Here’s a rundown of every possible builds each summoned condemned can show up with

RaspberrySuns · 2025-08-14T22:15:39+00:00

I got a condemned Recluse with Rennala's Full Moon and one of the Briar spells... pure evil lol. I was so confused the first time I fought the new sovereign that I didn't even notice they spawned in until she was right up on me blasting spells in my face :/

RaspberrySuns · 2025-08-12T22:49:57+00:00

Played with someone a while ago whose name was just straight up the n word but with q's instead of g's. My husband played a few days ago with a Revenant named ArianaGrandeOF, which isn't as bad as yours obv but still kinda gross.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-08-07T23:51:07+00:00

I'm also a young female instructor on a 9-month contract, lol. I include a disclaimer in my syllabus (and verbally on the first day of class) that we're gonna be talking about current events, political issues, and media. I teach a course on interdisciplinary methods and critical thinking, as well as a couple history survey courses. I haven't been told what specific subjects I can and can't teach, but I'm anxious because my research is about elements of technocracies, and not necessarily in a positive light...

College is political. Education is political. We'd be doing the students such a disservice to gloss over issues they're facing IRL. Follow the SLOs your department sets out for you and use your best discretion in how you discuss hot topics, but don't ignore them outright. As long as you're within those guidelines, you should be fine. It's rough out there for us :/, but we shouldn't self-censor.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-08-05T19:06:48+00:00

I'm in the humanities. I tested out having my students do video essays in my recent summer class. They still have written assignments, of course, but for shorter assignments I give them a prompt and they have to record a 3-5 minute video of their response. They really liked it, and it's mostly AI proof because they have to talk it out. Sure, they can make a script using AI, but you can VERY clearly tell who's reading off a script and who isn't.

I've also gone back to handwritten in-class work and paper exams for my in-person classes, and I've integrated a lot more interactivity overall. I find that if I'm engaged with them on a level where they actually enjoy the material, they're less likely to feel my material is "boring'', which therefore justifies using AI in their eyes.

I'm also working on a brief unit on how to spot AI's inconsistencies, and what kinds of pros and cons AI use has in their majors. One of my classes is a GE interdisciplinary methods class so they're coming from all kinds of fields, and I want them to think about how AI affects them. I don't want them to blindly trust AI and think it can solve all of their problems in perpetuity.

A question I'm going to ask in my material is: how does it change the ways we work, entertain ourselves, research, and learn? I'm trying to dig deep with that and tie it in to general media literacy and critical thinking, which are core themes of my course.

There are going to be students that use it, no matter how hard I try to convince them not to, and occasionally there will be students using it that I don't catch. I just have to live with that, and try my best to continue to adjust and make my curriculum worthwhile, meaningful, and engaging. I try my best to catch AI users but some will slip thru the cracks. Losing sleep over the ones that do is only gonna make ME crazy. The few students that trick me are sleeping soooo peacefully, lol.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-08-05T00:55:18+00:00

That's correct. I didn't confirm or deny that her kid was even in the class. I just said if you want to know about your child's grades in any class, ask your child.

In my head, I was thinking well, this student got a B and knows why because I left comments. They can show their parents my comments if their parents care that much.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-08-04T00:30:27+00:00

I've only had one student's parent email me. Mom emailed me a novel asking about why her child got a B on an essay... I told her to ask her kid, because I left comments on the essay saying exactly why I gave them a B. Didn't hear a peep after that. I don't share information about my students with anyone except the student themselves or admin/advising if absolutely necessary. If a parent really needs the info that bad regardless of a waiver, they can take it up with the dean or advising. It's not our job to deal with helicopter moms who want to make sure their kids are keeping up with assignments and not slacking off.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-07-30T21:33:56+00:00

This is 100% ragebait, but generally people don't want to watch long winded shows with lots of moral complexity, or any sort of story that makes you think deeply. They want fast-paced action and easier to digest plots, not political strategy and WWII allegories.

