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If you are a fan fic writer and you're alright with people making fan art of your fic, reblog this 💚

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“That is just as well, Potter,” said Snape coldly, “because you are neither special nor important, and it is not up to you to find out what the Dark Lord is saying to his Death Eaters.”

“No — that’s your job, isn’t it?” Harry shot at him.

He had not meant to say it; it had burst out of him in temper. For a long moment they stared at each other, Harry convinced he had gone too far.

But there was a curious, almost satisfied expression on Snape’s face when he answered.

“Yes, Potter,” he said, his eyes glinting. “That is my job.”

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Wait. What is this from? And will he share the music? *needs*

I'm actually composing [in my downtime], and I actually ended up composing a lot of the music for this season in my trailer.

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The way Jaskier ran when Geralt fell 🥺❤️

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The way Jaskier ran when Geralt fell 🥺❤️

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And the fact that he goes to put his lute down gently, then what he's seeing really hits him. The lute just drops from his fingers in his sudden horror/distraction. My heart.

Jaskier seeing Geralt injured.. he started crying and everything 😭

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Yep. Definitely older.

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

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Reblogging so I can find this gem more easily. Dunno why it made me laugh so hard when I first saw it, but I am forever amused. L'egg! Murph.

*sneezes*

crybaby learns how to swim - subtitled

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at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.

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Go On Being Dangerous

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Do you ever think you'll stop drawing fanart? No offense it just seems like the kind of thing you're supposed to grow out of. I'm just curious what your plans/goals are since it isn't exactly an art form that people take seriously.

Ah, fanart. Also known as the art that girls make.

Sad, immature girls no one takes seriously. Girls who are taught that it’s shameful to be excited or passionate about anything, that it’s pathetic to gush about what attracts them, that it’s wrong to be a geek, that they should feel embarrassed about having a crush, that they’re not allowed to gaze or stare or wish or desire. Girls who need to grow out of it.

That’s the art you mean, right?

Because in my experience, when grown men make it, nobody calls it fanart. They just call it art. And everyone takes it very seriously.

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A Twitter Thread from David Bowles:

[Text transcript at the end of the screenshots]

I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.

Most classroom practice is astrology.

Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.

We’re still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.

Most teachers perpetuate the “banking” model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.

Thus the elite “Lyceum” style of instruction continues even though it’s ineffectual with most kids.

What’s worse, the key strategies we’ve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents I’ve known flout research.

Some definitions:

Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.

Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.

Things we (scholars) DO know:

-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.

-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).

-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.

Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered: kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because .... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.

Maintaining the status quo? Nope.

Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.

If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.

They won't be learning much from you. Except what not to become. Sure, you can wear them down. That's what happened to most of you, isn't it? You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.

And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.

For what?

It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.

WE. DON'T. KNOW. HOW. PEOPLE. LEARN.

We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY. But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks. They are BRIMMING with thought.

The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?

Education is all about capitalism.

"You need to learn these skills to get a good job." To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.

THAT is why modern education is a failure.

Its basic premise is monstrous.

"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"

Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words.

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Reasons Why Fandom is Similar to Academia (p < .05)

Tends to be fringe. Occasional incursions by curious journalists who either Miss The Point or are annoyingly vague about subject material

Has experts unrecognized by any official process, but everyone agrees that they are the famous ones

You can be famous in your fandom/field, but your friends who aren’t in fandom/academia still won’t understand what you do

Those involved spend long hours producing content, often for little recognition and no direct monetary benefit

Conferences have dress codes (cosplay vs. business casual)

Dedicating your life to something that society, as a general rule, doesn’t care about

Plagiarism is Serious Business

Work can be submitted to zines/academic journals

Ongoing, long-distance, text-based slap fights that the rest of fandom/academia grabs popcorn to watch

People are so convinced that their ship / theory is right that they will fIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE

Long hours indoors with little to no sunlight

Procrastination kills

I could also write a post about why fandom and academia are both similar to cults

Reasons why fandom is not similar to academia:

I don’t give a fuck what journal reviewer #2 thinks about my fanfiction

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Regis patching up his witcher.

I’m planning to do twelve of this for a calendar. (1/12 finished)

It’s a long way to go😮‍💨

*reference for the background

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Details. Full +18 drawing available on Twitter. Full-size and WIPs on Patreon <3

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Apparently Sunday is the day I share The Witcher art <: I hope you like it 💙

Prints and other stuff on my RedBubble and Society6 (I’m Wisesnail on both <: )

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Jaskier having a normal time in the forest