u/CoolTransDude1078

My english teacher is amazing, genuinely. She's passionate about the subject and cares for her students. But there's one piece of advice she gives that I want to double check.

In both of the analytical topics we've done so far in 3/4, argument analysis and analysing a text, my teacher has advised us to basically always avoid using pronouns. When analysing 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle', we should mention a character basically just once per paragraph, maybe twice if it's long, and every time we refer to them from that point on, we shouldn't say "she" "he" "they", we should say "the macabre protagonist", "the aggressive, imposing presence", etc., and the same goes for argument analysis. "The passionate speaker", "the determined member of parliament", etc.

Is this accurate? It feels like it's just a waste of time to do that, unless it's not clear who's being referred to (such as if I was to talk about Merricat and Constance, saying "she" would be a bit unclear about which sister I mean, so I would clarify in some way who I meant). In an exam, I don't want to think of another way to describe who I'm talking about, when I could just use a pronoun.

We used to have three chickens, now we have one. The other two sadly passed away, and we thought this one did too, but it turns out we'd accidentally locked her in our garage for a couple days. When nursing her back to health and making sure she was okay, my mum kept the chicken in the laundry to keep her warm. But now, every evening, she or my dad let the chicken in through the front door, the chicken roams around for a while, and then they get her into the laundry, where she sleeps. She poops everywhere. We've been fortunate enough that it's only been on our wooden floors, and not our rugs or our furniture. The laundry stinks to high heaven, and I can't stay in there for more than minute at a time. During the day the chicken is let outside, but I can't help but feel like the ~10 hours she spends in the doors isn't good for our health or hers.

I love when my miis do something and I'm like "oh canon. Was this hardcoded into the game? That's canon!!"

Legit just the title. There are so many pages n stuff that list them but it's a lot to go through to potentially find something that applies.

This only really seems to happen in english, I get this overwhelming urge to either throw my pencil, rip or scrunch up the paper, or otherwise vent my anger when I get stuck. I don't, to be clear, and never have. But the lack of release instead leads to tears, and it's not really easy to write when your vision is blurred and you're trying to hide sniffles. I know the best way to deal with it would probably just be to practice enough to be confident, voiding any frustration. But other than that, what could I do?

I don't say I'm proship on any accounts that I care about, and even here on Reddit I have my history hidden so that no one sees (minus that one mobile glitch). But I also want to be able to find other people who are proship. I feel like anti harassment and anti censorship maybe?

I fucking love this anime. I watched it years ago, but only 1 and a bit seasons, and out of order. I'm rewatching again, in order and just. It's so fun. I love the humour and the characters and the music OH MY GOD the music. Also it's very gay imo. Like there's subtext. And the subtext is kinda obvious. It's not like it's a completely unknown anime I'd say? But underrated. 100% recommend. And obligatory link to the subreddit, I ship the Beppu twins in season 2 so hard. Aki x Haru, and Aki x Haru x Gora is peak.

Like, magical girls but boys. Like Cute High Earth Defense Club (peak anime, absolutely recommend it).

I already know of Vampire Knight (which was the first anime I ever completed, when I was 12. Always loved Yuki X Kaname, I was proship before I even knew what proship meant) and I know of the coffin of Andy and leyley, it doesn't seem like my kind of game unfortunately but it seems cool. So, anything else? SFW please, as I'm not 18 yet (just a few months!)

I suck at it. I don't know why, I don't know what's different in my mind between analysing a book and anlysing an article. I can pick out what quotes from "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" mean and represent and reflect and I'm great at symbolism, but then put an article about smart glasses in front of me and ask me to find the "what how why" and I just can't do it for some reason. I struggle to find text features, and then even when I do find them, I can't analyse them. What is there to analyse about an author who basically talks about how they're educated and research stuff for the whole middle of the piece? What is the intended effect on ABC news readers of the mental image of an unbridled horse? I am STRUGGLING. Like, crying in class sort of struggling. It was the same last year, but last year it mattered less, because it was year 11. Now it's really important.

So, in Australia, it's coming up to the end of semester one. That means a lot of assessments are starting to come up, and to prepare us, most of our classes have either mandatory or heavily recommended practice assessments. In english, I, under the time pressure, forgot the word "villagers" or "townspeople" so when analysing our novel in our practice assessment, I wrote "people" since I needed to just keep writing. I got the practice assessment back and, reading the annotations, she wrote "stories don't have people". YES. They don't. They have characters. And antis reallllly need to get that through their heads, I think.

I'm keeping it in my notes app, and I'll keep it updated all year and post it at the end, but currently the wildest is saying that >!rape!< and ageplay are comparable evils.

Like, there's 20 of us. And for some reason, the first 4 of us who formed are a group, no clue why 4, and then the first 12 that formed are also a group. Not a group as in "on their own" either, just like, a category. We have some categories that make more sense, like the shattered gang (they're all from the same universe) and the musical buds (both from different musicals).

To clarify, I don't mean at the same time, although if both happen to be the same song that's fine of course, basically I was to learn to sing to a babymetal song and learn to dance to a babymetal song. For singing, the language isn't a barrier too much since I learnt Japanese for 5 years.

As an additional question! I watched a video basically breaking down the whole history of BM and they also described some fandom terms, and megitsune is apparently used to denote female fans while kitsune is for any fans. I'm a trans man but I don't feel 100% aligned to masculinity, would using megitsune for myself be okay in terms of fandom etiquette?

TWO streamers I've watched have been so lovely!

First is Bubble Bee Lucy, an Australian vtuber. I'm in her discord so at the end of a recent stream I asked her if we could sign off our messages with who's fronting, and she said "yeah of course as long as no one's hurting anyone just do whatever" and a couple people made jokes but like, the chill kind where I knew it wasn't joking about me, if that makes sense.

Second is Goru San, an ASMRtist. I'm writing this as I'm still in the stream it happened on. We (as in, chat and Goru, not "me" we) got on the topic of ASMR channels and I brought up Shattered Stories ASMR, thinking no one would know of him because he was relatively small and unlisted (not deleted!) all his videos and Goru went MAYBE and I freaked so I sent them 2 archival playlists of his stuff (and then promptly left his server, I'm <18 his server is 18+ not because it's explicit or anything, so I of course asked first and he laid out the expectations of the interaction) and then I was like "I feel safe here, I have 3 fictives from some of those audio series" and he was so chill and it was a wonderful stream and he said that once I'm 18, which isn't too long away, I'm more than welcome to stay in his server.

By new I mean like an hour or so new. I decided to binge babymetal because I'd heard of them vaguely before and wanted to deep dive, I haven't listened to much yet, I nearly cried at KARATE but didn't, but then I watched an English subtitled performance of Ijime, Dame, Zettai and sobbed. As a previous bullying victim, that song hit very close to home. It's the sorta thing that if I'd known about it back when I was being bullied I'd have listened to it to find strength. I related to so much of the lyrics. And then I ended up bawling my eyes out while all I could hear was "WE ARE" "BABYMETALLLL".

I'm fine now but that was an emotional punch to the face I didn't know I would be getting.

A friend of ours asked this recently and it was a fun thing to consider. Some were obvious, like, Macha, she'd be a sorcerer. Because she's a sorceress. And Cerridwyn would also be a sorcerer, because in source she kinda has innate magic? (Alternatively she'd be a warlock but her magic didn't really come from a patron who watches over her or from learning so warlock and wizard seemed unlikely). Some were harder, like Belle and Vox.