#i have like. 10 chapters left.

[monstrsball]

sitting here like 'i need to reread the reigen manga' girl. finish the mob psycho manga first.

[sadibadimadi]

Some notw doodles of Kvothe, Ambrose (ew), and Denna. Made this in a magma with @stivya :]

[barbiegirldream]

Maybe I'm sleepy but the Blue Lock 283 leaks are not good to me. Like just to sum up

The Isagi x Kaiser chemical reaction was Isagi baiting Rin into shooting the ball to where Isagi assumed Kaiser would leap into the air. Which means when Rin said Isagi was letting himself get devoured the whole thing was Isagi admitting defeat to Kaiser's kicking ability.

And Kaiser's kick which didn't actually stop the ball but sent it off course a hair probably gave the ball enough power to almost achieve the goal post rebound.

And since Kaiser was the last one to touch it if not for Gagamaru saving the ball that was 99% in the net then the Kaisagi chemical reaction was almost Kaiser scoring an own goal lmao

What is this botched play supposed to prove other than Rin dog walks everyone on the field... how is this a chemical reaction... how is isagi evolving by still expecting other people to make the plays he can't

[malenchka]

“If you’ll pardon the observation, you appear to be in your underthings.” “…Yes.”

I am once again asking you all to read Mortal Follies pls and thank you

[raddestrose]

Brooooo I wanna read ORV soo bad but I don’t have the time to

I’m going to cry

[itspileofgoodthings]

Well, I actually have the most mundane of questions, but it’s been so long since I’ve been in an English class that I feel like I’ve completely forgotten (and I’m curious how you do it): how do you go about reading a book as a class? Do you assign them the chapters to read at home and most of them actually do it? Or do you give them class time to read? Do you have the kids who try to spoil the rest of the book for the class? Basically, how does one teach a book in the year 2024?  😀

And do you have your students annotate inside their books? (I know the English teachers in my school require the students to do that, and I get why, but I inwardly shudder every time I see a student marking up a page.) 

Haha I love this question because I too am always asking myself how DOES one each a book in 2024?

It’s sort of a combination. I absolutely assign reading every night (almost) unless it’s Shakespeare or any play in which case we read it all in class. But for a novel there’s a couple chapters a night. I read aloud to them a lot too. Sometjmes I make them read aloud to the whole class, rotating kids who read. Sometimes I assign a chapter to be read in class silently with questions or quotes due at the end of the reading. Sometimes I put them in groups and make them read aloud to each other. There’s no one way that works for sure and of course ultimately I have no control over how much they read and I’m not naive enough to think that most of the reading assigned for homework doesn’t get skipped most of the time buuuuuut.

My bottom line is that I believe it’s my job to get excited about the actual text itself (easier for me in some cases than others but overall pretty easy because it does fill me with excitement) and then commit to taking them on the journey of the story with me. And my goal—that I’m sure I often don’t reach—is to make that experience so much more fun if you have actually read. And the way that I teach is pretty text heavy which is why I always make sure I’ve read the chapters for the day and am not just relying on my memory because the way I do it is just sort of absorbing it all up like a vacuum-cleaner, schwooooop, and then either pulling stuff out of the reading to look at directly or directing them to do the same thing. So the big thing that I have going for me, if any, is buy-in. Is getting kids excited about actually reading the actual text. I also speak often and passionately about the evils of sparknotes etc. not because they help kids get better grades or whatever but because they present you with the husk and shell of a story, stripped of all that makes it interesting, and that by reading that alone they’re reading something so dry and dull and are not achieving what I always want them to achieve —which is, have an Experience with the Literature.

Again, it never works perfectly by any stretch and there are so many ways I want to explore in my quest to get better at it but overall I think, at my very best, I can create this wave of energy and excitement in the story itself which is the most organic and ultimately most helpful way to get them to want to read.

Also no haha. I don’t let them annotate! Though occasionally kids DO of course. But sometimes they bring in their own copies in order to do that. The spoilers absolutely happen and are annoying but I sort of get by it by moving on very quickly and/or talking about how it’s often not the ending but how you get there that makes it interesting. Because that’s just true!

[drbtinglecannon]

Alright I'm a few episodes behind on Dungeon Meshi but I didn't realize the new unimaginably upbeat cutesy opening was implemented the episode Falin was kidnapped and turned into a chimera

Like. Damn that was an impactful time to change the opening

[dkettchen]

me, procrastinating on one project with another one: it's fine they're both for content I do this for the people and the people will receive SOMETHING sooner by me working on either one 😤

[juniperhillpatient]

Circular narratives with a twist my beloved 🥹🥹🥹♥️♥️♥️ Stories that end with a subversion of how they start 🫶🫶🫶

[keeps-ache]

ohhh i knew i shouldn't have screenshotted that thing hhhhhouuuhr

[kaykoko]

I finally finished Dungeon Meshi!!! Very fun read and amazing charaters!! The hype i have for the anime now is unreal!

[karnalesbian]

Yowamushi Pedal Ch. 195:

The Man Who Fulfilled His Duty

[lesenbyan]

There are few things worse, I think, than reading a call to action memoir that is so close to right but really should have been shelved for at least 5yrs before going to print so the author has time to learn enough to see all the false equivalencies that really hinder the point

[kuiinncedes]

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[sharkinlovewithadolphin]

i'm reading through chapter 3 and snorting to myself every 10 minutes. I am truly my own target audience

[pochapal]

hey. uh. somehow the 1-11 writeup has ended up just as long as the 1-10 writeup. lmao.