normal never fixed anything

Here are a few very significant things that are different from when us Nineties Kidz were in school:

the quarantine proved that virtual schooling and other forms of making classwork less strict and more accessible were logistically possible, but these institutions just did not want to continue to provide those options.

Being forced back into in-person classes in buildings without proper ventilation and or other precautions long before there stopped being a risk of illness proved that the wellbeing of the students was significantly less of a concern than making sure they were out of the way and corralled properly so the adults could get back to work

The job market has significantly worsened in every sector, and the financial security that was supposedly the carrot to the school system's stick now seems almost completely unattainable. There is no real upward mobility associated with getting into good schools anymore.

The recent political gains of conservatism means it is straight up illegal to teach about basic social inequalities in many high school settings now, and kids aren't too stupid to know that that's happening. when you understand that your educational system is barred from teaching you basic facts about the world you live in because it is politically inconvenient to the current regime, it probably doesn't make you highly value the education these institutions can provide you

so basically on top of all of the ways the school system was fucked previously, they now know that the system does not care about their health and safety, is not capable of offering them a path to a financially sustainable life, and will not teach them about the world with a framework based in our current political reality. So with all of that in mind, i ask you, in what possible world can we expect children to still give their all despite that?

There. All better.

The Gavinner's "Guilty As Charged Tour" will be at Sunshine Coliseum tonight!

taumoeba (obviously)

instructions on how to use taumoeba (obviously)

50+ hrs of unedited footage of Grace fucking up a bunch of stuff in the ship

so much info about Eridian language

1700+ hrs of unedited footage of Grace and Rocky fucking up a bunch of shit in the ship

Cannot emphasize how much info on the eridian sentence structure there is here

a weirdass knit sweater pattern that takes people weeks to realize is for Rocky

literally hundreds of pages of Grace just describing Eridian linguistic history which like honestly isn't even his field why should we even listen to this guy- (hes the only one to ever fucking met an intelligent alien Dave. we'll take him at his word)

Why the Goldilocks Zone is for Idiots Part 2: Biological Diversity all across the Petrova Line (subtitled "We haven't found them yet BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THEY DONT FUDHING EXIST-")

what are essentially just those reaction videos "Alien watches Legally Blonde for the first time" "Alien gives thoughts on movie Cats (2019)" "You'll never believe what this Alien thinks of the movie Fantastic Mr. Fox"

Grace's modified cardigan charts because someone was asking for them on his Ravelry and he never actually got around to posting them

(people have already fully recreated this cardigan just months after his launch. but they appreciate it)

very respective, kind eulogies for everyone who died in this mission (Grace AND Rocky's crew)

a lace shawl pattern inspired by the petrova line with a beaded fringe. knitters everywhere weep in despair because those instructions are gOD AWFUL, the man had 0 (zero) test knitters AND THERES NO PICTURES FUCK

Rocky make Grace cringe compilation statement