#i have really strong feelings about this

[aelloposchrysopterus]

Teachers put up with so much shit, and at least in the school district I attended, a fair portion of it was due to the actions of the district. The union, almost every time the contracts were up for renegotiation, had to strike just to maintain the status quo. They were never trying to get more from the district because they knew the district wasn't going to give them more; they just wanted to not be thrown into a worse situation.

And then the district superintendent basically exploited a school where a school shooting had occurred for clout by giving interviews to the media that included releasing information that he wasn't allowed to tell students. As in everyone at that school was constantly checking the news for any information during the shooting and afterwards because the district didn't officially give the students and families much information.

The teachers and administration and school nurse were on the frontlines of the response to the shooting. Were their names mentioned in a single media report? Not that I could find, beyond naming the principal as the principal of the school.

Teachers deserve to be paid more than the superintendents are. They deserve funded sabbaticals to recover from burnout. They deserve reasonable classroom budgets that are enough to cover the textbooks they use in the classes, in editions that are within the latest decade (many of my high school classes did not have up-to-date textbooks for the students, or even enough textbooks).

Teachers deserve so much more than what they're getting.

since we are talking about people who deserve a higher salary i think teachers should be making six figures a year btw. if state superintendents who have never set foot in a classroom can make that much so should the teachers. teachers are quite literally the backbone of our society and if teachers were actually properly compensated we wouldn’t have a shortage or bad teachers who are continually burnout because of a lack of proper compensation.

[mjshortformcjesus]

shout out to cliffsnotes

i REALLY do not want to read a school assigned book about racism men fighting for their racism rights

[formerdino]

I can't relate to bisexuals who claim to love every woman and one man. Not every woman needs my love or attraction. There are plenty of women who I feel nothing for and that doesn't make them any less amazing! My attraction to someone is not a judgment of their worth, beauty, or character. I won't saddle myself with the burden on loving every woman my heart simply isn't big enough. There's a whole world of people with love to give and I think we all play our part in that. I'm attracted to plenty of women. I know this. I'm comfortable with this. I don't feel the need to prove this to anyone. I won't try to minimize my attraction to men either. There's nothing dirty or evil about being a man or being attracted to men. I would never enter a relationship with a someone if I felt they weren't deserving of being loved. I wouldn't insult them by publicly or privately saying I would rather be with a woman to seem like a better feminist or a better queer.

Finding men attractive isn't some moral failing just like how being attracted to women isn't a virtue. It's all just neutral. If I loved someone and they just considered it to be some sort of prize or something to brag about because they managed to bag a bisexual that would rip my heart out. I don't care about golden retriever energy or fluffy haired gamer boys I want someone genuine and trustworthy. I love my bisexuality and I love being bisexual, but it's not some special perk to anyone that dates me. I want my love to have value to someone because they love me just as much and I don't want to cheapen by claiming otherwise.

[arsenicflame]

Bonus round! Do you use a queue tag?

[kitausuret]

Okay I feel the need to say that they are most definitely not childhood friends in the mainline 616 comics. They didn't really meet officially until college. And even THEN, Harry was sweet on Flash Thompson far before he even liked Peter. But then guess what? Peter showed him one (1) microcosm of kindness and compassion (because Peter was growing as a person!) and then Harry just straight up fell in love with him (and so did Flash, and so did Gwen).

So yeah, they are BETTER than childhood friends to star crossed lovers. We don't acknowledge Howard Mackie rewrites in this house. It's about the GROWTH it's about the DRAMA it's about the parallels between them it's about the tragic doomed polycule that was the Coffee Bean Gang and how Harry's death was the climax of it all. It's about the love that wasn't fated to happen, but did anyways, because Peter Parker pulled his ass out of his head for the first time to try and make Harold Osborn have a less shitty day one random morning when they were both in college.

Parksborn is, at its core, about evolution.

propaganda:

childhood best friends to lovers + doomed yaoi in every universe (except for that one universe where they’re both girls + canonically dating)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

finally at that age where i'm thinking i should get a tattoo. not bc i feel strongly about it, just seems like a waste not to. i've got so much skin i'm not using

[benevolenterrancy]

May your hardened heart be woken By the soft and distant song Of all you left here unspoken All the shards we keep stepping on - Take this body home Take this body home Call the wind, and let her know Take this life outgrown Take this broken soul Call the stars, call them all And take it high, take it far, take it home

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for an incredible 500 days of love and support. I offer you: answers to questions that no one has asked.

(As always, more can be found in the tags <3)

[puppyeared]

id fumble him so bad

[vela-pulsars]

not enough stonjourner art out there

[imaybe5tupid]

Falin in the Isle of Wa

ft Benichidori and Hien 👯‍♀️

Part 1 of my postcanon dyke drama cinematic universe

Part 2

Interlude

Part 3

[arttsuka]

Based on somewhat real events

I spent way too much time drawing this...

But yeah, Ford finally saying thank you

A continuation (kinda)

[ryllen]

maybe i do want us to kiss a little more

[fisheito]

I started reading beastars so now HE's reading beastars .wait

THEY'RE reading beastars

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

hate that I have to clarify whenever I think of two characters as having a powerful and purely platonic bond as "just friends". like I have to say that but they are not "just" anything.

did you hear me. I said they are friends. not brothers or siblings or maternal or paternal or any other familially-defined relationship. they are friends!!! do you know how powerful that is??? they! are! friends!!! they are FRIENDS

[leciraofthewilderness]

So, despite some faults, I really enjoyed totk, and on its anniversary I want to say something about it. Other people have said similar things before but it’s really important to me and actually a big part of why the story of totk was meaningful to me, so I want to also say it:

Zelda needed to come back from draconification. The story needed that. It wasn’t lazy and just ignoring “consequences” because (imo) that was the *point*

The point is to feel like there are going to be terrible consequences and then say actually, no. You can come back from this, with the help of other people.

