Elpickett - El Pickett

my latest finished project! it was a christmas present for my partner as sea shanty society at uni needed a new mascot and he is first mate this year

i bought the pirate fabric a while back and shamelessly stole the seagull fabric from my mother while at home for christmas

yeah I have a sneaky suspicion this is going to be how my Saturday looks lmao I'm so ready to be done with this term

the semester ended yesterday and today i have a hangover and my period

one of the most important lesson I teach to all the kids I tutor is to work out *why* they got a question wrong, because the reason means how we deal with it is completely different.

got it wrong because you didn't know how to do it? cool, let me teach you this method!

got it wrong because you didn't understand what the question was asking? cool, let's go through how to read exam questions and figure out exactly what they want.

got it wrong because you didn't check for arithmetic errors, or you didn't catch them? cool, let's go through how to check your work correctly.

and it really annoys them sometimes, because they want to just move on, but when they start doing this our seasons move so much faster, because if they got something wrong they can tell me why and we can fix it rather than me trying to figure it out. yeah, it takes a while, but asking why mistakes are made is really important!

one of the most annoying things about corporate culture is that everything needs a "solution". if one person makes the smallest mistake we gather like 12 people in a room and talk about our "plan to make sure this doesn't happen again". a plan?? someone set a support ticket status wrong and we need a plan? ok here is my plan, we remind them what the correct status is and we immediately move on. but no we have to be """solutions-focused""". ridiculous. its for managers who have nothing to do all day and need to justify their 200k a year salary. how about you FOCUS on leaving my team alone buddy.

but seriously though i’m sick and tired of those masterposts that are like “here! A reference site on Greek mythology for all your needs! Look it has all fifteen Greek gods on it!” And I’m like. tHERE WERE LIKE HUNDREDS OF FIGURES IN MYTHOLOGY YOUR CRAPPY HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL BIBLIOGRAPHY SITE MEANS NOTHING TO ME 

if you want a basic outline of Greek mythology okay sure fine??? but like. if you want an extensive fucking reference site you are looking in the wrong goddamn places

as a self-declared greek mythology snob my reference site is fucking always this fucker right here. almost every single figure ever mentioned in a Greek text is on it, it has the most obscure gods, spirits, nymphs– it’s GREAT. You really wanna extend your mythological knowledge past the basic 12 and like four others? USE THEOI.  plus plus PLUS everything is cited so you can actually read the source material written about whoever it is you’re looking at.

fucking signal boost this. i’m so sick and tired of writer’s helpers blogs referring people to sites with as much information you would get from opening a third grade mythology book jesus chriiiiiist

Saw eternals last night - really cool film, greatly enjoyed it, anything with Ricard madden or Gemma Chan in is automatically cool so having them both in one movie was cool.

BUT

There is no way you can convince me that Sprite's haircut is that of a straight woman. Between the hair and the clothes that girl is queer and you can't say I'm wrong

this must’ve took forever, but it’s really well done.

luv edits.

WHAT IF, WHAT IF that moment where MJ is falling she's saved by another spider-man and it's Andrew's

Shadow and Bone season 1 but it’s just memes

on the one hand I feel like Tommy probably should have clocked this before marrying the head communist, on the other hand I'm now just imagining their conversation that night, namely Maria discussing the fact that her brother in law has arrived with a child and then Tommy is just having a breakdown over being a communist