#pen15show

[onyx-collective]

We think about Mutsuko Erskine's Yuki episode at least once a week. The colors, the plot, the acting is chef's kiss 🤌🏾 Do yourself a favor and watch S2, E11 of @pen15show 👌🏾

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

Happy Birthday Anna Konkle!

[zampia]

I fucking love pen15

But I do have to hit pause every five minutes to relive my shame and cringe like wwll veteran

[itsapov]

“Yuki” - Pen15 🥀

[kuns-modi-blog]

(via GIPHY)

[dead-grrrls]

feminist rec week 15:

pen15: This comedy series depicts middle school as it really happened. Comics Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle play versions of themselves as teenage outcasts in the year 2000, during a time when the best day of your life can turn into the worst with the stroke of a gel pen. Adult Maya and Anna -- as their younger selves -- are surrounded by actual teenagers as they re-experience some of the ups and downs of middle school life. They get a lot of unexpected attention on the first day of school and later face the temptation to do drugs. (google)

i binge watched this show recently and it perfectly depicts the horrible and awkward experience of being a weird loner girl in middle school.

[haim-blog]

-the complexity of gr 12 english

❝should grade 12 university-level english be a requirement for entry into all university programs?❞

from kindergarten ABCs, middle school short stories, to painfully long high school books and narrative essays. fun, it's so much fun.

all these years we’ve taken english, why should it be mandatory for university?

one of the most disliked subjects around the world, but something i’ve always excelled in. english as a subject helps us to further interpret the meaning of things (words, sentences), along with broadening our vocabulary; these two examples help us to understand entirely. with deeper thoughts thus being provoked from repetitive pieces we read, or contributing to conversation, we are made to be cognizant of the world around us.

for the most part, we can all agree that it would seem as if we wouldn't need english at all for some things in university. if you were to become an accountant and all you need to know is math, why is english the main requirement? we think that the learning skills and strategies learned in the english classroom are not relevant to all paths, but they are used to help attain your career aspirations in the end.

analyzing, summarizing, composing, communicating, reading, retaining; these are all skills strengthened in the english classroom that end up following to post-secondary. english should be mandatory because of how valuable it is. we carry these newly reinforced skills onto our careers and to the workplace, it's an opportunity that some never get to have and high school makes us take advantage of.

to learn english is to communicate, and to communicate is to be successful.

[aneera163]

You are my ACTUAL rainbow gel pen in a sea of blue and black writing utensils.

Anna Konkle

[centerstagea]

My favorite scene

[5050withcristobal]

Pen15 coming in here with season 2 and just ripping my fucking heart out wow

[rotgutz]

Finally watching season 2 of Pen15 and they continue to absolutely pummel me with middle school trauma.

[graffitiandstardust]

[kallieburgers]

I’ll never get over Pen15. I’m bonded to it in such a strong way.

[thebadestbitches]

Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle

[thedragonswillreturn]

I feel like I’ve seen a lot of middle school / high school tv shows that are rated M, or ‘for mature audiences only,’ or have to have like ten warnings before the start of each episode. Thinking 13 Reasons Why, PEN15, eight grade, and Euphoria specifically. And I don’t know if the culprit here is

• producers dramatizing these shows to get more viewers

•producers sexualzing these shows to get more viewers

•the ironic fact that drugs, shootings, cussing, and sexuality are all considered ‘adult’ topics that are too mature for teens, but are something teenagers deal with in school every day

•like I’m not kidding I can name one kid in my school on heroine, one on Xanax without a prescription, twenty on weed/nicotine, and LORD KNOWS THERE’S MORE, THERE’S NO POSSIBLE WAY THAT’S ALL OF THEM

•and some kid dumped a lit blunt in the trash can and the fire alarm went off and you could tell it wasn’t a drill and the middle schoolers all thought there was a shooter and were like terrified and calling their parents and the high schoolers were all ready to die but it was just a trash can fire thanks Nick

•also people have sex in the bathrooms what’s up with that

•POINT IS

•it’s probably a combination of all three of those things but it’s something that’s always seemed weird to me

[sinagrace]

Raise your hand if you love PEN15 on Hulu as much as I do :-)))