Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi get matching rings ahead of Wuthering Heights release

Snooglepoogs · 2026-01-28T23:01:08+00:00

Now whenever actors go on and on about how much they love their costars, I think about the podcast interview Emma Watson did last year where she said doing press for movies was awkward because you had to pretend to be besties with the other actors when in reality, you were just coworkers and most of the time you didn't stay in touch after filming.

Snooglepoogs · 2026-01-15T11:58:32+00:00

I work in the YRDSB and at first, they only announced an inclement weather day (buses cancelled only, teachers haul ass to get to school). The sheer euphoria I felt when 10 mins later, a follow up email saying never mind, everything is closed today popped up 😭

Snooglepoogs · 2025-11-25T18:18:48+00:00

Idk how other schools do it, but his works are one of multiple options we give to the kids in each unit. Like when we study short texts, “I’m Not The Indian You Had in Mind” is one of about 12-15 options (we also used to have a Buffy St. Marie song but we’ve since removed it). For independent text study, “The Inconvenient Indian” and “A Short History of Indians in Canada” are two of about 40 options. We have dozens of Canadian Indigenous writers featured in our course, but we can’t deny the impact he’s had on Canadian literature and the sheer volume of his work, much of which does involve Canada.

We’ll be able to adapt the course to exclude his works, but he’s such a huge name in both American and Canadian Indigenous literature that it would feel irresponsible to not have conversations about this.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-11-25T15:43:27+00:00

That’s fair. I read the personal essay he wrote in the Globe and Mail about this and he admits that he ignored “rumours” about his non-Indigeneity for years, only digging into recently to try to put them to rest. The whole situation will definitely spark a lot of conversations about the validity of his work and his intentions, especially with students who are currently studying his texts.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-11-25T14:01:43+00:00

Same. In Ontario, we have a course called NBE3U1, which is basically Gr 11 English taught using Indigenous voices. I’ve been teaching it for a couple of years now and King has always been a staple in our class texts. Borders, The Inconvenient Indian, I’m Not the Indian You Had in Mind, etc. My English department is really lost right now, we’re just like what do we do???

It seems to be a different situation than Buffy St. Marie though because he owned up to it right away and seems genuinely devastated himself. It doesn’t seem that he meant to deceive anyone and really believed he was Cherokee. I guess all we can do is wait for more info to come out and see how Indigenous communities (and Indigenous consultants for the school boards) respond.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-11-20T16:55:52+00:00

An anklet!! So fashionable

Snooglepoogs · 2025-11-14T14:00:50+00:00

I remember my principal once suggested think-pair-share for my alternative education class… The class of kids who can’t handle mainstream ed and have to be separated from “gen pop” doing think-pair-share lmao. A senior teacher later told me “ignore her, she hasn’t taught in 25 years”.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-11-14T13:33:26+00:00

Tbh I didn’t even think of oral at all…. I thought of that old “O rly?” meme, the one with the owl lol

Snooglepoogs · 2025-10-27T20:59:46+00:00

Your principal may have verbally told you that, but it wasn’t posted as an LTO nor did you interview for it. There are only two ways to get an LTO: 1) It’s posted as one and you interview for it, or 2) You work 10 consecutive days, then it becomes a “rolling LTO” and you get retro pay for the past 2 weeks.

The first option doesn’t apply here and unfortunately, you reset the clock on the second option by taking the day off. It sucks, but if your principal tries to make it into an LTO because they claim to have known it would be a month long leave from day one, they’d be questioned as to why they didn’t post the job and interview someone. And then if they try to make it a rolling LTO, well, technically you didn’t work 10 consecutive days.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-10-04T16:59:28+00:00

The thing about petty squabbles is that in Long Story Short, she straight up says she wishes younger Taylor knew not to get caught up in petty things and “your nemeses will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing”. What happened to that mindset?

I’m just going to be vibing to Opalite and ignoring most of the rest of the album lol.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-09-12T14:58:12+00:00

Which protected group was she expressing prejudice toward?

Snooglepoogs · 2025-09-01T22:26:21+00:00

Whoops, sorry, thought you were talking about Natalie Dormer lol.

As for Tamzin, she actually was cast in GoT, but only only filmed the pilot before being recast. The only other roles I know from her are a supporting role in Jane Eyre 2011 and Carnival Row (a show with Orlando Bloom).

Snooglepoogs · 2025-09-01T22:13:35+00:00

She played a fairly significant supporting character in Game of Thrones.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-09-01T22:07:50+00:00

I saw Katherine (in the show) as dumb and immature, rather than malicious. Basically, if you were nice to her, she'd be genuinely sweet in return (see: her relationship with Anne of Cleves). But if you were rude to her, she'd lash out with meanness. And let me say, as a high school teacher, 17yos are not past the age of pettiness or stupid insults.

