#and becoming a professor

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[retrograde-raven]

Must I contribute to society is it not enough to have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge?

[kandyzee]

Fiona was a top athlete, breaking records in track but had to drop out of high school.

Lip was a genius, always told he was gonna be the one to make it but dropped out of college.

Ian was in ROTC for years and trying to get into West Point but had any chance of enlisting ruined.

The 3 eldest gallagher siblings are gifted kids/ dedicated to a goal, but never live up to it, and it kills me every time.

[0livdocx]

This line is a proof that Erik’s helmet is technically his mental chastity belt which prevents his mind from having Charlesex:

[notllorstel]

“1, 2, 3, 4, the length some people would go.”

“5, 6, 7, 8, Maybe in another life we could’ve been friends.”

Just a couple of masked gentlemen.

[starcurtain]

One thing I wish I'd see more of among Ratio fans is some thought about how he views himself as a teacher.

Like yes, of course he refuses to compromise on the quality and rigor of the education he imparts, and he would find it unforgivably unethical to lower his standards in order to pass more students who had not genuinely learned the material. This is core to his character.

However, as someone who is a teacher IRL, I know the absolutely miserable feeling setting that kind of standard can cause. There's the obvious disheartening sense of disappointment ("Are students these days really not capable of doing the work correctly? Is our future in danger, if this is the highest level of understanding our current generation of students can achieve?"), but even worse than that is the self-doubt.

"Is this somehow my fault? Am I not teaching this material in the right ways for the students to learn? Is there something I could have done differently to get through to these students? Would a better teacher have a higher passing rate?"

We know that Ratio does (or at least did) struggle with feeling inferior to the Genius Society, so I think it is also likely, as much as he absolutely will not budge on his academic standards, that he has doubts about his teaching ability as well.

This is the man who wants to educate the entire world to cure the disease of ignorance, and yet only 3% of his actual students are able to get there. How can someone who gets so few of his direct students to a state of enlightenment hope to enlighten the whole universe? If so few students are successfully learning the material of a given class, doesn't that mean the teacher is doing something wrong?Would a better teacher--would a genius, maybe--not be able to impart their knowledge more efficiently and educate even the most challenging of students?

As someone constantly struggling with that balance between keeping academic standards high while also meeting the needs of today's students, I think the passing rates of his courses must affect Dr. Ratio much more deeply than I've seen fans discuss. I think he would question himself harshly over his class success rates, and I think he must be constantly trying to push himself to become the best teacher he possibly can be.

tl;dr: I hope one day the HSR fandom will stop sleeping on the fact that Ratio is an actual practicing professor who probably has astronomical levels of teacher angst. 😂

[toomanywatchers]

[mellobellooo]

theydies and gentlethems, I fear I am having too much fun making these

[bearofohu]

my favorite fact about the layton games that most people dont realize is that even though hershel is the protagonist every game is through luke’s POV

[driftdisco]

If he was a flower, I think he’d be Forget-me-nots

(Spoilers for azran legacy)

No because Azran Legacy was actually evil for revealing that Layton, the man who literally incorporates the traits of those he’s lost into his life as a way to remember them, even if it drastically alters who he is, FORGOT his BROTHER!?!

He’s patchwork! He’s so determined to keep the memories of those he lost alive that he will make parts of them live again THROUGH him! Then, he discovers that he actually wasn’t successful with that at all because he forgot 3 people that, at one time, would have been the most important people to him and yet he still lost them and forgot and akdjjdjdkskallakksjdj I fr can not stop thinking about it, it’s so tragic 😭

[boarwinds]

She sleeps during his lectures

[glyphes]

Happy, healed and healthy adventurers Gale and Astarion! I chose all the Astarion origin/ rogue dialogue specific options for this

[studysnorlax]

I was wondering bc it seems like all of rotomblr works in fields about pokemon

[weepylucifer]

unwound future is just layton, dimitri and don paolo all looking at each other and thinking "wow, these guys are freaks. i'm the only one here coping with the loss of claire in a normal way"

[clearlydusty]

posting this till i get my other artwork done since im laaate

[b4kuch1n]

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