#i would listen to their lecture

[horsechestnut]

Anyway, if you're a fan of Bruce and Steph having a father/daughter relationship you should probably go read about Oliver and Mia.

[starcurtain]

One thing I wish I'd see more of among Ratio fans is some thought about how he views himself as a teacher.

Like yes, of course he refuses to compromise on the quality and rigor of the education he imparts, and he would find it unforgivably unethical to lower his standards in order to pass more students who had not genuinely learned the material. This is core to his character.

However, as someone who is a teacher IRL, I know the absolutely miserable feeling setting that kind of standard can cause. There's the obvious disheartening sense of disappointment ("Are students these days really not capable of doing the work correctly? Is our future in danger, if this is the highest level of understanding our current generation of students can achieve?"), but even worse than that is the self-doubt.

"Is this somehow my fault? Am I not teaching this material in the right ways for the students to learn? Is there something I could have done differently to get through to these students? Would a better teacher have a higher passing rate?"

We know that Ratio does (or at least did) struggle with feeling inferior to the Genius Society, so I think it is also likely, as much as he absolutely will not budge on his academic standards, that he has doubts about his teaching ability as well.

This is the man who wants to educate the entire world to cure the disease of ignorance, and yet only 3% of his actual students are able to get there. How can someone who gets so few of his direct students to a state of enlightenment hope to enlighten the whole universe? If so few students are successfully learning the material of a given class, doesn't that mean the teacher is doing something wrong?Would a better teacher--would a genius, maybe--not be able to impart their knowledge more efficiently and educate even the most challenging of students?

As someone constantly struggling with that balance between keeping academic standards high while also meeting the needs of today's students, I think the passing rates of his courses must affect Dr. Ratio much more deeply than I've seen fans discuss. I think he would question himself harshly over his class success rates, and I think he must be constantly trying to push himself to become the best teacher he possibly can be.

tl;dr: I hope one day the HSR fandom will stop sleeping on the fact that Ratio is an actual practicing professor who probably has astronomical levels of teacher angst. 😂

[foxfinding]

That moment, when ***I*** am in a "Gender & Media" course, and we are nearing the end class and the instructor says.

"Okay, I'm gonna try and go fast, I know we're all tired, we've only got one thing left for today:

Fandom"

LMAO soz y'all. There is a ZERO PERCENT CHANCE of us leaving early.

LET ME TALK ABOUT FANDOM PSYCHOLOGY AND HISTORY OF FANDOM AND FANDOM CULTURE

in class.

[whales-are-gay]

i am not immune to the being struck by a feeling of romanticism from a required linguistic anthopology reading

[czarojay]

when you're punk but your wife is pink

[unovaslankiite]

Prolly gonna be my one and only rwde post (cus the fanbase is rancid and I'm not rlly a rwby fan, just a person who watches the show): some of you rwby fans are too comfortable using your queerness as a shield to silence BIPOC voices about the racist writing and your 'precious' bigoted CRWBY. You guys unironically act/think that just because you have to deal with queerphobia; you are IMMUNE to being bigoted yourself and you are INCAPABLE of parroting bigoted beliefs. Cus I know there will be a dumbass ant1-rwde posters who will try to drown out this post by saying its 'lies from the EVIL RWDE!!!': You would rather weaponize your queerness to bash on BIPOC voices, while claiming to care about our voices. You would rather be complicit with the racist writers and their racist writing, just because your racist writers gave you a queer ship. There is no shame nor issue in projecting the abused you suffered onto the characters, however you refuse to see through the characters and their writing through a BIPOC lens. You do not get the right to impose your perspective of the characters at the expense of BIPOC voices, you do not get to twist our voices to be alt-right bigots because we called out RWBY's rampant racism. You do not get the right to say you give a shit about BIPOC and have #BLM in your bio when you fervently defend your bigoted company. You do not get to pretend to care about racism when you buy merch off of your bigoted company. My fellow BIPOC (especially the queer BIPOC): why are you guys so comfortable dismissing your fellow poc about their discomfort with RWBY's racist writing? BIPOC are not a monolith with the same opinions about racism in media; but some of you guys are weirdly comfortable with turning a blind eye to your fellow BIPOC getting dogpiled by the white fandom. We can and will disagree, you not agreeing as a BIPOC about RWBY's racist writing is not what I take issue with. The issue lies within you upholding the racial colourblindness in the fandom; like how the fandom was ok with throwing the racism under the bus in favour of queerness, you are ok with throwing your BIPOC peers under the bus for white queerness. Sincerely, a POC who has been watching the fandoms rampant racism problem ever since 2019.

