#learners 2007

[princeloww]

dumb thing I made for a tiktok: what I think david tennant characters wear to bed

(this is a thing atm on tiktok)

[lovand4vamp]

Learners (2007, Francesca Joseph)

[soupy-sez]

Learners, 2007

[crusheswhimsandfancies]

Oh joy of joys! I thought it was just a trailer! Can’t wait to watch this later. I need something light with DT in, having just binged two series of Broadchurch, I was getting a bit depressed.

[princeloww]

Actually, on the topic of underrated David Tennant roles,

CHRIS FROM LEARNERS (2007). HE'S SO SILLY HE'S SUCH A DORK it's such a sweet movie and gets like zero attention. OK, YES, it's kind of pointless and boring BUT IT'S FUN!!! It's a dumb little unimportant movie about some woman getting her driving licence. David Tennant is her driving instructor. He like smurfs, he likes god. Why should we care about her? I have no idea, but we DO. Also, there are two horrible histories actors, the lead is Jessica Hynes (There She Goes, Doctor Who) and the lead's husband is Pete Tyler from Doctor Who. WHATS NOT TO LOVE

The Decoy Bride is highly underrated as a romcom in my opinion. It's so good!!! And so romantic and cute and funny <333 And it has David Tennant!!!!!!

[l0uz3r]

Meow👋

I've decided I should start writing fanfiction and stop using AI chat bots

I haven't WRITTEN fan fiction in years so I'm a bit nervous lol I dunno

Constructive criticism is always appreciated

Below is a list of fandom & characters I am interested in writing for

Fright night (2011) - Peter Vincent

Doctor who - 10th doctor, 14th doctor, 15th doctor

Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger - Roderick Peterson, Donald Peterson

What We Did on Our Holiday - Doug

Bad Samaritan - Cale Erendreich

Blackpool - Peter Carlisle, Ripley Holden

Learners - Chris

Takin' Over the Asylum - Campbell Bain

Torchwood - Jack harkness, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato, Ianto Jones, Gwen Cooper

I'll probably add more as time goes on

<3

[aq2003]

consistently i keep assuming that a few of david's best roles were specifically cooked in a lab for him to play bc watching/listening to them it's like he was singularly put on this earth to act the part but it turns out this isn't the case, and also the only role i know specifically cooked in a lab for him to play is the fuckin. chris the driving teacher from learners (2007)

[masterroadtripper]

Con O'Neill as Gerry in Learners (2007)

(Remaining screenshots below cut)

[fishyfutaba]

DUDEE i do this too specifically w one of my friends and sometimes with non-actors and just random shit

i love this stupid game i play with my friend in health class where we go to a random actor/show/movie and try to get to david tennant through actors/movies/tv shows. i just did it by myself and started from flushed away.

[superlinguo]

Gesture: A Slim Guide - Five Fun Facts

To celebrate the publication of Gesture: A Slim Guide I've selected five facts from/about the book to share:

1. The cover is a deepcut reference to my first gesture research project

Gawne & Kelly (2014) is actually work from my honours project in 2007 - it took us a while to write it up for publication. In that experiment, participants watched a short video narrative and marked everything they thought was a 'gesture' without being given a definition. On the whole, people agree at a minimum level with Gesture Studies researchers about what a gesture is, but tend to include far more in their definition. The cover illustration from Lucy Maddox captures some of the key gestures from that video. Because we had no budget, I filmed the video of myself narrating the story.

2. Learning a signed language will affect the way you gesture in spoken language

Research on learners of ASL shows that learning a signed language affects the gestures of people who have spent their whole life speaking English. Gesture and signed languages are two very different uses of the same modality, but they influence each other in interesting ways.

3. You can make people imagine emphasis differently by changing the placement of emphatic gestures

Hans Rutger Bosker and David Peeters created experimental video clips that you can see here. They took inspiration for their experimental work from the classic McGurk effect in phonetics, where watching a mouth closing like a /g/ while a /b/ sound is played will make the viewer hear a /d/.

4. Dolphins and seals demonstrate the capacity to follow human pointing gestures

While there is evidence that many domestic animals can follow human pointing gestures, this is the only documented evidence to date that shows this skill in wild animals that aren't primates.

5. People still gesture even if their audience can't see them, but the way they gesture changes

Speech and gesture are so closely linked up that we can't help but gesture, even if our audience can't see us. Experiments show that changing the audience conditions changes how large or frequent gestures are, but nothing stops us gesturing completely.

The official launch party for Gesture: A Slim Guide will be the April episode of Lingthusiasm, stay tuned!

Book overview

The gestures that we use when we speak are an important, if often over-looked, part of how we communicate. This book provides a friendly, fast-paced introduction to the field of Gesture Studies. Gestures are those communicative actions made with the human body that accompany spoken or signed language. Paying attention to gesture means paying attention to the fuller context in which humans communicate. Gesture is absolute, in that every human community that has language also has gestures as part of that language. But gesture is also relative, in that it is far more heavily context dependent than other elements of communication. This book provides a broad introduction to current understandings of the nature and function of gesture as a feature of communication. This Slim Guide covers the ways gesture works alongside speech and the different categories of gesture. The way these categories are used varies across cultures and languages, and even across specific interactions. We acquire gesture as part of language, and it is deeply entwined with language in the brain. Gesture has an important role in the origin of language, and in shaping the future of human communication. The study of gesture makes a crucial interdisciplinary contribution to our understanding of human communication. This Slim Guide provides an introduction to Gesture Studies for readers of all backgrounds.

