#online schooling(discussed)

[starscelly]

will forever be on my soapbox abt how schooling should not be online outside of class hours ever. if i want to be in contact with you i'll come to your office hours. i don't want my professors to have 24/7 access to me. updates on stuff to do. ability to just throw piles upon piles of reading on you. i think tech has a place in learning for SURE but i think that place is not taking over the entirety of student's lives. there's no period of separation anymore. you constantly have school at your fingertips. it doesn't feel like you can have "off" hours where you hang out with friends or party or just fucking Chill Out anymore. the work is always looming and lingering.

[jils-things]

it's insane how much true crime content i can listen to when I'm drawing 😭

[raytorosaurus]

guys im just saying you don't have to believe literally everything you hear about second-hand online...also not everything needs to be Discussed Online and Made Public...there is a point where that just turns into cyberbullying...........

[satuurnos]

assignment due at 11:59 almost done . now onto a presentation I have not made yet that I must record and submit by 8 am

[enderwolf91]

tumblr is great for meeting and talking to people from all sorts of places/backgrounds, but it'll never live up to meeting the very diverse groups of people you meet in online college courses.

with my school starting this week I've been doing a lot of 'get to know your online classmates' (cuz when I got the option of in-person or online classes, my introverted ass immediately chose the latter) and let me tell you, these fuckers (affectionately) in one of my classes are the strangest, most ragtag put together people I have ever met.

First off, you have me. Mentally ill, Overwatch player with insomnia and too many stuffed animals and obsession with strawberry milk (I say with said drink sitting next to me, completely gone despite just pouring it)

My teacher is a fellow she/they who plays Call of Duty and reads poetry and worked at my local renaissance festival over the summer.

Then there's a physical therapist/rock climber named Gon. (I have had to refrain from making hunter x hunter references because I have a feeling that I am the only person in this class who watches anime and would understand the reference).

Three people majoring in Mortuary science while three others majoring in nursing; mind you one of the nursing majors has been a certified nurse assistant for 29 years and has 4 adult children...

A 15 year old??

A comedy screen writer whose very open about how his parents were more disappointed with him wanting to be professional comedy writer than coming out of the closet.

And my favorite addition. A girl who wants to major in either veterinary medicine or forensic/autopsy science (two sides of the same coin I guess). Has pet rats, 20+ species of tarantulas, and 4 cats all of which she calls her zoo. Weightlifts, plays Animal Crossing, enjoys anything horror-adjacent, and taxidermies her departed pets.

This is a group made to survive an apocalypse together and I am here for it. We have a sprinkle of all the crazy and then some. (if any of these people somehow find this post, hi i'm that one person majoring in art and has a cat name cheeto lol please don't tell teach. if you're my teacher and you saw this post... no you didn't... also please don't look at the other things i've posted I beg you.)

[camijhk]

sighhh on Tumblr again...... instead of doing homework

[greenconverses]

If I had a nickel for every time I got into an argument with an old person about fucking bud light in my master’s classes, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's goddamn annoying that it happened twice

[toiletpotato]

Read some of August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle (Century Cycle)

For a long time, the August Wilson Theatre used to be the only theatre on Broadway named after a Black person. Currently, only three out of forty-one theatres on Broadway are named after Black people, two of which were renamed in 2022 (The James Earl Jones Theatre and the Lena Horne Theatre respectively). The August Wilson Theatre was only renamed in 2005, just under two decades ago.

August Wilson was a very notable Black American playwright. One of his most notable series of works continues to be his Century Cycle (sometimes known as the Pittsburgh Cycle). It is a series of plays that focuses on the Black community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (for nine plays) and Chicago, Illinois (for one of them) over the course of a century. Two of the works you may have heard of are Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Fences as they have received film adaptations.

(Interestingly, James Earl Jones was in the original Broadway cast of Fences. His performance as Troy Maxson is absolutely masterful. You can watch a clip here.)

One of the better ways to experience plays is through watching them live or recorded. However, many plays are published so that they can be read as well! (In order to perform them, rights must be acquired).

These are contemporary plays, so the language is easier to understand than older plays that one might encounter in an English class. I have listed them in chronological order of when they were written. In parentheses, I have listed the year written and the year set.

If you click on a title, it will take you to a PDF.

