#reminds of primary school

[generic-sandbox-member]

one of the few things i like about streaming services for music is being able to easily find bits of music you heard as a child and actually being able to just hear them again

[on-a-lucky-tide]

Me, militantly, aggressively anti-Christian, included the Crusades on the curriculum specifically to undo decades of Christian grooming in my students:

Also me, braying along to the Last Stand while lifting heavy: For the faith, for the way of the sword, gave their lives so boooldly!

[lauriel816]

They: We are going to do this in the name of friendship!

They:

What they do: silly things (most likely)

[wildlyfreemoon]

so watching wolfblood (prob only the first 2 seasons tbh) and all im gna say is one of the main cast member's name is bobby lockwood... lockwood and co...

correlation is too stunning for me to miss 🤯🤯

[detective-piplup]

I need you to know that every so often I misread your username as "deactivated-piplup" and I sit there and wonder if we pressured you too harshly to acknowledge your South American roots

PFFFFT. gone… lost the the Argentinian allegations

[hoperays-song]

The Teens + Homework Help Chart

[kodyzzz]

a recent encounter in the wild of a person i used to be friends in primary school, really made me think about how much has changed since then. because that friend is the same as i remember them, in the best meaning of that sentence, and im just. well💀

[kerizaret]

Actually I feel like i look like.. a primary school teacher today...

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Maybe this is because I'm sleep deprived so this post may make no sense but I wonder if gender works differently on the Spiral than it does on earth. Like I wonder if the type of magic you have can influence your sense of identity in any way whether an AFAB girly-girl wizard tries on the 'he/him' pronouns on like a new pair of casual pants on Tuesdays or if something entirely new comes up and it just feels comfy and correct. I once saw a post where it headcanons Dasein to be mirrorgender and I think about that post everyday. Every single FUCKING. Day,

[mariekavanagh]

Tbh some people can’t do lighthearted casual romance even if they’re mature with life experience under their belt. Sirius might be one of those people. That being said…I think if he ever had a chance to fall in love and get a partner, the person he’d find wouldn’t have gone to Hogwarts. He strikes me as someone that would have loved traveling around the world after the war so I could see him coming home with an armful of gifts for the Potters and a girlfriend from another country

I mean you could say the OCs Collette and Aeliana are proof of that 😊🤭

I think he would have appreciated someone who hadn't gone to Hogwarts as well. The wizarding population is small, and everyone going to the same school can make for a stifling dating scene. And it certainly wouldn't help being from a prominent family, one which so many people would have had strong opinions of - either positive or negative. I can imagine many besides Sirius would also appreciate the opportunity to meet others from outside this very small world.

[thetidemice]

i know literally no one knows what the fuck i'm talking about but they look like an au of jen and nic from aibu (am i being unreasonable)

[robinsnest2111]

just realised my recent nail polish impulse purchases form a rainbow while cleaning up

anyway I think I really need a new storage container for my nail polishes. I have way too many now orz

[0mega-x]

"In moments like those that are admittedly not happy (world events, terrorist attack), the only thing we can do at our small scale is to choose to be good and live our lives" I love my economy/sociology teacher omfg if anything happens to her I'll jump

Then we did the minute of silence and, holy shit, it's already been 3 years since Samuel Paty's death?!

[mochizuki-honami-official]

OMG OMG OMG HONAMI!!!! I LOVE HONAMI!!! WOOO WE FINALLY GET A L/N CHARACTER!!! HIIIIII PLATONIC MWAH

hi!! that’s very nice of you to say, i guess you’ve been to our shows?

