#asl brothers (in taxi)

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤

OKAY! This was the 3rd one I got, and I thought of making it non-anon when I sent this out to other writers so that it didn't kinda circulate amongst the same circles continuously, but eh!

I'm a lot less tired than I was when I answered number 2, and here's a link to number 1, so

I've got a lot of fics, and I'm gonna do my next fave 5, because it's very hard to decide on faves. And @flyiing-giraffe left a fantastic review on

Taxi, which is very dear to my heart. It's meant to be AceLaw, but it's missing a chapter, and that was the most AceLaw part, but it's still there (the ship). The main idea is that Law drives a taxi and he meets people, and those people are your One Piece faves. Modern AU: summary:

Doflamingo's dementia, Ace's narcolepsy, Cora's death. Law collects vinyl with warps and scratches, and drives a taxi.

Chapters can mostly be read stand alone, and I wouldn't call it a ship fic.

Rated T, 14,392 words.

2. the tibia, the fibula, the regions in between

ZoLaw on the submarine, on the way to Wano. Rated a very soft M, I think, originally T.

Zoro and Law explore the unconformities of personal geography. Practice, distraction, quiet and unquiet minds.

This one is a ship fic on a ship.

3. softening the fall of snow

Law and Chopper in Wano talking about Jolly Rogers and Courage (prompt from @afterdeck-ace)

4. Father Figure

Smoker and Law having that conversation in Punk Hazard! Platonic. The father figure ain't Smoker. (G5 regarded Vergo as a father figure. Law did not).

5. Macrobiotics and Marathons

"Do you always cook like that? Flying scalpels, stabbing daggers, projectiles of fire...?" "Disrespected cabbages," the teacher yelled out, trying to get her body parts together, reordered. "We don't always disrespect the cabbage," Marco said.

Only for the summary. The first story still makes me laugh. The second story is just a bit throwaway!

Law and Marco try out a macrobiotics cooking class. Modern AU-ish

MarLaw

Special shoutout to a ton of others. It's really hard to choose. If anyone has a particular theme, or type of writing of mine they'd like me to pinpoint some stories for, drop me an ask! My works.

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*gifs from @kevinfeiges and @barnesdjarin

Meeting Marcus (Ribbons Part II) - Marcus Moreno x OFC!Keilah

Summary: Keilah struggles through her day until she meets Marcus, then her whole world seems to turn upside down.

Rating: T

Content: mentions of mental and verbal abuse. That's the big one in this chapter, ladies, and gents. Keilah is also deaf. So struggles with disability are mentioned. (Just because Keilah is able to effectively communicate in this chapter does NOT mean her plight is going to be minimized at any time.)

A/N: This is unbetaed, as always. Purple italics are telepathic thoughts and will be used in the future for ASL.

Word Count: 2.5k

Masterlist || Part One || Part Three

Steady hands grabbed her by the waist, pulling her flush against a strong body as a taxi whizzed by in a blur of yellow. Surprised chocolate eyes peered up at her father’s relieved face. She felt her mother beside her, her soft hands grabbing her small ones, hurriedly checking over her for any bumps or bruises. A gentle tug on her shirt sleeve made her gaze fall. 

Despite the soft touches, her mother’s face held none of the relief of her father’s. In fact, she seemed more angry than anything else. Confusion crept up into her little chest, brows furrowed. She wanted to talk but couldn’t with her hands and arms restricted. Her mother did enough talking for the three of them. Angry words landed harshly and the confusion slowly shifted to shame. 

You could’ve been killed. 

Her eyes fell to the pale concrete beneath her feet. She counted the cracks. One, two, three… Her mother’s sharp grip curled around her chin, jerking her face back up to watch the onslaught of words on her fingers. Her sight blurred with tears she hastily tried to hold back. The impression of her mother's hand lingered. 

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The earbuds hurt her ears, making her feel dizzy from the pressure, but HQ had a real problem with her walking around with full-blown headphones on her head. If she’d known that, she probably wouldn’t have taken the job there. As it was, she still wasn’t totally on board with the situation she found herself in. In a perfect world, she should’ve taken a job by herself, out in nature, taking pictures and writing blog posts about places to visit that were deaf-friendly, but her parents–namely her mother–insisted she go to school for something more than Creative Writing and English. Which was why she was currently twenty-five and entering the big, bad professional world for the first time. She spent eight years in college. Eight years living with her parents. Eight years with the scars of her childhood constantly poked and prodded until they no longer felt like scars but raw, gaping wounds. 

She prayed her brother never dealt with the scrapes she did. 

Keilah Kipp knew, however, the prayers were moot. Kai could hear. She could not. Her disability never fully set well with parents who wanted a perfect little girl. Perfection was an unattainable goal, she knew from a young age. Her parents, however, never quite understood that sentiment. 

She sighed, resisting the urge to rub her temples as she walked, clutching an arm full of things from her cubicle against her body. Closed off. Protective. Don’t try to talk to me. Even if they did, the conversation would go nowhere. Such was her plight. 

Despite that, though, some part of her wanted connection. She carried a little notepad with the intention of reaching out, but every time she came into contact with someone, she closed up, and withdrew into herself. Scared. Not willing to open herself up to anyone else who could break her heart–people or relationships or anyone. Not even work colleagues. Especially not work colleagues. 

On her way to the gym, though, she stopped at the technology department. The head of technology, a one Brian Foster, had something to give her, something that was supposedly going to make things easier for her. She didn’t want anything to be easier for her. She liked what she had now. No one bothered her. No one struck up conversations with her. She wondered if the new head of HQ had told people to stay away from her. How unprofessional. A scowl creased her brows as she knocked loudly on the front desk, signaling her arrival. She could use the bell, but this was more fun.

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Why are you so goddamn selfish? 

Selfish? Her, selfish? Keilah didn’t think she had a selfish bone in her body. Hadn’t that been what her parents taught her from the beginning? Don’t think about yourself. Think about others. Others have it worse than you do. Yeah, she knew that. She was perfectly aware of that. They reminded her every day. Help Kai. Do this for me. Take this to the bank. Run this errand. She barely had time for herself. How could she be selfish when she barely lived for herself? 

She didn’t even know who she was. 

