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justcatposts

I’ve finally recreated it 🥲

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spideyyeet

X / X

seaoflove

bell hooks, from all about love

stillstudies

if y’all are going through a very hard time mentally rn I just want you to know that there are millions of people right there with you, holding your spiritual hand in solidarity. love you

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ischemgeek

OK, so.

For folks still in academia - odds are if you had a particularly strict prof this would still be considered plagiarism unless you cited the source (unless the fact is widely known in which case you just have to preface with something that indicates or implies what you’re saying is general knowledge. I don’t have to cite a source that the Moon orbits the Earth, for example - we’ve known that for literally centuries).

What they mean when they say “use your own words, don’t just copy the book” is actually “take information from multiple sources, read it, analyze it, and collate it into something new that is your own creation.” Yanno that saying, “If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism. If you steal from many, it’s research.”? (fun fact: this common expression is itself an example of the very thing it describes - if you like etymology and idioms, you can look up the history of the expression here) Yeah. Academia works exactly this way. If you write a paper with only one source, it’s still basically plagiarism, you haven’t put any original thought or effort into making something new.

If, instead, you fact-check your source with other sources and get a diverse range of (reputable) opinions on the subject, you can pull it all together into something new. Even though none of the facts you’re presenting are new, your conclusions and your presentation are your own. It is wholly your creation, building off the work of those who’ve gone before - exactly as Newton meant when he said, “ If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Which is also a great example of collecting concepts from many sources and distilling them to their essence in your own work.

dankmemeuniversity

not a meme but i think it would be pretty fuckin cool if we all did this. and not just for a month, but until we start getting what we deserve. they only profit off of us. they don’t deserve our attention. eat the rich.

rosesofthetwilight

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

idk who needs to hear this but when your english teacher asks you to explain why an author chose to use a specific metaphor or literary device, it’s not because you won’t be able to function in real-world society without the essential knowledge of gatsby’s green light or whatever, it’s because that process develops your abilities to parse a text for meaning and fill in gaps in information by yourself, and if you’re wondering what happens when you DON’T develop an adult level of reading comprehension, look no further than the dizzying array of examples right here on tumblr dot com

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

this post went from 600 to 2400 notes in the time it took me to write 3 emails. i’m already terrified for what’s going to happen in there

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

k but also, as an addendum, the reason we study literary analysis is because everything an author writes has meaning, whether it was intentional or not, and their biases and agendas are often reflected in their choice of language and literary devices and so forth! and that ties directly into being able to identify, for example, the racist and antisemitic dogwhistles often employed by the right wing, or the subconscious word choices that can unintentionally illustrate someone’s bias or blind spot. LANGUAGE HAS WEIGHT AND MEANING! the way we communicate is a reflection of our inner selves, and that’s true regardless of whether it’s a short story or a novel or a blog post or a tweet. instead of taking a piece of writing at face value and stopping there, assuming that there is no deeper meaning or thought behind the words on the page, ask yourself these two questions instead:

1. what is the author trying to say? 2. what does the author maybe not realize they’re saying?

because the most interesting reading of any piece of literature, imho, usually occupies the space in between those questions.

noblehunter

One reason academics use so many words to say things isn’t because of what they are trying to say but because of what they are trying not to say.

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

i’m… i’m… 170,000 notes deep into this demonic post and someone finally added something great to it?!

take this baby cow full of love, you earned it

thoughtkick

“My only relationship goal is to be with a person who motivates me to become a great person and tells me the potential I don’t see in myself.”

— Unknown

ps1

this-is-what-makes-us-girlsss

Things could be different, honey.

justcatposts

Don’t judge her, she probably couldn’t afford adoption papers

woodfin-deactivated20211110

I work at a humane society shelter, and this does happen occasionally. usually cats won’t “steal” the kittens, they’ll hear them crying and stick around and if a momma doesn’t come around they’ll take them somewhere safe and try to care for them

we recently had a very confused lady who called that her cat was trying to take care of an astounding 8 kittens and brought them in

the kittens were obviously malnourished, and we looked around her neighborhood and sadly found the dead mama, she got hit by a car

it’s a really useful thing that cats will do

sometimes the mom will just have gotten lost and will come back to try and find her kittens and so that can be frustrating, but considering how rough it is for stray kittens, it’s a lot better for them to be in a household and cared for where the parent cat can get guareenteed food and shelter

I can’t tell you how many abandoned kittens we find that can’t make it

it sucks a lot

anyway tangent done

I just 😭😭 I love cats a lot