the mortifying ordeal of being known my beloved

they/them, adult, not white, sometimes i rb suggestive

[inyaccurate]

asmr i keep getting spammed by bots.. inaccuratefandomhell -> inyaccurate

[automaticharpy]

new product concept. Creek Yogurt. you know what it is. CREEK YOGURT: You Fucking Bet Your Ass It Has Active Cultures

[mikilavellan]

One of the crazy things about JKR’s holocaust denialism is that her book would not exist without Eva Ibbotson’s Secret of Platform 13. Ibbotson was a holocaust survivor from a Jewish family who escaped when she was a little girl.

In this cover alone we can see where JK borrowed Dumbledore, Professor Sprout, Hagrid, Hermione, and platform 9 and 3 quarters. Platform 13 is in King’s Crossing

The book inspired Harry and Dudley very blatantly as well.

Don’t just take my word for it: the book is still in circulation and I’m sure a librarian would be happy to find it for you.

Instead of spending money on an author who posts up skirt shots of innocent women, threatens amnesty international, and pretends Magnus Hirschfeld, his patients, trans people, and Berlin’s archives of important LGBTQ and feminist research weren’t victims of the Holocaust: spend money on a foremother of middle grade fantasy

[tasteofthecitypeople]

the world will try to tell you over and over again that sexual harassment and assault doesn't count if it happens to trans women and you must resist it always

[talontarget]

jkr is literally posting upskirt photos to her social media. when will it finally get through to harry potter fans that their support makes her feel confident and correct enough to do things like this

[botanyshitposts]

the lichen knowledge iceberg i have constructed on request

[magnetictapedatastorage]

[twobeesornottwobees]

printers behave like that because the medieval monks they put out of work are haunting them

[gay-cripply-scientist]

[importantpics]

[beybuniki]

no one gaf about that script

[blabbinbab]

martin really running on 0 gems with jon in season 4

[nezeraphel]

Quick Castiel close up for today's sketch 🙌✨

[olderthannetfic]

I'd made peace with the idea that the illusion that kids can't read anymore is just me getting old and becoming the grandma who pettily complains about the young generation the way every older generation does about the younger generation. It's probably not as bad as it looks, the same way the things our parents complained about us wasn't nearly as bad as it looked then.

But looking at those links you share, it feels like it might be a little more than just the older generation grumpily tearing into the younger generation. Is it really that disproportionate compared to what generational traits our parents chewed us out for?

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If it's phrased more as "Attention spans are shrinking!!!!", that's a Kids These Days rant.

If it's about stupid educational fads leading to underprivileged kids disproportionately struggling with reading as adults in a way that keeps them powerless and less likely to oppose oligarch scum, that's a real pattern.

It's "TikTok automatically rots your brain for sure!!!" vs. "TikTok is programmed to be more addictive and more destructive to critical thinking than the things we put up with in my generation".

People aren't stupider now, but there are some challenges that lead to worse mental health and potentially worse critical thinking and reading skills. Insert rant about old-school internet vs. algorithms and the panopticon here.

So... like 70% Kids These Days, 30% shit is actually worse now.

I'd frame it as "What are young people the victims of that's leading to this symptom?" if you want to see how much is crotchetiness.

[olderthannetfic]

Reading is in the trenches because why did my 9 yr old nephew look at the word "jealous" and said "jewish"? And when asked why he mistaken it as such he said they both started with a "J". It's like his brain is doing autofill. No matter how many time I try to tell him slow down and sound out the words he just won't.

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TRAP CARD ACTIVATED

No, but seriously, anon, you need to look into what's going on in his classroom because he's probably being taught this trash method instead of phonics. He does not know how to slow down and sound things out because his school has never taught him that. When you tell him to do this, he has no context for what you're even talking about.

This has come up repeatedly here, and I don't have time to froth at the mouth today, but look up "whole language".

