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[hollowtones]

basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body. that’s basically fine.

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out. 

unfortunately this will not deter a really big frog, because a really big frog is full of things like prizes, and value, and quite a lot of hatred, and it would REALLY rather like to replace any and all of those things with your blood, and basically by any means possible.

[fidefortitude-deactivated202011]

These words scan with a fantastic degree of confidence considering that together they make no sense at all

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[mashkwi-deactivated20230405]

Interesting perception.

See posts, photos and more on Facebook.

[prolifeproliberty]

Important: when kids grow up doing projects like the one on the left, they have no idea what to do when presented with projects like the one on the right. They get so used to being given step by step instructions that they develop what’s called learned helplessness - that is, they’ll sit there and say “I can’t do it, I don’t know what to do” until the teacher comes and tells them exactly what to do.

If you’re teaching kids who have developed learned helplessness, you may need to ease them into this with a project somewhere in between where some guidance is given but they have opportunities for creativity.

Keeping on the penguin theme, an in-between activity may be giving them an outline of a penguin and a variety of materials they can use to fill it in - maybe feathers, pom poms, tissue/construction paper, etc.

The goal is the assignment on the right, but we want to support kids as they develop their creativity - especially if public school has already damaged it.

Also, for homeschooling parents - remember that you don’t have to separate subjects. This may be an art project, but it lends itself naturally to a science discussion on why the penguin has black/white/grey feathers and how those colors help the penguin adapt to its environment. (Hint: don’t think about a penguin in the snow, think about a penguin in the water looking for fish while avoiding seals).

In fact, you could have a lesson for each subject centered around penguins.

Kids can read a book on penguins appropriate for their age level which covers both the science aspect and their informational text reading skills, they can write something about penguins (maybe a story or a poem), they can paint or draw penguins, and it’s easy enough to make up math story problems involving penguins and fish, depending on which math skills kids are learning, anywhere from visual adding (penguin has one fish and catches two more) to comparing average swimming velocities of penguins and seals.

Open-ended learning isn’t limited to individual assignments - it can be your educational philosophy from day one.

[lapetitetournesoul]

Story time:

My last year in public education I was asked to teach art as a paraprofessional bc the school I was at (as a special education parapro for preschoolers) had too many students to only offer 2 activities ( PE & Music).

I taught the entire school- Kindergarten-6th grade. This school had never had art before so my students came to me only having done projects like the one above. I knew this going in so we started with the basics for everyone. We started with the most basic element- line, and worked our way through the basic elements of art.

I spent the entire first semester navigating students having mini meltdowns or just flat out refusing to touch a piece of paper with a utensil. They were terrified to not have things prepared and done for them. I worked so hard to help them gain confidence in their abilities and the hardest lesson to learn: its okay to mess up. These kids were terrified of failure.

The education system is failing to teach kids grit and determination. They are completely dependent on their teachers, especially when presented with something new. They aren't encouraged to explore and learn outside of the curriculum and it was evident in my art classroom everyday in every class.

[lunariagold-deactivated20230802]

THIS! ALL of this!!

Another story: It’s not just like this with children, it follows people their whole lives.

At one point I was a workshop instructor at a school of art for adults/older students. For my first classes (for instance painting a botanical illustration using real specimen as reference), I was demonstrating the project in front of the class by simultaneously doing it myself to show how to use the materials and tools. But I would also go around each student and instructed them on how they each were doing based on their strengths. I was encouraging them to push in whatever direction they felt naturally interested in, even if it wasn’t exactly like how I was doing, or if the work was more whimsical or abstract, etc. I was basically saying it was important to discover their own way to capture what they saw and to be open-minded about it; to be playful. Every single person had a clear, unique style and direction and I thought it was going extremely well. I could also show the rest of the class what made each piece personal and how to identify your own unique direction.

However I received negative feedback from the school. This was not what was expected. I was supposed to literally just do the entire project step by step and have the students copy me. That’s it. They had to do exactly everything I did. I was gutted and appalled; I wanted to ask why would anybody pay good money to learn ART just to be made into a clone of someone else. 

To this day, this remains one of the most profoundly disappointing and frustrating experiences of my life. I started off being so happy to share and teach art but the philosophy was utterly against what I feel art should be. I couldn’t do it.

[bookwyrm-in-space]

The most worthwhile thing my engineering training gave me was the confidence to just try some stuff and see what works, learning as I go. Yes, you use the math as guide rails, and to check what you're doing, but usually there's no one "right" way to do things. And my ability to shrug and say "sure, I can probably figure this out" has hands-down been the most important and useful trait in my career.

[lunariagold-deactivated20230802]

This keeps coming back in replies and tags, the few cherished teachers who made all the difference. They understood that creativity and ingenuity can't be taught; they must be enabled.

[crossingandromeda]

Learning to trust in myself and feel free to make mistakes is definitely something I was not taught in school. More like something I learned (am learning) in spite of school. I love education, though, and hope to see more thoughtful/effective teaching methods catch on.

Makes me think of a professor I once had, who was primarily a teaching professor, who taught a lit course my last semester of school. The subject itself wasn’t that difficult, but she challenged me to think in such different ways than I’d ever been taught before. She started out as a professor I loathed (my rigidity was making my grade in her class suffer) but by the end of the semester I had tremendous respect for her. I didn’t have this experience until my final semester of undergrad. I can’t imagine what kind of person I’d be now if I’d had that kind of educational experience from the start.

[sabertoothwalrus]

sometimes I think about how red is the first color in the visible light spectrum to be absorbed in ocean water

and how many deep-sea creatures evolved to be red as a stealth adaptation, making them near invisible when there’s little to no light present

and it makes me think. If there’s never any visible light present in these animals’ lifetimes, if no ROV shines a little flashlight in depths that would otherwise not have light, would these animals ever get the opportunity to actually be red? that might be a stupid question.

imagine being a little deep sea creature and having no idea you’re red until something comes along and shines a light on you except you still wouldn’t be able to tell because you’re probably colorblind. anyway. I don’t know where I was going with this post

[sabertoothwalrus]

Is color relative? Or inherent? Or both???

Like is color physiological and determined by the shape of whatever pigment cells that will always absorb certain wavelengths and reflect others?

or is color meaningless if there’s no light to absorb and reflect?

Is it completely relative because the way we percieve color is subjective, how even within our own species there are so many different kinds of ways people can observe color?

makes you think

[bogleech]

Red light doesn’t make it to the deep ocean from the sun, but that doesn’t mean red light doesn’t exist at that depth!

The stomiidae, which include the viperfish, dragonfish, and loosejaws, are one example of a deep sea animal that evolved to perceive and produce red light because it isn’t naturally present in their environment and most other organisms never hit on that adaptation. In most of this group, tiny red lights can be switched on and off throughout their skin to communicate with their own kind in secret. More threateningly, some of them have high-powered “floodlights” of pure red just beneath their eyes; almost no other deep sea fish emit actual BEAMS of light to illuminate what they’re looking at because that’d make them a shining beacon to every larger predator in the area, but since it’s red, the only risk ends up coming from their fellow red-light hunters and those remain just uncommon enough to be worth the chance. In many members of this group, most of all the loosejaws (hence the name), almost the entire skull can naturally detach from the rest of the body on specialized stalks at lightning speed so that their long, hooked jaws can grab prey in an instant, almost the same exact motion as the arm of a preying mantis:

If you were a little fish in this scenario you would see absolutely nothing but darkness around you and possibly feel pretty safe, because maybe you’ve evolved to blend in perfectly with the surrounding void and you can’t see any blue or yellow or green lights coming to get you. You have no idea that there’s been a spotlight right on you all along until its owner’s face flies off to impale you and shove you whole into its giant throat all in less than half of a second :)

[byasuga]

someone explain why deep sea creatures are so fucking scary like is there a logical reason was god like hey that’s deep and dark so I shall create absolutely terrifying creatures who will haunt humans in their dreams

[bogleech]

Think about the predators up here on land; bigger eyes, longer teeth and bigger mouths. We know these things indicate something that can harm us, or stalk us in the dark. Now you multiply that the farther you go down the ocean. If it’s darker, then they need bigger eyes. If it’s a LOT darker, then their eyes need more and more specialized anatomy nothing could ever possibly need up here in the sun, so by necessity they do not have the kind of eyes we know:

And food is so far between, the predators need even longer teeth, to make sure those rare meals they encounter really can’t escape:

And because it’s dark AND food is scarce, they need big, expandable jaws and bodies that are almost all stomach, to guarantee they can take advantage of more meals and don’t have too much more body to have to nourish:

effervescent c:

[musdomus]

How are these even real????

