#class lesson

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*glancing back at my childhood in the rearview mirror* and what the FUCK was up with my mom always signing me up for Activities

[yveshb]

Weak Hero Class 1 (2022) - 1.05

[hood-ex]

All the Americans on RedNote/Xiaohongshu that are interacting with Chinese people for the first time and are realizing that our governments hate each other but that we can build community/friendship with Chinese people reminds me of a conversation I had with a student of mine.

For context, I taught kids from China how to speak English for 4 years. I had one student named Rain (his English name) from Guangzhou. He was about 9 years old, and I'd been teaching him since the very beginning of his English journey when he only knew very basic vocabulary like vegetables. He got to the point in his language learning where he could use simple words and sentences to talk about more complex subjects.

There was one class we had that I still think about to this day.

"What classes did you have at school today?" I asked. "Math? English? PE?"

"Math yes. English class yes. And... history," he said.

"Oh history? Nice," I said.

"Teacher, I don't like USA a little bit," he said.

"You don't like it? Why?" I asked.

"Because..." he tried to explain before realizing that he didn't have the words he needed to express himself. He switched to miming and drawing the USA fighting with/being mean to China.

"So you don't like the USA because the USA fights China? Hurts China?" I asked for clarification.

"Yes, yes, I don't like it a little bit," he nodded.

"Do you like USA people? I like people from China," I said.

"You like China people?" he asked.

"Yes, I love Chinese people," I said. "I don't like when the USA and China fight, but I love Chinese people."

"Me too!" he said. "Kind of don't like USA, but I like USA people."

In that moment, I was amazed that even with a language barrier, and even with our age difference, we could come to the same conclusion that we didn't like what our countries did to each other, but that didn't mean that he had to hate American people or that I had to hate Chinese people.

"USA people and Chinese people are kind of different," I said, referring to our cultural differences. "We are the same too."

"Yes, kind of the same," he agreed.

That's what many Americans on RedNote/Xiaohongshu are starting to understand better.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[sepdet]

So after spending all week in migraines, calling Congresscritters in vain, dealing with medical red tape, dealing with medical issues, and putting one or two starfish back in the ocean, I went to the art studio tonight and

FINISHED A VAN GOGH STUDY WHAT LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING VAN GOGH.

original reference photo of van Gogh's 1878 self-portrait I was using; plus a couple process photos below the cut to prove it's not AI. The goal is not to make a perfect copy, but to learn as much as we can by doing.

(yes, I know van Gogh started with a white untinted background; I've been having a argument with my instructor about this because our in-studio technique based on impressionists like Manet is to tint the background with a neutral complementary color, rough in a low-saturation version of midtones/lights/darks as the painter's equivalent of a sketch, and refine.)

[clementimetodie]

We as a society have forgotten that school children were still hand writing essays in class not that long ago

[forecast0ctopus]

couple more recent commissions! commissions form

[letters-to-rosie]

I see way too many fics where Caitlyn is cool. Arcane Caitlyn has a conspiracy board on her floor, no friends we see of her age despite being one of the richest people in Piltover, and sucks at making conversation. This is loser erasure and I will not stand for it. In this essay I will—

[far-away-from-tulsa]

confession time: when i was reading dally’s death scene i was so screwed up from johnny’s death that i read dally as darry the whole time. i full heartedly thought that darry got himself shot up and was SO CONFUSED

[cyphyree]

FREE RICE - Official UN World Food Program free nonprofit game that Feeds those in Need!! https://freerice.com/

What does it do?

You play simple trivia games in-browser, and for every correct answer you will help raise "rice" (meaning money to go into emergency relief such as rice and other foods) to help feed those most in need.

Freerice officially works with the United Nations World Food Program (see: https://unric.org/en/freerice/ ), which serves, as of writing:

State of Palestine

Afghanistan

Ethiopia

Ukraine

Sudan

Yemen

See more listed here: https://www.wfp.org/emergencies, as linked from Freerice

How does it work?

Private sponsors now match the rice grains earned in the game. Every question you answer correctly earns 10 grains of rice, triggering a financial payment to WFP. The donations generated through Freerice help support WFP's work in emergencies around the world. (source: https://freerice.com/frequently-asked-questions )

100% of all funds generated via Freerice go to the World Food Programme. Freerice does not earn or keep any money it raises.(source: https://freerice.com/about-us)

Important Notes!

