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how I sleep at night knowing my daughter is in a prison of my own design because I turned her into a murderer, my son is abandoned on a notorious garbage realm, and my other son is having an identity crisis because they are from a race I taught them from a young age to hate:

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me when i’m in a food coma after eating one 2 many chicken fajitas from chili’s

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Anthony Hopkins after eating too many chicken fajitas after Tom brings him to Chili’s

moss-sprouted

he looks like he was photoshopped into a bowl of boiling soup

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t3sticles

Lost in the sauce

handsoffmyfriends

tumblr truly is a site like no other

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world heritage post

theotheristhedoctor

Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations.

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing.

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You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.

And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.

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it’s also a detail from the second ever episode

aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations

this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:

[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]

why do i bring this up?

because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph

unclefather

I can hear my kid playing supermarket by herself and she’s telling all the customers that they are disgusting and they need to leave

that-twink-over-there

And she's right

angryschnauzer

She's gonna be a supervisor

thestrawberrydreams

Inclusive language is for everyone!!

miss-crazy-rose

This has the same energy than “cis people are putting their pronouns in their bio now how am I supposed to know who is trans?”

That… like… the whole point Jimothy?

languill

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

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I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

And I’ve never forgotten that.

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THIS.

When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one. Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.

Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to. But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.

History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from. It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely. Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.

Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction. But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.

The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it. (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)

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thank u <3

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working memory bad 💚

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agshsgshsh target audience ❤️

lakevida

spotify algorithm that auto-schedules a session w your therapist if you listen to music you liked in 10th grade for more than three consecutive days

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I am sort of a new fan of the NHL and I am confused as to how the playoffs work. How do you win the Stanley Cup?

FIRST A PLAYER MUST CONCENTRATE AND VISUALIZE HIS CONCEPT

YOU GOTTA EMBRACE THE STANLEY CUP

YOU GOTTA SNIFF THE STANLEY CUP

YOU GOTTA LICK THE STANLEY CUP

YOU GOTTA WASH THE STANLEY CUP

YOU GOTTA DATE THE STANLEY CUP

Y O U G O T T A B E T H E S T A N L E Y C U P

talesandfluff

the way they did Daniela/Carla so??? seamlessly??? oh yeah they wake up together with a kiss, they work together and hip bump, they dance together at the get together, she sits on her lap during Carnaval? it’s just so smooth and natural, I’m so fucking in love

xioyume

Me watching the In The Heights movie (SPOILERS AHEAD):

Me: I already know about Abuela Claudia’s death, I can get through Paciencia y Fe and Alabanza without crying

My brain and feels: You fool, you giant fool

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As a black Latina I just want to say,

There are thousands of people that go into a movie.

Please stop blaming Lin-Manuel Miranda for Afro Latinos making up the ensemble rather than the main cast of In the Heights.

Every person in that movie is still a person of color, and it is still leaps and bounds ahead of literally anything else the film industry has ever produced for Latino people.

Yes, Latinos only make up less than 5% of all casted and Afro Latinos even less than that. But I’m not going to In the Heights expecting every single facet of latinidad to be represented.

I am just so happy to see as many people as I can that do look like me on the screen and I just hope that this movie does enough to get more people casted of all skin shades and heritage.

But again, stop attacking Lin, the creator of this musical for something that is the responsibility of casting directors, managers, agents, actors, audition supervisors, vocal coaches etc. etc. all working in tandem

You all got on his case when he casted colorblindly for Hamilton and now you’re on his case for not casting colorfully enough for In the Heights. And considering his white passing, I wouldn’t be surprised if you got on his case for representation either way.

Again, I am black and Hispanic and I didn’t even notice the problem. I noticed every color on that screen. If you count how many are in that eight minute sneak peek on YouTube, there’s literally dozens.

Because guess what? no matter how small your role is in an ensemble, all of those great brown and black actors can now put on their resumes that they were on In the Heights. And then they can get more jobs and then we can get more representation.

We should be celebrating In the Heights and the doors that it opens so that more people regardless of skin tone can celebrate their Latino identity.

And duh, I can’t speak for everyone on this issue but you know who else can’t? The individuals in In the Heights.

But I’m not expecting this one movie to fix the problem of colorism in the Latin community.

Viva La Raza

trlake-deactivated20200421

what’s the pink they put in pink lemonade that makes it so poppin

craigzlist

that’s pussy babe!

doubleca5t

now THIS is a world heritage post

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man lord of the rings just fills me with such profound sadness its a world that just…… makes me feel whole and hollow at the same time

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14 yr old me saw this and knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to explain what the feeling this frame invokes in me is

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I'm a teacher assistant for spanish grammar and the professor was explaining epícenos (single gendered words that encompass masculine and feminine beings) and he was using iguana as an example and he said: "there is only one gender... iguana" and i had to mute my microphone