It’s been a week since my friend died unexpectedly. I haven’t been able to write what I want to for him, but I think about it all the time. He just. He deserves to have what I say be perfect.
“It’s fine! You’re fine! You’re normal! You can be normal!”
—pre-friend’s-birthday-party-pep talk
“Welcome to Dumb Bitch 101, I’m your host, Dumb Bitch…101.”
—morning musings
pokemon sketchpage
“What happened to me then is happening now to millions of women and girls in a new and more terrifying way. Before, someone had to betray your trust and steal something real. Now all it takes is a computer and a stranger’s imagination. Deepfake pornography has become an epidemic.”
Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Call and leave a message. Then call again on Monday and talk to someone directly.
AQUARIUS: Water-bearer? More like What-a-Terror. You're spooky, Aquarius. I like that.
Update: I’ve created a note on my phone where I write down new ones of these that I come up with. I think this is my thing now.
Me: “I’m Ms. Del, and I’m the one who’s been throwing Kraft singles at Teslas.”
Student: “Follow-up question about the Kraft singles?”
Me: “No.”
“It’s 5th period English, and despite what you’ll hear in the coming weeks, it was self-defense.”
“It’s 8th period English, and I was the second shooter at the grassy knoll.”
“It’s 1st period English, and I still don’t know why we have that lever.”
“It’s 4th period English and today’s class was meant to have higher production value, but the theater department has stopped taking my IOUS.”
Me: “What do we already know about Dr. Martin Luther King?”
Student: “He died for our sins.”
Me: “…I mean. He /was/ assassinated…”
I don’t have the costume budget, and the theater department is tired of my IOUs
“Good morning, this is your fourth period English class, and I’m Tina Turner-i-hardly-know-her, and today…”
“Good afternoon, this is your eighth period English class, I’m your teacher, Ms. Del, and I know who the Louvre thieves are, but I’m no snitch.”
—Y’know how you get kids’ attention?
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Student: “That’s I’m gonna start doing; I’m gonna go into people’s classrooms, fart, and leave.”
Me: “Your comedy will not be appreciated in your time.”
Student: “Everybody loves me.”
Arthur Machen - The White People and Other Weird Stories
Reading that spooky stuff
“Something’s gonna happen to keep them from saying it and I’m gonna chew through the bars of my enclosure!”
“I’m gonna shake them like fucking maracas!!”
—when the idiots to lovers is idiots-to-lovers-ing
Moose: “Del you have to swear on your life that you did not google that actor to help Sunny with this question.”
Me: “Moose I have the collector’s edition of Blade Runner in front of me right now on blu ray do you think I’m playing????”
Moose: *hangs up on me”
—y’know how you help your best friend
If I had a nickel every time I quoted the “Don’t recite the deep texts to me, witch. I was there when it was written” at students for reminding me of The Game today, I’d have TWO nickels.
Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
I had a consciously good day at school today. A day where I thought, “this is going great! I’m excited for tomorrow!”
And that would be great if it weren’t for this little fucking part of my brain that keeps going, “The last time you felt this way, your uncle died suddenly.”
So. Be safe y’all.
New story! #FFXIV #FanFanfiction
Set before 1.0 in pre-Imperial Garlemald, a venture into the lives of Souls Galvus, Polaris Ceres, a whole bunch of Reapers and an entire theatre troupe.
archiveofourown.org/works/750163...
Make like a tree and grow.
Student: “Miss, do you have a life outside of school?”
Me: “I’m not even alive.”
Student: “…”
Me: “I died in 2020.”
Illustration of some dragons that are sakura themed. The colors used are mainly pink and blue
pink dragons 🌸🐉
#art #dragon
“Chickens lay eggs.”
“Willy Wonka can’t read.”
“6-7 took my nail.”
—and other things my students say
“I love feminist podcasts and feminist literature, bruh!”
—and other things heard from former students waiting for their debate club to start
Me, minding my business, buying a drink from the vending machine:
Student, seeing me buying something: “Yo, it’s my favorite teacher!”
Me, not looking up: “I’m not buying you anything.”
In 2015, a man commented "looks great!" on a picture of a cake his niece had baked, and that is the last normal thing anyone has said on the internet.