Jitney (1982/1970s)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984/1920s)

Fences (1985/1950s)

Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1986/1910s)

The Piano Lesson (1987/1930s)

Two Trains Running (1990/1960s)

Seven Guitars (1995/1940s)

King Hedley II (1999/1980s)

Gem of the Ocean (2003/1900s)

Radio Golf (2005/1990s)

I'm still trying to find PDFs for Seven Guitars, King Hedley II, and Gem of the Ocean. If anyone happens to have PDFs on hand I would really appreciate it if you could add them!!

I will leave you all with some quotes that Mr. Wilson told the Paris Review (interview here), that he and Rob Penny "founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of using the theater to politicize the community or, as we said in those days, to raise the consciousness of the people." (emphasis mine). He also told them that he thinks that "my plays offer (White Americans) a different way to look at Black Americans. For instance, in Fences they see a garbageman, a person they don't really look at, although they see a garbageman every day. By looking at Troy's life, White people find out that the content of this Black garbageman's life is affected by the same things – love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty. Recognizing that these things are as much part of his life as theirs can affect how they think about and deal with Black people in their lives." (emphasis mine).

Thank you for taking the time to read this post, have a theatrical time of day!

[sleepii-moth]

about to take all my anger out on everyone in splatoon 3 as soon as i get home if you get murdered by a ravenous carbon roller player that was me and im not sorry

[weirdasscomments]

[rad-roche]

i feel like in my heart i have a splatterpunk slash horror novel in me. this sentiment doesn't mean very much because ideas are a dime a dozen, i'd have to actually make the thought i'm cookin real, but i've been reading a bunch as of late and keep thinking man i gotta get in on this. not today, not tomorrow, certainly not this year, probably not the one after either, but at some point. i GOTTA get in on that goop

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[elytrafemme]

it's kind of fascinating because maybe a few months ago if i was having a breakdown i had someplace to put it. but i got to university and i was like totally happy so i never questioned the fact that i no longer had anywhere? like the last time i seriously considered what i was going to do when this happened was the talk about putting me in semi proximity to my sister but i can't exactly talk to her about this. there's fucking nowhere.

[glittertimes]

Listen I get working class solidarity and my parents are teachers I know how overworked they are.

My dad is retiring this year and is extremely burnt out and comes home exhausted these days. I support teachers strikes and higher pay for educators.

However I still have a really hard time feeling empathy towards teachers as a whole. My parents were also abusive, and then I went to school and I was punished and shamed for my trauma symptoms. I was never given any kind of emotional support or counseling as a child, and I learned to shame and hate my trauma symptoms which has made healing from abuse take so much longer.

I’m still in emdr therapy unlearning things that my elementary school teachers taught me, trying to understand that their behaviors were not my fault.

I think the education system is built off of the oppression of children and teens, and many teachers assume that they’re entitled to respect but not all teachers treat their students with respect.

they choose punishment and shaming because it’s easier in the moment, rather than supporting youth to feel their emotions and work through the difficult situations they face.

I’ve always wondered how we expect teens and children to model emotional regulation and intelligence when most adults don’t model it?

And yeah, everyone has responsibility over their behavior and how they respond to their emotions, I take accountability for how I’ve harmed people and I’ve done so much healing since I was kid. But I also know if literally one teacher had sat down with me for a moment to understand what was happening in my life at the time, I’d be a completely different person today.

Obviously there are many teachers trying to fix this and creating more ethical ways to teach, but again they are overworked and overwhelmed with little support.

I also feel like if we truly valued children, teachers wouldn’t be as burned out and stressed and have so little resources. Schools in the US exist in a culture of white supremacy and capitalism, where we spend billions on the military and imperialism and deprioritize education and social services that would ensure that kids could come to school with the food clothes, school supplies and safe homes that make it possible for children to learn.

I’ve said it before but anti-capitalist movements should include the rights of children and teens. Teachers especially should recognize this since their struggle is inherently tied to the students they teach. It’s also incredibly important since teachers have an inherent power dynamic over their students.

[bitchfendi]

madoka magica is a critique of capitalism

just trust me bro once you rewatch it with this in minds its kinda obvious

[fer3112]

3 years since I had a meltdown on twitter and quote tweeted misha's tweet celebrating cas being gay with an angry thread teaching him what queerbating and bury your gays was as if he was ever going to read it... what was wrong with me