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“I have tried to kill people with kindness and let me tell you: it takes forever. People frequently survive kindness assaults.”

— Cherish (via incorrect-wormquotes)

sandersstudies

My Shakespeare students (they are 12) wanted to summarize the lessons they learned this semester. If. Um. Anybody would like to see.

sandersstudies

I cannot emphasize enough that they made these with very little input from me.

Henry the Fifth

- ALWAYS encourage others to do their best.

- NEVER talk about people behind their back.

Antony and Cleopatra

- ALWAYS check your produce for pests. [They liked this one so much made a rap about it.]

- NEVER count your chickens before they hatch.

Hamlet

- ALWAYS act decisively

- NEVER tell your girlfriend to go to a convent and become a nun [Oh boy they REALLY liked this one]

Romeo and Juliet

- ALWAYS collect all the important information before making an important decision

- NEVER bite your thumb at us, sir. [They enacted this scene in the original language a lot, except they swapped every “sir” for “bro.”]

The Merchant of Venice

- ALWAYS pay your debts.

- NEVER judge based on appearances, because “all that glisters is not gold.”

The Tempest

- ALWAYS try to forgive others.

- NEVER be a colonizer. [Yes, a middle schooler said this]

Midsummer Night’s Dream

- ALWAYS stay on forest trails

- NEVER fall in love with an ass. [They were excited about this one for obvious reasons.]

Twelfth Night

- ALWAYS stay in touch with those important to us

- NEVER read other people’s mail

Macbeth

- ALWAYS wash your hands. [One of the girls performed Lady Macbeth’s entire Out Damn Spot monologue at the end of the semester]

- NEVER succumb to peer pressure.

chessanator

The Traveller’s Overwatch Mains

So, I came to the realisation recently that the start of darkness for Worm’s Travellers was the fact that they had six players for a game that only has teams of five and so they couldn’t all go pro: if only they had been playing Overwatch instead.

That led me to wonder what characters each of them would play…

Noelle (Echidna): D.Va

Noelle, their team leader before the ‘accident’, played a tank in the rpg the Travellers played. She was tactically minded and relied on her intuition, so she’d hardly be satisfied just standing there with her shield as Reinhardt. Instead, she’d play D.Va, ready for the exact moment to switch from acting as main tank to diving in with the others.

Krouse (Trickster): Lucio

Krouse, the team’s new addition, would have been both eager to prove himself to the team and distrustful of the support that members other than Noelle would provide him. He’d naturally be drawn to Lucio, a support hero who could survive by himself, and Lucio’s speed and position play matches his aptitude as the telelporting cape Trickster. Plus, there’s no way that manipulative Trickster would have missed the symbolism given by the mutual fannishness of D.Va and Lucio.

Mars (Sundancer): Mercy

Mars was the most pacifistic of the Travellers, and definitely the one most freaked out by the powers she acquires in Earth Bet. I really doubt they reflected her style as a player. Instead, she’d have been drawn towards Mercy’s pure healing, and Mercy’s graceful flight would have appealed to her as a (ex-)dancer.

Luke (Ballistic): Genji

Ballistic was… not exactly subtle. And he was aggressive. No wonder he chose the most “hardcore” of the offence heroes. He was definitely skilled though, and Genji play came to him naturally. He could place those shurikens with an accuracy that would be reflected when he threw warning shots at the Brockton Bay Wards.

Jess (Genesis): Symmetra

Jess was the Traveller’s ‘Overlord’: the player responsible for establishing the defences they used against opposing teams. Map-control comes naturally to Jess, as does play using entities other than her actual character. Possibly, she would have convinced to switch to Winston on attack, to support the Dive-comp used by the rest of her team. But even then, Symmetra would have been her favourite, and I can easily imagine that in this AU Jess was eventually responsible for the popularisation of Symmetra at World-class levels.

Cody (Perdition): Tracer

Of course, Tracer exactly matches Cody’s powers as Perdition. But that’s not all: it’s implied that Cody has been with the rest of the gang from the beginning (Hence his annoyance at being shuffled out for Krouse) and his straightforward motivations would have naturally settled on the game’s mascot. In this AU, fortunately, there’s no need for conflict between Cody and Krouse, and the team could have prospered without being dragged into another world, manipulated by the Simurgh. and wrecking everyone’s day.

#i mean they actually had 8 players #people forget about oliver and chris got beheaded by a bookshelf

shardtxt

Hana: this dudes got a gun on me

Shard: why not just point a gun at him

Hana: i dont think-

Shard: hear me out here

garmbreak1

it's not great that every nation in the world seems to believe that if they kill enough civilians, the enemy will give up, even though the deaths of their own civilians would simply make them fight harder