Dragon Mom's Musings

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I’m not saying fight the teacher but if you did…I understand

White people, call this as you see it. Stand up for your non-white classmates and co-workers.

for white people looking for specific directions to make constructive use of your privilege in those classroom spaces:

when you see this kind of dismissal happen, that is a great time to raise your hand next and say something like “excuse me, but you still haven’t answered [other student]’s question” or the less confrontational (if you think the teacher will respond better to this approach) but still effective “actually, i was also wondering the exact same thing [other student] just asked, could you go over that again?”

when you see someone get shot down in a request for accommodation you know is normally granted, pipe up with “but wait, when i asked for [extra time, assistance, etc] you gave it to me? [other student] should receive the same grace i did, that’s only fair”

use the imbalanced power the instructor is giving you as a white student to back up the validity of your classmates’ points, and draw everyone in the room’s attention to the failure to educate equitably that is occurring. don’t let it get swept under the rug as the lesson rolls on — the instructor is counting on that happening. if you have kids, consider how you might teach them to speak up in their classes when they see anyone’s learning needs being ignored by the person who is supposed to fulfill them.

(do this without expecting or demanding thanks or acknowledgment from your classmate. do this even if you are not friends with them outside of class. you are not doing this for clout or popularity points or to feed a white saviour complex, and in a situation that is already frustrating and embarrassing, your classmates of colour are not required to also summon the emotional energy to give you kudos for decency)

be firm, be calm, be consistent, be direct. you just might embarrass the teacher into learning better for next time, when they realize other people can see the shit job they’re doing — or at the very least, you’ll get that question answered.

[Image IDs: screenshots of four tweets in a thread.

The first tweet, by twitter user [Butterfly Emoji] (@ wolfnae) reads:

told my teacher she was going too fast i couldn’t catch anything she told me to go home & listen to the audio of the book i haven’t gotten yet cus i haven’t gotten paid…2 mins later a nonblack girl asked her to repeat certain countries and she did… i cannot make this shit up

The second tweet, also by twitter user [Butterfly Emoji], is a direct continuation of the first and reads:

just that small thing discouraged me so much, it’s so subtle but speaks volumes. you told me to go home and learn through the audio like i’m not paying thousands of for you to teach me. but you run down the whole thing to another person when she asks. i hate college

The third tweet, in response to the first two, this time by twitter user [Rose Emoji] Mel [Rose Emoji] (@ melissaaiveth), reads:

My best friend died on a day I had an exam and I asked my teacher if I could take it the next day and he screamed at me. Another girls cat died and he gave her a week to recuperate. Mind u I was passing that class. She was not. And yes she was white.

The fourth tweet, in response to the first three, this time by twitter user KOKO (@ SleepyCities) reads:

This is too common. My brother, a white boy, and his friend who lives with us, mexican, both told me stories about a teacher that when my bro asks a question, will repeat it and slow down, but when my adopted bro says anything he tells him that he needs to reread the section [Red Angry Face Emoji]

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This has to continue after you leave school btw and even if you aren’t sure the problem was because of race.

I worked somewhere once where I heard a former intern wasn’t being considered for a position that required a highly specialized degree (MLS) because she’d missed the application deadline. Which she’d missed because she hadn’t known the position was posted.

I walked into a manager’s office and said “hey, look, I just heard this happened. Can I point out that we are an entirely white team and we just rejected a qualified black candidate who is also our former intern?” (so, look, we all KNOW she’s qualified.)

Now the reason probably was simply the deadline. Hiring process at major companies can be very rigid. But that doesn’t mean a department can’t request the position be reposted. Especially when the total of qualified MLS candidates who had already applied for the position was zero.

Anyway, she was hired. I don’t think she ever knew what happened behind the scenes.

Every one of these comics is my mate and I.

I will routinely listen for an hour to my mate and a friend or two complain about work, and then my contribution is something like "My boss doesn't know how to punctuate dialog tags." I have nothing else to complain about.

This white man is trustworthy in the kitchen

@doctorstarlock 's comment has passed peer review

actually THIS is my new favorite doesthedogdie comment

This is mine. It's on turning red

this comment on a transformers comic page has always killed me

the finding nemo page is really good too

adding some from the tags :3

Thank you Mr. Barker.

What the everliving hell?

Your not friendly reminder that cops stole more monetary value then all burglaries in 2020, and that is only dwarfed by time theft by American businesses.

MURICA

The police are just an organized crime outfit.

All cats are anarchists.

