((OOC: So this thread was thought as an inbetween part in The Price of War by @sirussly. I have linked the “next part” at the end so you can continue on the story.))
One evening in Godric’s Hollow, Lily roams thought the house to find her friend, since she didn’t show up for dinner. She stops outside an open door to a dimly lit room.
(( OOC: Everyone has a different style of acting. Everyone has a different creative process. Please, PLEASE don’t tear others down in order to compliment someone.
That’s not a compliment. That doesn’t make anyone feel better. It’s mean spirited and leaves everyone feeling uncomfortable and sad.
If you’re fond of someone, if you enjoy what they do, that’s great! Tell them.
If you don’t like what someone does… give yourself a second, take some deep breaths, maybe stand up and take a walk outside… then find a damn bridge and get over it.
This is a freeing space where everyone gets to have the chance to express their love for creation, acting, makeup, writing, and beautiful stories about awesome characters that inspire them.
Don’t compare, don’t degrade, just enjoy the fact that you have the chance to see your favorite stories and characters being recreated in so many wonderfully unique ways!
Think twice when your hands are hovering over the keyboard. THINK before you decide to send cruel messages to people… and then don’t do it.
So one of our new vocabulary words is “malus”, meaning “bad”, and I asked my students if they could think of any English derivatives, telling them that just about any English word that begins with M-A-L is going to mean something “bad”.
I’m expecting stuff like: malice, malcontent, malnourished, or even malware or Maleficent.
Instead I get this one girl in the back of the room say “male” with the most dead-eyed expression.
This has the same energy as two years ago when another student said she remembered “vir” meant “man” because “it looks like virus, and men are a virus”.
One of my Latin students, whenever I’d ask if they wanted a couple extra minutes to review before a test, would always say, “No, we die like men.” And so finally I asked her why it was always ‘like men’. She said, “We die like men, unprepared and useless.”
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