To me at least, that was the theme of the whole story.

If botw was about how the world goes on past loss and grief and starts to heal (how flowers grow in the ruins and the world can be beautiful again, be worth saving, even if it has changed)…then totk was about a more personal kind of healing.

The weight of the world should not be on your shoulders alone…you, alone, should not have to fix everything…you should not have to sacrifice yourself, but when you do, someone will be there to save you from it.

This turned into a really long ramble so:

You (Link) gained so much and now it’s gone. It feels like you’re back to where you started and yet you know you have to do it all again…you were weak and you failed and you’re weaker now…but

You go down to the surface. Monsters swarm across it once again. Other people are fighting them too though. You help, but it’s not just you…

You go to the Rito, the Gorons, the Zora, the Gerudo…just like with the divine beasts, there are friends who help you save each region. But this time, part of them comes along with you when you leave. It’s nice, you realize, the first time one of them protects you from a monster you weren’t prepared for. You’re still weaker than you were before, but someone has your back…

When you go up to the sky you see a strange new dragon there. There’s something about them that feels familiar. You try not to think about it.

You go down to the depths too. It’s terrifying at first. You hate it. You only want to get what you came for and get out of the dark….but slowly, the light grows. You get stronger. The dark feels like a challenge you can face (and someone has your back).

There are spirits down there. You don’t know when they’re from, but some part of you wonders…are these all the people you let die in the Calamity? (You help them find rest from their wandering. The weight on your shoulders feels a little less heavy).

There’s so much gloom. The first few times the sky turns red and hands chase you (a reminder of what you’ve lost, how you failed) you just run. Eventually though, you have to fight. It feels like the (second) worst day of your life again. But you manage to get free of the grasping gloom and stand and fight, as wild and desperate as it is. Beneath the manifestation of your worst fears, there’s another thing to fight, but this time it has a face (a voice in the back of your head says…you know this isn’t all on you and your failure…it’s really Ganon’s fault right?). You get through it.

At every turn in your travels, it seems like something reminds you of Zelda. Her passion, her curiosity, her kindness. You miss her.

At first, the tears you find reassure you. She may be in the past, but she’s safe. She’ll come back somehow…but then you hear the word draconification for the first time. You want to believe she wouldn’t do it but you know her and the fear sits cold inside you. (Zelda is a lot of things. She’s been allowed to be more of them, since she was freed from her hundred year battle, without her father holding her back. But deep down inside her, there’s a vein of self-sacrifice that still runs strong. It’s what saved the world before, after all).

She did it. She really did it. She’s gone from you (from Hyrule) forever, and it’s all your fault. If only you hadn’t failed so utterly in the battle (you can hardly even call it that) under the castle. If only you’d caught her. If only you hadn’t let the sword break. You should have protected her you should have been better it’s all your fault and now she has to live with the consequences, forever. Everything really is on you, you should have been better.

(Zelda POV: you couldn’t call upon Hylia’s power in time, you were too content to let it wither and fade away from you, ready to be free of it. You shouldn’t have. He got hurt, the sword got hurt, it’s your fault…Sonia and Rauru help you channel it again, Sonia helps you learn how to turn back time…but you don’t save her. She dies because you couldn’t save her. Rauru dies not long after. There is no one left to guide you, once again. You could spend years trying to figure it out on your own. But you did that last time. It didn’t work. Self-sacrifice, stepping in front of someone you love, that worked. (You do what you can, to call upon the sages, to help Link in the future, first). And then you swallow the stone. You’ve come a long way, in the past five years, allowing yourself to exist. But in the end, self-sacrifice worked last time. It’ll work this time too.)

You (Link) go down beneath the castle. You were supposed to bring the sages but you didn’t. It’s nice, for someone to have your back. But no one else should get hurt to fix your mistakes.

They follow you anyway. They fight with you, against the hordes, against the greatest enemies you defeated together, along the way. They’ll have your back, even if you don’t think you deserve it.

You fight Ganondorf, and then the demon king, in the hardest battle of your life. You think it’s over and then the demon king decides it’s better to lose himself completely than let you win. You’re exhausted and afraid of yet another battle, but up there in the sky, when you’re falling, the Light Dragon catches you (you wonder why she changed her path to catch you, you wonder if there’s still something of Zelda left in there to save). With her help, you win.

And then you’re in some other realm. The spirits of Sonia and Rauru are there. You remember how the two of them and Zelda channeled such incredible power together. You think about Recall. Turning something back to the memory of what it was before, like Sonia said. You stand with them and you allow yourself to hope. Maybe the Light Dragon can remember the form she took so long ago, the person that she was.

And then you’re falling, and Zelda is falling, but this time you catch her. You catch her. She’s back home with you, finally, finally.

And maybe, one mistake doesn’t have to be the end of the world. You don’t have to be perfect. Sometimes, someone else can stand with you, and it’ll all turn out alright. (You can put the weight of the world on your shoulders, you can sacrifice yourself, but someone will be there to catch you, someone will be there to pull you back to yourself, when all is said and done).