#planetary-elastic

[carefreejules]

planetary-elastic replied to your post:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I GOT A...

aaaah will you work there?

I TOTALLY WILL IF THEY HIRE ME

[biphobic-bisexual]

Purple!

Purple: 10 facts about my room

1. the walls of my room are purple

2. the sheets and pillow cases on my bed are purple (purple is my favourite colour obviously)

3. i have one of those like princessy bed things. idk how to explain it

4. i have a lot of pokemon plushies in my room

5. i have a lot of animal plushies in my room, especially dogs

6. my room is always really messy and i havent cleaned it in years

7. i have a floral lamshade and overhead light cover

8. i have a butterfly light switch cover

9. i decorated my room when i was 10 and havent done anything with it since

10. ive lived in this house + had this room for 12 years (since i was 8!) but we’re probably moving soon (next year or 2)

[he-harim]

planetary-elastic said: yes, it’s more freedom symbolism (along with the reclining and stuff)

i don’t understand what not pouring your own wine has to do with freedom?

[thelithiumcat]

planetary-elastic replied to your post: Damnit, the Robin Hood trip this year is on the...

You can still go! It’s *your* birthday. What’s the Robin Hood trip?

=) Thanks. That's really lovely of you <3 But I can't really. My family and cousins are coming up and making a big trip of it and it's all organised already. I'm hopefully going to do something historical with them, though!

The Robin Hood trip is the annual History Society trip. The lecturer Ben Dodds teaches a level 2 module on Robin Hood and you go to this castle somewhere and he gives you a personalised lecture on it and they do other cool stuff.

But I'm planning on being at this department for some time yet so hopefully there will be other chances =)

[thelithiumcat]

planetary-elastic replied to your post: planetary-elastic replied to your post: <3wow...

i kind of want to know why but am also happy just acknowledging the general happies

Well I'm not sure about other intps around, but mine comes from a combination of

feeling fidgety (along with having potential energy)

the long-term affection for people here I like

the positive interactions with American ESFP yesterday and today

just wanting to express <3 (I've been in a phase lately)

<3

[thelithiumcat]

planetary-elastic replied to your post: <3

wow intps feeling the love today

So much love.

<3

[thelithiumcat]

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Tagged by: nyquilontherocks

The internet meme returns. Always an interesting time. To battle!

Initials: L (or T I guess, but the L's the important part of this username). Maybe LC?

Name: thelithiumcat - not getting my actual name out of this =P

Nickname: Lithium, Lith

Alias/pen-names: thelithiumcat

Birthday: 15th March - day of Caesar's death (and Nicholas II's abdication, depending on how you look at it)

Height: 5’2" or if I'm having a good day 5'3"

Ethnic Makeup: From all parts of the British Isles, but mainly England.

Favorite Food: Something new, with enough spice to be flavoursome, but not so much that I can't eat it. Preferably with some kind of meat in it. Also a big fan of some heavy English dishes. 

Favorite Color: may actually be dark purple at this point - a cross between dark purple, dark green, navy... I'm getting into greens, so it might actually be forest green or something at the moment.

Favorite Season: Used to be autumn or winter. Now... well to be honest it's anything apart from the mid-summer heat. But my favourite kind of day is warm, but not hot, with a clear, bright blue sky, a few clouds and a light breeze.

Favorite Gem Stone: Aquamarine. I'm not really a gemstone kind of person, but aquamarine's my birthstone and I like that it's an unusual or less-known choice. It's also a cool word in itself.

Siblings: One younger sister who's 1.5 years younger than me. 

Hobbies: gaming, thinking, mime drumming, thinking, actual drumming, thinking, clarinet, walking by rivers, thinking, answering on /r/AskHistorians, thinking, listening to history podcasts, thinking, making my way through tv dramas, thinking...

Describe your Style/Aesthetic: I think the general impression you'd get from much of my clothes (or so I'm told) is either postgrad or lesbian (tartan shirts, leather jackets), depending on the day. More recently it's mostly been postgrad. I.e. knows enough to put some effort in, but is mostly too busy with academia to make a huge effort. In general I try to go for some form of smart-casual. Though sometimes at home I'm just full-on casual and comfy.

I wear jeans every day. I usually wear scarves. I often wear a beanie but not nearly as often as I used to, and more often now it's just when I go outside. I usually wear a fleece or some other kind of jumper. I often wear fingerless gloves to keep my hands warm and still functioning. I usually wear walking boots in this cold weather. More recently I'm wearing stuff that's more fitted, but not tight-fitting. Usually long-sleeved tops - just without the jumper over the top that I used to wear. Usually have headphones in.

Sometimes I like to use band shirts, tartan shirts and leather jackets and have a rock fan kind of look. That's usually when I go to see bands, obviously. I've got to get a patch for my jacket. I really want to make one of those jackets with patches.

Describe yourself in 3 words: thinker, hugger, spaced

Education Goals: More than one PhD. To get high marks that I am happy with (and I have high standards).

Career Goals: Something where I get to use that PhD-level thinking, research skills and knowledge. So... some combination of academic, consultant, non-fiction or maybe autiobiographical author, eventual politician (though when I've had some other profession for fifteen years or so).

Life Goal: To make the best of my life for me.

[thelithiumcat]

planetary-elastic said: 

1984 has cool memory themes! What’s your current essay about?

It does! =D

My current essay is called: To what extent has British society been silent on its imperial legacy?

Which, you know, to me as someone who hadn't studied really anything about the British Empire felt like a question kind of irrelevant to today, yet an odd omission and something I wanted to fill in as a gap in my knowledge.

And now... I can see how it's been treated and how relevant (or deliberately made irrelevant) it all is.

Ultimately, the conclusion I'm drawing from all this is that memory is not natural; it is made. Relevance to the present is decided. If it's in politicians' interests to keep something relevant - or render it relevant - it will be. If it isn't, it won't. In Britain, we get this weird anti-Hitler cult going on, and this whole (actually very new) national identity centred on being the good guys and 'our finest hour' in the World Wars (because let's face it, they get blurred deliberately), yet all of that happened before things like the loss of most of the colonies and the Mau Mau uprising I just posted about, the latter of which was going on in the 40s and 50s and the former of which happened in the 50s and 60s mostly. Both after the War. America still treats the Civil War like it was yesterday, as does France with the French Revolution and the interwar resistance - but again, not its empire. Spain and Romania (also maybe Hungary) have actual laws against remembering certain parts of the last century, but those are thus the parts which are most present still. The GDR made this whole new identity myth out of nothing, as did many countries.

It's just so weird. We grow up thinking the world's been like this for ages and it really hasn't. Some of it's only decades old, if that. Some of it's still happening right now. But what is relevant to the present is usually extremely selective.