[nia--san]

Most of these look pretty reasonable imo but I’ve never heard of the loosejaw before and I gotta say, it looks like it has a puppet for a head, which is quite unsettling and seems like it shouldn’t be practical. Also, is that a second mouth behind its skull? Or does it have to reattach its head to swallow, and it’s just coincidence that the biomechanical structures behind its skull look like a mouth?

[bogleech]

I’m glad people asked!!! The loosejaw does have extra teeth back there to help keep prey from escaping, and the head structure all folds back together:

The most surprising thing about these features, however, is that they’re already present in many of the fish people are familiar with! The loosejaw pushes it to an extreme, but you can see how these freshwater carp also “unfurl” and “throw” their jaw structure:

The loosejaw just doesn’t have a skin covering this structure, because that allows it to fling the jaw even faster through the water with no resistance! …And it’s also quite normal for all kinds of everyday fish to have additional teeth or a functional secondary set of jaws in the back of the throat:

[grison-in-space]

Man, I had never stopped to think about how wild it is that red light at the depths of deep sea fishes is just as weird and wild as the way that weakly electric fishes use mild electric pulses to both sense their environments and talk to one another. Holy fuck it’s another sensory modality that is simultaneously both active and passive at the same time, but we don’t think about bioluminescence like that most of the time in, say, fireflies because we are used to having so much passive radiation that you don’t need the active component of the modality to use the sense. AMAZING.

[cwicseolfor]

What big eyes you have! What big teeth you have!

All the better…

[cuuno-moved]

does anyone have that one painting with the ghosts standing in the water?

[cuuno-moved]

like theyre in the water and they're staring off to the side and there's something so very wrong about it and they're bending over and trailing along like deer in the headlights but you can't see what they're staring at which might make it even scarier

[cuuno-moved]

like this

[cuuno-moved]

I FUCKING FOUND IT.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

beach day beach day

[cuuno-moved]

[cuuno-moved]

by the way, the artist is olivia steen (website linked above) and apparently, her other works are just as breathtakingly eerie

look at this!!! it's cool as hell!!

[2cupsoforangejuce]

I thought the last one was very familiar to me and turns out it’s painted over a photo of john lennon !

and after looking at the first one again it is also, a beatle photo

[estacium]

Not going to lie the first picture like the ghost on the water It kinda is referenced on the one picture where the Beatles are in Miami for the Help! shooting I dont have the picture but it really looks like! Especially the bending ghost resembles Ringo and The other Picture where the ghost is sitting down I also remember so much remember that that picture is Brian Epstein sitting I also don’t have the picture cause I cant fine IT aaaaa HAHAH

[george-actual-harrison]

Now THIS is some fucking forbidden fandom lore lmao

[talking-perfectly-loud]

[talking-perfectly-loud]

ETA THIS IS THE ONE!!!!

[drivenalphabitchpaulmccartney]

[aesthesiamag]

People Matching Artworks: An Unusual Photo Series By Stefan Draschan

People Matching Artworks: An Unusual Photo Series By Stefan Draschan More info: Website | Instagram…

[cynicalbitchmuppet]

I was really hoping these weren’t staged and the artist just spends weeks in art galleries and days in front of paintings to make these

Well guess what… That’s exactly what he did!

[1dietcokeinacan]

Lynda Barry, 2016

[ampervadasz]

[ofkindnessandchaos-deactivated2]

OMFG.

