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[blackhyena]

top 3 worst frankenstein takes:

"frankenstein is the REAL monster". boring, hackneyed, overdone

"mary shelley wrote this just to get away from lord byron" embarassingly wrong, read anything at all she wrote about him to be immediately disproven

transphobia, somehow

[blackhyena]

waiiiitttttt i forgot an absolute classic 4. this novel must be about shelleys own family and relationships because i cant fathom how women might comment on scientific and cultural discourses outside of their own immediate circumstances. also applicable to any woman novelist ever

[burningvelvet]

Locks of hair from Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron, next to their portraits:

[sweetanyways]

a new concept: idiot academia

where u have book smarts but have absolutely no common sense

[black-lodge-gatekeeper]

Why are you hiding this in the tags. Truth should never hide in the tags.

[dialogic]

u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’

[apricops]

“it’s tempting to assume” is academic speaking for “you might think, if you’re a fucking idiot,”

[virgin-martyr]

excerpt from Antigone by Jean Anouilh (trans. Lewis Galantiere)

[el-im]

[soljos2023]

if only they knew

[finelythreadedsky]

the perception of academics as all out-of-touch rich white cis straight men is also absolutely not limited to this website (which plays into it both from a dark academia perspective and from a more anti-elitist/verging on anti-intellectual perspective). it is also 100% a thing on actual college campuses, even when physically face to face with professors who are people of color, women, lgbtq, disabled, and very much plugged in to the workings of the world. there is a profound difficulty in seeing that the people who teach us are in many ways like us. 

[finelythreadedsky]

there’s such a strong desire to conceptualize students and professors as us (young, progressive, marginalized) vs. them (older generation, privileged, out of touch), that it becomes very difficult to realize that this professor is only 15 years older than you are and is still paying off student loans, the author of this article is gay and comes at this with the experience of having been gay in the 80s, this lecturer is unsure whether they’ll have a job come fall. we’re on the same team.

[funnytwittertweets]

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag, 1978

[tlirsgender]

Classic lit isn’t relatable TO YOU. I have something wrong with me though

[sweetanyways]

a new concept: idiot academia

where u have book smarts but have absolutely no common sense

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Have you ever worked in a lab because you’re just describing perfectly normal academia

[academicssay]

[perplexingly]

‘There we shall be safe’ they thought. They were never to be that. But they were together for the moment, they had stayed disintegration and combined daily work with love; and who can hope for more?

Somewhat based on the discarded epilogue of E. M. Forster’s Maurice, where we can see Maurice and Alec living together in the woods

[blackberrybisexual]

from this

[halfsavages-deactivated20200621]

letter from John Keats, to Percy Shelley

[dear-ao3]