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but seriously i do find it so funny that ford was like OH GOD MY PRECIOUS REPUTATION after bill possessed him around other people for all of one night
and then he gets back to this dimension after thirty years and this is now the photo the press associates with his name
#we really didn't get to see nearly enough of ford's reaction to all this in the show#i want just several weeks on that boat to be stan continually going oh yeah also- about things he did in ford's name#like that list of crimes from stanchurian candidate where alex hirsch was like yeah i was up until 2am just coming up with dumb puns#but it's like great you are now on record for teaching a bear to drive. 1st degree thermometer theft. burglebezzlement#1st degree llamacide. snacks evasion. pug trafficking. impersonating a dentist. the list goes on#gravity falls#the book of bill#stanford pines#ford pines#stan pines#stanley pines
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can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.
(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#lost in the book with nightmare before christmas#hajimari no halloween#unique magic posters#this was so unforseeable!#i hope malleus gets pumpkinified immediately and sebek has to carry him around on a little velvet cushion#i hope jade puts his plant knowledge to good use by being extremely judgy about the firmness of everyone's rind#i hope that everyone is still wearing their silly little hats as pumpkins#(i know they won't. but if we don't have hope we have nothing.)#and i'm still feeling like oogie's gotta show up later and menace jamil just by existing#perhaps we'll have to team up against him with the scullsman or something 👀#also just to get it out before being proven entirely wrong#my theory is still that he's from the past and we gotta teach him about the True Meaning of Halloween (aka candy and funtimes)#so he can go back to his own time and become the founder of modern-day candy and funtimes halloween or something#bootstrap paradox be damned#i could be entirely off-base but that's what i'm thinking right now#idk he just has the vibe of an old-timey boy to me#he's had the great misfortune of being born before there were hot topics where he could meet other jack skellington fanatics#too late for the black plague too early for the black parade 😔
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Hello my dears
I am Bahaa, a Palestinian-Ghazawi photographer
My life consisted of my beautiful, wonderful work with international companies and agencies. In addition, I was working on developing myself and my photography equipment.
Suddenly it was gone and all my dreams, ambitions and equipment in the family’s 5-storey house were destroyed
I was trying to create a project of a lifetime after hard years of continuous work, but before starting it, it was destroyed as well
Now I will tell you about my brother. He is a visual artist and a calligraphy artist, and everything he owned was destroyed
Now I will talk about my mother, the beautiful, generous woman. We owned a kindergarten and she ran it despite her illnesses with diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis. They also burned and destroyed the kindergarten to the point that they did not leave us anything to earn a living from, and now, after the difficulty of the road out of Gaza, we do not know how to travel to treat my mother.
I am asking you to please save the life of an entire family and I hope that you will help me so that we can all travel 🙏🏽
I don't want anything else but to survive the war, death and annihilation that haunt us every second
#school#academia#university#teaching#educhums#grades#teacher#classroom#grammar#studying#gaza genocide#palestinian genocide#stop the genocide#end the genocide#genocidio del pueblo palestino#free gaza#gaza strip#gaza#gazaunderattack#save gaza#news on gaza#war on gaza#stand with gaza#gazaunderfire#palestine#book photography#photography#photoshoot#photooftheday#photoshop
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Okay, let me tell you a story:
Once upon a time, there was a prose translation of the Pearl Poet’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It was wonderfully charming and lyrical and perfect for use in a high school, and so a clever English teacher (as one did in the 70s) made a scan of the book for her students, saved it as a pdf, and printed copies off for her students every year. In true teacher tradition, she shared the file with her colleagues, and so for many years the students of the high school all studied Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the same (very badly scanned) version of this wonderful prose translation.
In time, a new teacher became head of the English Department, and while he agreed that the prose translation was very wonderful he felt that the quality of the scan was much less so. Also in true teacher tradition, he then spent hours typing up the scan into a word processor, with a few typos here and there and a few places where he was genuinely just guessing wildly at what the scan actually said. This completed word document was much cleaner and easier for the students to read, and so of course he shared it with his colleagues, including his very new wide-eyed faculty member who was teaching British Literature for the first time (this was me).
As teachers sometimes do, he moved on for greener (ie, better paying) pastures, leaving behind the word document, but not the original pdf scan. This of course meant that as I was attempting to verify whether a weird word was a typo or a genuine artifact of the original translation, I had no other version to compare it to. Being a good card-holding gen zillenial I of course turned to google, making good use of the super secret plagiarism-checking teacher technique “Quotation Marks”, with an astonishing result:
By which I mean literally one result.
For my purposes, this was precisely what I needed: a very clean and crisp scan that allowed me to make corrections to my typed edition: a happily ever after, amen.
