King of Cardboard Castle

Okay so I’m an elementary school art teacher right, and I have this really fun game I made a PowerPoint for to teach like, emotions and intent and looking at the whole picture to first grade.

The idea is, when we count down and change slides, kids have to mimic one thing in the painting as best they can, whether it’s animate or inanimate. If there’s nothing in the shot for them to mimic (because I threw some contemporary abstract stuff in), they have to show me how the painting makes them feel. Easy enough, gets them excited to move around and vocal about their feelings regarding art, it’s very chaotic. I can tell pretty fast who’s got the emotional maturity to mimic things in a complex way, and who’s just enough of an abstract thinker to mimic inanimate objects early on in the game...

So the first picture is this:

Napoleon Crossing the Alps. My favorite reactions are usually the kids who pretend to be the freaked-out horse, but 2 memorable occasions were the one where a student immediately scrunched up to be the rock in the foreground, and the one where a pair of girls, without any communication on their parts, decided to be Napoleon riding the horse with one as Napoleon and one as the horse. Basically one of them fully tackled the other apropos of nothing, it was hilarious

I’ll add more if y’all want or if I feel like it lol I have a bunch of stories from this one game

Okay so later in the lineup we get to Dalí’s Persistence of Memory, which is very funny because it’s preceded by several pieces that have like, obvious people in them, so everyone’s gotten a bit complacent in their mimicry

In case you’ve forgotten, this is Persistence:

And I swear every time, there’s a beat right before everyone either becomes a tree by t-posing for their life, or goes boneless like some kind of child-shaped pancake over the nearest flat surface

Highlights from this one include a pair who decided to drape themselves pancake-style over the same desk and banged heads, resulting in 2 ground pancakes, and someone who fully just stood there staring, and explained that they were expressing the hatred they felt as soon as they saw it

Last installment: one of the pictures is The Scream, and everyone very quickly just makes a 😱 face, but then we get to talk about my favorite “throw spaghetti at the wall” topic, why is he screaming? (The answer is Existential Dread, but it’s not appropriate to tell 1st graders that so instead we all put out other ideas lol)

In case you haven’t looked at it recently, this is The Scream:

My favorite guesses from the kids to Why Is He Screaming:

-those guys behind him are going to arrest him

-he missed his boat and it’s one of the ones in the background, he just noticed

-the sky’s all wiggly

-he just wanted to scream

-HE CAN SEE THE CLASS OF FIRST GRADERS LOOKING AT HIM AND HE DOESN’T LIKE IT

Children are bonkers

I love listening to a song and thinking “these lyrics would fit one of my blorbos so well if I completely disregard the original context in which it was written and take the lyrics on their own”

Every writing advice thing ever: Don’t get bogged down in details on your first draft. Just write! ☺️

Me: How I begin this scene hinges on whether cheese sandwiches were served with mayo in the 50’s.

have not seen anything more relatable today >.<

let me link the world’s most useful twitter thread. 

some excerpts:

there’s nothing to stop you from using the <get there> method for research details. in fact, i know many many writers who use it for just that.

the only new trek vs old trek discourse i wanna hear is about the aspect ratios

i am BEGGING us to talk about how the 4:3 aspect ratio meant that actors were literally four inches from each other’s faces at all times in order to be caught in the same frame

I genuinely believe that this explains about 95% of (intentional and otherwise) older Trek romantic subtexts, and the other 5% is Kate Mulgrew touching her fellow actors a bit too much.

I mean probably but also

Kate Mulgrew wasn't the only one

Getting back to the aspect ratios, then you also have what Filmation was doing on The Animated Series.

Because if the character who is talking is under such extreme closeup, that the mouth is off frame, then you save yourself from having to animate the lip sync. Add another closeup face, listening attentively, and then you don't have to worry about putting any moving elements in the background either.

The mother of idiots is always pregnant .....

what is it about drinks that is so tantalising... boba tea with all the sexy toppings.... iced coffy.... new flavour of iced tea or sparkling water u never tried before... milked shake the childhood favourite.... smoothie for vitality and strength..... and let's not forget about coca cola!!!

