#with the right class at the right time

[trekscribbles]

Middle School Classroom Management Tip: A Step by Step Guide to Shocking/Scaring Your Class into Mostly Listening to You from Now on, Courtesy of the Merlin Fandom

Step 1: Accidentally find this video.

Step 2: Watch it obsessively until you figure out how Bradley James does the sword flip (around the 4 minute mark).

Step 3: Find the plastic sword you bought at Target during Halloween season a few years before. Practice in your living room until you can also do the sword flip.

Step 4: Completely forget about all of this for 10 years.

Step 5: Become a middle school teacher. Encounter a difficult class who won't work for you unless they like you. This especially works if it's a class full of rowdy boys and you've spent most of the year wearing floral dresses and talking about poetry.

Step 6: Find your plastic sword while cleaning out old boxes. Suddenly remember the sword flip. Wonder if you can still do it.

Step 7: You can.

Step 8: Wonder if it works with yardsticks.

Step 9: It does.

Step 10: Wait for a day when your class is extra obnoxious. Silently walk across the room to get a yardstick. Bring it to the front of the room and place the yardstick across your foot. Make a bet with the class: if you can pick up the yardstick without bending down to get it, they have to work quietly for the rest of the period. If you fail, they can have free time for the rest of the period.

Step 11: They're intrigued. They're quiet. It's a miracle.

Step 12: Flip up the yardstick with your foot and catch it like a badass. Twirl it for good measure. Enjoy the absolute pandemonium that follows.

Step 13: Silently return the yardstick to the back of the room. Remind the class that they are bound by honor to abide by their word. Enjoy 10 minutes of silent work time.

Bonus: The class thinks you're cool now. They're still loud and difficult, but they mostly rein it in when you tell them to knock it off. You push it and try to get them into medieval poetry. It doesn't work. You'll try again in a few weeks.

The moral: No knowledge is useless, and Bradley James is awesome.

[communistkenobi]

whenever right wing people talk about “parental rights” they are talking about property rights. they are arguing for further political and legal enshrinement of their children as their literal actual property

[hugs-and-stabbies]

The self-awareness on this guy 😞 someone pls send him an "are you bi?" quiz STAT

[deadpoets]

DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) dir. Peter Weir

[xxplastic-cubexx]

anyone else get cuteness aggression whenever they see james mcavoys charles….. like i have to pace around the room everytime i see him (your art is not helping. /pos)

i can think of one (1) mate who also gets cuteness aggression

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Obviously we have to wait for the video to know the story, but for anyone who’s studied any kind of social history/psychology/sociology/etc. And knows a little about the diagnosis of hysteria, Victorian mores, the use of lobotomies/shock therapy/etc to treat women who failed to live up to patriarchal ideals and the minimizing of women’s physical and mental health issues historically in the medical and psychiatric fields plus the old Hollywood of it all… the imagery is Telling The Story. I am fucking SEATED.

[egophiliac]

the lovers, reversed

(aka I'm still freaking out about Jou)

[markscherz]

Just a reminder that in much of the northern hemisphere there is Good and Exciting Stuff to be found right now (early Summer) in your local ponds and waterways.

[beaft]

my teaching course is so funny because i've not told anyone my pronouns or mentioned my gender so everyone is just guessing wildly every time they refer to me

[myoonmii]

I think the downright most horrific and brutal detail in the show is that Kilgharrah actually used Merlin to make sure Arthur's death happened with the pretence of protecting him

[nato-obenkrieger]

he’s quite silly to me

[nelkcats]

Conner Phantom, learning to live

It had been a few years since Vlad and Danny had stopped being enemies, years since Amity had been at peace with the ghosts. Danny spent his days teaching his children (he assumed they were his children) about well, everything.

Dan and Ellie had prefabricated knowledge, the halfa couldn't quite get it, but the point was that while they knew who was the creator of the chemistry, they had no idea how to do 2 + 2, so he made it his homework to fill in all the gaps.

No one at Amity blinked at the 30-year-boy-who-was-actually-12 and the 15-year-girl-who-was-actually-4, Danny guessed they had gotten used to the weirdness. One day, Vlad called and pointed out that someone had entered his database a few months ago (apparently he checked his digital security very little when he didn't make "evil" plans) and they had stolen the plans for the cloning capsule. Danny had a bad feeling.

Of course, it was after a month of searching that he found out about Lex Luthor's little "project." To say that he was angry was an understatement; he found the poor Superboy being mind controlled. He felt sad when he remembered Ellie's situation and well, he ended up stealing a clone child and destroying some laboratory. Like old times.

The world did not know of Phantom; Amity was suspicious, almost jealous that their protector could be taken away if they said a word, so they didn't say anything out of the city. It's not like the League did anything when they called. Danny didn't care, less tedious meetings and contingency plans for him. Besides, he wasn't excited about going back to the field if he didn't have to, as long as Amity was safe, the world could be destroyed for all he cared.

He wondered if spending too much time with Dan was affecting him, but in the end he dismissed the thought. Upon arriving home, Superboy had woken up and was being interrogated by the Phantoms. He chose his name to be Conner (sounds good apparently) and agreed to take classes to fill in the gaps of knowledge, just like Ellie, he seemed uncomfortable with the gaps.

The poor boy looked uncomfortable, waiting for the other shoe to drop, but it never did. After finding out whose clone he was, he wondered if they would take him to Superman, but Danny just snorted. By the end of the week, Conner was a Phantom, and he was fine with that. Danny even told him that he could live normally if he wanted to, and the boy happily accepted the offer. Conner didn't want to be a hero, at least not that early, and Danny was happy with his decision.

Danny frowned thinking of all the heroes who would say that is "selfish" for someone with power to not to use it. But he believed that they were doubly selfish. Being a teenage hero wasn't fucking easy. He hugged Conner, welcoming him to the family and within days, the whole town already knew about him (they also knew whose clone he was, but they didn't really care, they weren't snitching).

Curiously, it was Tim Drake who noticed the strange family visiting Gotham (a 23-year-old seemed to be berating a 30-year-old for stealing tires, he snorted at the irony). However he froze when he saw Clark?, but much younger, speaking in Kryptonian and laughing. He called a meeting in the batcave and tried to call the family, but as soon as they saw the expression in his face they vanished from sight.

Hell, he needed to report it to Bruce.

[a2zillustration]

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[xxplastic-cubexx]

this dang helmet gonna be the death of me

[bacchuschucklefuck]

this has been a roller coaster of a design journey but finally I can present you: class swap artificer!adaine and rogue!fabian

[shaadowmilkcookie]

One of Shadow Milk’s many prop replicas of himself, left behind. Even though the eyes are forever staring straight into the distance… Oddly enough, you still feel like you’re being watched.

But surely, though, it won’t hurt to take it home and touch up the colours, right? :)