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noragaming · 6 months ago

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take my heart and swallow it whole

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“XueXiao cute. They're in love, your honor!!”

The fire crackles merrily in the little home they’ve made for themselves in the funeral house. A-Qing sits a couple of feet away, playing intently with two stones on the ground, completely giving herself away. Xiao Xingchen sits opposite to him tending to the fire, as immaculate as ever even without washing away the grime of the day away. Meanwhile, Xue Yang is losing his mind.

The mastermind that is Xue Yang has been completely, irrevocably stumped by a blind, stuck-up cultivator who simply would not fall into his machinations. Xiao Xingchen, the man in question, just wouldn’t murder people accidentally. As a part of Xue Yang’s plan and all.

It started two weeks ago, when Xue Yang went into a quarter-life crisis about the lovey-dovey life that him, his enemy, and that little blind brat were leading. It didn’t come as a surprise to him that a year of a domestic, candy-filled lifestyle would bore him and vengeance would come back to him with, well, vengeance. One can say it started a year ago, when Xiao Xingchen saved him. One also can say it started half a decade ago, when they properly ran into each other for the first time. Maybe it all started the day he was born; maybe he was fated to be saved and destroyed this man. Gosh, the things a sweet life makes you think!

It went this way:

Xue Yang sat next to Xiao Xingchen on a sunny day, on the little stumps of wood they called chairs. He had only finished regaling his companion with the tragedy of his childhood (pain, suffering, etc.), and now sat lighter than he had ever in his lifetime. The birds were chirping, and the sun felt nice on his skin, in a way he hadn’t thought about before.

He was thinking of words to speak, when the thoughts of his life entered his mind and reminded him of why he hated this world. Immediately, his mood soured, and he remembered why destruction came the easiest to him. He’s been keeping corpse powder close to himself, ever since this new life began. The habits of a lifetime do not vacate one so easily.

“Daozhang, say, won’t you take me to a night-hunt?”

As he watched Xiao Xingchen think of words to say, his heart crowed in premature victory. It felt like pai—

“No.”

“No?”

“No.”

And thus, the dismantling of the genius and mastermind that is Xue Yang began.

The second time it went in a similar manner, although stunning Xue Yang in an entirely novel way.

“Daozhang! A walking corpse!” Xue Yang yelled, and ran to cow behind Xiao Xingchen. He had made sure to douse it in corpse powder and cut the man’s tongue out. Coincidentally, this was the man who always tried to scam Xiao Xingchen for his blindness. That had nothing to do with why Xue Yang chose him.

Xue Yang, from where he stood, could hear the hum of his sword activating and seeking a target. Perfect! However, Xiao Xingchen said: “It’s not hopping. It could be a person.”

Damn. So, Xiao Xingchen took him by the hand and dragged him back inside, ushering Xue Yang behind him. He stood protectively at the gate, sword out, back tense: a handsome saviour. Xue Yang, dazzled as he was, couldn’t summon his anger when the man he had disguised as a corpse realised what was best for him, and consequently turned to go back to his own house. Xiao Xingchen waited until his footsteps faded, and turned to Xue Yang standing at his back.

“Didi,” he said, and smiled, “you worry too much”. His dimples were showing.

Xue Yang started hyperventilating; no one had ever called him that before. Two hands reached out for his cheeks, and pulled them apart. Xue Yang stood there, and let himself be handled like a sweet rice cake. He forgets all about corpses and power and revenge. He spends the rest of the day in a daze, touching his cheeks where no one could see (i.e. everywhere). No one had ever done that to him before.

The next part of the plan required a bit of acting; not that Xue Yang wasn’t up to it. They had just returned from buying their weekly vegetables (Xiao Xingchen did the buying while Xue Yang took the old woman to a shady alleyway and doused her in corpse powder). Xiao Xingchen stood around the gate of their humble establishment, while Xue Yang pretended to go and relieve himself. Instead of peeing, Xue Yang dragged the woman to the empty area in front of his cultivator friend, and shook her by her shoulders, trying to make as much noise as possible. Xiao Xingchen perked up at the sounds of a scuffle. Too lazy to drag another person as a prop, Xue Yang yelled:

“Walking corpse! It’s attacking him!”

Xiao Xingchen gripped the handle of his sword; the look of alertness on his face is what convinced Xue Yang that this might work. The next moment, however, the he turned and walked straight inside.

What?

In a last-ditch effort, he dragged the little blind brat, who was also just standing around (really, do they have nothing to do?), to the not-corpse and yelled again:

“It’s attacking… A-Qiu. A-Qing! A-Qing! It’s attacking A-Qing!”

A-Qing, as suspected, looks at the not-corpse and starts running, leaving behind the cane and looking straight ahead with wide eyes. Today is the day for surprises.

Xue Yang stood there confusedly until Xiao Xingchen came back out with a jar of vinegar, which he unceremoniously dumped on the corpse and A-Qing. Xue Yang hurriedly gets out of the way, and watched as Xiao Xingchen subtly puffed himself out in a way only he can, as if he’s done something reasonable and noble and not just fucking insane.

“Solved! Now let’s go tell everyone!”

Xue Yang groaned. He follows Xiao Xingchen anyway.

After going round town and telling every single person to throw vinegar at corpses, Xue Yang is defeated and deflated; now he can’t just wait for the corpse poisoning to work. Damn Xiao Xingchen and his inability to jump to sword-fighting at slightest inconvenience. The time Xue Yang had spent with the Jins had convincingly taught him otherwise.

The people had been pissing themselves at the sight of Xue Yang standing menacingly outside of their door, but he found them reaching for vinegar and sticky rice anyways. He even found his first victim, the Annoying Vegetable Dude, sticking upside down out of a ditch smelling of vinegar on their way back. It was confusing, since its not like Xue Yang made him blind.

Anyway, that’s what happened. The whole unabridged version. Now, they are sitting by the fire, as is their communal post-dinner ritual (it made Xue Yang so mad. They had schedules now). Xue Yang is trying and failing to seethe, and simultaneously losing his mind. Throughout their time in this .excitingly creepy village, Xue Yang had only spoken words that came the hardest to him, to make sure he doesn’t oust himself. Now, however, words tumble out of his mouth.

“Why didn’t you stab the corpse? I heard your sword humming.”

“You have a keen ear, didi,” says Xiao Xingchen. “I… don’t believe in using my sword when I cannot even look at my enemy.” His cheeks shine in the firelight. “Even while my sword tells me things, it is better to simply find other ways; not because I don’t trust it or you, but because I trust myself enough to be better.”

How very noble. Xue Yang couldn’t bring himself to hate him for it.

In a last-ditch effort, he throws corpse powder at the Annoying Vegetable Dude again and drags him to where Xiao Xingchen is standing around, again waiting on Xue Yang to relieve himself. Really, he needs better excuses.

“Daozhang! A walking corpse!” Xue Yang screams while running, for effect.

“There are way too many of those around these days. Come here, didi.”

Xue Yang pointedly starts running away from him.

“Nooooooo! Daozhang! It is coming after me!” It is not; the Annoying Vegetable Dude simply stands there as if he’s a part of the world’s most boring theatre show.

