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simplytheevebest · 13 hours

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who’s afraid of little old me? (you should be)

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simplytheevebest · 5 days

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Another fire edit of our iconic one and only queen (doctor), from the one and only queen @eves-da-best ❤️❤️❤️

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simplytheevebest · 6 days

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steve: [team black] just better looking, generally — *camera cuts to eve best* ↳ House of the Dragon S2 | Defend Your Council | Eve Best

#in her barbie era #I'm never not obsessed with her hair

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simplytheevebest · 12 days

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josh gad interviewing eve best at the house of the dragon fyc panel, march 7, 2023.

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simplytheevebest · 24 days

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Call me a fool but I was Today Years Old when I learned that Night at the Museum was NOT actually filmed in the American Museum of Natural History.

#spent 28 dollars to have my childhood dreams crushed #my flabbers are gasted #my bams are boozled #my hoods are winked #no t-rex bones in the entrance hall #no teddy roosevelt statue #no dexter the monkey #no gay roman or cowboy minatures #nobody else I've spoken to knew this either so I feel less like a fool I'm just mad I had to spend money to learn this #i would've thought a movie ABOUT THIS MUSEUM would've been filmed in it or built a set that looked like it #I know the movies are from the earlier 2000s but the architecture isn't even the same

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simplytheevebest · 25 days

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I love this, and it's true.

But also: everyone is so worried about forgetting to water her that they all do. Repeatedly. Saul waters her every morning. Ben waters her every evening. Students stopping by her office? Just a quick water, we don't want our headmistress to dry up! Farah turns into a cactus because please stop, she's going to drown. Ben scolds them all when he finds out and it's mandatory "how to take care of your plant headmistress" classes for all of them.

Ben takes protective custody of her until they learn. Saul is devastated.

Also Farah turning into a cactus would not stop Saul watering her. He thinks that means she needs more.

if farah had been brought back as a plant, how often would they forget to water her?

More times than they would ever admit because everyone else thought someone else had watered her that day until eventually she just turned into a cactus to prove a point/because she was mad.

Thoughts @simplytheevebest?

#remember in New Girl when Nick waters a cactus?#that's Saul #Ben talks but Saul doesn't listen #all Saul hears when Ben talks about plants is 'cardigan cardigan I am wearing a cardigan'

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simplytheevebest · 30 days

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A thing I wrote because I'm a teacher and this week I am Sick Of It:

I’m not done talking.

The hand goes up. No one is listening to my instructions, and I’m already prepared to field an endless bout of questions regarding the directions written on the paper in front of them, the same directions I’m verbalizing with additional clarity. Only when I’m finished speaking will they pay attention, perk up and out of a blank, dead-eyed daze to ask:

“Wait, what’re we doing?”

A hand raised in the middle of my explanation means an interruption, and I feel the wheels on the train of thought disengage from the track. I’m easily distracted, and constantly waylaid by requests for the bathroom that have me floundering to refocus. I have yet to have a student ask what we’re doing in the middle of my explanations, so it must be the bathroom. They can wait. I’m almost done.

I conclude, telling them to “go forth” and complete an assignment that couldn’t be any easier if I did it for them, leading questions they’d have to try to get wrong or opinion-based inquiries they’ll still struggle to answer without prompting. Their movements are sluggish and reluctant, half resigned to getting it done as quickly as possible, the other half determined to use up the entire twenty minutes I’ve given them doing other things, and still not finish.

The hand is still raised. I gesture loosely, already penning a pass with the date and my signature for the unofficial hall monitors overly concerned with passless students walking ten steps from my door to do their business, yet assigning a single day’s punishment for breaking school property. I ask, even though I know I’m right:

“Bathroom?”

I’m wrong. A head shakes “no.” Instead:

“Is this for a grade?”

For the first time all class period I have their attention, those surreptitiously checking their phones and the ones in the corner who haven’t stopped whispering all period achieve a unicorn-rare hush. They’re waiting with baited breath for my answer, the one that will seal their fate as slaves to the bidding of my lesson plans or free them to goof off for the rest of the period with no repercussions. There’s no in between. They won’t do it just for the sake of doing it, not when they could just as easily not do it.

This is the generation of short attention spans, curated by an endless flood of social media that promises to whisk away boring lengthy videos and posts, sacrificing content for a quick fix and a burst of entertainment. I’m a victim of it too. But this is also the generation of rewards and quid-pro-quo, an expectation that all efforts in life will be returned in kind. Asking them to complete a task simply for the betterment of their education is laughable. I’m not inundating them with crossword puzzles and word searches, meaningless busy work I know won’t benefit them, will bore them to tears or disruptive behavior. The worksheet in front of them is beneficial to a larger project we’ve been discussing for over a week.

I’m not obligated to grade everything. Classwork is not optional. But classwork won’t get done unless it’s graded. I once completed fourteen hours of work only to receive a nod as my compensation, so I know the feeling of hard work going unrewarded. This assignment is barely fourteen minutes, if only they’d actually try. They think me supremely unfair, to ask so little of them for nothing in return. They’ll do nothing when allowed, and the bare minimum when required. In the immortal words of Ron Swanson, “[they]’d work all night if it meant nothing got done.”

So.

“Is this for a grade?”

“Yes.”

The lie slips as easily from my tongue as a smile slips onto my face beneath my mask. There’s a silent, collective groan that has me grinding my teeth at the audacity of their outrage. They’re groaning at a single sheet of paper with answers that will help them later in the week. They groan at essays. They groan at creative work. They groaned at an open note test because the study guides I gave them weren’t for a grade, so they didn’t do them.

You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink.

The grumbling subsides, the chatty corner picks back up, and I circulate the room with help to give and no breath to waste telling them to put their phones away. A head lifts, followed by a hand, and I incline my head.

“Wait, what’re we doing?”

Sometimes, I really hate it here.

#teacher life #alt account

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simplytheevebest · 2 months

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I mean I'm just. Speechless. I have literal chills. The matching of scenes to the lyrics, the scene cuts in time to the melody- @eves-da-best has done it again, you beautiful exceptional genius ❤️👑

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simplytheevebest · 2 months

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SUCH A LOVELY DAY: Behind the scenes of dir Simon Woods’ short film with Eve Best as Annie

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simplytheevebest · 2 months

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I’ve told Eve this, that I went home that first evening and I actually said, “Thank God for Eve Best!” Because she was — is such a wonderful scene partner.

EVE BEST & STEVE TOUSSAINT | House of the Dragon FYC Panel, March 7, 2023

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simplytheevebest · 3 months

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