#didactically

[rookflower]

i always find it very funny that it's implied that immediately after the gathering reveal scene cinderpelt takes over (or semi takes over?) cinderheart's body just to say "girl what the fuck" to hollyleaf's face and walk away

[evilcokito]

You called the teacher "dad" for the 6th time.

[fictionadventurer]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes reviews I've seen fixate on the story's discussion of whether humans are inherently good or inherently evil as if one side or the other is the correct answer. Meanwhile the story itself is showing that individual choice in every action--choosing to act out of either love or self-interest--is what truly matters in shaping society. A free and stable society requires that people be taught to make selfless choices rather than act out of fear. Instead of oppressing people into fearful order, citizens need to have the freedom to choose the good, and be educated with the values that teach them what good is.

[biomecharnotaurus]

Depressed single father of dead kids

[luke-roberts-art]

Halo Epitaph x Dragon Ball Z Tribute

"The Didact and Cortana come face-to-face once again on Zeta Halo!"

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[o-craven-canto]

Great news: yesterday I (and the professor and two of my PhD fellows and dear friends) led didactic speculative biology practicals for the zoology course at my university. Groups of students were assigned four different flying mythical creatures (harpy, dragon, gryphon, and pixie) to criticize from the biomechanical, physiological, ecological, and evolutionary point of view, and reconstruct in a more biologically plausible way. One group started making a phylogenetic tree showing the position of gryphons within Accipitrid birds and discussed the developmental processes that could led them to acquire a third pair of limbs; another analyzide all types of reproductive arrangements for harpies (viviparity vs. oviparity, parthenogenesis, degree of parental care) that would explain observations by Greek sailors; and another started designing an elaborate life cycle for fairies with parasitic larvae and a winged dispersal stage.

We have another go next week. Looking forward to seeing their designs. <3

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Luke Hemmings from 5SOS climbed through a window into a classroom I was in during a lecture (I think it was a more hellish version of didactics), set next to me, listened and took notes while my brain went “whatthefuckwhatthefuckwhatthefUCK" and when the lecture ended he started to leave but I stopped him to chat for a bit and later told my sister about it.

I don’t remember her reaction because I was woken up by my alarm.

[communistkenobi]

I’m reflecting on cesaire’s work again and one of the little flourishes he does in discourse on colonialism is that he says the west will have to answer for its crimes against the human community. and I especially love this line because he’s using the same bourgeois universalising language that the imperial core so often does (“human rights” “freedom and justice for all” “spreading democracy across the globe”) but as a cudgel against the west, to reframe the human community as all those who lay outside of it. anyway I think everyone should read discourse on colonialism

[ur-haruspis]

GYRE 11 // INSTALLATION 07 // ZETA HALO

At the command of the Didact, who rarely commanded his wife about anything, those processed by the Composer, those who remained on the fog-shrouded wheel, along with the remains of all the other Flood victims and the deactivated Graveminds—of which ten had already formed—and the last of the functioning monitors keeping perpetual watch—all on the wheel and the wheel itself were sent through a portal for one last time, never to be used in that same way again. It was known as Installation 07. It has become a sacred tomb for millions, though some may still live. I do not know.

[billfinarts]

Halo Sketches :D

[faecaptainofdreams]

Chapters of Guilty Spark’s life, in Wander Over Yonder! 🥰🌸

[thelvadams]

HAPPY 10th ANNIVERSARY HALO 4 • November 6th 2012

Think of my acts as you will. But do not doubt the reality. The Reclamation has already begun. And we are hopeless to stop it.

[winepresswrath]

genuinely rolin will come out in interviews and be like "this season is about louis taking ownership of his choices and facing himself. it's about accountability for all the vampires" and louis will turn to the camera in the show and say "actually i think the thing lestat said at the trial was correct i had rewritten it in my head a bit because i didn't want to face what i'd done" and "i was a dick to lestat on purpose for decades because i was unhappy. that was shitty of me and contributed to our problems" and lestat will literally address the audience to say "the way i treated you was inexcusable. very literally there is no excuse for what i did. nothing you did or could have done could justify the violence i inflicted on you. i am the person primarily at fault." and subsets of the audience will say "as you can clearly see louis had no power no choices and no agency so it's literally impossible for him to have done anything wrong. except maybe to claudia, because he has more power than claudia. when someone has more power than you in a relationship you become morally equivalent to a person in a coma or maybe a small child. this is very progressive of me." and at that point i think this may not be the show for you. because there is a conversation you can have about how abuse can warp you and how some behaviour which looks genuinely nasty from the outside is honestly just a victim trapped in a traumatic situation with no good outs. but I don't think this show is having that conversation. and when you impose that conversation onto the show regardless of what the show is telling you about Louis' level of culpability or agency you wind up twisting yourself in circles and saying some really fucked up shit about how some people are just designated victims and some people are designated aggressors and nothing the designated victims do counts. on the other hand if i have to watch one more person suggest that the power disparity is irrelevant and louis is "equally toxic" i will throw something. thanks, rolin. glad u enjoy pissing people off.

[vibe-spartan-nostalgia]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HALO 4!!

On this day, November 6 2012, Halo 4 released, forever changing the landscape of Halo

[lionofchaeronea]

For easily he grants one strength, easily kneecaps the strong, Easily shrinks the seen-by-all and increases the unseen, Easily makes the crooked straight and withers the courageous-- Zeus the Thunderer-on-High, who dwells within the highest halls. ῥέα μὲν γὰρ βριάει, ῥέα δὲ βριάοντα χαλέπτει, ῥεῖα δ᾽ ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ᾽ ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει Ζεὺς ὑψιβρεμέτης, ὃς ὑπέρτατα δώματα ναίει. -Hesiod, Works and Days 5-8

[teoft]

FOREBEARER RIVALS

A commission from some time ago