#i just finished reading it for class

[fancyhalloran]

I’m still not over how underwhelming The Handmaid’s Tale was.

[haridraws]

delicious ordinary food. completely normal. no catch

[ether-alert]

rewatching ninjago to catch up with lore but then i remember this is the season zane dies

[the-down-upside-finch]

“If we were permitted to use magic as a weapon, then every realm would cower at Levine’s presence alone.”

Some Peregrine art! I've been trying to find time to draw between the thousands of tasks I've been stuck doing, so it was nice to just spend some time drawing today.

Sketch below the cut because I like how it looks >:}

I chose to ignore physics for this one.

[lesbianralzarek]

i got 99% on an exam i was dreading and i was sooo brave and i only threw up a little bit :) unfortunately i had to take 2 tabs of adderall at 4pm and subsequently i will not be escaping my dogshit sleep schedule tonight :( but i got 99% :)

[icarrymany]

i love bray so bad i rotate them in my mind every day

[thatonegayship]

I loved the cowboy comic so much that I wrote a oneshot for it. https://archiveofourown.org/works/50934235 🥺 your art is BEYOND amazing, ty for the food

INCREDIBLE!!!!!

[selfindulgentraptor]

Posting my 4 year old high school DHMIS art in solidarity with the new show hype

Bonus lore: my teacher OC was a human-shaped pile of clothes split into two characters (the shirt/body and the hat on top)

[sailforvalinor]

Idk if this is controversial, but studying for a English/writing degree at university shouldn’t make you NOT want to engage with writing or literature. Just a thought.

[aashiyancha]

In-game and au Ares

[luvring]

crying soo fawking bad over the hq movie being 1hr 24min long Like we're seriously just not going to get any/well done timeskip content. There's over 100 chapters left and we only get two movies R u joking. i feel nauseous. i'm going to start commissioning people to draw timeskip akaashi. Pls Hmu If U Draw And Love Me

[itspileofgoodthings]

Well, I actually have the most mundane of questions, but it’s been so long since I’ve been in an English class that I feel like I’ve completely forgotten (and I’m curious how you do it): how do you go about reading a book as a class? Do you assign them the chapters to read at home and most of them actually do it? Or do you give them class time to read? Do you have the kids who try to spoil the rest of the book for the class? Basically, how does one teach a book in the year 2024?  😀

And do you have your students annotate inside their books? (I know the English teachers in my school require the students to do that, and I get why, but I inwardly shudder every time I see a student marking up a page.) 

Haha I love this question because I too am always asking myself how DOES one each a book in 2024?

It’s sort of a combination. I absolutely assign reading every night (almost) unless it’s Shakespeare or any play in which case we read it all in class. But for a novel there’s a couple chapters a night. I read aloud to them a lot too. Sometjmes I make them read aloud to the whole class, rotating kids who read. Sometimes I assign a chapter to be read in class silently with questions or quotes due at the end of the reading. Sometimes I put them in groups and make them read aloud to each other. There’s no one way that works for sure and of course ultimately I have no control over how much they read and I’m not naive enough to think that most of the reading assigned for homework doesn’t get skipped most of the time buuuuuut.

My bottom line is that I believe it’s my job to get excited about the actual text itself (easier for me in some cases than others but overall pretty easy because it does fill me with excitement) and then commit to taking them on the journey of the story with me. And my goal—that I’m sure I often don’t reach—is to make that experience so much more fun if you have actually read. And the way that I teach is pretty text heavy which is why I always make sure I’ve read the chapters for the day and am not just relying on my memory because the way I do it is just sort of absorbing it all up like a vacuum-cleaner, schwooooop, and then either pulling stuff out of the reading to look at directly or directing them to do the same thing. So the big thing that I have going for me, if any, is buy-in. Is getting kids excited about actually reading the actual text. I also speak often and passionately about the evils of sparknotes etc. not because they help kids get better grades or whatever but because they present you with the husk and shell of a story, stripped of all that makes it interesting, and that by reading that alone they’re reading something so dry and dull and are not achieving what I always want them to achieve —which is, have an Experience with the Literature.

Again, it never works perfectly by any stretch and there are so many ways I want to explore in my quest to get better at it but overall I think, at my very best, I can create this wave of energy and excitement in the story itself which is the most organic and ultimately most helpful way to get them to want to read.

Also no haha. I don’t let them annotate! Though occasionally kids DO of course. But sometimes they bring in their own copies in order to do that. The spoilers absolutely happen and are annoying but I sort of get by it by moving on very quickly and/or talking about how it’s often not the ending but how you get there that makes it interesting. Because that’s just true!

[miodiodavinci]

laying down by a brook with one hand in the water like some kind of tragic prince , , , , , ,

[nguyenfinity]

@posebean's new chapter got me feelin' things, man.

[kazz-brekker]

one of my favorite ways books can do a plot twist is to use the fact that they are a written medium and not a visual medium to tell a story in a way where you THINK you know what's happening and who the characters are, but actually, what you're imagining is different than the reality of the story because of a few key details you didn't notice have been left out. and then, when the truth is revealed you're like "oh my god! how did i not see this!!" when of course the reason why you didn't is because you're seeing the book filtered through the perspective of a narrator who does not feel the need to explain every aspect of the world and their mind to you, and so something that is so shocking to you has actually been known to them all along.

[soranker]

Heya! Saw your cry for a distraction and honestly such a mood.

I've got a question!

What's your least favorite thing to draw/do when you make art?

I'm on my own art journey right now and kind of dread the transition from lineart to coloring.

Trying to study anatomy right now and ignore rendering but I'm curious what other artists feel is challenging or just like 'ugh, ok time for [x]'

OHHH in terms of what's challenging, for me it's definitely coloring, rendering, backgrounds, and composition HAHA (<- chronic flat colors user who only draws character art on a floating white background)

i love focusing on gesture and lines when i draw ^_^ i rely mostly on intuition for the other stuff but it really only takes u so far T_T i'll spend hours trying to fix something by trial and error when i probably couldve saved that time by putting in more conscious studying/practice lol