#i'm not a substitute teacher technically

[truths33k3r4]

How would you say Lotus’ relationship is growing with the brothers?

I'M SO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG FOR ME TO RESPOND TO-

I was on vacation and away from my precious computer with all my lovely files and sketches on it, so I had to wait till I got home to answer-

ANYWAYS! To your question!

Ooooh hehe this is gonna be another long one~ STRAP IN HAHA!

(Before I begin I'm going to give a little warning, because this is, technically, discussing spoilers of my story! You have been warned!)

(TW- mention of ptsd, needles, medical phobias, implied experimentation, trauma)

Lotus begins her time with the brothers pretty... rough. She's hurt, afraid, and continually fighting to keep control of her emotions and ptsd. She attempts (at first) to cover this up by speaking with more confidence than she truly has. She's blunt with her words, never allowing someone to misunderstand her. But her honesty becomes troublesome as Mikey becomes more curious about what happened to her. He constantly asks questions, and in order to keep from scarring the younger turtle, she vigilantly censors and blurs her answers.

It helps that Mikey has been in the Medbay so many times himself. Many of Lotus' triggers lie in that medicinal room, and Mikey quickly learns this. It doesn't quite make sense to him at first why she's so scared. He's been sat down on that exam table more times than he can count, but any time fear tried to show its ugly mug, the love and gentleness of his oldest brother's care pushed it back into the shadows.

To Lotus, Mikey looks and acts about the same age as she might be, so she feels a natural sibling comradery with him. It takes some time for her to finally open up to him, (again, for fear that she will legit BREAK THIS POOR BOY), but his gentle encouragement eventually pulls the last brick of her crumbling walls loose.

~

Lotus and Don share many similarities: Their lack of patience for any kind of stupidity, their shared mentality of logic over emotion, and especially~ the reason of their work ethic.

Don is the only brother who has a "human" job. He works in IT, helping customers with their computers, files, softwares, etc. He has put this large responsibility of a full-time, remote job on his shoulders so he can be of more use to his family. Sure, he takes care of the various leaks and loose screws (his brothers) around their home, but it never feels like it's enough. God gave him a brain- so he better put it to good use! Like a rusted piece of an engine, you're only so useful for so long, and can easily be replaced if a better substitute comes along.

Lotus, (after recovering enough to stand and walk on her own again), quickly tries to find a chore she can do for the family that took her in. They went out of their way to take her into their home; giving her a bed to sleep in, real food to eat, and a warmth in her heart she never dreamed of feeling.

Their grace will never be wasted on her.

After finding that she was still too weak to do most of the chores around the lair, she defeatedly went to Don for advice on what she could do. They brainstormed for some time. Don would click and clack on his computer, jotting down all the possible choices for her, until one in particular caught Lotus' attention.

BAKING.

With his thorough understanding of chemistry, as well as years of watching and helping Splinter as a child, Don was the perfect teacher for her. After his shift ended, he and Gliss, (his nickname for Lotus), went into the kitchen and baked an array of strudels, croissants, cakes, and many other delectable treats. Don would even sneak a few pastries from their load of "stale" baked goods from the bakery down the street, to use as reference for techniques on folding, braiding, and so forth. They would also get some good ninja practice in while fending off Don's thieving brothers from their sweet treats.

(Here's some old concept art of a later scene of Don and Lo on the rooftops) :)

~

Lotus and Raph don't always see eye to eye. In fact- they fight. A lot. Like Don, Lotus is also extremely similar to her fiery brother. Their boldness and tempers mix violently, creating a flaming whirlwind of spite and annoyance in a matter of seconds. Neither will usually back down, often leaving that particular responsibility to someone else. Their arguments can range from a long and low-flickering rivalry, to a raging inferno that will swallow both of them up if not stopped.

However, the worst of enemies can also become the closest of friends.

When Lotus begins having horrible side affects of her treatments, (or lack thereof), she vigilantly tries to keep her sickness hidden. (She can NOT be a burden to the family that took her in- not EVER) Raph is one of the first, (alongside Leo), who catches on to what she's keeping hidden from them. When all is revealed, and arguments begin, Lotus finally breaks about her guilt of being a burden to her the family. Raph recognizes this guilt as the same in his own heart from years of being an enemy of one of his brothers. This connection of weakness bonds the two.

Over time, they learn to respect the other's opinions and feelings, no matter if they make sense or not. The specific Bible verse "A fool uttereth all his words, but a wise man keepeth them in" is continually referenced by their brothers on the road to their relationship's recovery.

Curt replies and snide remarks become clarifications and encouragement.

Competition becomes humility.

Rivalry becomes tenderness.

Eventually, Lotus is often found chilling alongside Raph in Don's office while the freckled brother works. Lotus loves to watch Raph sketch in his notebook, and Raph soon learns to allow the subtle scrutiny, so long as he gets to spend time with his sis and twin. Their passion and creativity blend into something beautiful when they come together to create a very important mural.

(More concept art- and also something else the two share.. A fear of needles. :( )

~

Lotus and Leo's relationship begins pretty badly at first.

