look, im as fond of academic/professor gale as the next person, but when i say academic, i do not mean aesthetic dark academia. i mean gale as an unhinged college professor who’s only there for the research. i mean gale who:
- comes in on four hours of sleep because he was rewriting one sentence for two hours at 2 in the morning
- has an extremely specific gripe with one very niche convention in his field, and will tell you about it
- has fallen asleep facedown in freshly inked parchment more than once
- irritates his colleagues because he’s always late on his departmental teaching paperwork, but he has tenure so there’s nothing they can do
- has VERY STRONG OPINIONS about other academics and their research or lack thereof
- is generally seen as both a brilliant academic and an absolute madman
THAT’S the good stuff right there.