Another Girl from UNCLE

Theresa, 26, classic MfU fan, graduate student in education research, fan blog & personal blog, mostly focusing on mental health and MfU

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[deehellcat]

I will boost this signal, mostly for myself because my brain is apparently a fucking colander and I can’t remember shit sometimes; and also add, if you’re the one who commissioned a fic, don’t mention that on ao3 either. Not even in your bookmarks! I forget other people can see my notes there. Please don’t get your writing friends in trouble, like I almost did a couple of times :( 

Just say ‘i asked for this pairing/trope/continuation/whatever’ Don’t say ‘i commissioned this’.

[agirlfromuncle]

The original Man from UNCLE TV show has had so many badass women. In the 1960s. 

These are my personal favorite villains, there are plenty more through the 4 season run.

Gervaise Ravel in The Quadripartite Affair and The Giuoco Piano Affair. 

Angelique le Chien in The Deadly Games Affair. If THRUSH had ten more like her, THRUSH would be obsolete. 

Dr. Egret a master of disguise in The Girls of Nazarone Affair(top) and The Mad Mad Tea Party Affair(bottom)

Mrs. Partridge in The Gazebo in the Garden Affair.

Mother Fear in The Children’s Day Affair. She’s a tough mother, and she nurtures deadly skill in her students.

Madame Nemirovitch, the founder of THRUSH, in The Adriatic Express Affair.

Hester Partridge in The Her Master’s Voice Affair.

[agirlfromuncle]

do you ever just remember that Sherlock Holmes and The Man from UNCLE are canonically set in the same universe? Because I do and I just really enjoy the fact that Moran lost his partner and created THRUSH.

[trashfrommuncle]

don't you ever just *slams hand on desk* fucking LOVE Robert Vaughn and David McCallum

[agirlfromuncle]

hey tumblr, stop recommending new MfU to me, Guy Ritchie isn’t that great. thanks

[agirlfromuncle]

i’m alive

[agirlfromuncle]

i would give anything to be healthy

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance

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[agirlfromuncle]

Cocky people annoy me to know end. I also have no filter today - I stared at this really cocky english guy in class and whispered “are you speaking english right now? what the fuck are you saying?” and the two Chinese girls sitting next to me started laughing softly

[agirlfromuncle]

its amazing how supportive professors are at this university. they are so understanding, my professor this morning told me that if i needed to go to the doctor’s instead of staying in class that i should feel free. this is such a change ~ such a cultural change. its amazing. 

i’ve spent my entire school career up until now terrified of teachers taking points away or punishing students for missing class for any reason ~ from doctor’s appointments to skipping for fun. in the states it didn’t matter why you missed. if you were sick you could only be sick for 10 days over the entire school year or you automatically failed under state regulation. which as someone with a terrible immune system and lots of mental illnesses i got so lucky i went to a private school that didn’t fail me for skipping 12 days in one year.

and even when i got to university in the states you couldn’t miss class for doctor’s appointments or being sick. if you missed class for any reason you were a failure. if you missed a deadline for mental health reasons you were a failure.

all of this has been so drilled into my head that i cannot miss class. there’s no way i cannot feel like a failure while struggling after spending 24 years hearing that i am a failure from the american education system. my grades define my worth in the american education system - sure my grades were high but at the cost of life long disabling illnesses that will never go away. 

[mntpython]

Look at these nerds

[demisexualspaceace]

It’s Asexual Awareness Week!

[this-isnt-my-bra]

Once my friend Henry was accused of wearing wireless headphones by a substitute so she said for him to hand them over so he took them off and handed them to her. Then later on she asked him a question and he didn’t respond so she said it louder and he still didn’t respond. She asked why he was not responding and he said “I can’t understand you ma'am, you took my hearing aids.”

[lolodapsycho-deactivated2017030]

HOLY SHIT

[mamoru]

one time we had a sub that was handing back papers and called my name. I asked if someone could grab it for me and she started mocking me for not even standing up. taunting me asking why I was not walking up to the front to get the paper myself.

my classmates went dead silent and after the sub’s laughter ended someone informed her that the wheelchair parked nearby belonged to me

[silver-rayn123-deactivated20181]

I had a sub in English once, on presentation day. And everyone goes up and does their thing, and then its my turn. The whole time im stuttering and mixing up my words, having to stop and re-say my sentences. The rest of the class is used to this and claps. However, by the time its over, the teacher is 100% done.

Starts saying horrible thing about how im going to have to get over my ‘fear of public speaking’ and how she’s heard 8 year olds give better presentations (plus worse things but I don’t really member them). By then im in tears and on the brink of a panic attack, and then she starts telling me off for crying The rest of the class is horrified. Then this boy stands up. He never been my friend and we never really got along, but he’d never bullied me. He told her in a pissed off, cold voice that in freshmen year I got a concussion and that I never really recovered from it, so all that was medical related and I couldn’t help it. Then he starts telling her off and the rest of the class joins him.   The teacher is mortified and tries to cover her ass, but the whole class walked out and that boy took me by the shoulders and we all walked to the principles office and told him what had happened. Lets just say she isn’t teaching anymore. Also, turns out that boy had a sister like me, who couldn’t really speak. We’ve been best friends for 8 years and i’ll be his best woman at his wedding next year.  The moral is that Teachers, even subs, and adults shouldn’t scold kids before knowing the whole story, because shit like that can fuck up kids self-esteem for the rest of their life. 