Are you serious right now? She asked angrily, eyes narrow, hands flying through the air as she volleyed the retort back to her mother. 

I’m being entirely serious. 

Whatever they told you was a lie. 

Keilah Kipp, you know I don’t like liars. 

Of course she didn’t. The Great Remi Kipp was never wrong. Holier than thou, heaven help a person if they tried to prove her wrong. Heaven help a person if they found themselves lying to her as well. She tolerated none of that, and had no problem calling anyone out on it. Keilah found herself at the brunt of her mother’s anger more often than not. Where once she wilted, she now found defiance. 

Shoulders back. Chest out. Jaw set. Dark eyes hard as obsidian as they glared daggers at the woman in front of her. How dare she. How dare she. Her mother had no right. None, and she was tired of the constant bullying and downright abuse. 

I’m not lying and I’m tired of you saying that I am. 

Keilah turned to walk away, but the deceptively soft hands of her mother curled roughly around her shoulder, making her turn back to face the woman. 

Don’t you walk away from me. 

I’ll do whatever I damn well please, she signed sharply, brows furrowed, fire in her eyes and hands as she pulled away from the other woman. 

She didn’t even know what her mom signed back to her, already leaving to get away from her, already vowing to herself that she never wanted to go back. 

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Keilah knocked on the desk again, the wood vibrating with each firm rap. She felt it in her hands and fingers as she waited, forcing the memories out of her mind as quick and as pointed as they came, hoping that the remnants of those memories didn’t show on her face or in her eyes. She hated how they seemed to infiltrate every little thing she did, no matter how long it had been since she’d last seen her mother. She’d lost track of time, but that didn’t stop Remi from calling her and trying to worm her way into every single thing she did. Her mother–if she could even call her that–wanted to know everything she did and every single fiber of her being rebelled against that knowledge. 

Her thoughts were interrupted when a short, squatty man with a receding hairline came into view. Keliah resisted the urge to laugh. That wasn’t at all what she was expecting when she’d been told to go to technology. However, in some ways, it didn’t really surprise her. A frown creased her lips. When did she become so judgemental? She really needed to fix that. 

“You must be Keilah,” the man said, surprisingly facing her as he talked. She nodded, in the process of pulling out her little notebook to write down a few words, but Brian reached forward to stop her. She met his gaze. “It’s okay.” He tapped his temple. “Telepathy. That’s my power. What’s yours?” 

She shook her head, I don’t have any.  

“Hmm. That’s okay. That’s why you have me to help.” Her brows furrowed. “Don’t look at me like that,” his smile met his eyes, making the green in them warm up a bit. “I knew you were coming.” 

You did? 

He nodded, beginning to fiddle around with something under the desk, his words feeling bright and bubbly in her head as he spoke, I did. The higher-ups have been throwing around your name for a while. 

That statement did nothing to calm her nerves about the situation. In fact, they made her feel worse, body buzzing with nerves and uncertainty as she stared at the smooth wood under her hands. They’d been throwing her name around? What did that mean? Did they–whoever “they” were–know something she didn’t know? Did her parents know something that they refused to tell her? As much as it pained her, she tried to think back to some of the things her parents used to throw around, the words they used to say in anger or frustration, sometimes even exasperation, but nothing seemed to pique her memory. 

What do you mean? 

His little bald head popped up from where he’d been rummaging. “I mean,” he began as he pulled out two thicker sized silver bracelets and pushed them in front of her, “you were always first choice for this job.” 

Her gaze flicked between Brian and the bracelets and back again. I don’t understand. 

Brian waved her off. “Don’t worry about it.” He took a deep breath. “Now, these bracelets will help you communicate with everyone. There is a little speaker in the left-hand bracelet. It will translate your sign language.” 

She lifted an eyebrow. That’s great. Until they try to talk to me. 

“We’re still working on that. In the meantime, you can read lips, can’t you?” 

Her eyes narrowed as she sighed heavily. Right. Reading lips. Sure. It was a skill she was forced to acquire, but that didn’t mean she was good at it. Not only that, she dreaded the long eight hour slog through work trying to focus all her energy on reading lips. That was not her definition of a good time. 

Doesn’t mean I like it. 

“Look, I get it. I do. But this is what I got.” 

She rubbed her temples. It’s better than nothing. 

“That’s the spirit.” He pushed the bracelets even closer to her. “Try them out. Just don’t wear them when you’re exercising, okay? You might accidentally sign something you don’t want to sign” He smiled wryly, his pudgy lips pulling up into ruddy cheeks. 

That made her chuckle, shaking her head as she took up the bracelets, delicate fingers brushing over the silver metal thoughtfully. I’ll try them out. Thank you, Brian.

“You’re welcome, Ms. Kipp.”

Please, don’t, she thought as she put the bracelets on top of her notebook and other things she was carrying with her. Just call me Keilah. 

“Keilah it is, then. Hope these work for you.”

Thank you.

And with that, Brian bobbed away from the desk, done with her and the conversation. She liked that about him, the very curt way he finished things, the way he talked to her politely, accommodated her, but didn’t overstay his welcome. Most of the people in this building could take some cues from him. 

Once out in the hall, she kept her head down, counting the steps she took and the cracks in the stained concrete. The bodies around her, moving and ignoring her, made her skin crawl, goosebumps raising on her arms and shoulders. The silence was a boon to her aching soul. She felt grateful that she couldn’t hear the dull drone of the people in the hall. What would it be like to hear that buzz, the overlapping conversations, being privy to knowledge that she shouldn’t know? She yearned for that type of inclusion but at the same time, balked at it. No one needed to know her business. No one needed to know her. 

Her feet carried her to the gym before she even realized what had happened. She craned her neck to look into the windows which surrounded the gym. She recognized a few heroics training, Miracle Guy included, his blonde hair in disarray, making him look disheveled and just slightly handsome. Only slightly, though. Keilah didn’t particularly subscribe to the whole “white bread superhero” look. Miracle Guy did absolutely nothing for her. She wrinkled her nose thoughtfully, deciding to go in and do some boxing to settle the nerves flapping around dangerously in her stomach. 

She pulled the door open easily, surprised at her own strength when, suddenly, a strong body careened into hers, knocking the things out of her arms and making her stumble backwards. Keilah caught herself before she fell flat on her butt. She did manage to hold back a huff of annoyance, letting it smother and die in her chest before she stooped down to gather the things scattered on the floor. 

