Sarah Williams Redraw 🤍

Im sorry but I had to share this little animation

When I criticize jk Rowling do not assume I always hated Harry Potter. I knitted hogwarts house scarves. I got my first binder to dress as Draco Malfoy for Halloween. I reread the books multiple times. I read probably every pottermore article there was at the time.

I’m not here to validate your smug feelings about not liking a children’s book series 20 years ago. I’m here to discourage others from spending money on it and to give myself and others words and space to work through some feelings. I’m a trans person that made Harry Potter one of my cornerstone interests. One of my favorite things. I’m not some cis person doing cope.

Harry Potter was a big thing. Like. Big in a way that’s difficult to fully understand. It still is. If you were caught up in it during your formative years it’s normal to need to process all of the horrid things now associated with it.

Having to burn down the house you grew up in is going to be hard even if it turns out that the house was always rotten from the inside out. Even if it turns out that the foundation was made of straw. But the destruction and deconstruction must happen if one hopes to move on and move forward. That’s why I talk about it at all.

why is the hill silent. it's supposed to be alive with the sound of music

this is meant to be read in the tone of an exasperated gay theater director

from the bottom of my heart: just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed to exist

"But what about <thing that literally kills people>?"

This was on a non rebloggable post so I'm setting it free.

A black and gold silk brocade gown

late 1880s

Kerry Taylor Auctions

THIS IS THE BEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN <3

Teddy Girls by Ken Russell

So this thread has a lot of what my mom and her colleagues have been seeing over the past few years. But as my mom says, the solution here isn’t to keep dumbing everything down and keep destroying standards, if for no other reason, because it doesn’t work. Like this person said, it’s really not about accessibility. These students aren’t unable to do the work, they’re unwilling, and I think it’s due to what I’ve been saying for years: students have a “the customer is always right” mindset and sense of entitlement towards higher education. As someone who actually finished her degrees during the pandemic, I’m sick to death of people acting like all of this is because of trauma. Be so fucking real right now. Every generation goes through hardships. But we’re seeing an entitlement epidemic where students show up, demand college classes be as easy as possible, refuse to do anything remotely challenging, and demand to get good grades despite poor attendance, cheating with AI, and missing deadlines. I do not believe goalposts should be moved and standards should be lowered for people who refuse to even try, because that’s just rewarding bad behavior. When two students showed up to my mom’s office and said they need more time on quizzes because they don’t do the readings, her response wasn’t to give them more time, but “no, you need to do the readings.” I’ve said it a million times but keeping deadlines and actually showing up somewhere when you’re supposed to is one of the cores of functioning as an adult, that’s part of what college is supposed to prepare you for, and students shouldn’t be able to do no work and miss a good chunk of class and receive a good grade—like wtf are we doing here, then, if you don’t have to demonstrate you actually learned anything to get an A? But these students think they’re entitled to an A just by virtue of registering for the course

And again, making the assignments easier doesn’t reduce AI cheating because that’s not why the students are cheating. Contrary to what people on tumblr say, cheating students aren’t poor little meow-meows. They’re cheating because they’re lazy and entitled. I know from experience that this site screams and cries when you say that, because all of the discourse on here revolves around justifying people’s bad behavior and absolving them of any responsibility, but like I said before, students cheat with AI on ungraded drafts in my mom’s classes—drafts intended to be a low-stakes way for students to practice writing. Their AI usage has nothing to do with being fearful of bad grades, but instead a complete and utter unwillingness to do the work assigned to them in a class they signed up for. (I do think universities that encourage AI usage, as bsky OP mentioned, are absolutely a problem here though! Stop lowering standards ffs!)

If social media contributes to this problem, I think it’s because these entitled students have a bunch of enabling rhetoric online reassuring them that their bullshit is okay and they weaponize therapy speak they learned on tiktok to their professors who, god forbid, treat them like adults and try to hold them accountable. And I feel like that’s what’s missing in this thread, like, oh my god, these people are adults. These are not middle schoolers. Adults are responsible for their actions and should face consequences for them. Babying and coddling these adults and acting like it’s completely reasonable for them not to read a book in college is part of why they’re getting away with it! They don’t do the reading? Guess what: they fail. That’s how life works—or it should, as opposed to “oh darn I guess I can’t include any books in the syllabus for my reading/writing class anymore.” Like come on. I know this will set off this anti-intellectual website in particular but no one is a victim because they refuse to read a book! (And no, I’m not talking about people with disabilities who can’t read, so don’t even try.) Like, students refuse to read anything that isn’t tech-based? Then they fucking fail and waste their tuition money. Yes, this addictive tech is a huge problem, but it doesn’t resolve you of all responsibility. Put down the phone and fucking read.

Maybe these adults throwing temper tantrums over basic schoolwork need to face consequences, and maybe these adults are like this because they’re used to a lifetime of teachers bending over backwards to meet their demands after their mommies got on the phone and yelled at the teachers for giving them a bad grade; you don’t know how often my mom comes home from work and says “I can’t believe I’m the first person who ever told these students ‘no.’ Where do these childhoods come from???”

But students are not victims because they refuse to do any assignment that doesn’t personally entertain them, and it’s an incredibly childish mindset. As my mom tells students when they complain a text was boring: “I don’t care. I’m not here to entertain you.” Adult life is full of having to do shit you don’t want to!

And there’s this addition

Which, yes! Again, this is the core of the problem: they don’t care enough to look at assignment instructions. And I don’t think their laziness and apathy should be accommodated

tl;dr I think this thread brings up real problems, but universities coddling this bad behavior from entitled adults only makes the problem worse, adult students should face adults consequences, and standards exist for a fucking reason and shouldn’t be lowered for people who refuse to try. And btw, my mom still has plenty of hardworking students who do well in her classes with all the same access to social media, so, #notallstudents. It’s a choice, and professors are still willing to help the students who try (and to reiterate: this isn’t about students who truly need accommodations, this about neurotypical students who genuinely refuse to do anything)

Evening gown, 1906

You fucking wish the author was dead. The author is on twitter

2 sentence horror story

official anti terf post

This is an official anti-JKR post

🧶 Cow hitch increase

Unlike all other single-stitch increases I know, this one is perfectly symmetrical. I’ve been seeing it a lot in my feed lately, so I thought I’d share it. Haven’t tried it yet in a project though.

It mimics the structure of a cow hitch knot - hence the name.

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Baby fucking SCARPERING the instant mama looks away, lmao.

Art Deco Era Pools Of Light Rock Crystal Necklace 20.5”

I feel like all the "they broke weird al" "weird al got serious we're so cooked" comments about the killing in the name cover are missing the point. that is not a broken man. comedy is politics. comedy has always been politics. weird al has been satirizing politics for a long time because he knows the court jester can say to the king what other people can't. by doing a serious cover of an explicitly anti-establishment song that his gen x and millennial audience knows by heart when he's built his career on parody, he's saying this can't be satirized anymore and he's saying it in a very deliberate way that his audience will understand. those aren't the actions of a broken man, they're the actions of a man who is trying to tell you something. are we going to listen?

Am I allowed to post this

Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.

Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis