#UP primary teachers

[theladysunami]

I had a very odd dream where a train (or bus?) I was on got yanked into another world. While my dream had nothing to do with SVSSS, it did have my waking self thinking about how hilarious and/or horrifying such a thing could be as an AU.

Imagine Shen Yuan riding the subway, train or bus one day, when something happens and his whole car gets yanked into the world of PIDW. Nobody else in the car knows anything about PIDW, so Shen Yuan finds himself with the self imposed task of keeping this eccentric group of strangers alive in a weird world full of demons, monsters, and aphrodisiac plants.

The group’s first assumption would probably be that they’re still on modern earth, and just got teleported somewhere. Their second assumption, if they come across common folk, might be they somehow ended up in the past.

Then they run into some monster, or people riding on swords with specific uniforms, or a commoner mentions a name or event only Shen Yuan recognizes. The rest of the party debates what sort of Xianxia or Wuxia world they’ve ended up in, while poor Shen Yuan sweats bullets. He knows exactly what world they are in, and they are so screwed.

I have this image of poor beleaguered nerd Shen Yuan successfully protecting and leading this group of primary school kids, their cute teacher, and a handful of grannies and grandpas, while all the other adults and older teens keep wandering off and getting themselves in trouble.

[amazingdeadfish]

Do u think u could make an opera version of mayor? I've seen a few artists make diff opera wukong/Mac designs but I think a opera mayor design would look very cool :D

Not gonna lie, I was nervous to do this, but, I don't regret trying out this challenge.

RAMBLES + (literally only two) REFERANCES BELOW THE CUT:

The costume is based on the classic armor outfit in Chinese Peking Opera. Since, we all know that the Mayor doesn't actually have that many identifiable characteristics or, much of a role in the LMK show other than being LBD's foot soldier or, thrall. So, I had to reflect that in what's probably an incredibly basic interpretation for what their design could be (because if you actually see the insane level amount of detail in peking opera outfits, you'll understand that this drawing is heavily simplified and lacks detail).

The mask, is, also simple. I tried to look at numerous references and get my head around the insane amount of possibilities of patterns and designs and what they mean, as well as what the colours symbolize, but all that's important is that blue symbolizes stoicism, black for integrity, and white symbolizes evil (but of course these meanings for colours have leeway in between depending on what source you look at. There is no definitive answer).

The mask is also important because it creates the most visual distinction from Mayor being a Jing instead of a Sheng (male protagonist). And, even though it's a basic mask, I did create it to imply an almost 'skull' shape to it. But it's discrete and, you have to be looking for it to be there (which I suppose fits because, Mayor being LBD's thrall wasn't revealed straight away)

Now okay look, I'm- I'm not an expert on peking opera at all, I had to do a bit or research to do this in order to actually understand what I am doing when it comes to designing an outfit for Mayor. You might see a hint of his Chief costume in the chest plate I decided to keep, and all those skull motifs to show that he is a thrall of Lady Bone Demon. But in short, he is a warrior, a soldier, a chief of war, and he fights and works for Lady Bone Demon. He is to be a character with heavy, dramatic armor, and a mask to not only symbolize his role in whatever theatre show he lands himself in, but also for the shrouded identity he has and, well, not exactly being the most in-depth or open character in the show :))).

Anyways, here's a beta design back when I legitimately had no idea what I was doing and had done like zero research apart from looking at references I lied and, thinking Mayor would have a 'lighter (less heavy) and less decorative outfit (clearly I changed my mind later on):

I am, glad I did not follow through with this design. This is, not a peking opera outfit. Not a conventional one at least, that would reflect who the Mayor is (because this mf is conventional as hell, fitting in with modern times with his suit and all).

And here are the, uh, two references I used (obviously there's more but, these two were the ones I really picked apart and analyzed and, have clearly referenced):

And yes, I copied the pose on the right.

Design is welcome for critique (again, I am not an expert on peking opera (it's such a vast, complex, and wonderful artform that the more I found out the more I was intimidated by) and possibly subjected to be redesigned later on should I look back on this months-years later and cringe horrifically.

[never-looked-so-good]

📷 @/ch_leclerc16_

[queen-esther]

I really wish more female teachers would understand that there are going to be boys in their classes. Boys are going to feel alienated if they walk into class and see fluffy, pink, Pinterest-perfect decor and furniture all over the room. Boys don’t want all the anchor charts to be filled with Taylor Swift references. I don’t understand the modern obsession with female teachers making their classrooms as obnoxiously girly as possible.

[brown-little-robin]

oh I just realized that my interest in anime and my interest in clowns are linked by the concept of "exaggerated silliness". hmm!!!

[saxifactumterritum]

Rules: you will be given a word. then you share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that starts with each letter of your word!

Lynne tag me for FISHY. I have many wips I am all wip and no... Trousers...? Possibly not. Wait. STARTS WITH?! that is harder. Hm.

F - “For one thing it was quite late in winter, and there was no sun, golden or otherwise, to light as you thundered through on this supposed great war horse,” Arthur said, still murmuring.

