la consolation de philologie

PhD student in Medieval French and Italian Literature and Philology. Books, journals, writing, and die-hard obsessions (including Tolkien, Dante, Shakespeare, Hugo, Hetalia, MCU). And coffee. Lots of it.

[a-study-in-dante]

I started a list of "things to do after the PhD" and it's going from "getting back into analog photography" to "empty the freezer" lol

[convergingtimelines]

“You know that history is mostly happenstance. Accidents piled on top of mistakes, a series of dice rolled in dim rooms by careless hands. It is not a lesson, until we learn it. It is not a story, until we tell it. And every story serves someone.” ― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

[tizian-a]

two pages from my notes now that i finished my vasari readthrough 📝

[tizian-a]

quiet week on campus

[words-i-loved-too-much]

“I loved you by then, or would soon, or always had. It was inevitable, foretold: When I look up, I will see the sky; when I fight, I will win; when I meet Owen Mallory, I will love him.”

- Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

[adonischildsupportcase]

[a-study-in-dante]

lowkey wishing that during my phd defense someone asks if I've used AI because I'm burning to answer either

No, at the risk of using a faulty machine I'd rather use my own brain

2. Dude, I didn't even use an automatic spell-checker because I wrote it using La-fucking-TeX

hope this helps

(I don't touch that shit with a 2km pole btw)

[kuttithevangu]

Instead of doomscrolling lately I have been reading my PDFs and it turns out if you do this you learn a whole bunch of stuff. I’m afraid I must recommend it

[a-study-in-dante]

Five years of phd and google books finally came through

[ohk4te]

chilled in the national archives online catalogue and wrote a thousand words of the prospectus in a sun puddle this morning 📃

[urmumsfan]

i am dumber & smarter than u think. do not estimate me

[a-study-in-dante]

Saw the advisor this afternoon, now it's time to stress shop

[crookedkingdom]

not enough of you on here are obsessed with the handsome lady knight and her little historian husband who is doomed to watch her die over and over again. disappointing.

[my-table-of-things]

january.

[a-study-in-dante]

the fact that I finished Hollow Knight at 102% but I still don't know batshit about what was going on the whole game has me thinking the phd really did fry my brain

[learnelle]

life recently: missing the gloomy weather, lots of scribbling in my journal, finding cats to pet

[a-study-in-dante]

maybe I'm not cut out to work in academia

(received email from a student, overthought it for five days, will need two business days to recover from typing an answer)

[a-study-in-dante]

Note to self to include this in my slides next time