on the internet it’s been harder for the US to lock in a pro-israel narrative among US citizens but watching news on the tv it’s like an insane level of pro-israel propaganda, if you’re in the US and getting news from mainstream TV channels it’s an alternate reality. and all news channels not just fox news or whatever, CNN is just as bad
keep this in mind the next time the US government talks about banning a news outlet or social media app for “national security reasons”
the national security concern is them not controlling the narrative. look at the freakout over tiktok being “too pro palestine”
sorry 2 spider Gwen but why the hell would you call ur friends parents by their first names if you haven’t even been INTRODUCED to them yet…. you start with “omg hi Mr. & Mrs. Morales” and then MAYBE the parents go “oh no, call me Jeff” and you call them that. You don’t OPEN with Jeff…… girlie you’re embarrassing me…. where is your inherited irish catholic guilt complex that makes you overly polite
this got reblogged by some staff account without the crucial addition and i’m hoping people don’t start reblogging that version anyway here’s the post. since the cowboy and the samurai were both dying out in the 1800s i want an action adventure historically wildly inaccurate comic about the last cowboy and the last samurai teaming up BUT one of them is gay and the other doesn’t understand what being gay is and there are multiple comedic mishaps resulting from this
Actually, this deserves its own post because the way Abbott Elementary handled Melissa’s character in this episode is genuinely some of the best dyslexia representation I have ever seen on TV.
She’s not a little kid who overcomes her disability as an adult. Her dyslexia doesn’t give her superpowers (weirdly common trope). She isn’t portrayed as stupid by the show or the other characters because of it. She’s a competent adult who has developed coping mechanisms to deal with her disability and is still shown to struggle sometimes despite that! Oh my god is that refreshing!
Also, Melissa being competitive about the reading challenge and Barbra’s comment about how good she is at engaging kids in reading is totally recontextualized by the reveal that she has a learning disability and especially the reveal that she was probably teased for her LD as a kid (which I’m also so happy that they brought up - I don’t think most people realize how competitive elementary schools tend to make reading, and how shitty and ostracizing that can be for kids who struggle with it). Winning the book challenge is important to her because it’s something she used to really struggle with. She’s good at getting kids to read because she can relate to their challenges in a personal way. They directly tie her LD to her strengths as a teacher without it being fantastical or over-emphasized and I can’t even begin to tell you how much I love it!
The bit at the end where she says “you know how sometimes I have to read things a few times” to Janine, in the break room with no students present is also a great scene because it shows her LD in an adult, professional context. It’s a conversation that I, and every dyslexic person I know, has had with their co-workers at some point. I just love that they make a point of normalizing her LD in an adult workplace setting that’s separate from the classroom and away from the kids.
This season has done an awesome job talking about disability generally but the choice to give not just a student, but one of the teachers an LD was an absolutely perfect move. I really hope this gets brought up in later episodes and isn’t just a one-off.
I teared up when she showed her student how she copes with her LD and it really made me love this show even more. It’s so so so damn good.
I just had a random memory of a friends’ kid when she was about six or seven, when she cornered a couple of us at a get-together and says “wanna know what my dad had for lunch?”
We figured this was, while unusual, a pretty straight-forward conversation starter. “Sure”, we said.
We were NOT prepared. She went on this EPIC storytelling monologue about the restaurant and Italy and the art on the walls and some dramatic story she made up ABOUT the art on the walls. We were enraptured. No idea what was going on but by god we were hooked. At no point does she mention food.
The next week, similar get-together with the same people. Same friend I’m talking to. Same child walks up. “Wanna know what my dad had for lunch?”
But NOW we’re prepared, we’re excited. We’re about to hear some SHIT. We grin in anticipation. “Sure!”
“A salad.”
She walks off, seemingly unaware she just set up the funniest fucking week-long joke my friend and I had ever heard
it’s fucked that mead is a real drink that you can buy from a store and you don’t actually need to brew it in your own dwarven wooden barrel or be invited by small mice into their larder to try. it’s also fucked that grog is a real drink that wasn’t made up by pirate orcs, and also is just watered down rum instead of, like, a bubbling green slop with stink lines coming off of it. does this make sense
