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1, give me your favorite hualian song
Share a song that makes you think of [fic title]
ngl i got this and was immediately like "I Have Never Associated A Song With a Ship in My Life" but um very obviously it's Big God by Florence + The Machine. I've drawn multiple pieces of art about this 💀
fanfic asks! (to keep me from going to sleep at 9 PM)
Met up with the excellent @bodhimcbodeface for dosas yesterday and it felt like meeting an old friend (which it was, even though we'd never met in person.) Wow, Tumblr has shaped my life and friendships so much over the last nine years? You all are so important to me!
Omg tell me about TGCF
okay so i know that one of them is named hua cheng. i don't know the other one's name and i don't know which one is hua cheng. one of them is a religious figure (god? demon? messiah? spirit? saint?) and the other one is a worshiper who is very horny for them. the god one is just as horny for them back. it's mxtx so there's actually a plot too
whispers: what if we were both boys and we kissed in the confessional <3
Going with the obvious here, talk to me about hualian
huALIAAAAAN <3 yay thank you for this
What made you ship it?
ah gosh honestly? I think what got me in the novel is just how much they like each other. We can talk till our lungs give out about devotion and faith and humanity (and I will, at the slightest provocation) but—they genuinely just like each other so! much! Hua Cheng likes how Xie Lian is sweet and a little awkward and sincere, and Xie Lian likes how Hua Cheng is so competent and clever and also a snarky little shit. as much as I love drama and pining and everything, my favorite thing about both fictional and real couples is just when you can tell they make each other so happy
What are your favorite things about the ship?
THE HUMANITY. Okay I’ve waxed on about this, but it really is the way that they give each other the space, opportunity, and security to be human—with their strengths and weaknesses, glory and disgrace. The trust and devotion they have for each other gives them both the place to be themselves rather than what the world thinks they are or should be. And that shit is like crack to me <3
Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
oh hm idk about unpopular but I stand by the opinion that Hua Cheng didn’t fall in love with Xie Lian until Book 1. Prior to that, I still think of him as being intensely devoted to Taizi Dianxia (& sure having a crush/Feelings) but not really falling in love for real until he meets Xie Lian as a person and an equal (~loosely not getting into it here lmao) and that’s when he’s sunk
Send me a ship and I’ll answer three questions based on if I ship it or not.
bodhimcbodeface replied to your post: that wwx+juniors gifset got me...
isaac tell me how to be that cool of a teacher because I wish I could be all "congratulations! you got poisoned!" but I mostly teach algebra to kids who hate math
u h hm let’s see
it does not have to involve actual poison! the poison can be a metaphor! (the poison is HOPEFULLY, IDEALLY a metaphor) but yeah, the coolness of the subject matter, or even your relative passion for the subject matter, does not necessarily define if you can bring yi city!wei wuxian vibes to ur [pedagogical theorist voice] teaching persona*
but like. my classes had to write some objectively BORING papers. this was mostly, although not entirely, the department’s fault. however, aside from the types of papers we had to do, I was incredibly unsupervised (especially after my first semester as instructor of record)!
so the wwx vibes came from showing up in t-shirts, sitting on the desk, and regularly going “look, we are writing this type of paper because we have to! these are the parts of the assignment that we are only technically doing, because I feel like they’re busywork and by this point you all know how I feel about the very concept of busywork. these are the parts of it that are incredibly necessary to your next course, so even if I and you both think they’re boring, let’s all pay attention so we don’t like Die in the 200 course.”
“these are the parts of it that I think are kind of very cool actUALLY and yes that’s maybe because I’m a nerd. okay. now, I was going to start with X activity but I realized in the five minutes before class that this computer is broken, so here is a different thing! I think it is useful for these reasons but it is COMPLETELY A THING I JUST MADE UP so HANG IN THERE - [literal finger guns]”
[student, without raising hand since I am fiddling with pieces of paper instead of actively talking] “do you think we’ll get out early?”
[me, mock-affronted, also very proud of them for not raising their hand] “are you trying to decide whether or not to participate in discussion, Kevin?”
[student, also mock-affronted] “I participate!”
