#unfortunately this is where i'm at rn

[vanmarkus]

Outta curiosity, what were the scogan fics you enjoyed? Always looking for recommendations :)

oh well, as previously mentioned the list isn't very long (yet! i still have hope!!) but i definitely enjoyed reading these ones:

'Tis a Visitor and Nothing More by Theshapeoflove [10.8k, Mature]

Summary: In the aftermath of Jean and Scott’s death, the Wolverine has holed up for the winter in his cabin. Unable to cope and struggling to unravel his complicated feelings about a certain boy scout post humus, Logan is startled when he hears a knock on his cabin door right as a heavy snowstorm rolls in.

[it's a detached-but-not-really sort of fic, more of a character exploration and implications than anything, but it's very well written and it was a really fascinating read, definitely scratches a very specific itch]

A Shore Thing by snottysocks [7.2k, Teen + Up]

Summary: Scott Summers organizes a meticulously planned beach day for the students, but his well-ordered vision is challenged when he’s forced to ask Logan to chaperone.

[this one is just very sweet and easy; it also comes at the characters from a softer angle than a lot of fics/canon material, while keeping it pretty head-on and i think it just has a lovely lightness to it — something that this author seems to do really well]

Eyes Wide Open by menel [15.5k, Mature]

Summary: Depowered after a month in captivity and a botched mission, Scott has retreated into himself. Nearly everyone is walking on eggshells around him and it’s up to Logan to bring their Fearless Leader back.

[there are some time-jumps that i found slightly hard to follow at first, but otherwise it has a nice balance between the usual torments of being an X-Men and some more than developing feelings finally catching up to these two]

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

[rollercoasterwords]

like sorry but if ur actually seeing an increase in students using chatgpt 2 write essays 4 ur class why is ur first thought "oh they're being lazy" & not "have i structured this class in a way that makes this student feel the need to rely on chatgpt?" especially bc the majority of college students are overwhelmed taking multiple classes working part-time jobs caring for family dealing with health issues etc etc like there are soooo many reasons a student might decide to use chatgpt that are not just "laziness"!! consider:

the student didn't have time to complete the assignment without chatgpt -> have you created an environment where students can ask for extensions without judgment? do you only give out extensions for "emergencies" or "valid reasons" (<- subjective measure)? if so, why? what purpose do these strict deadlines serve? [think about how this overlaps with students who may have "had time" but were overwhelmed for other reasons; what kind of environment have you created for these students, and does it best serve their learning?]

the student didn't feel they had the ability to write an essay of good enough quality to receive a good grade without chatgpt -> how are you grading students' work? what grading scales have you utilized that made this person feel as though they're incapable of succeeding? do those grading scales prevent them from succeeding? if so, why? what educational resources did they or did they not have access to before entering your class? how might that change considerations about how you grade? [think about how this overlaps with students completing coursework that is not in their first language and whether your grading standards are truly equitable for these students]

the student didn't feel that they could understand the material and therefore couldn't complete the assignment -> again, have you created an environment where this student can come to you for help? how are you presenting and explaining material? what opportunities have you provided for students to seek out additional resources and support with understanding? is this assignment and its correlated grading scale designed to accommodate a variety of skill levels, or is it designed with "the best student" in mind?

the student actually just doesn't care about this class and doesn't want to do the work -> why don't they care about this class? what other classes or work are they prioritizing, and why? to what extent are you willing to accommodate students who simply will never view your class as a priority, but need to complete it to earn a degree--and how is that need tied structurally to a university that serves primarily as a class barrier? what role do you play in that university structure, and is it a role you want to play?

at the end of the day if your goal is 2 prioritize student learning that means being flexible & adapting your grading scales, assignment structures, class policies, etc. to accommodate students at their level of learning for their own purposes. like if the choice is between having a student get a zero on an assignment for "cheating" versus working with that student to create an alternative assignment which they can complete & which engages them with the course material on a level they can manage then to me it seems like a pretty clear choice between "no learning" and "some learning."

