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just watched an interview with james ortiz (rocky’s puppeteer) where he’s like “they were torturing ryan gosling for this movie. it was killing him. he was developing isolation sickness in real life from being the only actor on set for 6 months. i needed to be there for him even when rocky wasn’t in frame to serve as his guiding light and the sole thread tethering him to the concept of love. i was kneeling at the altar” and what

misterrad

Hey Principals, You Are Screwing Up.

Principals: If you lose good teachers from your building at the end of this year, then you are screwing up. Principals, If people are leaving a profession that no one enters without passion, that no one enters expecting to be easy, you are not doing your job. Principals, every teacher that walks away from the kids in your your building and is thinking of your face is your fault.

It’s budget time for schools, which means the beginning of perennially awful time of year that teachers lose jobs and schools lose teachers. For whatever reason, budget time this year feels like a particularly brutal bloodbath, and it sucks.

It sucks. At a time a year when almost nothing feels like enough, we get told we’re somehow going to start getting by with less. At a time of year full of sacrifice, just rounding into the time where we start to see some our work pay off, we start to learn how different next year will be, we start to learn we won’t get to come back, or that too many other people won’t be there. It sucks.

So budgets and cuts are a thing, but not the thing I’m most worried about. What I’m really and truly disturbed by is the wave of teachers who have had enough, with their building or their boss or with the hours or with the kids. What I’m worried about is all the teachers who leave. Except for all those who really are sick of kids (bye Felicia), we are, as schools and as a system, losing teachers we need, losing teachers that could or would be better with more or different something, and you know what? It’s not their fault, and it matters, it matters, it really really matters when good teachers leave.

Principals (and just like I use “teachers” to mean everyone who works with kids, I’ll use “principals” here to mean everyone who is supposed to be supporting teachers), the number of teachers you keep year to year says something about you. I know you’d like not to believe that, I know your job is easier if you ignore it, but teachers matter, and keeping them around is your job. When you lose good teachers, it’s on you.

It’s not a bad time to mention that I think my principal is pretty awesome, and my assistant principal too, and all the other leadery people in my building. I like my building, and I believe in the work we’re doing. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t write this as a piece, I would write this as an email. Many many years, I’ve written this as an email. Many years in a row, around this time, “please care about your staff, please do something for them, please help them stay.”

Because here’s what happens. Teachers are messy because people are messy. It would be easier (and also cheaper) if teachers didn’t matter that much, if implementing systems and curriculum packages mattered a lot more. So, we, schools and districts and whoever pulls the big levers levels above us, ignore teachers as much as we can.

It’s a handy system, because look:

Hi everyone, we have this wonderful, innovative Whatever. Everyone has to use Whatever, and use Whatever in this way, so that everyone is the same and every classroom is the same because that is for some reason important. If Whatever works, it’s because we’re smart. If it doesn’t work, it’s because teachers didn’t implement it correctly, those damn teachers. If teachers leave, that’s ok, we’ll hire other teachers, and Whatever will still be there, so everything will be fine. Also, Whatever gives us tons of numbers and numbers and numbers that we can use to say all sorts of stuff about how great Whatever is doing. Whatever.

This model is compelling for lots of obvious reasons. You get to pretend you’re in control of what a whole bunch of messy humans all day, and when things go wrong it is hardly ever your fault. Also, you have to do very little worry about how anyone is feeling.

It’s too bad, really, that both children and adults are both kinds of humans, and humans don’t work like that.

Because really, the work we need from you is this:

Hi everyone, first of all, let me say “thank you for all that you do,” because apparently it’s, like, a required thing to say to teachers all the time, but then also let me specifically mention things you have done and how I’ve noticed you doing them and tell you why I appreciate them. Then, I will spend, I dunno… at least half the amount of time I spend looking for things you do wrong actually supporting and encouraging the things you do well. Also, let me find time to listen to you, like actually listen, to what your day is like and what your students need, because here’s the thing I totally understand: Everything I do all day should matter to you in your classroom, because the work of any school and any district should be focused exclusively on what is best for the kids we are teaching, and should be focused on those kids, and should understand that those kids and their needs change from building to building, from room to room, from day to day. Because of this, we should value and support and encourage and inspire and recognize and push and protect the people doing the most direct version of the work.

When our teachers are good, we should reward them. When our teachers speak up we should listen. When our teachers are tired we should help them. When we have teachers that connect with our students, that value our families, that have earned the respect of their colleagues, we should do everything, we should do anything, to keep them. Otherwise, we aren’t doing our jobs.

musicallychaos

I personally headcanon that Ilya was much more verse when he was hooking up with Sasha and it didn't really go well? Sasha wasn't a great top and was more focused on his needs than Ilya's. When Ilya topped, he could go at a pace that was okay for both of them, so he preferred it.

Ilya's not opposed to bottoming, he's just never really had a good time? But Shane wants to try fucking Ilya at least once and who is Ilya to deny him anything

Shane is NOT Sasha. He is so singularly focused on blowing Ilya's mind through his prostate and it's all Ilya can do not to white out from the pleasure and then Shane leans down and whispers "such a neat trick" and that's it, Ilya's gone.

