Year 2

2nd year 9th grade English teacher. Going from a teeny tiny school to a huge school. I have a TBI (7 years post injury). Trying to get healthy. Co-owner to a one eyed cat.

[babyboomerbullshit]

admin: this one is good actually

[duzy-pies]

Never underestimate the powers that cat

[sincerityisscarity]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[apathetic-revenant]

demon: YOU HAVE SUMMONED ME, MORTAL. WHAT DEAL DO YOU WISH TO STRIKE WITH THE POWERS OF HELL?

roomba: [is a roomba]

demon:

roomba:

demon:

roomba:

demon: man c’mon you gotta work with me here a little bit

[spangelbanger]

Demon: *gives Roomba sentience* : now, what do you want?

Roomba: what are you doing? Get off my floor. I just vaccumed there.

[time-travel-bouqet]

@the-wayward-robot 🤣

[likemaybeso]

Josh

[the-me-of-my-dreams]

I am beautiful, I am smart, I am funny. I am more than my size, and my body is more than a number.

[tinfoil-crown-deactivated201801]

‘Rat Park’ -Stuart McMillen

You’ll never think about drug addiction the same way again after reading this comic.

[elodieunderglass]

What I found absolutely impressive and stunning about this comic is the way the artist explained the identification and elimination of the confounding factors in the Rat Park study. This is one of the hardest parts of experiments to explain to the public, and I think it was just brilliantly done.

[jenroses]

This is one of the most important pieces of research done in the last 50 years. 

[wrigglesandgiggles-deactivated2]

Read this!

[jerichocaine]

A beautiful experiment and so simply explained for even the most naive layman to understand. I love it.

[eugeneleeycng]

happy pride, from eugene lee yang 🌈

[introverted-belle]

PLEASE can we start professionally filming broadway musicals bc I do Not have the time or energy to find illegal bootlegs of decent quality (no hate ik you’re trying) on YouTube.

These bootlegs being for the 20+ musicals which I can’t afford/are no longer running/are on another continent (ffs I’m British)/have extremely hard-to-get tickets.

Also because I want to be able to see it more than once and it isn’t always possible to do that (money, show length, Money, distance, MONEY)

And I know “it’s better live” but uhhh my family couldn’t care less if it’s better live, if it costs a hundred quid to get a ticket it ain’t happening

[aurevoir-mes-amis-deactivated20]

This won’t make your blog look ugly. How could you not reblog this? REBLOGGING THIS COULD SAVE A LIFE!!!

[recycled-soul-deactivated201401]

This goes for assholes, too, guys. I know a couple who went tubing once, and they had to re-air their tubes, but the guy thought it would be funny to stick the tip of the air compressor up to her bikini trunks, the air ruptured something inside her and she died within thirty minutes.

[riskpig]

WHAT?

[endangeredslug-deactivated20170]

The thing about this? It’s in every pregnancy book I’ve read.

[riskpig]

WHAT?????

[thegrimmlovely]

Why is it in pregnancy books but not sex ed books?

[nsfw-jungkook-deactivated202511]

YO.

[bangtancum]

I didn’t know this wtf

[i-care-only-a-little]

Oh shit

[lowbatgrant-deactivated20190704]

100% THOUGHT THIS WAS A JOKE AT FIRST BUT OH GOD

[bunnyhauntingthedollshouse]

Oh to be a gremlin child again. Covered in grass stains and grazes, hair unbrushed with daisies in the knots, no concept of my own physicality, half way up a tree and eating an apple around my missing tooth. To be unabashedly ugly, to be unashamedly hungry, to be healthy and hearty and lean and covered in bruises and full of love and sun warmed strawberries. To feel time stretch forever, only flying when I fall into books. To love summer once more, and her insects and sweat.

[kendrajk]

YOU ONLY KEEP ONE BULL 

(Originally published in Comics For Choice)

[thehornedwitch-deactivated20211]

And the rest, my darlings, are meat.

[glitterandrocketfuel]

Never punched reblog so fast in my life

[memesandlaughs]

[dudeinthestacks]

Formatting is everything. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[mxc-vstheworld]

Just @ me next time

[likemaybeso]

Reblogging to print out for next year

[likemaybeso]

I just wish people cared about helping children who are already alive half as much as they cared about stopping people from getting abortions

[gahdamnpunk]

Welp..

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Literally couldn’t care less about rich people’s “child geniuses”

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Oh you mean having access to the best possible education and not being hungry at school gets you ahead of where students normally are?

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Genius is a designation created by rich people and sparingly applied to poor people to explain class division

[politicalprof]

Maps matter. Map 1 over-represents territory. Map 2 is weighted by where people live … 

[randomheresy-deactivated2020110]

Right.  Plus, a lot of blue people live in those red areas.  Rural districts tend to be dominated politically by those who control the land and resources.  The owners are overwhelmingly conservative, and they are able to control the politics of the lands and people they own, but a lot of people suffer for it. 