As she did, she got a good look at the hard body in front of her. Now this man… She knew Marcus Moreno almost immediately. She knew the sharp planes of his jaw, the soft curls, now graying with age. She knew his broad shoulders, often clad in black, his muscular arms filling out the shirt sleeves easily. She knew every ridge of his tactical vest and the way it tapered down his waist to settle above his hips. She even knew that supid belt buckle, the way it settled at or below the soft roundness of his belly. She swallowed thickly, pausing briefly in her gathering. It gave him just enough time to retrieve an errant metal bracelet, using his powers to pull it toward him. Keilah briefly noticed his words but didn’t have enough gumption to gather herself to ask for clarification. She waved him off.

Marcus–goddamn–Moreno. 

She couldn’t believe her luck. When she finally managed to get away from her parents, she devoured his story–all of the Heroics’ stories–and that of his parents. She might have harbored a little crush on Marcus, almost schoolgirl-esque in its innocence, but a crush all the same. That had begun to wither the more she pulled away from people and began to isolate herself. However, seeing him in the flesh, smelling his cologne and being that close to him made all those feelings bubble up to the surface. 

And, God, did he smell divine. 

She couldn’t even pinpoint exactly what he smelled like, something akin to spices and pine, earthy things that burrowed under her skin and made their home there. Couple that with the distinct musk of him, brought on by his time in the gym, and she struggled to keep her composure. 

Marcus handed her the bracelet. She took it and stood, ignoring the way their fingers brushed and she felt electricity crackle over her skin.

“I’m sorry,” he said, the movement of his lips exaggerated. Her brows furrowed as she tried to figure out what he had said when it suddenly clicked and she waved him off. 

He had nothing to be sorry about. Running into him had been the highlight of her day, hell her year, if she were being honest. Things happened and she was just glad neither of them had gotten hurt in their run in and none of her things had gotten hurt either. 

With one final glance at him, he tucked her dark hair behind her ear and disappeared into the gym where she let out the breath she didn’t know she’d been holding. A curse flitted across her mind–along with a slew of other things that made her shift a bit uncomfortably as she walked–and she padded to the locker room to change out of her pantsuit and into clothes more suitable for boxing. 

Properly alone in the locker room, she sat down in front of the gray metal lockers and smiled to herself, the nervous butterflies from before melting into a different kind of feeling, one she wasn’t too familiar with but she liked all the same.

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Thank you for reading! I'll be back in Marcus' headspace next week!

Tagging @radiowallet and @littlemisspascal

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Nancy Drew and Education

So apparently the Clue Crew is full of teachers? Who knew. Well, as a former homeschooled student, current teacher, and (hopefully) future homeschooling parent/teacher I have been planning on integrating the games into lessons for a long time. Below the cut I have just a few of my many ideas (some more fleshed out than others). Feel free to use, adapt, or add your own! 

SCK:

-        Braille

o   How blind/vision impaired people navigate the world

§  How we can make it more accessible for them

o   How do braille books and printers work

-        ASL

o   Memorizing the alphabet and basic signs

§  Build up fluency

o   How HOH/deaf people navigate the world

§  How we can make it more accessible for them  

o   Connections of ASL to other signed languages

§  French Sign Language versus British Sign Language

-        Dangers of gas leaks

o   What to do if you smell or hear gas

-        Inequalities between mens and womens sporting opportunities

o   See Women’s Soccer

-        What are performance enhancing drugs

o   What is the difference between #steroids and the steroids your doctor might prescribe

-        How drug running is a gateway crime

-        Why blackmailing people isn’t good

-        More reasons to never move to Florida

-        Why you shouldn’t go to an actual high school part one

 STFD:

-        Television in NYC

o   Soap Operas

o   How television sets work

o   Role of director

o   Teleprompters

o   Props

o   Agents

-        Theatre in NY

o   Broadway

§  Learn a show

o   Carnegie Hall

-        Dangers in the ways we obsess over celebrities

o   Paparazzi

o   Stalkers

o   Respecting privacy

-        NY taxi system

-        NY regional accents

-        NY as a center for immigration – salad bowl

o   Ellis Island

-        History of NYC

o   Geography of NYC

-        Typewriters

-        Towers of Hanoi

-        Encoding  

-        How to make chocolates (with or without poison)

-        Read along:

o   New York the Novel (Edward Rutherford)

o   The Power Broker

o   All of a Kind Family

 MHM:

-        San Francisco Gold Rush

-        Earthquake and Fires in San Fran

-        Golden Gate Bridge

-        Angel Island

o   Asian (Chinese) Immigration to the USA

-        Chinese Zodiac

-        Fortune telling (and why it’s not okay)

-        Bed and Breakfasts

-        San Francisco today

o   Technology boom

o   Overpriced everything

§  How this hurts established residents

§  Homelessness in San Fran

-        Bandits in the American West

-        Hauntings in American buildings

-        How to remove and install tile

-        Renovations – refurbish something

-        Antiques

o   Visit an antique shop

-        Importance of fire safety

-        How to install lighting fixtures properly

-        How to fix a dumbwaiter

o   How not to be a dumb waiter

-        Tangrams

-        What is the Victorian period

o   Significance of Queen Victoria

-        Read Along:

o   Little Brother

o   Paper Son: Lee’s Journey to America

o   Angel Island Gateway to Golden Mountain

 TRT:

-        The French Revolution

o   Marie Antoinette

o   Women and the French Revolution

o   Worldwide effects of the Revolution

o   Historians of the French Revolution

-        Writing history

o   How we can focus on different events in history, how we can be sympathetic to certain people, how we can fulfill different spaces in the historical narrative, criticism of history as a field, entering history as a field

-        Wisconsin Dairy industry

-        Alarm systems and how they work

-        Fingerprinting

-        Elevator safety

-        Ski lifts

o   Skiing

-        Vandalism

-        Taking care of libraries

-        Latitude and longitude

-        Keeping records of good events and bad events

o   Nothing you do will ever stop me from loving you

-        Some people keep different sleep schedules

-        Journalism

-        Making translations  

-        Why France has different holidays – to keep the ski lodges from getting too full

 FIN:

-        History of theatre spaces

-        Use of film at theatres

-        Magicians

o   Houdini

o   Learn a ‘magic’ trick

-        Library of Congress

-        Demolition – wrecking balls

o   What’s involved

-        Plaster casts

-        Historic register of buildings

o   Visit a local historic building

-        Price of concessions and movie tickets today

-        Nickelodeons

-        Celebrity stunts for attention from press

o   Celebrity endorsements

-        Jazz music

o   Dancing

-        Kidnapping stories

o   What to do if someone tries to grab you

-        Rubber vs. electricity

-        Art/artists of the 20s

 SSH:

-        Numbering systems (particularly ones not based on 10)

-        Cultures of South America

o   Maya

§  Cultural understandings

§  Connections to what appears at Beech Hill

o   Aztec

o   Inca

-        Myths of lesser civilizations because of European preconceptions

-        Why do countries have consulates/embassies in other countries

-        What is amnesia and other medical memory issues

-        Provenance and why its important part one

-        Roles and responsibilities within a museum

o   Visit a museum

o   How to be critical of a museum and how knowledge is presented to you

-        Modern art

o   Make your own

o   Visit a modern art museum

-        Periodic Table of Elements

-        Positive and negative molds for casting

 DOG:

-        Prohibition

o   Speakeasys

o   Amendments to constitution

o   Drinking age restrictions

§  Comparison of USA to European countries  

o   Connections to modern drug policies

-        Recognizing and photographing local birds

-        Dangers in the forest – ticks and other pests

-        Why water sources are important

o   Flint water crisis

-        Visit a state park

o   Importance of maintaining public land

-        Alcatraz

-        How to care for dogs

-        Noise pollution

o   Light pollution

 CAR:

-        History of carousels

o   Visit a carousel

-        Lathes

-        Harmonicas

-        Band organs

-        Writing messages with lemon juice and other hidden inks

-        How to iron

o   How not to iron

-        How to make a sundae

-        How amusement park rides are designed

-        Soldering

-        What is parole

o   Welcoming those who have been in prison back to society

o   Problems with the American prison system

§  How it disproportionately affects minority groups

o   What can be done in prison reform

o   Abuses in prison

o   Making mental and spiritual help and guidance more available

o   Making sanitary products available

o   Prison for profit hurts everybody except the prison owner

o   Educational opportunities for those in prison

o   More half-way help

o   Juvenile sentencing reform – more out of system help

o   Respecting humanity of prisoners

o   Ending the death penalty  

-        Depression

o   How to get help

o   How to help others

o   Dealing with loss

DDI:

-        Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest

-        Orcas and other whales

o   Whaling industry in Northwest and Northeast

o   Things whale products were used for

o   Visit natural history museum with whale exhibition

-        Visit an aquarium with a good reputation

o   Problems with places that do not take care of their sea life – particularly large sea life like whales

-        What is a chowder and how is it made

o   Try or make chowder

-        Crabs

o   Restrictions on different types of crabs – what type is local

o   Try a crab dish

-        Importance of different knots  

o   Get some rope and learn how to tie different knots

-        Know the NATO alphabet and letter flags

-        Boating knowledge

o   Go on a boating trip – know the port and starboard sides

-        Learn how to kayak

-        Try to learn how to skip rocks

-        Visit a lighthouse

o   Importance and histories of lighthouses

-        Smuggling – what is it and why does it happen

-        Shanghaiing

-        Chess

 SHA:

-        The continuous oppression and mistreatment of Native Americans

o   From Mayflower to Pocahontas to Trail of Tears to Dakota to DAPL to Reservations to food deserts to voting rights to much much more

§  How to support current Native voices and concerns

o   Why Native Americans are not a costume

o   “Possession” of Native American objects and land

§  Arrowheads and native jewelry

o   Broad overview of regional Native American groups – using their own voices

§  Special focus on local Native American groups

·       Is there a local museum/educational resource that is either Native created or known for respecting Native voices

o   Current Native Americans of note (ex: politicians, activists, artists)

o   While the previous focuses on Native Americans in the modern day USA – also discuss First Nations from Canada and Native Groups from more southern areas

-        Why temperature and pan matters when baking (show what happens in the oven when it goes wrong)

-        Magnets and how different metals react differently to magnets

-        How to take care of a horse and other farm animals

o   Visit a local farm

o   Try horse-riding

-        Dangers of rattle snakes and scorpions

-        Lassos and how to use them

-        Legends of outlaws in the American West

-        Ghost towns  

-        Flower stitches when knitting/crocheting

-        Petrified wood

-        How to make a campfire

-        Picking fruits and veggies when they are ready

-        Flower language

-        Read Along:

o   Native American folk tales  

o   Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

o   Gone Away Lake

o   Black Beauty?

 CUR:

-        Where are the moors

-        Different regional accents within the United Kingdom

-        British foods

-        Latin

o   Learn fun phrases and prayers

-        Ancestry and genealogy

o   Map your own family tree and recognize family crests

o   How adoption has historically been a binding and irrefutable concept for lineage

o   Find places your family lived

o   Leaving a history for your descendants

§  Write a story book for them

o   British Royal Family

§  Why incest is bad

-        Parrots and their intelligence

-        Secret passages in old buildings

-        Alchemy

o   Connections to modern understandings of science  

o   Historical understandings of elements

-        Astrological signs

-        Witch trials

-        Legends of lycanthropy and other monsters

-        Importance of not taking other peoples medicines

-        Runic alphabet

-        Feeding your pets a healthy diet

-        Typing practice

-        How to embrace the idea that home taught students are evil geniuses

-        Forges and melting points of different metals

-        Carnivorous plants

-        Succulents

-        Constellations in different places  

-        Read Along:

o   The Secret Garden

o   The London Eye Mystery

o   Beastly

CLK:

