#THEN i'll get those replies started

[stevethehairington]

if you see me replying to an ao3 comment you left on any of my fics anytime in the last. fuck. year or so?? please, don't mind me ksjdflkdsf.

[byanyan]

brain is flitting from reply to reply like a drunk bumblebee so i'm gonna just. reply to whatever tickles its fancy at any given moment i think lmao

[darehearts]

good morning  !  finally i am feeling much better today to make one of these silly posts  😌💞

[reinemichele]

(For the sake of transparency: I absolutely don't mind being asked to reblog Palestinian fundraisers— I may delete messages with campaigns that aren't vetted unless I believe they're legitimate, out of caution, though

— but I seriously have less than 100 followers; I don't want to post the number, but I would feel bad if anyone was under the impression that my blog has a substantial audience. In addition, my family lives paycheck to paycheck, and we often have to borrow money/only eat once a day. So I usually can't spare anything to donate to any campaigns, but I do donate whenever it's possible.

I'm not asking for pity or attempting to stop anyone from reaching out, I just want to be completely honest and realistic with people on this subject. But regardless, I'll try to help how I can. 🙏🏻❤️)

[coollyinterferes]

*taps mic; a certain gentleman is standing right beside him*

"Good evenin', everyone!! We're back!! Hope you didn't miss us much!"

"It sure hasn't been that long.... has it....?"

Uhhmmm....

[rudjedet]

do people not get that it's more embarrassing to be wrong, then double down, then lash out than it is to just plain be wrong? you must have lots of patience for these pseudo-historians lol.

My secret is that I have zero patience for bad faith pseudo-historians; I just consider debunking/correcting them on my own platform an opportunity to educate others, and that is what I cultivate patience for.

[tardis--dreams]

Some of those doctors make hating oat milk their entire personality. I hate them. Cannot pretend to find them funny or like i give a shit. Fucking pretentious assholes

[shadowedresolve]

STARTER CALL // HARU OKUMURA

so! i'm starting over when it comes to starters, since i was having trouble with burnout/stress and keeping track of how many i owed. hopefully, this will help me be more active going forwards. with that in mind, like this post for a haru starter??

[izzyizumi]

Digimon Ghost Game ~ Hiro & Gammamon + {Tanabata}! (Japanese cultural holiday taking place on July 7th!)

[hyaciiintho]

🌸｡*ﾟ+. THIS IS A TEST POST !! This is not an actual inbox call, I just wanted to test and see how the graphic would look posted to tumblr ;; ;; Might use this when doing inbox calls and then a copy/paste text body.

With that being said-- how do people feel about a "permanent" inbox call post? Just for my own reassurance so I don't feel like I'm bothering people but don't wanna like... constantly make a new inbox call post. Basically just a list of people commenting below a post, one that maybe specifies whether people prefer random IC interactions or want asks leaning more to IC questions/ooc headcanons stuff?

I know it's silly because if we're mutuals, we shouldn't be afraid to reach out to each other, BUT !! I also know some people do not like random asks, so... it would just be for the sake of... "You have permission to send random things whenever you feel like it" but of course it's not like I'm expecting you to answer things immediately after I send them either.

But yeah, just a thought! If it seems too silly I'll just keep making individual posts each time ♡ c':

[soulsxng]

Losing my voice, but I'm heeeeere!

[loregoddess]

I'm okay now

[cursivebloodlines]

it's after 3am. i've completed one reply but i'm holding on to it until ii've done a few more. i think the draft count is updated now so if you don't see yours on there pls shoot me an im because i haven't dropped anything (i'll always reach out if that's the case) so anything missed is unintentional! i'm going out tomorrow with my friends but i'll be around when i'm home :) i've done bits and pieces of other replies but my eyes need to rest now. but it's better than nothing! chat soon loves. x

also sorry i have neglected my ims! i have been trying to limit distractions lmao

[endlessp0ssibilities]

"Oh shit it's the 10th..."

Her birthday. She softly clicks her tongue as she stares at the calender on the wall before she leaves her apartment and heads to the main hall of Restoration HQ.

[thawthebeez]

i've been sooooo not in the writing mood it took me 3 attempts to get ONE paragraph down god i gotta get with it again

[ms-demeanor]

Sometimes college professors like to hop on my posts lamenting the sorry state of syllabi these days and joke about how they haven't thought that far ahead in the course themselves, or talk about how they struggle to complete a schedule for their students.

With all due respect, that's your job. If you can't do your job, you should have a different job. If you need help, ask your colleagues or your department chair or *someone* because I know that professors aren't given a hell of a lot of education on how to educate, so you probably *need* help.

But every single time I make one of those posts I get anywhere from ten to thirty messages, replies, reblogs, and asks say "oh man, that's exactly why I had to drop out of school; I couldn't keep up with the assignments because I didn't know when they were due until the week they were due."

I have been a college student in three separate decades, and "not having a schedule of assignments in the syllabus" is new to my experience. That shit didn't fly in the 2000s or 2010s and I think it likely has to do with professors being overly reliant on apps.

AT A MINIMUM your syllabus should have:

Contact information (including preferred method of contact) for the professor

Office Hours

Grading Policy

Assignment schedule.

Your assignment schedule doesn't necessarily need to have the exact page numbers of every reading or a full assignment sheet for each project, but it should have things like:

December 1st - Major Project 3 second draft due December 9th - Quiz 10 December 12th - Major Project 3 final draft due December 15th - Final Exam

If you end up presenting a more thorough schedule with readings and homework later, that is acceptable to present a week or two into the semester but it is absolutely insane to me that students these days don't know what homework they're going to have to get done over Thanksgiving break during the first couple weeks of class.

If I had three professors at once who didn't give me a schedule, how on earth would I know if I was going to have to read three chapters of a novel, take a midterm and turn in two stats homework assignments, and complete a history research paper the same week that I'm planning to travel to see family? If I'm aware of this from the beginning of the semester I can make sure not to pick up extra shifts, or I can plan to leave a day later to accommodate the midterm, or I can start working on the paper early to complete it before the due date but if I don't know what's going to be due when, I'm going to have a big problem.

If you don't give your students a schedule you are communicating that you don't care about their schedule, and that you think it's their responsibility to contort their life (and their job, and their other classes) around your class, and honestly my advice to students in that situation is "drop in the first week and pick up another class". That's actually part of why I recommend signing up for one more class than you can really manage - if you get a professor whose class looks like it's going to be a disaster because they don't have a schedule, you can bail before the withdrawal period and get a refund for the class.

I'm only in one class this semester but the professor's response has fully dropped me into "Fuck it, I guess I'll fail" mode and I don't even know if I can pull myself out of my current D grade because I don't know how many assignments we have left in the semester.

This is a shitty way to run a class. If you can't do better than this, you shouldn't be running a class.