and there was a little bauble on top of it, and this was stretched over the go-kart coming right down to the ground. It was the most incredible-looking structure and when we saw this thing appear, we looked at it, everyone looked at it in amazement, it was unbelievable! It bore no relationship to what had been described in the script. [...] Being based on a go-kart the racket was unholy. The sound men threw their hands up in horror - you couldn’t have done sound with this within a hundred miles of you!” Robert Monks, 2nd unit camera operator "So in my enthusiasm to see if it would work, I said I’ll climb inside this stupid cake and try and drive this go-kart. And then when I got inside I couldn’t see anywhere, I couldn’t see where I was going. I was nearly dying in there with fumes. I got out and just said 'this is ridiculous.'" Bernard, again

[the-sinking-garden]

I realized I never posted these, so here are some of the oil paintings I’ve done for school in the past year. I have another statue painting similar to the first one that should be finished in the next week!!

[lilyoffandoms]

Y’all are amazing! I wanted to say something yesterday but I was truly at a loss for words when Elsa messaged me.

I don’t deserve the honor you have all given me by surprising me with your group decision for me being the next CFWC’s writer of the month. I would absolutely 100% choose any and all of you before me but I am so beyond surprised, happy, and excited that y’all did this for me. Thank you thank you thank you!

Thank you to each of you for participating in this little event and for supporting other writers and being all around some of the most amazing people!!

@aallotarenunelma @jerzwriter @storyofmychoices @karahalloway @tessa-liam @peonyblossom @mydemonsdrivealimo @trappedinfanfiction @petiteboheme @coffeeheartaddict2 @ladylamrian

[chryza]

God I wish I could find the essay I wrote about how Cyberpunk 2077 is about a population self medicating itself to death in lieu of control over their lives and how Johnny Silverhand is a douchebag with an overinflated ego but that doesn’t stop him from being right and that all too often during the game I would get overwhelmed with emotion because Night City was too much like the present world for comfort.

[embarressment-erradicated]

they made final fantasy 7 to long I AM not playing all of that, fuck off I'm sure it's one of the best games out this year but no.

you couldn't make me do that lol.

[feebisart]

Free Tarot Reading

I predicted exactly how my life sucks. Feel free to let me know if you want a free tarot reading.

[fallen-goldfishcracker]

It's honestly incredible I haven't talked about this yet but like, I love Marbles by the Amazing Devil so much. So, so much. I think it might be my favorite Amazing Devil song, and I know I say that about every single song of their's, but like seriously, Marbles is incredible.

I think it's something to do with the fact that, yes, Marbles is a love song. But it's so much better than that, because unlike most love songs, even most tad love songs, it's not just a love song to your partner, it's also a love song to yourself. Marbles is a song about loving yourself and your partner in every stage of your life and relationship, and it does it so beautifully I could cry.

"You're not flawed darling, you're just a little under rehearsed."

Marbles takes one of the scariest aspects of human life: aging and growing old, something so many people fear, something I know I'm terrified of, and says, this is normal, and human, and it's beautiful. The way they portray love changing and growing throughout the years along with your stretch marks and sagging skin and crows feet at the corners of your eyes, not as something to be feared or resent, but something to welcome and accept and cherish. Sjodjdksvhdffhsjs

"You're eyes aren't rivers there to weep, but a place for crows to rest their feet."

I just love it so much okay