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going through old paperwork…

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Okay so I’m an elementary school art teacher right, and I have this really fun game I made a PowerPoint for to teach like, emotions and intent and looking at the whole picture to first grade.

The idea is, when we count down and change slides, kids have to mimic one thing in the painting as best they can, whether it’s animate or inanimate. If there’s nothing in the shot for them to mimic (because I threw some contemporary abstract stuff in), they have to show me how the painting makes them feel. Easy enough, gets them excited to move around and vocal about their feelings regarding art, it’s very chaotic. I can tell pretty fast who’s got the emotional maturity to mimic things in a complex way, and who’s just enough of an abstract thinker to mimic inanimate objects early on in the game…

So the first picture is this:

Napoleon Crossing the Alps. My favorite reactions are usually the kids who pretend to be the freaked-out horse, but 2 memorable occasions were the one where a student immediately scrunched up to be the rock in the foreground, and the one where a pair of girls, without any communication on their parts, decided to be Napoleon riding the horse with one as Napoleon and one as the horse. Basically one of them fully tackled the other apropos of nothing, it was hilarious

I’ll add more if y’all want or if I feel like it lol I have a bunch of stories from this one game

Okay so later in the lineup we get to Dalí’s Persistence of Memory, which is very funny because it’s preceded by several pieces that have like, obvious people in them, so everyone’s gotten a bit complacent in their mimicry

In case you’ve forgotten, this is Persistence:

And I swear every time, there’s a beat right before everyone either becomes a tree by t-posing for their life, or goes boneless like some kind of child-shaped pancake over the nearest flat surface

Highlights from this one include a pair who decided to drape themselves pancake-style over the same desk and banged heads, resulting in 2 ground pancakes, and someone who fully just stood there staring, and explained that they were expressing the hatred they felt as soon as they saw it

Last installment: one of the pictures is The Scream, and everyone very quickly just makes a 😱 face, but then we get to talk about my favorite “throw spaghetti at the wall” topic, why is he screaming? (The answer is Existential Dread, but it’s not appropriate to tell 1st graders that so instead we all put out other ideas lol)

In case you haven’t looked at it recently, this is The Scream:

My favorite guesses from the kids to Why Is He Screaming:

-those guys behind him are going to arrest him

-he missed his boat and it’s one of the ones in the background, he just noticed

-the sky’s all wiggly

-he just wanted to scream

-HE CAN SEE THE CLASS OF FIRST GRADERS LOOKING AT HIM AND HE DOESN’T LIKE IT

Children are bonkers

op this is an incredible teaching tool. i love this. thank you for sharing this (Your picture was not posted)

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Today I was set up in the auditorium which is also the cafeteria, as if often the case with elementary schools. I told the secretary that I was ready to start taking photos at 8:30 if any staff wanted to come down, but she said that I couldn’t start til 9. Meanwhile, I was behind the curtain, waiting for the kids to be done eating their breakfast before pulling the curtains up so they wouldn’t be distracted.

So I was kind of peeking through the curtain to see when the kids were done.

Unfortunately, kids notice a lot more than you think they do and one preschooler saw me.

“Mrs Fritz I saw someone behind the curtain!”

“Are you sure? I didn’t see anyone.”

“Yeah I saw him!”

So I lay low for a little bit so they can continue eating without distraction, I peek through the curtain again to check the status.

“Mrs Fritz! I saw him again!”

“I saw him too,” said another.

Mrs Fritz has figured out that there’s someone here, and knows it’s just the photographer for the yearbook, she starts playing on the kids imaginations. “Maybe it was… a Halloween monster!”

I dial it back, but now the kids are looking for me. I sneak out the side door and all eyes are on the curtain, waiting to catch a glimpse of the stranger. Another adult joins them.

“Mr Stubbs there’s a man behind the curtain!”

“There’s a what?”

“A man! I saw a man behind the curtain!”

“Thers no man behind the-”

“Yes there is! I saw his feet!”

“Feet! There’s his feet!”

Mr Stubbs, who would be the first to die in a horror movie, decides to investigate. He comes towards the gap in the curtains to see what’s causing the commotion, pries it apart, and sees me.

I wave. “I’m waiting for them to be done with breakfast so I can get started,” I say, indicating my photi setup. “Like… 5 minutes?”

Mr Stubbs nods, closes the curtain, and turns back towards the preschoolers.

“You know, this building is pretty old,” he says. “I think it might be a ghost.” (Your picture was not posted)

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Do you think Jaskier ever gets under the covers and stretches his tired feet and then Geralt just looses his shit and has to pounce because it’s MOVING ?????

Jaskier’s feet: exist

Geralt:

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dinahdarling:

this post was made because i always see jaskier annoying geralt, like constantly.

it’s time for the bard to realise just how irritating a man can be when he has nearly 100 year’s worth of knowledge and zero people to unload it off to. also, like when they’re both staring at tracks in the ground and geralt says something like,

geralt: the werewolf came this way

jaskier: yeah, i know, we’re looking at the same fucking tracks, wtf?

like, i know jaskier can irritate geralt,

but fuck me, if geralt can’t irritate jaskier too.

dinahdarling:

i want more geralt annoying the shit outta jaskier,

like, proper know-it-all geralt just picking apart all of jaskier’s songs and poetry, getting them kicked outta taverns cause some dickhead doesn’t know the difference between noonwraiths and grave-hags, going on long-ass tangents about the etymology of elder speech, just thoroughly getting riled up because someone described an ekimmara as a katakan in a child’s storybook, and he must complain about it for seven hours straight, jaskier, you don’t understand, this is why humans are doomed to die out, they’re so stupid jaskier, why, why are they like this??

cause like,

yeah, jaskier may annoy geralt - but if you’ve been friends with someone and you’ve been in close quarters with them for long enough, you will eventually begin to develop a two-way street of irritation,

sometimes, that irritation develops into reluctant fondness,

other times, it develops into a kinda sensation where one must repress the urge to shove their lute up their darling witcher’s arse cause for the last time, no one gives a shit about the difference in sirens and ekhidnas…

…Now I want Geralt pointing out the most obvious of things, because how is he supposed to know what Jaskier’s inferior senses can register? He’s just trying to be helpful. Honestly.

*enter game!geralt*

geralt, gazing up at the sky: looks like rain

jaskier, absolutely soaked from the torrential rain: you don’t fuckin’ say???