#'themes are for 8th grade book reports' my ass

[fiapple]

the teacher i mentioned was honestly a gem though. some things i remember include:

he on a few ocassions involved me in debates he was having with other students (one about whether you get chromosomes from both parents- ended in him calling a relative who worked in medicene because the girl who had started the discussion refused to believe you got them from both, which i'd just done a project on, one on the trope of the strong woman in fiction, & one on how/if grades can measure intelligence tmm)

gave me a random ass writing assignment for fun & a copy of a book he wanted me to read to borrow out of nowhere at the end of 7th grade

had to deal with my 8th grade self deciding the themes i wanted to handle in my writing that year were drugs, addiction, cultural standards of attraction, self-destructive behaviour, lgbt+ identity, and hate crimes

had to deal with the fact that my mother gave me the girl with the dragon tattoo series in 8th grade knowing nothing about the series, only for me to then decide that it was what i was going to do my book reports on (he put heavy emphasis on reccomending not to watch the american film without an adult, and the swedish film until i was older)

had to deal with me signing up to an art's program in 8th grade, then having a nervous breakdown & not attending the audition (he was very sweet, and i learned he'd been in a band)

heard someone (who was not cishet) refer to the high school we planned on attending as the gay school (it was the first to have a GSA in our area iirc) and then told him off & gave me a knowing look about it. (looking back i did not intentionally come out but the man had to have known)

survived me handing in petekey fanfiction because one night i was like, yk what, mikey is the one i currently think about the least. i should write something with him in it. and pete is cool. and then by the time is finished i was too tired to write the actual assignment i had due the next day so i just made a few changes and handed it in (i got an a)

gave me a very kind little chat about how i'd improved as a student, only to then near word-for-word repeat it when giving me an award at graduation.

oh one time he took a book from me because i kept reading during a lesson he was giving, and i then proceeded to immediatley pull another one out of my desk.

also he asked me for a writing assignment back one time because he "needed it for a second", only for me to turn my head & find he'd begun reading it to the class as part of the lesson that day. funnily enough even though that story had my name directly in it, people did not realize i'd written it at first.

but yeah like i really do think good teachers deserve the world. sir, i hope you got to write your theatre pieces.

[moosalicious]

you know what? fuck the house of the dragon. i'm not watching, or getting invested in, another game of thrones series. i don't care if there's different writers or producers or even martin himself on it, i've been burned once before and it felt awful and i just refuse to put myself through that again. fool me once, HBO.

[fatui-harbingers]

I know I should be over this already but it's just really sad how immature and careless d&d are in regards to storytelling. They just really didn't care at all