#Week 08

[happywebdesign]

FAUM

[inspired-lesson-plans]

Tournament of Plans

Week 08

Salmon

Olympians

Queer Jekyll and Hyde

Tariff Formula

Kobold Evolution

Mark Sherz's Redbubble

April Fools Day and The Planet Photographs are not included this time.

発表

Atención

This will be the final preliminary round for the Tournament of Plans (bracket 1).

Today through Wednesday will be fluff posts ineligible for the Tournament.

Starting Friday, every day's post will simply be a 1v1 of two randomly selected winners from the preliminary rounds, with links and a 1 day voting window.

I will keep track of the results on this Google Sheet and on a pinned post updated weekly.

Further information is below the cut.

I guess that means it's time to explain what's going on. So, I've been unemployed since September. This blog has been what I call productive procrastination. It keeps me busy and stops me from just playing videogrames or just falling into depression, but it also takes time away from looking for work. But looking for work wasn't working, whereas engaging with people on this blog gave me something to look forward to every day. I actually posted this on my LinkedIn, because it could possibly help me stand out.

Anyway, the story. So the New Jersey Department of Labor doesn't just give out unemployment money, they also offer hookups to industries and businesses that are hiring. I turned down being a prison guard, even though I am very interested in criminal justice reform (it's one of the few places where my moderate politics goes strongly liberal), but they make you work 10 hours shifts plus overtime that's basically mandatory, and it sounds like a really toxic work environment. Given that I was the teacher all the kids liked, the parents were wary of, and the administrators hated, it did feel like a $70k salary (after overtime) and top-tier health insurance weren't worth it.

By the end of February I was running out of unemployment funds and still didn't have anything. In the worst case, I could pick up gig work as a substitute teacher, which would buy me time until mid-June. That's when the NJDOL came in clutch* by offering free CDL training with an 8 week course, extending my unemployment benefits until the end of the course. So yeah. I asked friends and family for advice, whether to do subbing or go for my CDL (class B plus Hazmat endorsement), and they all said I should take the classes. I can always do substitute teaching afterwards if I want, but this way I'll always have a way to get a job.

So that's what I've been doing. It's been a really interesting experience, tbh. But I just haven't had enough time to feed my queue, and that's why you're reading this message. What little time I've had to write these up, I've been using to draft my longer lessons like the Time Zones lesson, doing the weekly Revised and Revisited or Appraised and Approved, and maintaining correspondence. But I really do have to be careful or else I will absolutely spend far too much of my time here.

Okay, now to the point of this post.

I need to do a lot of job applications. If I get a job as a hazmat trucker or bus driver, then maybe I can get in good with the higher-ups and work my way up to a logistics job. That means I need to cool it on drafting new lesson plans. I've been a perfectionist lately. Last week's Olympians lesson took nearly an hour. Time Zones to me at least 6 hours.

At the same time, I've been wondering what to do about the ToP. Ironically, I entered the project without a plan. I have noticed that 1v1 rounds get more responses than the weekly votes with 5-7 entries. Sounds like decision paralysis. This is probably a version of why the American electoral system is broken; only the hardcore voters care about voting in the primaries, so a minority of strong opinions decide who advances to the general election, where everyone feels qualified to pick one because all the nuance has been removed.

Anyway, this is about fun.

Tournament of Plans, Round 2

Begins Friday

*pun intended, because this is how I finally learned how to drive manual

[52cookies]

Classic Baguettes - King Arthur Baking Company

4/5 - Classic baguettes for sure! Makes 3 baguettes but only two are pictured here because I ate a whole one in one sitting. Don't keep at room temp very well.

[laxxvora]

Weekly Round Up - Ep. 08 Season 2025

Hai ancora sul groppone la settimana di Sanremo? Povera bestia... [al link] #laxxvora #weeklyroundup #newmusic #freeplaylist #season2025

Hai ancora sul groppone la settimana di Sanremo? Povera bestia… E’ arrabbiata? Delusa? Rassegnata? Confusa? Dalle un po di respiro, un po di aria fresca! Noi abbiamo preferito stare lontani dalle cose sanremesi, non per snob (un pochino si) ma per puro spirito di sopravvivenza! Riprenditi e vedrai che qui qualcosa per la quale vale la pena trarre un sospiro di sollievo la trovi di certo! Come…

[fandom]

Bill! Bill! Bill!

Now that the Olympics are done and dusted, good ol' Bill Cipher and his book of horrors are back on top (of this list, your hearts, and bestseller lists). With more fanfics than ever, Deadpool and Wolverine may very well be next in line to dethrone the reigning Marvel ship, Spideypool. Conversation about the latest and final season of The Umbrella Academy continues, and some very expensive preorders have popped up for the upcoming Dragon Age sequel, The Veilguard. This is Tumblr's Week in Review.

