#cheat view

[vandaliatraveler]

I snuck in a late spring hike in Cheat River Canyon yesterday, before the dreaded heat dome builds in early next week. Between Brazil's Pantanal going up in flames and the massive heat spikes in North America and elsewhere, I wonder what will be left of this planet's beautiful wild places in twenty to thirty years. For now, I celebrate and cherish every day the glorious diversity of living things that nature has gifted us. This includes the magnificent poke milkweed (Asclepias exaltata), a shade tolerant member of the dogbane family, which feeds and hosts a great many of those living things, such as the extraordinary Himmelman's plume moth (Geina tenuidactylus). Or the comical-looking rock harlequin (Corydalis sempervirens), which clings to the rocky outcrops of the canyon. And the exquisite downy skullcap (Scutellaria incana), a gregarious summer mint that associates with wild bergamot and tall thimbleweed at forest edges. And how about the peculiar dangling flowers of Indian cucumber (Medeola virginiana) or the pale, ghostly stems and bracts of the parasitic Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora), just now emerging from the forest floor? In a couple of weeks, the rhododendron bloom will start in the canyon and summer will be in full swing.

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[eyebulb]

The one thing I hate about tiktok is how you have to limit yourself in text cus there are some insane takes on there...

Regarding Stolas and Stella......... I would have so much more sympathy for people who like Stella if they didn't try to make Stolas the bad guy.

Cus like... YES they ARE both victims of a fucked up system.. But they are NOT equally bad people fuck off with that.

The difference between them is that Stolas tried to make the best of a hopeless situation while Stella decided to make him the scapegoat of her anger.. Is Stolas perfect? No, no one said he was, but in WHAT WORLD does his actions justify being abused??? I will NEVER agree with you on that.

I BET Stella has a lot of grievances about Stolas specifically. Even before the cheating. Especially because he was "weak".. But that doesn't mean that their situation is HIS fault. It doesn't mean that he deserves the way she treats him...

I'm all for wanting more from Stella as a character. I'm all for finding out more about her motives and I'd love to find out why she's the way she is.. But that won't make her actions better, it just won't. So stop it.

[azurecoffin]

my reaction to the whole reaction to the news

also here's a chibi goober reed for your enjoyment make him suffer guys

[good-wine-and-cheese]

Guess who finally started reading Kaiji part 3

[rollercoasterwords]

like sorry but if ur actually seeing an increase in students using chatgpt 2 write essays 4 ur class why is ur first thought "oh they're being lazy" & not "have i structured this class in a way that makes this student feel the need to rely on chatgpt?" especially bc the majority of college students are overwhelmed taking multiple classes working part-time jobs caring for family dealing with health issues etc etc like there are soooo many reasons a student might decide to use chatgpt that are not just "laziness"!! consider:

the student didn't have time to complete the assignment without chatgpt -> have you created an environment where students can ask for extensions without judgment? do you only give out extensions for "emergencies" or "valid reasons" (<- subjective measure)? if so, why? what purpose do these strict deadlines serve? [think about how this overlaps with students who may have "had time" but were overwhelmed for other reasons; what kind of environment have you created for these students, and does it best serve their learning?]

the student didn't feel they had the ability to write an essay of good enough quality to receive a good grade without chatgpt -> how are you grading students' work? what grading scales have you utilized that made this person feel as though they're incapable of succeeding? do those grading scales prevent them from succeeding? if so, why? what educational resources did they or did they not have access to before entering your class? how might that change considerations about how you grade? [think about how this overlaps with students completing coursework that is not in their first language and whether your grading standards are truly equitable for these students]

the student didn't feel that they could understand the material and therefore couldn't complete the assignment -> again, have you created an environment where this student can come to you for help? how are you presenting and explaining material? what opportunities have you provided for students to seek out additional resources and support with understanding? is this assignment and its correlated grading scale designed to accommodate a variety of skill levels, or is it designed with "the best student" in mind?