[cecaeliawitch]

boy, he’s super close to admitting that a straight-up vote can’t win the republicans anything so they feel entitled to cheat.

[eauudenil]

Normalize apologizing to children.

[crissle]

Normalize doing right by children.

[thebroccoligoblin]

Normalizing telling children YOU were wrong

[my-unique-mess]

Normalize listening to children when they see the solution to a problem.

[sixwaystoshakespeare]

Okay, so I’m going to come off as a total humorless snob here, but I gotta say it.  Every so often I see that one post go around about “Yeah we all talk about Romeo and Juliet falling in love stupidly fast, but Macbeth went 0 to murder even faster…”  And I know it’s for laughs, but like.  It kills me every time.  Because it always just scrapes at the surface of the plays.  R&J is not about the love story and Macbeth is not about how quickly he turns to murder.  They are both things worth talking about, but stop getting hung up on them and ignoring what the fuck else is going on.  Also, they are goddamn PLAYS.  There is only so much time to tell a story.  Usually like four or five hours tops.  They are not novels.  You can’t give detailed backstories.

[roomiesoreo]

I agree that there are many elements to each story worth exploring other than “love” and “murder”. However, I think the rapidity of the characters towards their demise is EXTREMELY noteworthy. Yes, it’s not a novel, but just like novels, plays are not bound to binary time. Shakespeare could’ve chosen to extend Romeo and Juliet’s story and told the whole play as happening over a month or many months! Their story doesn’t just exist in the 2 or 2 ½ hours we’re sitting in the audience. In Verona, days pass while hours pass for us. He could’ve given them a logical amount of time to fall in love. But he didn’t. He’s making a point with either play that sometimes people get ideas (whether that be love or murder) and when they act on them so rapidly and with such blind, raw emotion, they tend to undo themselves and those around them.

Tldr; while I agree the complexities of either story go beyond the simple “romance” or “murder” plot, I think Shakespeare’s conscious choice to set each play over such a short time period is very important to understanding some of those complexities and themes and really very telling about the characters and stories as a whole

[sixwaystoshakespeare]

I do agree that the speed of action is noteworthy and you are right that Shakespeare did purposefully set it so in order to make a point.  I guess what really rubs me the wrong way is how that time is used to interpret those demises.

Romeo and Juliet did not in fact cause their own demise by falling in love so quickly and then being reactionary after the marriage.  The world they live in, the world established by their parents and their parents’ parents and so on, is one of constant tension and the threat of bloodshed is always hovering over their heads.  The prologue sets this up, and then the first scene establishes how ready both sides are to fight, to find excuses to fight; they are out for blood.  Enter two teenagers, two children, who feel a spark, who feel what seems to be a genuine love for each other.  Now if they lived in a relatively healthy world, they could have taken some time to do the normal courtship, they could have had time to establish some trust and confidence.  But they find out that they’re each on the wrong side of the feud, and so the only option they can see viable, since they cannot confide in their parents or seek their help, is to get married.  But then the feud gets worse, Romeo is banished, and Juliet’s father is going to marry her off against her will (which is actually really fucking weird for him to do).  There is not enough time for communication, and Romeo is antsy, more than likely because he fears things will be found out and Juliet will be killed in retribution.  Plus he is still a child with no one to guide him through this, so of course he freaks out.  All of this could have been avoided if their families weren’t so fucking stubborn and so ready to buy into a feud that they can’t even remember the cause of.  The time frame is important, but it needs to be considered with the other moving parts.

I think I came at Macbeth the wrong way, because I think there is actually some backstory to his motivation, but I’m not sure people pay enough attention to what’s there.  I think the favorite interpretation of Macbeth is that his wife pushes him around and he murders Duncan mostly at her say-so.  But he thinks about the murder before he has even told her about the witches, and I think there is some sense that even that was not the first time he’d considered getting rid of Duncan.  And maybe with reason.  Duncan doesn’t fight on the battlefield that we know of - Macbeth and Banquo do all the heavy lifting.  And then how does he repay Macbeth?  He makes him entertain his entourage (which was a common thing to do in Elizabethan England, but while it was an honor, to a degree, it also incurred a lot of expense boarding and feeding such a large group).  He also passes off a diamond for Lady M, but is it actually a substantial stone?  The text is vague enough that it is up to the individual production.  So the jump to murder in such a short span of time makes me think there is something wrong with Duncan more than Macbeth.  Not that Macbeth isn’t wrong.  But this is in part a play about the effects on the soul of murdering someone, and the mental anguish and torture experienced because of it.

I’m not sure if that fully addressed what we were talking about, but Macbeth in particular is a rabbit hole for me and I had to resist talking about a whole lot of other things that I see in the play.