#Teacher!keith

[starshineswirl]

Adam teaching Keith to be an absolute BEAST at ping pong to impress cute boys in the Garrison rec room >>>>

Then a few weeks later Adam walks past the Garrison rec room and sees McClain furiously practicing with Garrett to “wipe the smug grin off Kogane’s face.” 

[kyoobie]

Based off this tweet

[yourdailyqueer]

Keith Maillard

Gender: Non binary (he/him)

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: 28 February 1942  

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Writer, poet, professor

[happyunbday2u]

So I was doodling and right after two drawings I realized I never drew anything after watching IF (I am ashamed of myself) so here you go

On the left was my character for my profile pic and a mix of a bat and a rat

Then it’s Cosmo, Art Teacher (does he have a name), Blue, Calvin yelling at Keith, Sunny and the burning marshmallow (does he have a name too?)

[vee-is-a-clown]

Klance but they both major in arts and hate eachother. Lance majors in theater and Keith majors in visual arts.

Lance thinks, "God, this guy thinks he's so cool. It's not that hard to draw pictures. So much more goes into a single production than a portfolio. Not to mention the teamwork. I can't imagine being some loner silently drawing a model. Where's the fun? He can have fun being a starving artist."

Meanwhile, Keith thinks, "God, this fucking douchebag has no idea what goes into theater. He clearly has no respect for the arts. I can smell the high school Hamilton phase. He wants to be Lin-Manuel Miranda so bad. He's probably one of those guys who does ballet to be the only guy in a class full of girls. Has he ever even been in a production. He's definitely an actor with no respect for tech."

They're fine with anyone else in the major, they just got off on the wrong foot and refuse to amend these misconceptions.

[miraculousbumbble]

Training

Kolivan: Having the will of a Galra is not enough to defeat a Galra. Get back up and do it again.

Keith: I'm trying

Kolivan: Trying never solved anything, doing is the only way to survive. Again.

[impossible-seabird]

man i need a keith haring shirt SO bad but every time i tell someone hey nice keith haring jacket i want a keith haring shirt they're like oh you can get them at uniqlo or urban outfitters or whatever the fuck and im like yeah i will not be doing that

[autisticlancemcclain]

curious george fic idea for you my love: lance as ted (autistic, loves to infodump about bugs, a topic most find unpleasant (yes this is based on your bug boy fic), would absolutely destroy a brightly colour coded outfit, 10/10 would befriend a monkey) and keith as drew barrymores character (maggie? i think?) (the love interest, works with foster kids instead of school kids maybe? loves to listen to lances ramblings, clear as day hes smitten and the kids tease him for it incessantly, comes to the museum weekly just to see lance) and the fall in love obviously.

thats all i have and feel free to completely ignore it but i thought it'd be cute especially in your writing style <333

ive always thought broganes for curious george (walking disaster most naive man alive whipped bad for local teacher shiro and little menace galra keith who just wants a family and also to follow shiro around like a little duck + cause as many problems as possible) HOWEVER this is cute as all hell. i LOVE teacher keith idc idc and bug lover lance my love

[jurassicpark1990]

watching mars vs mars and was getting really annoyed at veronica's stance in this episode but then i realised that it actually makes perfect sense for her personality and history and also the context of when this show was made

[hopeformankind]

@keith-shadis sent:

did they have a rebellious stage as a teenager?  what did it involve?

Character Development Questions

SCREAMS IN JOY!!! HELLO!! THANK YOU FOR THE ASK i was very shy on sending a message but HELLO!!! <333 WELCOME TO MY LITTLE ABODE

gonna be honest, thinking about erwin having a rebellious stage... that shit started and just NEVER ended, considering this motherfucker overthrew the government, but i imagine it'd genuinely kick up when he'd first join the scouts

with his experiences of knowing the Royal Government killed his father, he's very averse to the thought of superiors, because in his mind: he's lost his dad because of the military in some shape or form, the thought of dealing with something like that is just insanity-- so he'd unintentionally cause some problems by not being toooooo cooperative once in a while-- but erwin as a young just-joined-the-scouts fella i imagine would STILL listen to orders given to him... mostly. by his squad-leader/captain/section-commander era, he became known for bucking orders if he believed they'd get more people killed, and it's why he crafted the Long-Distance Scouting Formation

at most, he'd 'rebel' in his own little ways as a cadet/fresh scout, but was quick to pretty much fall in love with the scouts when realizing how there were so many others that could be considered 'odd' and 'strange', and soon enough would work in his own ways to benefit the scouts. he's always been a rebel, it's just that he evolved more and more and would learn more on how his actions could benefit the survey corps or humanity

[karinyosa]

bizarre thing about my college experience is having any academic authority at all who i refer to by first name or even a nickname. what do you mean you want me to call you keith

[evilhorse]

You wouldn’t like that. Believe me.