But beware, for deep within my soul a terrible Monster was stirring. Bane of procrastinators everywhere, my Curiosity had found a likely looking rabbit hole. See, this wonderfully clear and crisp scan was lacking in two rather important pieces of identifying information: the title of the book from which the scan was taken, and the name of the translator. The only identifying features were the section title “Precursors” (and no, that is not the title of the book, believe me I looked) and this little leaf-like motif by the page numbers:
(Remember the leaf. This will be important later.)
We shall not dwell at length on the hours of internet research that ensued—how the sun slowly dipped behind the horizon, grading abandoned in shadows half-lit by the the blue glow of the computer screen—how google search after search racked up, until an email warning of “unusual activity on your account” flashed into momentary existence before being consigned immediately and with some prejudice to the digital void—how one third of the way through a “comprehensive but not exhaustive” list of Sir Gawain translators despair crept in until I was left in utter darkness, screen black and eyes staring dully at the wall.
Above all, let us not admit to the fact that such an afternoon occurred not once, not twice, but three times.
Suffice to say, many hours had been spent in fruitless pursuit before a new thought crept in: if this book was so mysterious, so obscure as to defeat the modern search engine, perhaps the answer lay not in the technologies of today, but the wisdom of the past. Fingers trembling, I pulled up the last blast email that had been sent to current and former faculty and staff, and began to compose an email to the timeless and indomitable woman who had taught English to me when I was a student, and who had, after nearly fifty years, retired from teaching just before I returned to my alma mater.
After staring at the email for approximately five or so minutes, I winced, pressed send, and let my plea sail out into the void. I cannot adequately describe for you the instinctive reverence I possess towards this teacher; suffice to say that Ms English was and is a woman of remarkable character, as much a legend as an institution as a woman of flesh and blood whose enduring influence inspired countless students. There is not a student taught by Ms. English who does not have a story to tell about her, and her decline in her last years of teaching and eventual retirement in the face of COVID was the end of an era. She still remembers me, and every couple months one of her contemporaries and dear friends who still works as a guidance counsellor stops me in the hall to tell me that Ms. English says hello and that she is thrilled that I am teaching here—thrilled that I am teaching honors students—thrilled that I am now teaching the AP students. “Tell her I said hello back,” I always say, and smile.
Ms. English is a legend, and one does not expect legends to respond to you immediately. Who knows when a woman of her generation would next think to check her email? Who knows if she would remember?
The day after I sent the email I got this response:
My friends, I was shaken. I was stunned. Imagine asking God a question and he turns to you and says, “Hold on one moment, let me check with my predecessor.”
The idea that even Ms. English had inherited this mysterious translation had never even occurred to me as a possibility, not when Ms. English had been a faculty member since the early days of the school. How wonderful, I thought to myself. What a great thing, that this translation is so obscure and mysterious that it defeats even Ms. English.
A few days later, Ms. English emailed me again:
(I had, in fact searched through both the English office and the Annex—a dark, weirdly shaped concrete storage area containing a great deal of dust and many aging copies of various books—a few days prior. I had no luck, sadly.)
At last, though, I had a title and a description! I returned to my internet search, only to find to my dismay that there was no book that exactly matched the title. I found THE BRITISH TRADITION: POETRY, PROSE, AND DRAMA (which was not black and the table of contents I found did not include Sir Gawain) and THE ENGLISH TRADITION, a super early edition of the Prentice Hall textbooks we use today, which did have a black cover but there were absolutely zero images I could find of the table of contents or the interior and so I had no way of determining if it was the correct book short of laying out an unfortunate amount of cold hard cash for a potential dead end.
So I sighed, and relinquished my dreams of solving the mystery. Perhaps someday 30 years from now, I thought, I’ll be wandering through one of those mysterious bookshops filled with out of print books and I’ll pick up a book and there will be the translation, found out last!
So I sighed, and told the whole story to my colleagues for a laugh. I sent screenshots of Ms. English’s emails to my siblings who were also taught by her. I told the story to my Dad over dinner as my Great Adventure of the Week.
…my friends. I come by my rabbit-hole curiosity honestly, but my Dad is of a different generation of computer literacy and knows a few Deep Secrets that I have never learned. He asked me the title that Ms. English gave me, pulled up some mysterious catalogue site, and within ten minutes found a title card. There are apparently two copies available in libraries worldwide, one in Philadelphia and the other in British Columbia. I said, “sure, Dad,” and went upstairs. He texted me a link. Rolling my eyes, I opened it and looked at the description.
