We Keep Winning

one fun thing about being a teacher in march 2023 is that chess is a literal epidemic among teens. we are starting to have meetings about how we can STOP teenagers from playing too much chess which is like if we were trying to figure out how to stop them from reading for fun. When i was in high school five years ago chess was nerd shit only but now it is transcending every social and language barrier and is absolutely rampant. kids aren’t on their phone texting in class anymore it’s ONLY chess.com. kids are playing chess on their phones while playing chess in real life. this is still better than tiktok because at least the kids are developing an attention span from this

Eternal Complicity

Scene redraw from episode 8 (the best and most romantic episode imo 🤷‍♀️)

I hope yall like it 🙋‍♀️❤️

The Hunger Games, Actual Teen style!

On the left, 15-year-old Josh Hutcherson.

On the right, 16-year-old Jennifer Lawrence.

Think how much creepier it would be to see them killing other kids when they look so squishy-cheeked and little.

ah, teenagers

So I just started reading The Devil All The Time and one thing I really admired about the movie adaptation was the way they re-did the introduction of Willard’s wife, Charlotte.

In the book, she’s described as the most beautiful woman Willard has ever seen, with dark hair and the look of a pin-up girl in a movie. That’s his whole reason for marrying her: she’s beautiful and sexy.

Portrayed by Haley Bennet in the film, though, Charlotte has light hair and a very cherubic fresh face. She isn’t styled to look like the most beautiful girl in the world. She’s not even the styled as the most beautiful girl in the diner. Yet, Willard obviously sees something in her that compels him, and then when he follows her outside, he catches her in an act of kindness and his heart is stolen.

Can we just stop for a moment to recognize how rare this kind of adaptation is in Hollywood films, where most nuanced female characters in novels are  flattened into one-dimensional sex sirens on film? Here we see nearly the exact opposite.

hogwarts students figured out that the great hall ceiling could be changed to match a person’s mood, leading to an informal competition every year to see who could make it do the coolest thing

one time hermione and luna kissed in there and made an aurora borealis

no carry on 

The one and only.

Mga class buraot

Robin packs extra lunch for Seb knowing Sam and Abigail steals his lunch