[moe-broey]

My homunculus

Hashtag my homunculus

[fireheartwraith]

I am now a changed man

[menaceborn]

I got a second hand telescope 🪐

[keeps-ache]

in a cafe rn. this place is nice :>

[jaedoesart]

somehow this line got even funnier with the music and voice blips added in asdfghjk

[plow-and-propose]

it's fucked up that you can get trauma from someone else's trauma. yeah so discussions about suicidal ideation make me start trembling like grandma's anxious chihuahua because an ex-friend kept trying to kill themself. sorry

[milfbrainrot]

internet bad for me but I just don't have anywhere else to get this amt of happy chemical hits for such little time or effort lol

[silverandebony]

haaa

[thepandalion]

I love how pandas are so entrenched into my theming and personality now that my mom stopped in the middle of her errands to buy me a panda onesie because she saw it and immediate knew I'd want one

[essektheylyss]

Sometimes creating a full-fledged outline, with three sentence descriptors per scene, is great for my productivity because I don't have to mediate what each scene is gonna be when I get to it, and if changes happen it's because I know what's missing and how it needs to be altered.

But other times I write the outline and then I'm like, "What do you mean I have to finish writing the whole thing before anyone will look at it. There's an outline right there. Fuck you pay me."

[ne0nwithazero]

I just spent the past hours uploading art to IG out of some sort of self-imposed sense of obligation but that UI is so broken and unintuitive 😭😭😭

I genuinely cannot grasp how people are capable of having Instagram as their main social media

AND THAT'S COMING FROM ME, A TWITTER USER

[copia]

been a sleep token fan since january; listened to ascensionism for the first time today. don't ask. point is i should be used to them and vessel's genre-defying ways by now but the switch-up at ~1:47 still made me laugh out loud

[byanyan]

ㅤborn on june 30th at 3:40 am to eunji byun, a woman who never had any intention of raising a child, byan was taken home by their adoptive parents, hye-jin yoon and dae-seong lee, a couple who had never been able to have a child of their own and had eagerly awaited their arrival. given the name yeong-hwan lee, they were treated exactly as if they were the couple's biological son and learned to refer to the two as eomma and appa (mom and dad).

this was the only period in their life where byan had a very "normal" childhood. and it was good! they were a happy, outgoing kid from the start, always curious and full of energy. they felt loved. they were loved. they don't remember it, but they were even taken to korea to meet their parents' extended family when they were two.

things were good, and it seemed like they were only going to get better when hye-jin unexpectedly discovered that she was pregnant.

byan's sister, hwa-young, was born on september 9th, when they were four years old. given her name because hye-jin was fond of the idea of her children having similar names, even byan was excited by this, and by the concept of having a baby sister. things remained exciting for the first few weeks, but as time passed and the newness of having a baby in the house began to wear off, things started to get... complicated. neither parent had particularly high paying jobs, and hye-jin couldn't afford to take much of a maternity leave. she worked from home, but between work, household chores, and hwa-young, neither she nor dae-seong had much time left over for byan, let alone for themselves. needless to say, it was a stressful time, and with money and energy running thin, byan beginning to act out a couple months in due to a lack in the attention they were used to having didn't exactly help matters.

only a few months before their fifth birthday, byan was placed into the care of a foster family. it wasn't an easy decision for either of their parents to make, but they had never planned for two children and no longer believed that they could properly support or give them both the life they deserved. the decision was made thinking that it would give byan the opportunity for something better, and that if things ever turned around for the family, they could eventually be brought back.

ㅤ—of course, that never happened.

contact was kept for a while, but when it seemed to only make things harder on byan, and subsequently harder on all of them, the decision to cut contact completely and all at once was made. the thought process was that if byan stopped waiting and hoping for the day that they'd get to come home, maybe they would eventually allow themself to settle with another family. at least they were probably young enough that they wouldn't remember all that much from their first four years, right? surely they would move on, and eventually be happier for it.

the last thing byan remembers hearing from eomma and appa didn't even come directly from them. it came through their foster mother, who tried to make it sound exciting that their last name had been changed from lee to byun.