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@lostinengineering
rkfdfjahd so like Michael J. Sullivan has joined the Riyria Discord, so someone said we have to call ourselves The Official Riyria Discord now
he’s like answering questions? and everything? it’s very nice of him
oh, yeah, link in case any one else want to join: https://discord.gg/A9DFnPP
"character deserved better" (but they were never going to get it that's the stuff great tragedies are made of) vs "character deserved better" (but the writers really blew it)
Squick
Squick is a noble word. It recognizes and honors your own personal taste while recognizing and honoring that your personal taste does not dictate morality.
I wish we used it more.
PSA FOR THE YOUTHS
If you want to study ancient history (let’s say 300 CE on down), start learning French and German yesterday. And when you’ve done that, get comfortable with academic French and German from the 18th c through present.
I’m sorry and you’re welcome.
After fielding some questions in the comments, I want to expand on this.
If you study an ancient field at an advanced level (MA+), your knowledge of the field is a given. What’s important is your knowledge of the literature; in history this is called the historiography. Advanced work in these fields is about knowledge; demonstrating your ability to understand how your field’s knowledge was built, how it was constructed, is absolutely vital to your success as an academic. This is why scholars keep very outdated but foundational works in print: because it’s part of the history of their field, and part of the foundation upon which their branch of study is built.
For very ancient history, a lot of that foundational scholarship was carried out by French and German individuals, or by individuals working in those languages. No matter how messy and shadowed by imperialism that scholarship is, it still forms the foundation of the field. That foundation has been gutted and replaced and few times, but serious scholars still have to know it.
Moreover, PhD students will not pass their oral exams/comps if they don’t have a detailed, intimate understanding of that scholarship.
Because you’re not just training to know history; you’re training to know the field.
And this is not even addressing the fact that you’ll have to master some combination of: ancient Hebrew, Phoenician, neo-Babylonian, Aramaic, Sumerian, Akkadian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and so many more. And you’ll have to be able to work with the nuances with those languages as they change over time. English changed radically between 500 and 1600; and those ancient languages shifted just as radically over time.
The French and German is just for command of the field. The rest is for your ability to work with the primary sources. Now go learn cuneiform.
@specialagentartemis girl release this commentary from the tags! I can only speak to fields I’ve personally considered fucking with.
I’m sorry I was mean and I edited that first tag a little 😅 But yeah, a surprising amount of work in the Maya area is done by Japanese scholars! The Spanish meanwhile is self-evident however haha, a lot of the modern and historical writing on the ancient past in Latin America is in Spanish. 16th-17th century Spanish if you want the conquistadores’ and colonized subjects’ primary sources, and 16th-century Nahuatl if you want the Aztecs’ in particular. And reading Maya hieroglyphs is its own epigraphic field for sure!
I do North American archaeology so I am not an expert in any of these but I am adjacent and extremely impressed with my Mesoamericanist colleagues haha. (And also extremely impressed by my Mediterraneanist and Classicist colleagues who do go through the French German Latin and Ancient Greek gauntlet)
You were passionate! Not mean 🙂
Also, I did not know that about Japanese scholarship!!! Fascinating.
Do your colleagues also need to master Portuguese, or is that less impactful than Spanish?
“this writing shit is easy. you just have a story and you tell it to other people”
me doing this writing shit
little kids are extremely correct when they go apeshit over seeing a Big Machine Doing Its Job
me when i like the 2-3h movie: directors should never have to compromise their vision to appeal to something as fickle as people's "patience". anyone complaining about the movie's length is simply a tiktok-addicted philistine.
me when i don't like the 2-3h movie: once i become god emperor of earth anyone trying to make a movie longer than 90 minutes will be shot.
When I was training to be a battered women’s advocate, my supervisor said something that really blew my mind:
“You can always assume one thing about your clients; and that is that they are doing their best. Always assume everyone is doing their best. And if they’re having a day where their best just isn’t that great, or their best doesn’t look like your best, you have to be okay with that.”
Any now whenever anyone in my life, either a friend or a client, frustrates me, disappoints me, or pisses me off, I just tell myself They are doing their best. Their best isn’t that great today, but I have days where my best isn’t that great either.
Op I’d like to thank you for sharing this. Ever since the first time I’ve read it I’ve held it in my mind and it really has helped me to be kinder to others and to myself.
A particular genre.
Six flags commercial from 2004 you most likely forgot about.
Nobody who has seen this has ever forgotten about it.
…look, I have videos on mute by default and my brain STILL played the music as if I were watching this on television from back then.
we should have started rioting when they took cd and dvd player slots out of laptops
The best part of getting older is aging out of the demographic that gets killed in horror movies. I am now the age of the kooky local at the gas station who warns the band of college kids not to go to Camp Murderblood
people who are just finding out about internet tracking and data mining in the year 2025 and that your special robot friend does not respect your privacy lol
"I asked it but it said no so the mystery is still unsolved" how have you survived to adulthood?
unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going
he has 2 electrons... who? the boy reading this...
