#i want a fun english class

[altermay]

ENG101 :/

[faustodisco]

Actually if we want to talk about the lilienne/joyce ship I would like to bring up that it plays into the bourgeois woman’s fantasy of class dynamics in a relationship (à la lady chatterley), as well as the upper/middle class idea that their identity as women supersedes said class dynamics (and therefore they believe themselves to be in no position to oppress women of the working class) in a way that lends itself to reactionary movements like TERF ideology. As someone who lives in the uk and has been heavily affected by said ideology, joyce actually put me on high alert just by her voice and appearance.

I think it’s a mistake not to acknowledge that joyce is heavily thatcherite coded (the hair, the posh accent etc) especially when compared to lilienne who plays into the working class british woman archetype: she sounds welsh (considered a ‘lower’ accent), has young children, is a widower etc. It is fairly common to see the ‘confident mum who has to single-handedly support her young family’ in soap operas and other media, and she definitely plays into that stereotype.

Anyway, the ship is on the surface level a fun one, but let’s not overlook the framing as a one-sided and rather sinister set-up.

[identitty-dickruption]

the desire to know a bit about everything vs the desire to know a lot about a couple of things FIGHT

[valgeristik]

Дороги тянутся, и с них нам не уйти, Планета вертится, и значит мы в пути. Сиди сто лет, и забудешь, чего ждёшь. Дорога улыбнётся, и ты пойдёшь

There's much i could say but i will just recommend to listen to the song linked, if only for the vibes 👍

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becoming increasingly aware that this thing is much more popular nowadays so putting this link here too? tumblr keeps auto tagging this cursed green website on my posts n it makes me feel violent but REGARDLESS. I just. i like the...carefree, almost, feeling in this song. and i just think it fits. at least for a little while, at least before he remembers Everything. u know? anyways

OH and a closeup

[corvid-language-library]

I soooo don't wanna go to work this week, the kids at this school are a fucking nightmare. I was talking to one of the Japanese staff last week and she was saying she covered classes there and she was genuinely shocked at how badly behaved they are.

[runandhideguys]

that new thing where usamericans have started using more cockney adjacent accents to imitate british ppl they don’t like is kinda… idk it feels off,, esp when they’re using slang that’s attributed more to working class people. like what happened to making fun of posh people 🤨 i promise you boris johnson and jk rowling are not the ones saying bruv or innit

[theia-eos]

Seeing something about a Fire Emblem class being offered at college. I would never want a class about Fire Emblem, I wouldn't survive hearing anything discourse about it by modern college students IRL.

But it is reminding me of the time I delivered a senior thesis on the evolution of the hidden/overt LGBT representation in video games using Ike as an example back before Awakening was released.

[iidsch]

isnt it crazy that someone can make a completely legal app for ios but if apple doesn't want it in its app store because of lol lmao reasons you have to then go through a gazillion loops just to get this one app and also millions of people buy apple's products because they don't see the problem with an operating system that fully controls what you can or can't have on your device and also has several other major problems. insane

[m00ngbin]

I'm trying to pick a major that I would be the most interested in just because it would make my life so much easier and right now I have like three ideas and they all have a million problems

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

I love learning ASL it’s so good. Makes me happy to learn it. I’m so glad my university has classes for it with professors actually steeped in Deaf culture.

[nvathuw]

some design thingy for my AU

[gramarobin]

It was such a gorgeous day today considering its the 2nd week of March in Michigan. Sadly, I spent almost all of my day inside laboring (on my laptop-pictured) over an essay about American veterans and homelessness- complete with cover, abstract, and references for community college english class. I'm only on page 2 Ugh 😫 This is not fun. Plus I have to get two of my classmates to peer review my essay before I can submit it- think I will get the cooperation of 2 classmates? I'm doubting it. I'll report back!

[soshinee]

i really have loved being in japan in general so far but most of my students are so fucking mean to me 😭😭 like they’re just so so sooo mean they parrot and mock me when i call someone’s name and laugh when i talk in general and it’s like how am i supposed to curry their favor or gain their respect when they are openly making fun of me from the second i walk into their classroom for the first time💀

[bedcorpse]

but yeah to piggyback off that post y'all have to understand that if you're not usamerican or got lucky in regards to english teachers, even writers like myself got so sick of being handed boring, surface-level interactions with media and being discouraged from anything else that ofc we hated having to explain why the curtains are blue. because it wasn't a discussion of "okay is this meant to set a tone? tell us something about the character, like is blue their favorite color? or is it meant to symbolize something deeper? what are the different ways we could interpret this?" it was "the curtains are blue because the main character is sad. we don't have time for anything else bc public schools are wildly underfunded and overcrowded depending on the district and i make like 40k a year so any differing opinions will be shrugged off at best and punished at worst."

[gingerbreadmonsters]

sleepy and v fed up w this blasted reading for japanese history class tomorrow. give me 45 minutes to finish this article and i will be back to talk about kissing or something

[ovrarches]

God I wish I took more classes I was interested in while I was in school :(