#academia.edu

[ralfmaximus]

If you've got an academia.edu account it's time to rethink that.

Click thru the source link below to view the complete Mastodon thread with details. Tumblr won't let me embed Mastodon links directly.

[middlingmay]

Anyone with an Academia.edu account:

If you didn't know there is an automatic opt-in AI feature on Academia.edu, which allows AI-generated "podcasts" to be created from your paper. You only find out once it's been made and they send you a link (as I found out today).

So log in, go to your settings, navigate to "AI settings" and opt-out.

Absolute garbage. What a ridiculous decision by the site owners.

[notwantedonthemoon]

Alright, so, I wrote something. I am remarkably proud of myself because I added drawings, and also memes. Please read my work solely for the memes. 

Here is an analysis on ASD (autism spectrum disorder) and how it presents in the novel, Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley, and it goes over stuff like how: 

Several characters in the novel are, to varying degrees of intensity, autistic-coded. 

Several recurring themes in the novel would resonate very strongly with an autistic audience (me. I am the autistic audience) 

The various environments presented in the novel and their cultural differences are very interesting when used in an autistic reading of the book. 

Other books that I wrote about in this analysis are the Pat of Silver Bush books, the Emily of New Moon books, and Anne of Green Gables, all by L.M. Montgomery! I talk about how all three series have very, very autistic-coded protagonists. I love them all. 

This read would be useful if you’re looking for character analysis and an examination of the social structures in the setting of Not Wanted on the Voyage. It is published on two platforms, both with their pros and cons. 

The academia.edu link is here.

The many Medium links are here: An introduction.

An overview of NWOTV's setting.

Mottyl.

Ham Noyes (and Patricia Gardiner).

Mrs Noyes.

Lucy (and Emily Byrd Starr).

Hannah Noyes (and Anne Shirley-Cuthbert).

Concluding notes and sources.

On academia.edu: 

If you need to cite this article for whatever reason, it’ll probably be easier to cite this link instead of Medium! 

It’s! Colour-coded! 

Unfortunately, I did not split up my essay at all so if you read on here prepare for a good deal of scrolling.

On Medium: 

I could not figure out how to do colour coding on Medium. :( And they didn’t let me upload my colour-coded pdf.

On the bright side, the essay is split up into more manageable sections so it’s easier to read on here.

[EDITED] I HAVE SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF THE PAYWALL. The links attached in this Tumblr post all work. HOWEVER, the links attached within the articles are not as likely to work. (I tested them). I do not know how to fix that yet.

There are content warnings at the beginning of each section. Have fun! 

[avdotya-romanovna]

Şahmeran üzüntülü ve utanç dolu bir sesle Tahmasp' a dönerek:

"Ey sevdiğim üzülme.Biliyorum ki sen bana kendi canın için ihanet etmedin ama ben de sana dememiş miydim bu topraklarda aşklar ölümünedir diye.Bak şimdi anladın mı? Sen üzülme ne olur."

[cycas]

... JRR Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. ... Dark Tower, and The Notion Club Papers: Tolkien and Lewis's Time Travel Triad." In Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays ... as a Category Problem." In The Shadow-walkers:

“It is not absolutely clear when Tolkien focused for the first time on what we may call the "elf-problem". When he did so, though, it would be natural for him to look at what "the authorities" said, and entirely characteristic of him (as happens so often with Tolkien and the OED) then to found a theory on profound disagreement with scholarly opinion, and determined attempt to protect the original sources, if necessary by explaining how they could have been mistaken. “

Shippey is always a good read, but this is a nice review of the different kinds of elf-and-dwarf stories that Tolkien considered while writing his legendarium. 

[graycloak]

Carved in Lead and Concealed in Stone: A Late Medieval Sigillum Dei at Doornenburg Castle

I haven’t read the entire thing yet, but you can find and download the entire 156p article on [academia.edu]. What I really find interesting about this, so far, is the comparison the author makes with other diagrams within the “Sigillum...“ family.  Including speculation that the design is older than originally thought, thanks to the Summa sacre magice - a compendium of magical texts written around 1346 by Berengario Ganell in Spain (additional information about Summa can be found [on this page] - [archive link])

This article is a biography that charts the history and significance of an important magical artifact that has hitherto gone unnoticed because its existence was unknown to all but a few. The artifact in question is the oldest extant Sigillum Dei in the world so far, produced at the end of the medieval period and antedating John Dee's famous wax sigils of the Sigillum Emeth by about a century. It may seem a mistake to call a study of an object a biography, but there is no denying that the Sigillum Doornenburgensis has an uncanny ability to maneuver itself into positions that guarantee its survival. Firmly connected with the eventful history of Doornenburg Castle, the continued existence of the Sigillum Dei is due to an extraordinary series of coincidences, not least of which is the recent chain of events that enabled us to make its acquaintance. This article describes how the brick and sigil ended up at Doornenburg Castle, sheds light on the history, use, and materiality of the artifact, and analyzes the place of the sigil in the transmission of the Sigillum Dei.

Journal Name: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 9:2 Publication Date: 2014

[ahistoriantobe]

“Help keep Academia free for everyone by going premium.”

... this is a joke, right?

[haxyr3]

Establishes three underlying patterns of Russian noun stress, with variants predictable by either nominative or genitive case endings. Short section on verb stress.

Every learner of Russian gets confused and frustrated by the flexible stress. Here is a nice paper describing the basic principles and general patterns.