Tangie

Artist. My art is tagged: #10tangor and #my art I am an Adult. Reblogging is encouraged and appreciated! Do Not Repost or Reupload my Art.

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btw I've found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it's really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

[nosnexus]

BOB's YOUR UNCLE!

City Council of Darkness episode 2

[youlikeiloveit2]

[taskmastercaps]

[ID: Three screencaps from Taskmaster. Stevie Martin says, "Four people in the entire wedding had just put some little cloaks on, and I went as the Witch-king of Angmar, the Lord of the Nazgûl." The studio screen shows a smiling bride hugging Stevie, who's concealed inside a menacing spike-covered helmet. End ID.]

[nonbinary-punk-art]

*draws him in suffering*

Happy birthday Harry du Bois!

WIP

I was going to draw something cute for his birthday (and I still will) but really needed to get this one out of my system!

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

The linked article

[lastweekseyeliner]

so ive worked in childcare for a bit now. during the pandemic, the place i worked started a day program for kids whose parents needed to return to work. turns out the school district uses memorization and cueing, and when combined with online learning that read all the instructions to them, overwhelmingly the kids aged 5-9 just... couldnt read.

i brought in a bunch of my books from childhood, and we started having one-on-one reading lessons with the littles. then i went out and bought about fifty more books secondhand. first step was covering the pictures so the kids couldnt guess what the words said and had to actually TRY reading them first. second step was making a list of new words for each kid so we could learn about those words, what they meant, and if the kids were old enough, some of the etymology behind them (because if you can recognize latin root words, it's easier to make connections for pronunciation later on eg. unicorn -> universe).

the kids HATED this. reading was previously the easiest class and now it was really, really hard. but reading class had also previously been the most boring class; their books were ten pictures with a single sentence on the opposite page. we got through it by taking turns reading books the kids picked out from my collection- they would read one sentence or paragraph, then i would read the whole page complete with funny voices, then it would be their turn again, etc. it turns out that if kids are motivated to hear the rest of a good story or a lot of information about a topic they love, they're more willing to struggle.

the kids improved so rapidly that i honestly almost cried a few times from how proud i was. one little girl (kindergarten aged) went from being unable to sound out the whole alphabet to reading goodnight moon by herself in two months :'>

all this, though, was NOT my job. my job was to keep the kids on task during their online schooling and prevent them from killing each other or starving. i am not a teacher. the school system was failing these kids to the degree that outside individual reading lessons were necessary, and school systems across the US are still doing this!

if you are a parent or teacher or childcare worker, PLEASE check to see what your kid is being taught. ask to see examples of lesson materials. raise concerns about the importance of phonics over any other reading strategy. join the pta, go to school board meetings, send emails- just make sure your kid is actually learning to read.

[hballegro]

Attacked by very sudden torrential downpour and went to check the weather radar and then remembered this image

[stopallsnowblind]

I have done a truly horrific job of staying on top of my book squares over the last week 😅🫠

So this is a mass update for books 39-43/100:

Angelica and the Bear Prince & Love, Misha are both ones that I checked out to have on hand as alternates for the Trans Rights Readathon. They were both deeply enjoyable, but I would be remiss not to say that I related to Misha on a level that actually scared me a little. Highly recommend.

One of my goals this year is to do a better job incorporating sapphic stories into my reading choices - unfortunately, Belle of the Ball was incredibly mid for me, but I’ll keep trying. Queer Mythology is another one that I bumped up my tbr to check its appropriateness for my kid, and I’m thrilled to report it’s a yes for him this time.

Last but absolutely not least, this was an incredible, and incredibly emotional, experience. Daveed Diggs’ narration was so compelling, and a perfect complement to Solomon’s writing.

[waldos-art]

Every version of you. With you.

[stantler]

Happy pride first and foremost to lesbian fujoshis

[wolfertinger666]

hopefully this doesn't get me crucified but it's something I noticed.

[wolfertinger666]

this is going to sound extremely mean but like:

there's something weirdly annoying about the white people in my notes patting themselves on the back for doing something normal. this post isn't really an invitation for me to evaluate your oc but rather a vent drawing about how people don't really draw black folks with the same kind of love black or people close to us do.

it's just really annoying seeing white people in my notes just, not understanding this fully and thinking they deserve a cookie for correcting how they draw black people or not falling into the trope at all.

[wolfertinger666]

it's crazy how white people want to be talked to like babies when it comes to drawing people like me properly because they think it's a great achievement and not something done from the start. it goes to show how mega performative y'all are.

[wolfertinger666]

it seems like I have to be meaner towards white people too, because some of y'all have such an uwu baby victim mentality when it comes to a black person being slightly upset at your ignorance and "ME FIRST!!!" attitude

i don't care if you have pride flags or pronouns in your bio, if you want to be inclusive and understanding of black people maybe learn to shut the fuck up and listen to us while we're talking and include us in your spaces more.

what you're doing is clearly tokenizing. "it's ok to get a cookie uwu" thanks for taking my metaphor for how white people want praise for doing basic allyship towards racial minorities and turning it into an infantilizing performative baby talk for other insecure whites.

[reversecentaur]

the inevitable conclusion

[chaoflaka]

So 2016 is SO bad that it made the creator of this meme give us an alternative version of “This is Fine”. 

[double-o-donut]

some underappreciated vines i haven’t seen in any vine compilation yet i that found way deep in my vines tag

[mikkeneko]

i mean it quite seriously when i say that i mourn vine… but i think its existence taught an entire generation of people about drama, cinemetography and comedy

[fearlessmastermind]

And also don’t trust corporations with anything

[spiribia]

unironically love juri’s mary sue tendency to just pull out random talents that aren’t even mentioned more than once. not only captain of the fencing team but a professional model and a skilled bowler as well. i’m watching a playthrough of the spin-off game which i do not consider ‘canon’ but it spontaneously reveals that juri is a pro gamer as well which i do arbitrarily consider canon. she is on a 49 person in a row pvp kill streak right now

[yonglixx]

[koenji]

vintage playing card designs.

[pawberri]

Perhaps this will be thought of as being too woke but it's really discouraging that people are constantly inventing new reasons to think of people with slow reaction times or who misunderstand instructions as evil or idiotic or soulless. Like complaining about older people having a blank stare while they try to process what the barista said or whatever. Oh, they have the evil bad people lead poisoning. They're brain damaged. They have Facebook brainrot. They're NPCs, whatever, etc. As someone with bad sensory processing from psychosis and ADHD (you people can't do anything haha I know omg disabled person is disabled) I so often end up lagging there trying to understand what I'm supposed to do. I have trouble reading the instructions on the keypad, I have trouble processing the push or pull on the door, I have trouble processing the words being said to me and following instructions. You can still think I'm a piece of shit customer and that's fine but going online and seeing people act like this behavior makes you subhuman and non-concious is soooo depressing

[pawberri]

There are so many situations in our world where if you suggest someone might have a somewhat sympathetic reason for acting in a strange way, people get extremely mad that you've taken away their favorite inherently evil demographic and start acting like you're the bad one. "Don't pathologize everything" you're pathologizing it in different words, you just don't like the words that make them seem like human beings with internal logic

[pawberri]

And if you don't have a disability now as a young person someday you'll be old and more mentally disabled than you are now and everyone will hate you the same way btw