-        Great Depression

o   Causes and effects

o   Who was hurt

o   Who was not hurt

o   Areas of America

§  Dust bowl

o   Famous people and literature

o   Homelessness and poverty

§  Bread lines

§  Soup kitchens

§  Anti-homelessness architecture

§  Connections to mental illness and veterans

§  How we can help those who do not have homes today

-        Early Telephones

-        Shakespeare

-        History of Nancy Drew

o   Mildred Wirt Benson

o   Edward Stratemeyer  

-        Fishing – why different fish respond to different bait

-        Orphanages in the early 20th century

-        Gas prices and accessibility of cars through time

-        How to make pie

-        What is jurisdiction and what is significant about crossing state lines

-        How do banks work

o   Safety deposit boxes

-        Identify theft

-        How to use a sewing machine

o   Sew an item of clothing

-        Mini golf – why and what

-        Mirrors and their usefulness

-        Stamp collections

-         

-        Radios and call signs

o   Comparison to modern internet forms

-        Telegrams

-        Read along:

o   Shakespeare

§  Midsummer Night’s Dream

§  Others

o   Pollyanna

o   Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

o   The Grapes of Wrath

  TRN:

-        Trains

o   Steam trains

o   Visit a train museum

o   Take a train ride (if not a normal event)

o   Importance of transcontinental railway

o   Trains around the USA today

o   Trains around the world (TGV, bullet train)

-        Abraham Lincoln

-        Mark Twain

-        How to make a good burger (you leave off the PB&J)

-        Slugs

-        Periodic Table of Elements – abbreviations

-        Gemstones

-        History of Mining

o   England (Newcastle upon Tyne)

o   American West

o   Appalachia

o   Company Store

o   Health issues for miners

o   Danger of mines

o   Current issues for mining

-        Dancing the Hurley Burley

-        People who collect creepy dolls

o   History of porcelain dolls

-        Embroidery

o   How to

o   Patterns/symbols

-        General Stores in the American West

o   Sears

-        How to make taffy

-        Find a well maintained and beautiful tomb and research who is entombed

-        Focusing light through a magnifying glass can start a fire

-        Read Along:

o   Murder on the Orient Express

o   Mark Twain books

DAN:

-        All lessons in French

-        How using different ingredients and different amounts of ingredients can affect the outcome of your cookies

-        Paris métro

o   History

o   How to read/follow a métro map

o   RER

-        Montmartre and other Parisian neighbourhoods

-        History of Île de la France and Square de Vert Galant Parc and Pont Neuf

-        WWII and the French Resistance

o   Cross of Lorraine

o   Vichy France

o   Abuses of the French gov’t in this period

-        Paris and the fashion world

-        Beauty standards and the rejection of natural beauty by society

o   Dangers of weight and figure standards

o   You are beautiful as you are

-        Catacombs of Paris

-        Famous French Dishes (from this region)

o   Or Bretagne since I know and like them better

-        The French Café

-        Moulin in France

-        Tea and how hot leaf water can taste so bad but still be good for you

-        Buildings of Baron Haussmann

-        Paris History  

-        Decoders

-        Importance of vitraux historically, culturally, and religiously

-        Read Along:

o   Little Kids

§  Madeline

§  Babar

§  Petit Ours

§  Plume

o   High School

§  Hunchback of Notre Dame

§  Les Mis

§  Dale Van Kley

 CRE:

-        History of Hawai’i and her native people

o   How the USA screwed them over and continues to do so

§  Land colonizing today

o   Listen to voices from Native Peoples

-        Pearl Harbor

o   USS Arizona

-        Native myths and legends

-        Local flora and fauna

-        Surfing

-        How to make bead necklaces

-        Snorkeling

-        Entomology

o   Find some local bugs and identify and observe them

-        Horticulture

o   See if you can graft something

o   Watch a carnation placed in water with food dye

o   Regrow a fruit or veggie from the leftovers

-        Go looking for seashells – see how many complete shells you can find

-        Be aware of pesticides and the dangers they offer

o   Dangers of organic food too

-        Make something with pineapple in it

-        Fishing – different kinds of native fish

-        Volcanos

-        Hula  

  ICE:

-        Wolf sanctuaries – respecting wildlife and their place in the wild and not the domestic

o   What to do if you see a wolf in the real world

-        Fur trapping in Canada history

-        Regions and Capitols of Canada

o   Visit Canada?

-        How the Canadian government works

-        Use of French language in Canada    

o   Unique features of Canadian French  

-        Ice fishing

-        How to cook omelets, salmon, etc.

o   How to not add paprika cause like ew

-        Fossils

-        Radiation

o   Marie Curie

-        How to be a good maid

-        Snowballs/ice balls

-        Ice skating

-        Winter weather safety

-        Avalanches  

-        Saunas

-        Birthmarks

-        Fax machines

-        How to not lie about bird watching

-        Frozen water safety  

-        Modern offenses against First Nations by Canadian Government

  CRY:

-        Culture of the Arawak and Caraïbe

o   Voodoo

-        Mardi Gras in New Orleans

-        Hurricane Katrina and aftermath

-        French Influence

-        Eyes and their parts and functions

-        Teeth and their parts and functions

-        Alligators in the Southern USA and how they are dangerous pests  

-        Graveyards/cemeteries and how to be comfortable in them

o   Modern burial practices

o   Why are they above ground in Louisiana?

o   Places where they are running out of space for the dead

o   Historic violations of final resting places

-        Ventriloquism

-        Lizards and how to care for them

-        Rube Goldberg machines

-        Curio shops

-        Crystal Skulls  

 VEN:

-        International crime

-        Organized crime

-        Scopa

-        Italian basics

o   Learn an Italian aria

-        Italian food

o   Not just spaghetti

-        History of Venice

o   Current issues in Venice

-        Carrier pigeons

-        Micro-dots

-        “Observing the architecture”

-        Try to make gelato (or just get gelato, either way you get gelato)

-        Disguising yourself – put on an outfit and try to get me to not recognize you

-        Picking locks

-        Secret codes

-        Solfege

o   With hand signs

o   Learn a song in solfege

-        Carnivale

-        Learn how the sausage gets made

o   How to deal with food poisoning

-        How to secure your living space against burglars

o   Glass breaks, motion sensors, keypads, magnets, and more

-        Read Along:

o   Heist Society

o   The Prince

o   Merchant of Venice

  HAU:

-        Irish lessons (as much of this in Irish as possible)

o   Why the Irish language is important

-        Geography of Ireland

o   Provinces and counties

-        Irish names

-        Why Ireland has disliked and should dislike the UK

o   Historically

o   Famine

§  Emmigration

o   Easter Rising

o   Troubles

o   Present-Day

-        Importance of alcohol in Ireland

o   Uisce beatha

o   Guinness

§  Guinness world records

-        Irish music

o   Irish instruments

o   Learn some Rebel songs

-        Ogham runes

-        Irish foods

o   Something with lamb, who cares what

-        Don’t use friends for land development

-        Bogs

-        Chemical Reactions

-        Rockets

-        Inventions and secrecy during WWII

-        Religion in Ireland

o   Pagan traditions

o   Christianity

o   Catholic/Protestant tensions

-        Irish wedding traditions

-        How printing presses work

-        Irish castles

-        Sheep sheering/raising sheep

-        Irish legends

o   Fae

o   Leprechauns

-        Don’t drive and talk on the phone

 RAN:

-        Why blackface is problematic? (the fact that this needs to be said is problematic in and of itself)

-        Scuba diving

-        Sailing

-        Bermuda Triangle

-        Bats

-        Primates and their intelligence

o   Problems with animal research

o   Koko

o   Jane Goodall

-        Island resort culture

-        Metal detectors

-        Pirates

o   And the Caribbean

o   Their abuses

o   Different kinds

o   Modern day pirates  

-        How do walkie-talkies work

-        US mistreatment of island territories

-        Read Along:

o   Bloody Jack (Meyer)

 WAC:

-        Edgar Allan Poe

o   Stories

o   Baltimore

-        Piano

-        Victorian Dining traditions

o   How to set a place for fancy dining

o   How to fold napkins

o   Table manners

o   How to serve someone at a fancy dinner

o   How courses might work

o   How to use your silverware  

-        Why you shouldn’t go to an actual high school part two

o   Just fyi – that’s not how uniforms work

§  Have a school inspired dress code for a week

-        Bullying and why you absolutely will not be a bully

o   How to respond to bullying

o   Importance of talking to adults and counseling

-        Logic puzzles

-        Research the founding of a local school

-        Stringed Instruments

-        Plagiarism

o   Turnitin

-        Making sandwiches – like a good deli style sandwich

-        Photography scavenger hunt – make a digital (or physical) yearbook

-        Squirrels

-        Orthographic projection

-        DNA/RNA

-        Saving every major project on three different thumb drives

-        Getting along with roommates

-        States and Capitals

o   Countries and capitals of the world  

 TOT:

-        Tornados

o   Technology used to observe tornados

-        Meteorology

-        Prairie dogs

-        Life on the great plains

-        Great Plains Native Americans

-        Small towns in the Midwest honestly be like that

-        Defensive driving

-        Make a disaster kit

-        Know what to do in various natural emergency situations

o   What is the local alert protocol

o   What do local authorities recommend

-        How to maintain and fix a car

-        How to fix a broken device

-        What is tenure

-        How to budget

o   Go to the grocery store on a strict budget (however much you come in under budget is your candy budget)

-        Read Along:

o   Little House

  SAW:

-        Basic Japanese phrases

o   Learn to count

o   Writing in Japanese

-        Sudoku, nonograms, renograms

-        Japanese ghost legends

-        Japanese culture

o   Tourism

§  Ryokans

o   Space – everything small

o   Politeness/formalities

o   Hot springs/baths

o   Tatami and paper walls

-        Japanese cultural dress

o   Kimonos

o   Lolita? Fashion

-        Japanese names

o   Last name first

o   How to address others in Japan

-        Martial Arts

o   Ninjutsu

§  Traditional tools

-        Japanese tea ceremony

-        Schools in Japan

-        Teaching English as a foreign language

-        Japanese subway/train system

-        Pachinko and Japanese gaming

-        Japanese vending machines

-        Robotic animals

-        Bento

-        Japanese foods

-        Origami

-        How to fake a haunting

 CAP:

-        Basic German phrases

o   How to make a German word

o   Connections of German to English

-        German food favourites

o   Especially cakes

-        Storytelling as a cultural entity

o   How memory has worked differently in different times

-        Glass blowing

-        How castles provided for the local community

-        Bavaria in Germany

o   Cultural dress

-        Glockenspiel

-        How to make board games

-        Monster stories of central Europe

-        How to monitor security camera remotely

-        Read Along:

o   Heidi

ASH:

-        Arson

o   Watching how different accelerants burn a piece of paper

-        All politicians are at least somewhat self-serving

o   But write a letter to a local politician anyway

§  Different ways to contact elected officials, and why some don’t work

-        How to make ice cream

-        How a police investigation works

o   Problems with police departments around the world – specifically USA

o   Ways that police work unfairly targets minorities

§  If Nancy is innocent how many others are

-        How to use matches and lighters safely

-        Why you should not return to the scene of a crime – particularly a fire

-        Making sure smoke detectors work properly and the system is connected

o   We might not go to school but fire drills are still important

-        What is a mass spectrometer

-        Who to call if you’ve been arrested

-        What to do if you get pulled over

-        How the media can skew the truth and make their own narratives

-        Sound mixing

-        Be careful with what you say/post/record

o   Keep receipts and clarify when possible

 TMB:

-        What not to do at an archaeological site

-        Ancient Egyptian History

o   Pantheon, notable figures, relevant events

o   Pyramids, sphinx

o   Pharaohs

-        Modern Egypt

o   Arabic alphabet

-        History of archaeological digs in Egypt

o   Why they’ve been problematic

-        Dangers of the tombs

-        Mummys

o   How they are put together

-        Tomb raiders

-        Importance of water in the desert

-        How to piece together a broken artifact

-        How to gently brush off an artifact

-        There is no such thing as a dictionary for ancient Egyptian

-        Aliens did not build the pyramids

-        Senet

-        Desert life safety

-        How mirrors can be used to light a room

-        Read Along

o   Rick Riordan

 DED:

-        Nikola Tesla

o   All his fun stuff

o   Tesla Coils

-        3-D printing

-        Gummy fingerprints

-        Faraday Cage

-        Basic electric concepts

o   How to build a circuit board

-        Chemical safety

-        How a lab might work

-        Valuing different skills within academia

-        Ultraviolet light

-        How motorcycles work

-        Freelance photography

-        How to use academic databases

 GTH:

-        Slavery in the United States

o   Origins

o   ‘End’

o   Civil War

o   The connection to “southern culture”

o   Continued abuses of Black people in America

§  Importance of recognizing Black voices and what they are saying

§  Listening even when it’s uncomfortable

§  Checking privilege when you have it

o   Jim Crow Laws

-        Plantations

-        Gone With the Wind

o   The good and the bad

-        Civil War spies – female

-        Carbon monoxide poisoning

-        Burned out houses are not a safe space

-        Do not go digging through people’s coffins – rest in PEACE

-        Understanding that your family can be flawed

-        If you don’t want to get married, if you’re not happy in a relationship, end it

-        When a member of your family is sick you take care of them

-        Make a will, just in case your cousin kills you

-        Bachelor and bachelorette parties should feature activities that everyone is comfortable with

-        Read Along:

o   My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier

 SPY:

-        Scotland and their identity

o   Celtic Nations

o   Independent Scotland

o   Call a Scottish person

-        Unicorns and other mythical creatures in Scotland

-        Scottish food

o   The appetizing parts

-        History of spies

-        Biowarfare

o   Code Orange

o   Other teenage stories dealing with anthrax

o   Current events and concerns

o   Historical biowarfare (smallpox blankets)

-        Ziplining

-        Archery

-        How to bug someone

-        Tartans and plaids

o   Kilts

-        Augmented Reality Glasses

-        Record players

-        How to reset a circuit breaker

-        Read Along:

o   Gallagher Girls

o   Code Orange

o   Little House (Martha)

o   Little Brother (Doctorow)

 MED:

-        Don’t meet your heroes

-        New Zealand

o   Maori culture

-        Survivor style game shows and realism

-        I’m not saying Aliens can’t exist, I’m saying they def aren’t involved here

-        Kayaking

-        Submarines and what they can do

-        Turtles

-        Earthquakes

-        Be careful with rope bridges

  LIE:

-        Provenance and why it’s important part two  

-        Greek art and how it was originally painted vibrantly

o   Abuses of Greek art through the ages

-        The British Museum and the issues with that

-        Greek pantheon

o   Legends and notable figures

o   Religious traditions  

-        Iliad and Odyssey

-        Art forgery

-        How to fire clay pots and pottery

-        Memorizing lines for a play

o   Staging for a play

o   Role of a director

-        Theatre

o   Lights

o   Curtains

o   Fly system

o   Sound

-        Greek alphabet

-        Historical importance of the Greek language and culture

o   Alexander the Great and Hellenization

-        Olympics

o   Historic and modern

-        Greece and the European Union  

-        Make something with pomegranates

-        Read Along:

o   Iliad

o   Odyssey

o   The Thief

o   Percy Jackson  

  SEA:

-        Iceland

o   Culture

§  Naming traditions

o   Language

o   Music

o   Food

-        Shipbuilding

o   Historic and modern ships

-        Ice caving

-        Northern Lights

-        Tides

-        Snowmobiling

-        Poetry

-        What is xenophobia

 MID:

-        Some games just shouldn’t be made

-        American witch trials

o   What actually went down

o   Misconceptions

-        Treating people with albinism as real people

-        Arson is bad

-        Herbal remedies and how they can interfere with modern medicine

-        Witchcraft and how not to

-        Salem MA

-        Ignorance promotes fear and hatred so we do our best to learn about others

[mydonkeyfeet]

Here’s a list of stuff I know in Korean!

Baby’s first word: Saranghae 사랑해 (I love you) - the first thing I learned to say, and the first thing I wrote (via copying)

First word I learned to spell - Namjoon 남준 (in writing and sign language!)

First word(s) I was able to read - jinaga, 지나가, something like “this too shall pass,” the Korean title for song “Everythingoes”

First words I was able to write from memory - ddaeng 땡 (”ding” sound and title of an awesome rapline song), Bangtan Sonyeondan 방탄소년단, the full name of BTS

I know a few other unhelpful words too, but those are my firsts. I am ready to hop on a plane to Korea and arrive at the airport and tell a taxi driver “BTS Namjoon I love you, everyone beautiful, fish bread. Ddaeng.”

And I’m also at the point like my friend’s son as a 4-year-old where I have to stop and read all the letters that I see. (He would stop in the middle of the road to read the ABCs he noticed on a manhole. Sweetie, we can’t stop here, cars are coming! He has a deaf older brother so he learned his letters at the same time as sign language too! Sign languages are so fabulous for getting into the brain. It’s like pre-drilling a hole for the written and spoken language. I highly recommend it. I don’t know much ASL but my brain has never forgotten the alphabet, and I’ve even had times switching between English and French where I would remember a sign before I remembered a word.)

[cataclysme-noire]

I was tagged by @sadrien-depreste

1ST RULE: tag 9 people you want to get to know better.

I hate having to tag but don’t feel obligated! And I’m not doing all 9 cuz that’s too many@adrienetteislife @golddustinourhands @miraculous-lovesquare @chatnoirstail

2ND RULE: BOLD the statements that are true.

APPEARANCE:

- I am 5'7 or taller

- I wear glasses

- I have at least one tattoo (it’s a crescent moon and the Big Dipper bc I love space)

- I have at least one piercing

- I have blonde hair

- I have brown eyes

- I have short hair

- My abs are at least somewhat defined

- I have or had braces

PERSONALITY:

- I love meeting new people

- People tell me I am funny

- Helping others with their problems is a big priority of mine

- I enjoy physical challenges

- I enjoy mental challenges

- I am playfully rude to people I know

- I started saying something ironically and now I can’t stop saying it

- There is something I would change about my personality

ABILITY:

- I can sing well

- I can play an instrument

- I can do over 30 push-ups without stopping

- I am a fast runner

- I can draw well

- I have a good memory

- I am good at doing math in my head

- I can hold my breath underwater for over a minute

- I have beaten at least 2 people arm wrestling

- I can make at least 3 recipes from scratch

- I know how to throw a proper punch

HOBBIES:

- I enjoy sports

- I’m on a sports team at my school or somewhere else

- I’m in an orchestra or choir at my school or somewhere else

- I have learned a new song in the past week

- I exercise at least once a week

- I have gone for runs at least once a week in warmer months

- I have drawn something in the past month (I have limited art ability but I can copy from a picture pretty well and my kids at work think it’s amazing so they make me draw them things)

- I enjoy writing

- Fandoms are my #1 priority

- I do some form of Martial arts

EXPERIENCES:

- I have had my first kiss

- I have had alcohol

- I have scored a winning point in a sport

- I have watched an entire TV series in one sitting

- I have been at an overnight event

- I have been in a taxi

- I have been in the hospital or ER in the past year

- I have beaten a video game in one day

- I have visited another country

- I have been to one of my favorite bands’ concerts

MY LIFE:

- I have one person that I consider to be my Best Friend

- I live close to my school/work

- My parents are still together

- I have at least one sibling (two brothers: one older, one younger)

- I live in the United States

- There is snow where I live right now

- I have hung out with a friend in the past month

- I have a smart phone

- I own at least 15 CDs

- I share my room with someone (my daughter)

RELATIONSHIPS:

- I am in a Relationship.

- I have a crush on a celebrity

- I have a crush on someone I know

- I’ve been in at least 3 relationships

- I have never been in a Relationship

- I have admitted my feelings to a crush

- I get crushes easily

- I have had a crush for over a year (not recently but back in high school)

- I have been in a relationship for over a year

- I have had feelings for a friend

RANDOM:

- I have break-danced

- I know a person named Jamie

- I have had a teacher that has a name that is hard to pronounce

- I have dyed my hair (it has been many different colors: black, brown, red, blue, purple, galaxy. Not blonde yet though!)

- I’m listening to a song on repeat right now (currently Claire de Lune by Debussy)

- I have punched someone in the past week

- I know someone who has gone to jail

- I have broken a bone (my left wrist was broken when I jumped off a swing in the first grade)

- I have eaten a waffle today

- I know what I want to do in life (get a degree in library sciences or language arts education for high schoolers, participate in theatre, own a home, travel)

- I speak at least two languages (English and ASL, but I’m currently learning French so that’s cool)

- I have made a new friend in the past year (new job, new work acquaintances. We’re snapchat friends and we’ve gone drinking so I feel like it counts)

[abigailtan]

SGSL2 assignment 1 #abigailsigns Title: my family Hi! My name is Abigail and my family consist of 5 of us. Father, mother, myself, sister and brother. My father drives a taxi. My mother works as a cashier. Both my siblings are studying nursing. But wait! Last member! 🐱 -----‐-------------------------- Took me 8 takes because on my 7th take I realised that I forgot to include myself. Was rather nervous so I forgot signs to taxi, nursing. 😓 So I fall back on finger spelling. I think I've improved... I know my vocabulary grew and I'm able to grasp more when watching ASL videos now. All in all, not too bad. Still a long way to go. https://www.instagram.com/p/B5DoonTFFznUCdJ88agQ9EcyIi5_6RpIYoj6bY0/?igshid=1b6idndrx0jqm

[chromatic-lamina]

Taxi—Ace/Law & ASL fanfic excerpt (platonic pre-relationship)

Well I’ve posted excerpts from every other ship I’ve ever written for Law and whoever in here, so why not my one Law/Ace (though I have written them elsewhere and I like that work too)?

I had to take down the one chapter where I think they really clicked (Law had to pick up Garp), but I still think there were some nice interactions between them. 

This is from a three-chaptered AU where Law’s a very grumpy, or maybe resigned, taxi driver. Link to the whole is in the source. The beginning might be a bit confronting in language, but it’s a fairly soft set of vignettes. 

🚖🚕🚖🚕 🚖🚕 🚖🚕 

Law wiped his hand over his face, all shadow and honeycomb as he zipped under the lights of the city. He turned the corner, down this street, past the souvlaki caravan, up along the edge of the park. The underground water system pumped out moisture to green the grass, even in those droughts they had, the summers that never ended.

It was cooler now, and he didn't need to move forward, to peel his back from the textured beads of his seat cover. Some hippy shit that guy with the beads around his neck had given him. It worked though, was good.

That one. He'd thought he was a goner. Picked him up, his hyperactive brother, and some blond steampunk thing with a steel pipe, from a rave. Their pupils flipping about like bearings in a pinball machine, hyped, and full of love. And then the beaded one had dropped back in his seat, mouth open, drooling. Wasn't wearing a shirt. Nice tatt. Whitebeard. Law'd seen a few of those around. Good crew. Paid up. Didn't try to fuck with him.

The blondie and hyper boy giggled and laughed and marvelled at the stars in the sky which were actually lamplights blurring past their unfocused eyes. Law had glanced into the back from the rear view, once, twice, thrice.

"Guys. Your brother, d'ya say?"

Like dogs at windows on a weekend excursion, the two slobbered all over the glass.

"Nah, like really. He alive?" Law readied his fingers over the direct connection to the office.

Then beady rose like a freaking mummy from a coffin, scaring the ever living fuck out of Law, though he worked not to show it.

"What the motherfuck is wrong with you?"

The hippy dude stretched out, laughed and crawled over into the front. Law tensed. They seemed cool enough guys, but you couldn't tell, and he didn't know what they'd taken. And those boots were workmen's boots. Sturdy, paint-splattered, steel-capped.

"Narcolepsy, man." Then he'd rested his head against the passenger's seat window and fallen asleep in a slightly more natural way.

Law didn't know why beady had given him the backrest. There'd been no more incidents after that. Drove the loll-tongued puppies and their slumbering charge home safely. They paid too much. He wouldn't take it all. How'd he tracked him down?

Imagine picking these three up in your cab,

only they’re adults and zapped outta their minds and coming home from a good night out.

🚖🚕🚖🚕 🚖🚕 🚖🚕 

Law and Ace are a developing story throughout the three chapters of Taxi, but Law also picks up Kid, Zoro, Doflamingo, Marco, Rebecca and Robin in his cab (among others?), and their stories ensue. I dunno why there aren’t more taxi AUs, actually. 

It’s the perfect vehicle (haha) for stories to interweave. Maybe Uber’s rendered them moot. If you’re interested in the removed chapter, DM me and I can get you a copy. Background Cora too of course.

Law’s alternate version of flipping the bird.↓

Source: 

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