Trying My Best™

one of my creative writing professors once said that to evaluate a work as good or not, first you ask what the work is attempting to do, and then you evaluate how well it does it. and this is how to judge everything from critical essays to romance novels to snack packaging to theory tracts.

Asunder is basically the most classic way to be torn, and if you're looking to be cleft, in twain is a vintage but stunning choice

you used to be able to get a job just by circling a listing in a newspaper in red pen

My alone time is for everyone’s safety

[ID: digital illustration of Eva Stratt and Ryland Grace from film Project Hail Mary. Stratt is stand back to viewer facing Gace who is walking towards her carrying three coffees. They are both standing on a train track. The field either side of them is bright green and flat and stretches to a distant line of trees on the horizon. The sky is black and dotted with stars, and takes up an equal amount of space as the earth. A stylised red and orange line winds through the sky and disappears over the horizon. /end ID]

another teacher grace moment i love is when rocky gives him the oxygen model he goes 'i dont have one of these thank you!' like that is THE most teacher response ever when a child gives them something utterly incomprehensible but made with love