Xue Yang is halted in his pretend-headless-chickening by having his hand grabbed and being unceremoniously yanked towards the funeral house. Apparently, while Xue Yang was out performing his best, Xiao Xingchen had crossed over to him. He hadn’t even lost his breath. It was unfair how unruffled he was.

Once inside, Xiao Xingchen turns to Xue Yang and whispers in his ears, “Hold your breath, didi.” His voice is low and rough, and Xue Yang feels a strange urge to melt into the ground. “Let’s hide.”

They crouch behind a wheelbarrow, crunched together due to the lack of space. Xiao Xingchen is still holding his hand, warm and tight, from where he sits next to him. Xue Yang whimpers, which prompts Xiao Xingchen to turn towards him and hum. “Don’t be scared,” he says, seriously misunderstanding Xue Yang’s problem with the whole situation, and leans impossibly close, “if it really comes to bother you, I’ll kill it.”

Xue Yang feels he has died and come back. He can’t even feel happy about the fact he can carry out his evil mastermind plan; in that moment, he gives up on all the ways he could torture Xiao Xingchen if only he would call him “didi” and whisper in his ear. His head is frighteningly empty, and as they sit together and wait for the Annoying Vegetable Dude to wander off again, he starts whispering.

For once, his stories come the easiest to him. And like always, Xiao Xingchen turns towards him to listen, like a flower blooming in the sun.

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wineanddinosaur · 4 years ago

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We Asked 10 Brewers: Which IPAs Should Be Considered ‘Modern Classics?’

The craft beer industry evolves seemingly on a hairpin: Beer trends appear as if by magic, from the Brut IPA to the fruited sour; flagships and core ranges fade in favor of new releases; and exciting innovations claim all the attention.

With the steady onslaught of new beer brands and styles unstoppably marching forth, labels only two or three years old — or even two or three months old — can feel dated. In extreme cases, even beers two to three weeks old are deemed past their prime (drink those DDH DIPAs fresh!).

Beers extant for less than a decade thus feel like relics, pre-dating so many of today’s top or trendiest breweries. Top-rated IPAs like Cigar City’s Jai Alia are part of the 1990s-era brewpub’s warn woodwork.

With so many IPAs on the market, what constitutes a classic of the modern era? We asked brewers throughout the U.S. and U.K. what sticks out.

“There are a few IPAs from modern breweries which fit this bill for me, and I’ll keep going back to them time and time again. I’ll mention two of them: Starting closer to home, any IPA by Kernel can be named here. Their IPAs are such a beautiful, pure expression of the hops contained within; the malt bill [is] so clean and precise; the carbonation is so soft and on point… It is so easy to drink glass after glass — a testament to that being that I have zero bottles left out of the 24 I ordered two weeks ago. Further afield, Zote by Calusa Brewing in Sarasota, Fla., is really one of the best examples of New England IPA available in any country. Citra, Mosaic, Cascade, and Centennial are what’s on offer, giving huge juicy citrus with such a soft, silky body it’s far too easy to nail a 4-pack in the Florida sun. Check them out if you’re down that way — they’re crushing it.” — Jay Krause, Cloudwater Brew Co., Manchester, U.K.

“Who says you can’t like both kinds? Rare Trait from Cerebral Brewing and Super Power from Comrade Brewing couldn’t be further apart in the IPA world, but both are modern classics in my book. Rare Trait is a hazy IPA packed with citrus and tropical flavors; it’s the beer that helped solidify Cerebral’s place as modern masters of the style. Super Power is a straight-up classic West Coast IPA which has dominated beer competitions in various forms and categories. It holds a static line at most of Colorado’s serious beer bars and that spot is well deserved. It never disappoints with a light, dry body and hop aromas of grapefruit and pine.” — Jan Chodkowski, Head Brewer, Our Mutual Friend Brewing Co, Denver

“It is classic to say Pliny the Elder, but for me, it really is a classic double IPA and should be remembered as such. I think for me, it also has a personal meaning. I had tasted it before, but I was in California on a scholarship to a UC Davis short course and I spent a few days visiting Russian River as well as other places in the area. I had the beer at Russian River and remember having it fresh on tap. I went to a bar a few days later and it was 33 out of 50 on a draft list. I think once you take away the hype of it and taste the beer itself for what it is, it truly is an amazing double IPA… The malt balances the hops, so it is bitter without being incredibly overpowering. It also was really one of the first well-known DIPAs of its kind.” — Colleen Rakowski, Brewer, Brasserie Cantillon, Brussels, Belgium

“Fermentation-driven, soft, and full-bodied IPAs that grew out of New England are now industry-wide commonplace across the globe. This modern approach to making IPAs has been building steam over the past decade or so, and Julius from Tree House Brewing Co. has certainly planted itself firmly as a stalwart in the category. Julius has gone from only appearing in growlers brewed on a glorified homebrew system to now in iconic cans being brewed on an automated brew house in an enormous modern brewery. One can easily argue that the journey for the Tree House team has been fueled by Julius and all its popularity. Rich fruity yeast esters, hop saturation, a soft mouthfeel, and a balanced and approachable package make Julius an IPA that has certainly established itself as a modern classic that many across the globe have been inspired by, and make the trek to get.” — Blake Tyers, Wood Cellar & Mixed Fermentation Director, Creature Comforts Brewing Co, Athens, Ga.

“I’ve never liked the term ‘modern classic’ but there are a few IPAs out there that I feel are certainly significant enough to warrant some sort of recognition. Straight off the bat, Jaipur by Thornbridge will always have a place in my heart as a true exemplar of British breweries’ initial take on West Coast American-style IPA, but not only that, it stands up in cask! Which is unfortunately not true of many popular IPAs, and is a testament to the skill of the brewers at Thornbridge.” — Jaye Arbuckle, Head Brewer, Franklins Brewing Co, Brighton, U.K.

“At the time I was asked the question, I had a glass of Kernel IPA (Mosaic) in my hand, which coincidentally would be at the top of my list of answers. The Mosaic single hop version of this IPA [is] the first beer that turned me on to the U.K. beer scene years ago. It has the perfect amount of mouthwatering bitterness to keep you going back for another sip; a subdued malt bill to allow the hops to shine; and no cloying sweetness I often find in other IPAs. What makes it a modern classic is that it has been around for 10 years, surviving fads like the IBU race and super-sweet milkshake IPAs, without showing its age. Neither West Coast or East, it continues to exist with a sense of purpose in the U.K. craft beer scene.” — Zoe Wyeth, Lead Brewer, Burnt Mill Brewery, Suffolk, U.K.

“If I’m at a chain grocery store picking up an IPA to bring to a party with folks from all walks of life… I’m going to pick up Sierra Nevada’s Hazy Little Thing. Many of the old guard are trying to keep up with trends and many are failing, but this beer always delivers and has made Sierra [Nevada] many new fans amongst younger drinkers. My favorite IPA right now, however, is whatever iteration is available from Hen House Brewing and their Conspiracy Theory Series (Chemtrails, Denver Airport, Illuminati). These guys are making big moves in Sonoma County (north of San Francisco) in the shadow of giants like Lagunitas and Sierra Nevada. Whether it’s a classic West Coast IPA or their version of a NEIPA… Their insistence on freshness on the shelves or on tap means I always get a great beer.” — Tim Decker, Founder, Altbrau, Oakland, Calif.

