#course evaluation

[as-told-by-sura]

Okay!! :D

[straykatfish]

Unit evaluation, practice evaluation, and eyes on the future

This has probably been one of the most difficult units of the course so far. After the exercise/project hoops of previous modules, self-direction should have been exactly what I needed; after all, I have ploughed my own furrow throughout the whole course. But a significant proportion of 3.1 coincided with some monumental domestic issues that required immediate and sustained attention and led to…

[aroaceleovaldez]

i am once again thinking about Percy and Annabeth and their respective relationships with their step-parents, particularly how the other views the other's dynamic with their step-parents.

Because there's a really interesting subtle thing that we see which is when Annabeth talks about her step-mom to Percy, Percy's assumption is that Annabeth's step-mom is like Gabe. He just presumes that because that's what's familiar with him and based on his own experiences he assumes their situations are similar.

But then when Percy actually meets Annabeth's step-mom (and her dad) he realizes their situations aren't at all the same. He was expecting another Gabe, but instead he just found a genuinely caring family that was just struggling to find their footing with one another.

The interesting thing is that this implies an inverse - especially with what we know about how Percy and Annabeth describe their experiences. Percy doesn't really talk about Gabe ever. To anyone. Grover knows the whole picture there but he's basically the only one of Percy's friends who does. As far as we know, unless Grover told her at some point, Annabeth doesn't know about Gabe. She knows he was a jerk, but Percy out loud doesn't ever really get into details about it. She knows they didn't get along and eventually Gabe disappeared and Percy basically never spoke of it again. Presumably, Annabeth thinks Percy's dynamic with Gabe was like her dynamic with her step-mom, like how Percy had thought their situations were the same. Especially given we know Percy assumed their situations were the same and likely spoke about it as such if it ever came up.

Like. That's such an interesting tiny aspect of their dynamic that never gets touched upon. Annabeth likely doesn't know about this very core traumatic experience Percy endured before they met because she's operating under the assumption that their family just was a little rocky like hers was.

[batsplat]

hi! I was wondering, which race was “that was really fun and you seemed normal” from?

(text posts here) qatar 2006!! casey's second race in the premier class and his first on-track confrontation with valentino (unless you count casey soaring through the gap left by toni elias sending valentino to the shadow realm at the first corner of jerez). he got pole - valentino nicely complimentary about the rookie's performance - after a very stressful time getting to the track. illness and flight problems, very casey experience. in the race valentino was soon on his tail, chasing him down for the lead and eventually passing him. casey sickly wee rookie gradually slipped down the field to finish fifth, while valentino won. and valentino came up to casey after that to do the grabby hands thing, of course. it was really fun AND valentino seemed normal !!

(relevant autobiography excerpts here, more lovingly collected screenshots of this historic handshake here. if you want more on the stuff covered by this post in general, see here)

some more context worth including. first off, here's valentino and casey after the next race at turkey, which casey ALMOST won - passed on the last lap - and where valentino was fourth. once again vale comes up to casey to congratulate casey for his first podium:

in total, valentino passed casey six times in race situations in 2006 (or at least that's what it says in my notes). qatar, shanghai, catalunya, donington, and twice in phillip island (flag to flag race). this isn't just me collecting detailed to the point of useless trivia info about the rivalry, there's some potentially relevant insight to be gleaned here. casey writes in his autobiography that he thought valentino made some passes he wasn't a fan of in both races and practise in 2006 - and that this has made him a tad wary of valentino already. now, if I had to guess I'd say there's a little bit of retconning going on here and casey is overstating his level of scepticism towards valentino going into 2007, but equally I can imagine casey was annoyed by valentino at least a couple times on the track in 2006. I can also imagine valentino did do a wee bit of light hazing of the cute rookie by being a bit of a dick to him on the track when the opportunity presented itself, in particular in practice. however. of course it's hard to judge an overtake perfectly from watching it on a screen (especially if you have to judge by casey standards), but I really struggle to see how casey could have any problem with qatar. my personal guess is that donington is the offending race, where valentino does run casey pretty wide. the other candidate is phillip island - but since one of valentino's passes there WAS controversial for non-being-a-dick reasons, I've always felt casey would be specific in bringing that one up if he'd had a problem with it

and all that being said, little casey's brain was also cooking up valencia 2006 conspiracy theories to explain how valentino had been SABOTAGED - and said a few years ago that after 2006 he was so impressed he'd felt vale was basically unbeatable. plus, obviously he still needed to feel warmly enough about valentino headed into 2007 that he could go around looking for head pats at qatar - it's not possible for casey to become disillusioned with valentino if he was never... not that. so yeah, that's what the text post is referring to: casey and vale's first on-track fight, casey's first big success in the premier class with his pole position, young casey being pretty hype in his own understated way about being at the sharp end of the field with valentino. cute. I'm sure casey's right and valentino's definitely normal. it'll be fine

[kald-dal-write]

Why do you think males are reaped after females ?

well it's like what Effie said

idk it's just common courtesy ig

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Interesting. Don’t necessarily think I’m autistic but I have more going on than just ADHD and I’m not sure what that is.

[idliketobeatree]

btw Stede is fine, he loves everything about Ed. now Ed's gotta make sure he loves (or at least accepts) everything about Ed too.

[fieldlands]

remember the golden rules of discourse everyone

thoughtcrime doesn't real

disgust is not a moral indicator

[daily-hanamura]

[plum-pudding-everywhere]

Update about the professor: She just now responded to my email five days later and brushed over my question entirely

[jils-things]

father gregor acting as the parental father figure that skid and pump needed due to their actual parents* being absent is probably the most comforting thing to me ngl

[vayamsblog]

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[sendmyresignation]

nearly forgot. approximation of my may listening. been feeling really good about priorities with regards to music and discovery lately!

[bayetea]

For the false memory moment you are thinking of, is this it?

“‘But what if … what if he‘s [Piper’s Dad] a different person [after she wipes his memories]?’ // Leo had had the same thought. If the Mist could affect their memories, could Jason‘s whole personality be an illusion, too? If their friend wasn‘t their friend, and they were heading into a cursed mansion—a dangerous place for demigods—what would happen if Jason‘s full memory came back in the middle of a battle? // ‘Nah,’ Leo decided. ‘After all we‘ve been through? I can‘t see it. We‘re a team. Jason can handle it’” (Chap. 47)

I did see this one while looking for the quote I'm thinking of but sadly it's not quite it 😔 this quote you've shared is pretty significant and probably the most major instance of leo evaluating what the "real" jason (as in jason with all of his memories back) might be like (although it's not actually even an evaluation so much as it is a concern that's readily dismissed), but it doesn't say anything about leo's fake memories. thank you for trying tho!! 💜

the one I'm thinking of was probably in early-mid tlh and it's suuuuch a tiny little blurb in leo's thoughts, but it was specifically leo's expressed opinion on the false memories - an opinion that made it seem like he doesn't think they're important to deal with/doesn't think they're a big deal, which I take issue with because they are a big deal!!! I'm smhing at myself so hard because I literally just reread tlh but I didn't highlight the line 😩 disgraceful because I highlight everything. atp I just have to go reread it a second time

[quaranmine]

i hate researching things that are highly variable because i'll try to find an answer to a question and all the search results are like "well the answer depends on like 12 different parameters so there is no direct answer it just needs a professional to evaluate" and i'm like AUGHHGH

[sexygaywizard]

I'm not going to continue having discussions with people through anonymous asks because it's possibly the most inconvenient and frustrating way to have a conversation, but suffice to say you can keep sending me asks but if you "suffer without external validation," that is something that you need to work on for your own mental health