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Cosplayer and occasional writer. FFVII & FFXV sideblog: Prompto-but-extra-soft

[mrkakuya]

He wants your heart and the surplus value of your labor.

[boirean-deactivated20230401]

Vergil summoning V

[stuffedgamer]

[mrkakuya]

tsengru, but with yaoi shoulders

[mrkakuya]

Male wife material

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[mrkakuya]

POV you're gently bullied by your president

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[lesb0]

This explains so much about why 20 somethings are just unable to read to any level of complexity beyond a tweet. The miserable failure of US pedagogy

[lesb0]

They didn’t teach children phonics for TWENTY YEARS because they just hoped this “balanced literacy” bs would magically work out???

[lesb0]

this still kills me. 20 years. that’s nearly every public school gen z kid in the US

[iirulancorrino]

There’s a really good five-part podcast series about this that recently came out from American Public Media called Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went so Wrong. It does a great job of explaining this issue and goes into the political situation and profit motives that kept balanced literacy going for so long even when there was, this can’t be emphasized enough, *zero research* to back it up.

One of my personal big takeways from listening to this was the danger of turning facets of education policy into politicized issues along left/right lines–according to this podcast one of the reasons for why phonics didn’t catch on earlier is because it was being promoted by the second Bush administration, which led to teachers unions and other left-of-center people to be suspicious of it. I think that’s really unfortunate and sadly we saw that same dynamic play out during the pandemic, when in so many school districts how to handle public education became a culture war battle more than anything else.

Obviously everything is political in some way and it’s always worth analyzing who is promoting which ideas–but I think when aspects of public health/science/medicine/education become polarized we all lose out because the issue becomes so much harder to analyze on their merits. And it’s especially awful when the people most impacted are children who are still developing the basic skills needed to think critically for themselves.

[lesb0]

oh that sounds worth a listen

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I’m fucking gobsmacked. Firstly, here’s the link to the full article for anybody who wants to read the entire thing, or can’t view the image text:

The Rise and Fall of Vibes-Based Literacy

Is a controversial curriculum, entrenched in New York City’s public schools for two decades, finally coming undone?

Secondly, I’m just… is this not basically the gist of the scam in The Music Man? Y'know, where Harold Hill—who can’t play of note of music—passes himself off as a band leader, telling everyone he has a “revolutionary new method called The Think System where you don’t bother with notes,” and says ““If you want to play the Minuet in G, think the Minuet in G”? Like sure, context is helpful for reading, but having it be the basis is… WILD. I’m so sorry Gen Z 😭

[idk-my-aesthetic]

Guys. Guys is this not how you learned to read. Bc this is how I learned to read.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

NO THIS IS NOT HOW WE LEARNED TO READ WHAT THE FUCK

In the rest of the English-speaking world, children are taught to read phonically. There are multiple systems for this, from “winging it based on usage” to structured, tiered systems like Jolly Phonics. They’re taught the sounds that letters make, then the sounds that dipthongs and unusual combinations (like “magic E vowels”) make, and they are taught how to string the sounds together to sound out the words. Common words with unusual spellings/rules (or just really common words that the kid needs to know before they know the relevant rules, like “the” and “should”) are taught as “sight words” and expected to be memorised rote (although research suggests that children don’t memorise these words, but memorise whatever the tricky part is as an exception and read them normally, by phonically sounding them out in their head). This is so that children can get to reading common sentences and simple stories as quickly as possible, providing them with valuable practice and motivation.

As children get practice reading over many years, the most common words get memorised via repetition, and new words are sounded out and memorised if they come up enough. (This is why it’s common for people who read more than they watch tv/converse to mispronounce words for many years – I was over 20 before I knew the correct pronunciation of ‘misled’ or ‘rendezvous’.)

We certainly weren’t taught to check the first letter and then guess based on vibes. If you read like that then there’s no point in the rest of the word being written down. How would you learn new words and advance your skill that way?

