The Art of Peace; Thursday, Third Period [10/27].

[sake_shinigami]

The class would be returning to their classroom again this week, with its circle of comfortable pillows and pot of tea, which was not the tea Shunsui had intended to make, but it was still tea all the same. And Shunsui sitting in his usual spot in the circle would be a good indication to the students that another discussion class was in order.

Although, really, he'd gone and taught an actual lesson that involved doing things last week. The fact that they didn't just have a movie today or an unexpected free period was a miracle in and of itself.

"Welcome back, ducklings ♥!" Shunsui, of course, greeted them with a smile as they got settled in. "Today I'd like to have a discussion," surprise!, "about last week's class, where our very own lovely Rosa-chan," and here he spared a small little pout for the current lack of her radiant and cheerful presence again this week--maybe he should, at some point, pester her about doing a joint class; that should go over beautifully!, "and I taught you about Aikido ♥, so this week, I would like to hear your thoughts on it ♥. Things like Aikido have its roots in the non-agression principle of pacifism, which can tie into peace. While nonviolence rejects the use of violence, non-aggression rejects the use of aggression ♥!" He chuckled faintly. "Makes sense, neh ♥? Aggression is generally defined as the initiation of a physical force against person or property, and does not reject the idea of self-defense in response to aggression initiated against yourself, as non-violence sometimes might.

"We saw in class how something like Aikido can be used to still be fairly non-violent while also being non-aggressive, but is it truly non-violent? Can it be considered peaceful ♥? Must true peace absolve itself entirely from all physical conflict? Or are there exceptions, as just remaining passive in the face of violence only propagates the violence, and therefor could be considered to be inspiring more violence elsewhere ♥? Can you truly fight for peace? What are your personal thoughts on the self-defense philosophy of Aikido and how it applies to your own perceptions of peace so far? There is certainly no lack of topics we can discuss on this matter, so let us do just that ♥."

Or just nap.

Napping will always be a valid option in this class. In fact, Shunsui would enthusiastically support the idea that it was one of, if not the best, example of peaceful resistance he could think of.

Sexy Crimes, Thursday - 2nd Period

[ohvalleyofpenis]

"Caution," Jaskier said. "Caution is the key word for the day."

Because this idiot practiced caution. Suuuuure.

Cara looked especially convinced. "Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour, regardless of how valourous you consider sexy crimes. Which means you need to consider the value of finding someone to hide behind."

Notice how Jaskier was definitely scuttling behind Cara a little bit there. "Exactly! Sometimes you get in just a bit over your head and need some assistance."

"Capable assistance," Cara said, with an eyeroll that was maybe a touch more fond than she'd ever willingly admit to. "Which means that some of you will probably be ones hid behind."

"....sooo perhaps you should see who is best to either protect you from harm or who you are suited to doing the protecting!" Look, this was the most plausible outcome from the sexy crimes right here.

It took a lot of work being this sexy, they had to spend less effort on something.

Library, Thursday 10/27

[noonedecidesmyfate]

There was quite the display of 'Chilling Tales' set up when Belle arrived in the library after her class today.

"I didn't even know we had this many books that were meant to be frightening," she said to nobody in particular. But perhaps there was a library ghost listening that she didn't know about. Or a gremlin lurking. She hoped there weren't any gremlins lurking.

She settled in at the desk to eat her lunch, eventually, only to find that her tea has turned into some sort of sickeningly sweet red juice and the pasta she'd ordered was cold and dyed to look like... something disgusting.

"Perhaps I'll eat later."

Intro to Palaeontology - Thursday, 1st Period

[itsananomaly]

“This week we’re going to start looking at extinction events,” Cutter began that weeks lesson as he handed out that week’s set of notes , “a mass extinction event is an event where there is significant loss of Earth’s living species over a short period of geographical time,” he explained, “there have been five mass extinction events that have occurred and these are the Ordervician - Silurian Extinction, the Devonian Mass Extinction, the Permian-Triassic Extinction, the Triassic-Jurassic extol and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction,”

“We’re going to begin to cover the first two mass extinctions today, so the first one we’re covering is the Ordervician - Silurian Extinction Event,” he continued, “this is the first mass extinction event that took place during the Hirnantian Age roughly 445 to 443 million years ago in the Odervician Period and the Rhuddanian Age of the Silurian Period from roughly 443 to 440 million years ago,”

“The Ordovician Period is noted for significant changes regarding Plate Tectonics, Biological and Climate systems,” he went on, “and it also saw some of the most diverse appearance of marine life and the first plants began to appear on and this mass extinction is the second largest in Earth’s history, wiping out nearly 85% of all species at the time” he paused, “you may recall a few weeks ago, I mentioned that the largest mass extinction was at the end of the Permian Period and we will be looking at this in the next lecture,”

“The second mass extinction we’ll be looking at is the Devonian Mass Extinction Events and there were three specific extinction events in this time, each one occurring every ten million years,” he added, “this occurred roughly 419 to 359 million years ago and while there was catastrophic loss of life through these different events, it is estimated that up to 70 to 80 percent of animal life that were living in this time were lost and in particular marine life was the hardest hit in this extinction event,”

“For the next class I would like you to prepare a report on one of these extinction events, looking at the causes of what happened and the impact that they had in shaping the planet as we know today,”