The Art of Peace; Thursday, Third Period [11/17].

[sake_shinigami]

Even though he had been incredibly successful in his quest for napping at the store yesterday, Shunsui was still feeling....well, perhaps tired was not exactly the right word, but he'd just come from a weekend of training with his Division, and so his enthusiasm for doing more training with his students was leaving a lot to be desired. Thankfully, he'd set himself up nicely for a very easy and effortless class today.

There were pillows, there was tea, there was an instructor sitting comfortably among both of them with his usual sleepy smile seeming a little more genuine this week. He waved a hand in a gesture to invite everyone to get settled if they haven't already (they certainly knew the drill by now), pouring and distributing cups as wanted before getting started.

"Last week," he began, "we focused on getting to know your enemy ♥. This week, let us put those efforts into action. Take turns working with each other; one of you is to be threatening violence above all things; the other must try to placate that violence by offering more peaceful negotiation, and see how successful you are in convincing your classmates....or me, if you feel so inclined ♥....to choose peace not war in these scenarios. Pretty simple, neh ♥?"

And hopefully nothing that would escalate into actual violence, but he had confidence in this particular group that this would not be the case.

Library, Thursday 11/17

[noonedecidesmyfate]

When Belle arrived in the library there was a very long list of books waiting for her on the desk with a note to pull them all for a project.

There was no name on the note. There was no indication of what the project might be. There was only the list and the note.

Belle had nothing else that needed doing while she was here so she set to work finding the hundreds of books on the list and putting them on a cart. It was going to take much longer than anticipated because she kept stopping to read the cover copy to see what the books were about.

Sexy Crimes, Thursday - 2nd Period

[ohvalleyofpenis]

At least one of your teachers was sniffling and covered in a blanket today, class. Because children? Children were germ factories.

"I don't know which child gave me a cold, but I hate them for it," Jaskier rasped. Like a real, mature adult.

Cara attempted to sound authoritative, but had completely lost her voice. "So you should all think about washing your hands."

"There is nothing sexy about being sick, so today will feature tea. With honey. And lemon," Jaskier added. "And naps."

So many naps.

Intro to Palaeontology - Thursday, 1st Period

[itsananomaly]

This week Cutter did have a lecture prepared, even after spending a few days as a child over the weekend, “so this week we’re going to continue on with our coverage of extinction periods,” he began as he started to hand out the usual amount of notes that he had prepared.


“Last time we covered the Ordervician - Silurian Extinction and the Devonian Mass Extinction,” Cutter said once the notes had been handed out, “we’re going to cover just one mass extinction event this week and that is one we’ve touched upon earlier this semester and that is the Permian-Triassic Extinction,”

“Since this is considered to be one of the worst mass extinction event that the Earth has currently faced, I thought it should have it’s own lecture,” he explained, “this extinction event is also known as the Great Dying and it happened 252 million years ago and this caused the extinction over 95 percent of marine and 70 percent of terrestrial species,”

“According to fossil evidence, it is believed that there were large coniferous forests in modern day Europe and like with a number of plants that didn’t survive the extinction event and this is also one of the rare cases where a mass extinction of insects have occurred. One of the few species that weren’t as severely impacted by this extinction event were fungi and this was because there was plentiful dead animal and plant material for them,”

“There are a few different hypothesis on what caused this extinction event and that there were a number of environmental changes that led to this, these include the temperate increasing so that marine life living in shallow waters couldn’t survive, that there was significant changes in the carbon cycle and that this had an impact in regards to the biological cycle during this time following the eruption of the Siberian flood basalts,”

“It is also believed that the environmental changes on land occurred before the impact started to reach the oceans and that is why there is a considerable difference in the impact to the marine and terrestrial species,”

“Now I believe a couple of weeks ago I asked you to do a report into a mass extinction event that we’ve covered, if you hadn’t already done so I’ll extend the report until next week and we’ll present it then,”