“I feel like a great example of a ‘modern classic’ IPA is Lunch by Maine Beer Company. It is bursting with citrus, pine, and tropical aromatics, balanced by a wisp of malt sweetness, and still allows the citrusy hop characteristics to shine through in the finish. It’s completely satisfying to a broad range of consumers and doesn’t destroy your palate or your appetite, a perfect take on the modern classic IPA that a lot of professional brewers enjoy.” — Bobby Bump, Head Brewer, Right Proper Brewing Company, Washington, D.C.

“I still wet myself whenever I see Hill Farmstead Harlan on tap anywhere stateside. I love any brewer with the guts to dry hop with Columbus these days in any measure, and the combination of that with Nelson Sauvin and Simcoe just ticks all the boxes for me. It’s the most balanced, soft, and nuanced example of an IPA I’ve ever had, where you can taste every part of its makeup in every sip. There’s been an arms race over the years of how many hops you can cram into a glass with IPAs — and we certainly share some of the responsibility for that — but Harlan feels like an antidote to that whenever I try it. Class in a glass.” — Alex Lawes, Founder, Owner, Brewer, Whiplash Beer, Dublin, Ireland

“If a modern classic must have universal appeal and stand the test of time, citrus IPAs ring loudest with me. Whether infused with blood orange, tiger lemon, grapefruit, tangerine, or otherwise, a citrus IPA’s very approachable flavor profile is appreciated readily by novice and experienced drinkers alike. Furthermore, their flavor and brand value draw steady admiration from brewers. Brewers of all experience levels and aptitude do create consistently delicious examples. Most taprooms offer a Citrus IPA seasonally and some have year-round staying power… Certainly, the citrusy offerings are not currently obsessed over as they were at peak fervor. But, their charm and bright flavors have stood the test of time long enough, with wide enough appeal that it is easy to foresee their continued popularity among drinkers and brewers year in and year out.” — Chris Gartman, formerly of Five Points Brewing Company, London, U.K.

The article We Asked 10 Brewers: Which IPAs Should Be Considered ‘Modern Classics?’ appeared first on VinePair.

source https://vinepair.com/articles/10-best-modern-classic-ipas/

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johnboothus · 4 years ago

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We Asked 10 Brewers: Which IPAs Should Be Considered Modern Classics?

With so many IPAs on the market, what constitutes a classic of the modern era? We asked brewers throughout the U.S. and U.K. what sticks out.

The article We Asked 10 Brewers: Which IPAs Should Be Considered ‘Modern Classics?’ appeared first on VinePair.

Via https://vinepair.com/articles/10-best-modern-classic-ipas/

source https://vinology1.weebly.com/blog/we-asked-10-brewers-which-ipas-should-be-considered-modern-classics

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mbtizone · 7 years ago

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Megara (Hercules): ISTP

Dominant Introverted Thinking [Ti]: Meg has a quick wit, which she frequently uses to insult those around her. She’s logical, independent, and doesn’t rely on anyone to save her. When she first meets Hercules, she believes she can deal with Nessus on her own, telling him that she’s capable of handling the situation herself. She has confidence in her ability to come up with solutions to her problems without any help. Meg prefers to remain detached and doesn’t want to grow too close to Hercules. She’s clever and comes up with several ways to manipulate Hercules (claiming that she has “weak ankles” as a segue to get Hercules to open up about his own weaknesses). Meg is cynical, snarky, and believes that it’s best to isolate herself so that nobody can hurt her.

Auxiliary Extroverted Sensing [Se]: It’s easy for Meg to use what is immediately available to her accomplish a task. She manipulates Hercules using her sexuality. When Hades tasks Meg with finding out his weakness, she does so by persuading him to play hooky with her and shows him a fun-filled day. Though it’s never stated, one might infer that Meg purposely tripped down the steps in order to start a conversation with Hercules about weaknesses because she was trying to get him to admit his. Meg is comfortable in risky situations and can make shortsighted decisions without considering the ramifications when presented with an opportunity (selling her soul to Hades in exchange for her boyfriend’s life). She’s quick to leap into action (hopping onto Pegasus to get Phil in order to save Hercules, even though she’s terrified of heights). She also notices the pillar about to fall and crush Hercules and is able to push him out of the way in the nick of time, saving his life.

Tertiary Introverted Intuition [Ni]: Meg is driven by one goal – work off her debt and eventually be free from Hades forever. She experiences flashes of insight – she can tell relatively quickly that Hercules isn’t like everybody else and believes in him. Meg is good at knowing how to manipulate people and instinctively knows which buttons to push. Once Meg falls for Hercules, she becomes determined to protect him from Hades, regardless of the consequences. Meg appears to believe in universal truths about the world and humanity (everyone is petty and dishonest).

Inferior Extroverted Feeling [Fe]: Admitting her feelings doesn’t come easily for Meg. Instead, she keeps them hidden and denies the truth. Although she was working with Hades to obtain her freedom, in the end, she sacrifices herself to save Hercules. Meg is willing to make selfless choices for those she loves – she’s only a slave to Hades because she sold her soul to him in an attempt to save her boyfriend’s life. Although Meg doesn’t lead with her emotions, she is able to tap into them, as she puts on quite a performance for Hercules in order to convince him to come save the two little boys (Pain and Panic), who were supposedly trapped as a result of a rock slide.

Enneagram: 6w5 8w7 4w5 Sp/Sx

Quotes:

Hercules: Pardon me, my good, uh… uh… sir. I’ll have to ask you to release that young – Megara: Keep movin’, junior. Hercules: — lady. But you… are-aren’t you… a damsel in distress? Megara: I’m a damsel. I’m in distress. I can handle this. Have a nice day.

Megara: Megara. My friends call me Meg, or at least they would if I had any friends. So… did they give you a name along with all those rippling pectorials? Hercules: Uh, I’m, uh, um- Megara: Are you always this articulate? Hercules: Hercules. My… My name is Hercules. Megara: Hercules, huh? I think I prefer Wonderboy. Hercules: So, uh, how-how-how’d you get mixed up with the, uh- Megara: Pinhead with hooves? [Hercules nods] Well, you know how men are. They think “no” means “yes” and “get lost” means “take me, I’m yours”. Don’t worry, Shorty here can explain it to ya later. Well, thanks for everything, Herc. It’s been a real slice. [She starts to walk away.] Hercules: Wait! [She stops and turns.] Um… can we give you a ride? [Pegasus snorts, whinnies and flies to a high branch.] Megara: Uh… I don’t think your pinto likes me very much. Hercules: Pegasus? Oh, no, don’t be silly! He’d be more than happy to- Ow. [PEGASUS has dropped an apple on Hercules’ head. He looks up and Pegasus whistles innocently.] Megara: I’ll be alright. I’m a big, tough girl. I can tie my own sandals and everything. [She walks away again.] Bye-bye, Wonderboy.

