thoughtsafter3am

melissa | she/her/hers | proverbial night owl | a doctor (not the medical kind) | some mixture of aroace and bi | bookworm | dreamer | geek | feminist | sometimes a (women’s) sports commentator, apparently | clearly I’m a millennial with all these labels. it's nice to meet you.

[pixiedustandbluebutterflies]

Being bi oriented aroace is a trip because it's like ...

In THEORY I'm into everyone

In PRACTICE I'm not really into anyone

[goldengirlschildhood]

Rip to people who can't stand their dissertation by the time they're done with it. Couldn't be me. I'm obsessed with it. I am chomping at the bit to expand my source base.

[goldengirlschildhood]

At my own pace

[erodingsinner]

they're wives and they won the walter cup together btw. never forget that

[despazito]

I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter

[despazito]

good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week

[thoughtsafter3am]

This makes me viscerally angry. Like I am struggling to put it into words. There is so much about Carle’s illustrations that is (a) beautiful and (b) complex. It’s supposed to look childlike, like an art project or a toy that children could relate to. And it was so complex with the holes and page cuts that it had to be printed in Japan because no US printers could figure out how to do it. The book is both a book and a toy. Kids are meant to play with it and see the whimsy in life.

I know we’re beefing with Mac Barnett a bit in the children’s lit space, but this is a fantastic analysis of the intentionality in The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Get wrecked, trad Twitter.

[thoughtsafter3am]

I didn’t know I needed a Star Wars buddy comedy-esque film in my life but I am so glad that I have one now. What a romp. Not all media needs to be gritty and dark. Sometimes we just need to watch a big guy and a little guy get in and out of predicaments while we escape the hellscape that is reality for 2.5-ish hours.

[thoughtsafter3am]

Still not over it. Will probably never be over it tbh 🤷‍♀️

[hardwrench]

to me, correctly using 5+ commas in a single sentence is like perfectly executing a combo in a fighting game. to me.

[little-theatre-fairy]

if you think a sentence needs 5+ commas it should be two sentences

[hardwrench]

it’s not about what the sentence needs, i’m afraid, nor is it about economy, clarity, or style. it’s about winning, little-theatre-fairy.

[startedwellthatsentence]

Comment on my MA thesis:

[we-rule-the-kingdom-inside]

laura stacey your ontario franglais has bewitched me (x)

[thoughtsafter3am]

This is so incredibly endearing and it makes me smile every time I’ve seen it in the past day. A+ for effort and commitment. I don’t know why but “toujours fun” gets me. I think it’s the [ɹ] instead of the [ʁ]—if I’ve remembered my IPA correctly—but there’s just something about that combo that I can’t help but smile.

It’s also precisely why I avoided singing in French as much as I could during my music degree. I loved analyzing French art song for its text painting and prosody but if my barely southern mid-Atlantic American accent didn’t just maim such beautiful poetry when performing it. I always felt like I needed to apologize to Verlaine and de Banville because when I did sing in French it was Debussy.

(Also that switching between languages is so real. In undergrad, I went from my 400 level Spanish lit class which was taught fully in Spanish—a language I had spoken in school since the second grade—to German 101 and I remember being so tired one day when we were practicing talking about our family that I said “Ich tengo veinteuno Jahre alt y mi Schwester habe fünfundzwansig años.” My professor just looked at me with a quizzical expression and I just shrugged. It was quite a day.)

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[valsplace]

Seeing Knight host the Cup after the Victoire would be amazing. I love Knighter

[thoughtsafter3am]

But also, both of my favorite captains scoring game-tying or game-winning goals all while battling leg injuries this season? Men could never.

[thoughtsafter3am]

Updating this to one of my favorite captains led her team to Olympic gold this year with a leg injury and the other did the same but to a Walter Cup. Literal icons.

I love women in sports.

[thoughtsafter3am]

I haven’t had a hockey team in the finals let alone win since 2018 and I appreciate the continuity in celebrations between my teams:

The vibes are even more immaculate for the Victoire because it’s literally all women.

[boreal-forest-goth]

OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

[tobbogan-13]

[thoughtsafter3am]

Yay Victoire! I am so happy and thank you for gif-ing this 🥹

[thoughtsafter3am]

That shot had a better spiral than some quarterback passes.

[thoughtsafter3am]

Me trying to find that interference when it simply looked like contact in a full contact sport

[thoughtsafter3am]

This stream is like when you’d accidentally buy the widescreen version of a DVD when you had a full screen TV and you were just like “I guess everyone’s a little squished.”

[fullmetalbee]

SVP Victoire, merci 🫶🏻🤎⚜️