After the dreaded surgery gone wrong, Leo becomes more nervous and hesitant around Lo. His guilt of what went wrong during the surgery being his fault drives him to be extra cautious around her, trying not to bring up anything that will trigger her in any sort of way.

Lotus both appreciates it and hates it. She loves his care for her, but she despises being coddled in any kind of way. She isn't some delicate flower that will blow away with one sneeze. She also becomes more hesitant to be near him, (not just because he works in that awful room), always choosing to hang out with Mikey or the twins.

Leo can't blame her.

When Lotus begins having tense side affects to her treatments in the labs, Leo and Raph combine forces to get her to tell them when she's sick. "I'm fine" is no longer a liable answer to how she was feeling. Nope- they demanded descriptive and thorough answers.

The road of Lotus' recovery is a long and tedious one.

Every second spent in the Medbay filled Lotus' heart with the paralyzing chill of her past. And despite previously forgiving Leo for the surgery gone wrong, she still had a stubborn spark of distrust in her heart towards him. Especially when he treated her.

But after an exhausting few months, she slowly grows stronger and healthier. Her Medbay visits become less frequent, (much to her delight), and her independence finally is given the chance to bloom. Leo still catches himself coddling her, but always cuts himself off and dismisses his oldest brother protective instincts.

Over time Leo introduces her to one of his favorite past times~ puzzles while listening to music. Something simple, that didn't require too much brain work, and also could be done sitting down. It was the perfect mental getaway for the leader; Something so calm and relaxing that he could do to recover from a mission or a stressful day in the Medbay. (And of course he could organize every single puzzle piece and not get flack for it, because that is LITERALLY HOW you do a puzzle, and it is NOT WRONG to enjoy the organization process of shapes and colors~)

So whenever they weren't training, or off saving the small world of New York, Lotus and Leo would sit and hum to various soundtracks, while placing and organizing the puzzle pieces.

Okay, that's all I have for now! :) I have been writing this for two hours now heheh XD

Thanks for the question, Anon!!

To God be the glory!

~ Melissa

[openphrase123]

scrolling thru your top posts and this is NOT isat relevant but i wanna hear the story where you literally broke a leg on stage if youre ok talking about it. obviously it sucks awful and i hope you're okay but it is a LITTLE funny to think about everyone saying "break a leg" before your performance and you being like. well. i am good at following instruction at least

LOL yeah it happened like. oh god more than a decade ago. so it's not traumatic or anything, i am more than healed.

anyway my big leg breaking story under the cut:

basically. uh. so i wear these big honkin epilepsy glasses, right? always have, they stop me from having seizures. but i got cast as a protean in a production of a funny thing happened on the way to the forum and the drama teacher was like "well there weren't glasses in ancient greece so you gotta take those off" DURING DRESS REHEARSAL. she did not bring this up UNTIL TWO DAYS BEFORE OPENING NIGHT.

and past the epilepsy i also. have bad eyesight. so i'm like... clown juggling fake babies and doing cartwheels and somersalts with no eyesight, now.

now. this is a big deal as far as disability stuff goes. a teacher should not say that to a student. however i had eight years character ballet performance under my belt so i can do a lot of athletic feats with very little eyesight. so i THOUGHT i'd be fine. i'd been on stage a million times without glasses and lived, as long as i'm not on stage during a strobe effect i'm good to go

and i was :) i was throwing people in the air and getting thrown and hitting all my marks, no problem.

opening night happens, performance goes great. teacher is so glad that i wasn't wearing giant ugly blue glasses the whole time. i leave the after-performance cast meetup to go backstage to retrieve my glasses

you know the little half-stairs at both ends of a stage? i walk up those to get backstage, it's the only way from the audience to get up there

and i absolutely rip ass on the stairs and trip and fall on my face and leg

next morning my mom is like "hey your foot is super swollen" and it turns out i have a hairline fracture running down the entire length of my fourth toe bone. i am pulled out of every performance and i had to go to junior prom in a cast

(yes i know. Technically not my leg. foot is connected to the leg though)

anyway. it's been over a decade. it's Fine. that teacher was such a bitch though i'll never forget her, at least she wasn't the substitute teacher that tried to tell me epilepsy didn't exist tho

[skyeventide]

the queer language in Doktor Faustus is actually insane.

Adrian hides everything about his passion for music, he hides that he plays piano on his own, even from his childhood friend. then he flees from the pursuit of music by trying to study theology, which however bores him. his private music teacher wants to convince him to take the final step and finally abandon the study of theology for music. the narrator, Serenus the childhood friend, points out that Adrian's mother would have no reason to think the study of music as something disturbing or unbecoming, and yet she displays a certain hostility towards the music teacher and an unexplainable protectiveness towards Adrian in his presence.

there is an entire letter from Adrian to his teacher where he tries to reason his way out of studying music and gives a series of explanations as to why his personality is not fit for it. he shows this letter to Serenus.

and like:

the way music stands for sexuality after this is then reiterated. Adrian in Leipzig is led into a brothel by a devil-like individual, who sells him the place as a tavern. only inside does Adrian understand where he is, but instead of accepting the girls attentions, he goes to a piano and plays. until one touches him with an arm, then he leaves with nothing done. he writes about this to Serenus who is, oh my god, balls to the walls mad about it, but deflecting the reason why. he tells us no less than three times that we shouldn't read this worry and apprehension and fear as a tell on Serenus' own character. it only speaks as a reflection of Adrian's character. and like, you're saying this a bit too much for it to sound legit my buddy. methinks it's about both of you.

