#zeke.ask

[2percentsugar]

“I can’t be a transmisogynist I have a trans girlfriend” is about as dumb as “I can’t be a misogynist I have a girlfriend”

I KNEW YOU WERE BLOCK DODGING LMAO

[audhdfox]

do you think the lone gunmen would make a good werewolf pack?

yes absolutely. there’s too few of them to be a full pack but a bonded trio? yeah. all three of them have werewolf vibes and i can just so clearly imagine them all piled on top of each other as wolves to sleep… 🥺

[theremustbeabear]

ur werebear au is sooooooo fun cannot wait for further installments

thank you anon!! i’m actually slowly but surely working on the next one (good timeline, but i muse abt the bad timeline occasionally) so here’s a snippet for your kind words <3

[2percentsugar]

I've heard that the shift away from teaching phonics have made people functionally illiterate. Like kids have been taught to basically guess what a word is by sight reading, instead of being able to sound them out. This led to people getting stuck when they encounter an unfamiliar word, and taking guesses at what the word is instead of stopping to see what the letters are actually spelling out. For example, they might see the word "Imperative", but only take in the [imp] and [ive] and guess that the word is "Impressive"

yeah, that's for sure a part of it. this article does a good job of describing the recent controversy with phonics, which is i think what you're remembering

in general i'm not a big believer in, like... magic bullet pedagogy techniques that perfectly download information into brains, and though that isn't exactly how phonics is billed, for similar reasons i'm skeptical that it's the whole story. i don't think illiteracy is simply the result of bad pedagogy (though it is a part). rather, it's the result of systemic underfunding of public schools -- which makes bad pedagogy a tempting shortcut, among other knock-on effects. (to wit, teaching a kid phonics requires a lot more effort than telling them to "guess what the word means through context clues." after decades of making teaching a painful and no-longer-laudatory profession, teachers are more and more likely to do the latter.)

i had a professor in uni who told me that, over the course of her 30 year career thus far, had had to massively narrow her required reading lists. the worst year for it came in the mid-10s, when the first generation of students educated entirely under No Child Left Behind matriculated. these students couldn't read long texts anymore. well, Columbia University Teaching College's guess-context methods were only used in about 20% of schools nationally. it's not entirely to blame for that downtick in competence.

and neither are the damn phones, to be clear. a part of the problem, sure, but when i was taught to analyze a text in high school, i was taught to read the essay question first and read the text in light of it. a lot of students were. this of course makes for poor readers, and is a direct result of NCLB's emphasis on standardized testing. to put that in a more general way, it's the result of education being rationed like a commodity, rather than shared as a public good. as long as our politicians insist on tests and slashed budgets, illiteracy will persist

[2percentsugar]

i mean shrimpsisbugs is also a zionist. which is in line for a bully

a bully is a child who is cruel to other children. a zionist is someone with bad geopolitical takes. not all forms of cruelty are the same, and indeed we have different words for a reason

[2percentsugar]

Do you poop out of your butt?

how did my kid brother time travel 15 years forward just to send me this ask

[2percentsugar]

I agree with your boxer stance fully, and this is incidental + I'm only sharing because I just smoked, but I'm almost 2 years on T and the crotch of the vast majority of my underwear is unfortunately still full of pussy acid holes. Sorry

its ok. Speak your truth king <3

[2percentsugar]

Zeke that boxers post is like the tip of the iceberg of some discourse among guys I didn't realize existed 😭😭😭

Mark when i came out i was 15, mostly on instagram, and for that mostly on LGBT instagram, which mostly consisted of other 15 year olds posting notes app, sometimes with a gay filter over it. And the tomboyx boxers, which get served to everyone on instagram with a dyed undercut, are a BIG problem amongst the 15 year olds on lgbt instagram, let me tell ya