Down with comercialized witch trials!

Name's Chevy | She/They | 24 | Icon by Wi-Fu | Check out my art blog over at: Bearmageddon Things I tend to post about include: Dungeons n’ Dragons Jazz, Assorted Shonen Anime, General Fandom Stuff, and Video James on occasion,,,,,, whatever thing I've recently gotten into (or dragged with me through life). On that note, if you’re not into the owl house and you’re following me, I am deeply sorry.

[aschraart]

Robin and Ramy ~ Babel by R.F Kuang

[3liza]

[3liza]

[nociceptrix]

sucking on a worthless original

[redstonedust]

the worst part about grief is that it feels like the world should be horrendously earth shatteringly changed, and to an extent it IS but its also the same. to everyone else it's just another tuesday. the world moves on. you have to go grocery shopping.

[gael-garcia]

Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams

[fluentisonus]

musée des beaux arts, w.h. auden

[neenarchive]

maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them

[neenarchive]

starting to think these maidens are stumbling in soaked through from the rain just to steal my beautiful gowns and homewear are any of you actually lost

[elektrashocktherapy]

At the checkout in Home Goods loading the belt with nothing but candelabras in all shapes & sizes while the cashier watches sympathetically and asks if it’s the maidens again

[desttph]

bumbleby but colored now :D

[gumy-shark]

playing stupid games but im really bad at them so im not even winning the stupid prizes

[willgrahamscock]

[hanniballecterscock]

things are getting… spicy in the spice section

[willgrahamscock]

[mswyrr]

What Happens When Young People Actually Read “Disturbing” Books

Something is missing from the debate over educationally suitable literature

[mikkeneko]

[uncleasad]

[Image ID for OP: Except from the article:

observing classroom interactions. Our research represents thousands of encounters teens had with books they found most engaging: those that don't shy away from the complexities of being human or the different ways of being human in a diverse society. And, yes, books that shared qualities with those being challenged or banned in unprecedented numbers.

Here’s what we learned. The students, most of whom reported previously reading little or nothing, started reading like crazy-in and out of school-and their reading achievement improved. While this was the initial motivation for the teachers, it became the least interesting outcome. Students reported becoming better people, a change also noticed by their parents and peers. Reading engaging narratives about characters with complicated lives, they reported, helped them become more empathetic, less judgmental, more likely to seek multiple viewpoints, morally stronger, and happier. Yes, happier. They reported improved self-control, and building more and stronger friendships and family relationships.

Central to these changes, they explained, were conversations about the books with peers, teachers, or family members-whoever they could recruit for different perspectives on provocative or confusing parts. They pestered others, including parents, to read the books. Parents reported welcoming opportunities for conversations, conveniently through book characters, about drugs, sex, relationships, and depression. The image of young people reading “dangerous” books alone, in secret, and in distress, was neither what we observed nor what the students described.

Initially, we too were cautious about some books until we learned how off-base adults can be in their hypotheses about what young adults take away from them. Students described characters’ questionable decisions as cautionary tales, not narratives to live into, a concept they found laughable, plausible only to someone who hadn’t read the book. The books helped them to see the consequences of problematic decisions and language. Because they all brought different experiences and purposes to their reading, the conversations were constantly lively, meaningful, even philosophical, and relationship-building. The /end ID]

[Image ID for reblog by mikkeneko: The Simpsons bus driver “Don’t make me tap the sign” meme, where the sign reads “YOU CANNOT KNOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE TAKING AWAY FROM THE TEXT AND IT IS NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY (OR YOUR RIGHT) TO CONTROL HOW PEOPLE ENGAGE WITH MEDIA” /end ID]

[fellshish]

i’m so glad goncharov happened pre ai slop era

[romanitas]

#weird way to describe 1973 but i guess it’s accurate

[gooobifer]

kitty kins fucking obliterated in the comments section of a knitting video

[red-garden]

“Do dishes” and “take out trash” both require the use of a spell slot, vs “use phone” is a cantrip, and brother, I am a level one wizard

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

[s1lverp4wedb4t]

how it feels sometimes

[yakichoufd]

I wonder if Olly ever complimented Qifrey's teaching by saying it was like Beldaruit in xyz way ( in the nicest, most sincere way possible ) and accidentally sent him spiraling; because Qifrey never wants to be compared to him ever for any reason xD

I usually do not take request like this! but it was too funny to not draw it.

[brikkets]

my honest reaction

its just really really funny referring to us and kris as "we" as if they're not the one who has to actually deal with it all :sob:

[sorrythathappened]

does ringo starr still have the elf stones or did he return them to the silverwood? i know there was a pressure campaign a few years back

[beemovieerotica]

obligatory I'm Not An Elf but the pressure campaign always struck me as well-intentioned but misguided - like at a certain point it veered somewhat into an overzealous application of cultural appropriation without recognizing the context in which he came into possession of the elf stones. *generally* if I come across a human with an elven artifact then I'm side-eyeing that shit hard, but Ringo was very deliberately gifted the elf stones in a gesture of goodwill and cultural exchange (plus gratitude for everything he did!!!). I know 2016 was a different time altogether but idk I think about that a lot.

[beemovieerotica]