Huh, I thought. Four volumes, just like Ms. English said. I wonder…
Armed with a slightly different title and a publisher, I looked up “The English Tradition: Fiction macmillan” and the first entry is an eBay sale that had picture of the interior and LO AND BEHOLD:
THE LEAF. LOOK AT THE LEAF.
My dad found it! He found the book!!
Except for one teensy tiny problem which is that the cover of the book is uh a very bright green and not at all black like Ms. English said. Alas, it was a case of mistaken identity, because The English Tradition: Poetry does have a black cover, although it is the fiction volume which contains Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
And so having found the book at last, I have decided to purchase it for the sum of $8, that ever after the origins of this translation may once more be known.
In this year of 2022 this adventure took place, as this post bears witness, the end, amen.
(Edit: See here for part 2!)
#sir gawain and the green knight#translations#internet research#english literature#teaching things#dads are the best#long post#story telling#I STILL don’t know the name of the translator but I WILL find out#obscure books
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Witchcraft Basics Masterlist!
Witchcraft Basics and Giggles:
Everything to know before you start! The various practices The Tools healing, protecting, and grounding. shielding and banishing herbs,oils and crystals.| Herbs | Oils | Crystals the sabbatsthe Elements astrology + astrology calendar spells, hexes and curses energy manipulation the various entitis Divination tool Symbology Shadow Work Witchy hack Offerings Grimoire/book of shadows
more master lists!
#manifesting#manifestation#shifting methods#loa methods#manifestation method#manifesation#spiritual development#journal#witchy#witch#witchcraft#witchblr#witches#witchcore#witch community#magick#baby witch#spell#spellcasting#spells#spellwork#spellcraft#pagan#witchcraft books#witchcraft community#witchcraft 101#witchcraft smp#witchcraft aesthetic#teaching witchcraft#witch coven
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Obligatory gravity falls post because I too had my gravity falls hyperfixation resurrected by book of bill’s release
I’m not super proud of this it took a lot out of me to work on and I kinda tapped out halfway through but despite that I’ll post it because I haven’t shared stuff in awhile
I have a compilation post of stuff I’ve been working on so that’ll probably get shared soon too
#soursart#fanart#gravity falls#mabel pines#dipper pines#I haven’t managed to buy book of bill yet though it’s just completely sold out#12 year old me is screaming#I planned on adding more to the drawing but it doesn’t matter we’re vibing#(I have been a sickly Victorian boy for the past like four months)#kinda has that same energy as the IT drawing I did where I like#completely ditched it halfway through but forced myself to complete it#I’m trying to teach myself backgrounds too#it’s a struggle#I was going to add more to the background so just imagine there’s cool Easter eggs or something
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I so desperately want to book bind again, my own fic specifically because (1) the only permission I would need is my own (2) I don't feel like i've ruined or done a disservice if I fuck it up and (3) holding a physical weighty book in your hands that you wrote is very good for the brain no matter what size and I highly recommend it for my fellow writers
That being said I would want a cool looking cover but idk if I would use something I've already drawn or draw something new. I have ideas but none of them are like, clicking
#looking at fanbinds again#peoeple who make beautiful books teach me your ways#also whatever i do use for my book (hopefully sometime in the future when im not stressed and over whelmed as i am)#id want to make that art or art pieces available for others to print as well for binding#but thats also why i need it to look good AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGUH#sara shush
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Happy Natsume s7 release day 😭🙏🏽
#doodles#my art#natsume yuujinchou#natsume takashi#nyanko sensei#madara#natsume#nbof#natsuyuu#natsume’s book of friends#I’ve been waiting 7 years for this you guys#student teaching is beating my ass and I’ve been so busy with no time to draw so I’ve been extra looking forward to this#reasons to live fr#I was gonna wait until tomorrow to post because it’s still October 6th where I live but close enough. yippee
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the event where ashi adopts a dog
#this event is SOO.SOSOOOOOSOS#I COULD TALK SOOOOO MUCY ABPUT THIS EVENT AND ASHI#but I’m planning maybe one or two more posts for it?#all you need to know is that her and stitch are besties!!!!!#he also teaches her how to hula <3 cute!!!#ace and grim get a little jealous tho HAHAHA#but anyway!!! yeah <3 was vvvv funsies to draw#twstshi#ashi tamadai#I USE THIS TAG LIKE….. ONLY SOMETIMES please ignore#twst#twisted wonderland#twst wonderland#disney twst#twst fanart#twst yuu#twst oc#lost in the book with stitch#stitch’s tropical turbulence#IS THAT THE EN NAME? dunno#ace trappola#lilia vanrouge#floyd leech#grim twst#twst grim#ashipiko draws ♪
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eepy 🐲
ryumimi & half dragon sebek AU