[keithyzz]

I genuinely almost withered away today

[thebirdmanhewatches]

Erebus’ mother now has a name so does his father this is exiting because what other parent characters have solid names literally none of them (Alex and Eiras mother is either called aderyn or Gwen I haven’t decided she’s irrelevant and Louie’s parents are called Jennifer and locryn that’s really it) so his mother is Matilda and his father is Henry and I think I might give them the surname duff I’m not sure but I don’t really have any other ideas and behind the name spat it out when I was looking up names with dark somewhere in the meaning I’ll sit on it also joshA1 and joshA2.5s combination reboot got renamed Liam because there are too many joshes so the one guy that was actually originally called josh (unlike joshA3 and joshA4 who where called Louie ) is now called something similar to Louie but Liam actually hasn’t shown up in any major characters names before this so I’m actually getting less incomprehensible

[thedaveandkimmershow]

The first time we met Keith Curtis, band director of the Archbishop Murphy High School band, The Wildcats, one of the first things he said to us was

"You can never have too much cowbell!"

We were visiting with our daughter, Linzy, who was promptly handed a cowbell to join along with the band on the song they were about to rehearse.

Of course that moment didn't seal the deal on our decision to enroll Linzy at the school. I just still remember it because he said it with such enthusiasm! 😉

Fast forward many, many, many many many years... and we're hanging out after the 2022-2023 Wildcat Band finished their second of two performances, the first at Disneyland and this second one at the Five Towers stage in Universal Studios Hollywood's City Walk.

They absolutely represented their school, by the way. It was a fantastic, energetic, and engaging performance that resonated with the audience. Resonated with us.

Afterward, we got to talking, doing a lot of catching up 'cause it's literally been years. 2016, basically, is the last time we helped admin and chaperone the band. And we were both delighted at his successes, the band's successes, in the intervening years. Which conjured a memory.

Seemingly out of thin air.

Once Upon A Time, the school's football team had a game, an exhibition game with a team from a much larger school with a much, much, much much much larger band. At the time, part of my gig with the band was making videos of their performances. So I was always keeping an eye on every element of the game. The individual musicians. Their sections. The director. The crowd and individual fans. Pieces of the game to which the band would respond musically. And so on.

And I fully admit. Since it was unusual for two bands to perform at a game (since neither was the home team in this case) I spent some time watching the other musicians and their director.

Now, the quality of that other band was beyond question. What I noticed right away, though, was that whenever the band wasn't playing, their director stood off to the side. On his own. Even during longer breaks in the game, especially halftime, he was physically removed from his band.

You with me?

Because on our side of the stadium, Keith was always, always, always always always engaged with his students. He was also a master of reading each play and lighting fast at directing his band in the appropriate musical response. Providing the game with its own exciting soundtrack conjured in real-time.

Always engaged, though.

During those times, whenever the Wildcats weren't playing, Keith was with them. Even during longer breaks in the game, especially halftime, he was engaged. Talking shop with some. Working with others to master their parts or simply to become better on their instrument. He was there. In the midst of the band. Talking. Teaching. Mentoring. Encouraging. Sharing freely his enthusiasm for performing, his love of music, and the absolute professionalism he brings to each rehearsal and performance.

And the other guy?

He was just standing off to one side.

Okay I'm pretty sure that's an unfair comparison. I knew nothing about the other band and its relationship to its director.

Still.

The visual comparison has always stuck with me. I mean seriously. It's been a long time and that's an essential insight that continued humming in the background of my brain as we spent a lovely bit of time catching up.

It is, in fact, it was... what sealed the deal for us. What caused us to conclude how Linzy needed to be in this band under this man's direction. So, therefore, she needed to be at this school. Which the school graciously and generously made happen.

That game, by the way, the one in the stadium with the other band, hadn't happened yet. This was still our moment visiting the band with Linzy on cowbell. We had two such opportunities to observe, in fact. And yes. I got to play cowbell, too.

You can never have too much, it turns out.

What I saw, however, subsequently at an away game at another stadium across from another band and its director...

