Ava Murbarger (Solfyre)

@hybridlore @whalekeeper @theducktator

Jumping in on this conversation, hehehe…

I’m going to prom this year!! But not a homeschool one. I’m a sophomore, and my school (a hybrid/private school) lets all high schoolers go since our high school isn’t as big as a public school, lol. I’m so excited!!

Also… if any of y’all go to a homeschool pr…[Read more]

@keilah-h

Or I’ll take something important to the character from them. (Like Toothless’s tail fin.)

You just triggered my repressed obsession for HTTYD and I’m not complaining. The Vikings are many things, but they are not ableist, and it’s so well done. 😂

you should totally draw it when you’ve figured it out though, that’d be so cool.

@elishavet-pidyon yeahhh Jo doesn’t really fit him.

GE as in Green Ember?

I have no idea. Not a lot of characters are the short, stocky, good with an axe type.

@theducktator

Lolol!!

@elishavet-pidyon

Ooh, great snippets!! 🥺

Oh, we dissected a fetal pig (I was also out that week hehe 🤭) in Challenge 2, and my teacher thought it was so funny that we’d read Animal Farm a week before. 🤢

@theducktator

Maybe if/when you move to Indiana, we’ll end up at a homeschool prom together. I will hopefully go to a prom next year.

That would be so cool! I could totally see that happening if we did move there. I don’t really know what we’re doing, though. My parents are also considering another state (we’re waiting to see if we can get a renta…[Read more]

@whalekeeper that’s cool. Since I usually write fanfics, I like to connect it back to something that’s already happened. If a character was, say, shot in the leg once canonically, I might have issues with that come back later (his leg might be stiffer, he might walk with a limp, maybe he even needs a prosthetic because the wound got wor…[Read more]

@keilah-h

Yeah. I have an even split of disabilities caused during the stories and before. So many of them have to do with mobility. And then I realized, ‘oh duh, I’m just writing what I know.’ XD

@whalekeeper oooh that’s always fun.

@theducktator

Or combine option A and option B so some characters die, some are permanently wounded, but they did it for a good trade, and so ultimately accept it as a win-win. I love inflicted-and-permanent disability, it’s such a useful trope. (Plus it adds some much-needed disability rep.)

@ellette-giselle But you have to leave at least one alive! Then you can have survivor guilt and mental trauma and all that jazz. And maybe, they can find hope in another book.

I still don’t get how you actually want all your favorite characters to die before the end of the book lol. Like, aren’t there any that you’d rather see live…[Read more]

@theducktator that last one!

I’m all of those how—

@elishavet-pidyon

Ah, good. I was also mildly bamboozled for a minute. XD

@theducktator

It is a very big book! And I don’t think we made anything too crazy in chemistry, but there were mild chemical reactions, and I dissected a pregnant shark. Maybe that’s irregular, though. Was that in Challenge 2…? 🤔

Hehehehe the teacher will never know… &#x1f60…

@hybridlore

Yeah, it was a little weird jumping in mid-year, but I’m glad I did.

Good! It can be rough jumping from one thing to another.

That seems like a given, but I don’t think I’ve ever went through an entire history of America in order—more like isolated events and time periods.

Yeah, same, up until that point. And for me, we focused more on…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

I have a classmate who started just like that.

Oh, cool! Yeah, it was a little weird jumping in mid-year, but I’m glad I did.

History is fun! I like Challenge 4’s history best, but it was cool to learn about all the unfamiliar American events.

Yeah! I really liked that the book we used went through everything in chronological ord…[Read more]

@hybridlore

I’ve only done this year and the last half of Challenge 2

I have a classmate who started just like that.

I also enjoyed American history and Shakespeare (somewhat.)

History is fun! I like Challenge 4’s history best, but it was cool to learn about all the unfamiliar American events.

Unfortunately, I don’t think I’m close enough to you t…

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@whalekeeper

I’ve only done this year and the last half of Challenge 2, but I preferred this one by a lot. Music theory and chemistry was pretty fun, and I also enjoyed American history and Shakespeare (somewhat.)

What are your speeches about?

Umm… good question. One of them is a philosophy lecture, but I’m not really sure what to do for that…[Read more]