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Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

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stood outside quite improperly dressed for the occasion laughing obnoxiously with my friends while experiencing my first snowfall in 6 years . maybe life is amazing actually

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do you have any ideas about why so many students are struggling with literacy now? I know that illiteracy and reading comprehension have been issues for years and most americans read at like a 5th grade reading level but I’m curious why it seems to be worse now (pandemic? no child left behind?)

It is everything. There’s not one answer. I could talk about this forever so instead I set a five minute timer on my phone and wrote a list of as many of the many things that are causing this on a systemic level that I could think of:

It’s parents not reading with their kids (a privilege, but some parents have that privilege to be able to do this and don’t.)

It’s youtube from birth and never being bored.

It’s phasing out phonics for sight words (memorizing without understanding sounds or meaning) in elementary schools in the early aughts.

It’s defunding public libraries that do all the community and youth outreach.

It’s NCLB and mandating standardized tests which center reading short passages as opposed to longform texts so students don’t build up the endurance or comprehension skills.

It’s NCLB preventing schools from holding students back if they lack the literacy skills to move onto the next grade because they can’t be left behind so they’re passed on.

It’s the chronic underfunding of ESL and Special Ed programs for students who need extra literacy support.

It’s the cultural devaluing of the humanities in favor of stem and business because those make more money which leads to a lot of students to completely disregard reading and writing.

It’s the learning loss from covid.

It’s covid trauma manifesting in a lot of students as learned helplessness, or an inability to “figure things out” or push through adversity to complete challenging tasks independently, especially reading difficult texts.

It’s covid normalizing cheating and copying.

It’s increasing phone use.

It’s damage to attention span exacerbated by increased phone use that leaves you without an ability to sit and be bored ever without 2-3 forms of constant stimulation.

It’s shortform video becoming the predominant form of social media content as opposed to anything text-based.

It’s starting to also be generative AI.

It’s the book bans.

what did I miss.

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What's that bro? You began interacting with a media from a different country than yours and/or was made in time period different than the recent present day? Haha that's sick bro! Keep expanding your horizons bro! You're remembering to take into account that sociocultural norms, gender roles and genre expectations are different from what you are used to and meeting the story halfway, instead of forcibly superimposing your ideals into the story, right bro? Right? Right?

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A heavily underutilised aspect of the digital landscape is the ability to send someone a .zip care package featuring a few podcasts, a handful of indie ttrpgs, a couple webcomics, a digital mixtape, and the .epub or .pdf for some book nobody's ever heard of.

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Maddie being introduced as this literal ray of sunshine and then being the first to beat along to Piltovers turn to martial law. Her interactions with Vi mystifying her as “one of the good ones.” One of the good Zaunites. She was always discriminatory toward Zaunites, they just didn’t make it overt at her introduction. The turn to fascism and discrimination can start with anyone. Including a literal ray of sunshine.

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i love watching media where everyone has a solid point and they are going about it terribly. it inspires me to make my characters worse

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just finished rewatching arcane s1e1 . if i stop now then nothing even worse happens to anybody and they stay together forever

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made another in honor of season 2. everyone sucks. i love them.

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these captions have got to be song titles i swear

this is too much promo for just a tour we are getting an album

^footage of me typing this post

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creature - graphite & fineliner on toned paper, 5.5in x 8.5in

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i am god’s least academic weapon but i am fed and i am free

@cricket-moth i will get you for this one.

last song: i never told you what i do for a living - mcr

favourite colour: indigo/periwinkle

last book: shred sisters (arc) - betsy lerner | currently: what you are getting wrong about appalachia - elizabeth catte

movie: lego batman (he is so me)

last tv show: gilmore girls. you can pry the early 00s era tv from my cold dead hands

sweet/savory/spicy: spicy <33

relationship status: single

last thing i googled: well now its "rule 63" bc of timdrakesplacenta but it WAS roller blades

current obsession: spanish syntax + grammar and also free coffee

looking forward to: toasted blueberry english muffin with butter, cheese, and roast beef at god's blessed hour of 8:00 AM EST

@achernarre your turn mf

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"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

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i have been condemned by @bxlladxnna-crxw

last song: disease - lady gaga

favourite colour: pastel pink <3

last book: it’s a book on yokai i cannot be bothered to fish it out from under The Pile but it’s there. if comics count then it was the second chapter of transformers: more than meets the eye

movie: transformers: dark of the moon but i really wish it was transformers one because that movie is the reason i’m like this now

last tv show: jesus christ i never watch tv so it’s probably still good omens. from like over a year ago. unless the same 15 minutes of starscream clips count as rewatching transformers prime

sweet/savoury/spicy: savoury always

relationship status: stares at you with my aroace eyes

last thing i googled: starscream tfp. need more references for gijinka design

current obsession: man you’re never gonna guess this but it’s transformers. starscream especially. and also a discord roleplay i’m in that is NOT related to transformers but the server puts up with me anyways idk how they do it

looking forward to: more starscream

i have nobody to tag this bloodline ends with me

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never posted this meme redraw of annaliese (left) and cilla (right) on here

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why is tumblr mobile set up like the rings of hell