#dunce speaks

[dunces-hat]

she dissociative on my identity til I disorder

[dunces-hat]

one time my teacher made me write a narrative story where I have to be the main character interacting with a whale of some kind. And I didn’t like this teacher at all and was absolutely not in the mood for this, so the obvious option was to write (in graphic detail) multiple orcas tearing this whale to shreds. They were skinning it, ripping out it’s tongue, slapping it with their tails, eating its eyeballs, and much more

I got an A

So, okay, fun fact. When I was a freshman in high school… let me preface by saying my dad sent me to a private school and, like a bad organ transplant, it didn’t take. I was miserable, the student body hated me, I hated them, it was awful.

Okay, so, freshman year, I’m deep in my “everything sucks and I’m stuck with these assholes” mentality. My English teacher was a notorious hard-ass, let’s call him Mr. Hargrove. He was the guy every student prayed they didn’t get. And, on top of ALL OF THE SHIT I WAS ALREADY DEALING WITH, I had him for English.

One of the laborious assignments he gave us was to keep a daily journal. Daily! Not monthly or weekly. Fucking daily. Handwritten. And we had to turn it in every quarter and he fucking graded us. He graded us on a fucking journal.

All of my classmates wrote shit like what they did that day or whatever. But, I did not. No, sir. I decided to give the ol’ middle finger to the assignment and do my own shit.

So, for my daily journal entries, over the course of an entire year, I wrote a serialized story about a horde of man-eating slugs that invaded a small mining town. It was graphic, it was ridiculous, it was an epic feat of rebellion.

And Mr. Hargrove loved it.

It wasn’t just the journal. Every assignment he gave us, I tried to shit all over it. Every reading assignment, everyone gushed about how good it was, but I always had a negative take. Every writing assignment, people wrote boring prose, but I wrote cheesy limericks or pulp horror stories.

Then, one day, he read one of my essays to the class as an example of good writing. When a fellow student asked who wrote it, he said, “Some pipsqueak.”

And that’s when I had a revelation. He wanted to fight. And since all the other students were trying to kiss his ass, I was his only challenger.

Mr. Hargrove and I went head-to-head on every assignment, every conversation, every fucking thing. And he ate it up. And so did I.

One day, he read us a column from the Washington Post and asked the class what was wrong with it. Everyone chimed in with their dumbass takes, but I was the one who landed on Mr. Hargrove’s complaint: The reporter had BRAZENLY added the suffix “ize” to a verb.

That night I wrote a jokey letter to the reporter calling him out on the offense in which I added “ize” to every single verb. I gave it to Mr. Hargrove, who by then had become a friendly adversary, for a chuckle and he SENT IT TO THE REPORTER.

And, people… The reporter wrote back. And he said I was an exceptional student. Mr. Hargrove and I had a giggle about that because we both knew I was just being an asshole, but he and the reporter acknowledged I had a point.

And that was it. That was the moment. Not THAT EXACT moment, but that year with Mr. Hargrove taught me I had a knack for writing. And that knack was based in saying “fuck you” to authority. (The irony that someone in a position of authority helped me realize that is not lost on me.)

So, I can say without qualification that Mr. Hargrove is the reason I am now a professional writer. Yes, I do it for a living. And most of my stuff takes authorities of one kind or another to task.

Mr. Hargrove showed me my dissent was valid, my rebellion was righteous, and that killer slugs could bring a city to its knees. Someone just needs to write it.

[daughterofsarenrae]

do you ever feel bad for accidentally spreading misinformation? like telling people something you thought was true only to find out later was wrong? for example, i used to tell people ferrets were smart. but then i met sparrow, who is perhaps one of the dumbest animals alive,

[weaselishmcdiesel]

im a DUNCE and forgot to add a positive response im so sorry please circulate this one instead

no context for this once again- i just realized i didnt know anyone else who has a nauseous response to the smell of real leather

[serialadoptersbracket]

Round 1 is in the Queue!

Before this starts, however—huge, huge shoutout to all our propaganda writers. I’ve seen at least three essays for the lower seeds, and even just reading some of them I was touched.