Adrian's letter also has gems such as

Chopin and Delacroix, ok lmao

Adrian seeing the piano in the brothel:

that absolutely unnecessary clarification (gazing at me, not you), the piano as a friend. are supposed to assume he simply sat down and played piano instead of doing what you do in a brothel? and if he really did simply play, even the mare fact that the act of music stands in substitution for what should technically have happened...

and Serenus commentary of it all, because oh my god. oh my god. and note the repetition of "angel" as a descriptor for Adrian which is the same thing Adrian said of, uh, Chopin.

I'm just copy-pasting parts here but this entire section is literally insane:

and last but absolutely not fucking least:

[illusion-of-death]

Hiya! How's about 3, 5, 12, 13, 19, 21, & 23 for that ask meme? :D

Fandom ask game: x

3. All-time favorite pairing? I've answered this one already (Daruk and Urbosa QPR), but if I had to pick a close second, I think I might have to say Yasha and Beauregard from Critical Role. You can just never go wrong with those two.

5. Favorite platonic pairing? I have SO many of these because basically everything I ship is some form of QPR. But if we're talking just two besties being pals (in a very literal sense), I get a lot of enjoyment from the Link and Riju dynamic (again with the Zelda characters, I know, but if you take a look at my AO3 you can probably understand why).

12. Craziest thing you've ever done as part of a fandom? Not sure if this was exactly a 'part of a fandom' thing, but one time in high school I got into an argument with a substitute teacher about a minor character in King Lear, which we were not reading for his class, and got so mad that I went home that night (it was the Friday before a three-day weekend) and showed up Tuesday morning with a six-page paper citing multiple sources detailing why he was wrong. Thankfully he was still there to tell me it was the most iconic thing a student had ever done to him. That guy was the best.

13. Fandom you've been part of the longest? I think the answer to this might technically be Final Fantasy VII, but FFVI is definitely the one that had the most impact on me in those early days.

19. Fanfic you read again and again? At the risk of sounding like I'm tooting my own horn: mine. It was written precisely with my tastes in mind, after all! Besides that, I'll occasionally go back through my bookmarks and reread oneshots I enjoyed, though I don't think I've ever revisited a multichapter more than once.

21. Favorite fic trope? SO MANY. I'm a particularly big fan of 'introspective character studies that are extremely thinly-veiled disability metaphors', if that counts? Or, if you're asking for something easy to describe and commonly tagged: hurt/comfort.

23. Age when you started reading fanfic? I was probably about 11 when I was introduced to the term "fanfiction" and started seeking out and reading it in online spaces, but I definitely wrote my own/read what other kids at school were writing long before I fully understood what we were doing.

Thanks for asking!

[darkboysroadtrip]

"So, what's your story Logan?" Annie asks, "I haven't seen you since you were two, all I know about you is that you're married if that wedding ring has anything to say about it."

Logan twirls his ring around, the small baby blue and red jewels sparkle when the light catches them.

"Legally we aren't married, but that's mostly to do with our situation" he says.

"Your situation?"

"There are three of us, I came into their relationship a little after they got married, and then afterwards the three of us did our own ceremony, it's not legally binding but it's binding in the way that matters most."

"That sounds... complicated but I'm happy for you!"

"It's not really when you see our dynamic."

"I'm sure it's all very sweet, what do you do for a living?"

"I'm a kindergarten teacher, I also substitute for older grades if need be, I can be a college professor if I wanted to, but the younger minds need good guidance and I believe that I could be that for them."

"Wow, smarty pants" Annie ribs him.

"Technically that's Dr. Smarty Pants, but I didn't tell you that so I'll let it slide this time" he jokes back.

"Oooo Dr PhD" Annie smiles and then she looks sad again, "Melody would be so proud of you, she would be no matter what though."

There's a lull in their conversation before Logan asks, "was I there when he was murdering her?"

Annie seems a little shocked by how blunt the question was but she answers it, "you were in the other room, you were supposed to be sleeping but when the shouting started I could hear your cries, you were asleep when I woke up though."

Logan lightly nods.

"You're not going to believe me about Antha" he says after a minute.

"Try me, I believe in some weird stuff."

"My group and I were exploring her house, silly as it is we were ghost hunting" he decides not to tell her the whole story lest he sound too out of it, "and we found her."

Annie's eyes go wide, "Antha's ghost?"

"Precisely, she showed us how she was murdered, she showed us through her eyes."

Annie looks horrified at this, but she stays quiet.