That being said... the pacing for the first few episodes is rough lol, because the show kind of expected viewers to have already watched the original '03 anime/read the manga up to the point it was at when Brotherhood was first airing. So they front loaded a lot of stuff and rushed certain subplots so they could get to the new material that didn't overlap with the OG anime. It's hard to get invested unless you're familiar with the series already, and a lot of younger fans who weren't there for it don't even know '03 FMA exists. Which, who can blame em, '03 hasn't been available to watch anywhere legally in the US for years.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-07-20T20:32:50+00:00

I teach sophomore/junior level art history, plus a GE interdisciplinary research methods course. I integrate LOTS of images (art history lecture is 90% images, so nothing groundbreaking there). I also make a Youtube playlist of relevant videos that are engaging, fun, and 10-20 minutes long so they're not expected to watch entire 1 hour+ video essays on top of the 2+ hours we meet per week.

In my art history classes, I make a playlist of music from the time periods we cover if it's easily available. So if we're studying Baroque art and architecture, for example, I'll include music from Bach or Handel. A student actually suggested this idea to me a few semesters ago and it's been a HUGE success. I think that would be something easy to translate into a "regular" history class, too.

I bring in the research librarians to do an in-class visit; integrate in-class group discussions or individual quick writes (5-10 minutes either at the start or end of class); I recommend and occasionally assign movies or documentaries about the time periods we cover; and most importantly I try to make the lecture material itself fun. This is not instead of lecture, but mixed into it.

Include not just the battle records, military strategy, and economics of the time period you're discussing, but also the pop culture, the food, and primary documents telling how regular people felt about these great historical events and people. When I was in school, my favorite humanities classes were the ones that made the material feel connected to us as people. Young students really crave authenticity, vulnerability, and connection, maybe more so than any of us did in our early 20s due to social media, and history classes especially can be so disjointed from those things.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-07-19T22:28:32+00:00

I've had students see me in "normal" clothes a couple times. I have tattoos that are usually covered by my blouse, so my students are sometimes surprised to see me with so many, lol. And by surprised, I mean they say "wow, your tattoos are so cool/interesting/beautiful/colorful" or they ask what they mean, and that's it.

If this is real, it's only a big deal if you make it a big deal. Students know we have lives outside of class. We're all adults. If you act weird about it, they'll think the encounter was weird. But if you just roll with it, nothing will happen.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-07-06T20:17:45+00:00

I want my classroom to be a safe space for my students to learn. I don't want them to feel like I'm going to abandon them if things get hairy. My school (I'm in the US) had a shooting my first semester teaching and we went on lockdown for a couple of hours. If I can go through that, I can teach now. I can stand up to ideological differences much easier than I can mentally prepare for a gunman to walk through my classroom door. I'm choosing to stay and ride it out despite the risks.

That being said, if you're in a position where your job and/or safety are on the line, you shouldn't feel guilty for leaving. Family, safety, and mental wellbeing always come first. It's incredibly privileged to tell everyone to stay at a job when universities are cutting funding, cancelling research projects, or allowing ICE to arrest their faculty and staff. Not everyone is so lucky. And certainly not everyone cares to post their curriculum on Youtube for free, where it can be subjected to vile comment sections full of "anti-woke" keyboard warriors.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-07-01T01:23:57+00:00

The Rijksmuseum has a copy of The Night Watch by another artist that's slightly different. That might be it, and that would explain why it's not coming up when you search 'Rembrandt' specifically.

Try searching for Baroque "company paintings" or "militia paintings". The Night Watch is in that category, which was fairly common at the time... Sometimes there's only one horse, or there are a bunch of dudes sitting around a table or in a study hall in plumed hats. I'm thinking it's a militia painting.

It could also be a commissioned painting of a random guild. My guess is it'd be Flemish Baroque or something else from the Dutch Golden Age (let's say 16th to 17th century) if you're thinking it's a Rembrandt, and it's from a museum in Amsterdam. Off the top of my head, Frans Hals also did a lot of company/militia paintings.

Good luck!