Kudos to y’all who loved your characters enough to explain them to a dunce!

Now let’s light this pop stand!

[basslinegrave]

found more old promarkers art (2017?) of my long forgotten zhen guy (i dont even remember his name and i drew him like twice 💔 had a full lore about him at some point)

i hate how clashing the colors are but i like the bg

i did some quick color edits on my phone cuz the og drawing has terrible contrast imo its just all merging together vvv

i think its unsalvageable like this i would still add more shadow and better balance like either make the top bg even darker or the ground much darker and separate the whites

[just-your-average-cryptid]

everyone thinks the eccentric academic type is like, victor frankenstein. which. first of all, MR Frankenstein is a dropout with a god complex, not a great example for the academic half.

what IS a good example is that one person you know who will start frothing at the mouth if you ask them about their niche obsession with medieval brewer women or ancient bryozoans, whose home looks like it was taken over by an equally eccentric librarian, who will lock themselves in the study for two months and stagger out with their magnum opus, a thesis on how a book you’ve never heard of absolutely had homoerotic themes and in this essay they will

[felikatze]

if you hear a tiny voice telling you not to use your mobility aid that's the devil. by the way.

[artcalledtheewhip]

All The Dunce Caps In My Head & Drinking OJ All the dunce caps in my head sprouting outwards What’s left for us? Thinking in Social Pondering Business Into the mind left Mental That leads into The lead pipes take from here On the street The lead was made into piping Not in water at all Until chemicals contaminated See in Appendix Flint Flint is not only for starting fires It’s the place for contamination in the water The parts per millionths Not safe enough to drink Or to grow upon At least by the Humans The green grass is resilient Stages in college degrees even in beginning All this stuff eaten up Collegiate Where have you been n Studies You missed a whole bunch of sectors still grounding you in good food music fashion apps sneakers and the class your sorting with it’s just easy as A E I O U Affecting Effecting Infecting Oh live You, U & you other in emotional atmosphere Affecting Effecting Infecting Oh live You, U & you other in emotional atmosphere Where do we all belong Pounds or prisons Refugee in dollars And Leaders in stands Bombing Ukraine Stiking a Strip And his face causes turmoil Is all Trump The sand friends Didn’t do his killings Fore the love of rich Golf All precessions for MAGA Married with Communistic conspiracies Who couldn’t? It’s all dunced capped Smarter than most I knew where I began And the affiliates or opposite afflicted Speak on stand more Spoiled orange Don’t eat Can you get this done faster than OJ? Dear Trump Please get done faster than OJ Please get done Look for a picture Just get this done faster I’m fine you looking at something Just get it done faster than OJ J is vowel So is V Throbbing shacket never mind the retailers It’s what he wears Just not without and buttonlessness If it was up to him He would be horseback shirtless Trump would stopped bathing in the suns Had he one With Putin The Middle is all confusing from here Where do the both sides Land Is it bunker or walled A Cardinal flys over A Phoenix flys around Thinking of clubs in the apps I grab Albatross Where’s your hit posted PostTragicJan6 PostTraffickedSexDeny Well talk about Wife already Dear Donald

[dunces-hat]

she autism on my spectrum til I disorder

[artcalledinsect-ieunts]

Immunity should be granted for insect holding

Chips to Society?

All Trumped lined

He spouts independently

Don’t cross tha Trump!

[artcalledwind]

Their The Ones The passed away I need you beside me Flare straight up Guide my hands Puncture in pressing The keyboards Their the one’s here for purpose Light up So controlled in body Press power for Flashlight I gotta walk out in the cold Global warming Non existent Personal persuasion All in living The pentagonal The passed away I need you beside me Their the one’s here for purpose I gotta walk out in the cold Puncture pressing Press power Personal persuasion So Pentagonal !!!!! !!!!!!! !!!! !!!!!!!! Blayne Hale propaganda ^^^^^^^^^^^^^**** >>>>>>!>!>>>>

[5-htagonist]

auditory processing issues suck my dick

[sugarbeampop]

I think I might remake the post about the xenogender I coined a while back soon!

[yung-and-bludy]

Oh my gods how long have my asks been off