coffee addicted bibliophile

PhD student in Contemporary Irish Literature and Queer Diaspora

[citrusstudies]

November 2025

Had an outdoors-y Halloween weekend! Sometimes I spend so long working it's like I forget nature exists 🫣

Trying to take some pressure off myself as we get into the last few weeks of the semester... it's just not possible for me to keep doing everything to the same degree I have been. Fending off perfectionism by spending the whole day grading haha. At least thats done, though!!!

[mysticalcollegestudent]

25.10.2025

Tragedy of a day - i was set to go to a different city to see Kaamelott (french movie), the bus got delayed later and later, until it didn't make sense to go anymore. Of course, no trains under a certain price, no blablacar... ended up walking back home and buying soup ingredients for comfort 🥔🥕🍄‍🟫🧄🧅

Busy busy week, didn't take actual photos of the work in progress, so you get rain and fall colours !

[happylabyrinthhellhound]

Day 1 of being productive after fall break.

[testosteroncypionat]

🍂☀️ 02/11/2025 ☀️🍂

Goals achieved :

[✓] 1h ballistics

[✓] 1h legal medicine

[✓] 1h surgery

[✓] cleaning apartment

[✓] cleaning 1st & 3rd floor

I spent most of the day cleaning, so I decided to just stick to smaller study sessions. I also painted some CDs for my apartment again despite having absolutely no energy.

[thesecrethistori-an]

New setup for a new academic challenge! (I'm starting a PhD)

[happylabyrinthhellhound]

Day 4 of being productive. Mondays are not fun! Preparing myself for the week!

[specialagentartemis]

someone convince me that downloading PDFs is not actually the same thing as working on my dissertation

[grison-in-space]

I just came out here to have a good time

[mxworthing]

"A student [downloads] hundreds of pages of [PDFs] and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the [PDFs] exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many."

-Umberto Eco (in How to Write a Thesis, originally discussing photocopies)

[specialagentartemis]

indeed it does Umberto Eco 😔

[soft-lovely]

the cozy book spaces of Dublin

[papenathys]

- Seamus Heaney on Irish history and recontextualization in his translator's note, from Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

actually i think graduates of a university should have access to the library databases forever and ever amen

[s-leary]

actually publishers shouldn’t be paywalling the results of publicly funded research when they already charged the authors a publication fee

[orpheuslament]

Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

[vamptits]

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

[vamptits]

these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that'd be nice.

[hareofhrair]

“Love Languages” are just common couples therapy techniques mangled and repackaged by an unqualified homophobe. Relationships generally need all 5 love languages to be fulfilled, which is to say, everybody needs to communicate with, spend time with, and do things for their partners, and that’s got nothing to do with any special way you communicate affection.

MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.

The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.

BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.

The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.

If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.

[academicssay]

[gentlystudy]

August 26, 2022 - law school week one is done!

[morsobaby]

Speak English poorly. Speak with an exaggerated accent or with the pronunciations easier for your native language. Add your language to it. Speak with direct or poor translations of your words into English. Don't conform. Sound obnoxious, sound stereotypical. Be free. Fuck the americanization of the world. Prioritize your native language. Prioritize languages other than English. Listen to them. Listen to your own language.

[tulipfemme-deactivated20240718]

i mean this completely seriously but… a cup of coffee can save your life a little, a shower can save your life a little, making your favorite meal can save your life a little…….little things actually add up to really big things in the long run if you let them, the secret to surviving everyday is infusing a little bit of magic into the mundane i truly believe that

[metamorphesque]

― Rosary, Anna Akhmatova

[text ID: Will you forgive me these November days?]