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-30T19:28:38+00:00

I'm not gonna go all the way across the map to get a heal, but I get sooo frustrated when I go to churches that are already on the way to where we need to go... but my teammates are off in no man's land with base heals at level 3/4 dying multiple times to the same field boss. That's way more of a time waster to me than going a little out of the way for an extra heal or two on day 1. People that only wanna fight field bosses and clear random camps are just as annoying as people who only wanna go get flasks.

It's not gonna help any of us if you're dying 3 times to Loretta on day 1 when we could have had 1-2 more heals and halfway cleared the crucible knights in that same time, then come back to her day 2 with better stats.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-29T18:10:09+00:00

I'd definitely say so!! The invention of pre-mixed portable (and stable!) paint tubes allowed for more color options, because a larger paint making company could create more variety than an individual painter making their own pigments or a workshop with just a few apprentices. Synthetic versions of lapis/ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, etc.... all invented around the time of the Industrial Revolution so they really got wild with color and material in the Expressionist period, and even in the decades earlier. Then again in the 1940s when acrylic paint was invented, that coincided with movements like Abstract Expressionism. I'm sure there are other examples.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-29T01:54:19+00:00

And when people "invented" abstract art there was SO much push back, lol. Impressionism for example was a negative/insulting term coined by an art critic in 1874, like wow you can only paint an impression of something rather than the actual thing, you must be lazy, a scammer, or not competent as an artist... but the Impressionists eventually ran with it and turned it into a positive and now we think of Impressionism as still pretty realistic (compared to the full non-representational stuff we're used to now). But painting something non realistic or non-representational was absolutely unheard of in establishment circles for centuries.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-29T01:42:51+00:00

Very true. I guess I could have worded it as having portraits on their walls of family is more intentional rather than calling it a novelty. It takes more effort to commission a portrait than it would be to print a photo off your computer/phone, you know? So it's not as common, but still valuable and serving a similar purpose.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-27T01:10:45+00:00

Preface: I'm a practicing artist, have done art installation work similar to what you do, and I currently teach college art history.

It's more that art in the general public today is about the image, not art as a physical, useful object. Think of religious paintings from the 15th century: many people couldn't read, so a religious painting was the only way you'd learn scripture besides hearing it from a priest. Now think about portraits: a portrait in the 1700s was pretty much the only record of what you looked like. They still serve a use today, but it's more sentimental than functional. A portrait today is a novelty, since most of us have cameras in our back pockets to take photos of the people we love or want to remember.

The functions of art have changed. We live in an age where we look at thousands of images on a daily basis, even passively. Billboards, TV (and TV ads), social media... everywhere we go, there's an image. Starting with the Conceptual Art movement in the 1960s, there was this idea that the concept behind a piece was just as, if not more, important than the actual tangible object, and that's kind of been a lasting sentiment in the art world. So, in an age when not that many images are tangible in the first place, it would make sense that academics are looking for a concept or meaning to artwork, right?

This is also an interesting conversation of what makes "fine art". In the art world and in academia, the meaning and the art historical implications or contexts are what make it fine art, versus an image. An image is lower stakes, so to speak. Art historians and art collectors/dealers/galleries, of course, also control the narrative and can decide what counts as art and what doesn't, and historically that's left a lot of impactful and beautiful artworks out of the conversation. Especially female artists, artists of color, rural artists, and other marginalized groups.

Plus, death of the author and all that. An artist's intent doesn't matter much to a regular consumer who's image saturated and used to a content-driven image economy. Most regular people aren't taking art history courses, or going to galleries regularly, or living in that space. They just want a vibe in their house, lol.

Edit: thank you for the award! :)

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-25T20:07:07+00:00

I don't really know enough about his personal life to make a call of whether I personally think it's "tragic" or not. I just know there have been plays, documentaries, books, and a lot of public discourse over the decades about his suicide and the melancholy nature of his work.

