voxeterna1:

So ,I’m a music teacher and every year we have what are called “walk through observations”. Basically, this means that 4 times a year the principal or vice principal comes into my class to assess my teaching. Fine. Sure. No problem.
Well, today I was doing an activity with my 1st graders called “Musical Groceries”. Basically, they make up a fake shopping list and then together we figure out what the rhythm of the words on the list is. To do that, a small group of students plays the beat on the conga drum while the rest of the students move around the room while chanting the word. It sounds weird but it’s a great way for the kids to figure out the relationship between syllables and rhythm.
They quickly get bored of walking the rhythm so I let them come up with their own ways of moving around the room.( skipping, hopping, etc) One student suggested they hop around the room like frogs, way down low to the ground. Okay fine.
Or it was fine until my vice principal walked in to do my observation only to find 20 seven year olds hopping around the room like a hoard of little hob-goblins, rhythmically chanting “BREAD! BREAD! BREAD!” while five other kids played ominous beats in a drum circle.
I have never seen anyone look so confused in my life and I really don’t want to know the rating I got on my observation.

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todayinhistory:

December 14th 1780: Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler marry

On this day in 1780, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton married Elizabeth Schuyler. Hamilton was born to a troubled family in the British West Indies, and moved to America as a teenager for an education. However, as the American colonies teetered on the brink of revolution, Hamilton found himself drawn to the Patriot cause. Soon into the war, Hamtilon became the assistant and adviser to General George Washington. It was during this time that he met and married Elizabeth Schuyler, who came from a prominent New York family. Elizabeth, or Eliza, was known for her sharp wit, and Hamilton was immediately smitten with her. The couple married in 1780, and went on to have eight children. As Hamilton’s career progressed, Eliza was his chief companion and helped him with his political writings. Hamilton was a fierce advocate of a strong central government, penning the majority of the Federalist Papers which supported the ratification of the Constitution, and became the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton and Schuyler’s marriage was not without its trials; in 1797 the so-called Reynolds Pamphlet was published, revealing Hamilton’s affair with a woman named Maria Reynlds. In 1801, their nineteen-year-old son Philip was killed in a duel defending his father’s honour. Just three years after losing her son, Elizabeth was widowed when Alexander was killed by Aaron Burr in a duel. Elizabeth then devoted her life to philanthropy and preserving Hamiton’s legacy; in 1806, she founded New York’s first private orphanage. By the mid-nineteenth century, Elizabeth was one of the last living links to the revolutionary era, making her a very famous figure. In 1848, during the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Washington Monument, Elizabeth rode in the procession with President James K. Polk and future presidents James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton died in 1854, aged 97, fifty years after her husband’s death.

“With my last idea; I shall cherish the sweet hope of meeting you in a better world. Adieu best of wives and best of Women. Embrace all my darling Children for me.”
- Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, just days before his death

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lauwurens:

you want a revolution? i want a revelation!

commission for @notfye

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yesthisisfish:

bootsnblossoms:

hedwig-dordt:

licieoic:

Pride and Prejudice and Firefly

@fandumbgirl does this do anything for you?

I let out an actual audible gasp when I saw this. Two of my absolute favorite things ever. I am dead from the perfection O.O

@take-a-hard-left

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kaldannan:

welcometotheplanets:

#someone teach him how to make friends please

Who needs friends when you have money and everyone understands asshole-ese?

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joasakura:

dogmatix:

idiopathicsmile:

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emilysidhe:

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theragnarokd:

idiopathicsmile:

it is pretty hard to find solid statistics on wolf attacks, but as far as i can tell, wolves in north america kill way way way less than one person a year, which means that forces more deadly to us than wolves include: dogs, ice fishing, and getting crushed by a falling flat screen tv.

…further complications to trying to write non-ridiculous angst into a werewolf story

“you don’t understand…i’ve done things under the full moon that i can never take back…one time i ate a squirrel”

“I SNIFFED MY OWN BUTT. THE INDIGNITY HAUNTS ME STILL.”

