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[tremendousmawdilemma]

Driftwood Bone | litrature

[tremendousmawdilemma]

Spice Drawer Aroma | litrature

[theanimeview]

Henshin Dekinai: The Doomed Queen is Doomed No More

Henshin Dekinai (No Secrets) Cover Image By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Years ago, I was introduced to the concept of a “doomed queen” in my LGBT+ Literature class. It came in the form of Andrew Holleran’s fictional novel, Dancer From The Dance, which, if you don’t know, is sort of like an updated version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby set in New York City and Fire Island. Both…

Henshin Dekinai: The Doomed Queen is Doomed No More

[hulkwasabi]

how pink your receiver

A Writing style where you respond to the paranoia induced by ur previous statement, descending further into the swamp.

lowkirkuinely taking close reading and analysis to crazy extremes in my new substack how deep can you go

[dualight]

Re-watching V2C4: "Painting the Town" to refresh my memory and I suddenly noticed that Penny says she's "the world's first synthetic person capable of generating an Aura." I'm probably over a decade late to the party here and it was debated to death way back when the episode was new(I wasn't involved in the fandom back then, and I'm not digging through the backlog for a stray thought), but the fact she narrows her claim (to being the first) down by adding the bolded suggests that there are/have been other synthetic people before her, just none with an Aura of their own. And now I wonder if those others are just the prototypes from Project P.E.N.N.Y. that precede her or if there are artificial people walking around somewhere on Remnant.(note that Penny uses people, not human or Faunus or anything more specific, just 'people' implying those earlier ones also possess enough self-awareness for personhood.)

Considering that I don't think Penny's role in the story is quite done (at the very least her memory will haunt Ruby, Winter and, if he's made it to Vacuo, Pietro, even in the case that she is actually perma-dead now), it would be cool if we see more synthetic people in V10 or even later, if only to for the contrast with Penny.

Whether or not canon ever does anything with this (it could also just be that the line was only meant to establish that Penny indeed has Aura and was not intended to imply anything deeper with that specific detail), I'm sure it can be of use in a fanfic. I know I'm going to be on the lookout for opportunities to weave it into my stories where workable. (Too bad I don't have any ideas currently kicking about where I can easily add a character like this).

[sustema]

Using Peter Liljedahl’s Thinking Classroom method and although I do not teach mathematics, elements of his method allow for less resistance in collaboration and sharing of information among students without the typical teacher centered method which feels unnatural to regular conversation. Liljedahl’s method promotes sharing and learning. Still, I had to modify some aspects - I do not have individual whiteboards for students. Instead we portioned off our large whiteboard to meet the Thinking Classroom requirement of limiting the amount of space students can write horizontally compacting the text in a column style like a newspaper format making it easier to for students to read and absorb shared analysis. The text discussed above was Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie and Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings. Both texts rely on Magical Realism and wonderful universal themes dealing with human frailty.

[whilereadingandwalking]

Taking close reading to the next level.

[bobonbooks]

The Weekly Wrap: November 23-29

Photo by Nur Yilmaz on Pexels.com The Weekly Wrap: November 23-29 Thanksgiving Reflections of a Bibliophile We celebrated Thanksgiving in the United States on Thursday. It is often the custom to share for what we are thankful, often at the overladen dinner table! But if I were to share for what I’m thankful for as a bibliophile, no one would get in a word edgewise! So, here’s my chance. First…

The Weekly Wrap: November 23-29