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end of year party w my friends and im bringing TWO cakes, mango jasmine coconut cheesecake w sago that my friend and i made yesterday (bless her for knowing how to deal w gelatin) and a black fig sencha chiffon cake w guava cream cheese frosting that is currently in the oven 🥰🥰

#need to have the most beautiful May and June before i leave this city #guava obsession is because me n my friend are trying to recreate the new heytea drink which was DISAPPONTING as various desserts #and ive stockpiled guava paste

omtai

Lolll *washes up unconscious on the shore* Yaaaaayyy

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Manasie Akpaliapik

no matter where i go i’ll always end up here etc

#sooo glad to be back home for a bit & now back to my current home #picked unimaginable quantities of hedgehog mushrooms & chants (for this time of year anyway) & hung out with my baby nephew etc #x

elftwink

i do kind of believe that getting a bachelor's degree makes you stupid about your field, specifically in the way where you believe you know a lot more than you actually do about the field of study you were in. if you are extremely lucky and have some very good instructors, they will impress upon you how much there still is to learn, but a lot of people leave a four year program with a little too much confidence in their own expertise

this is my theory for why bachelors holders are constantly on here using their degree to leverage an air of superiority while saying a bunch of demonstrably false bullshit, but you never see masters or phd holders comment on anything outside of their thesis topic and occasionally as an addition to the bachelor holder's essay going "hi, phd in same field here, there is no consensus on what this person is asserting and they are full of shit".

relatedly. saying "i have a degree in x field" is actually not a replacement for citing sources. some of you seem to be leaning way too heavily on it as a replacement for the due diligence you were supposed to learn in that very program, and i think you should be embarrassed about that. ultimately most of the time you shouldn't even need to disclose your degree except as a positionality statement, because your work should stand on its own and demonstrate your expertise. people should believe what you say is true not because you wave around a piece of paper, but because you show them why it is true using the skills and knowledge that paper is supposed to represent. by not doing that you are undermining the work of your colleagues in the field and eroding trust with the general public. cite some goddamn sources or do not say anything at all.

girl who Remembered to post her sketchbook scans

last one is me playing around with the nice Holbein gouache i finally decided to invest in— just got the £20 pack of 5 mixing primaries and it’s been so lovely to work with so far.

#sooooo so busy with my dissertation and everything else #worst possible time to get ill. guess what just happened #sketchbook #artists on tumblr #my art #inktober #yes it is December but that’s when these are FROM #illustration

i do want to make this into an art tumblr again eventually i just get stressed actually posting art online let alone in multiple places

#plus i have to scan in a bunch of pages from my sketchbook but im being lazy about it #i miss using tumblr as a diary + artblog #also want to Eventually set up a neocities as a repository of every single thing im interested in #maybe over Christmas break i will do this

olorina

my dissertation study got ethical approval!!!

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calling every nursery in the greater [redacted] area which is Unreasonably exhausting even though everyone has been lovely and generally agreed to let parents know about my study one way or another

#study itself is on infant word segmentation so i need 8-12 month olds and their parents #would prefer a smaller age range but i fear i would not be able to recruit enough participants in ~1 month #desperately want this to go well