spoowriter.bsky.social
Sister. Nerd. Teacher. Sometimes writer.
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*wouldn’t want
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Pardon me, Richard Manning. Also an executive producer of Farscape. I misremembered which FS person it was but I remember it being a topic of discussion in one of the commentary tracks.
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The only Trek script written by Farscape’s Rockne S. O’Bannon. Ben Browder snuck a “Who Watches” Easter egg into the first Farscape episode he wrote (“Mintaka III sounds boring to me anyway,” he tells Aeryn when she questions how he names stars).
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* My *actual* first political disagreement with him was when he made an exasperated comment in a Carl’s Jr. about how he wished life was like it was in the 50s. I pointed to my 3ish year old brother and said, “but then he’d be in an institution.”
It did not go over well.
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I was scared during the LA riots — though even then (as a naive 8th grader) I thought it was a “dream deferred” moment more than anything (which was one of my very first* political disagreements with my dad) I’m not scared of the protestors right now. I’m scared FOR them.
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I’ve said this before — I think maybe even to you — but the name alone is the reddest of red flags.
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I was so mad. All over a comma. And it’s not like the paper was getting published or anything. Clearly I knew the right way, but, no, I had to fix every single citation before she’d accept it.
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done wrong, then gave the paper back to me so I could fix them.
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Not nearly the same scale but in my teacher prep program, I once had a professor tell us we had to use MLA citations, told us how to do them wrong, didn’t listen to me when I — fresh off four years of writing center tutoring in undergrad — said they were wrong, had me submit the paper with them
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That quote was my first thought.
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Anyway, I am beside myself with pride for this kid that kinda reminds me of my shy anxious past self and I’m so grateful I was able to be a safe person for them to the extent that they managed this special event.
I’m gonna miss them terribly.
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So this kid sat with their peers (and me for assisted self-regulation reasons) and listened to a friend from a general education class read the short speech they’d written. They were the first kid from my class to ever give a speech at culmination.
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They also trailblazed a new way for my class to be included in our school community — because I have awesome partner teachers who have cultivated a caring inclusive environment where kids care about kids and form genuine friendships regardless of whose class they are in.
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This kid has massive anxiety. Last year was the first time they managed an awards assembly and they could only manage to allow me to bring them their award.
Today they made it through our whole hour plus long fifth grade culmination ceremony.
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School’s over at noon on Friday.
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2. Today at our awards ceremony, I gave an award to a kid who struggled a WHOLE lot last year and who is basically back to their year-before-that self this year. This afternoon, I got the sweetest message from that kid’s parent about how proud they were of them and how grateful they are to me.
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Thank you. That means a lot, genuinely, as I’ve been struggling at the end of the year knowing that my students didn’t get the education they deserved this year since I was out so long from my surgery & complications. Obviously I had no idea that would happen but it’s still…bugging me.
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The color-coded columns are because I have a mixed-grade class, so some kids are leaving for middle school next year but the majority are staying. The final column is becuase I also have one kid who is moving to a less-restrictive placement next year.
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Do you suppose that, just like the people who cosplay as medieval lords and ladies at Renaissance Faires, that in the future there are folks who cosplay as 20th century pilots for a fun day out? (Besides Julian and Miles in the holodeck, I mean. In the “real” world.)
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You know, objectively I know it’s a bad episode. I really do. But I’ve always kinda liked clip shows and honestly the Imzadi scenes made my 10-year-old shipper heart sing so I have a totally irrational affection for this episode.
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is better than society dying out entirely, which is what they’re facing.
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There’s also the ableism (that I’m fairly positive the writers weren’t even aware of) in a society that is so desperate for new genetic material that they’ll steal it but don’t even consider stealing Geordi’s. They’re a technologically advanced society. A portion of your population being blind
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(Also, you can see in young Picard not only impulsiveness and bravado but the hubris he’ll rightfully he called out for in Picard.)
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What I love about his scenes with Wes, which is further explored with the kids in Disaster and then Elnor, is that it’s obvious Picard’s issue is the concept of “children” as an intimidating-to-him whole. Once he sees an individual kid as a person he’s just as skilled with them as with adults.
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The whole thing is worth it for that ability to imagine Lwaxana Troi and Katherine Pulaski being in-laws.
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Just given the various possibilities, I’ve gotta say I don’t think I’ve ever been happier to miss an Internet Thing.
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(That’s not even getting into the whole health journey thing.)