[me] “but I dunno, yeah, probably a few minutes early”**
I do not advise or endorse all these behaviors in all contexts, necessarily. however, part of the thing about wwx’s teacher vibes is that they are inherently some kind of inadvisable. you just have to decide what kind of inadvisable works for you. and also you have to talk about being mutually doomed in a very cheerful voice. not like, TOO mutually doomed? you gotta scale it to the age and subject matter? but like “wow yes! absolutely this sucks! we will get through it by being SOMEWHAT MORBIDLY PEPPY!” is a take that the youth.....go for. plus, aside from the bonding with your students and the cheering them up, it’s just a super useful tactic in startling them enough to make them refocus.
so like
[student, doing in-class group work on a text I hate but had to assign] how are we supposed to identify any rhetorical devices in this article? it’s way too confusing it’s so much harder than the last unit
[me, terrifyingly upbeat] well, a question to think about as you read our Favorite Dude here might be! which rhetorical devices become very confusing when they are used b a d l y !
*yes. that is a technical term. yes. I hate it. what’s your ~~teachersona~~
**this is a very accurate portrayal of how I talked in class actually? very minimally internet-ized. this is generally not the advised approach for a teacher who is (generally) 2-5 years older than their students to take; people tell you that you’ll have Discipline Problems and that you can always loosen up but you can’t become more strict. but I found that it worked super well, especially because lowering people’s anxiety around writing was a huge priority for me. I also found that I could become more strict/structured when I needed to, as long as I was very thorough about explaining how this benefitted the students. it does probably help that I have a pretty good older-sibling-type eyebrow-lift+unamused stare.
From what I understand of how the US citizenship exam works, it’s not quite this. It’s a test that is very much set up to encourage lots of rote memorization--they’re very helpful about listing all the possible questions on the USCIS, along with concise approved answers. They really encourage you to memorize 128 (formerly 120) questions and answers. Simple answers, usually not even a full sentence.
Given that, making the language technical and opaque mostly just serves to make things very difficult for people without a fairly high level of English--not a working level of English, but an ability to listen (this is a spoken exam) to formal test-taking language.
The earlier form of the test wasn’t much better, but they did lean towards more direct language. eg:
“Who is in charge of the executive branch?” You still have to memorize the phrase executive branch, but--importantly in a spoken exam--the key words are easy to pick out. Who tells you that the answer is going to be a person. The sentence structure isn’t too fussy. It’s a sentence structure that’s useful: Who’s in charge of the cafeteria? Who’s in charge of car rentals? Who’s in charge of hiring new employees?
vs the new version: “The President of the United States is in charge of which branch of government?”
What are the key words here? President of the United States? Well, that phrase is in many questions here. So are the words branch and government. There’s not a lot to latch onto here, if you’re struggling to listen to a language you’re still learning. And look at that goddamn sentence structure!
Similarly, several questions have been changed from things like “Why did ______?” to “Name one reason that ______” For a language learner, it’s useful to be able to pick out question words: A who question is going to need a person for an answer, where needs a place, why needs a reason. This is hard to do, but it’s an important daily-function language skill. “Name one reason ____” is an important test-taking language skill. The citizenship test is intended to test your English--but it’s not supposed to be gauging whether you’re ready for the SATs.
The basic memorize-a-bunch-of-specific-shit hasn’t changed, as far as I know (though I have no knowledge of how things look internally among the people doing testing). But the shit you have to memorize has been made much wordier in much more abstract ways.
Disclaimer: i am really not an expert here--I’m tutoring some friends, based on a set of workbooks and what I can find on the USCIS site, etc.
Thoughts on Wen Ning?
WELL. so i thought about wen ning for approximately a millisecond and immediately started tearing up. so thats a pretty good summary. to elaborate:
he is SO good. like...he just wants to help the people he cares about. he wants to help his sister, and he wants to take care of wei ying bc he can SEE that wei ying wont take care of himself, adn GOD if i start talking about him and sizhui i will absolutely never recover. and DESPITE how he gets hurt over and over in increasingly horrific ways he doesnt stop wanting to do good and even when the entire cultivation world thinks hes a monster and a murderer for things that he DID NOT CHOOSE TO DO he doesnt stop wanting to do good. and i just think that someone should bundle him up in some blankets with a hot drink , or something, because he deserves that and GOD i am sure that he could use it. (for related reasons, this is why yanli giving wen ning soup that one time gives me So Many Feelings)
oooh, still doing the music ask? Henrietta, Indiana by Josh Ritter
most definitely!
couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library
you know how much i love gothic country music <3
