Yep. I mean, Octavia Butler is also an excellent Octavia, but not the correct one.

And every month I’m left here thinking: “Gee, if only there was something simple I could do with all this goat’s blood.” I was going to put it in a decorative vase, but using it to sell tampons is just so much more sensible.

“What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy” by Paul McGee is a great look at the intersection of video games and the world of education.

I definitely didn’t mean that adopted was bad. What is bad is the fact that players are forced to invent a narrative that fits their character rather than the game just having a better narrative (I did play the game considering myself to be adopted). If the human character was meant to be adopted, great. I’d love to…

Wow, that’s what you’re taking from this? K.

I remember shaking my head at that. My character looked adopted.

What my professor spoke about was how these students are spoken of in the field as the default language. Obviously if a student prefers a different way to describe themselves, educators should respect that.

And I think any educator worth their salt would use a student’s preferred terminology. The person first language is the default for the field, but you shouldn’t be a SpEd teacher if you’re unwilling to consider the needs of a student.

In my Special Ed. coursework we were taught that disability labels aren’t inherently negative (as they allow children to receive the services they need to reach their full academic potential), but that we shouldn’t define students by them. Saying “an intellectually disabled student” is different than saying “a student…

At no point did I say you had to be a librarian to appreciate libraries. Of course you don’t! If that was the case, we’d all be out of jobs. All I meant is that this is a post that all the Jez librarians will be commenting on.

I can only star this once. :(

WHOOOOOOOO. <3

And now we find out how many of us are librarians.

I’ll trade you the Rattatas for ALL THE ZUBATS.

Thank you. Lotte Reininger was the first thing that came to mind. The Adventures of Prince Achmed is not only the oldest surviving feature length animated film, but it’s also *gasp* a fantasy story!

*bursts into tears just reading that sentence*

I honestly never would have known about it except we were watching a movie that depicted a sexual assault in detail, and he just burst into tears.

I have a friend who stopped a sexual assault, and he says it’s a difficult thing to for him to deal with (though far less difficult than for the actual victim, of course). While he knows he did the right thing and did the best he could, he just wishes so badly that he could have entered the room just a few minutes…

Okay, so I saw the face changing gif out of the corner of my eye and it scared the crap out of me. No more late night horror short films for me.

Nope. True for everyone. The theater is not responsible if you get got by a scalper.