Megara: Please! Help! Please! There’s been a terrible accident! Hercules: Meg? Phil: Speakin’ of disasters. Megara: Wonderboy! Hercules, thank goodness! Hercules: Wha-what’s wrong? Megara: Outside of town, two little boys, they were playing in the gorge. There was this rock slide, a terrible rock slide! They’re trapped! Hercules: Kids? Trapped? Phil! Phil, this is great! Megara: You’re really choked up about this, aren’t ya?

Megara: Looks like your game is over- Wonderboy’s hitting every curve you throw at him. Hades: Oh, yeah… I wonder if maybe I haven’t been throwing the right curves at him, Meg, my sweet. Megara: Don’t even go there. Hades: See, he’s gotta have a weakness, because everybody’s got a weakness, I mean for Pandora, it was the box thing, for the Trojans, hey, they bet on the wrong horse, okay? We simply need to find out Wonderboy’s. Megara: I’ve done my part. Get your little imps- Hades: They couldn’t handle him as a baby. I need someone who can … handle him as a man. Megara: Hey, I’ve sworn off man-handling. Hades: Well, you know, that’s good, because that’s what got you into this jam in the first place, isn’t it? You sold your soul to me to save your boyfriend’s life. And how does this creep thank you? By running off with some babe. He hurt you real bad, didn’t he, Meg? Huh? Megara: Look, I learned my lesson, okay? Hades: Which is exactly why I got a feelin’ you’re gonna leap at my new offer. You give me the key to bringing down Wonderbreath and I give you the thing that you crave most in the entire cosmos! Your freedom.

Megara: Let’s see … what could be behind curtain number one? [She pulls the cord on the side and we see Hercules behind the curtain.] Hercules: Meg! Megara: It’s alright. The sea of raging hormones has ebbed. Hercules: Gee, i-i-it’s great to see you. I-I-I missed you. Megara: [Flopping down onto a couch] So this is what heroes do on their days off? Hercules: Ah… I’m no hero… Megara: Sure ya are. Everybody in Greece thinks you’re the greatest thing since they put the pocket in pita. Hercules: I know, it’s-it’s crazy, y’know, I can’t go anywhere without being mobbed, I mean- Megara: Ah. You sound like you could use a day off. Think your nanny goat would go berserk if you played hooky this afternoon? Hercules: Oh, gee. I-I don’t know. Phil’s got the rest of the day pretty much booked- Megara: Ah, Phil-schmill. Just follow me- out the window, round the dumbbells, you lift up the back wall and we’re gone.

Hercules: I didn’t know playing hooky could be so much fun. Megara: Yeah. Neither did I. Hercules: Thanks, Meg. Megara: Oh… don’t thank me just yet. Oh! [She falls into HERCULES’ arms.] Hercules: Oops- careful. Megara: Sorry. Weak ankles. Hercules: Oh yeah? Well maybe you’d better sit down. [He carries her over to a bench, puts her down, then sits down beside her.] Megara: So… uh… do you have any problems with things like this? [She stretches out her leg and holds her foot right in front of his face.] Hercules: Uh… Megara: Weak ankles, I mean. Hercules: Oh. Uh, no. Not really. Megara: [Moving closer to him] No weaknesses whatsoever? No trick knee? Hercules: Uh… Megara: Ruptured… disks? Hercules: No. I’m… I’m afraid I’m uh… fit as a fiddle. [He stands.] Megara: [sighs] Wonderboy, you are perfect. Hercules: Thanks.

Megara: If there’s a prize for rotten judgement, I guess I’ve already won that No man is worth the aggravation That’s ancient history, been there, done that

Megara: No chance no way I won’t say it, no no It’s too cliche I won’t say I’m in love

Megara: I thought my heart had learned its lesson It feels so good when you start out My head is screaming “Get a grip girl Unless you’re dying to cry your heart out

Megara: No chance no way I won’t say it, no no This scene won’t play I won’t say I’m in love You’re way off base I won’t say it At least out loud I won’t say I’m in love

Hades: I’m sorry… you hear that sound? That’s the sound on your freedom fluttering out the window… forever. Megara: I don’t care. I’m not gonna help you hurt him. Hades: I can’t believe you’re getting so worked up about some… guy. Megara: This one is different. He’s honest, and – and he’s sweet- Hades: Please. Megara: He would never do anything to hurt me. Hades: He’s a guy! Megara: Besides, oh Oneness, you can’t beat him. He has no weaknesses. He’s gonna — Hades: I think he does, Meg. I truly think… he does.

Megara: Hercules! Look out! [She pushes him out of the way, but the pillar falls on her instead.] Hercules: Meg! NO! What’s happening? Megara: H-Hades’ deal is broken. He promised I wouldn’t get hurt. Hercules: Meg. Why- why did you… you didn’t have to- Megara: Oh, people always do crazy things… when they’re in love. Hercules: Oh… Meg. Meg, I- I… Megara: Are you… always this articulate? You- you haven’t got much time. You can still stop Hades.

Megara (Hercules): ISTP was originally published on MBTI Zone

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whentvsfly · 8 years ago

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u should answer all 20 of the mob psycho ask meme things jsust DO it u peice of fuck....

Fuck you, I will.

1: What is a scene that really got to you?In the anime, probably either the flashback to when Mob went ???% when he was young (I love the Angst™), or when Mob nearly goes 100% murderous intent and then instead goes like, 1000% gratitude. In the manga, the entirety of the fuckin Mogami arc (the part with the cat like Holy Shit) nearly made me cry, and I barely cry at things anymore. So like. That.

2: Who’s your favorite character out of the cast?I….love so many……..They’re all so good. All the esper kids are Good, Reigen is a good man, the Body Improvement Club members….Tome and Mezato…..fuck, even Dimple. I can’t choose…

3: Who’s your favorite esper kid?Mob, Ritsu, Teru, and Shou are all my sons thank you very much. I can’t decide between them. Mob is a Good Boy™ who needs a fucking break holy shit. Ritsu is a little shitsu but he cares a lot about his bro and I cry and he’s good too. Teru is also a shitty boy and also he wants to do good and I cry for him (I’m his parent now cause idk wtf his actual parents are, ONE plz explain). And Shou is a good but destructive boy who deserves better.

4: Who’s your favorite ship(s)?I….really like Ritsu and Shou, and was kinda indifferent to anything else, until @pundeserving (and fanfics) ((thanks u fuck)) showed me the beauty of Teruki and Mob. Also???? I kinda like Tome and Mezato?????? They could like find aliens and report it to the news and honestly they’d be a power couple.

5: What battle shook you most?Uhm. The one at the end of the World Domination arc. So many emotions…..

6: What friendship do you find the cutest?Literally any with Mob. He’s such a good boy.

7: What’s the most hilarious moment to you?gotTA PUMP SOME IRONsorry duDE TOUGH BREAKwoAH ITS HEAVY okletsgo(pff other than so many lines from the dub, uh, I’m not too sure. Right now I can only think of how funny the whole situation with that Shirt™ in the Divine Tree arc is, and like the school festival in which for like a panel Ritsu is forced to dress like a maid and Shou is there. NO WAIT. I KNOW. Justifiable Self Defense. We’re not too sure it’s justifiable, but he’s yelling it anyways. also: OOHHH. HE FUCKING APPEARED! There’s probably others. I can’t remember them rn. OH well, guess I better reread the manga…..).

