I sing the body electric

26. Fourth Year English teacher with a degree in EdTech. Check out my teaching blog: readwriteteach I'm nerdy, loud, opinionated and so is my blog. I love pretty things, inspiration, sappy moments, and Harry Potter. saucery on Tumblr

[whirringg]

Awkward moments at homecoming

Freshman Student: *holds out hand* Ms. C, will you dance with me?

Me: Oh, wow, thank you so much, but I cannot.

F.S.: You broke my heart.

[rex-luscus]

Hey guys

Remember LJ icons?

They were TINY. 100x100 pixels. That’s, like, digital scrimshaw. And people were obsessed with making good ones - and there were CONTESTS, super cutthroat ones, and trends would sweep the icon-making world every week or so and as soon as you mastered a technique it would be passé, and there were whole communities dedicated to tutorials and icon-making resources, and it was all its own WEIRD LITTLE WORLD.

Is there anything like that now? What do graphics-obsessed people make in the Tumblr era?

[sailorstkwrning]

If there is one thing I miss about LJ it’s the shadow-conversations people used to have in comment threads solely with their icons. Icons had a vocabulary, and a grammar, and you had to learn it.

Gif sets: not quite used the same way.

[rex-luscus]

Right! It was a whole different dynamic because you could choose which icon to post with. So it would be like “I’m wearing my Severus Snape with a Weird Al song quote mask to say this.”

[kdazrael]

FLASHBACK MAAAAAN.

For a year or two I had a paid LJ account and I remember being actively excited about the EXTRA ICON SLOTS. I would be able to express myself with a wider array of Thor and Batman reaction images!

[wabbitwanderer95]

so I showed my boyfriend this post…

and he decided that there needed to be a video of the Parks and Rec theme song with puppies…so he made it

[thorodinson]

I used to want to save the world. To end war and bring peace to mankind. But then, I glimpsed the darkness that lives within their light. And I learned that inside every one of them, there will always be both. A choice each must make for themselves. Something no hero will ever defeat. And now I know, that only love can truly save the world. So I stay, I fight, and I give, for the world I know can be. This is my mission now. Forever.

[hithertokt]

ISO of a Summer Twitter Chat

So, my new admin have given us an assignment this summer: to tweet. I’m pretty proficient at the practice in general, have already done much of what they’re asking, but have exactly zero experience in the task of joining a twitter chat that is related to our department. They gave us this rather extensive list of established education-related twitter chats, but my perusal of the tags today makes me think many of them are on hiatus for the summer months.

Help: Does anyone know of a twitter chat for educators that’s definitely still active this summer?

[benotprouddeath-deactivated2025]

#langchat is active. World language focused but talks about a lot of ELA relatable content.

I hate twitter stuff personally but they’re legit.

[elviajedelaesperanza]

^^^ for reals. If you teach a language, check it out. Thursday night and sat morning encore! (Same topic 2x a week)

[whirringg]

#edtechchat is pretty popular but I love it! 

[madtomedgar]

Call Your Damn Senator

Hi!

You may have noticed the healthcare bill was finally released! You may also have noticed that it sucks and people will literally die if it passes! Here’s what you can do!

Call your senator’s office. Say “Hi, my name is (your name). I’m a constituent from (your town) . I’m calling to urge you to vote against the AHCA. Cutting healthcare to children, elders, and people with disabilities to give tax cuts to 400 wealthy families is unconscionable. This will destroy our state’s economy. If it passes (tell them how it will impact you, your family, your town, your friends). I will not vote for any politician who would put my/my family’s healthcare at risk for a few wealthy donors.”

Now, please.

[madtomedgar]

The bill is now called the “Better Care and Reconciliation Act ” so make sure you use the right name!

I’m not kidding, folks, call your damn senator!

[bishopriecke]

Reblogging for the new name and the script.

[whirringg]

I'm so grateful that my senator has been making national news against this monstrosity. 😩

[whirringg]

The book of love is long and boring No one can lift the damn thing It's full of charts and facts and figures  and instructions for dancing  but I, I love it when you read to me and you, you can read me anything.

“The Book of Love” by The Magnetic Fields (via whirringg)

[whirringg]

You.

Make me feel like a real part of something. Make me feel important. In the most innocent, kind ways possible.

[whirringg]

There's a drumming noise inside my head That starts when you're around I swear that you could hear it It makes such an all mighty sound Louder than sirens Louder than bells Sweeter than heaven And hotter than hell Louder than sirens Louder than bells Sweeter than heaven And hotter than hell As I move my feet towards your body I can hear this beat it fills my head up And gets louder and louder It fills my head up and gets louder and louder

Florence + The Machine, “Drumming Song”

[geeky-jez-deactivated20231025]

[tessacrowley]

teacup what the fuck i just woke up why would you put this rIGHT AT THE TOP OF MY DASH

[general-anxiety]

By ALL accounts, Fred Rodgers was the kond of person we should all strive to be like.

[samanthainsecondary]

Allergies are really rough today.

[mysharona1987]

[teenagecrush]

[guiltygirl]

i want simple intimacy…i want the brushing of hands and the knowing looks, i want the playful arm around the shoulders, i want the cheek and forehead kisses mixed with laughter, i want the innocent feeling of laying my head on someone’s chest and being near them for no other reason than pure comfort and love and closeness…

[whirringg]

Don't know what this is, but I'm feeling it Try keeping distance but I got more than gravity pulling me It's not a simple situation that I found myself in Another conversation with myself I keep avoiding You say run but I can't hear you Something bigger keeps me near you Don't know what this is, but I'm feeling it

Colin & Caroline “More Than Gravity”

[whirringg]

And I know it so well I could play it by ear Looking back at myself While the violin plays And blue is my tune Another stitch to my wound Another inch in this dwell I know it all too well When once again it's happening Oh our love has gone divided Oh my love is unrequited Oh my love is unrequited

Lykke Li

[whirringg]

I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead? And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul? And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

Walt Whitman

[bluegrasshole]

why is it humans not humen

[deepblooded-deactivated20180213]

bc “human” comes from a latin root (homo > humanus > humaine > human) and “man” (and thus “men”) comes from a germanic root (mann > man) 

so you get humans, not humen, since “humans” doesn’t play by germanic rules

[bluegrasshole]

look at that i asked a question and i got an answer THANKS

[garden-of-succulents]

English isn’t a language, it’s three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat.