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#inkpotter, 16-17

what a little shit

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“Everybody gets Fili and Kili wrong.”

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Things I have learned from this poll.

There are way more places to read fanfics from that I imagined

The fuck do you all mean you were reading fics in Deviantart??? Quizilla????

I forgot fics are also a thing here in tumblr

has anyone ever heard of Mibba because thats where I was posting sasunaru when I was 14

Pretty sure the first fics I read were on random author geocities websites. I went from that to various archive websites. Like Gundam Wing Addiction. Then to ff.net and aff.org and fictionalley all around the same sime. Discovered ao3 around 2012? 2013? and it's truly been a blessing ever since.

Edit: I forgot email mailing lists via yahoo groups. To this day I still get messages from a 1x2 gundam wing mailing list.

“WELLuhimeauhhhkindof? It’s a long story, honestly.” neil newbon the man you are for this delivery

people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

it’s not about actually being gifted, it’s about an initial higher scoring on standardized testing that means little to nothing or being good at learning in the way elementary and middle school wants you to, so you get marked as ‘advanced’. in reality, maybe you had faster development in certain areas, but the issue with being a gifted kid isn’t that “everyone told me I was so cool and special for reading and then I actually wasn’t :(” it’s “I wasn’t properly taught to handle things not coming easily to me, but the adults around me were counting on me not being a ‘difficult’ child in school.”

people who use it as some weird bragging method or interpret it that way are ignoring the way a lot of school systems force certain roles on students to simplify the learning process. If your kid doesn’t need to take notes to understand a science concept bc they get it naturally, well that’s good, but now you’re not teaching them how to take notes and they’re not learning that important soft skill. but because ‘gifted’ kids are easy and don’t show that they’re falling behind in learning in other categories that are harder to quantify, they eventually fall behind after that catches up to them. It’s about the failures of a one size fits all school system trying to compensate in the worst way possible.

And also the thing where ‘gifted’ kids are super likely to also be neuroatypical, which they don’t get screened for because they appear to be doing well in school. Or “You can’t be ADHD/autistic/etc, because you’re doing so well in school!”. Or being shamed for developing mental health issues/generally not being able to keep up with school work later, because you USED TO BE able to do it just fine.

Or the assumption that just because you can read well or you like math class, you’re somehow more EMOTIONALLY mature than your little kid brain is actually capable of being.

Or gifted kids whose parents and teachers put immense pressure on them to Do Great Things and Save The World and you’re like. “I’m 10 and I have no idea how to do that, but everyone is saying that’s my job?”.

This is the best “gifted kid” post out there. I never took notes until college because I didn’t have to, snd when it got challenging I had to literally teach myself note taking at age 18. It also fucks with your perception of asking for help - you’re advanced, you’re competent, you should be able to understand every topic easily. Asking for help/going to office hours/asking for a tutor feels like failing when you were praised in your early years for not needing to do that.

yes. & exactly the reverse happens with kids in special education classes, who (except in the rare & individual cases of classrooms led by a very good teacher) are typically ignored & not taught skills they need as well, except that special education students are often in an even more vulnerable position. two sides of the same coin. in the meantime, “average” students’ individual needs are also ignored & flattened into easily measurable categories. these are all a function of an underfunded & fundamentally conservative educational system in which even very good teachers’ hands are forced by financial policies written by people who have never stepped foot in a classroom since they graduated :(

So I was part of said 'gifted' program in elementary school/some of high school. And I remember being distinctly annoyed that they removed me from class to learn this stupid ass alien language instead of just teaching me useful things like they had been prior to that. But no, I had to go with a group of four other students, sit in a room for 90 minutes, and try as a group to decipher a garbled mess for no real reason. Not entirely sure what sort of prodigies they thought they had but that was wild.

I also remember frequently getting tasked with things I was not comfortable with. Because as a 'gifted' kid, they assumed I was the most responsible person in the room, or the most capable. But like no I don't have any interest in looking after the problem kid from such and such kindergarten class as I have extreme social anxiety and this child will walk all over me and make me feel worthless thanks. And I have no experience in child care and also that is a human that I cannot relate to in any sort of capacity.

Also no I don't particularly want to run this assembly in front of the entire school. I have extreme social anxiety and speaking in public is my worst nightmare.

And no I definitely don't want to go say my speech in front of hundreds of people instead of my little class of 25 simply because I scored a good grade by excelling at writing and studying my cards for days on end to avoid stumbling over my words and talking at the speed of lightning.

*sighs*

By the time I got to high school I was at least confident enough to know I had the option to say 'no'. But it was equally debilitating because they assumed as a 'gifted' kid you would just know how to do things already. So I got pressured into participating in these extra cross country advanced math quizzes which had a bunch of math on them I had never had the opportunity to learn or see before in my life. "Just give it a try," they said. Meanwhile here I am wondering why I don't know how to answer anything, and how stupid am I really? The test anxiety was real.

As a little note to add, initially I was not included in my elementary school gifted program, purely because when they read my name out on the call list someone else in my class shouted out 'She's not a part of it!' and for some unfathomable reason, the teacher accepted that and scratched me off the list. Which let me tell you, felt amazing. Like okay I'm not good enough because little Susie over there is a giant bitch ass bully. Anyway, my name showed up again the year after.

Being a part of the silver birch and red maple reading programs at school was probably the one thing I remember actually loving about it all. Probably because that's what I actually enjoyed doing. But now when I think back on it...isn't it weird that only a select group of students got the chance to be involved?

School is SO weird.

one of the top 10 peter jackson's creative choices was seeing the one (1) sentence about the beacons being lit in RotK and going "I'm going to film a scene that is so absolutely iconic based on this"

A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.

I call upon the fan fic writing gods to bless you with the perseverance to finish one of your unfinished drafts. 

May your fingers dance along the letters upon your device with ease, may the devil of distraction stay far from you, and may your work not need much editing.

I pass this blessing upon every fan fic writer out there.

As it came to me I give it to you.

MIDDLE-EARTH locations part. 2

The Hobbit book cover mockup