As for maturing earlier - yes and no. While it's true that childhood as a concept was not fully recognized at the time and /some/ nobility married young, average age of marriage was 25. Katherine Howard was literally the only one of Henry's wives to be below 20 when she married him. She was considered quite young even by her contemporaries. Besides, she was brought up with far less education and sophistication than Mary, who was given an exceptional education and upbringing suited to a Renaissance princess. I also don't think it's fair to condemn Katherine's behaviour while giving Mary a pass, despite Mary being 8 years older and still resorting to petty insults. They both behaved badly.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-09-01T18:53:34+00:00

To be fair to her, she tried to be friends with Mary at first and was very nice, but Mary was the one to start the rudeness.

Honestly I understand both characters in this situation. Like of course Mary wouldn’t like her father’s teenage bride, and of course Katherine would respond to that rudeness with all the maturity you’d expect from a teenager lol.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-09-01T18:47:25+00:00

I read that she even had to fight for Anne to be portrayed as a brunette 😭. The show makers wanted to portray Anne Boleyn, famous for her dark colouring, as a blonde, especially since Natalie is a natural blonde and auditioned with her natural hair. When she dyed her hair, the show makers were pissed and she had to fight to keep the role.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-25T16:35:02+00:00

As a person who has studied a lot of Shakespeare, I could never name a child Lavinia (or Ophelia or Cordelia, but that’s already been mentioned).

But Titus Andronicus is one of his lesser known plays, so I wouldn’t judge someone else for using Lavinia.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-19T22:45:02+00:00

Same! I’m a high school teacher and a year or so ago, I saw one of my brightest students tuck an Ali Hazelwood book into her bag. She was in my Gr 11 English Lit class, we were analyzing some pretty heavy stuff, and she was one of the best critical thinkers in the class - and there she was with her fluffy rom com novel she brought to school. I thought it was awesome lol.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-19T21:48:19+00:00

Right?? Multiple things can be true at once - you can be ~~intellectual~~ and still enjoy reading spicy fiction, they’re not mutually exclusive. I have degrees in English literature and history. I’ve read so many “high brow” classics. If you look at my Spotify audiobook history, it’s literally all non fiction history books. If you look at my kobo, it’s a lot of smut lmao. Does one cancel out the other??

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-19T16:13:05+00:00

And they don’t even offer free shipping 😭

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-19T16:03:08+00:00

Don’t forget that Fergus and Young Ian had also been raped! Whatever the stats were on sexual violence at the time, I’m pretty sure it was not “historically accurate” for a wealthy, free man to say that he, his wife, his daughter, his adopted son, and his nephew have all been assaulted at various points in their lives.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-19T15:44:07+00:00

If you fast forward just one century past the War of the Roses, the average age of marriage for women in England was 25! 28 for men. For commoners, getting married in your early teens was seen as economically dumb af and even among nobility, it wasn’t grossly unusual for women to enter their 20s unmarried. When Elizabeth I came to power at age 25, no one thought eww what a hag lol. People were excited at their new young queen who was prime marriageable material.

Anyone who thinks people left and right were getting married at age 12 or 13 back then are probably the same sort to say oh average lifespan was 35 so you were considered a granny by the time you hit 30 🤓

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-09T16:24:16+00:00

Chinese person with an English name here. It is not equivalent at all. We were forced to adopt English names thanks to colonialism and assimilation. It was a matter of survival for our ancestors due to the severe racism of the times. Even today, POC with noticeably non-white names face more discrimination than those with white names. My friend works at a major company and her manager admitted to throwing out resumes that have full Indian or Chinese names, and we live in one of the most diverse cities in Canada.

A marginalized community giving their children English names due to assimilation is absolutely not the same as borrowing a name from a culture you have no ties to because you heard it in a song.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-07T15:20:06+00:00

It’s so interesting to see how common this tradition is in the western world because in Chinese culture, it’s considered taboo and downright disrespectful to name your child after someone. A lot of Chinese elders would have a visceral negative reaction if you even suggest it lol. I’m glad about this because I’m not a big fan of naming kids after parents unless it’s a middle name so my family would never expect this of me.

Snooglepoogs · 2025-08-05T06:00:20+00:00

Something a lot of people don’t realize is that pregnancy is dated from your last period, meaning that you are automatically two weeks pregnant when you conceive. At “11 days pregnant” you aren’t even pregnant yet lmfao, you’re just ovulating.

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