behold the power of god and 48 mental illnesses

hi yes its the au again. what i imagine simon was getting up to in prison, coping by drawing his comfort characters

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also here’s a bonus comic on the sm13

My kids are in 5th and 6th grade. They’ve never even seen a fingering chart. The 6th grader is expected to do nearly all of his schoolwork on a computer, and he doesn’t even know the term “home row”. I don’t know how they expect them to excel without giving them the skills they need to use the tools they have to use.

Typing classes were only availble to those taking the secretarial class, which was not open to boys.

It should be noted that there is a distinction between typing as it used to mean and word processing. Typewriters were unforgiving machines, not only could you not cut, paste or delete (for obvious reasons) so your spelling had to be very, VERY good, but the legibiity of each letter produced depended on how hard you hit the key (unless you went to a fancy school which had electric typewriters, which were not the norm).

Those of us who were subversive enough to learn keybaord skills through computing had a MUCH easier time of it. Though it was often offset by the shitty keyboards some computers had, and YES, I’m calling you out ZX81!

If you can’t see any depth to those keys, you are correct, they have none because the ZX81 keyboard was a damned membrane!

But believe me, if you could learn to typeat a decent speed on of these, then NOTHING could stop you, expcet for the fact that the odds were good you were typing faster than it could process input.

It’s successor, the ZX Spectrum had spongey keys, which whilst not great, were better than nothing.

We need to bring back typing lessons to the curriculum. The kids will fly if you give them a tablet or smartphone but they have no clue on how to use a keyboard or keyboard shortcuts. If the senior PE class decides to be twats and pry up the keys and swap them round, I will still have 14/15 year olds unable to type because the keys are swapped. And I often don’t notice when helping them because I just.. touch type.

I legitimately broke a Higher Computing Science (so a 16 year old who had chosen to do computer stuff) by showing him how Ctrl+H let him find and replace because he’d made a consistent error in his code and I could see him going back and adding up all the time he’d spent trying to find all the incidences of a specific variable in his code and there I was showing him CTRL+F and all these things.

These kids might not pick a computer based subject after the age of 13 and half of them don’t understand file systems, version control, difference between cloud vs local storage, how to save, etc.

So many kids would just turn off the monitor and think that was the computer, usually leaving themselves logged in (to the point I locked the monitor power button and had multiple posters up reminding kids to press the spacebar on the keyboard to wake up the monitor first).

Body Horror: Things that cannot happen in real life. EX: The Thing, stomach mouths, eyes on hands, etc

Gore: Fresh injuries, often severe. EX: Severed leg, gutspill, deep gashes, etc

NEITHER: Healed injuries and burns, congenital differences, missing appendages, etc. If I could theoretically go to the store and see that character browsing the isles- It isn't body horror or gore. That's just a person. *AND the amount of people that tag, not just fictional characters, but real human beings as body horror is staggering. Its not solely a fandom issue, ableism and bigotry against anyone that looks sufficiently "different" is prevalent in real life and has devastating consequences.

I know Mr. Szymanski and Markiplier do not pull their punches. At all. Ever. So I'm really curious to see what's going on here, if it means anything specific, or if it genuinely just looks like artistic nonsense.

The notes says what it does (vaguely), but I wish to connect those additional structures to what they are saying. This is an unreliable narrator scenario, too, so I can't really trust the notes.

The summary question: what the hell are we looking at?

whatever they had going on in last life? ?? when joel said 'careful. careful,' when grian trusted joel's bloodthirst to spare him. when they were the first two red names and they died within seconds of each other, grian's disembodied yells disappearing into the wind as he prayed joel could beat the odds (he didn't).

whatever they had going on in limited life? ??? when they killed player after player and didn't pause to take a breath because they were winning, just like last life, just like every time they were the only red names and they swept the server for stragglers. when grian offered his time, his life to joel and said 'kill me, i have the time (for you),' and joel said 'ok,' and he said 'i'm trying,' because grian dies to joel's hands more than any other but it never gets easier.

the end of wild life, where grian refused to hand himself over, not again, just because he knew joel would never accept it, not when it's grian's last breath, not like this. when grian died with his hands outstretched and joel looked away because it's always been like that. when joel ended wild life just as he lived third life—alone.

thoughts without Blorbo: oh my god I was so cringe in seventh grade why did I do that