And THAT WAS DIFFERENT, WASN'T IT?

Ilya still prefers to top like 95% of the time, but he's always excited when Shane gets it in his head that he wants to fuck Ilya. It reminds him of their first time, with how gentle Shane always is with him (even when he holds him tight enough to bruise)

mybloodstream-caffeine

Okay but consider for Rookie!Ilya and Established!Shane:

They already know Rozanov is a bit of a wild child, so why not put him with the team captain Hollander who always keeps his nose clean and stays out of trouble? Surely he can keep the kid on the right path, right?

So Ilya is Billetting(?) with Shane, in Shane's house, 24/7. Imagine how that will go, especially if Ilya starts to bring girls (maybe even some boys?) back to Shane's place

And Shane can hear him having sex with these people. Does he get turned on? Does he jerk off? Does he imagine it was him?

Him catching Ilya seeing one of his hookups off and intending to tell the rookie off but god he's wearing nothing but some awfully low-slung sweatpants, his hair is a mess, and that smirk...

Ilya who seems to know exactly how he looks now and fake-innocently asks "Was I disturbing your sleep Hollander?"

God the potential of this

Anon I'm shaking in my boots. Of COURSE Confirmed Bachelor™ and Certified Good Influence Captain Hollander is gonna 'straighten out' the misbehaving rook who's dealing with culture shock and struggling with his English (Shane is breaking out into a cold sweat at the idea of opening his home up to Rozanov. Do not ask him why)

Just picture Ilya lounging on Shane's leather couch, grey sweats on, white tank straining, looking at Shane like the cat that caught the canary. "Soo. You take care of all your rookies like this, Captain? Or am I just special?"

mybloodstream-caffeine

@facelessoldgargoyle's ESSENTIAL insight into Ilya's POV:

I also think this is potentially a really cathartic way for Ilya to channel his daddy issues. He’s been kissing the boot his whole life. He joins Shane’s team and thinks oh great another hardass who wants to control where I go and what I do. He scolds me and criticizes me and oh what’s that? oh he’s been dying his whole life for someone to put him on his knees and make him beg for it? oh he’s needs someone to hit him really hard until he comes? Oh he’s been frigid his whole life until I showed up and tore his whole facade apart and revealed the red hot molten core of him? well.

PHEWWWW 🔥😵‍💫🔥😵‍💫🔥😵‍💫🔥😵‍💫

goddesspharo

[Glenjamin Button] is actually the name of my phone. If I connect to Wi-Fi, people are like, "Who the hell is Glenjamin Button?" [x]

onetimesee

on Swept Away (but also for those who Get Generation Kill)

flipfloplogic

Winner

shillanov

u know what i fucking love. is that it's so clear that many of us have important full time jobs. yet you can see us here on tumblr throughout the work day posting about the most unhinged shit possible. like we're really out here going to a meeting then coming back to tumblr like "shane drippy big dick bouncing on that thang" before running back to another meeting like Hi Linda yes I talked to the team earlier and we're ready to send the documents over. How was your weekend

allthingswhumpyandangsty

themoonandmyman

having completely opposing headcanons at the same time is important for the diversity of the fandom ecosystem. yes I believe this would happen. but I also don’t. hope this helps

miscelium

reasons shane and ilya should be evenly matched in size, height, weight, build, strength, athleticism, etc. in canon and in fanon

i find it hot

they’re comparable generationally talented first line center professional hockey players

positioning shane as smaller/shorter/daintier than his white dom top boyfriend perpetuates racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes

i personally find it REALLY hot

when he chooses to, shane can physically overpower ilya (hockey, shoving ilya into walls i.e. vegas rooftop and stairwell scenes) but when he wants to submit in bed, he allows himself to be pushed, carried, held down, etc. because they both like it and want it

feminist scholar jane ward: "queer circuits of desire do not rely on the erotic encounter of opposites"

they can wear each other's clothes in a cozy boyfriend hoodie "give. i miss your boring laundry smell" "why the fuck are all your clothes dry clean hand wash only" long distance yearning way or post-game sweat damp base layer horny way or "gross now i have cum on my sweats i'm stealing yours" "okei yay ♥" fondly annoyed way

in conclusion have i mentioned i think it’s really hot

my-2nd-account

If I were Ilya's teammate in Boston and my gorgeous competitive Captain who gave us individual I love you's after every game and led us to win the Cup for the first time in years who also had the kindest soul and everyone on the team adored him left us out of fucking no where to move to loser ass fucking Ottawa, I would quit hockey all together and become a monk. And years later if I found out that his man's team were saying that my team only ever won against them because their Captain was sucking my Captain's dick, I would drive up to Montreal and hunt down every player in that team and invent 23 new ways to murder people.

lysimachias

❌ Is this ship well supported by canon

❌ Does this ship make any sense whatsoever by any reasonable metric

✅ Does the thought of these characters standing next to each other make you want to chew concrete and then break apart a nearby automobile with your bare hands