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what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

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saw someone share this on their ig stories and i am obsessed

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I will always reblog this. It's excellent advice.

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

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In all seriousness, can we give this gorgeous, talented man the appreciation he deserves - what an absolutely fantastic portrayal he gave us, Ncuti Gatwa you will always be famous ❤️

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the bffs ever!!!

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thinking about how during the filming of the return of the vampire (1943) bela lugosi invited nina foch to his house for a late night dinner & when she arrived there was not a single light on the property except for a few candles alight in the dining room & she was like damn he dracula fr

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a stranger is just someone you haven't turned into content yet 🥰

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they should let me design tshirts

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two ways to respond when I take your points away

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Yeah, I had an adult English student recently who did her homework on ChatGPT. I asked her why if her goal was to improve her English--after all, it wasn't like I was going to call her parents and tell them her grade.

I mean, whatever, I graded it, but it didn't help anyone and it wasted all of our time. I think as teachers, it's a good opportunity to really dig in and think about what we're asking our students to do as learning strategies, knowing that these shortcuts now exist. Obviously this goes triple for school children as opposed to adults.

"what did students do before chatgpt?" well one time i forgot i had a history essay due at my 10am class the morning of so over the course of my 30 minute bus ride to school i awkwardly used by backpack as a desk, sped wrote the essay, and got an A on it.

six months later i re-read the essay prior to the final exam, went 'ohhhh yeah i remember this', got a question on that topic, and aced it.

point being that actually doing the work is how you learn the material and internalize it. ChatGPT can give you a short cut but it won't build you the the muscles.

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I think this is a false dichotomy. There are people who are never going to read a particular novel (or novel series), pick up a comic book, or check out a thousand episodes of an anime. The adaptations give those people an opportunity to experience something of what others have enjoyed about the originals. Maybe not much. Maybe not as well. But they're not made for folks who are married to the original concepts. They're made for those people's friends and family-members who are sick to death of hearing about it, want to know what it's all about, but won't ever get into it like you did.

The new Superman movie is for people who vaguely remember Christopher Reeve or the cartoons from their youth.

The MCU ditto, at least in its inception.

The Hunger Games movies were made for folks who wanted see what all the kids were talking about. And for parents who wanted to do something with those kids.

Adaptation purism is not only self-defeating (change is a synonym of 'adapt'), but also misses the point. The adaptor takes a fundamental element, reference, or bit of coolness to project onto the big screen. Most adaptors are absolutely not trying to adapt the complete experience of the original text. And even if they are, they're trapped into adapting the version that they made in partnership with the original creator in their heads when they originally consumed it themselves.

Take Zack Snyder's comic book adaptations as a good example. I'm no great fan of those movies, but it's clear that when Snyder has picked up a comic book, the thing that most appeals to him is the badassery, 80s/90s darkness, but mostly the big splash pages of awesome superpowers. And that's what he delivered on the screen. He faithfully adapted the thing that most spoke to him from the comic books he read. Whether you like it or not, from a certain perspective, his adaptations are as respectfully adapted as any. The fact that his reading didn't jibe with much of the general public is neither here nor there when you speak to the faithfulness of his adaptations.

I firmly believe that some stories can never be translated into a different medium and that's okay