[typebeanie]

Happy Pride Month from Dalinar Kholin

[subway-dove]

drew a picture of my best friend :-) u can use it freely (with love in your heart)

[splorfstuffss]

have to share this golden interaction i had on youraislopbores.me yesterday

if this was you, i need you to know i audibly cackled

[floating-goblin-deactivated2021]

the unholy trinity of piss-poor caretakers, tag yourself:

tomboy, meaning "this child is clearly queer but let's hope it goes away"

sensitive, meaning "clearly neurodivergent and often distressed but let's keep going until they grow numb"

mature, meaning "traumatized but let's ignore that"

[sepiascissors]

quiet, meaning "has been yelled at or ignored a few too many times and now considers all attempts at communicating with others to be pointless"

self-sufficient, meaning "next to zero trust in parental figures' ability in various aspects of parenting"

lazy, meaning "depressed, but expected to preform tasks or actions without positive support or knowledge of how to do things"

[agentwaffle]

Y'know, if you're gonna call me out in so many damn flavors can we at least have blue raspberry?

[definitely-not-a-plant]

blue raspberry, good "mmmmm" tasty. isnt real.

[mixelation]

things ppl often get wrong in academia AUs (specifically ones in modern university settings with focus on graduate students & professors):

no one is spending enough time complaining about writing

hierarchy is wrong. your grad student TA is not a professor or faculty and might not even be considered an employee. that 32 year old man is not a full professor no matter how talented he is or how old you think 30+ is, and he should be talking more about "the tenure clock"

grad students only ever taking or TAing classes & never doing research or working on their thesis/dissertation. there are masters programs with no thesis component so i'm sure there are ones that have no research requirement, but you can't get a PhD only taking classes

everyone has too much money. but also if it's set in the US there's an obsession with accumulating student debt for positions that generally you would not have to take out loans for

relationship with academic advisor never sufficiently unhinged

not enough discussion of stats where it's obvious everyone only barely understands what's happening

[mixelation]

"what is a sufficiently unhinged student-advisor relationship?"

link to the article

[sensibleshroom]

"I got so angry that ISIS was disrupting the research." -> Said on record to a journalist in the actual middle of an interview.

Yeah I think that's a sufficiently unhinged academic.

[foxgirlmindcrank]

[foxgirlmindcrank]

[flork-of-cows-official]

anticommission

[anxietyproblem]

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[derelicthousefootage]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[oldshrewsburyian]

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

[enki2]

[targetedknowledge]

[flork-of-cows-official]

duke nukem

[theemotionmachine]

[cyberbullyinc]

[emiliusthegreat]

I had previously seen the bottom image with zero context like 5 times before finally finding the context post and that’s why I love tumblr.

[flork-of-cows-official]

Trick or treat!

[flork-of-cows-official]

Trick or treat!

[flork-of-cows-official]

[flork-of-cows-official]

Flork is gonna start Diamond Dogs.

[flork-of-cows-official]

tricky treat