8: Favorite and least favorite arc?hmmmmm….The angst pit inside of me wants to say my fave is the Mogami arc, because of how fucking sad it could be (or the way it can spawn fics about it like nobody’s business) but honestly I don’t really have any favorites or least favorites. They all have their pros and their cons, but they’re all really good.

9: Which antagonist could you never forgive?Mogami. Hands down.

10: Do you have any OC’s?Nope. But there is an oc I saw once on this hellsite which was a cat named Milk that Mob owns and I fully support that hah.

11: Did you watch the anime or read the manga first?Anime. Subbed. Then went for the manga, then to the dub hah.

12: Would you visit Spirits and Such Consultation Office (if you didn’t know any better)?Hm. I dunno. Probably would be too lazy to seek out help if I thought a spirit would be on me or smth, or haunting a place. Maybe if it was Real Bad.

13: Are there any specific MP 100 artists/writers you admire?Uhm. Idk, I tend to not actually look at who is the OP on an art post or who writes a fic. I’ll edit this if I find out some good ones (there’s one artist I’m thinking of on here and they do real good arts, they do comics based on fics (one was on this court thing where Mob was dead by Teruki’s hand b/c the choking thing, the other was on an au fic where Mob was kidnappeped and Reigen ended up rescuing him and they hadn’t met before that idk I have yet to read it myself) and there’s a fic on ao3 that I am always waiting for the next installment, even if it’s been 20 seconds since I read the last chapter. That story’s linked below, and you can see other authors I’ve linked too).

14: Are there any MP 100 fanfics you HAVE to rec?(this answer is So Long I am So Sorry I just have A Lot Of Love)Ohhhh boy. You’ve done it now. You’ve awakened the Beast™. Fanfics are my forte. I’ve gone through all of them on ao3. Don’t fuckin test me on this.Ok so first off, if you want all the stories I’ve gathered off of ao3 (My picking process: Ignoring all stories with incest or an adult x a kid (or ships I don’t particularly care for), is the fic well written with a good plot? then onto the list it goes. Or if its bad enough to be good. That too.) you can just ask me for the fics and I can either share the googledoc with you or send you the links in another way.Some of my favorites from the list, tho, are as follows (in order of which I read them):Color in a Monochrome Worldby Sifl is a really good introspective series on many different characters, set after the World Domination arc. Sifl also wrote a companion piece, Vertigo.Extracurricular Education is a series by entrenched about Shigeo and his growth as he works for Reigen. It’s real cute, they’re good bros, I love it. A few stories takes place after the Mogami arc and reference it.Turning Slowly by sorrow_key is a fic about how Shigeo knows what unrequited love feels like b/c of Tsubomi, so he can see through Teruki really easily. He feels like a liar pretending to not notice. (eventually becomes TeruMob), My notes say if you’re in the divine tree arc, then you’ll get any references made in the fic. Can’t remember what’s said, but it must reference something in that arc for me to have wrote that.One Step Forward, Two Steps Back by fireflysummers_ao3 is a fic in which Teru feels terrible after the Divine Tree arc (this was made before 97.uh. the chapter that came out this last Thursday, the 5th of Jan, so it may not be as accurate as it could be) and Shigeo just wants to be friends and help him out. After Divine Tree arc.Temporary Accommodations by Originia is an interesting fic where, through shenanigans, Shigeo’s body is kidnapped without his like, spirit thingy in it (using the strategy from the Mogami arc) and Reigen tries to rescue Shigeo (which Dimple is possessing in Mob’s absence). I fucking love Ritsu in this story holy shit.The Adventure of the Red Shoes by dyingplatypus. Ho. Ly. Fuck. If you only read one story, read this one. It’s funny, it’s quirky, it’s in character. It’s solving a paranormal case about haunted shoes, and Reigen being cursed. It feels like it could be an actual happening in the anime or something. Seriously. Read this one. It has a little reference to the World Domination arc cause Serizawa is in there but like. You could proooobably read it without reading the manga.He Just Likes Dogs by reiqenarataka nearly made me fucking cry in a dentists office. It’s about Reigen and dogs, what more could you want?Signed, Sealed, Delivered by entrenchedis a series centered around Teruki and his crush on Shigeo, even as Shigeo crushes on Tsubomi. He would rather never tell Mob and continue being friends, over risking their friendship by confessing.do make tomorrow a sunny day by dyingplatypus is a series based off an au I mention in the next question. The AU is one in which Shigeo is taken by Claw at a young age, and thus works for them currently. Ritsu grew up without a brother, only knowing he had a brother at some point who presumably died. Both Shou and Shigeo are a part of Claw and work for it, and things Shigeo took care of during the normal universe didnt happen. (LOL) is a growing and powerful cult, Teru still wants to fight people. There’s many different perspectives in the series and they all add up to a unique experience (I’m still real fuckin amused by what Teru thinks of Shigeo in the first chapter of his POV fic)tomorrow isn’t always another day by suitablyskippy is another good fic on par with The Adventure of the Red Shoes. It’s also quirky, funny, in character, and shows Shigeo and Reigen solving cases. Of a haunted copy machine. Which Mob is preeeetty sure they solved yesterday. And the day before. And the day before that….Three by Ravenesta is an outsider POV story from a teacher’s perspective, on Shigeo Kageyama and his mysterious third emergency contact, Reigen Arataka. It’s pretty cool, and shows some good shit. Return. Continue. by UncannyCookie. A series. Takes place after Mogami arc, Shigeo isn’t doing too well, hands feeling too itchy and wrong after he was driven to choking someone in that unreal world. It’s bad. He’s fine. Teru tries his best to help. The second story, though, Teru is acting weird and Shigeo wants to help him but he swears he’s fine. (also has some of my fave tags: “Teru is not a natural blond, that’s the real drama here”). This is the fic I find myself waiting for updates with bated breath. It’s so good and interesting. Love that shit.

15: Do you have a favorite AU?I don’t know of too many aus, but most are real good. I like the art I see of the ageswap thing, where Mob is the adult and Reigen is the kid, although I don’t tend to read the fics about it. Idk why. But there are other good aus too, like any where Mob ends up being raised by Reigen. There’s an interesting one on ao3 I saw where Mob was taken by claw at a young age and now kinda like…works for them? Idk. It’s good though.

16: What would be your first or basic psychic skill (telekinesis, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, ect)?Honestly telekinesis. I’d fuckin own that shit, being too lazy to get up and grab things myself. I’d probably be like, hah, my pop is on the table literally inches from my hand. If only I could just float it over to myself! And then it does and I’d be like Holy Shit. Also, using telekinesis on yourself (if it’s strong enough) allows you to basically fly? I’d train til it’s that level and then I would be the least athletic person in existence.

17: Do you like milk?I really like strawberry milk. I only have normal milk if I dip a cookie in it. Sometimes chocolate is ok too. And I only really have whole milk cause it tastes the best.

18: What headcanons do you have for (character)?I mean u didn’t provide a character uhm. There’s so many. Me and @pundeserving have been talking and whenever I come up with some headcanon I tell her and she may or may not add it to her headcanon list. Usually she does. It’s very good and if you wanna hear some shit about a certian character feel free to ask abt them specifically.

