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Children of Termina ( Zelda zelda majora’s mask )

Hello everyone ! I’m proud to unveil a project I’ve worked on recently! This is a cover for an album composed by the great composer “ Rozen ” !! I am extremely proud to have worked on this project, thanks to Rozen and Materia Collective for their trust and kindness :)

You can already listen to a track of the album and pre-order it in CD format or in vinyl by going on this link : https://music.rozen.audio/album/children-of-termina

Follow Rozen on twitter HERE : https://twitter.com/RozenDJ

My fourth grade teacher thought it was wrong for my dad to be teaching me complex math because it fascinated me.

My elementary school music teacher hated the way my piano teacher taught me, and how I was more advanced than many of her students, and so told me, in front of my peers and my mother, that I was not good enough to participate in the state solo festival. She would not give me the form. We had to procure it from the district instead. She also hated how I excelled at reading and playing music for the recorder, and so she refused to give me my “belts” (colored beads to signify our level) and humiliated me in front of the class repeatedly.

My eighth grade algebra teacher used to fail me on take home tests because I didn’t solve problems exactly the way she showed us in class; I used methods that we had learned for other types of problems that also applied to these. She took points off my tests because I didn’t bring a calculator even though I got 100% without it, because I was able to do it by hand. I had to call my father, who is an engineer, down to the school to shout her down and give me back my A in the class.

My 10th grade Spanish teacher yelled at me in front of the class numerous times because she didn’t like the way I took notes; she thought that since I didn’t write every word off the slide, I wasn’t getting it all down. I had to explain to her that people who have taken advanced courses, like AP or IB classes, know that in a fast-paced learning environment you need to take quick shorthand notes that contain the necessary information rather than wasting time writing every word. She almost gave me detention.

My 11th grade English teacher gave me a poor mark on my first short essay because she believed that I was looking up unnecessarily complex words in a thesaurus to try and get better marks. The phrases in question: “laced with expletives” and “bombarded”. She wouldn’t hear any defense from me.

My 11th grade history teacher failed me on an essay about the 1950s because I misread the prompt. Except the prompt wasn’t words; it was a political cartoon. One of the figures was clearly president Eisenhower, but the other I couldn’t place. My teacher would not tell us who it was. I labelled him as the governor of Little Rock Arkansas during the integration period, and wrote an essay about that subject. My teacher said that no, it was Joseph McCarthy, and that there was a small picture of the man in our textbook and therefore I should have recognized him instantly. Half the class, apparently, did not.

In second grade, I had a teacher named Ms. Mobley who believed all children should be average. She flat out told my father that all children should make C’s, and should never strive for more than that.

Not only was she insane, she also would routinely spell things wrong for us to copy for our spelling tests. Later, when we spelled those words wrong on the test, she would mark us off. Yes, our own teacher was sabotaging us.

I should have been tested for gifted classes, but I was not. Why? Ms. Mobley didn’t believe in “gifted” children.

This teacher had tenure and could not be fired.

Never forget.

When I’d made the observation that the system is holding families who justifiably demand better hostage, they pivoted to “what about the children left behind?”.  

This summed up their political mentality for me.  It wasn’t about the kids who could escape a cycle of poverty by combining their values and work ethic with opportunity, it was about restraining them for ill defined reasons on behalf of the “common good”.  

It’s here! A semi-villainous class, just in time for Halloween. ;)

Surfin Specter down those sweet magma waves.

Last year Equifax sheepishly admitted that it had breached hundreds of millions of Americans’, Britons’ and Canadians’ private financial data and then suppressed the news (subsequent months revealed that the company had suffered multiple breaches, so many it didn’t know what it had lost and wasn’t looking very hard).

It’s been a year since grandstanding politicians they’d Do Something about Equifax to prevent this kind of thing happening again.

In that year, those politicians have done precisely nothing.

i bring to you, an old meme

DM: “I guess? Make a strength check”

Barbarian: “Nat 20!!”

DM:

A nat 20 does not guarantee success when the impossible is attempted.

via US Air Force

Barbarian artwork by Aditya777

Bard artwork by Shadow-Net

Cleric artwork by Alexander Casteels

Fighter artwork by Genzoman

Sorcerer artwork by Sergon

Paladin artwork by unknown

Ranger artwork by Supanova89

Rogue artwork by ChrisCold