#twisted wonderland#twst#sebek zigvolt#twst yuu#twst mc#malleus draconia#dragon is ryu in japanese#this turns into au#fanart#instead of being too weak he is now afraid of being too powerful and destructive#malleus is so plain without the horns#somehow i imagine s ilver is still a human#now he is called a monster for being too powerful instead of being pointed at for being too weak#hm to imagine maybe his mother fled not long after his birth bcs it would be too dangerous for her to stay at the human village#and so no one really teaches him how to control his power#maybe he only reads from books his grandfather somehow have about dragons
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I love love love when trans women* give advice to trans men* about """manly""" things and when trans men* return that kindness with advice about """womanly""" things. I love the intracommunity commitment to supporting each other <<3
#trans#transgender#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#mtf#nonbinary#obviously it's better when that advice and guidance is consentual#if you ever want to give that advice do be sure that that person is even seeking that out#i have made advice posts which i try to state as neutrally as possible to ensure that whomever wants the advice can read it#but by no means are those posts intended to force you to change or to do things outside of what you want y'know?#ANYWAY thank you to trans women for unironically teaching me how to shave when i didn't know how#(i read the book Nevada partway and that was how i started to learn how to shave my face)#(and i've gotten a decent-ish close shave though i do admit i'm not that good at it. i'm kinda lazy actually LOL)#chin stubble is genuinely one of the worst sensory things for me and i'm so grateful that i was taught by trans women about it :)!!!#genuinely me when other trans people: 🥰
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I love the idea of teenage Malleus hating his new baby brother Silver but slowly falling for him
words cannot express how much I adore that Mal's reaction to seeing a human baby for the first time was "the fuck is this. why does it look like that. gross." (then he immediately got stuck on babysitting duty and the rest is history)
I am SUCH a sucker for that trope of "non-humans being fascinated by normal human behavior", so between that and all the delicious angst going on I was eating VERY well. >:) Malleus being so impressed that two-year-old Silver can walk, because it took him twenty years to stand on two legs! Lilia barging in on the Zigvolts at 2 AM being like "he won't stop crying what do I do"! Lilia trying to feed Silver rats and Malleus being like "...please just stick with what the books say to feed it"! it is all so. chef's kiss.
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#(this is based on a very dumb in-joke and i apologize)#i promise i will (eventually) stop spamposting i am just still floating in a river of sheer delight from this update#god. the spoon scene is going to live in my brain forever#malleus having to be the one to teach sebek and silver basic magic because lilia was SO bad at explaining it 😭#also like...i had assumed mal didn't know who silver really is so it wasn't a surprise when lilia straight-up lied to his face about it#but now i can just SEE it hovering there on the horizon as a thing they're probably going to have to deal with at some point#like 'malleus doesn't know' is no longer a sort of general observation/theory and is instead now a very relevant Problem#ohohoho. splendid. things are going to get SO bad and i am going to be here clapping my stupid little hands at it all
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For some reason I keep seeing people asking whether Ukraine considers switching from cyrillic alphabet to latin alphabet, and 1) russia didn't invent and doesn't own cyrillic alphabet; 2) I would lose my mind if on a regular basis I had to write "shch" instead of "щ". That's 4 letters to write one letter, sir!!!!!
#imagine how much work is required to change every sign every name every document...... to re-teach everyone and change books#for literally no reason#no thank you
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Batman: I get it you all resent your fathers-
Zatanna: I don't! I fuckin' love my dad. My dad's fuckin' awesome.
Jason: Didn't he turn a man into a pile of sludge once?
Zatanna: Oh yeah, the guy was a creep who tried to seduce me when I was 16 and after I made it very clear I was not interested... He turned him into the sludge he was. The guy was a creep and walked after committing a whole lot of messed up crimes. Fuckin' love my dad!
Jason: I- I never had that with my dads!
Batman snuck out of the room before Jason could yell at him.
#batfamily#jason todd#batfamily chronicles#batman#batfamily shenanigans#batfamily headcanons#bruce wayne#zatanna#we all need dads like Zatanna's unless someone tells me he shot her or something lol#batfamily funny#batfamily comedy#inspired by metalocalypse#giovanni did teach her magic too so that's a pretty awesome parent in my book#batfamily fluff#batfamily fanfiction#jason and bruce#giovanni zatara#microfiction#flash fiction#headcanon batfamily#batfamily microseries#dc batfam#dc batman#script fic#part of my batfamily microseries#batfamily microfiction#batfamily chronicles microseries
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"You and I, we're sweet."
#our flag means death#ofmdedit#ofmd gifs#edward teach#taika waititi#mine#he's got looks that books take pages to tell 🎵💃
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