Aight Y'all. Here's A Lesson I Learned From My Wife, And I Wish I'd Learned It Years Ago:

At my school, it's a graduation requirement to complete computer science I, but it doesn't even teach computer literacy. It teaches the basics of a couple scripting languages. That's it.

I have learned how to be computer literate because of my electives, not because of my actual computer class.

Technological literacy only exists in a very slim age demographic of people born from roughly 1980 to roughly 2007

One Piece Ship Week in July!

The One Piece Ship Week is back!

I know it’s really late to announce it, but honestly being an adult is… exhausting. And boring. And exhausting again.

Anyway the week will take place from July 1st to July 7th and here are the prompts:

Day 1: Dreams

Day 2: Seasickness

Day 3: First/Last Fight

Day 4: Promise

Day 5: Lost

Day 6: Lazy Day

Day 7: Free Day <3

The rules are still pretty basic:

- Any type of art (fanfiction, fanart, edit, headcanons, etc) is welcomed. You may translate or repost something that hasn’t been made by you only if you have the explicit permission of the creator and credit them.

- Use the tag #opshipweek or #opshipweek2024 in the first five tags of your post so I can reblog your entry (late entries are accepted but early entries are not).

- Romantic and platonic relationships are both accepted

- NSFW content must be tagged as such and trigger warnings must be written in the tags of your post

- Finally, as it is an even where all ships are welcomed, please don’t hate on other ships or characters

- AO3 collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/OnePieceShipWeek

Please reblog so we can have another fun week!

I'm going to start responding to posts on tumblr (that aren't screenshots. Just normal text posts) with "you would do numbers on tumblr"

i don't know which chronically ill mooties need to hear this but

you don't have to listen to the bE pOsItIve crowd

it's okay to grieve for the life that your illness robbed from you.

it's okay to feel sad when you can't do things you would have wanted to.

it's okay to detest that you have to use aids.

it's okay to look at your abled peers and feel empty, because of how you so desperately want to fit in with them but can't.

it's okay to be salty about everything you can't do while being disabled.

it's okay to not be one of the very few who are able to dEfY tHe oDds

it's okay to be terrified of the future.

because that's just what being disabled means. it's not all just pride and 'being strong,' it's absolutely miserable to face these realities sometimes.

and that's okay.

Why was my first thought: thin bad guy VS Big Bad evil Guy; FIGHT

my life is consumed by thoughts of dnd

task manager kill this fucking thinbg

Anybody remember when Grian was a guinea pig in season 6? Lol I drew this without looking at any references, so that's why his guinea pig isn't accurate.

I definitely like the first page better, it's more filled w/ life I think. Imma work on consistency and backgrounds in future artworks!

Might color and add better backgrounds later, but I'm done for today lol

Edit: Noooo, I had a layer hidden and it didn't show Permit Office Grian's speaking bubble :'(

(I have changed the image now)

I love transformers and drew this because I thought Philza as a seeker would fit him. Loves flying, he's definitely a fighter jet. Then I had to draw Technoblade because his name already sounded like a tf name. He's a space shuttle and they go space exploring together. Have a few hcs for this au? under the cut ^^

I'm just being a nerd here alskdjgsgd Pre-war Philza: Philza is ancient. He's old and had been remodeled a few times. Better engines, sleeker and aerodynamic frame, etc. Got the whole "Angel of Death" thing going on coz he's so good at the craft job. A weapon for hire. It's what he's made for but always found it restrictive to devote his whole life to and sometimes he gets bodyguard jobs for important political figures and those are the worst! He's tired and wants to explore the vast universe. He would have wanted to get into engineering or xenobiology if he could. Most of his equipment are custom made by him. It's a part of his passion. He self taught himself a lot of trades and steals medical books so he knows how to treat himself and patch wounds. He's someone that wants to keep ahead so it makes sense to learn more but he runs into the threat of anyone finding out that the reason he's so good for several years is because he's been secretly doing things outside of what a fighter jet should be.

It drives him up the wall. He wants to be free to do what he wants and be what he wants. So when the decepticons first started making themselves known and the promise of rising up against the corrupt system sounded pretty nice... he doesn't sign up for the cause. He can see the signs of a war a mile a way and he would much rather get out while he can before the political tensions breaks into chaos.

Pre-war Techno: Technoblade would have done delivery work like transporting energon from one of the moons and back. He's space worthy and has pretty thick plating to do the job. He's also bored out of his mind. The most fun he gets is when he gets to travel further from Cybertron to load and unload trades and goods in neighboring planets. A good change in scenery but he always wanted more. So he hears of this illegal gladiatorial pit somewhere and thinks "Yeah, I could do that". There aren't any other choices. Since it's all underground, they wouldn't question a shuttle for wanting to get in. Fighting is cool. He's getting pretty good at it since he's big and that makes for a good show. He trains and finds swords his favorite to use. A crowd favorite the likes like Megatron but Techno would rather not fight the dude? He looks like he's trying to start a movement. That's not the kind of beef he wants to associate himself with. But now he's trapped because the pits aren't really safe in the long run and fighting had turned into outliving everyone else and that's kinda a lot? He just wanted to be more than just the delivery guy but now people know his name and he can't escape coz he's a criminal in the arena. The decepticons wanna recruit him and he really doesn't want to be tied down to anything anymore even if he agrees with their cause.

And then the two meet Philza's looking for a free space shuttle and Techno is looking to get out of Cybertron. They meet and are immediately like "Yeah, of course, we need to get out of here!" Riots are happening around them and they get as much stuff as they can and run. It was easy for them to slip away because everyone's focusing on the war rn. A lot of other neutrals are fleeing too and they blend right in but break away to make it out on their own.

They chill out in space and go planet hopping for supplies for years. If any trouble were to come their way, they destroy it. Typical Techno and Philza shenanigans. They are the strongest duo out there and keep adopting alien pets to go with them. Eventually they get a ship so Techno doesn't have to be a shuttle all the time and they set up a base far away from the war as they can. Headcanons: -They would have joined the decepticons because initially, the cause had some good points. Cybertron needed major change but Megatron's revolution would have been far too violent.

-Philza saw how dangerous the world would get really early on and wanted to get out. Fighting for a war even if he's made for it? Again? Like his whole life? "No sir. I've been through that. It never ends well."

-Technoblade is a name he gave himself in the pits. It's when he was still trying to find his own identity and found his love for pvp and swords.

-Technoblade saw a video of a pig once and said "yeah that's me"

-Philza makes Techno weapons all the time and then teaches him how to make his own.

-They're pretty efficient together but neither of them are mechanics or know how to make their own energon. So it had been a big struggle at first but they're both fast learners.

-They get mistaken for decepticons all the time. It's the stereotype and they fit the bill. Big brutish dude and a seeker. Both armed to the teeth.

-They become amicas after years of having each other's backs. Amica Endura is kinda like a best friends thing

Gegg

I…. am Gegg!

RAT.

(I love it (I'm literally playing as a rat in my DND campaign right now))

You've been turned into an animal

Spin the wheel to find out which

Libraries are cool, you get free books and mine even offers a language app. Go to the library.

Charlie slimecicle says you should use your local library System.

Get a library card, use the computers, read a book on the couch, ask for help from the librarians, go to the events they host, look at the boards they have on the walls for local events, study, read a book in another language you are reading, take your kids there to meet other kids, hang out after school there, wait for a ride there, hang out before work, browse the audiobooks, and more.

There is so much you can do at a library just go and do it.