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Peter & Alice, 2013 Photographer: Johan Persson

[captainmolasses]

Sunday means Bunday! Decided to do some bunny fanart today, so here's Lola, Bunnie, Judy Hopps, Mega Lopunny, and even that Cadbury Caramel Bunny for giggles.

[dailypearldoodles]

Day 452

Revisiting what I've been calling the Those Left Alive AU, where the winners of the life series are cursed creatures and pets still alive by the end of the season are humans. Here we have Tilly and Froggie as humans and Pearl as a wolf!

I have been writing a little bit for these three, though anything can change as new life seasons come out hehe

[vivanightcity]

We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day

[wexhappyxfew]

currently envisioning judy and rosie in a roman holiday-like au and i’m like:

[vriskaserketdaily]

Terezi infodumping about the courtroom show she's been binging recently while Vriska tries desperately to look like she's following along.

i think the genre you're lookin for there is "procedurals"

not too hard to follow along with judge judy

[donein30minutes]

Bugust Challenge Day 3: Receiving a Delicious Handout 8.3.23

Done in 30 minutes

[petrikovvy]

random images i have saved on my phone - day 19

(not mine) 😁😁😁

[make-a-little-mischief]

DAILY DOSE OF JER AND JUDY 💕

Thank you @lovejl12 for the photo ❤️

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Casino Royale, 2006 with Tobias Menzies clip: tayryn

[captainmolasses]

Judy Hopps for Bunday this week! I'm stuck in the car all day today, so this is all you get.

[vivanightcity]

Cause I wrote that post about Ivan and Panam, I really wanted to do one for Judy. Cause she's also hugely important to him. In my post game canon for Ivan, she meets up with him in the badlands, and temporarily joins up with the pack.

But. Like. In the timeline of Ivan's canon, Judy's story happens really early on. Story missions related to her and Evelyn were ones I prioritized because I enjoyed them, and because I dragged my feet so much with the actual story, it felt like she was gone for most of it. So that feels most accurate to them.

I also don't think Ivan would ever have burdened Judy with the shit he was going through around Dex and his shit, outside of telling her the basics of the relic and what he's trying to do.

They are so similar, in a lot of very important ways, and they care a lot about each other, but there's also an insurmountable level of baggage. Not because of each other, but because of their lives and what they went through together, and the way those shadows linger on their relationship.

Both angry and grieving and desperate to try and prove that Night City could be worth staying in, and feeling betrayed and pissed off to cope with their mourning and losses over people who dragged them into some serious shit but they loved endlessly and were devastated to lose.

They are reminders to each other of those losses. Of that better time. Being the only two who came out the other end still breathing.

Ivan wanted to go with her, and Judy wanted to make him leave, but they both knew he couldn't. Not yet.

[qbdatabase]

Twin brothers Jordie and Joey have never met their parents. Maybe it’s because they aren’t from this planet?

When another kid at school tried to force Jordie to show him the “crop circles” on his back that prove he’s an alien, it was Joey who took the kid to the ground. And when the twins got kicked out of their foster home because Joey kissed the other boy who lived there, it was Jordie who told him everything would be okay. And as long as Jordie and Joey are together, it will be. But when the principal calls their current foster mother about a fight at school, the boys know she’ll be done with them. And, from spying in their file, they also know they’re going to be separated.

Determined to face the world side by side rather than without one another, Jordie and Joey set off to find their birth parents. From Arizona to Roswell to Area 51 in the Nevada desert, the twins begin a search for where they truly belong. But Jordie’s about to discover that family isn’t always about the ones who bring you into the world, but the ones who help you survive it.

[nerdwelt]

Daisy May Cooper äußert sich zu Gerüchten über Rolle als M in nächstem James Bond Film.

Daisy May Cooper hat auf die Gerüchte reagiert, dass sie in dem nächsten James-Bond-Film möglicherweise M spielen könnte. Mehr lesen: Daisy May Cooper: “Habe ich ‘Barbie’ gesehen? Nein, fick das!” In einem exklusiven Gespräch mit NME erklärte der Star von “This Country”, wie das Gerücht entstanden ist, bevor sie zugab, dass sie gerne die Rolle von 007s Boss übernehmen würde. “Ich glaube, es war…

[brucedinsman]

Book Review: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” Kindle Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI had fun at the movie so I downloaded the book. An easy read since its target is 12-year-old girls trying to achieve puberty. So I might look into the whole Judy Blume thing especially if I get a grandchild anytime soon. Thanks for a great book that became a good relatable…

[gowns]

Why Kids Aren't Falling in Love With Reading - It's Not Just Screens

A shrinking number of kids are reading widely and voraciously for fun.