“i have pooped in the woods and now must go brood about it. don’t try to follow me. 

…and seriously, be careful around your flatscreen, it is probably heavier that you think.”

European wolves (before they were hunted into extinction in most areas) attacked humans purposefully a lot; it’s in the historical record.

North American gray wolves have a natural fear of humans and attack people very rarely, really only when threatened or starving.

So like, imagine, like, a divide between people who got infected with Old World and New World lycanthropy.  One makes you this dangerous beast that sees humans as a viable food source an another makes you perceive humans as a threat.  Imagine people getting it wrong!

Some shady paranormal group capturing a werewolf to use as security but it just runs away when people trespass.

Some hunters go deep into the woods to murder a werewolf clan for their pelts but it turns out they’ve isolated themselves so deeply because they have the European strain and none of the hunters survive.

New werewolves are so confused because the websites give conflicting advice:  get yourself to your nearest national park when you’re about to turn and just let yourself run free; if you try to cage yourself the claustrophobia and the smell of people will make you panic and you could really hurt yourself or someone else.

vs

If you’re anywhere near human civilization you must make sure you turn in a closed space that you can’t escape from in wolf form or you’ll definitely kill someone.  Just try to take a nap during the full moon, OK.

And they’re like, WHAT DO I DO WHICH ONE DO I HAVE?

updated position: at the end of the day, there are, in fact, a number of possible compelling werewolf problems. 

case in point, the global werewolf cultural divide!

on the subject of the global werewolf cultural divide, another update, per wikipedia:

Wolves from different geographic locations may howl in different fashions: the howls of European wolves are much more protracted and melodious than those of North American wolves, whose howls are louder and have a stronger emphasis on the first syllable. The two are however mutually intelligible, as North American wolves have been recorded to respond to European-style howls made by biologists (x)

that’s right guys: wolves have accents

@darkicedragon

@pierceaholic XD

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meat-vendor:

there were good points in the movie though, such as:

• durotan holding thrall like a taco bell burrito
  
• grandpa gul’dan tricking everyone into thinking he’s a skinny fel addict and then rips off his shirt to show he’s fuckin ripped
• the knowledge of finally knowing that varian has always had luscious hair
• garona sadly crowd surfing
• glenn close?? where did that come from??
• draka existing

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Anonymous asked: So I want to read Mockingbird but I don't want to support Marvel until the new Captain America comic is done with. Any advice for me?

fuckyeahbobbimorse:

Nope.

If you aren’t going to support the Mockingbird comic, then we won’t help you find other ways of doing so.

We get people not wanting to support Marvel, but that doesn’t change the fact that female led books, including Mockingbird, need to be supported.

This is also Niemczyk’s first major piece, and Cain’s first into mainstream comics.

Speak with your money. If you want these female led solos to keep going, you must buy them! Show Marvel those are the stories you want.

We will not be party to Mockingbird, or any other female or minority led books being cancelled.

pottsromanoffhill:

no but let’s review some of the reasons mcu maria hill should be more popular.

• by the time she was twenty-five or twenty-six she already had a high enough position at shield to send letters ‘from the office of maria hill.’
  
• by her late twenties/early thirties, she was the deputy director of shield and fury’s second in command.
• in the winter soldier, she saved steve and natasha and sam. i think we forget that natasha would have bled out and died if maria hadn’t rescued them. y’know, unless hydra had executed her and steve and sam before she reached that point.
• also in the winter soldier, she was an essential part of bringing shield down. (and let’s not forget that “but steve” moment, okay? if steve had died she would have been the woman that killed captain america.)
• before age of ultron, she was working at stark industries, managing the avengers, and keeping an eye on coulson and his team. name one other person in the entire mcu who could do that.
• she was barefoot during the stark tower fight and afterward she just casually sits there picking glass out of her feet. and then she’s back in her heels the next day.
• not to be completely shallow, but come on, she’s gorgeous.
  

sorry, i just absolutely adore this character.

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