"We helped put her to rest, she's at peace now."

"And that's why you came here looking for more answers, you put clues together and followed a hunch."

"Exactly" Logan confirms.

"I've been in that house plenty times, why didn't she come to me?"

Logan shakes his head, "I couldn't tell you."

Before anyone can say anything else there's a bang against the door - like someone walked into it.

The handle jiggles, "hey, the door is stuck" Jerry says, he's motioning to the handle at them through the little window.

Annie sighs and gets up to open the door, "what is it Jerry?"

"Uh, the sheriff dude is here, he wants to talk to you or something."

Annie scowels, "ugh I hate that man."

"Feelings mutual" Logan says from behind her.

Annie snickers before they both walk back to the front of the library.

[asks are the lifeblood of ask blogs fam! 😎👉👉]

[catcze]

Waittttt you teach kids??? No wonder you drink, I would too tbh

I do, yes 😭😭 I'm technically a floating teacher (a.k.a a substitute for if a regular teacher is absent) but on days where I don't have anyone to swap in for I assist in the kindergarten, which can be... a lot 💀💀 but !! it's actually not super duper bad once you get used to it ?? Some of the kids are a bit of a handful, but sometimes it's just a matter of patience and knowing what to say to get them to behave or answer their little worksheets hajskdajkhn

[footballffbarbiex]

h'ok things i'm working on this month :

patreon requests: (patrons should also have access to the teaser spreadsheet. see last dm for the "link". you'll need to remove the spaces.)

Dušan Vlahović x 2 smut John Stones x 1 (i think this was a lost request, it incl dirty talk, praise and degradation. i know who sent it and she's no longer a patron so i'll post this one here on tumblr too.) Leon Goretzka x3 (2 smut, 1 fluff) Mats Hummels x 2 (1 fluff, 1 smut) Nico Schlotterbeck x 1 fluff Rodrigo De Paul x 1 smut Rúben Dias x 1 fluff Chris Evans x 2 (1 is him as Andy Barber) both fluff (also technically this one isn't a request but it's for a patron, i do also have a priest smut that shouldn't be several parts but probably is gonna be too)

for tumblr however, we have,

Ben Chilwell x 2 smut Calum Chambers x 1 smut DCL & Ben Godfrey threesome x 1 DCL x 1 smut Douglas Luiz x 2 (1 smut, 1 fluff) Hector Bellerin x 1 smut Jack Grealish x 5 smut (incl 1 AU of substitute teacher. there will be warnings but she's over 18 bc we dont make our players nonces here) Joe Gomez x 2 smut John Stones x 3 smut Kasper Schmeichel x 1 smut Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall x 1 smut Leon Goretzka x 1 smut Marco Rose x 2 smut Mason Mount x 1 smut Mason Mount & Ben Chilwell threesome x 1 Mikel Arteta x 2 (1 smut, 1 fluff) Paulo Dybala x 1 smut Roman Burki x 2 smut Sergio Ramos x 1 fluff TAA x 2 smut Thorgan Hazard x 1 smut VVD x 2 (1 smut, 1 fluff)

[fantasyinallforms]

Did you ever call your teachers by their first name? If you work in education, do you let the students call you by your first name?

The nibblings were discussing what students would call me if I was a teacher yesterday and it reminded me. When I used to be a substitute I never bothered to introduce myself or write my name on the board, literally just never thought of it. One class I had a girl raise her hand and ask what my name was so I automatically gave her my first name and after a few seconds added my last. There was dead silence in the 8th grade classroom for a good 30 seconds to a minute before she burst out with "we can call you by your first name!?" I was like yeah sure. You would probably not believe how absolutely excited this made the students, I heard my name more times over that class period than I hear it in a year lol. The next school year I was at the high school and hear my name and turn around and it's the girl from that class and she yells Hi then turns to her friends see I told you I wasn't lying!

*Asks are for fun, no pressure to answer quickly or at all.*

Thays a fantastic story! I never called my teachers by their first names. It wasn't really allowed when I was in school.

I'm not a teacher in the strictest sense. I work a few times a month with a high school that has a culinary magnet program. I sorta guest star and teach technical things like how to debone a fish or how to make things like carbonara without ending up with scrambled egg pasta. The students call me Chef Jackie so I don't go by my last name.

[thedunesea]

As a language and literature teacher, I have to familiarize myself with ai writing systems: they will soon enough become both an enemy and a tool, and I can't afford being caught unprepared.

I've seen a lot of (understandable) criticism of ai writing, especially on the risks of it substituting real human writing (and I'm talking specifically about writing: I know nothing about ai art).

I agree with most of that criticism: we must not let creative writing die and let a machine entertain us with stories that do not stem from a real person's soul.

But, as a teacher and a hobbyist writer, let me tell you that it can be an invaluable tool.

You aren't sure that a passage makes sense? Feed it to the ai, it will tell you if it's making sense or not. I know it may not seem much, but think how much this could help someone who has just started writing and doesn't have a beta or is too shy to share. Or someone who is writing in a language that is not their own and has no one to ask for advice.

Are you afraid that your prose always follows the same pattern? Ask the ai, it will tell you if you need to vary it.

A word doesn't come to mind? You don't know the word for something? Ask the ai, describe what it is you need to name, and it will give you the words you need.

You want to do research on a topic but google isn't helping and you don't know where to start? Ask the ai for bibliography. It will give you sound answers. I tried asking it for sources about a few topics I covered in my PhD thesis. The bibliography it gave me was accurate.

A tool is neither good nor bad: only intentions are. Learn how to use the tool, add it to the toolbox of your craft: it can help you with the technicalities of pouring your soul into your art.

No machine will ever compete with that.

[decemebercircus]

To Teacher, a Lesson

(Or Teach her a lesson depending on your pronunciation)

Notes:

This is a sort of a promise fic and I have another one to keep-- but since this is short this is simpler.

I'm not good at getting characters accurate so if you feel it's ooc then sorry, I did my best. Oh yeah, I am not very fond of x reader fanfics reading them when they are good/interesting I will do. Write them? On most cases I will not.

So this is a OC who is technically gender neutral. But I leave that up to you.

I also changed the glasses.

This fic was suggested by @mlk082

With their post: https://at.tumblr.com/mlk082/704789841502666752/4pd1vov4cspz

Story:

"Aw man! another flunked Alchemy test! Professor Crewel lives up to his name 'cruel'" Venice complained and tried to follow up with a pun.

"That was a bad joke. Venice," Ace complains.

"Says you who came up with a worse joke about Riddle this morning." Venice retorted.

Jade smiled coyly. "I'd be happy to offer my services to tutor you"

Ace looked around "alright where's your dorm leader?"

"This isn't a deal. I'm doing this of my own free will" Jade remarked. "More specifically for Venice-san if you dont want to take this opportunity." Jade closed the book he had on history.

"Yup I'm leaving," Ace dipped.

"Bye Venice!" He called running out of the classroom.

"Dammit of all the days for Ace to have the braincell..." Venice deadpanned.

"Shall we meet in the library?" Jade asked.

"Oh! Right! Sure!" Venice nodded.

***~~~***

"Jade why are you wearing glasses-- are those AZUL'S?!" Venice asked.

"These are a spare set. Azul will not miss them for a hour or two," Jade said as if that cleared that up.

"I dunno Jade the glasses kinda draw attention to your eyes..." Venice commented

"Why thank you" Jade smiled. 'Was that a genuine smile?' Venice blinked. Most of them have a 'shady mushroom fanatic' vibe or 'curiously too interested in "opportunities'" much like his dorm leader. Venice however was mainly surprised that he seemed genuinely happy.

"Shall we get to the lesson?" Jade picked up a pencil.

"Yup! I'm ready!" Venice commented displaying the thick notebook and the alchemy study guide with its companion workbook. The idea of the study guide was actually just a logbook full of terms, phrases and various ingredients and what they could be substituted for. However Venice had a beginner's study guide which was noticeably thin and like did not have much info.

Jade made a mental note of that.

An hour and a half later, Venice had a full twenty pages worth of notes to study from.

"Let's get a snack!" Venice commented eagerly, seemingly proud of themself for remembering the information Jade told them.

"I already have that arranged. Floyd should be here soon--"

"Hiya Jade! Kurage-chan!"

"Hi Floy-- why do you keep calling me that?" Venice's eyebrow twitched.

"I brought snacks!" Floyd remarked instead.

"Oi" Venice stared at the large sub sandwhiches. Decorated with what they could see to be tomatoes, prosciutto, ham, purple onions mushrooms-- of course. Venice nearly facepalmed.

"Jade you look all scholarly with those glasses," Floyd commented.

Jade nodded. "Thank you Floyd" he grabbed for the sandwich closer to him.

"I don't really like it" Floyd continued.

"Thank you Floyd" Jade remarked before taking a bite of the sandwich. Venice looked between the twins.

"Hey Jade gimme half of your sandwhich" Floyd said after a brief moment of silence.

"Sure" Jade said and in a flash he twirled his lavender gem studded pen and uses some magic spell to slice the sandwhich. Floyd picked up his half then seemed to remember something.

Lifting the bread he found six mushrooms. Jade smiled innocently. Floyd had a change of mind. "On second thought I'll go back to the lounge"

You aren't going to eat your sandwhich?" Jade called after him.

"NOPE!" was the reply as Floyd left the library.

Venice happily munched on the sandwhich. But Jade, whether due to his brother's comment or otherwise, took the glasses off.

When lunch break was over the time to hit the books returned. Jade redonned the glasses.

"Oh hang on a sec so if I come up with the chance to use this I can substitute it for its ground powder form and the potion won't be affected?" Venice asked not long after they started again.

"Of course. As long as you measure accurately it will be fine. You can even use herbs and roots that stem from the same family. Provided the required precautions of safety are in place" Jade reassured.

"Got it" Venice commented writing the helpful information down.

