foxchronicler

[foxchronicler]

You watch one video online about the Battle of Agincourt and suddenly YouTube thinks you want to watch 5 more???

[foxchronicler]

One of the striking things about math education for me is that most of the common objections to how the material is taught have really simple answers, but I have never in my life heard a math instructor provide those answers.

For example, something you hear a lot is: “why am I losing points for not showing my work when I got the correct answer?”, or even “why are we being told to use this procedure at all when the answers are so obvious?”.

There answer to both of those questions, of course, is: “Because what’s actually being taught is a problem-solving method that works for big and complicated problems as well as small and simple ones. We practice it with the simple ones first so that you can easily compare your intuitive solution with the results of applying the method and know whether you did it right. That way, when we get to the complicated ones where the intuitive approach doesn’t work, you can have confidence that you practised the method correctly.”

Not once in two decades of schooling did I hear that rationale offered – if an instructor deigned to address the objections at all, their response typically boiled down to some variation of “because this is how it’s done”.

Like, what’s difficult about this?

[foxchronicler]

Introduced my mother to Mika. I can’t help but feel I’ve made a grave mistake...

[foxchronicler]

Love how the internet has all the obscure things one could wish for except the reference images I need to draw stuff off of

[foxchronicler]

[foxchronicler]

Things I’ve Done Thus Far to Escape Writing the Novel I “Love”:

* deep-cleaned my room

* filed an absurd amount of papers

* watched videos online for ~10 hours

* done all my laundry

* over-break homework???

* re-organised my bookshelf

* researched colour theory?

All in all, my procrastination is so intense that in order to not write, I have now done stuff that I’d already put off... 

[foxchronicler]

The Fellowship of the Ring

[foxchronicler]

i have NPC energy cause most of my replies consist on

ok

NICE

hell ye!

no…….

yes?

sdfghjhghjkjDFGHJKGHJJDFGSS

thank you so much!

fuck!

[foxchronicler]

Morning Light

I have a couple new books coming out this Spring! You can pre-order signed copies of WHAT SOUND IS MORNING? and I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF here: https://www.watermarkbooks.com/grant-snider-signed-copies

[foxchronicler]

[foxchronicler]

Not procrastinating feels so weird...where’s the 1am panic? the 9pm don’t-fall-asleep dash for caffeine? where’s the thumping of your heart in your chest as you wonder how you’re ever going to survive this? 

actually getting things done is both the best and the most confusing feeling in the world...

[foxchronicler]

so I know almost no quenya but I am absolutely sure this person is talking out their ass:

(below is a screenshot from a celtic women song because I wound up on that corner of youtube tonight. that's life sometimes)

[foxchronicler]

everyone: making fun of your Ys... but not looking at the keyboard’s Y

[foxchronicler]

i have a deep respect for scotland because i was at an ireland vs scotland football match and their chant was “we hate england more than you”

[foxchronicler]

I realise a lot of girl’s Gay Awakenings was kiera knightly or kristen stewart which is cool phenomena tbh but I’m rlly interested in other Gay Awakenings like for example mine was morena baccarin in firefly and also gemma artenton in st trinians. CALLING ALL GAYS (boys and nb babes included)!! reblog with ur non kiera/k-stew Gay Awakening!!!

[foxchronicler]

Friends: “You’re always saying you’re writing. LET US READ SOMETHING?”

Me: “Sure”

*sends them the saddest, Feel-y parts of my book to test if it hurts readers enough

Friends: *sobbing in background* “I hate you so much”

[foxchronicler]

Girl across classroom: “oh hey the light’s making a rainbow on my computer screen!”

Me *to friend who’s researching gay rights in Iceland for her project*: “oh well would you look at that...there’s one on yours as well”