BROKE: Season two opens with Stede finding the red silk floating in the ocean

WOKE: Season two opens right where season one left off, with Stede standing in the rowboat, waving to the marooned crew, when suddenly the red silk (which has been floating on the wind for days) blows right into his face, causing him to blindly lose his balance fall into the ocean

i was shopping at cvs today and all of a sudden the cashier comes over the intercom and goes, "uh, can i get a supervisor to the front? donna or liam, because of—like, it's..." and there's this super long pause, no music or anything, just silence. and then he comes back on and says very quickly, "donna please come to the front i made something catch fire." and i just

The dread pirate Blackbeard, devil-born scourge of the Caribbean, the Kraken who sends even the bravest men fleeing at the mere mention of his name, should absolutely have an embarrassing boyfriend who calls him my gentle dove, my sweet lamb, my naughty little kitten, and every other nauseating term of endearment he can think of. It’s what Stede Bonnet was born to do.

You’re sooo right bestie

Starting a new thread of insane shit I over hear my husband say to our toddler.

2. “Come now my child.”

*bluey the album starts playing*

3. “Oh I am so sorry. You’ve been mildly inconvenienced. How dare I truly”

4. “It is she! Her Majesty, Queen of the Sludge, Keeper of Goo, DJ Baby P (In the House) Dropper of Beats and Clapper of Hands”

5. He is in charge of bathtime and he lifted the ghoul tonight while singing “come with me and you’ll be in a world of baby sanitation” and I laughed so hard I snorted pasta

6. Okay this is more one that he said to me about the toddler but he was home with her while I was at work and I just got this text

7.

“Happy Independence Day Sweetie! Nationalism is a cancer!”

8. This is another one he said to me about her but still it made me laugh so hard I nearly choked

broke: the placebo effect is real

woke: sugar pills just happen to cure lots of things

i was talking to my friend last night and she was just luxuriating in her room wearing this plush leopard print robe but then her boyfriend came in to bring her orange slices and he was wearing an IDENTICAL leopard print robe i lost my fucking mind

Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton behind the scenes of The Magic School Bus

I was today years old when I learned ms frizzle was none other than lily tomlin.

all of this actually

The guy behind the counter at the post office was just like, "can I getcha anything else? Stamps? Pint of blood?" And the ten seconds it took me to remember my mask has vampire teeth printed on it was the longest most bewildering moment of my year so far

Me, bewildered and delighted: they sell blood at the post office now?

we as a society moved past confirmed gay porn enjoyer mikeyway far too quickly

dare we EVER forget mr michael romance happening across some miscellaneous video of a twink getting fucked and saying ‘hey! his tramp stamp is of our band! i need to tell my sibling about this and also print it on a tshirt to sell to thousands of gay people!’ as if that’s not the funniest thing to happen in mcr herstory

Torii Gate made of speakers in Kamiyama, Tokushima. You can connect your phone to it and play anything.

For my non uk followers wondering wtf is going on:

- prime minister is a cunt. Had like a bajillion scandals

- latest one was apparently one two many. Two extremely important cabinet members resigned within minutes of each other

- within the next 24 hours about a third of the government resigned

- one resigned live on tv. Five resigned with the same letter to save time

- previous record for government resignations within 24 hours was 6 and it it was in the 1930s. We are, as I’m writing this, on 45 resignations

- Michael Gove, another cunt who is hated by all, was going to resign but was sacked instead in what appears to be the prime minister going “you can’t quit you’re fired!”

- government meetings are being cancelled because there is literally nobody in those departments anymore

- despite literally everyone begging him at this point to leave, including his most loyal little evil henchman, prime minister is refusing to resign in disgrace as is traditional for British prime ministers

- prime minister genuinely seems to be in complete denial anything serious is happening

- people are calling for Larry the Cat, no. 10’s chief mouser to be the next prime minister. When asked for comment, he licked his arse on live television