Don't get me wrong, I like my writing style and feel like I can do better than AI most of the time, but I have an entire connected universe in my head that I want to bring to life, and I don't feel like I can do that without the help of AI.
What is the proper etiquette for using AI to help you write? AI is a tool that I want to take advantage of, so yes, I use it in my writing, mostly because I have how-to books and novels that I want to finish that I probably could not finish in my lifetime without the help of AI. It makes brainstorming easier and the actual writing process less of a headache.
So, my question is, what's the proper etiquette for using AI in this capacity? Don't talk about it? Only use it for drafting? Only use it for brainstorming?
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My teacher preparation program did not cover classroom management, and my last teaching job was a disaster. I didn't know when to ask questions and when to not do so. Even though I have several years of private school "teaching" experience, I've never been responsible for classroom management until I took a job at a Texas middle school. It was a decent school, but my poor self onboarding left me not really clear on what was in the pacing guide, or even where it was. I'm not really sure how everything sort of fell apart at that job, but it did, and I resigned shortly before Covid.
I don't want to be a classroom teacher again, but I feel like this is going to affect jobs I'm more qualified for, such as tutoring and online teaching.
Hi, I'm wondering where I can take some continuing education courses online. My Texas teaching license is currently inactive and I need to get a few more hours to recertify.
The first movie was decent, honestly. It worked terrifically as a Joker Elseworlds. I can't say the same about the second movie, though. It condemned the first film--calling it a "horrible TV movie" and it eventually stopped being interesting. We get it--Arthur's a fake; he's still terribly mentally ill, evidenced by throwing away his life for a woman he barely knew. There were a lot of great ideas but the pacing and payoff were terrible. I get that Arthur was supposed to be seen as pathetic, but the movie still could have been interesting. It's like the movie punishes us for caring about Arthur.
I've been seeing a couple of posts claiming we should give Jared Leto's Joker another chance. One reason I don't want to see his Joker again is because the performance he gave in Suicide Squad was all over the place, and that was just the little bit we saw of him. I know he was passable in the Snyder cut of Justice League, but still not my favorite Joker, tbh.
Here's how he could maybe work, though---compelling not really a backstory. Maybe he tells several backstories but they all hint to the idea that he endured a lot of pain--emotional and physical.
Second, acting. Instead of trying to be his own thing, I think he should borrow from Bill Scaarsgaard and David Howard Thorton, really lean into the scary clown bit, not just the gangster. Extra points if he does the Hamill Joker voice once or twice to remind us who he's really playing.
Finally, script, he needs to be playing the Joker, not generic gangster #5. That means he needs a script that leans into the whimsy of Gotham City, think CGI, circuses, things like that. Joker needs to go from gritty realistic to comic book fantasy seamlessly.
What are your thoughts? Yeah, if Leto isn't your favorite Joker, I agree, but...assuming we have to watch him again, I think this is the way to make the best of it.
I think I finally figured out why this version doesn't work for me. It's not just the acting or tattoos. It’s that the portrayal reduced Joker to a gangster, and I don’t think Joker works as just a gangster.
Gangsters want territory, status, power, hierarchy. Joker usually works better as something closer to a trickster entity, almost like Beetlejuice or some other chaos entity, pretending to be human. The best Joker portrayals feel uncanny; he mocks criminals, heroes, police, and society itself rather than simply trying to dominate Gotham like another mob boss.
Also, I think Harley Quinn’s story becomes much more interesting under that interpretation too. Escaping a Gotham gangster is one thing, but escaping someone who psychologically distorts reality is much darker and more interesting.