mothsicles

another comic for class! we were given a list of paintings and told to pick one to use in a story. i used 6 paintings here, and these are all the artists in order of their works’ appearances:

Sleepless.

“But that’s unfair to the people who submitted on time!”

I didn’t say you had to give everybody full credit. Drop the grade for each individual assignment by 5% for every day late until it gets down to 20%. Never, ever take it below 20%.

Here’s my rationale:

1. If you are a good educator, then you created that assignment in the first place because YOU WANTED YOUR STUDENTS TO LEARN SOMETHING. You still want them to have an incentive to complete that learning experience even if it’s not “on time.”

2. You want to prepare your students for the the real world, right? Well, if you missed a deadline (for example, submitting report cards), would your boss throw away everything you’d worked on, dock your paycheck, and tell you to try again next time? No. They would be upset with you, but they would ask you to take time out of your schedule to finish the project as quickly as possible. It wouldn’t cease to exist.

3. Based on point #2, if you are teaching high school or below, not accepting late work is holding children (who by the way, generally do not have full control over their schedules or what materials they have access to) to a higher standard than adults. 

4. If you are teaching college or graduate school, you are working with adults who are taking years out of their lives and paying thousands of dollars to learn from you. Why make it harder for them than it already is?

5. You have or will teach students with extenuating life circumstances that they don’t tell you about (e.g. chronic illness, caring for children or sick relatives, abusive relationships) because they are embarrassed to share this information or have already been taught to shut up and stop making excuses.

6. You have or will teach students with learning disabilities that they don’t even know about. I was diagnosed with ADHD in high school after years of being treated like I was just a bad kid. I suffered from depression and anxiety for over ten years before I went on medication. I did not even learn the words “executive dysfunction” until I was in grad school.

artist needed money for college, people from tumblr/dA told them their prices were too expensive and that no one would commission them.

artist was desperate and logged on to their old Furaffinity account to take commissions

artist got a shitton of commissions and everyone was supportive and encouraging

people ended up tipping the artist 10-20$ per commission because they thought the artist was undercharging

not to mention all the money they raise for animal welfare and indigenous peoples legal funds!

and of course these people never seem to criticize anime convention goers for dressing as anime nazis and heiling for photos or using panels as an excuse to sexually harass cosplayers, and selling porn of underage characters in artist’s alley…. basically every problem they have with furries except there are way more anime conventions and this behavior is much more accepted, I guess because dressing up as a dog is what makes it immoral, right?

I really like that it seems like more and more yuri is directly confronting and debunking “it’s just a phase” rhetoric and showing how harmful and wrong it is.

I also always love seeing adult lesbians in yuri/anime in general. We even get to see them living together and kissing!