[deservedgrace]

something that i've been struggling to articulate but has been bothering me for a while is how some christians engage and interact with science and what i'm realizing is they have a like... almost love-bombing/discarding relationship with it. and i recognize science isn't a person and that's not literally happening but the christians that i grew up around have this relationship with science where it's real/valid/correct if it supports their side and fake/invalid/wrong if it doesn't. it's this like... engaging with science to get something from it when it can prove their point and condemning it when it doesn't. and this also ties into the belief that you, a layperson with no background in science, are more knowledgeable than actual scientists simply because you have god on your side, and therefore you can use science in whatever way you see fit, which means engaging with it in a way that is ultimately anti-science (but that also doesn't matter because god said it was okay). and it's exhausting engaging with these people for me because it's not that they believe all science bad, it's that they believe most science bad but some science good and they have the authority to determine what is bad and what is good, despite, again, not having a background in science (because what is a "background in science" to an all-knowing god that you have a personal relationship with?). the thing that is so frustrating to me is how these people recognize science is valued and use it to strengthen the validity of their points and to gain credibility while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge the validity of science as a field at all or put in any effort to understand/respect it.

[notafagipromise]

I wish we had mithrun in laios guild inside the dungeon for a while, I think that the need if caring for someone senshi has and mithrun's need of assistance would complement each other

[lavaflowe]

The Pilgrims braid Wukong’s hair with mixed results 💕💕

[employee052]

i wanna dress up as narry for halloween so bad

[foreststarflaime]

Last Line Challenge!

Tagged by @prismaticpichu, ty! <3

He let out a sigh of relief as he heard coughing. Though still not apparently conscious, the person was coughing up disturbing amounts of mako. Genesis rolled the person over to face him as they finished and began to breathe raggedly, but thankfully steadily. His eyes widened as he took in the black armored jacket, the silvery shoulder-length hair, and the face that stared down at him from the many posters in his bedroom. It was Sephiroth.

Had an idea for a multichap where Sephiroth trips and falls in the lifestream while Rhadore was collapsing and gets spat out in Banora for a forced vacation! First chapter is done I just don’t wanna post it when I won’t be able to do anything with it for a while bc I have actually insane amounts of papers/other schoolwork overwhelming me 🫡😭

Tagging (no pressure!) @decadentblazewolf @salternateunreality2 and whoever else wants to!

[hunsa-jars]

Dread be dreading

[bredforloyalty]

i study psychology so i can think about characters better :|

[humandisastersquad]

The company i work for is absolutely Haemorrhaging staff atm bc management refuse to listen to anyone and/or listen to the wrong people when it comes to changing and improving things, and ofc aren’t able to replace them at the same rate so instead of, yknow, finding and fixing the issues said staff have said caused them to leave (aka the regional manager), they’re just riding the asses of us poor sods who are left, berating us for not being able scan as many patients and condescendingly telling us how to do our jobs even tho basically none of them have a background in health, let alone have to deal with patients every day. Not to mention there’s national HCW shortages so we’re pretty much guaranteed a job somewhere else bc everywhere is just as desperate for more staff

[giantkillerjack]

My first time watching Glass Onion it was obvious that Miles' speeches were bullshit, but I still searched for any hidden meaning there might be.

The second time is a different experience though because every time my brain starts to search for meaning, I feel like Benoit Blanc discovering that no, there is absolutely no hidden meaning.

It's bullshit it's all nothing nothing nothing! It is just how you end up talking when everyone reacts to your self-aggrandizing word vomit like it is actually wisdom.

Also, legit, when Miles gave his stupid bullshit speech about what the word 'disruptor' means to him, I shit you not I was like holy shit am I back in business school right now?!

Miles must have given speeches like that at 100 business school graduations, goddamn.

Like, the motherfuckers really do sound like this. We didn't have any billionaires come, but we had a lot of millionaire guest speakers in my classes, and they fucking talk like that.

They all think they're rugged capitalists, but they're just glass onions!

[friarvelune]

Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last / and I will burn hotter than the sun.

(Image description: a colored pencil and digital edits drawing of Friar Velune, who in this art appears to be a young adult with asymmetrical short blond hair, short brown facial hair, and who is wearing black robes. Their hair, skin, and clothes are covered in patches of dirt. Their eyes are glowing and yellow and they look up, terrified, black makeup running down their face in tear tracks, as an invisible being says the words written in the sky above them, "You will never be blind again" in all caps. They seem to be covering one eye, but it glows through their hand. Bright rays of sunlight streak across the drawing, though the background is dark, indicating night. End of image description.)