[quixylvre]

When I was thirteen, I had to have spinal surgery. When my doctor said I was allowed to attend school again, he said I had to use a wheelchair when on school grounds. My first day back at school, my special-ed teacher had put up a banner in her classroom that read, “There is no elevator to success. You must take the stairs.” I asked what that meant regarding my wheelchair, and she gave me detention for “disrespecting her authority”. The next week she gave us a homework assignment to design a poster that could potentially be used as a Public Service Advertisement. On the due-date, I handed this in.

My special-ed teacher was fucking OUTRAGED. She wanted me expelled for ridiculing her authority in front of the other students. The principal proclaimed my work to be “a masterpiece of satirical genius” and vetoed the special-ed teacher’s attempt to expel me.

[chaotic-carnifex]

Reblogging this post yet again, this time for the masterpiece of satirical genius. Hope the teacher got in trouble.

[mango-llama]

This wasn’t me, but once a boy in my class got viciously berated by our newest teacher who said his handwritten (we’d all been told it HAD to be handwritten) assignment was the worst he’d ever received and he doubted the kid even proof read it or even tried with it.

Cue awkward, stunned silence and in the quietest voice I just said “… sir” and watched as this teacher properly looked at the student he’d been tearing into, who by this point was crying, and to this day I will always remember the mortified look on the teacher’s face. He immediately said in the most genuine, softest voice how sorry he was, and he and the kid went outside to talk. Teacher came back with tears in his eyes but the kid himself looked a lot better.

The kid had severe dyslexia and the school had neglected to let his teacher know. 

People will always make mistakes regarding disabilities, in particular invisible ones, but it’s the people who then refuse to admit they were wrong and try to cover their asses instead of owning up, apologising and discussing the child’s needs privately in order to make amends and ensure they don’t make the mistake again. When something like that happens to a teacher, they SHOULD respond how my old teacher did, NOT how these previous mentioned teachers have.

And in terms of myself, I have a condition that destroys the connective tissue in my body, and my physical education teacher tried to force me to run around the entire field instead of walking as I was. She got so angry, shouting that I needed to run and ‘just try’, and even threatened me with detention, and then I heard another student tell her “she physically can’t, miss.” My teacher then immediately shut up and never pressured me again. Another example of a teacher responding to information appropriately instead of trying to cow out of it like the teachers in the previous responses. 

[cerulean-beekeeper-deactivated2]

I don’t teach as often as I used too, but when I did I always tried to be mindful that I had no clue what was going on in a students life.  I taught one shot library research lessons for various classes.  And as long as a student wasn’t disrupting a class I let a lot go.  The most common “issue” I had was sleeping students.  I knew and know many who are outraged by that.  But you know what, I don’t know if the sleeping student has a condition that needs to be treated by medication that makes them sleep.  I don’t know if the student has a sleeping disorder.  I don’t know if that student wasn’t up all night talking to a suicidal friend and is just now crashing over the soothing sounds of how to find primary sources using databases.  And yeah, I’m sure a number of them were partying the night before or whatever.  I have no clue what was going on in that person’s life.  So I’d always take the slumbering student aside as they were exiting and tell them if they needed me to go over it again at a later date, to contact me.

On another note, I have an auditory processing disorder and I can’t tell you how often that and my asthma got me in trouble in class as a kid.

[cheese24k]

Mama cat encourages her kitten to escape

[thotwing-deactivated20190613]

THE MAMA CAT IS SO PROUD OF HER KITTEN

[agirlfromuncle]

what if instead of using the pipelines across the us for oil we use them for water?

[emolumentsclause-deactivated201]

I hate that social media has commodified performative grief and outrage to the point that every fucking person thinks that every tragedy that happens needs to be addressed by them, personally. I hate that there’s an expectation that everyone make some grand statement and that if you don’t do it, you must be heartless or hate the victims. We’re not all celebrities or politicians. Not every voice needs to be heard at all times. The world probably doesn’t NEED anyone’s take if it doesn’t contain new information. Processing things silently isn’t bad and it doesn’t make anyone a bad person and I honestly much prefer it to a lot of the self-serving bullshit you see when something awful happens in the world.

I fall into that trap. Most people do. It’s shit and it produces a lot of shit sentiment. “WHY AREN’T PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS?!” is my least favorite sentence in the world right now. Most people, when it comes to tragedy, have nothing to say. Most uninvolved people, in these circumstances, should say less.

[ksturf-deactivated20190529]

Someone: why are you crying?

Me: because Robert Vaughn always said he was living his best life when he was on the man from uncle and I can never forget that ever