Order links

Bookshop .org (affiliate link)

Amazon (affiliate link)

Booko page (for Australians)

[princeloww]

tell me and i will make part 2

UPDATE: part 2

[lovand4vamp]

OK hear me out

[jstor]

Wrapping the week up with some great news: JSTOR’s Access in Prison initiative has now reached over 1 million incarcerated learners!

Since 2007, we’ve worked to expand access to academic resources for students taking college courses while incarcerated. Now, thanks to ongoing collaboration and support, JSTOR is available in nearly 1,400 prisons worldwide.

Read more about this milestone from EveryLibrary.

[femmehaljordan]

Similar to what a previous anon said: (SUPER Long ask)

A lot of people lack the ability to understand the message in the comics with the TT incident when it’s LITERALLY stated (you don’t even really need to like infer or dig into it) by Jason in his dialogue etc, even at other points in other comics, that it’s not that TIM replaced him, it’s that there should be NO child soldiers!!!! It’s that he’s was replaced at ALL because his death should have shown Bruce- an ADULT vigilante who got into the lifestyle as an adult in his 20s in the first place- that putting children in the costume will get them killed! It wasn’t a skill issue! Jason was a fast learner with incredible grades and was a great robin as stated by Bruce and dick themselves before he died! It’s that the job is so dangerous that it’s reckless of Bruce to think the best way to help a child out is to put a target on their backs! Heck isn’t there a JLA issue where green arrow calls him out on how many of his sidekicks have died?

Also real world morality DOES NOT apply to comic books because irl I’m against capital punishment but in comics heck yeah kill the joker and other serial killers, because these are supposed to be the worlds best detectives right? Thus the chance of false imprisonment and convictions should be low! Also as vigilantes they’re ALL technically acting extrajudicially!!!! Bruce really is just committing physical assault every day. So comic book morality and justice does NOT apply to real world values!!!!!!!!!

I think it was literally a fanfic that explained Jason’s motives best where it said that it’s not about not believing in rehabilitation, its about how fundamentally Bruce and he value different lives. Bruce believes all killing is bad even if it’s a single person regardless of their crimes, Jason believes the victims’ lives they took and the lives they may take outweigh rehabbing them. it’s about weighing the damage the victims have suffered and the justice they deserve vs giving the same guy his 100th chance.

(Sorry I just think that people who hate Jason generally have no understanding of him outside of bad canon takes or only experiences him exclusively via Morrison and Dixon and let’s be real modern day retconning of him being a Bad Egg From The Start. Sorry for the SUPER long rant! Hope you have a good day ahead though!!!!!)

Literally just ALL OF THIS.

I’m just genuinely baffled by the fact that people don’t understand the difference between a state sponsored death penalty and a guy with a gun.

And not to take over your rant, but continuing on the death penalty thing I’ve seen people say “oh if the Joker was that bad, he would just be given the death penalty.” Under the red hood was being written as the death penalty in New Jersey was suspended, and then it was fully abolished in 2007.

The the arc that was finally someone saying “hey this is fucked up. We have to do something about.” Was coming out as the death penalty went goodbye in New Jersey. Do I think that that affected how Winnick wrote it? Probably not, but it’s just an interesting argument because they literally couldn’t do that even if they wanted to in universe. 

(I would like to end this by saying I am anti-capital punishment. This is just discussing things as they were in comics.”

[mynametido]

My Complete High School Transcript

This was for a new reality I created a bit ago that was sort of going to be "revenge", as I put it, before I finally permashift to my desired reality. But now that I'm not feral anymore, I thought it'd be best to not let the reality go completely to waste. A homage if you will. Context: I used to be a gifted child with "so much potential". Therefore, in honor of this deep-seated desire for academic validation here were going to be my unofficial overqualified high school years in a nutshell.

As @hrrtshape said it best, "I'll permashift when it stops feeling like a betrayal," but, in retrospect, shifting here would have felt more like living long enough to see myself become the villain.