[all-aboard-the-bane-train]

Very curious doggo

[castle-engineer-deactivated2019]

Reminder that puffins are extremely social and like to fit in with their friends, so they will adopt mannerisms and interests of the group. So there is a good chance this little guy is trying to be friends with the photographer by showing his interest in the camera.

[willow-wanderings]

TIL photographers are a lot like puffins, cuz we also make friends by showing interest in your camera XD

[dykelliewilliams]

Reminds me of the time researchers were trying to get puffins to land in a specific area so the put decoys up to draw them in but the decoys only had 1 leg and

[libraryjournal]

[signal-failure]

Person with housemates can study.

Person who has spent all their cash on rent and food still has a place to get out of the house and do something interesting.

Cool community classes and community art shows.

ESL tutoring.

Tax prep and forms.

[talixagain]

tbh fuck anyone who says a single bad thing about libraries

[diplotomodon]

Not content I normally reblog but libraries are super important and our world would be diminished without them.

[smallswingshoes]

The library was how I was able to read so many books as a kid that my parents wouldn’t have been able to afford.

[insomination]

Libraries are one of the only places on Earth that treats people the same no matter how much money you have. We can’t lose that.

[crossingandromeda]

Spent most of my time in college in the library. It was my safe space. Also the public one had hella free printing as opposed to the on-campus library.

[yimra-deactivated20250209]

[crownepatriot1-1]

Marvel Syndrome

[sauntervaguelydown]

Josh Whedon disease

[microsuedemouse]

so uh. Ursula Vernon is an acclaimed and accomplished writer (also known as T Kingfisher) of multiple genres, including fantasy and horror - lots of horror. she also wrote and illustrated the award-winning webcomic Digger. I knew this screenshot couldn’t be showing us her whole opinion, so I pulled up the actual tweet, and I was right! she goes on to explain that many in her crowd loved it, including her husband, but that it wasn’t for her. even more relevant than her original thread, though, is this response she had to someone who was asking in (apparently) good faith why she found the lack of humour frustrating:

like. yeah. not every movie requires a comedy element. of course not! but I think this post is ripping unfairly on entirely the wrong person. Vernon was clear in her original thread that being humourless did not make it a Bad Movie, and has been exceptionally straightforward about why that lack of humour felt detrimental to the film in her experience.

[crossingandromeda]

I personally felt the lack of humor was a breath of fresh air, because I’ve always hated the overuse of comic relief that’s become a staple in similar movies. I was prepared for Star Wars style one liners to annoy me the whole time, but finally, a space movie that doesn’t resort to eye-rolling quips one turn after another. I felt rejuvenated after watching it.

[hmmm-official]

hmmm

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Meta-Pineapple

[tentacleteapot]

the Primeapple….

[eternalsatan-deactivated2021121]

Selections from “The Somnia Tarot” - Nicolas Bruno

[gothicprep]

why is your cat green?

She’s built different 😌

[gothicprep]

Look i tried to laugh it off, but I haven’t stopped thinking about this message because… my cat literally isn’t green

like where is the green

[gothicprep]

Oh Christ

[sapropel]

This is the color your cat is

[lazygravez]

colors i eyedropped directly from op's cat

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

I drew a tree using only colours eyedropped from OP's cat.

[karakats]

every time i see this post all i see is some green alien kitty with antennae so i had to draw it

[mothiq-deactivated20210906]

u ever look at a shade of green and think "yes."

[whicheverwarrior]

The first rule of writing is hoard notebooks

[raevenlywrites]

The second rule of writing is we do not write in our notebook hoard

[kristina100000]

lumen prints by john fobes

[youre-looking-peaky]

Monday

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[themaskedotter]

I’m crying because when my dad was eighteen he was going to join the airforce and then the night before he had a dream that Jesus slapped him in the face with a gigantic fish and asked him what he was doing and he woke up and thought, “Jesus is right what am I doing?” And that’s why my dad did not join the military. 

[diarydiarydiaryblank]

[laurelhach]

using microsoft word

*moves an image a mm to the left*

all text and images shift. four new pages appear. paragraph breaks form a union. a swarm of commas buzzes at the window. in the distance, sirens.

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post