[sir Leon lies telling a tall story by a fire and Arthur corrects him, with Merlin chipping in obligingly]

I - I tell Jeeves about the johnny I knew who kept a bear in his rooms, which turned out to be a dog who had eaten too many crumpets and got very large; Jeeves tells me about a dog he had met once in dark dread of night who turned out to be a bear escaping from a circus.

[from an Oxford-y Jeeves and Wooster thing involving getting roped into Ben Jonson gay plays]

S - She thinks it’s the reflection on the screen making things strange, making Dancing Rain lean forward too, and peer at her, too, back out of Glory at Su Mucheng sitting the training room, tilting her head when Su Mucheng tilts her head.

[Su Mucheng ends up in Glory/ghostish story/I kept forgetting what I was writing]

H - He’s knelt, threading his needle, Porthos is holding Athos’s arm, his body, he’s stood and bent oddly so Athos is pulled to him, his thigh bracketing him.

[Musketeers, a strange fallen down house, injury, portraits, you know]

Y - Yu Wenzhou throws a bottle of sweet tea at Huang Shaotian's head with a surprising amount of vehemence, Huang Shaotian just catches it and thanks him, as if it wasn't a projectile weapon but a nice gesture.

[I thought about different fandom for each letter but as lynne tagged me I did blue rain for the last one too it is from friendgenda napagenda hst and ywz tricking wjz into things fic so.]

I didn't see how many people I tag? I think i tag people. doing this made me realise how little I have actually interacted with anyone here for ages I know no people who aren't lynne. Ok well, I am gonna tag people who i don't rlly know/havent interacted with for ages if at all, so feel free to ignore but pls dont send murder clowns or smth cus it's just tumblr. @bienmoreau, @thepolomonkey, @logicgunn, I heard a short story today by @mslanna so have a tag ig. um, that is all the people i can think of. ppl change names and vanish i wish i noticed that.

[justarandomlambblog]

Dont mind me just gonna single dad-ify your death cat

[twelfth-dykector]

i might go to church on sunday. for The Bit

[dideki]

university.. university leave me alone

[lacunasbalustrade]

went to an interview today and some parts were very nice but one part that had me looking for beef was me saying 'some people find me intimidating because I like to read' and that if I got in, I was looking forward to meet people who intellectually challenge me, and the interviewer went 'oh but are you going to just read and ignore people?' and the other went 'how do you know the other participants will be what you hope what if other countries are ✨ less stringent ✨ than Singapore and don't have our selection processes' which is just so silly because 1. I read to listen to people who write, and obviously if an interesting person is in front of me I'd set aside the book, and if they're insecure in themselves why am I supposed to approach them? they just assumed right off the bat that I am stuck up, wrong, I just want to talk to people who are confident enough to hold a civil conversation without making me tone myself down for them, it's my greatest wish actually. 2. He's saying that Singapore is the literal best country and we're going there to represent the best?? we're there to internationalise why are you saying I shouldn't have high hopes for other people?? then why would I even want to go??? and the kids going there are way more amazing than me which I know firsthand from research and communication with them on the discord server u didn't even know about! I brought cookies to the interview!! why are you assuming that I am not socially adept and that I am shy simply because I don't like talking to Every Available Person Around??! lack of reading comprehension in these guys. I don't wanna be elitist or rude but it is a fact that there r ppl u can't get along w because they include u for the sake of inclusion which is absolutely insulting and then there are lovely beautiful people who are nonetheless scared by you and it's important not to freak them out by pouncing on them.

[girleboy]

i am americanised and only found out like this year that british english generally uses single quotes for quotations and you're not meant to put full stops after latin abbreviations (etc, eg) or titles (ms, mrs, dr). obviously i am not a copy editor and it doesn't matter. i will however be memorising the oxford style reference so that i never make a mistake again.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Someone insisting we don't learn language intuitively unless homeschooled...Did...did your parents put in you in school at 18 months of age? Did a teacher go around a room of toddlers with a dictionary saying, "This is what 'mama' means"? Because if the answer to that is no--and it is definitely no--you learned language intuitively, like everyone else. The finer points you learn in school, and later on your own, but even as you're doing that, you're still picking up words and phrases just by talking to people and reading.

[zemfruit]

Alien 9 is so fucked up

[piiinkfreak]

Bienal rendeu...

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[bueris]

I'd love to yap about things more but I'm unfortunately stricken with the "I think I'm stupid" disease

[leatherbookmark]

damn, izzy haters really ARE the same genre of human being as jc and jgy haters. the "had you not been off your gourd you'd be a great writer because that imagination is incredibly admirable" one

they'd read a side story about how their beloathed saves a puppy from drowning and nurses it back to health then gives it to an old lady who feels lonely and they'd go no see this is the author trying to tell us, once again, how toxic and insane this character is; by fishing out an animal that was already going to die he's being hubristic and playing god. and then he manipulates an innocent creature into trusting him AND THEN he breaks that trust by abandoning them with not only a total stranger but also a weak elderly woman who can't possibly take care of such a dangerous animal (jack russel terriers are full of energy! i can 100% see this dog pulling the leash, causing the old lady to fall down the stairs and die). furthermore everyone who thinks this is a heartwarming story about a guy whose life was shit doing acts of kindness is insane and also a rape apologist. dog owners can reblog this but you're on thin ice