When the study session ended, Jade removed the glasses again. I look forward to future sessions Venice-san Jade smiled.

"Say why'd you offer to help me anyway?" Venice asked as they left the library.

"Why indeed" Jade replied with another genuine smile.

[karometeenk]

guys i'm in a dilemma! my substitute singign teacher got me a really nice song! it's a story! the drama, the pathos! and it's not even that technically challenging (except i'll be completely out of breath) only problem is that it's 5 full minutes. and i also might do deying gravity, which is also not a short song. if i have to do the mandatory 5 exam pieces i will be on stage for over 20 minutes.

[voxxisms]

alt!

@radiomurdeer whispered a line !! Send me "alt!" and I'll introduce you to a charecter I've rped in the past, want to play in the future or are currently playing somewhere else! ( all of these are true )

❛ Hey, sweeties! I'm Jasilyn, good meeting you all! I'm a part - time substitute teacher, a part - time nurse, &&, you know, a cannibal! Only sometimes, though!  ❜

JASILYN ROE a pre - school sub teacher, part time nurse, && cannibal oc. technically found at valiantsouls, heavily considering a hazbin verse!

[yukidiaries]

School teacher ratings PART TWOOOKQIJEI!?? ;?! 'NNVNNDJNFNNX !!!!!!!! 👹👹👹 not naming anyone so if any of people I know sees this they can sue me because I technically didn't say the names

Filipino Teacher: oh my god my worst subject yet holy shitttyhhj THE LOWEST GRADES I HAVE and BRUH THE PROJECTS OH THE PROJECTS SPECIALLY THE ACTING IT'S CRYFULL she's vvvvvery kind thooo I like her over the course of quarters her exam got easier so 8/10 I'm fine with lower grades YIPPIEEEE 😁😁😁😇😇😇🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 she even teached class even though she has a growing womb on her PROPS TO TGAT, doesn't change the fact that Filipino class is so boring but I'm rating the teacher not the subject sooo

AP Teacher: YES YES YEAGHHHRHHHHHRHJD she's vvvvvery nice tooo her exams is possible and passable yeahhhdhh SHE EVEN CUTS A SHIT TON PARTS OF THE BOOK THE BORING ONES LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO 9/10 I'm feeling generous I'm not gonna rate 10 unless the teacher is VERY VERY VERY TOO TOOOOO GOOD. YIPPIEEEEEE 🥳🥳 Ap is also fucking boring as fuck I don't even listen for the most times

Tle teacher: still the same though he got stricter ever since there was a college student trainee nothing much to say but he has a more feeling of professional not like I heard him say "do you have a problem passing the test?" He said it in such a concerned voice when the student answered barely to NOTHING on the test paper. Exams are still easy but it wasn't made by him soo... 8.5/10, decent and lowkey absent, nothing much to say.

Mapeh teacher: boi if the tle teacher was absent this man is NOT ON EARTH yeah he supervises the trainees. Gets mad for no fricking reason LIKE CHILL FOR A MOMENT, I KNOW BEING A TEACHER IS STRESSFUL BUT BIOLOGICALLY THEY ARE NOT YOUR CHILDREN. I'd say he's kind of verbally abusive. The basketball team for him was really good I don't know how he fucked shit up BECAUSE THEY LOST and he was PRESSURING THEM. like they were good CAN YOU PLEASE JUST BE A LITTLE SUPPORTIVE. THEY ARE STUDENTS THEY CAN'T BE A TROPHY BRO. OH AND NOT TO MENTION THE FAVORITISM, LIKE WHY AM I 99 I'M NOT EVEN THAT GOOD AND I'M LAZY WITH THE ACADEMICS MY CLASSMATE WORKED HARD FOR SHIT AND HIS GRADES DIDN'T EVEN LIFT ONCE. A WHOOPING 5/10 next pls.

Tle substitute college student teacher: She deserves a section here because BRO SHOOK THE WHOLE FUCKING SECTION. GETTING WRONG BECAUSE YOU DID PUT S ON YOUR ANSWER IS CRAZYYYY DAWG 😭😭😭😭 ABOVE HALF FAILED EVEN ME AT THE QUIZ AND SHE STILL THINKS WE HAVE A PROBLEM BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD GRADE 😭😭😭😭 she knows how to teach with real confidence but she also goes with the strict vibe like "pls don't be friendly with me because I'm a teacher and it's my rules." Personally I think this is queen shit right here but GURL THE S WRONG IS JUST UNJUSTIFIED. The tle teacher even asked to rate her 10 to 0 I didn't raise my hand but THEY ALL RAISED AT 10 BOI I KNOW YOU LYING— the boys in the back just holding themselves to raise their hand at five. I think the strict vibe is okay but there's just one time at the exam we were taking the test papers and girl was just sitting there. Using her phone. WITH VOLUME I CAN HEAR YOUR "DADDY'S HOME AUDIO" MISS (not sure if it's daddy's home but it was something like a tiktok audio not sure) that was just no, just no. Personally I'd rate her like uhhh... 8.9/10 it'd be 9.5/10 if she corrects the strict checking I'm sure when she becomes a teacher she'll get taught not to do that soon enough. (Monday is her test I'm sure she'll become a teacher then I'm 180% sure)