19: Would you hone your basic psychic skill or try to learn different ones?Both? If possible? I’d like to get my telekineses to a point where I can move myself with little to no effort, but having basic version of other powers would also be nice (like psychokinesis to light a candle or warm up some cold soup or smth)

20: Would you try to use your psychic powers for personal gain or only if you had to?I mean, if it’s (like i mentioned above) heating up soup, that’s kinda personal gain hah no but seriously if it’d unfairly advantage me above other people (in a sport or something) or harm someone else, I wouldn’t do it. I’d use it for little things like retrieving something that’s out of reach or smth, or if worse comes to worse, to protect my friends or family, if there are no other viable options.

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With so many IPAs on the market, what constitutes a classic of the modern era? We asked brewers throughout the U.S. and U.K. what sticks out.

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Intrinsic Motivation is Key to Student Achievement – But Schools Can Crush It

This story about intrinsic motivation was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Like most young children, she liked learning new things, and she excelled at school. She got good grades and reveled in her success, thriving in an environment that, at least implicitly, set her up in competition with her peers. She was at the top of her class, and she proved herself further by testing into a competitive, private middle school. But there, among Providence’s brightest, it wasn’t as easy to be at the top of the class, and her excitement about school – and learning – subsided. Eventually, she says, nothing motivated her. She went to school because she had to.

Destiny, 18, is like most students in the United States. Surveys reveal a steady decline in student engagement throughout middle and high school, a trend that Gallup deemed the “school engagement cliff.” The latest data from the company’s Student Poll found that 74 percent of fifth graders felt engaged, while the same was true of just 32 percent of high school juniors.

One of the key components of engagement is students’ excitement about what they learn. Yet most schools extinguish that excitement.

It all comes down to motivation. In many schools, students do their work because their teachers tell them to. Or because they need to do it to get a certain grade. For students like Destiny, getting a good grade and outshining their peers – not learning itself – becomes the goal of school. For other students, they need minimum grades to be on sports teams or participate in extracurricular activities or please their parents, and that becomes their motivation. Students who do their work because they’re genuinely interested in learning the material are few and far between.

But that’s exactly backwards.

The teacher demands, the grades, the promise of additional opportunities – they’re all external rewards. Decades of research, both about educational best practice and the way the human brain works, say these types of motivators are dangerous. Offering students rewards for learning creates reliance on the reward. If they becomes less interesting to the student or disappear entirely, the motivation does, too. That’s what happened to Destiny in middle school when she no longer got the reward of being celebrated as the top of her class.

Inspiring students’ intrinsic motivation to learn is a more effective strategy to get and keep students interested. And it’s more than that. Students actually learn better when motivated this way. They put forth more effort, tackle more challenging tasks, and end up gaining a more profound understanding of the concepts they study.

Still, Deborah Stipek, a Stanford University professor of education and author of the book “Motivation to Learn: From Theory to Practice,” is pragmatic about the role of extrinsic motivation.

“I think most realistic people in the field say that you’ve got to have both,” Stipek said. “You can rely entirely on intrinsic motivation if you don’t care what children learn, but if you’ve got a curriculum and a set of standards, then you can’t just go with what they’re interested in.”

The problem is that the balance, in most schools, is way off. While some schools around the country are trying to personalize learning and, in doing so, to tap into students’ interests, Stipek estimates that most teaching minimizes students’ internal desire to learn.

Destiny Reyes, 18, spends one school day each week at the New England Aquarium and much of her schoolwork is built around research opportunities there. (Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report)

In traditional schools, it’s easier to offer a steady stream of rewards and punishments to keep students in line. And preparing students to succeed on state tests tends to discourage the lessons that let them explore their own interests. Teachers who want to inspire intrinsic motivation have to swim against the current.

That’s not the case everywhere, though. Destiny’s trajectory of diminishing engagement took a turn in high school. Instead of getting increasingly uninterested and disconnected from school, she became more engaged. That’s because she enrolled in the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, a public high school district in Rhode Island that goes by ‘The Met.’ She is now a senior.

The Met is at the extreme when it comes to tapping into intrinsic motivation. Students don’t take traditional classes. They spend virtually all of their time learning independently, with support from advisors or at internships. Students all have individual learning plans and accumulate credits toward traditional subject areas through projects, self-directed study, internship experience and dual enrollment with local colleges. Almost everything they do, all day, connects to a personal goal or something they’re interested in.

That’s what inspired Destiny to enroll at The Met. “I thought, oh my God, I have all this power to choose what I want,” she remembers.

Education researchers have been studying student motivation for decades, identifying the best classroom strategies to promote an intrinsic drive to learn. The Met puts many of them to use. Students learn through real-world, hands-on problem-solving; they tackle open-ended assignments that require sustained effort; they get the power to choose what and how they learn; they finish projects with something to show for their learning in portfolios and concrete products; they set their own academic goals; they need never focus more on a grade than the process of learning because they don’t get traditional grades. All of these things come straight out of playbooks for inspiring intrinsic motivation, including Stipek’s. And the impact on students can be profound.

Destiny started high school with the academic zeal she left middle school with – meaning very little. Her freshman-year report card reflected that. While The Met doesn’t give out traditional grades, students do get assessed on their mastery of the goals they set for each subject. The dominant note on Destiny’s report card from ninth grade is “meeting expectations.” She had very few instances of “exceeding expectations” and in some subjects, her mastery was only “in progress.” In her sophomore year, things started to shift, and “exceeding expectations” started to become a more common assessment. By junior year, Destiny exceeded expectations in almost every subject and “in progress” was nowhere to be found on her report card. Gone was the middle schooler who didn’t want to be in class. In her place was a driven young woman who again liked school.

Destiny’s experience is common for Met students. On state surveys, these students report being more interested in their coursework, more convinced that what they’re learning will matter to their futures, and more supported at school than their peers in almost every other district in Rhode Island. She and other students at The Met continually bring the conversation back to how much difference it makes to be in control of their learning.

The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence, R.I., known as The Met, is among a relatively small number of schools in the U.S. designed to intrinsically motivate students by tapping into their interests. (Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report)

Sarah McCaffrey, a 10th grader, appreciates the stark difference between The Met and her experience in middle school, “where it was just ‘Do this, this, this,’” she said. “I like more hands-on, where I’m in control, rather than you’re just going to tell me how to do it and then I do it. It’s more like I’m in charge.”

Marissa Souza, a 2017 graduate of The Met and now a sophomore at Rhode Island College, said she had similar motivations in high school. At The Met, she said, students set their own goals, based on their own assessments of their strengths and weaknesses, tied to the dreams they identify for themselves. “You’re more proud of your work because you know this was your goal,” she said. “You met your goal, you didn’t meet a goal that a teacher or principal made for you.”

“It really pushes you to be your best self,” Marissa said.

It tends to take a little while for students to rise to the challenge, though.

Beccy Siddons, Destiny’s advisor, considers watching that trajectory to be one of the most exciting parts of her job. As the main contact for an “advisory” of about 16 students who stay with her for their entire time at The Met, Siddons guides students through their internships, all of their academic work and, eventually, their college applications.