[Random Acting Stuff]

>>-----☆------->

Played Jazmine Dubois from Boondocks (2007 - 2016)

Season 4 of Stranger Things is released - (I play Eleven) (2022)

Last of Us Show - (I play Ellie) (2023)

Jurassic World: Dominion - (I play young Charlotte Lockwood) (2023)

Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse is released - (I play Gwen Stacy) (2024)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is released - (I play Mae) (2024)

(2021) [ Summer Before]

01. Founder of non-profit volunteering organization: with 15,000+ hours of volunteer work before highschool graduation

02. Successful etsy business (I sell crochet/sewing patterns)

03. Started 3 Youtube channels

☆ Food

☆ Comprehensive Input for English Learners

☆ Book Club

| Year 1 (2021 - 2022)

01. Founder of multimedia club (club for people with multiple interests)

02. Co-host of school podcast

03. President of Book Club

04. Monthly Fundraising Livestreams: minimum of $120,000 a year collected in total

05. Gold medal at 2021 Winter Olympics (figure skating) + world record for highest score

06. Successful online vegan meal kit service (Started)

☆ Online cookbook & vegan news blog // political art (Year 1)

☆ Vegan snack box (so people can try new vegan snacks) (Year 1)

+ Vegan meal kit (like BlueApron, HomeChef, etc.) (Year 2)

☆ An barcode scanner app (“is this vegan” type deal) (Year 2)

☆ Getting Plants Subsidized (Year 3)

☆ Vegan grocery stores (Year 4)

☆ Vegan Vending machine (Year 4)

07. Started and am the head of Youtube channel for my highschool

| Year 2 (2022 - 2023)

01. CPR & First Aid Certification

02. Ham Radio License

03. FEMA (crisis management) Cert

04.Proficient in ASL

05. Screenwriting club

06. Editor of school paper

07. Won New York Marathon

08. Co-chair of the vegan extension of the “meals on wheels” organization (I organize everything; the dates, recipes, etc, and my partner makes them happen)

09. Founder of Community Cabinet (a local organization that handles stuff like)

☆ Organizing a local cleanup or sustainability campaign.

☆ Advocating for a cause (e.g., write op-eds, attend town halls).

☆ Starting a community garden or environmental initiative.

☆ Hosting workshops or awareness events (e.g., mental health, STEM for girls).

☆ Creating care packages for underserved communities.

☆ Helping seniors with tech or digital literacy.

☆ Translating documents or volunteering with immigrant services.

☆ Joining or starting a peer mediation/conflict resolution group.

☆ Participating in civic engagement (e.g., work with local government or campaigns).

☆ Launch a global initiative with chapters in multiple schools or countries.

☆ A multilingual journal publication highlighting global teen voices (I’ve written a couple for our organization)

☆ Informational adulting course (how to file taxes, how to apostille/notarize, how to reconcile a checking account, etc.)

(and more…)

| Year 3 (2023 - 2024)

01. Perfect SAT

02. Perfect Toefl (English), Topik (Korean), Dele (Spanish), Torfl (Russian), and Delf (French) scores

03. Ted x leadership workshop for kids

04. Presidential Scholar

05. 6-week New York Times Editor Assistant Internship

06. Huge Summer Book Tour

07. NHS

08. 8-week Head of Student Research Project at Nasa

09. Won the John Locke Essay Competition

| Year 4 (2024 - 2025)

01. 4.0 gpa (not including the weighted stuff the school throws in)

02. Varsity & Team Captain of: [ in school extracurriculars ]

☆ Basketball team (4 years)

☆ Swim team (3 years)

☆ Track and Field (4 years)

|| Extra sports: [ in and out of school ecs ]

☆ Football (1 year)

☆ Golf (1 year)

☆ Figure skating (5 years)

☆ Rock Climbing (6 years)

☆ Ballet (8 years; varsity)

03. Student Council - Class President

04. Valedictorian

05. Successful publishing company: With 44 books self-published by yours truly before graduation

06. Accelerated Reader Award (450+ books read; all time most books read in my state)

07. A Wikipedia page was made of me by an established user

I was starting to get to the "single-handedly curing cancer," part, but then I realized that just putting down everything on paper was cathartic enough. I'll get my Rory Gilmore moment rest assured, it just won't be a desperate attempt to mourn the teenage dream I never had, when I do...

Though since I'm 18, college is FULLY on the table AHAJSVSSVAVHASVH. Y'all thought this was a letter of resignation or something. I'm just getting started.

[german-enthusiast]

German Youtuber Reccomendation: Marti Fischer

mentioning Marti Fisher in a post just now, i feel i need to suggest him in general to people who think they might enjoy watching someone play around with music.

He's a musical multitalent and has been on youtube since 2007!

Back then

he became famous for his imitations ("Wunschimitationen" on YT) but especially his parody of "Chabos wissen wer der Babo ist" (a German rap song by Haftbefehl, on of the biggest German rappers at the time) which, as a German Gen Z individual, i feel is an essential part of the German Experience

Wunschimitationen (Spongebob):

(in the intro here he imitates Stefan Raab, a now retired but very famous German game show host. Imitations start at 00:43)

Chabos wissen, wer der Babo ist (Original by Haftbefehl. The title means sth like "Bros know who the boss is". Haftbefehl = "arrest warrant")

Chabos wissen, wer der Babo ist (Swing/Jazz Version by Marti Fischer)

Nowadays

he makes videos about music, current music trends, song making, as well as a series called "[song] in 5 different styles"

I can especially recommend that series. He plays around with music, shows how he gets from A to B, and is generally a super upbeat and incredibly skilled and knowledgeable guy.

I also think those videos are nice for German Learners, because the music is tangible and fun, and he talks about what he does as he's doing it, while keeping it dynamic (and it's aimed at natives! :)