#learning fractions

[presswoodterryryan]

Alice’s Super Exciting Guide to Big Sister Ariel’s AMAZING Paper on Decimals & Fractions! 🎉📖✨

By Alice Hi, friends! It’s me, Alice! 🐰💡 And guess what? My super-smart big sister Ariel wrote an amazing paper all about converting decimals to fractions and back again! 🧮✨ Now, before you start thinking, “Ugh, decimals and fractions are tricky!”—hold on! Ariel showed me that these sneaky numbers are EVERYWHERE! You might see them in your favorite recipes when measuring ingredients, in store…

[loveletterworm]

This drawing isn't very literal...cuz that wouldn't really make any sense at all...

[riverin-stories]

* shows up late to ISAT function * how do you do, fellow saviors

[nyxi-pixie]

okay skk thoughts returning thinking again how crazy it is that their very first fight goes the way it does. dazai is someone who has to value human strength because of his ability: he reverts people to simple humanity with no powered additions to amplify them. he doesnt make them weak he just takes away the unnatural benefit of their skills, leaving him to restrain them with equal unamplified strength. because of this, because he has to value it, he expects to be capable of overpowering anyone who is strong by virtue of their ability because why would someone like that value their unsupplemented prowess? why would chuuya, with gravity at his fingertips, give a fuck about physical strength without bending weight to his will? by all logic he wouldnt, and dazai proceeds in that fight believing chuuya wouldnt. but chuuya does, of course he does. of course chuuya holds in high esteem strength that is purely his, that doesnt come from some demonic ability that was attached to him. and in that, in easily kicking dazai off of him because he is stronger than dazai even without his ability, he does two things. he surprises dazai, in proving him wrong, and he demonstrates a bizarrely distant affection for humanity that dazai himself had barely begun to entertain at this point. dazai in fifteen is still dismissive of humanity, almost fyodor like in his conviction in their small predictable stupidity. but here is chuuya, unpredictable and affectionate enough of a humanity he feels outside of to replicate its power in pure muscled force.

[marimbles]

i miss carpisuns sometimes </3

[jinstronaut]

some 5am thoughts bc my cat woke me up:

solo stan’s and solo behavior can kick rocks

there is no right or wrong way to use a tracked tag — ppl have lives and ppl are busy, don’t get mad bc someone isn’t reblogging something within 2 hrs of it being posted. some of us use a tag to catch up since we’re too busy to be here 24/7, that’s not a bad thing.

if you’ve never ever ever spoken to someone personally you don’t get to speak on who they are as a human being. if you’ve never actually reached out and had a convo with someone abt who they are you’re doing a disservice to them and yourself when you just assume things abt them based on perception instead of fact

most importantly HOBI IS HOME so let us celebrate 😌🎉✨💖

[voxina]

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[noinoi10101010]

Sun you know I love you and I am gonna hold your hand very delicately softly and gently as I say this

[presswoodterryryan]

Fractions Made Easy: Multiply with Confidence

By Alice Hi, friends! It’s me, Alice! And guess what? My big sister Ariel wrote another awesome paper, and this time it’s all about fractions and multiplying them by whole numbers! 🧮✨ Now, before you run away thinking fractions are scary, let me tell you something… fractions are EVERYWHERE! From baking cookies to cutting pizza slices to measuring how much time I spend playing with Mr.…

[thefirstknife]

Hi Bel,

I keep seeing comments about people complaining about the quality of destiny’s writing and story in the last few weeks. I haven’t really engaged with destiny since season of defiance, what’s currently gotten everyone so riled up? I thought that people were enjoying Season of the Deep/Witch in terms of narrative, why is Season of the Wish causing people to deride the destiny writing staff again?

I don't know!

Deep and Witch have been absolute bangers in every aspect to me. I've been enjoying all interactions and lore tabs we've received. A lot of them are stuff that we've never had before, a lot of reunions and closures, a lot of development and interactions between characters who you wouldn't really think would have much in common.