This podcast made waves a few years ago when all the lockdown parents discovered, to their horror, that their kiddos weren't being taught to read in the NORMAL FUCKING WAY WE'VE USED FOR LITERALLY CENTURIES and were instead being taught a fake-ass method backed by vibes and antivax-levels of pseudoscience.

Intervene now, anon, or he's never going to read well.

[kittenwriter]

I remember one of my grade school teachers discussing with my mother the differences between me and my sister at learning to read, and he described me as a "sight reader from the start"... which is to say, an acknowledgement that most people do not do that and it's not reasonable to expect that of the majority of kids, who really do need the phonics and the "sound things out."

Generally speaking if a kid has arrived at school not knowing how to read already, they're not going to do well with sight reading and need phonics. The few kids who develop The Reading in the way the whole language people think they should do it before they hit school.

[olderthannetfic]

So true. I know a retired teacher who bawwws and tries to contradict me when I rant about whole language at our knitting meetup. She's all "different kids need different approaches!" and "I saw it work!"...

But of course it feels intuitively sensible to her. She taught herself to read at age 2. That's the exact kind of experience that does make this method sound reasonable. But like you say, if it's going to happen, it happens very early and without the school curriculum.

As for me, I've said it before, but I assume anon wasn't around: I could not learn to read.

I was in second grade. (First grade? I can't remember. Around then.) Most of my classmates were reading at least a little. Me: nothing. I could not learn.

It was even a god damn private school, but I had to have a fucking tutor. I got dragged over to that lady's office a few days a week for... two months? Four months? It really wasn't that long, as far as I know. I was more than ready to learn. I just needed an actual fucking method that wasn't lying trash. Almost at once I jumped from nothing to reading well above grade level. For the rest of my childhood, I continued to diverge from my classmates in how many words I knew, how well I could read, the works. Every year of grade school makes that gap widen. I was on the desirable side of that gap. I was lucky.

It's obvious how verbal I am from reading my tl;dr on this blog.

But I could not learn to read.

I was a couple years younger than this nephew, but not that much younger. It's not too late. Now is the perfect time for some tutoring. If you can afford it, get a pro. If you can't, do your best. But you've got to do something.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The four cueing systems if whole language reading education are a band-aid method used by severely dyslexic people. When people's dyslexia is so bad that they simply cannot learn to read effectively, tricks like cueing allow them to function well enough in society to get by. They do NOT teach proper literacy.

This system was popularised by a guy who is obviously dyslexic, refuses to acknowledge that when asked, and essentially decided that everyone else must be like him and therefore the system that helped him get by was a substitute for real literacy since it was so much faster and more achievable for him to learn to "read" this way than phonically. It's kind of like if somebody without hands was learning to sew, found it incredibly frustrating to do without hands, so they started putting their creations together entirely with fabric glue which they found easier to apply... and told everyone how much easier it was so all the schools got rid of needles and thread and sewing machines and everyone was taught to "sew" using fabric glue only and then wondered why their clothing kept falling apart on their bodies.

[wwingedinsectt]

my art has improved a lot since my last sasi piece wow

[dogpuppy]

[yugiohz]

I think Jack considers team free will his family but not as fathers, he bosses them around if he wants to Cas can’t tell that kid anything

[yugiohz]

Jack throws Cas across the gas station store so Dean shoots at him to calm him down this shit from a butt family. But Jack does say I love you to Sam #oursam

[yugiohz]

Cas is so emotional with Jack i think he really sees himself as a father, sam and dean idk, they act more like they consider themselves jack's guardians, i think they did a good job at making Jack hard to categorize, he needs guidance and a village to raise and shelter him but he’s also kind of the benevolent presence they always envisioned their fathers to be, he says Castiel is my dad but he doesn’t listen to him if he doesn’t want to like there’s guidance but not really paternal authority I guess, he's just a baby but also the new higher being tfw can have faith in Jack and faith in the s13 finale <3