Math teacher: unprofessional. She's lazy, forgets to remind important stuff, messed up the test paper bad multiple time but she teachers the math nice so we can understand yeah! She's a very good vibe even though that 9.3/10 YIPPIE next

English teacher: I like the subject! The projects have so much potential for creativeness I even drew a manga on a whole karton for one project. I LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE THE PROJECT WE EVEN HAVE TO MAKE A POSTERS COOL COOL VERY COOL I CAN SHOW OFF MY GRAPHIC DESIGN SKILLS AND WRITING TOO YIPPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I LOVE THE TEACHER THE PROJECTS HAVE A BROAD CHANCE FOR CREATIVITY EVEN THOUGH SOMETIMES I GET LAZY FOR IT BUT I PASS AN ASSIGNMENT BAD OR GOOD UNFINISHED OR FINISHED LIKE HECK YEAH THE LESSONS ARE NEVER BORING TOO THE TEACHER IS KIND HE ISN'T THAT HARSH AT THE COLLEGE TRAINEES EVEN THOUGH THEY MESS UP ALOT HE PROBABLY EVEN HELPED THEM TO MAKE THE LESSON MORE FUN THE LESSON ALWAYS STARTS WITH SOME SORT OF GAME ALSO I DON'T THINK HE'S GOOD AT ONLINE CLASSES BUT F2F CLASSES ARE THE BEST 10.2/10 YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Science teacher: oh god, I saved the best(worst) one for last, half of the students HATES HER HELL EVEN I DO LIKE WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN WHEN WE HAVE HAVE TO MEMORIZE THE FLIPPING PERIODIC TABLE WHEN YOU MAKE US BE WARY OF THE FUCKING ENUMERATIONS SURE YOUR EXAMS ARE EASY BUT YOU BARELY EXPLAIN STUFF IN THE CLASS, YOU BERATE A STUDENT PUBLICLY WHEN THEY DON'T DO GOOD. YOU MESS UP ALOT OF THE ANSWERS but yeah.... I guess we should give people a chance...... Some people ain't perfect..... But fucking hell are you serious. You give like a shit ton of homework you demand for it and then you don't check it in the end....? Come on man.... I think she's too old to be a teacher but she's trying her best. The exams aren't completely bad either now but I hold grudges in the past so 5/10 maybe I can forgive her

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hi! sorry if this is annoying, but I'm queer and learning Italian (my teacher is awesome!) and I know there are no "gender neutral pronouns" but I've heard that queer people with languages kinda make up their own? Is that also true for Italian? ty! 🩷

Hi! Not annoying at all.

So, Italian doesn't have an official neutral form. Latin used to have it, but we lost it in Italian. There are a few ways to get around the problem when it comes to written communication.

Some use ə (schwa) to replace the gendered vowel at the end of most adjectives. -> for "beautiful", we have bello (m.), bella (f.), bellə (g.n.)

Some people directly omit the gendered vowel (e.g. bell)

Some people substitute the gendered vowel with an x (e.g. bellx) or with an asterisk (e.g. brav*)

Some replace the gendered vowel with "u" (e.g. bellu)

Now, pronouns- we have "egli/lui" (he) and "ella/lei" (she), and a written gender neutral option can be "ləi". Same goes for "essi" (them, m.) and "esse" (them, f.) but honestly nobody uses these anymore, we just say "loro" (g.n.).

Unfortunately, this doesn't really work with oral communication, because the schwa doesn't belong to Italian phonology, so even though we can absolutely pronounce it, it doesn't sound natural. For context, ə is what we have in words like /ˈtʃɪldrən/ (children). Italian doesn't have it, since its phonology only includes /a, ɛ, e, i, ɔ, o, u/

The substitution with "u" is the only option that works when speaking out loud, and it doesn't sound too off, nor too different from ə (not to untrained ears, anyway), so you can go with that.

And of course, you can't just pronounce the x like that at the end of a word- in English, it's either /ks/ or /gz/ depending on its position, but the Italian language doesn't work like that. We have words with x, such as ''ex'', ''extra'', ''xenofobia'', but as you notice they're all words imported from Latin (sometimes Greek), and despite popular beliefs, Italian and Latin are widely different- even if most of us could, technically, understand about 70% of any text written in Latin.

Also, * and x at the end of words are not immediately understandable for people who use text-to-speech.

It's easier when it comes to nouns, because fortunately most nouns have a gender neutral option that wasn't ''crafted'' with that purpose.

For example, instead of saying ''Sono solo una povera ragazza." (''I'm just a poor girl'') I use ''persona'', which is ''person'' (duh). OFC, in this case, the adjective ''povera'' will remain feminine because the noun ''persona'' is feminine- but just like it happens in English, the noun ''persona'' is for everyone, male, female, enby. It's neutral, it just means ''person''.

Nobody prevents you from using gender neutral nouns instead of gendered nouns, and same goes for adjectives, but sometimes you need to think ahead.

Some examples may be: bell-o/a > di bell'aspetto; simpatic-o/a > divertente; maestr-o/a and professor-e/essa> insegnante; dottor-e/essa > medico; carin-o/a > adorabile/gentile (context); buon-o/a > piacevole.

Now, the devil (for Italian kids, too): the dreaded apostrophe. What's the difference between ''un atleta'' and ''un'atleta'' (an athlete)? The first one is masculine, the second one is feminine. With nouns that are preceded by indefinite articles (sing.), and that start with a vowel, if the noun that follows is feminine, you need to add an apostrophe.

Even if you didn't know Italian, if you read ''un'ombra'', ''un orso'', ''un elicottero'', ''un'elica'', ''un'ape'', ''un amo'', etc, you'd be immediately able to distinguish feminine and masculine nouns.

So, going back to the ''atleta'' example, even if it's a gender-neutral option, when writing (because the presence of the apostrophe doesn't influence on the pronounciation) you're still going to have to give a gender to it, unless you get around it by saying ''Faccio l'atleta'' (lit. ''I do the athlete''. It's a correct way to say ''I'm an athlete''.)

A gendered sentence like "Ciao, mi chiamo X, sono una ragazza di 20 anni e sono un'atleta. Mi dicono tutti che sono bella, ma io mi sento orrenda. Da grande, vorrei fare la dottoressa." can be turned into ''Ciao, mi chiamo X, ho 20 anni e faccio l'atleta. Mi dicono tutti che sono di bell'aspetto, ma io mi sento inguardabile. Da grande, vorrei fare il medico."

("Hi, my name's X, I'm a 20 yr-old girl and I'm an athlete. Everyone tells me I'm pretty, but I feel ugly. When I grow up, I'd like to be a doctor.")

You have to think outside the box, you know? Personally, as a non-binary person, I use ə when I refer to myself (written), and try to use as many gender-neutral options as I can, both when I write and speak. I don't use the "u" substitution but I should start- it takes effort and 'training'. NGL, it's hard, and sometimes there's just no way of getting around it, but it's mostly doable!!

I hope this answers your question!

[necromelli]

oof yea, the school system SUCKS which reminds me that I'm gonna be sucked into uni again 😭😭 I've been suffering Law is god dang hard - N

Ur braver than me, n. My ass dropped out two years ago LMAOAOA. I was gonna do psychology but it got way too much (I'm diagnosed with the Sillies™) and then I was gonna get my paralegal certificate bc even tho in my state I don't technically need it I get paid a hell of a lot more but fasfa literally hates my guts + I didn't get enough money so now I'm gonna be a special education paraprofessional (i, thank god, do not need an associates degree which im literally half a semester away from finishing but I moved states and my credits wont transfer). this was the long winded version of me saying I freaking love law and dreamed of being a homicide detective for freaking ever until I was, so sadly, diagnosed with the Sillies™

Im a silly little custodian (sometimes a substitute teacher) for my local school <3 the breaks r so nice bc (usually) I get the same time off as my kiddos

unless it's rn where I had to move furniture almost the entire break 😔💔 bc we're getting our floors redone (our new floors give me the ick as a custodian bc they're literally water REPELLENT. like you cannot mop this shit bc the water like disappears into the nth layer of hell)

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Not Who I Was Not Anymore

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/6V5FQEb by TheDeadRobin He left. After years and years of being grasped by Gotham's cold hands. Tortured, betrayed, killed, resurrected. After all the pain and suffering and loss--he left. After leaving a mark on Crime Alley everyone would remember, as the day they lost Red Hood. Jason is resurrected once again. Though, this time is figurative. He goes to New York. He goes to a [rather prestigious] school. As a lecturer. He becomes: ''Jace. Jace Harper, nice to meet you all. I'm your new literature teacher.'' -- Neal was no longer Neal. At least for the next few hours he wasn't. business as usual. A little bit of a White Collar problem, mixed with some of his undercover work. Nothing new. ''Mr.Cooper, Alexander Cooper. I am your Art History substitute.'' But this time he likes it. A lot. This time, he actually keeps the job. This time he meets someone very interesting. Words: 1402, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Red Collar - One Soaked In Blood & Sorrow Fandoms: Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Hood: Lost Days, Batman (Comics), White Collar (TV 2009) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Neal Caffrey, Jason Todd, Original Characters, Peter Burke, Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne Relationships: Neal Caffrey/Jason Todd, Peter Burke & Neal Caffrey, Jason Todd & Original Male Character(s), Jason Todd & Original Female Character(s), Peter Burke & Jason Todd, Alfred Pennyworth & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: English Teacher Jason Todd, Undercover Neal Caffrey, Crossover, Jason Todd & Neal Caffrey Are Not The Same Person, Bisexual Jason Todd, Friends to Lovers, technically strangers to friends to lovers, Secrets, Angst, Fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, no beta we die like jason todd read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/6V5FQEb