Aries: Early mornings in the fig orchard collecting the husks of wasps killed by the storms last night.
Taurus: Big sweaters and scarves and spiked boots coated in a thin layer of gore.
Gemini: Sitting curled in a corner of the attic frantically sewing together scraps of cloth and leather in order to create something that only you can understand.
Cancer: Carefully coring and preserving pumpkins to fill them with sand.
Leo: Scary movies you’ve seen before but this time with friends the doors are locked how long have you been here.
Virgo: Slowly learning to understand the mutterings of the wind even though your mother and her grandmother before her warned you to ignore it.
Libra: Abandoned storefronts you are sure weren’t abandoned just a couple days ago. Closure signs that seem to infect strip malls, striking down store after store. Seeing human shapes behind the darkened windows.
Scorpio: Wandering downtown collecting dried leaves, keeping them safe in little blocks of resin. Saving them for later.
Ophiuchus: The smell of recent rain. A basement slowly filling with water.
Sagittarius: Long drives though the hills, the sun moving faster and faster. Slipping in between the cracks between day and night.
Capricorn: Crochet and triple bladed knives.
Aquarius: Cool evenings to yourself with a little case of chopped fruit. Stalking the hiking trails watching for anyone who gets lost or injured.
Pisces: Seeing images of your dead best friend in the sides of gnarled oak trees. Blinking and seeing them vanish.
Tag: stay hydrated
Fahrenheit is basically asking humans how hot it feels. Celsius is basically asking water how hot it feels. Kelvin is basically asking atoms how hot it feels.
whyyyyy do we need cursive anywayyyy
Most people don’t even use cursive for signatures. Eventually, they all just dissolve into squiggles.
Plus Some people’s cursive can be pretty unreadable even when they do put in the effort.
Oh noooooooo, society is chaaaaaaanging, what will we dooooooo~???
I was taught cursive, told I would need it in high school when we started writing essays.
Teachers didn’t accept anything in cursive. By the end of highschool teachers were not accepting hand-written essays and everything had to be typed. Though, they assured me cursive would probably be a thing in university because you have to write essays in class sometimes too and wouldn’t have access to computer to type it up.
In university, we were warned, that cursive can be a faster method of writing, but harder to make legible when writing quickly. We were warned if the professor couldn’t easily and quickly tell what we were saying, it would count as not having written anything. This included in-class exam essays on a time limit. So no one used cursive.
So while I was constantly being assured that cursive would be very useful when I grew up, it only became increasingly obsolete.
Why would we continue to teach obsolete skills? Why waste the time?
That being said… kids are exposed to a lot of different fonts… some of which are cursive. I think they can figure it out.
cursive is more of an art form than it is a way of life now a days and i appreciate the beauty of the script but its not practical unless you can do it really well and quickly for anything school related tbh.
The initial comic is annoying as hell, but I will say that being able to write in cursive absolutely is practical. It’s a godsend for fast note-taking. If you’re a kid who never learned it in school, I’d recommend doing so before starting university.
Knowing both print and cursive is very handy when writing quickly because, once you’re used to them, you can write some letters is one way and some letters in another way, whichever is quickest
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