#teaching guide

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Poptropica teaching guide

[pyururen]

One last dance, please

[theveryworstthing]

some Cashmere pin-ups. as a treat.

she never takes vacation and i was in the Stress Dome all of June so i've decided that she deserves some time to have summer fun pool time with friends. are her outfits actually functional swimsuits? yes (without the heels). is she going to do much swimming in them? no. she's way more likely to get up at 2am and go skinny dipping in the dark like the cave cryptid she is.

[corellianhounds]

Concept: Mandalorian moving company. They already know what it’s like to live life on the move, they probably know how to pack and organize their belongings in the quickest, most efficient manner, they’re great insurance against pirates, and a good deal of them are heavy lifters and accomplished navigators already. It won’t be cheap but you’re getting top-of-the-line quality service and clear communication in record time so it’s well worth the money

[scoriarose]

It's difficult to know what our beloved pets want; doubly so when they have no facial expressions and can't make many sounds.

Here's a quick and easy way to communicate with your snake! Specifically, finding out where they'd like to go! I start out by playing a game I call "airplane" where they are the pilot and my hand flies them around. At first they usually don't realize they are in control, and I usually end up slowly flying them into a wall. When they look away from the wall I'll fly in that direction. Some catch on faster than others, but at a certain point your pet will realize, "Hey, I go whatever direction I'm looking in!" and instead of being a helpless passenger being carried, they actively decide what they'd like to explore!

Learning this is great as it not only gives them a way to communicate with you and feel empowered, but it will also encourage them to try to communicate even even not being held. It's a great way to let your snake explore if you can't let them go on the ground and free roam.

In this video you can see a very simple example of how this helped me know where Scoria wanted to be put in her enclosure. She directed me where she wanted to go, and once I had her in the correct place, off she went!

Once your pet realizes they can communicate with you, it's important to pay attention and reward their behavior (so long as it will not put them in danger) to reinforce that this action works. They might even try other actions to communicate specific things- Scoria made up her own gesture for "I'm tired and want to go to bed for the night." She'll dig with her nose at the palm of my hand- and only does it then! I'm curious if anyone else's snake created their own "words".

(This is different than even Scoria burrows between my fingers. Maybe times she will sweetly nuzzle them too. That's play and affection! Palm digging is only for when she's done for the day, I think she was trying to communicate she wanted to burrow to her den to sleep, and me putting her to bed enforced this, so we both know her doing this action results in her being put back.)

[runetallem]

was gonna finish, then realized drawings hard :(

i removed these after i made a better colored version but i feel kinda bad totally removing them so i’ll leave them down here (even though i find them extremely ugly in comparison)

[itspileofgoodthings]

one of the things that continues to strike me on reread is how much the character of Darcy, and Austen through him, finds Mr. Bennet dead. And how much Elizabeth, in growing and changing and discarding her past blindness, has to move past her way of seeing her father and thus of seeing reality, because the two are connected! Darcy’s letter exposes her father’s flaws to Elizabeth in a way she’d never been able to see before. Most especially the way his laziness and neglect of his own gifts have hurt his family and that ultimately he doesn’t. care. Not enough to change. It literally says that she comes home from Hunsford and tries to laugh at her sisters’ and mother’s folly (the way she used to; the way her father has taught her to by example for her whole life) and she can’t anymore! It sticks in her throat. She is grieved by the failures that she sees in him, all the more so because she IS his favorite and she loves him! And the thing about Mr. Bennet is he never changes. The Lydia/wickham situation exposes to him sharply his own conduct and the consequences and he feels it! Because he is neither stupid nor unfeeling. But he, like everyone, has free will. And he chooses not to change when the opportunity presents itself. He even jokes about how quickly his feeling bad will pass and how soon everything will go back to normal, to his laziness and his selfishness. He is set in his ways and he serves as a contrast to Elizabeth’s personal journey because he embodies a version of a person she could have become and was in danger of becoming if her only goal at all times was to laugh at and judge people from the sidelines.

[brokeyourbones]

DC PROMPT

Every robin has died once. Except, in this universe, they don't come back. Bruce has already long since hung up the cowl, unable to stand being the Bat after Tim's death, having to bury another child of his own.

When Damian comes along, he thinks he has one last chance, to be an actual dad, to be a good father. When Damian finds his way into the dusty, abandoned Batcave one night, Bruce is horrified.

Because he finds Damian wearing pieces of all the robin suits. Dick's shirt, Jason's gloves, Cass's cape, Barbara's mask, Tim's pants, and Steph's boots. He looks just like all the boy robins, and his hair doesn't help with how he looks like Cassandra.

