(teaching my art class)

me: and what’s the number one rule when designing characters with wings? …well?

a handful of students, sighing reluctantly: no good fa-

me (interrupting them): NO good-faith attempts at realism, EVER. you want all the bird dweebs and physicists jumping ship as EARLY AS POSSIBLE so they’re not around to cinemasins your ass when you get to the cool parts of your story, and…ugh, what now, gerald

gerald (my least favorite student): why not just do some minimal research instead of-

me: listen you little shit i can and will singlehandedly tank your 4.0 gpa

Jogging in place and doing those specific weird dance moves is in fact the only way to behave when Life During Wartime plays. Like there is no other way to dance that would possibly be appropriate, David Byrne is such a genius that way

really swinging between "do the hard thing by pretending you're doing this with your favorite blorbo" and "nvm do NOT do the hard thing by pretending you're doing this with your favorite blorbo because your favorite blorbo can, in fact, make things worse"

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independence is kinda boring when ur trying to love yourself

I hate it when periods makes me me even more oversensitive than what I'm already struggling with. Like, can I just not want to throw myself out of a window for nothing and just be normal about everyday things?

there’s this trend i’ve been noticing of Feminist Cool GirlsTM on tiktok and now on twitter who started out by criticizing hyper individualism and egocentrism (not everything is catered to you, you are not the Main Character, bla bla), which was good, but are now just spewing borderline (and sometimes straight up) ableist rhetoric and it’s pissing me off like the “oh my god you ppl can’t do anything” “y’all are thinking too much about yourselves” etc and then you see and it’s being used against a disabled person talking about their struggles that are caused by their disability lol

it’s how they’re “cringe culture is dead” until it’s something that they personally dislike or something they think it’s aesthetically unappealing, like for example AuADHD ppl

aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

was informed at parent-teacher conferences today that my four year old child, when subjected to the interminable fake-church weekly all school meeting recently, threw herself to the ground and, at a yell, implored her teacher to "poison me, [teacher], poison me!"

needless to say, could not be prouder

do u ever speak too soon & immediately regret it.

. Chompin at the bit today ...

pms and all my other life problems really taking it in turns to beat me up this week 🥹 brb i’m spiralling x

so i’ve been thinking about some of the personality differences between book!kate and show!kate.

book kate was more interested in making anthony lose a game of pall mall, while show kate would have wanted to win the game. like i don’t think the show!kate would ruin her chances of winning by punting her ball and anthony’s into the lake. show!kate takes joy in winning, whereas book!kate takes joy in anthony losing.

book!kate would enjoy throwing balls and hearing the ton’s drama but show!kate wouldn’t care about their drama. she would host balls because it is expected but would prefer audrey hall only to be filled with family members.

show!kate reads out of necessity and to find relevant information. book!kate would only reads novels as an enjoyable way to pass the time but isn't a bookworm. neither of them are the scholarly sort.

i think both of them have a secret soft spot for romance but try to hide it. book!kate because of her insecurities and show!kate because she thinks she doesn’t deserve it.

i feel like show!kate is more of a sporty (a jock i guess?), whereas book!kate doesn’t mention anything sporty other than pall mall, so i think what she enjoys is beating anthony at a sport more than anything. book!kate was more of a standard wallflower (no particular hobbies so she could have a appeal to everyone) but i see her as more appreciative of the arts, considering her flute playing and watercolours.

show!kate would rather win and boast about it, whereas book!kate would prefer to watch everyone lose (it doesn’t matter if she wins as long as everyone loses) and laugh about it. 

book!kate would take some joy in matchmaking and never let any couple forget that she was the one who brought them together. whereas show!kate would only really interfere if she is asked to (considering everything that happened after season two)

i think that show!kate would be the type that gives speeches about the virtues of love, romance and marriage to her children, much like violet (although these speeches are probably more grounded in reality than violet’s, lol)

We gotta do something about the way dog owners behave. No other pet owner is just bringin the pet wherever the fuck they go all the time but for some reason with dog owners they think its fine if they bring their dog to the gym and taco bell and whatever. And you invite a dog owner to your house where youve got your own pets youve got your dog and your cats and whatever it is you have and this dog owner shows up at your door like "oh i brought my dog i hope thats okay hes so sweet youll love him" and it is always the most untrained poorly behaved agressive animal that has ever lived. And we all have to pretend like its acceptable behaviour well im sick of it

The Prime Directive states that I must not interfere with the 7th graders by telling that boy those two girls are trying to flirt with him.

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