It was all there during the rehearsals we got to observe. Enough to convince us he was the right director into whose hands to commit our daughter's time, education, and raw ability.

That stadium experience, though?

Underlined in thick black marker—

What a truly special human being he is.

☺️

[idlyfretting]

I want everything we missed between S3 and S4. I want all of it.

I want the kids starting high school and being totally overwhelmed by normal shit when they’ve only just gotten used to weird alternate dimension shit. 

I want Robin starting senior year and all of her friends from band and soccer and drama club and everything else being like “who the fuck is this person and what did they do with Robin????” because she comes back from summer break and is just not right.

I want Steve baffling Keith because he’s definitely flirting with every girl over the age of eighteen who walks into the store, but he’s not being a douchebag? He’s not being mean to Keith, like at all? He’s not being all buddy buddy with him obviously, because that would be fucking weird, but he’s just sort of being normal? Like a normal flirty good-looking former jock who knows how to talk to people? (And Keith definitely thinks he’s been flirting with every hot adult person who comes into the store, but it’s Steve fucking Harrington so that can’t be right????)

I want Nancy running that newspaper like it’s the goddamn New York Times and nobody even thinks to question her about anything because who the hell is gonna question Nancy Wheeler? She’s scary.

I want Eddie seeing these three freshies walk into the cafeteria with what he thinks is fear, but after corralling them and inviting them to Hellfire and making them eat lunch with him and the other members every day, realizes it’s not actually fear, it’s just sensory overload. They’re not actually afraid of the popular kids or the jocks or the teachers or the bullies, they’re just baffled. Almost like they didn’t realize it should be an issue at all?

And they start coming to Hellfire meetings and these kids are fantastic. Their characters are perfect additions to the group and the campaign he started at the beginning of the year is gonna be fucking aces because their group is so well rounded now. 

And sometimes Lucas bring his girlfriend Max Mayfield to the sessions, which isn’t so bad because she mostly just sits in the corner doing her homework or listening to music. But sometimes she does listen in, and scoffs at certain plot points in the story, or laughs at parts that definitely aren’t supposed to be funny.

And Robin Buckley shows up a couple times as well, mostly doing the same as Max, but one time she watched them play and it was nerve-wracking as hell having someone essentially stalking around them, giving whispered comments to the three freshmen that either resulted it grim nods or obnoxious laughter. Which, what the fuck, how does she know these kids???? (Kids who Eddie definitely thinks are half feral, but absolutely loves them anyway.)

But then one day late in October, the session runs late, and it’s just the Hellfire boys this time, and it’s a FANTASTIC boss fight (not the final one, but still a big damn deal), and everyone is tired but riding high on an epic win, and they all file out of the school into the cold parking lot. And just a couple spaces away from Eddie’s van is Steve fucking Harrington’s stupid maroon beemer. 

And Harrington is sitting on the trunk of it, leaning against the back windshield, casual as anything, with Robin fucking Buckley sitting right next to him. 

Leaning against him. Practically sitting in his goddamn lap.

She’s got a book propped open on her knees, combat boots up on the trunk, and she’s resting her head on his chest.

Harrington’s laying all the way back, stupid douchey sunglasses on, either staring at the sky or just full on sleeping. 

They’ve both got matching green vests on. 

A shout from one of the kids has them perking up to look in their direction. Robin rolls her eyes and marks her place in the book before hopping down from the car. Harrington stays where he is but sits up with a grin on his face.

Before Eddie can say anything, Dustin, Lucas, and Mike race over to them and start talking over each other about the campaign. About how fucking cool the session was, about the monster they defeated, about the tactics they had to use to survive the whole things. 

Eddie doesn’t know what he expects to happen, didn’t even consider the possibility of these nerdy freshman knowing Steve “The Hair” Harrington, but they obviously do. 

Harrington just nods along, asking them a question that Eddie can’t hear that spawns another slew of comments from the kids. The three of them pile into the backseat of the beemer while Buckley takes the front and Harrington slides into the driver’s seat. As the car starts up, the radio blares something loud and poppy and definitely something from the top 40. 

This doesn’t seem to deter the kids, who Eddie can see leaning forward from the back, still regaling Harrington and Buckley with their successful session. The red beemer pulls out of the lot, and continues down the street out of sight.

Eddie is still standing by the back entrance of the school, Gareth, Jeff, and Alan behind him. All of them frozen, completely dumbfounded by what the last five minutes.

“What the actual fuck?”