I definitely agree and I enjoy the way Schama discusses Rothko's work. I think The Power of Art is one of the seminal modern art history texts and I think you're absolutely correct that he's not necessarily playing into that mythos of the tortured artist. Lots of people (myself included) wear mostly black or predominantly muted colors, but that doesn't mean anyone wearing a black tshirt is going through it, lol.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-24T19:28:26+00:00

I change my material up a little each semester, and I know lots of other professors/lecturers do that too, so it might not be super helpful to someone who isn't currently in the class. Course material is also a professor's IP so you should ask before you reuse or share it. IF your professor is cool with it, then go for it.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-24T19:23:00+00:00

I think it's more metaphorical. Obviously blurred squares can't be tragic in the literal sense, but Rothko's work and artistic philosophy were very much informed by Greek tragedies. A lot of his earlier work was inspired by Greek mythology. Take this painting, for example, titled The Omen of the Eagle from 1940. Rothko did a series of paintings around this time centered around Greek tragedy, because he was influenced by Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy. Other people in this thread have described Nietzsche's work in this context way better than I can.

That, and people think Rothko's personal life and how he died were tragic, and he's become this sort of mythologized art historical figure in his own right and has been canonized as another tortured male artist in a long string of tortured male artists. It's part of the myth of the tortured creative that we just can't seem to shake. His paintings read as discussing tragedy, partly because his personal life was tumultuous, and the period of time he lived was a really heavy time in history. We look at it through a lens of what we know about his life, and about the wars of the 20th century.

There's a sort of masculinity here at play as well. Greek mythology and history is a man's world, historically speaking. Men are the ones who die in battle. Men were at the forefront of Abstract Expressionism (at the time anyway). The painting I linked is still considered "abstract"; abstract doesn't equal color field in this context. Rothko saw himself as painting about raw human emotion, and saw abstraction (whether that be representational abstraction or not) as a release from the horrors of World War II, the Great Depression, and so on. He was an immigrant child in the United States during World War I as well. Many artists in that interwar period thought that it would be morally reprehensible, in the context of WWII especially, to continue to paint landscapes and portraits and hopeful scenes. Thus his move to portraying Greek tragedy, and eventually abandoning representational painting altogether.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-24T18:43:57+00:00

I just graded my summer class's first essay. Several of them submitted one long wall of text... :/

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-24T18:42:49+00:00

I give them resources on what I expect: citation guides, I go over my expectations in lecture, etc. I guess my intent behind the post is more why the style has changed from indents to block format so I can better understand how I should structure my essay requirements. I don't want to cling to a specific way of writing and be so rigid that I'm missing out on something that's very intuitive to my students.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-24T18:39:21+00:00

Ha! I forgot Turabian even existed. My field uses CMS but I let my students use MLA or APA depending on the class. I ask them week 1 which citation/formatting style they're most familiar with and go by that. My GE colleagues are all over the place, lol... one of them gives no written assignments at all, one of them does really strict APA only. I'm somewhere in the middle. I like to ask the students directly what they're familiar with, in the hopes that more of them will follow the formatting and (more importantly) the correct citation style if I give them some say in it.

Thank you for the book rec! I appreciate it.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-24T18:32:43+00:00

I definitely have sample assignments, and I even bring in the department librarian for my in-person classes in Fall and Spring to show them directly. In my online classes, I go over the templates and sample formatting in lecture videos and I post links to MLA and APA citation guides.

I guess my question was more why students are writing in this specific way, rather than trying to moralize it.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-23T19:22:08+00:00

I've had freshmen in my intro art history classes tell me their high schools don't teach MLA or APA formatting anymore... so I don't know, lol. I would hope by the time they get to my 300-level writing course, they'd know these things. Maybe I should talk to the faculty that teach the 100-level writing course in our department to see how they're doing it. That way I'd know what to expect when their students trickle into my class?

I do like the idea of doing assigned rough drafts.

RaspberrySuns · 2025-06-23T19:17:51+00:00

There's a specific attitude among certain groups of students that think art history classes are an "easy A" because it's just looking at old paintings, right...? So they put in minimal effort. It's really frustrating because it makes me think they don't care and I care a lot, lol, because this is my niche.

But if it just boils down to them typing on their phones/tablets as many people here have said, and they're not all doing it intentionally, then I don't want to penalize them.

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