If nothing shows up when you hit "PLAY GAME," try enabling cookies to reveal the site shown above

Making an account is OPTIONAL, not having one does not lessen your impact

Can be used towards virtual community service (download a certificate to fill out yourself)

Freerice has no time limit and perfect for using in conjunction with arab.org, a single click website for various good causes

[gremlinshatephilosophers]

The Great Impersonator bonus tracks!

One bonus track for each decade on a 24 hour limited version of the album (so far).

ALICE OF THE UPPER CLASS

NOTHING

Lessons

Charades

Edit:

There's also a new bonus demo track:

Afraid of the Dark (Demo)

Also there's another version of lucky from the Japanese edition:

Lucky - Stripped

Lucky (Stripped) [US digital release with purple star album cover]

And the latest bonus version of Hometown:

Hometown (Stripped - Live from Vevo)

Here are three new bonus versions live from Vevo:

Panic Attack (Vevo)

Ego (Vevo)

Lonely Is The Muse (Vevo)

[ryllen]

delivering peaceful judgement

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

cough cough cough hack (I yearn for more, day 3 no post I havw started to lose feeling in my fingers (lie))

*cough cough* SSORRY,,,, FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL IS KICKING MY ASS,,,,,

hopefully things calm down a bit and i can post more but.... based on what i've had on my plate so far? not likely 😔 maybe weekends will be kinder.

but i dont want to leave yall with nothing so heres some pencil sketches i have

[kaiserouo]

Tired Ghost

[doctorsiren]

Like with any media I get into, an AU is sure to follow, so here’s something @sleepysquib and I have been cooking up!

We wanted Haibara to live, that was it :D

Here’s a “brief” summary of his whole deal:

During August 2007, his second year at Tokyo Jujutsu High School, he went on a mission with fellow second year Nanami Kento. The mission’s level turned out to be higher than expected. Haibara received critical wounds, but was able to escape with Nanami with their lives. He was healed by Shoko’s reverse curse healing technique.

After his brush with death, he realized that he needed to be taking this more seriously. That, combined with Geto’s betrayal, led him to becoming less naive. However, he didn’t want to lose his positivity, so he focused on increasing his abilities through his emotions, eventually becoming promoted to Grade 1.

After graduation, Nanami still ran from the life of a jujutsu sorcerer, while Haibara stayed in that world. He saw his role as something akin to a superhero, and took it in stride, calling himself “Cupid” and being very public about his status. He quickly became popular and gained a fanbase, taking pictures and signing autographs for them when he has time.

Being received well by the media and being good on camera, Haibara became somewhat of a PR boy for the jujutsu sorcerers. He could make a bad situation sound less terrible through his natural charm.

Nanami and Haibara remained best friends during the time that Nanami was working as a salaryman. Eventually, Nanami learned the bakery lesson and realized his place was as a sorcerer. He returned to that life and was quickly paired with Haibara for many missions.

Haibara knows that the world isn’t the happy place he wishes, but he tries to be the change he wants to see and spreads positivity. He also does this in hopes of lessening the amount of cursed spirits created by the negative emotions of humans.

As a result of always expressing positivity, his negative emotions are naturally bottled up. He does this on purpose, stockpiling his negative emotions so he can release and harness their power if a battle becomes that dire. His last resort is to unleash his negative emotions, which increases his power greatly for a brief period of time. After this burst of power, he is left exhausted and drained and will need to recover. He is aware that he is being “toxically positive” but does so to increase his power with negativity later.

He doesn’t express joy all the time and doesn’t force himself to express it every moment of the day, but he will always express positivity in public and during battles to keep up morale and his image (although he doesn’t care about image in a narcissistic way).

He is liked by most people and others vent and confide in him. The personal sharing of their negative emotions adds to that stockpile that he can use if necessary.

Haibara tries to not express his own negative emotions to others because it will decrease that stockpile inside and he knows he needs to save that for dangerous battles. He knows it’s not healthy but he does it for the good of Japan, seeing himself as a superhero.

Much like a cursed spirit, his greater power increases when those around him have expressed negative emotions, but he doesn’t like to acknowledge the fact that he has something in common with cursed spirits.

Lives by the mottos of “With great power comes great responsibility” and “greet the world with open arms”

[monaetheworldsdestroyer]

a cherik fanfic where the whole xmfc squad goes ice skating but Erik never did that before so Charles teaches him while he's being dramatic about it (Charles no wait WAIT don't let go i will fall type of thing) and everyone else is making fun of them behind their backs because they're in love and it shows

it could be set during xmfc or it could be a modern au idk