[cheerycheesecake]

i was raised by an english major who taught me how to read with Dr. Seuss books. she STILL has the years-old volumes marked with the phonetic teaching methods she used. i still remember her underlining and emphasizing phonics for me to practice. i could read books for early/mid teen audiences by the time i was 8 years old.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Dr Seuss books are fantastic for learning readers because the unique word count is so low. Most of the sentences are repetitive, which makes it easy for kids to “read a lot” while tackling very few new words, and the rhyme structure helps kids learn tricky new pronunciations. This makes them a lot easier to read than most books of similar complexity, making them a great bridging resource. (Which is why they’re written like that, of course; so that kids just learning to read can read fairly long and complex books.)

[mrkakuya]

tumblr keeps asking me to turn on my location. Why. You don't even have timestamps on your post. Time and space aren't real on this godless site.

[mrkakuya]

He does this on purpose

Insp.

[mrkakuya]

After a cocktail party.

[tracing-rivers]

[floatingmirrorsdeactivated]

[twolakes]

People need to chill with this “can we normalize” thing. All this shit is already normal, there are a variety of normals available to you. Just live your life and feel your feelings.

[bizarrrelovetriangle]

[obama-stolemy-vcr]

They should've never gave y'all buzzwords

[shadow-wizard-moneygang]

confiscating "normalize" and putting it on the top shelf until these people learn to not abuse it

[shinysoroka]

Tags that hit like a punch in the face.

[mrkakuya]

Last Saturday at a FFXIV fan com as Urianger💖

[mrkakuya]

It's Cloud's bday and he's having a...day.

[mrkakuya]

I drew him 👉👈

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[mharti-mcfly]

[cleo4u2]

THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.

No. Just NO.

I’m so glad someone put it into words.

[decepticonsensual]

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a legend, and he’s absolutely right.

And I really feel like there are parts of fandom that don’t get or don’t believe this, and I think that’s troubling.  I’ve seen arguments that people shouldn’t have dark fantasies, or that bad impulses in themselves make a bad person.  I’ve seen so much shaming over thoughts.

And if you get to a point where it’s bad to have dark thoughts and it’s bad to wonder what something would be like and it’s bad to put yourself in the shoes of anyone who isn’t “pure”, if fiction is no longer a realm where you can confront and explore, but an ongoing test of moral purity… well, maybe not everyone’s brain works like mine, but I feel like that takes away something incredibly important to being human.

[athenagray]

Purity culture is gonna kill art if y’all let it.

[rainbowloliofjustice]

Fiction is a safe place to explore whatever fucked up or dark desire that you have. You can write the most vile and fucked up shit in fiction and it be absolutely nothing you desire in real life. You can write about a serial killer who gets away with it. You can write about someone who goes on moral crusades to purge the world of all evils and still be the protagonist. You can write anything in fiction because that’s what it is meant for. 

It isn’t meant to be a social commentary unless you create it to be. 

It isn’t meant to be educational unless you create it to be. 

Sometimes a story can be just that, a story. Entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less. 

Not everything has to be deep, or have meaning, etc. unless the creator wants it to be and a lot of the purity types end up forcing something to have deep meaning or social commentary where it isn’t meant to.  Is this inherently bad? No, but these people don’t just say “But this is my interpretation of it.” they go as far as trying to force that interpretation onto everyone else, including the creator, as a means of saying “See? It means that they promote/condone xyz so they’re bad and shitty people who should spend the rest of their life in jail with/are the same as people who’ve actually committed acts of violence against other people.” 

[one-lonely-whumperfly]

THANK. YOU.

[fangirlofall]

@ all the people in the notes saying “yes except u can’t write about (list of immoral things they don’t want to see in fiction)” congrats on missing the point so spectacularly I’m not sure I could create better performance art if I tried

[jackdaw-kraai]

“You can’t write about this [insert bad thing here]! It’s immoral and evil and—”

What are you? Protestant? Thought crime isn’t real, ya twit.

[spookyscaryscouticus]

Fiction is for putting your brain’s little raccoon hands all over a situation without having to actually electrocute yourself by touching the electric wire because unlike a raccoon you can read the sign that says it will electrocute you

[mrkakuya]

Happy 2nd anniversary to FF7R!