“Ninth graders who have spent their whole life being told what to learn, some of them don’t even know what they’re interested in because they haven’t been given the opportunity,” Siddons said.

That was Destiny as a freshman. Her first internship was at an elementary school in a bilingual classroom – a safe, familiar choice for the native Spanish- and English-speaker. In the end, she didn’t like it. As a sophomore, Destiny saw another student present about an internship at the New England Aquarium, and it piqued her interest. Last year, she worked there, too, and quickly discovered a deep love of sea life. She now has a favorite creature she didn’t even know existed before: the puffer fish. And she has a career interest she otherwise might not have found until college, if ever: environmental science.

The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence, R.I., known as The Met, gives students uncommonly broad control over what they learn in an effort to engage them in school. (Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report)

Siddons routinely oversees such meandering paths, and a key part of her job is helping students discover passions they didn’t know they might have. The freshmen she welcomes to The Met are a far cry from the seniors she sends out into the world.

The early part of that transformation does take work, though. And while it isn’t typical for schools to orient themselves around intrinsic motivation, hundreds do attempt it. Next Generation Learning Challenges has grown into a network of about 150 schools, all of which focus on tapping into students’ intrinsic motivation in one way or another. The Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools represents 102 school districts doing similar work; EdLeader21 has another 300 districts, many of whom aim to inspire students’ intrinsic desire to learn. And the Big Picture Learning network, built around the success of The Met, now counts more than 60 schools in the U.S. (and another 100 abroad).

In Chicago, a charter school made its commitment to this goal very clear, choosing the name Intrinsic Schools when it launched in 2013 to serve students in grades seven through 12. Learning there happens in “pods,” large, flexible classroom spaces that let students rotate from independent work to group instruction to collaborative, project-based learning. Ami Gandhi, director of innovation and collaboration and a co-founder of the charter, said that in the first year, administrators blocked out “independent learning time” for students, expecting they would thrive with the period of freedom. Looking back, Gandhi calls that naïve.

“I would go into the pod during that time and kids were just sitting there,” Gandhi said. “I was like, ‘What are you interested in?’ ‘Nothing.’ ‘What do you want to explore?’ ‘Nothing.’”

“If someone’s been telling you what to do for nine to 10 years of your life in school, you really don’t know what to do with that independent time,” Gandhi said.

Teachers had to help equip students to take advantage of academic independence. At first, they didn’t give students open-ended choices. They told them what they should work on in the independent time. Then they gave them a menu of options, slowly working up to the point where students could choose for themselves, entirely. After the first-year’s naiveté, Intrinsic Schools teachers systematically prepare students to take control of their learning.

Another major challenge for schools trying to spark intrinsic motivation is to make sure that fun, engaging lessons also bring academic rigor. Several studies have found that projects and hands-on activities can be effective at intrinsically motivating students, but don’t actually result in substantive learning.

Stipek, the Stanford researcher, said this comes down to teacher preparation and school design. Teachers aren’t trained to design academically rigorous lessons that motivate students in the right way. And schools aren’t set up to give teachers the time to do so. It is possible, though. Stipek directed the UCLA Lab School for 10 years, and she said her teachers – experienced and highly trained – consistently planned projects that engaged students’ natural desire to learn while also forcing them to master concrete concepts and skills.

“It’s not that it can’t be done,” Stipek said. “It’s just really, really hard.”

And because it’s hard, it’s necessarily risky. Many teachers – and their bosses – are afraid to experiment with this work. Stipek said the accountability movement, where states hold schools to strict standards for student performance on standardized tests, put a damper on teaching methods that prioritize intrinsic motivation. She believes accountability is important, but, in its latest form, has prompted teachers to focus on test prep. That prioritizes the testing outcome – the grade – rather than the learning process, a surefire way to kill students’ sense of intrinsic motivation.

Researchers have found that one consequence of using grades to motivate students is that they stop challenging themselves for fear of trying something hard and failing at it. The hesitance of teachers and administrators to take a leap with new learning opportunities is an extension of the same thing.

Destiny’s school, though, breaks the mold.

Students don’t do particularly well on standardized tests at The Met. Rhode Island gives every school a star rating based on test scores, graduation rates and other metrics. The Met graduates more students than the state average (90 percent vs. 84 percent), but its rating, just two out of five stars, is dragged down by student achievement on state tests.

School leaders, though, don’t pay much attention to test scores. Nancy Diaz Bain, a co-director, said she and her colleagues prefer to keep track of state survey data about student engagement, parent feedback about their children’s progress, student behavior, graduation rates and student performance in college courses. When students from The Met take and pass college courses in high school – which all of them do – they not only prove they can handle advanced coursework, they save money on an eventual degree, Diaz Bain said. And the other metrics about student engagement and success persuade school leaders that the model works. They also persuaded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pour $20 million into helping Big Picture Learning expand The Met’s model to other schools and President Barack Obama to highlight The Met up as an example in a 2010 speech before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

For her part, Destiny feels prepared for what comes next. She’ll finish high school this spring and then pursue a bachelor’s degree. She plans to major in environmental science. While she knows her peers from traditional schools may have gotten a broader education, she expects the depth of knowledge she gained doing internships and related research projects will actually give her a leg up in college. And she’ll enroll armed with a sense of intrinsic motivation to learn new things that many of her peers lost a long time ago.

This story about intrinsic motivation in the classroom was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Intrinsic Motivation is Key to Student Achievement – But Schools Can Crush It

One of the key components of engagement is students’ excitement about what they learn. Yet most schools extinguish that excitement.

But that’s exactly backwards.

Still, Deborah Stipek, a Stanford University professor of education and author of the book “Motivation to Learn: From Theory to Practice,” is pragmatic about the role of extrinsic motivation.

Destiny Reyes, 18, spends one school day each week at the New England Aquarium and much of her schoolwork is built around research opportunities there. (Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report)

That’s what inspired Destiny to enroll at The Met. “I thought, oh my God, I have all this power to choose what I want,” she remembers.

“It really pushes you to be your best self,” Marissa said.

It tends to take a little while for students to rise to the challenge, though.

“If someone’s been telling you what to do for nine to 10 years of your life in school, you really don’t know what to do with that independent time,” Gandhi said.

“It’s not that it can’t be done,” Stipek said. “It’s just really, really hard.”

Destiny’s school, though, breaks the mold.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t save Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has exercised a sword, a shotgun and a governors pencil. But as he makes 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

All his life, Arnold Schwarzenegger has embodied dominance. Mr Olympia, Conan the Barbarian, the Terminator, the Governator on screen or on a pulpit he was the most difficult, the most prominent, the mightiest. Whether swinging a sword, a shotgun or a superintendents pen, as a movie character or himself, he gloated in success in victory.

Crush your opponents, view them driven before you and discover the lamentation of the status of women. Ill be back. If they dont have the guts, I call them girlie soldiers. He was, and apparently ever would be, the Austrian Oak.

A preternatural stage of trust, focus and passion propelled him from the forest hamlet of Thal to prevail in bodybuilding, Hollywood and US politics. The accent and a figure formerly deemed unpronounceable did nothing to slow him. Even the jokes, such as Clive James comparing him to a brown condom full of walnuts, exclusively bolstered the mystique.

