#Substituting

[jasper-pagan-witch]

*gently grabs Witchblr by the shoulders* It is okay for some things to not be perfect substitutes for other things. It is okay for there to be parts of something that you simply can't substitute out. It's okay for things to be hyperspecific. Drink some water.

[thebookspileup]

Once when substituting in a first-grade class I thought that the children, who were just beginning to read and write, might enjoy some of the kind of free, non-stop writing that my fifth graders had done. About 40 minutes before lunch one day, I asked them all to take pencil and paper and start writing about anything they wanted. They seemed to like the idea, but right away one child said anxiously, "Suppose we can't spell a word?" "Don't worry about it," I said. "Just spell it the best way you can." A heavy silence settled on the room. All I could see were still pencils and anxious faces. This was clearly not the right approach. So I said, "All right, I'll tell you wat to do. Any time you want to know how to spell a word, tell me and I'll write it on the board." They breathed a sigh of relief and went to work. Soon requests for words were coming fast; as soon as I wrote one, someone asked me another. By lunchtime, when most of the children were still busily writing, the board was full. What was interesting was that most of the words they had asked for were much longer and more complicated than anything in their reading books or workbooks. Freed from worry about spelling, they were willing to use the most difficult and interesting words that they knew.

What Do I Do Monday? by John Holt (©1970) Chapter 24: Writing For Ourselves

[sweetcardamom]

Substituting at the school where I work, a sample.

Teacher: is out sick for multiple days, and doesn't provide enough work to cover all days.

Me: is substituting. Knows less on the subject than (most) of the students.

Me: Okay, guys. It's study hall and free time, if you're quiet.

2nd period boys: We shall have a hair salon barber shop without scissors! (One of them brought gel, because he does his hair at school. Also they can be ridiculous if the girls will share a couple of hair bands. They did, and they were.)

3rd period boys: We shall play poker! We have cards. We have dice. The dice are the money. Also it's fun to stack them in towers and knock the towers over.

The students, in general: Can we eat in class? We know it's not allowed but you're our favorite sub!

Me: no.

Them: pleeeeease? We're hungry!

Me: you'll survive. (Later, I catch at least one of them eating. This time it was fried chicken.)

[tooquirkytolose]

My fellow American hobby bakers, demoralized by egg prices and scarcity and how you will make the American apple pie or the chocolate chip cookie, fear not. I have spent many years turning regular baking recipes vegan for my corrupt and traitorous sister who last week ate a salmon cream cheesed roll. There are many, many substitutes for eggs including but not limited to:

Mashed banana: best added to compliment flavors of whatever it is you're baking (peanut butter, chocolate) make sure it's MUSHY and ripe

Apple sauce: again, best with complimentary flavors (cinnamon, brown sugar) use unsweetened and have the rest as a snack

The big boy champ, ground flaxseed: flavorless, though it does darken your batter/ dough a bit. Bags found next to cornstarch and almond meal, etc. Instructions on how to use right on the bag! Make sure to let the flaxseed water combo sit in a separate bowl until it has the consistency of mucus 👍

Now with all of these you MUST add a bit more leavener, they don't have the lil bit of lift eggs give, so make sure you add a touch more baking powder. Sort of ok for brownies and cookies if you want them a bit more dense but KEY for cakes, quick breads, muffins and other things like that or she is gonna be SQUIDGY 🫡

[puppppppppy]

Bridge to turnabout doodles

[sclappin]

Still substituting, still unsure what the “appropriate” in “the kids can go on YouTube afterward, as long as it’s appropriate” means.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Gregory knows he looks LIKE HIM in FNAF..

[nothing-impt]

The Disaster Trio

[connabeth]

the liberty annabeth has been given to be deeply unserious and true to her character in the new “pjo” books while being deprived of that aspect of her character elsewhere is so personal to me because what do you mean she wants to duet with percy on shallow, cheerfully bon voyages her boyfriend off a cliff, carries around a backpack of mystery mouskatools including herbal tea and snake treats just in case, instructs percy “don’t stop skipping, skippy” when he has the rainbow staff for absolutely no other reason aside from shits and giggles, breaks into his bedroom for no reason besides the fact that she simply likes the challenge, apparently regularly signs autographs and is fawned over up on olympus, and keeps suggesting cute and dumb shit to get magically scribed into percy’s diy college rec letter. and now she’s giggling with her architecture friends about glass and marshmallows and wants to throw a haunted house party in a scary goddess’s mansion (a goddess scary enough to make her boyfriend literally piss his boxers) because she’s too self-assured to believe they can’t evade the consequences and too excited to experience something she’s never gotten to throughout her childhood and adolescence. not to mention the callback to her love of animals, no matter how demonic, and how she misses playing fetch with cerberus…oh annabeth chase, the woman that you are. like yes let her be impulsive and unserious and excited and batshit and a troll because she’s just a girl trying to have fun in a miserable fucking world godammit!! rick riordan, they could never make me like you, but i’ll give you this one thing—the whimsy has been restored and its name is annabeth chase

[nipuni]

The Hardys 🥰 some more Broadchurch sketches

[meidailies]

please. please. do you see my vision

[reversestorks]

Ayda canonically has at least 17 strength (she’s strong enough to wield Gorgug’s fucked up physics axe) which means she’s the buff girlfriend of everyone’s dreams

[kmesons]

someone has to have done this already

[dirt-and-scrivles]

Tozu sprites but it’s Damon

[sclappin]

Career pep talk from a fifth grader.