#chestnut podfic

[anghraine]

Just found a heavily plagiarized essay in my grading stack, sigh. I always feel like such a failure when one of these turns up, like if I'd done somehow better, people wouldn't have felt unconfident or panicked enough to plagiarize. I know I'm not the instructor of record or in charge of the assignments, but I still feel responsible. It's so disheartening. I just want everyone to learn and do well :/

Oh, same. I’ve only had it happen once, and I was a real TA then, but it still felt awful. I know we can seem like extensions of the university, but it’s like... I hate failing people. I’ll bend over backwards (giving myself a ton of extra work!) to give every chance of avoiding it. So it just feels like such a slap in the face. :\

[anghraine]

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Now, some unknown number of days later, she was gone.

Not permanently, as far as he knew, and he didn’t anticipate that. He could think of above half a dozen things she might be doing: showering, sleeping, praying, fighting, a wide range of possible meetings. Also, every time before now—and Cassian gathered that he’d been in and out of surgery at least a week—he had woken to Jyn hovering nearby like some bad-tempered falcon, and she wasn’t the sort to run. Others would probably doubt that, but he didn’t really care. Cassian trusted his judgment and he trusted Jyn.

Perhaps unwisely in this case. But Jyn did not turn her back on anyone who had not first turned theirs on her. And it was Cassian’s nature to expect nothing and hope for everything; he had not followed it this far to turn back now.

[anghraine]

chestnut-podfic replied to your post: [[MOR] It’s so grating when people drop random...

I think Spanglish is actually quite useful! I don’t know how my friend group would get along without it, honestly. And it can be so pretty!

Spanglish is a far cry from the people who just drop mañana into English sentences or whatever, though. Like Spanish-focused weeaboos or something.

[anghraine]

Harimad-sol! Oh, I'm so chuffed it's a McKinley reference! I didn't realize you were a fan. I so wish there was more of a fandom around the Damar books, although I sort of understand the historical fannish reasons for… steering clear of McKinley's work in general. How exciting!

I don’t know how many times I read The Blue Sword, tbh. The rest didn’t click as much, but that, damn. I love it so much. I loved a few of the fairy tale ones, too. Beauty <3 <3 <3 <3

[anghraine]

chestnut-podfic replied to your post:

You deserve a medal for wading through all the RO discourse so us poor souls don't have to

Heh, thanks. 

But believe me, it’s not deliberate! I’ve insulated myself as much as possible, so like—I only ever see rebuttals to Jyn antis, not the antis themselves. Bits and pieces of The Discourse end up on my dash that way, and nobody tags, so I end up seeing it and ... well, I’m not much of one for keeping quiet when I disagree with people. :P

(That particular post was also inspired by TFA and... okay, probably a half-dozen different fandoms. ARRRRGH.)

[glindalesbian]

Also I want niche historical lesbians

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 I'll send any and allllll good content your way

[glindalesbian]

I just can't wait to spend another year getting incredibly niche and inaccurate impressions of everything Les Mis from you. I genuinely am looking forward to this with glee in my heart. WHO WILL I THINK IS WHO? WHAT WILL I THINK IS HAPPENING? We just don't know and I for one am excited to know worse than nothing

Bea I ADORE you this truly and genuinely is so exciting. I want you to do a "Les Mis based on Rachel's posts" breakdown

(Also Happy Hanukkah!)

[glindalesbian]

🔥 this is hard. You pick

being super into ~obscure~ or older/classic musicals doesn’t make you special or more “legit” as a theater fan and if you think it does and you’re a snob to people that enjoy modern or more mainstream musicals you’re an idiot and a clown and have lost the whole point of why we create art in the first place 

Send me 🔥 and a topic and I’ll share an unpopular opinion