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What are you teaching??

@muse-ful replied to your photo “how does one come up with discussion questions...”

maybe make up statements with the most important parts of the subject and then transform them into questions?

hello friends i am leading a 45 min, once a week tutorial/conference section for english lit up to 1660 and this week we were talking (mostly) about beowulf so i had to try to come up with coherent discussion questions about a poem that is heavily invested in like, digression as a poetic device? fuck me.

Spring green: I have many relaxation techniques. Here are just a few. I cook! I love cooking food: the process of deciding what to cook, buying the food, preparing it, and then eating it is extremely relaxing. I have sex. That isn’t always an option for everyone with another person, but you always have yourself, and regardless, sex is extremely relaxing to me when I’m feeling too stressed to work/sleep/whatever. Finally, I drink. Perhaps not the most healthy relaxation technique, but it can be effective. I have a really great group of ppl here in my department, and basically whenever any of us needs it, we can go out (for coffee/alcoholic beverages/etc.) and talk through whatever is bothering us and how we should go about tackling it. Bonus: I also really like drawing, so sometimes I will draw things because the physicality of taking my mind off work and focusing it onto the act of putting pen to paper is really freeing.

Glossy grape: to be honest, I don’t know what to recommend to my followers because I don’t really know if there are any coherent similarities to my followers. But, I do love music recommendations so here are just two. 

1. Dua Lipa is probably my favorite new female pop artist of 2017. I want you to consider how many altos you’ve heard in mainstream pop music until now–probably very few–she’s great and you should check her out. 

2. PRETTYMUCH: y’all know how much I like boybands. Check out Simon Cowell’s new creation. They’re diverse, they’re talented, they are happy-go-lucky anarchy at its finest!! Get ready for their debut album this year, it will be DOPE. 

my fellow pots peep! peep is plural and idk what the singular is but like, that is probably more accurate but also probs a really weird word. dude I’m not gonna lie, I regularly wonder what opinion you have of me, given the fact that you are one of 3 people who I was living with (in what is now my professional context) when I fell into the 1D rabbit hole, ahahahaha. 

CONGRATS!!!! Also: my favorite philosopher is also Lizzo tbh

not castration but this made me think of the birth of erechtheus. a similar indirect (?) impregnation of gaia

YES i knew there was something similar that i couldn’t remember!! it’s very much like that. as you said, not castration, but it’s still from a (somewhat? i can’t remember the details) non-generative act. well, maybe it’s more of a halfway? like, in this instance, the fluid is semen, and it was expelled during the ejaculation that normally leads to conception. but it still needs the (sort of) gestation with gaia in order to conceive erechtheus. 

and there’s something to be said for athena being a ‘virgin’ goddess yet still in this way is considered an ancestor of erechtheus’ line. i feel like, there’s a connotation of it being legitimized because of the specifically athenian/chthonic connection? 

“if you’re going to create beings from expelled fluid during a violent act of violation, THIS is how you do it!” -athenians, apparently