So that’s basically how it went down

There are a number of students in my GCSE class that have behavioural issues and if they feel uncomfortable they can do anything from storm out of the classroom to throwing chairs and punching their tables. They’re great kids, they just dont always see the light at the end of the tunnel and when they are in stressful situations they dont know what to do other than lash out sometimes. They are 10 months away from their final exams and the pressure is being mounted on them in every aspect of their school lives.

Last week one of the students saw me making little origami stars. Its something I do when I’m feeling anxious to help me focus on something else. He asked if I could show him how to make them. He had been clenching his fists all lesson, which I’ve noticed is a tell that he is struggling to retain composure. I gave him a strip of paper and talked it through with him. Soon half of the class were asking me to show them. They all picked it up really quickly.

After about five minutes and about 8 stars later, the student sat back down and was in a much calmer and motivated mood for the rest of the lesson. Our next lesson I placed a box of paper strips on my desk and when I saw anyone getting worked up about their work I silently placed a strip in front of them and let them get on with it. The lesson after I was amazed to see that students would go up to the box of their own accord, pick up a few strips and head back to their desks to continue working after calming down.

Yesterday I brought a large jar into the classroom and placed my anxiety stars in there. The boys put their strsss stars in there too. When they fill the jar I’m going to bring sweets into the lesson to celebrate them working hard and working through their problems in a positive manner. I know I’m not the teacher they deserve just yet but I feel like I’ve made a big breakthrough with them.

wdym an average platonic bond cant be deep and meaningful do none of you remember the power of friendship

You guys really liked my last poll so

The thing neurotypicals tend not to understand about the ADHD brain is that it really only has two gears

I turn to the chalkboard and carefully write out

WORKIN' HARD

HARDLY WORKIN'

More people need to hear this: all asexuals are valid, no matter where you fall under the umbrella, and no matter the "reason" you're asexual. You can be naturally ace, ace because of meds, ace because of dysphoria, ace because of trauma, ace because of a disease... Any reason that has an impact on your way to live your (a)sexuality, makes you a valid asexual and you're welcome in the community. Fuck the aphobes and the radicals who say otherwise.

just a quick light study with Dani

I did something with the colours here, don't ask what cause idk, but it turned out insanely well

also sorry if the image quality isn't great I had some trouble with the file while drawing :/

before you ship something stop and ask yourself... Is this otp material? Make sure your characters are:

Obstinate and inflexible in their actions

Terrible for each other in most circumstances

Poor communicators

I feel like I should be allowed—rather, get more opportunity—to approach fandom like academia SPECIFICALLY in how common it is in media studies to cite writing by people on a completely different work and apply that as a framework for analysis of the work I am discussing without necessarily having to completely re-articulate and re-construct that structural approach from the ground up.

It should be more common to point to a framework of ideas in someone else's Tumblr posts on, I don't know, Midst and Fullmetal Alchemist to discuss Critical Role: Campaign 3, just like how I've very much cited The X-Files and The Island to discuss Star Wars while I was getting my media studies degree.

We should start doing this more often, just start citing people's fandom meta articulating a point in something as a framework to discuss this completely other thing. Participate in the forum of ideas. We should just start openly be like Tumblr user so-and-so's rant about The Locked Tomb is a good structural basis to rant about MY hyperfixation using the same structural framework.

A surface bounded by four interlocking "triangular" loops, made with Shiying Dong's seamless topological crochet method

was feeling shit after my compsci exam yesterday, drew alinua of @comicaurora fame in a lehenga to cope (inspiration and reference photo taken from Studio East6 :3)

One layer of sketchy magic hubris man from @comicaurora’s amazing webcomic! It was really fun playing around with effects for this, and I’m having so so so much fun with the current arc!!!

Oh my god oh fuck holy shit

okay but "the symbolism is Real and Trying to Kill You" is my favorite kind of symbolism

my mom, dead in the middle of a conversation, slams on the breaks in the middle of a country road so she can pull over and take a picture of all these cows running for cover from the rain and adsfkjlfkdjg and thi dskfjfgj