Sloane's return and healing from what she's been through has been fantastic, Drifter opening up with her to help her because he also got help from others was fantastic, Sloane reuniting with Aisha and Shayura brought me to tears (Shayura's descent into madness was triggered by immense trauma of Sloane staying on Titan and Titan disappearing), everything with Sloane and Zavala...

Witch was just incredible in every single way; the focus on Eris, the amount of Eris and Ikora content!!!!! Everything about Xivu and Savathun and their interactions together!! Eris finally fulfilling her goal she promised Savathun YEARS ago, getting that closure.

Wish so far has been equally great to me. All the new stuff about Ahamkara is amazing, finally giving us proof for long-standing speculation about Ahamkara and how they aren't universally evil creatures and expanding on them as a species. I love all interactions we've had so far; finally we have Petra back, Mara's singleminded focus on figuring out how to defeat the Witness and her continuous work to improve as a person, ALL SJUR MENTIONS!!!!! I won't talk about the "leak" because we have no context for it so I will wait for the full story to be revealed before I can pass judgment; something that I think should be a lesson to learn from this entire year. Maybe wait for the story to finish before judging the story.

Literally everything this past year that involves Osiris, but especially this season now that he's back in his element with the Vex. And of course every little detail we get of him and Saint. Osiris honestly shaped this year for me with everything that he's done to uncover the biggest mysteries. I think a big reason is that a lot of people just don't like Osiris, which I consider a massive skill issue.

Other than that, I don't know what are the issues people have besides just not being interested in any of these storylines and attributing it to a nebulous "bad writing" claim. I also genuinely believe that way too many people get wrapped up too much in fandom, imagine storylines they want to see and then get disappointed when the actual story doesn't go there. Almost like people forget that this isn't their story and these aren't their characters. A lot of it is also fandom completely warping characters into not what they actually are and then feeling like the canon story is the one that's wrong.

Whatever is the reason, I guess everyone is entitled to their perspective of the story and everyone is free to explore the story in different ways through fanfics and AUs and whatever. I do that too!

But I would definitely ask people to be normal with how they engage in criticism, especially in the current state of affairs. Writers are developers; they experience a ton of harassment and negativity from the community and also from inside the company. And they are online: they can see what we're saying. It's been documented that community commentary has been used to harass writers:

Imprint this into your brain and never forget what these people had to go through. Let's not forget also the way people treated Seth Dickinson on social media when he was active with Destiny fans. "Fans" were actively arguing with him about his own work (telling him that HE is wrong) and were utterly disgusting towards him when he tried explaining what he wrote. His works are now hailed as the best writing in Destiny and people want him back. If I were him, I wouldn't want to come back ngl, not with how he was treated and not with how fans are still treating writers (and hey, Seth wrote LF Collector's Edition! So he was back, technically, this year!). Let's not forget that a lot of writers are members of various marginalised groups. And I'd definitely not want to go back with zero support from leadership.

Which is also an important aspect for all developers, including writers: sometimes they have orders they may not like, but can't argue against. They do the best they can with what they're given, the time they have and directions they receive. And with that in mind, I am enjoying everything we've gotten this year, obviously with some specific complaints about things I didn't particularly enjoy (like the universally mid reception of Defiance; I've spoken about my gripes with it before, a big one being the shafting of Suraya who should've at least been mentioned in a lore tab).

I can tell that there is passion in their work, even if maybe they would prefer to do more with it, but can't. Maybe even if they want to take different routes, but can't. But from what we got, I can feel that they care about this world and these characters. I can tell that someone lovingly wrote about Sloane and her friendships with two grieving women. I can tell that they deeply cared about Sloane's friendship with Zavala and that they loved showing us Saint and Drifter caring about a fellow trauma survivor.

I can tell that the writers are immensely careful and loving towards Eris; everything she went through was crafted with love and passion from both writers and her VA. Eris' story is such a fundamental aspect of Destiny and I can tell that this was important to the writing team and that they gave her everything they could to do justice to her character and her arc and her healing and her release from the cycle she was trapped in for so long.

I can tell that there are writers who care a lot about Osiris and Saint and their relationship. I can tell that someone cared a lot about expanding on Ahamkara and giving them more personalities. I can tell that someone cared DEEPLY about Sjur and Mara and that her repeated mentions are the passionate work of writers who want us to remember her.

I could go on. And I know that not everyone sees it this way, which is fine; we all have different ways of perceiving stories. I enjoy discussing things we in the fandom disagree on and I enjoy hearing different perspectives! Unfortunately, this has recently become rarer and rarer. And for the love of god, please try and treat writers with some respect, especially now, especially those who are still working and doing their best with the shitty situation they're in. None of the cries of "poor devs" ring true to me unless the same is given to writers, instead of treating them like punching bags.

[natjennie]

"thomas got no character development" maybe. or maybe the moral of his story is that it's irresponsible and unhealthy to attempt to completely deprive yourself of your feelings and much more productive to accept them as part of yourself and move on with your life from there. trying to go cold turkey on alison and then randomly picking another person to have a crush on only for it not to work is something we've seen thomas do before, which for some reason people decide to see as boring repetition rather than consistent characterization. but after that. did you miss the part where he stopped talking when she walked away, realized along with everyone else when fanny said "we're as bad as betty" and voted to go through with the proposal for alison to leave? did you miss the part where he happily waved her and her living family goodbye? did you miss the part where alison, old and gray, came back and mirthfully said "thomas, you flatter me" like. his passion for people and obsession with the idea of love wasn't gonna just go away. but he's learning to treat her with more respect, he didn't throw a tantrum or follow her around or go drown himself in the lake. just because he's not a completely different character doesn't mean there wasn't growth. watch season 1 episode 2 thomas say "divorce him, kill yourself, marry me" and then watch the christmas special again and tell me there was no development. come on now.

[leafuxxtea]

can people stop drawing well, I'm like this 👌 close to making a pact with the devil

[yiddishfisting]

about the movie itself i'm still mad that they made d-16 a stickler for rules who was fine with putting his head down + not challenging his oppressors so that it was "selfish" at the end when he was the one who fought back with violence bc of the personal betrayal he went through at sentinel prime being evil. i mean at least in idw megs was the one who was always advocating for real change, even when he was trying to be "peaceful" about it, while coptimus was like "if we just talk to our reps it'll work out :) voting will save us :)"

[a-sketchy]

ohhhhhhhhh “sea of thy soul” = personal unconscious, “sea of souls” = collective unconscious. hey guys did you know that persona is kinda jungian

[city-flag-tournament]

hiii pls check out the flag for Bonney Lake, WA. i can only find one size of it online and it's very small which really adds to it.

Truly incredible, especially because I can't find any evidence that this is a seal of the city or anything.

From FOTW:

The flag for the City of Bonney Lake was first developed in 2008 for use in a parade of flags at an annual conference of the Association of Washington Cities held in Yakima, WA. Bonney Lake City Administrator Don Morrison provided input to graphic designers, Matautia Design, of Olympia, WA.

I think this style is quite typical for flags made very impromptu for events like this, I can understand why it doesn't receive much usage, but the fact that it was indeed created by a graphic design firm does heighten my viewing experience.

I find myself particularly entranced, by the inclusion of the "original flag" with the misspelling of incorporated (as "incorperated" -- as it is usually pronounced). I wonder if it's possible to still find these out in the wild...

I find their logo to be much more suitable for the type of low effort logo flag I mentioned earlier, and I think this might actually be what's flying outside of their Justice & Municipal Center

The city website has a similar image on its front page, but the flag is similarly obscured there as well.

[mech-pilot]

it's quite interesting to me that our openness and extreme self acceptance is what makes us so polarizing. we radically change peoples' lives for the better when it clicks, but if you have judgements about us or our beliefs... you end up in a social version of a sandpaper conveyor belt.