yam is tired.

she/he/they

[softblockwashere-deactivated202]

Would also be really annoying if they wore heat resistant gloves to throw back the hot tear gas canisters and if this got shared to all those protesting…

[honestmerchantsailor]

Would be a further shame if people started covering cameras (as seen in Hong Kong, with protestors using poles and rakes to lift cardboard boxes over security cameras), blinding drone optics with laser pointers, and flooding police-run reporting apps with junk data.

It would be a shame if the protesters noted that plainclothes cops can be identified a number of ways, such as wearing steel-toed boots; an armband or wristband of a particular color; driving white, black, or dark blue cars with concealed lights; or having the outline of cuffs visible in the back pocket or the bumps of an armor vest’s shoulder straps under their shirt.

It would be a shame if the protesters began making their signs out of inch-thick plywood to stop rubber bullets, forming a tight shield wall to prevent police from singling out and mobbing individual protesters. It would be a shame if the people behind the shield wall held up umbrellas so that tear gas canisters fired over the heads of the front line will be bounced away. It would be a shame if protesters began constructing improvised armor vests out of duct tape, hardback books, and ceramic tiles.

It would be a shame if protesters started wearing safety glasses, hard hats, respirators, and gardening gloves, all of which can be found at the same hardware stores as the plywood. It would be a shame if they started using traffic cones (the kind without the hole in the top) upside-down buckets, or other improvised lids to contain tear gas by placing them over the canisters.

It would be a shame if protesters learned that police scanners are legal to own in the US, allowing them to learn where police are moving and what routes they intend to take. It would be a shame if they discovered that these scanners can be used to send as well as receive, allowing them to flood the scanner frequencies with noise.

All this would be a terrible, terrible shame.

[snakiee]

Hey it be even more of a shame to not use plywood

But Rubbermaid instead. Shame shame definitely DONT do that

[distant-sound-of-binicorn-howls]

It would be a shame if someone had to reblog this. Such a shame

[that-one-thunderbird]

These experiences are all so new to me

Yet this summer we make history

George Floyde, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade

I will screan, and shout, and say their names

I'll fight for justice while they fight for their lives

Due to all the violence we see with our eyes

We protest only to be hurt and battered

But we will not rest because black lives matter

[fyblackwomenart]

Artist: sujaedd

[jackandniall-deactivated2021100]

here’s the link to donate to george floyd’s official memorial fund if you are able to contribute. if you can’t donate, please share. being black shouldn’t be a death sentence.

[luneartemis]

south asian dark academia

[rosenaufsuden-deactivated202003]

How can one make the basic high school life feel more extraordinary and historical? Also, Im in love with your page

find beauty in the little moments: the feeling of a fresh black ink pen bleeding into the paper, the satisfaction of finding the particular book you’ve searched for in the library, stifling giggles and smiles as you pass secret or coded notes, the weight of a heavy wool jacket or blazer as you walk to class

study interests outside of class and explore them: read and recite ancient Greek tragedies to yourself or classmates in the secluded fields behind campus, write the date of your notes in another language, listen to classical music you’ve never heard before and sink within the unfamiliar yet haunting melodies 

[elistudies]

studying interests outside of class really hits different there is so much that the traditional education system leaves out and most often it is the things that make one genuinely curious so go out there and explore these things even if you do so alone and without guidance it will make high school so much better, it will make life so much better

[eugenieroe]

can we all agree that pressing foreheads together is an underrated act of affection??

[classicsclique]

i need a girlfriend to talk about literature and pretty paintings!! accepting applications now!!

[vvitchella]

The reason why I'm not a writer is because I can't physically NOT write without sounding Pretentious As Fuck and I annoy myself so hard I can't finish a page.

[vvitchella]

"The winds whipped through me, so that my very bones were acquainted with the snap of autumn." Bitch, we're walking to the 7/11.

[of-foolish-and-wise]

tossing this out into the dark academia tags

i appreciate this aesthetic but there’s something qwhite problematic about the demographics represented in most of the posts

and i get that this is reflective of existing inequality in irl academia and the positions of privilege occupied by those within it

but hey

like this/reply if you know or run a PoC friendly dark/light academia blog and i’ll follow

[brokenlockets]

Academia Tea Asks ☕️

Earl Grey: Where do you prefer to study?

English Breakfast: If you could get a degree in anything, regardless of career marketability, what would it be?

Green Tea: Hardcover or paperback books?

Peach: Favorite study snack?

Citrus: Do you prefer to sit at the front or back of the room during lectures?

Cinnamon Apple: Describe your dream school as an aesthetic.

Chamomile: What is the best book you’ve had to read for school?

Matcha: What is your favorite study method? (Notes, flashcards, etc.)

Sleepytime: How late do you usually stay up studying?

Peppermint: Study groups or study alone?

Rosehip: Have you ever studied abroad? If not, where would you like to?

Lemon Ginger: Do you study a little at a time, or all at once before exams?

Chai: What language would you love to learn?

Lavender: Has a professor ever changed your life for the better?

Jasmine: Do you dress up for school or wear whatever is comfortable?

Blackberry: Handwritten or typed notes?

[nonplussedbun]

regularly writing shitty poems in the notes app on your phone for a couple of years will eventually result in writing some decent poems in the notes app on your phone and I’m not saying that you have to write a good poem to justify the shitty ones or that it’s only worth doing if you publish something eventually I’m just tired of people apparently feeling like they have to take a normal part of the learning process and play it off as a joke as though you’re only allowed to write shitty poems if you had no ambition to write anything better: write shitty poems but dare to improve; face the growing pains of making something beautiful.

[mcjnun]

Contemplating on what having a full 8 hours of sleep feels like.

[a-blank-space]

From the bottom of my heart I hope 2020 is a better mental health year for everyone

[soracities]

the sheer amount of quiet i need in order to be able to function as a person is ridiculous

[figcompote]

It’s official, I have reblogged everything Interesting and Aesthetic TM that was posted in the 6 hours I slept & the 1 hour I was awake and not on Tumblr. I will now hibernate, making OC sporadically for the next 6 hours until I can have 10 minutes of joy and confusion again.

That being said, like / reblog (from your DA blog) if you’re an active dark academia blog so this doesn’t happen, and I can have 20 whole minutes of scrolling in the morning rather than 10 :’(

God, I sound like such a zoomer. Where are my imposter-syndrome DA millennials at too?

[millificent]

People assume academia is all tweed blazers, gothic arches, Ozymandis and tea cups, but in truth it’s more oversized t-shirts, coffee-stained desks, never having enough highlighters and daily mental breakdowns 🤷🏼‍♀️