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Character has a PhD: they’re really smart and knowledgable about their field!

Character has 2 PhDs: either they did a dual degree program and are braggy about it, had a life-changing experience after their first degree and pivoted their whole career, or they find the structure of being a PhD student, despite all its stress, more comfortable and familiar than the stress of finding a Real Job and have a very indulgent advisor.

Character has 3 PhDs: who keeps accepting them to PhD programs. Either this person needs psychological help or their department needs to be investigated for its academic standards. Probably both

Character has 4+ PhDs: if they aren’t an undercover vampire or something then no they don’t lol

prokopetz

Alternatively: this character is some kind of rock star celebrity in their field and has a bunch of honorary degrees from several different institutions, and also this story takes place before most universities adopted a separate postnominal for honorary doctorates specifically to avoid this sort of confusion.

dukeofriven

"Steven has five PhDs!" "Then why don't we call him Dr. Steven?" "I just said he had five, I didn't say he'd earned them himself." "Oh... okay, like honorary or—?" "No they're all full PhDs." "Well I've never seen them, why doesn't he put them on display?" "Are you stupid? If he ever let them out of the basement they'd try to escape."

smallestreeee

It's been a while since I got to draw a good dragon 🤭

frogliftcertified

what is it they put in the hardware store to make it smell so good

frogliftcertified

OK 👍 that is helps

skopostheorie

finelythreadedsky

obsessed with this detail on this item from today's anthropeum (link to object page at the met). little guy's falling out of his metope.

homoqueerjewhobbit

The crowd was as much a part of the show as the band. Everyone was there: North Beach beatniks and barrio zoots, the bored bikers in black leather, teenagers in the back row kissing. There were long-haired, lithe girls in belly-dance get-ups, pink-haired punks safety-pinned together, hippie suburbanites, movie stars so beautiful they left you dumbstruck, muscle gayboys with perfect mustaches, butch dykes in blue jeans, and fairies of all genders in thrift-store dresses. We rode the mirrored ball on glittering LSD and love power. Dance fused us, magical and cleansing. We were all in a swirl of color and light. It was like a rainbow.

A rainbow. That’s the moment when I knew exactly what kind of flag I would make.

-Excerpt from Gilbert Baker's memoirs.

ladytabletop

Oddfolk (Speculative Fancies) by Aaron King

Aaron King once again proving why they are the master of writing compelling moves. (you might know them from Whale Ate Your Parents)

cross-x-rose

"Alice Through The Looking Glass" statue at Guildford Castle ground in England by sculptor Jeanne Argent.

specialagentartemis

Character has a PhD: they’re really smart and knowledgable about their field!

Character has 2 PhDs: either they did a dual degree program and are braggy about it, had a life-changing experience after their first degree and pivoted their whole career, or they find the structure of being a PhD student, despite all its stress, more comfortable and familiar than the stress of finding a Real Job and have a very indulgent advisor.

Character has 3 PhDs: who keeps accepting them to PhD programs. Either this person needs psychological help or their department needs to be investigated for its academic standards. Probably both

Character has 4+ PhDs: if they aren’t an undercover vampire or something then no they don’t lol

prokopetz

Alternatively: this character is some kind of rock star celebrity in their field and has a bunch of honorary degrees from several different institutions, and also this story takes place before most universities adopted a separate postnominal for honorary doctorates specifically to avoid this sort of confusion.

indigofoxpaws

alternatively: character is multiple raccoons in a trenchcoat; each raccoon has a different degree

corsairesix

Inadvisable X-Men Lineup #72

The X-Men need to infiltrate a French anti-mutant organization so they send all of their Francophone members: Monet, Gambit, Northstar, Aurora, Karma, Tarot, and Fantomex.

Unfortunately, Gambit, Northstar, and Aurora's French is incomprehensible in France, and Fantomex can't actually speak French, everyone just assumed he did because of his fake French accent.

specialagentartemis

Character has a PhD: they’re really smart and knowledgable about their field!

Character has 2 PhDs: either they did a dual degree program and are braggy about it, had a life-changing experience after their first degree and pivoted their whole career, or they find the structure of being a PhD student, despite all its stress, more comfortable and familiar than the stress of finding a Real Job and have a very indulgent advisor.

Character has 3 PhDs: who keeps accepting them to PhD programs. Either this person needs psychological help or their department needs to be investigated for its academic standards. Probably both

Character has 4+ PhDs: if they aren’t an undercover vampire or something then no they don’t lol

prokopetz

Alternatively: this character is some kind of rock star celebrity in their field and has a bunch of honorary degrees from several different institutions, and also this story takes place before most universities adopted a separate postnominal for honorary doctorates specifically to avoid this sort of confusion.

rlyehtaxidermist

character has every PhD: they were rushed through the process because the priests who created the ritual to seal away the world-eating demon lived at a time where "all doctoral qualifications" meant "is allowed to teach Latin" and they didn't futureproof their language

arvalis

Gem dragon design updates I did for D&D The Book of Dragons last year. Prints of them available here

shutyourmoustache

PLAGUE! PLAGUE! PLAGUE! PLAGUE!

vintageandroid

OOPS gotta reblog this one to bring it to the GHOST FANDOM.

@vonapplesauce

@vonapplesauce

When you get really fucked up on that hobby lifestyle, you'll soon find yourself in a strange new place. Industrial auctions can give you all the oddball professional-grade tools that you've always dreamed of, often at a fraction of the price. Are you an accomplished hobby welder? Probably you have always wanted a UV-reactive radio cranfondulator with which to inspect your wire for sharkbite oxides, but it just isn't justified because all you do is fix the exhaust on your shitty Celica once a year. At an industrial auction, maybe you can get one for five dollars. And that's when the fun begins.

As we all know, good tools are big tools. Even big-brain stuff like electron microscopes are large enough that they need a forklift and a buddy with an intact lower back to move. Getting all that shit out of the filthy warehouse or partially-collapsed office building is a task on its own. Sometimes you need to buy new tools just to move it: good thing you're at an auction that sells stuff like cranes, forklifts, and low-mileage/high-hour pickup trucks with an inexplicable thick layer of coal dust on every surface. Make sure to check the return policy.

So you got it home, and now everything's easy, right? Not so. You see, when a big business buys a new piece of industrial equipment, it usually comes with some assistance. Technicians, or at least a single-page badly-photocopied manual telling you where to plug it in. As such, your first project quickly becomes: how in the seven divine hells of AliExpress do I get this thing to work?

Resurrecting this ancient beast of commerce is not quite as simple as a consumer product. Consumer products are, by definition, popular. Really good tools? They may have made like ten of them. There, one quick web search can rapidly locate thousands of arguing morons who have strong opinions on how to set it up. No: if the company that made it even still exists, the best you can hope for is an email from the current engineers asking you to take a bunch of pictures of it because they've forgotten how to make one run. Then you have to bribe an electrician to do something that is "not advised for houses" to your house, just so you can power it.

Now you can have infinite hobby joy. This massive, overcomplicated, insanely expensive machine is at your fingertips, and you can finally check off that annoying task you've been putting off for the last couple of years. You know, this whole thing was so easy, why don't we go back to the auction next weekend and see if we can get a meta-masticating crombopulator to install right next to it?