Damian is only 10, so parts of the suit drape over his body. He looks just like the other robins, Bruce can hardly hold back a choked sob. Damian doesn't understand why Bruce is shaking when looking at him.

"Father? What is wrong?" Damian asks cautiously, head tilted to the side in the same way Dick used to do. Bruce's heart clenches.

"...How did you...find this place? It's sealed off." Bruce answers Damian's question with another, brows furrowing. He made sure any records of this place were destroyed, and that there was no way inside.

Damian looks at Bruce like he's stupid, placing his hands on his hips and looking around.

"They showed me!" Damian says like it's obvious, not explaining who 'they' is. He waves a hand at the empty air around him.

Bruce feels a chill crawl up his spine. "Who's they, Damian?" He regrets asking as soon as it slips from his mouth, the air around them growing even colder.

"The robins!" Damian says with a huff, pouting and crossing his arms over his chest. And suddenly, Bruce is engulfed in warmth. As if he was being hugged from all sides. It's enough to break him.

[babykittenteach]

Turned that last artober into a full piece, calling it birds of a feather.

[galaxymagitech]

One of the hardest things to get over in old Batman comics is how much time the characters spend wearing their costumes in the Manor.

Jason stores his costume in his room. Bruce literally comes upstairs and enters Jason’s room dressed as Batman. Instead of changing in the cave, Jason just…puts on the Robin costume.

They treat their costumes like another piece of clothing, one they wear for their night jobs. Not like a closely guarded secret. And it’s so different from what I’m used to that it surprises me every time.

[travelersrest]

🪽🪷🪽

[ocean-sunfish-apathy]

hey that's a human person

[aroaceleovaldez]

tbh my latest biggest theory for why HoO and onwards is such a dramatic drop in quality and consistency is just. Rick stopped making teaching guides.

Like, the Lightning Thief teacher's guide is SUPER in-depth with even stuff like sources about middle grade child psychology and exact specifications of where he's applying that, explaining what different character's goals/motivations are, their dynamics with each other and their environments, etc etc. Even specifying which specific myths certain plot elements are supposed to reference or be about.

That stuff just doesn't exist for later books. There's activity guides and smaller, significantly more simple teacher guides for later books but they don't go into anywhere NEAR the same level of depth. The TLT one is a full lesson plan that breaks down the book at every level and explains what's going on and more or less why Rick did that. The others are all basically just glossaries of terminology and some simple question guides.

And they didn't even use the TLT teacher's guide for the Disney+ show because they clearly aren't adhering to any of what's discussed in that breakdown of the book.

By creating a teaching guide alongside writing the actual book, that's forcing you to document what you're doing, why, your sources, and information about your characters and the story they're in. It's like an even more in-depth version of a series bible. But that's lacking for later books (and etc) and it shows because that level of thought and depth and attention just isn't there anymore.

[grandapplewit]

AU where Shen Yuan, soon after Binghe falls into the Abyss, loses all his memories of Shen Qingqiu. He assumes that he transmigrated into some no name NPC, and enjoys his life as a rogue cultivator completely oblivious to the Heavenly Demon and multiple Peak Lord’s tearing the world apart trying to find him.

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

Why does Stede take the lighthouse painting to sea?

It has symbolic and structural significance which has been discussed at length, but what might the painting aboard the Revenge suggest specifically about Stede’s characterisation? He’s fixated upon it during the fever dream. It bangs the wall whether in real time, or as an ominous drumming of the mind.

It could be read as Stede’s albatross. He’s brought the painting to sea maybe as a visual reminder of guilt. He’s failed his family, failed at being the guide they need, and therefore failed at being a man. It’s a punishment every day, the first thing Stede sees when he wakes. It channels the ghosts of people past, and reminds Stede of the laughter of his children when he thinks he might soon die.

The string connecting Stede to his family is taut, but never fully cut first season. Guilt and inadequacy pull and pull until events overtake, and Stede’s feet carry him back to Bridgetown.

Once there, and coming to the realisation his return is not working, Stede does in fact become a lighthouse of sorts and guide his family. He creates the plan which frees them of immediate patriarchal restrictions. Both Mary and he get a chance with ‘new-found loves’, gender and class be damned. Stede shines the light which helps find the way out of society’s labyrinth of suffocating expectations. An outside-the-box mind which initially allows Stede to leave his family in less than optimal circumstances is the same which creates the fuckery which frees them.

‘I should’ve been one for my family…guide them’… You were, Stede.

Returning to sea, Stede becomes again a lighthouse to found family. A leader now without a pull from the past. And he will be a light again for his new love, who will also be a light for Stede.

On waking, what Stede will see first now is Ed. They’re lighthouses for each other.