But as Schwarzenegger approaches his 70 th birthday on Sunday he confronts a relentless, insidious adversary not even he can overpower: hour. Schwarzenegger, after all, is human. And the clock, unlike alien piranhas and competitive cyborgs from the future, cannot be stopped. As it clicks, his supremacy ebbs.

He just wants to be number 1, in whatever context. He would do anything to sustain it. But the ageing process … its never accept, said Barbara Outland Baker, a former lover. I envisage deep inside him there is some discomfort: What am I supposed to do with this pilgrimage? I simply want to be number one. If not number one, what am I supposed to do?

Schwarzenegger abides far-famed, popular and busy manically busy. Early mornings you can recognise him in Santa Monica, region up Ocean Avenue on his bicycle, operating through red lights for his cardio. He still shoots cast-iron, behaves, circulates and champions political candidates and causes.

He is like a Terminator machine in terms of ceaseless starting, croaking, starting, endeavor, endeavouring, striving, said Bonnie Reiss, world head of an institute that digests his identify at the University of Southern California.

Striving, but no longer curbing. Schwarzeneggers recent cinemas have fizzled at the box office. He stumped in vain for John Kasich in last years Republican primaries. Chatter of him extending for Senate or mounting some type of political comeback has faded. The former action hero who passed California is greater number one.

He has invested his remaining political capital in the deserving if arcane issue of redistricing reconstruct – curbing the gerrymandering which bedevils local and nation referendums and fuels partisanship. He is ginning up money and courtesy for a lawsuit which will reach the Supreme court in October.

Hes a gadfly. He doesnt really have often of a constituency in the Republican party, said Jack Pitney, a politics prof at Claremont McKenna College. California Republican dont talked about any more. Hes basically a non-person.

Schwarzenegger used to be political royalty. He wedded Maria Shriver, John F Kennedys niece, and as an outsized GOP outsider brushed off sexual abuse accusations dubbed gropegate and acquired Californias governorship in 2003.

It was a bumpy term. He taunted Democratic resists as girlie servicemen, clashed with unions and other strong interest groups and watched the recession erupt a monetary crisis. He avoided meltdown and acquired re-election by rebooting his government, moving to the political core and grinding out judicial gains. Upon leaving office in 2011 he defiled his bequest by travelling the incarcerate convict of the son of a political ally. His divorce from Shriver amid revelations of an affair and secret son with their housekeeper further dented his reputation.

For all his political attainments he mobilised California in the fight against climate change the loss of manager clout must throb, said Outland Baker. He really likes fame and influence and the movie industry cant provision the same degree of real fulfillment, she said. Their rapport ended in 1974 but they remained in signature and he rendered an interrogation for her 2006 memoir, Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak .

Schwarzenegger, who became a US citizen in 1983, dreamed of the White House. But an effort to amend national constitutions, the so-called Arnold amendment, is impossible to lift the ban on foreign-born candidates. A big blow, said Outland Baker: You want to be the best, the top, if youre Arnold. If he could move, he would try.

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has created an unpredictable capacity, one with a world-wide spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

The two used to be on good terms but Trumps rise prompted a conflict. It appears in bullet and counter-slug every few weeks. The chairwoman branded Schwarzenegger a total tragedy and pathetic as legion of Celebrity Apprentice, which he used to host himself. He told a national devotion breakfast pick: I want to exactly pray for Arnold … for those ratings.

Schwarzenegger has swung backwith gusto. Hey Donald, I have a great mind, he said in a video posted on social media. Why dont we switch places? You take over Tv because youre such an expert on ratings and I take over your job and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. When Trumps approval ratings sank he gloated: The ratings are in, and you got flooded.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

A competition with person he thinks is worthy of being an opponent, hinted Joel Fox, a tax policy consultant who collaborated with the Governator. I think he knows Schwarzenegger peril because he has this deep insecurity about his manhood, said Pitney, the analyst.

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Whatever the reason, the Terminator star has become a subtle irritant and agent provocateur to the worlds more powerful human, said Michael Blitz, co-author a 2004 account titled Why Arnold Stuffs: The Rise of a Cultural Icon. Arnold may not be able to pump much cast-iron anymore but he remains a continue wizard of pumping irony into the odd regime of American politics. He is the has-been who still is .

Schwarzenegger is well equipped for battle in this nexus of politics and celebrity, said Reiss, of the Schwarzenegger Institute. Trash-talking and thought psyching was part of the bodybuilding world-wide, she said. The future minister sharpened his taunting skills against a bodybuilding adversary, Lou Ferrigno, the future Incredible Hulk, in the 1977 documentary Shooting Iron.

Trump and Schwarzenegger alter the grudge into advertisement, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they are likely understand the soul of each other better than the rest of us.

Schwarzenegger had more to amplification, said Fox, the implementation of policies consultant. If the president wants to engage with Arnold, its advantage Arnold. The former superintendent has used the attention to spotlight climate change and an after-school curriculum, both effects close to his heart.

Trump-trolling aside, Schwarzenegger works hard to sustain his firebrand against the ravage of experience. It conspires to downsize him, literally: his official altitude, 6ft2in, has been quarrelled over its first year by doubters who claim he is closer to 5ft10in.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and wanderings widely to promote climate change sets, bodybuilding contests and movies.

The bankable wizard of act flicks such as Predator, Commando and Total Recall, and humors such as Twins and Kindergarten Cop is long gone. Recent activity jaunts such as The Last Stand, Escape Plan and Sabotage misfired. Pivoting to smaller, quieter movies Maggie, Aftermath won over some critics( Arnie can play !) but gatherings remained away. He plays a hitman in the upcoming comedy Why Were Killing Gunther.

Schwarzenegger still returns stardust and programme supremacy to happenings promoting the environment, bipartisanship, voting reform and youth curricula. France lately recognised his climate change issues struggles with the Legion dHonneur.

A packed, rewarding life for most souls but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to subsist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to overcome.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t save Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has exercised a sword, a shotgun and a governors pencil. But as he makes 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has created an unpredictable capacity, one with a world-wide spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Trump and Schwarzenegger alter the grudge into advertisement, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they are likely understand the soul of each other better than the rest of us.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and wanderings widely to promote climate change sets, bodybuilding contests and movies.

A packed, rewarding life for most souls but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to subsist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to overcome.

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He’ll be back: why old age can’t save Arnold Schwarzenegger down

The man they call the Austrian Oak has exercised a sword, a shotgun and a governors pencil. But as he makes 70, is time eventually catching up with Arnie?

The ascent of another celebrity-turned-GOP politician to the Oval Office, however, has created an unpredictable capacity, one with a world-wide spotlight and rapt gathering: needler of Donald Trump.

Speculation abounds over Trumps motivation for the trolling.

Photograph: Allstar/ ORION PICTURES

Trump and Schwarzenegger alter the grudge into advertisement, said Outland Baker: They have enough in common that they are likely understand the soul of each other better than the rest of us.

He still works out at Golds gym in Venice, trundles around Los Angeles in his( biodiesel) Hummer and wanderings widely to promote climate change sets, bodybuilding contests and movies.

A packed, rewarding life for most souls but Arnie? The implication of life, he one said, was not simply to subsist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to overcome.

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