The Book of Bill

Deadpool & Wolverine

Bill Cipher | Gravity Falls

Artists on Tumblr

Billford | Bill Cipher & Stanford Pines, Gravity Falls

Poolverine | Logan Howlett & Wade Wilson, the Marvel universe

Logan Howlett | the Marvel universe

Stanford Pines | Gravity Falls

Wade Wilson | the Marvel universe

Hugh Jackman

Jujutsu Kaisen

Dungeon Meshi

Batman

Cats of Tumblr

Palestine

Jason Todd | the DC universe

The Umbrella Academy

Dragon Age

Ryan Reynolds

Interview With The Vampire

[chestnutcrustpie]

Get wifi anywhere yuo go

[goldenpinof]

smooth and round horror (spooky week 2023, day 1)

[the-final-high-noon-rings]

art for day 2 of dr.carmilla appreciation week!

cat/transformation !!! @drcarmillaappreciationweek

[Image ID: A digital drawing, bust upward, of Maki Yamazaki as Dr. Carmilla, a skinny Japanese woman, with her head turned towards her left shoulder, creating a side profile, while her body is still facing the camera. She has messy, chin-length dark red hair, and a little bit of the eye patch on her left eye is visible. She has pointy ears, defined cheekbones, and several visible piercings. Carmilla is wearing a grey-and-white striped shirt, with a dark red-purple vest over top of it. There is a purple-black cat perched on her right shoulder, which has eyes very similar to her own, except for sharper pupils. The cat has its head turned in the same direction as Carmilla, and its tail can be seen swishing near Carmilla's right arm. On her other shoulder, the top of a ukulele is visible. The entire drawing except for the background has a slight purple-pink undertone. The background is stock pattern, which is green and grey, with images of waves and butterflies on it. End ID]

[jtl-fics]

Can I have some Foxhole Bake, please and thank?

3/5/25 WIP Wednesday (Closed) | Foxhole Bake AU

Rupert’s was dinged for the marshmallow being far too firm and his treat being far too chewy considering how solid his marshmallow had been. Then there was Neil’s tuiles.

“Neil, I’ve got to say these are some of the most beautiful little tuiles I have ever seen. They’re light, they’re so thin I can see through them, and,” Paul cracks one in half, “They’re perfectly crisp.” Paul says, not bothering to pretend that they didn’t know who had made the tuiles during the puffed rice treat challenge.

“Would you say, krispy?” Neil asks also not bothering to pretend that they weren’t his.

“For legal reasons, he will not.” Sandi cuts in.

[happywebdesign]

PANORAMA

[yukaeso-week]

Hey, welcome to the very first YukaEso week! It's only happening on tumblr, but if I ever decide to do this again I might branch off to other social media sites! The prompts are as follows:

Day 1, September 8 - Sun/Rain

Day 2, September 9 - Gift/Birthday

Day 3, September 10 - Cuddling/Holding hands

Day 4, September 11 - AU

Day 5, September 12 - Photography/Makeup

Day 6, September 13 - Public/Private

Day 7, September 14 - Free day

If you're participating in the week, please tag your posts with #yukaeso week 2024 to make it easy for me to find it!

If you have any questions about anything involving the week, send in an ask, I don't mind!

[sebnameyourcar]

i’m living in seb’s instagram where it’s 2008 and everything is beautiful and golden and new

[laxxvora]

In Loop - L'update di sabato 22 febbraio.

You're gonna love it. Or hate it. Either way, you won't forget it." [al link 👇🏼] #laxxvora #inloop #altarotazione #heavyrotation #sotd #freeplaylist #newmusic #podcast

“Right, listen up!” Dimenticati le solite playlist insulse. Qui si fa sul serio! Ho messo insieme una sequenza ti farà riprendere dalla settimana sanremese. Si parte con i SLAP RASH che vi sbattono in faccia il loro “Misc Disc“, poi si viaggia con le atmosfere sognanti di Youth Lagoon e si finisce a ballare come pazzi con gli Oslo Twins. E non finisce qui! Snapped Ankles che ti fanno pagare…

[fandom]

It's been a thirsty week on ye olde tumblr dot com

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Deadpool & Wolverine is about as gay as it gets without kissing—though some of you are convinced they did, in fact, have relations in that car. For Jujutsu Kaisen fans, some fears were apparently confirmed, and you are all feeling many feelings about that. The Book of Bill was released last week to much acclaim here on Tumblr, and you all keep on proving you really do love a sexyman, whatever shape he might take. And the ongoing sports in Paris continue to give you all much to yell and art about (shout out to all the art of the air pistol podium icons). This is Tumblr’s Week in Review.

Olympics

Artists on Tumblr

Gravity Falls: The Book of Bill

Deadpool & Wolverine

House of the Dragon

Dungeon Meshi

Bill Cipher | Gravity Falls

Interview With The Vampire

Batman | the DC universe

Jujutsu Kaisen

Palestine

Logan Howlett | the Marvel universe

Poolverine | Logan Howlett & Wade Wilson, the Marvel universe

Billford | Bill Cipher & Stanford Pines, Gravity Falls

Wade Wilson | the Marvel universe

US Politics

Jason Todd | the DC universe

Baldur's Gate 3

Hugh Jackman

Laios Touden | Dungeon Meshi

[theinvisiblestringoftommykinard]

I can't believe we're barely 30 minutes out from the ep, I've been waiting for it all week and living in denial of the possibility of [redacted] happening and holding on to how excited I am to see more of Tommy and now it's almost time!!!

[ryderlynnhq]