Aventuras de la enseñanza

Sixth year Spanish teacher. Dog lover. Geek.

[kosmogrl]

[lokaror]

i eat your grandads clothes

[flyingsquidzeez]

Macklemoth

[la-profesora]

Ken Jennings is totally my celebrity crush. I can’t even deal. He’s so cute.

[copepods]

yeah im an astronaut

Aromantic

Scared

Teacher (formerly) (would like to be there instead of here)

Rocky is my best friend

Outer space (did not want to be here)

Not qualified to be here

Amnesiac

Under a coma and now my hair is really long

Terrible pilot (not my fault) (not qualified to be here)

[apolladay]

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

*The King in Yellow

* The Lottery

* The Masque of the Red Death

* The Monkey’s Paw

* The Most Dangerous Game

* The Nameless City

* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

* There Will Come Soft Rains

*The Yellow Wallpaper

* The Veldt

* “you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The King in Yellow

The Lottery

The Masque of the Red Death

The Monkey’s Paw

The Most Dangerous Game

The Nameless City

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

There Will Come Soft Rains

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Veldt

“you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Voting ended onApr 30

[it-grrl]

Okay I have things I should be seeing to but I couldn't help myself. In case you, like me, have not read all of these stories and would like to be amongst the lucky 10,000 today:

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers*

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson**

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard O'Connell

The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Honorable Mention from the comments/reblogs:

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

*note: this is actually a collection of short stories and clocks in at about 72k words

**Originally published in the New Yorker in 1948; interestingly, the New Yorker still has this story archived on their website BEHIND A PAYWALL. CAN YOU IMAGINE.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I think it's really funny how the practice of bleeping out profanity is not only completely ineffective as a censorship tool, it's had the opposite effect of creating an environment where it's ridiculously easy to edit apparent profanity into footage that doesn't actually contain it. Like you can just grab any audio or video clip and bleep out anything and people will automatically mentally insert profanity in there it fucking rules.

[kyleblackpaw]

my favorite example of this is the count's song from sesame street where they censor the word "count"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This is the greatest thing humanity has produced

[silentauroriamthereal]

[the-real-seebs]

the average rap battle has nothing on people who are still deeply in love after twenty years

[sermna]

I like to say "my mises! They're not en place!" sometimes when I forget something while cooking but no one ever thinks it's funny

[la-profesora]

Apparently you can put a nature slideshow on the plane screen thingy. This guy is looking at the flight attendant trying to telegraph that he wants pretzels

[la-profesora]

I think “nature slide show” just means increasingly strange pictures of birds.

[la-profesora]

Apparently you can put a nature slideshow on the plane screen thingy. This guy is looking at the flight attendant trying to telegraph that he wants pretzels

[skittyminecraft]

x

[arabella-ardor]

[faggotjonesss]

[draconym]

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

[draconym]

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

[mxtomituck]

[la-profesora]

[inki-drop]

"And he gave it to me for free, Bob!"

I saw this on bsky last night and had to draw the guy

[rathayibacter]

cracking myself up thinking about the movement towards simplified forms in cave paintings

[rathayibacter]

grug: grug must paint every hair on buffalo in realistic detail

thog: grug can chill out, audience know what buffalo look like. just do one line like thog

[rathayibacter]

thog: cave painting world no longer look for photorealism. expression of form and movement is new frontier

grug: but then how will grug demonstrate high level of skill? grug have art degree

thog: any caveman represent buffalo as it is. grug must represent what it means to grug

grug: hm. this will challenge grug. but grug enjoy rising to occasion

[mikkeneko]

[real-language-facts]

lifetime ban from the boba shop for ordering a kiki tea