Reposting This From Twitter Bc It's Making Me Lose My Mind

I hope Shelby is getting the help she needs. I hope Tommy is taking his time. I hope Niki doing well. I hope they are taking this time to sort through their feelings. I hope they are listened to.

I hope Shubble heals from her time with Wilbur.

I hope Tommy makes better friends.

I hope Niki can find someone she can trust.

I hope everyone Wilbur has hurt can heal from this.

I hope Wilbur's victims thrive without him. I hope the other members of Lovejoy start something new. I hope the mcyt community will be better with one less abuser in our space.

I hope everything will turn out okay in the end.

I'm sure it will.

I'm really curious about what you think schooling would look like in a Solarpunk world/future!

Because the current public school system is broken af and the homeschool system isn't much better. I personally have looked into things like Sudbury schools and found good things and also issues. I've always been a proponent of the IDEA of Unschooling (which I understand to be, letting the child learn naturally through the world around them, learn reading through reading to them or teaching math and even basic chemistry through teaching them to cook, etc) but it seems like most parents use it as an excuse to not educate their kids...

I really think kids should learn practical things alongside the Academic stuff (three Rs, science, etc) but no system seems right...

Oooh boy! Have I thought about this one endlessly!

So background info that I have to frame where I'm coming from-

A- the current system is built for school>> factory worker pipeline

B) it also evolved from ppl working at factories and needing to put their kiddos somewhere while they worked their 9-5! Thus Sunday school evolved from something to teach basic literacy to a full time job for children (it's legit nearly 40 hour weeks for CHILDREN) so there's a lot of padded time to ensure they meet that quota

C) it's used of a massive scale it was NOT designed to be used at

Soooo!! Let's imagine a better one!

Personally, based on children's development I think schooling should be broken up into focused chunks and then obvi each kiddo should be able to work at their own pace within these chunks of time.

0-6 Motor and sensory skills- introduced to music/shapes/building, "helping" with community chores (laundry/windows/dishes/sweeping), basics of plants/gardens, learning about transportation and basic navigation.

7-10 Written- literacy (reading/printing/telling time/storytelling/etc), health (emotional+physical), basic cooking + tool usage, basics of history/geography, basics of all sciences, gardening more independently

11-13 social + advanced work -- advanced history/science/literacy/home eco/etc.. start working within the community in a vollunteer capacity, Starting to specialize in interests, focuses in philosophy/analysis/debate,

14-20 community and citizenship --greated focus in Philosophy/debate/analysis in addition to apprenticeships of testing out what they'd like to do with their lives

20+ whatever they wanna do! Personally I think our adulthood should start over from 0 here. Bc after you hit 20 your a baby adult, but like a 35yr old is nearly a teenager as should be treated as such! Finding themselves, building community, getting the swing of all that jazz.

Then the WAY this is taught would be with ppl close to the kiddos, neighbors and parents and community leaders would be in charge of these chunks. Much more like a tutor or professor style where each teacher specializes in both the thing their teaching but also the kiddos their raising.

i dont know whqt mcyt artist needs to hear this but you dont need to stick religiously to the mc skin for your design. you dont. fuck it up, take colors as suggestions, be creative with it. its called having fun and using your imagination. which, yknow, is what art is about.

family photo

thank you goth boy

Opinions on the Wil situation:

If I ever make works relating to the dsmp, I’m gonna replace wildurr with a modified version of 2019 schlatt (he’s British and an artist) cause at this point Tommy will need a new older brother figure (after a few months to a few years of grieving and wrapping his head around the situation ofc) cause the poor thing would need SOMEONE (OR SOME PEOPLE) to replace the Wildur shaped hole in his heart, cause HOLY SHET!!!

Anywho, I’m excited for the new weeklyslap video! :3

(I’m sorry, that was a terrible joke)