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zsakuva · 9 days ago
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My most popular series, The Strict English Professor: Season 1 is now on Spotify!
I will start uploading other series in due time, but for now, Happy New Year, and enjoy listening!
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gingerbredman1989 · 4 months ago
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Muscular English Professor.
NightCafe AI
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yeetmeoffthisplanet · 13 days ago
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agentoffangirling · 28 days ago
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I have not ranted enough about my English professor on here so now that the semester is over, here we go!
For starters, I believe that this man is truly well-educated on the subject. Like really, he knows what he's talking about. And for a white cishet guy, he picks majority poc, women, and queer authors to discuss in class. There was a ton of Baldwin and Kincaid being read and I think that deserves to be appreciated
HOWEVER
He didn't do shitttt
99% of our lectures were just reading the handouts that he gave us, and they were always very fresh from the copy tech room. Which, fine, I can deal with that, but we never did anything else with them! If we were given five handouts, usually only one was read in class, then we didn't do anything else with the other four (yes, even online), and then the next class he would give us five more handouts. By the end of the semester, this was the sheer amount of handouts that he gave:
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Again, this is from 1 semester class. This could fill up three books
And nothing was done with like, 75% of them. We were given a ton of Poe stuff for Halloween but we never read any of them. We were given the 9/11 Commission Report and hardly made it through it. Last week he even mentioned that copytech had a new rule in place for how many things you could print out, and I'm sure it all has to do with him printing useless handouts all the time
So it when it came to his course evaluation a few months ago, yeah, I mentioned that he gave way too many handouts. Today he ended up bitching about it (LMAO) and said that he apparently shortened the list. Which. RIP those former students
There were other issues I had with him, like he just could not stay consistent on assignments. It felt like he was choosing his lesson plan day of and we never had much of a headsup for what we were going to be reading over. One time he got annoyed that no one purchased "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin, but the next class he said we didn't need it. Months down the line, he would be like "alright! Where's the book?" and got pissy when hardly anyone had it
If he showed a video, the audio would often be very loud and when the other professor asked him to turn it down, he would do so, but complain when her back was turned
Hardly any assignments online had due dates, and he would create random assignments for the fun of it that were due a very large amount of points, but he never graded assignments that we turned in. I have no idea what my grade is in that class bc nothing is visible and I can't test any potential scores
So while I'm sure this professor is a nice guy and he knows a lot, but hell no am I taking this class again
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dxmxuse · 2 years ago
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my professor canceled class bc she’s actively on tour for her book about cannabis and i absolutely love her for that
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appalachian-reptilian · 1 year ago
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Honestly the best thing about teaching undergraduate composition is the looks on my students faces when they figure out a paper topic they are interested in. I don't know how comp. is taught in highschool, but its like they've seen the messiah when that idea comes to them.
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its-all-down-hill · 2 years ago
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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"
just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible
#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order#at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers#90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent#like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries#but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate#and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something#cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare#and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity#and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media#and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons#and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators#instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period#anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives#so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world#(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin#oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value#and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the#important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)
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ancientsstudies · 3 months ago
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Farewell, Professor McGonagall.
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bricreative · 3 months ago
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Outfit ideas for Max, cuz I will say I’m just not crazy about the skintight turtleneck in DE. And as always, butch Chloe
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nervanna · 3 months ago
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He also asked Molly for advice :>
(For anyone who is guessing, his book is called "FANTASTIC BEASTS: a guide to education of an intelligent wizard)
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manzanamarim · 9 months ago
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Guess what I finally got to play! I had a blast I wish lawyers were real
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nicholasandriani · 2 years ago
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They Shall Be As Ferching As They Are Deadly: A Reader Responds to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a mash-up novel by Seth Grahame-Smith that reimagines Jane Austen’s classic novel “Pride and Prejudice” with elements of zombie fiction. The novel was first published in 2009 and quickly became a best-seller, inspiring a film adaptation and a number of other novels in the same vein. From a fan studies perspective, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies can be seen as…
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regainingparadise · 1 month ago
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Ok so I know there's a lot of lovely angst potential in the Gertrude trusts no one and lies to Gerry all the time dynamic. And the emotional aspect is definitely a factor
But really, on a practical level. Do we expect Gertrude "Defaces Every Eye She Sees" Robinson to share her secrets with Gerard "Covered In Eyes" Keay? Gerry is a walking spy camera for Jonah.
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germesthegenie · 2 months ago
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Based on Arc 30.3
Probably one of the most heartbreaking moments in Gold Morning for me at least.
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ifollowmagicalrivers · 1 month ago
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———
Guilty as Sin
I keep these longings locked
In lowercase inside a vault
Someone told me
There's no such thing as bad thoughts
Only your actions talk
These fatal fantasies
Giving way to labored breath
Taking all of me
We've already done it in my head
If it's make believe
Why does it feel like a vow
We'll both uphold somehow?
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Her millionth’s coming out atp btw
What tf is wrong with people 😩
taytay we’re okay
and here to stay
I just made a discovery connecting all of the surprise song choices tonight !!! 🚨🚨🚨
I need to first point out the Kaylor reference of pairing Last Kiss with Maroon in the same night because in the past every time she played I Can See You, she played Maroon !
Well in the I Can See You MV the date and time in the intro is July 9th 1:58 because it is a Last Kiss reference...
But everyone knows if you were there for the original release of the Music Video, the time was not 1:58. It was actually 1:38 !! 138 is the Kaylor ship number combining both Taylor and Karlie's birthdays (13 and 8/3)
Now what else happens at the beginning of the I Can See You MV? We see a female coder !! And she represents Karlie because Karlie is a coder who as we know has her coding camp called Kode with Klossy.
That should souns familiar because what other surprise song lyrics did we get tonight?
We not so coincidentally got "Who else decodes you?" and "I want to speak in code"
In other words, I Can See You is the key that links every surprise song choice tonight and I think she's pointing back to the MV because what's to come next has everything to do with freeing the longings that she has kept locked in lowercase inside a vault 👀
She also refers to this again in The Black Dog, another song repeated multiple times, with "My longings stay unspoken" as in if they were freed, she'd be Speaking Now . . . And notice how many Speak Now surprise songs she's been playing lately... I definitely think that this is what her intention was !!!
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