#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.

[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?

[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

[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)

[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)

[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

[imclou]

can't believe fnaf brought me out of art hibernation man what a turn of events

[puppppppppy]

id fumble him so bad

[vela-pulsars]

not enough stonjourner art out there

[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

[szynkaaa]

We finally got a stone monkey portrait 😭😭😭 look at his belly pouch, and how he is towering over all those mountains.

I've always believed in Stone Monkey belly pooch supremacy

I love you so much Stone Monkey they could never make me hate you

[evelynpr]

Might be a hot take as a bkdk and tgck truther here, but I find izuocha endlessly fascinating, beautiful, but also tearfully tragic.

I see their love for each other as something representative of their innocence and naivety when they only knew so little about who they were, and what was to come.

I think the main barrier of their relationship is that its rooted in how they see each other very idealistically, specifically that they're attached to the image of their Best Heroic Selves, and not the deeply selfish, destructive, freaky, and egotistical parts of them. To each other, they need to keep fulfilling that image or else that same person they looked up to would almost die in front of them, and that would be too cruel. Although that hero is still there, that same person they looked up to is not the same now because of...well...everything.

Izuku had barely even talked to girls when he first met her. She was Izuku's first ever real friend (Sorry Kats, everyone and him knows he was terrible), so he saved her in that entrance exam even if it was so dangerous. She gave a new meaning to his derogatory nickname just by being a friend that believed in him. After that, she saved him several more times (Blackwhip and Megaphone are the biggest samples iirc). It makes perfect sense that she is Deku's hero.

Ochako hardly knew what it meant to be a hero when she first got into UA. Just by reaching out to some kid tripping, she made a new friend who would then save her in that exam, then save him again in return. This boy then became someone who was always working so hard to save everyone in trouble, and she realized she wanted to be just like him too. "I want to save people"

But...Deku changes. The weight of One for All is on his shoulders and he needs someone to carry this burden with him. He continues to want to save other people at the expense of himself, still not letting his true selfishness and ego ever show- and it only grows more and more unbearable.

Then...Ochako fell in love with Himiko. Truly, relentlessly, selfishly and devotedly in love with a girl who then dies giving her blood to her- the greatest expression of love Himiko could ever give.

Not that they can't love each other because of this happening (and...so many other things oh god), I'm honestly not sure how to explain it- But them ending up together after losing that innocence and naivety? After Ochako will forever grieve the girl who showed her love in its most beautiful and ugly form? After Izuku changed so fundamentally as a person that the butterflies of a nice girl talking to you doesn't exist anymore? After that simple image of being a hero and being in love has completely changed for them both?

Even so, I believe they still love each other. There is no label I know of that can properly describe them though. They are each other's image of being a hero when it comes to saving people. Aside from Shoto, no one else can grasp the grief of the person you tried to save dying in your hands. They would no doubt try to cope with these losses together, and just try to get better together...but so much has changed. They've changed. The world changed. What are they now? Who are they now?

"What happened...to us?"

[andhumanslovedstories]

New Chapter ft. Bad Coping

[Emotionally devastate a disciple. +50 B-Points.]

[Welcome back to the plot! This System was wondering when the pacing would pick up again.]

“He’ll be fine.”

[Trait: Poison Tongue. You’re never unarmed. In conversations, you have an instinctive sense for the most hurtful thing you could say.]

“Shut up.” Shen Qingqiu was slumped over his desk, his head buried in his arms. He couldn’t stay like this for long. It was too comfortable a position. He couldn’t risk falling asleep. At the same time, wow, his arms sure made a nice pillow.

[Trait: Ambusher. Win the fight before it even starts. Gain a significant bonus on all actions against a currently non-hostile enemy.]