#somerton

[gruvu]

BIG doodle collection from the Tennocollab discord. Having a lot of fun before the offical date which is JUNE 5th to which I will post the link again for those who would like to join. Going to tag the tennos below, they know the context

Somerton/Somer @h0rr0rimus

Tamm @holistichiatus

[ellipsiseffervescent]

[unteriors]

Kirkham Street, Somerton, Somerset.

[voidmountain]

somerton post!

I’m a queer academic. I study film & lit. I’ve published 3 peer-reviewed journal articles and 6 magazine articles. I’m working on a book manuscript. Meticulously researched, multi-year projects, thousands of hours of 100% solo work. No co-writer, no proofreader, no copyeditor, &c &c.

All of this is unpaid. All of it! I do it because I love it and not for any other reason!

An adjunct prof just starting out can expect to make less than $25k/year.

That’s the context. That’s who he’s ripping off. That’s who is doing the real intellectual work of creating, testing, writing, & sharing these ideas. Just fyi.

Edit to add: around the world humanities departments, that employ people to do the thing James somerton said he was doing but better, are in crisis mode and hemorrhaging money because there’s this impression that nobody values humanities research. And yet. Here’s this guy. Making $170k/year by ripping us off.

[dubmill]

Newport, Monmouthshire; 2.4.2022

[fruitseason]

What's crazy about the somerton apology video is that he falls into almost all of the pitfalls of the 'insincere apology' that hbomberguy went through with the video game reviewer. Somerton didn't even watch the video accusing him, or at least didn't learn anything from it, because he wept on screen for 30 minutes going 'some copy and paste mistakes happened...of course shan't say who did it or why it was bad...'

[lascitasdelashoras]

Trojeborg, a stone labyrinth from Visby, 1919

[defaultjen]

Call me a callous asshole, but when a notoriously dishonest dickwad like James Somerton starts vagueposting about killing himself as his like 4th or 5th attempt to get out of getting himself justifiably canceled, all I can conjure up in response is this...