A girl can be a girl and also a girl and even a third girl

@dovewithscales

Yeah that tracks

speaking of Miss Piggy and the queer community I want to share one of my favorite quotes of hers

Tony Hawk's Link's curse™

This side by side comparison sure is something

on the one side we have GORGEOUSLY handcrafted armor. Looks like actual plate, the white tree of Gondor clear and easy to see and echoed on the pauldrons and even pressed into his belt! Which is folded in a LOVELY knot to hold it in place. The chainmail is REAL chainmail. And over all there’s some good wear on it, it looks like Boromir has owned and worked and lived in this armor

And on the other side we have stuff that looks like it was created for a shoe string budgeted made-for-TV Camelot production. It’s CLEARLY plastic. And wtf is that LENGTH that leaves a huge swath of his VITAL ORGANS unprotected???? The symbol is PRINTED on it, not even embossed, and so poorly you can’t even really tell what it’s supposed to be. It looks, as far as I can tell, like someone smooshed a bunch of pseudo celtic symbols together. Those shoulder things are NOT pauldrons. They seem to be some half arsed attempt at coin style chainmail? Maybe? I have NO idea what that shirt is. It looks like maybe the designers were going for a type of Gambeson, but it’s just way WAY too thin. It ALL looks like they hit the after halloween sale at party city for supplies.

cc: @petermorwood

This was a show with no grasp of time, no grasp of distance, and no grasp of even fantasy realism - swimming from Valinor back to Middle Earth? Shrugging off a pyroclastic flow? - so I'm not surprised it has no grasp of Hero Props.

"Hero Prop" is the term for Boromir's armour, indeed any armour, costume or accoutrements worn by a Principal Character in LOTR or any other movie.

"Hero" has nothing to do with the character's alignment, applying to Sauron and the Witch-King as well. It means any costume, weapon etc. made as detailed as possible because the character wearing it will be front and centre in very close shots, where an IMAX screen might make any flaws a metre high.

(Bernard Hill was amazed by the details in Théoden's armour, some of which only he and his dresser ever saw. More here.)

Now there's the Numenorean bargain-basement rig up there, and the full plate of the Action Heroine here.

I don't know what it's made of, but it looks like vac-formed, spray-painted plastic.

Compare it to an example of Elven armour from The Hobbit movies, which notoriously didn't have anything like the development time of LOTR...

No further comment.

lmao A lot of cosplayers make better LotR armor than the left one.

Tolkien is rolling in his grave. I'm offended by the existence of this garbage. Asking us to watch this is an insult.

On which note, do not fucking hate watch this garbage. Not even pirated. Don't do it. Pretend it doesn't exist.

They give good belly rubs too

Kobolds are a vibe.

that's why dragongirls love them so much

The kobold in me is torn between blushing or putting on her angry eyebrows

well the kobold in me is making sure to rub their dragon as much as they can :D

Oh good. I can always use a good massage.

What even is a dragon

Kinda like trying to categorize fish

Best way to identify a dragon is to ask it. Anything that says it’s a dragon probably is one. Unless it can’t speak. Then you’re on your own.

if you ask it and it proceeds to swallow you whole it was probably a dragon

Which is definitely a bonus.

for the dragon, at least. and that's all that really matters anyway

I'm the dragon, so I agree.

But it's also a bonus if you're into vore :p

And if you're not, it's the perfect opportunity to try it out, anyway! It's not like you'll get another chance at, uh, anything, after all.

Fair point.

I AM SO ANGRY AMETHYST IS RESISTENT TO THE OCCASIONAL BATH BUT THE GEODE CRUST CERTAINLY ISN’T LITERALLY MINERALS BREAKING DOWN BY BEING PULVERIZED WITH HOT WATER IS HOW GEODES FUCKING CRYSTALIZES IN THE FIRST PLACE AND YOUR TAKING A GEODE THAT BIG AND TURNING IT INTO THE PERMANANT WATER CONTAMINATE AND BACTERIAL CESS POOL THAT IS A SINK WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU NEVER GONNA USE TOOTHPASTE OR FUCKING SOAP SO IT DOESN’T EAT A HOLE THRU THE BOTTOM OF YOUR FUCKING SINK YOU GODDAMN GOON WHY DON’T YOU JUST MAKE A STOVE OUT OF CARDBOARD OR A DOOR OUT OF TISSUE PAPER??? WHY DONT YOU MAKE PIPES OUT OF FUCKING SMARTIES CANDY OR TABLE LEGS OUT OF PLAY DOUGH FUCK YOU BUDDY IF I WALKED INTO A PLACE AND HAD TO CLEAN A BATHROOM AND SAW THAT SHIT I WOULD BREAK YOUR FUCKING SKULL OPEN WITH A STEEL PIPE

I’m guessing you’re a geologist?