the student actually just doesn't care about this class and doesn't want to do the work -> why don't they care about this class? what other classes or work are they prioritizing, and why? to what extent are you willing to accommodate students who simply will never view your class as a priority, but need to complete it to earn a degree--and how is that need tied structurally to a university that serves primarily as a class barrier? what role do you play in that university structure, and is it a role you want to play?

at the end of the day if your goal is 2 prioritize student learning that means being flexible & adapting your grading scales, assignment structures, class policies, etc. to accommodate students at their level of learning for their own purposes. like if the choice is between having a student get a zero on an assignment for "cheating" versus working with that student to create an alternative assignment which they can complete & which engages them with the course material on a level they can manage then to me it seems like a pretty clear choice between "no learning" and "some learning."

[astrowarr]

also not to justify cheating but i think that is one instance of grian being too loyal too fast, which is usually seen as a good thing because it's with scar or his allies but here is more of a flaw. he wanted to be soulmates with bigb immediately. "i was so sure" that man had plans!! he had a vision!! he went to bigb at the end of episode 2, it wasn't the "oh shit it's scar i have to cheat on him NEOW" decision, it was an allyship with a person who he had a good interaction with. "i know, i know, i'm a little bit sad now" is so much better than "my true soulmate is flying away" i can't blame him

NO EXACTLY!! and in my long analysis i actually bring this up, so let me use your lovely ask as a jumping off point.

grian meets bigb in DL and has an immediate connection with him. not only that, but when he meets bigb, it coincides with scar taking massive damage- to which bigb gives him food and, in grian's mind, saves his life. taking care of others through acts of service like providing food is SO important to grian (this can be seen SO often throughout the entire life series if you're looking for it!)

the first thing bigb did after meeting him- even with no obligation to do so- was take care of him. you know, the ultimate show of love in his mind. combine that with grian's steadfast, self-imposed, eager sense of loyalty? and then add into the mix a soulmate who, in grian's mind, never wanted him in the first place? grian's headspace in double life makes a LOT of sense

[clarkkantagain]

xavier deluc la triche (the cheat) 1984

[seventh-district]

“Why’s he call you Darlin’?”

on my knees begging my brain to stop trying to associate this song with Sam

[krisdreemurrkris]

The Berdly valentines are to Kris I Know They Are.

[fromtheseventhhell]

"It's powerful, it's visceral, it's dark, it's like a Shakespearean tragedy. There’s no Arya — a character everybody's going to love. They're all flawed. They're all human. They do good things. They do bad things. They're driven by lust for power, jealousy, old wounds — just like human beings. Just like I wrote them."

Seeing people debate which grey characters can still be considered "morally good" and somehow Arya never makes the list, so it's the perfect time to bring back this quote from George which shows exactly how he views her character 🫶🏾

[weatheredcopper]

i dont post about it a lot but i have Opinions on dl!biggri

[salty-an-disco]

silly doodles I don’t think I posted here

[wings-of-flying]

whatever the plot of the minecraft movie is, i bet i could come up with something a hundred times better

[navree]

people doing this whole "look at how rhaenys acted with corlys's bastard son vs how catelyn acted with jon snow" to demonize one or the other is weird because, like, maybe it's just me, but i think that catelyn and rhaenys had different reactions because they're different people in different situations.

[hermesmoly]

kinda buzzes my mind that while Oceanus and Tethys were not involved in the Titanomachy war, Styx (their eldest daughter) and her children were. In the Theogony, Oceanus advises her to. Even to this day, Zeus reveres her enough to have her be the name all gods bound an oath to, and all her children are part of his retinue (Bia, Nike, Zelos, and Kratos).

Oceanus during the Titanomachy is pretty interesting not only for not playing an active role on either side (having this underlying guilt of betraying his brothers vs knowing Zeus has higher chances of winning the war and thus not endangering his children and place) but also because in the Bibliotheca, he also does not participate in the castration of Uranus, the one thing that leads to his youngest brother's claim of the throne. I think while that makes him a passive entity, I like to believe that makes him a kind one as well. It also kinda saved his life and all of his children's.