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lunabee341. OMG, Avatar is so good. I can hardly stand it. So, after we watched the episode where Zuko defects, Fiona predicted that he would ingratiate himself to the group by cooking them surprise breakfast. I wonder if that would have gone over better. *dies laughing*
Okay, I straight up got teary-eyed at the revelation that Uncle Iroh was deemed worthy by the dragons. UNCLE IROH IS BEST CHARACTER NO CONTEST.
I've been having thoughts about Azula. I think the show intends to portray her as monstrous, as someone who's just been born wrong, and on my first watch, I didn't question the narrative. After all, Zuko, Mai, and Tai Li might have swallowed the Fire Nation propaganda, but they're not cruel; they're not sadistic. They're fighting on the wrong side, but they're not bad people. So something must be wrong with Azula beyond her upbringing.
But on this watch, I'm feeling differently about it. Azula is Zuko's flipside in that she shows the consequences of an abusive upbringing for the golden child. Her father is no less abusive to her because he favors her; her sadism is constantly rewarded. What chance does she have for growth?
The one moment of humanity for Azula so far is in the Dawson's Creek episode where she says that their mom favored Zuko, but I don't think that we can blame Azula's cruelty on that. IDK
I don't like her, and I think she's a villain, but I also think she's Draco who has awesome tea parties with Voldemort instead of being terrorized by him, you know? LOL
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The Industrial Muse: A Study of Nineteenth Century British Working Class Literature by Martha Vicinus
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was really interesting. I've read the classic Victorian novels written by middle-class writers about the working class (Dickens, Gaskell, Disraeli, etc.), but I've not read literature written by the working class. This consists of a discussion of mostly poetry and song with a handful of novels. Very informative about Chartism and the music hall in particular.
FYI: There is a typographical error repeated throughout the book; in just about every paragraph, there are words smushed together that should have spaces between them and don't.
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3. Fiona has started testing for the gifted program. We went for the first round this morning. The teacher is testing a small group at a time for like an hour over a period of days so they can be socially distanced. Fi wore her little mask my mom made her. *my heart* This is the first time she's gone anywhere since March 15. Part of me is worried that she won't do as well as she would have if they had tested during the school year, but it is what it is.
4. Some poems I liked that I encountered in Women of the Beat Generation:
Helen Adam "Last Words of Her Lover"
Hettie Jones "Welcome to Our Crowd" and "Sonnet"
ruth weiss "For Madeline Gleeson" (reminds me of Atwood's "You Fit Into Me," which is quite possibly the best poem of ever)
Okay, I straight up got teary-eyed at the revelation that Uncle Iroh was deemed worthy by the dragons. UNCLE IROH IS BEST CHARACTER NO CONTEST.
I've been having thoughts about Azula. I think the show intends to portray her as monstrous, as someone who's just been born wrong, and on my first watch, I didn't question the narrative. After all, Zuko, Mai, and Tai Li might have swallowed the Fire Nation propaganda, but they're not cruel; they're not sadistic. They're fighting on the wrong side, but they're not bad people. So something must be wrong with Azula beyond her upbringing.
But on this watch, I'm feeling differently about it. Azula is Zuko's flipside in that she shows the consequences of an abusive upbringing for the golden child. Her father is no less abusive to her because he favors her; her sadism is constantly rewarded. What chance does she have for growth?
The one moment of humanity for Azula so far is in the Dawson's Creek episode where she says that their mom favored Zuko, but I don't think that we can blame Azula's cruelty on that. IDK
I don't like her, and I think she's a villain, but I also think she's Draco who has awesome tea parties with Voldemort instead of being terrorized by him, you know? LOL
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The Industrial Muse: A Study of Nineteenth Century British Working Class Literature by Martha VicinusMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was really interesting. I've read the classic Victorian novels written by middle-class writers about the working class (Dickens, Gaskell, Disraeli, etc.), but I've not read literature written by the working class. This consists of a discussion of mostly poetry and song with a handful of novels. Very informative about Chartism and the music hall in particular.
FYI: There is a typographical error repeated throughout the book; in just about every paragraph, there are words smushed together that should have spaces between them and don't.
View all my reviews
3. Fiona has started testing for the gifted program. We went for the first round this morning. The teacher is testing a small group at a time for like an hour over a period of days so they can be socially distanced. Fi wore her little mask my mom made her. *my heart* This is the first time she's gone anywhere since March 15. Part of me is worried that she won't do as well as she would have if they had tested during the school year, but it is what it is.
4. Some poems I liked that I encountered in Women of the Beat Generation:
Helen Adam "Last Words of Her Lover"
Hettie Jones "Welcome to Our Crowd" and "Sonnet"
ruth weiss "For Madeline Gleeson" (reminds me of Atwood's "You Fit Into Me," which is quite possibly the best poem of ever)
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Date: 2020-06-27 06:32 pm (UTC)OMG, that kind of stuff is nuts. I am not tutoring my seven year old in the hopes that she wins a Nobel or something. That's not the way it works here. Basically if you test into the program, all your classes are accelerated, and all your classmates are also in the gifted program. That's all it means.