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hey y’all. Since creating this account i’ve made it a point to tag my posts/reblogs with all kinds of tags but ... this just created a huge backlog of drafts that i just couldn’t find the time to tag correctly.
So, i just decided not to tag anymore and just put stuff in my queue. not sure if anyone actually cares. i just have enough “formalized” stuff to do in real life, not going to do the same on tumblr.dot.com
in case you forgot.
Hayden Christensen and Ewan Mcgregor realizing their trilogy isn’t the worst star wars trilogy anymore
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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Ewan McGregor takes a moment to chat with the Jedi younglings on the set of Attack of the Clones. (x)
“Kenobi was luminous, a transparent being, a window onto a sunlit meadow of the Force.” -Matthew Stover
Obi-Wan Kenobi Headers from Attack of the Clones (+ Obi-Wan stabbing the Acklay requested by anon) - 6 headers (640x360) | 4 different border versions under the cut - more star wars headers here - please like or reblog if you take one - credit isn’t required but it’s appreciated - requests are open for other headers!
We’d like to take a moment to appreciate stunt choreographer Nick Gillard and how his insight shaped not only the entire fight sequence between Anakin and Obi-Wan in Episode III, but Matthew Stover’s words in the movie’s novelization. (x)
“The way I saw that fight was like having a fight with your girlfriend. That she’s just lost it and that she’s coming at you with everything she’s got…Obi is taking it and taking it, and hoping it’ll lead to a point where Anakin will run out of steam.” - Gillard
“Anakin followed, constantly attacking; Obi-Wan again gave ground…Mustafar hummed with death behind his back, only a moment away, somewhere out there among the rivers of molten rock. Obi-Wan let Anakin drive him toward it. It was a place, he decided, they should reach together.”
“That toe-to-toe thing shows that they can’t get through each other’s defenses, because they know each other’s moves so intimately. I think it’s something like forty moves, I did the first eight then I let them go with it.” - Gillard
“Blade-to-blade, they were identical. After thousands of hours in lightsaber sparring, they knew each other better than brothers, more intimately than lovers; they were complementary halves of a single warrior.”
“My take was that Obi is the central character in that duel. He wouldn’t try and kill Anakin."
"The ruthless look on Hayden’s face - the “You can’t beat me, Master” attitude - said it all. In that fight, Anakin knows that Obi is not going to kill him…” - Gillard
“In every exchange, Obi-Wan gave ground. It was his way. And he knew that to strike Anakin down would burn his own heart to ash.”
for @dammmithardison
“It’s only a crime if you get caught, really,” General Kenobi nodded.
“We did get caught, Sir.”
“Semantics, my dear Commander, semantics.”
“This is the best day of my life,” Fox sniffled, holding up the camera again. “General, give us a smile!”
Fox would frame and hang Cody’s mugshot on his wall 😂😂