// YEAH i saw on the masterlist that there were no l/n characters and was like “guess it’s up to me then”. honami is so special to me (she is just like me fr (autism. it’s the autism /hj))

[crescentmp3]

went outside today! was quite fun ^^

[moinsbienquekaworu]

i am about to sleep but i wanted to ask what your favorite poem is? will you tell me about it? what you love and why it’s your favorite? do you like any of its translations? i love you. i hope you have a good day 🥰

(⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠) beloved thank you for the question!!! As per usual I am incapable of choosing just one of a thing, so I actually have two favourite poems, one in french and one in english (because poetry in french and in english can be pretty different since the codes and models and expectations aren't always the same!) They're the two poems I can recite and know by heart haha.

The english one is Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost. I really like the last stanza (like everyone else) but also just the way when you say it out loud it does feel like a quiet moment watching the snow fall all on your own. I found it recently accompanying a fic (two different fics actually but the second time I knew it) and it entranced me!

The french one is Chanson d'Automne by Paul Verlaine. It's a classic in France, some of its lines were used as a signal for saboteurs during WWII and there's an urban legend it was used to signal the landing in Normandy. I personally had to learn it by heart in primary school (I think in 4th grade?) and it just stuck with me. I like it for the way it feels to me and the images it evokes, but also just because it was the first poem I learnt by heart and being able to recite a poem is an easily overlooked comfort of life (insert those posts and quotes about art being vital and what we need to be able to turn to in dark or light times)

Other poems I like include Remords Posthume and L'Albatros by Baudelaire, Le Dormeur du Val by Rimbaud, Le Déserteur and Je Voudrais Pas Crever by Boris Vian, Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden, and Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath. The french ones I studied in school, and I found the english ones on my own (I feel like I found both in Johnlock fics?? but I might be wrong about Funeral Blues, it's been years) I included english translations where I could for the french ones, and they're not necessarily incredible but they should let you get the vibe. If one of them speaks to you I can try to explain what makes it tick! My personal anecdotes with those because that's half the fun: we had to analyse Remords Posthume for literature class with my best friend K, and what's really cool about it is the last line, "et le ver rongera ta peau comme un remords", because it plays on the homonymy between ver, the worm, and vers, the line of poetry, meaning she will be devoured physically by worms since she'll be dead but also that his verses, his poem, will make her feel remorse; I like the albatross analogy because I was a weird kid who felt comfortable with books but not with my peers; Le Dormeur du Val is extremely extremely sad and beautiful and I think Rimbaud was a very interesting guy; technically Le Déserteur is a song and not a poem but I first saw the text without knowing that so for me it's a poem forever now, and I love talking about the original versus final ending thing; the YouTube channel Le Mock did an excellent reading of Je Voudrais Pas Crever and it's a jewel, I love it so so much; Funeral Blues was the first english poem I ever liked (or maybe read honestly) and I wrote it on the cover of my 10th grade english notebook (because the teacher was great and said that if we forgot to do our homework he wouldn't punish us if we could recite a poem for him, so I wrote it down and tried to learn if by heart in case I forgot my homework); and Mad Girl's Love Song features in a fic I read a few weeks ago and I just think it's neat. I probably forgot some but those are the ones I remember right now (edit: ADA LIMÓN!! I FORGOT ADA LIMÓN!!! Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds (the I can't help it, I love the way men love poem) hit me in the chest the first time I read it and it's so so good)

My favourites (and most of the poems I like actually) are pretty popular because I'm not really into poetry that much on my own. I get attached to poems once I see how they work inside and analyse them, but I don't sit down and decide to analyse some poem from Les Fleurs du Mal at random because it feels like homework, and I don't go looking for poetry because I'm very hit or miss (I get bored at long winded descriptions in those 4-part 7-pages poems and a lot of things trip up my instinctual Pretentiousness Radar™, and while it's not necessarily accurate it does turn me off poems). So I just stay with the basics, but that's fine, because the comfort of carrying poems with you is there whatever the poem is y'know?

Also question, do americans learn poetry in school? I assume you must analyse some in literature class, but I don't know if you learn poems when you're young. I know we also do lots of La Fontaine's Fables, though I personally never did, but learning poems to recite in primary school is a thing almost everyone has done here I think.