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[autisticademia]

☆°~ INTRO TO MY BLOG ☆°~

Beck/Nathan, he/him!

teenager, in high school rn

really into the humanities + arts

not slaying at STEM but hoping to fix that

autistic + probably ADHD and trying to find study/learning methods that work for me

tentatively learning French + Tagalog but I am bad at languages so we try our best here

main blog is @transmasc-wizard, I'll follow and like from there

Hoping to post/reblog:

study tips to try or that work for me

journaling, scheduling, planning, etc content

other miscellaneous school tips

aesthetic content

some assorted things i like:

books: The Great Gatsby, the Secret History, the Grishaverse, the Raven Cycle

music: Hozier, the Crane Wives, MCR, Chappell Roan, Jhariah

hobbies: theatre, DND, reading, writing, drawing

Always looking for friends to exchange this stuff with !!

about me :3 || tagging system

[maidenvault]

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

[mooncustafer]

If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.

[xwilltruman]

i know the curtains better than the author. thank you for coming to my ted talk

[maidenvault]

Fandom has such unresolved mommy/daddy issues about authors. If you apply a little reading comprehension skills to my original post you’ll see I didn’t say anything at all about the author. You guys always make “interpretation” about your beef with the author. You’re all obsessed with the author. This post is just about deciphering what is there in canon. Figuring out what is being communicated by the canon itself with all the words and images and basic formal elements that are there in canon. That’s all it’s about. It really doesn’t matter if the author intentionally put all those things there in a pattern that might support the idea that this one character’s queer. That’s not what this is about. What matters is if you can compellingly argue there’s a pattern of evidence there. Or not. Everyone is conspiring together to make me go insane still adding shit about authorial intent on my post.

[augustdementhe]

IT'S GLASS.

This is "Arras", by Mark Lewanski, and the medium is G L A S S.

Just incredible.

[polarity-disturbed]

I just watched a video about students getting their papers falsely flagged for using AI, even when they didn’t, and the advice was things like, “Leave in incorrect grammar,” “If you’re quoting something, don’t copy and paste it, type it out manually because it leaves a metadata trail that you used the copy/paste function and that's a flag,” “Write in the cloud so there’s a version history,” and the one that really got me, “if you find you write in a manner that can sounds too robotic or professional and it gets flagged, go to the writing center so a writing tutor can help you sound more humanly flawed,” and like what the actual fuck.

Like I get that is practical advice, but people should not have to fucking do that. They should not have to train themselves around not sounding like AI, when AI only sounds like that BECAUSE it was trained on them.

I spent so much of my life learning how to write, I shouldn't have to unlearn that because some computer algorithm learned from me.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

My fellow college teachers, I have a thing you should consider: if your students can feasibly submit AI-written responses and get any grade higher than a C- then you are creating bad assignments. You should not have to put any effort into "detecting" the use of AI because AI cannot do the things you should be asking your students to do.

[crabussy]

sighing really long and loud. they should invent an essay that does itself

[crabussy]

(horror drone sound effect in the background getting louder) (remembering it is 2025) but not like that

[grapeflavoredraisins]

straight up "avoiding it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. my homework

[lowpawly]

I hate that like when arguing with christians about how they think that homosexuality is a sin because of the bible its a faux pas to be like ok well that's not real

[lowpawly]

I do not care about someone's personal creation mythology but when we are talking about like actual legislation that decides equal rights it is like ok you cannot just say source: religious document. why is that even allowed or taken seriously

[thatsbelievable]

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[circusheart]

no one knows if art is good or not

[identitty-dickruption]

it's crucial that you untie "special interest" from "expertise". "it's true just trust me bro" doesn't have any extra weight when you add "I know because it's my special interest". you are not immune from falling for misinformation, and you are not immune from sharing misinformation. not to mention the fact that "amount of knowledge" isn't even a requirement for something being classified as a special interest lol!

[grison-in-space]

Curating knowledge does not mean you know how to evaluate it. Period.

[mewvore]

Sometimes you need to read something twice to get it. You might need to watch a movie three times to understand it. You might have to have that album on repeat for a week until the lyrics make any sense. You're allowed to engage with it and can keep engaging with it until it means something to you. People will see a painting at a museum and laugh about not getting what the big deal is but like you can come back, you can see it at another time, and maybe that next time it'll be different for you. I'm of the belief the "media literacy crisis" would solve itself if more people just sat down and did it again. Watched, read, played, listened, etc like I don't think people are getting more ignorant necessarily I just think we're not glorifying personally replaying things nearly as much as we should be.

[sistertaxon]

Incidentally, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation. When we look at a painting we do no have to move our eyes in a special way even if, as in a book, the picture contains elements of depth and development. The element of time does not really enter in a first contact with a painting. In reading a book, we must have time to acquaint ourselves with it. We have no physical organ (as we have the eye in regard to a painting) that takes in the whole picture and can enjoy its details. But at a second, or third, or fourth reading we do, in a sense, behave towards a book as we do towards a painting.

- Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

[depsidase]

[lovepropaganda]

““Many white women have said to me, ‘We wanted black women and non-white women to join the movement,’ totally unaware of their perception that they somehow ‘own’ the movement, that they are the ‘hosts’ inviting us as ‘guests.’””

— bell hooks, “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center” (via straightbacksnohangtime)

[nerdpiggy]

i completely understand & agree with the backlash against students using chatgpt to get degrees but some of you are out here saying "getting a degree in xyz means pulling multiple consecutive all-nighters and writing essays through debilitating migraines and having severe back pain from constantly studying at your desk and chugging energy drinks until you get a kidney stone and waking up wishing you were dead every day, and that's just part of the natural process of learning!!!" and like. umm. i don't think that any of us should have had to endure that either. like maybe the solution for stopping students from using anti-learning software depends on college institutions making the process of learning actually sustainable on the human body & mind rather than a grueling health-destroying soul-crushing endeavor

[lesbinewren]

crazy how every time a female character gets cliche misogynistic writing we have to explain to people again that fictional characters are not real and do not choose things for themselves.

[lesbinewren]

it’s really this at the end of the day tbh

[aromanticsky]

[ID: post that reads: “the greatest stumbling block to media literacy is how many people think of stories as just documentaries of fictional worlds.” /end ID]

[creature-wizard]

The only truly effective way to avoid internalizing conspiracy theories and pseudoscience is to inoculate yourself against them by learning how to recognize them when you see them, which includes learning their history, their tropes, and their overall characteristics. It also includes learning information literacy and strengthening your critical thinking skills. Trying to avoid encountering them at all does nothing to inoculate you, which leaves you vulnerable to internalizing them from an unexpected source. You cannot give in to lazy/reactionary thinking on this one.

(In case you need it: here are resources.)

[creature-wizard]

I want to emphasize here that you absolutely cannot trust your progressive friends to never fall prey to some kind of BS and pass it on to you. Conspiracy theories and pseudoscience are like viruses; they evolve and adapt to propagate in whatever environment they're in. Antisemitism often masquerades as feminism. Christofascism often masquerades as saving abused children. Anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism often masquerades as sticking it to the white academics. No matter how progressive you think your friends are, you cannot trust them to do your thinking for you.