The ubiquity and allure of screens surely play a large part in this—most American children have smartphones by the age of 11—as does learning loss during the pandemic. But this isn’t the whole story. A survey just before the pandemic by the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that the percentages of 9- and 13-year-olds who said they read daily for fun had dropped by double digits since 1984. I recently spoke with educators and librarians about this trend, and they gave many explanations, but one of the most compelling—and depressing—is rooted in how our education system teaches kids to relate to books.

What I remember most about reading in childhood was falling in love with characters and stories; I adored Judy Blume’s Margaret and Beverly Cleary’s Ralph S. Mouse. In New York, where I was in public elementary school in the early ’80s, we did have state assessments that tested reading level and comprehension, but the focus was on reading as many books as possible and engaging emotionally with them as a way to develop the requisite skills. Now the focus on reading analytically seems to be squashing that organic enjoyment. Critical reading is an important skill, especially for a generation bombarded with information, much of it unreliable or deceptive. But this hyperfocus on analysis comes at a steep price: The love of books and storytelling is being lost.

This disregard for story starts as early as elementary school. Take this requirement from the third-grade English-language-arts Common Core standard, used widely across the U.S.: “Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.” There is a fun, easy way to introduce this concept: reading Peggy Parish’s classic, Amelia Bedelia, in which the eponymous maid follows commands such as “Draw the drapes when the sun comes in” by drawing a picture of the curtains. But here’s how one educator experienced in writing Common Core–aligned curricula proposes this be taught: First, teachers introduce the concepts of nonliteral and figurative language. Then, kids read a single paragraph from Amelia Bedelia and answer written questions.

For anyone who knows children, this is the opposite of engaging: The best way to present an abstract idea to kids is by hooking them on a story. “Nonliteral language” becomes a whole lot more interesting and comprehensible, especially to an 8-year-old, when they’ve gotten to laugh at Amelia’s antics first. The process of meeting a character and following them through a series of conflicts is the fun part of reading. Jumping into a paragraph in the middle of a book is about as appealing for most kids as cleaning their room.

But as several educators explained to me, the advent of accountability laws and policies, starting with No Child Left Behind in 2001, and accompanying high-stakes assessments based on standards, be they Common Core or similar state alternatives, has put enormous pressure on instructors to teach to these tests at the expense of best practices. Jennifer LaGarde, who has more than 20 years of experience as a public-school teacher and librarian, described how one such practice—the class read-aloud—invariably resulted in kids asking her for comparable titles. But read-alouds are now imperiled by the need to make sure that kids have mastered all the standards that await them in evaluation, an even more daunting task since the start of the pandemic. “There’s a whole generation of kids who associate reading with assessment now,” LaGarde said.

By middle school, not only is there even less time for activities such as class read-alouds, but instruction also continues to center heavily on passage analysis, said LaGarde, who taught that age group. A friend recently told me that her child’s middle-school teacher had introduced To Kill a Mockingbird to the class, explaining that they would read it over a number of months—and might not have time to finish it. “How can they not get to the end of To Kill a Mockingbird?” she wondered. I’m right there with her. You can’t teach kids to love reading if you don’t even prioritize making it to a book’s end. The reward comes from the emotional payoff of the story’s climax; kids miss out on this essential feeling if they don’t reach Atticus Finch’s powerful defense of Tom Robinson in the courtroom or never get to solve the mystery of Boo Radley.

... Young people should experience the intrinsic pleasure of taking a narrative journey, making an emotional connection with a character (including ones different from themselves), and wondering what will happen next—then finding out. This is the spell that reading casts. And, like with any magician’s trick, picking a story apart and learning how it’s done before you have experienced its wonder risks destroying the magic.

-- article by katherine marsh, the atlantic (12 foot link, no paywall)