#academic.......... weapon...........................

[shewritesinblueink]

navy study aesthetic

[i-wanna-study]

Well, well, well. Guess who's not a total failure after all? Spoiler: it’s me.

After my final year results came out, the reactions were... dramatic.I was suddenly “the disappointment,” the one who’d “wasted potential” and “ruined the family name.” People practically lined up to offer my parents condolences. Some even implied I hadn’t studied at all (yes, people do make some absurd assumptions).

Fast forward to now: 10 universities—yes, ten—have sent me acceptance letters.These are top 20 in the country and they picked me after interviews. Interviews, people. Meaning I actually had to speak and convince real humans that I wasn’t useless. Imagine!

Now the same people who wrote me off are saying how proud they are. Ah, how the tables turn. (Some were genuinely kind during both the mess and the magic—thank you, truly.)

So, here’s the thing: one bad result doesn’t define you. It’s just one chapter. Maybe not a great one, but hey, we love a redemption arc.

Anyway, I’ve cleared out a lot of life mess recently and starting tomorrow (or whenever my laziness allows), I’ll be posting more often. Stay tuned, or don’t. I’ll be here either way.

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[nammagadbad]

cooked or gonna cook?

[claralance]

Hi, I have work to do, tests to revise and students to tutor but here's my proposal for a series of:

Academic rivals to lover ft. Karasu Tabito

Hear me out, I swear, I've been obsessing over this idea for a few days and I need to make it come true!

Karasu, sharp-tongued with a sharper mind, confident as heck, analyze people for a living, and you, you who is also infuriatingly smart, witty and competitive, the kind that challenges his intellect in every single one of his top subject (chemistry, world history, modern lit, you name it). Also the one person who see through his bravado.

You two talk in jabs and insults, go against each other's throat every damn waking moment, but he never calls you mediocre and you actually view him as someone who's actually worth arguing with (neither of you would admit that, of course!)

It's slow burn (really slow), it's tension-filled, it's academic weapons who claim they hate each other but wouldn't trade the other for anyone else in the world, even if it's just to fight over some formulas in chemistry or the meaning of a quote in modern literature.

I believe that Karasu fits this trope perfectly, because his type is canonically someone strong, independent, intelligent and probably won't go down without a fight. He likes that you challenge him, he likes your voice, when you two are arguing, especially, (voice kink, right there) when you debate like you're at war, demolishing your opponent (he doesn't realize it yet but he finds it boring as hell to go against anyone that isn't you in class). He's definitely gone but would deny it until the day he dies.

I'll be featuring Otoya as the captain of this ship, unironically, probably college setting but you've been rivals since high school for good measures.

So, yes, this is my proposal, I swear I will write this into a series when I'm done with finals. Hope y'all will be looking forward to it like me (please tell me you see the vision as well).

Xoxo,

[sososillyyy]

pre exam study huddle with the absolute academic weapons that were the marauders would’ve gone hard

[liviecurated]

Re: Mack in academia posts

As a BU grad (in communications no less) if he was taking advertising classes he was probably leaning towards a communications degree, albeit COM is a very well known and respected communications program (advertising, PR, film and tv) its still a communications degree which makes you sound like a moron when you tell people that’s what you majored in

So take that with a grain of salt when you compare to Will and his bc com degree (from the school that’s not actually in Boston and is so catholic their student health services can’t hand out condoms)

!!!! this is fascinating mack lore ty anon !!!! academic weapon tinhatters maybe we are WRONG after all but we at least know in our heart that BU had at least a good coms program

also the concept of student health services refusing to pass out condoms…walk with me here…leno will and gabe awkwardly freshman having to go to cvs and buy them 😭😭😭

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[bah-circus]

hello!! could we get a lvl 3 cutegore themed alter with an interest in weapons??

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[tivaforgood]

𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐲, 𝐙𝐢𝐯𝐚 & 𝐌𝐜𝐆𝐞𝐞: 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 🔮

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝

Keywords: Defiance, Radical imagination, Disruption, Rebellion, Unorthodoxy, Creative vision

Appears when the world shows it hand — laughs, flips the table and asks “what else is possible?” This card represents the force of consciousness — the person who looks at the reality in front of them and refuses to accept it. The Wildcard sees cracks in the system, the false limits, the tired rules, and chooses another way. It embodies the soul that knows things can be different, even when no one else believes it yet.

When drawn upright, this card encourages bold defiance of norms, a refusal to accept a narrative that feels dead or limiting. It invites creative rebellion, visionary thinking, and the audacity to act against the grain. The Wildcard is not chaos for chaos’s sake — it is purposeful disruption born from inner truth.

Affirmation: “I do not accept what is simply because it exists. I am the seed of what could be.”

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫

Keywords: Courage, Passion, Inner Fire, Determination, Moral integrity, Movement with purpose

A symbol of fierce inner drive fuelled by belief and conviction. This card appears when you are being called to step forward with bravery — not from a place of aggression, but from a deep alignment with your personal truth. The Spirited Warrior is humble in face of adversity, and charges ahead not for glory, but for justice, love, and principle. This is the energy of a person who stands tall even when afraid, who acts even when uncertain.

Drawing this card upright signals a time to move boldly, and stand for what matters most. It suggests that your challenges require more heart than strategy, and your passion is your greatest weapon. A strong wind is at your back — move with it.

Affirmation: “My fire is sacred. I move with courage and conviction, guided by truth.”

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜

Keywords: Reflection, Study, Intellectual curiosity, Inner inquiry, Thought before action, Knowledge-seeking

Represents the quiet power of the mind in contemplation. This card embodied the archetype seeker — not of adventure or chaos, but of understanding. Where others rush forward, the Academic pauses. They gather data, read between the lines, and weigh meaning before committing to action. This is the energy of deep thought, of careful planning, and of truth pursued through wisdom rather than instinct.

When drawn upright, The Pensive Academic suggests a time to step back and analyse. It may be time to research, to ask questions without rushing for answers. It values process over conclusion. Trust that knowledge is power — but only when it is internalized and understood.

Affirmation: “I honour the questions, and in them, I find my way.”

[deswhomst]

what are you talking about lol? such a weird complaint tbh. they’re depicted very differently but have overlaps from what we know from canon—regulus is a black like sirius is, he’s the younger “golden child” like lily is. barty and sirius have multiple parallels given to us (rebelling against their family, escaping azkaban, being academic weapons, etc.). plus everyone has their own characterizations you’re free to yours too.

Petition for this fandom to STOP making Regulus just diet Lily/Remus/Sirius, and stop making Barty Sirius Jr.

Like LET THEM BE THEIR OWN CHARACTERS IF YOURE GONNA DEPICT THEM

Goddamn 😭

[shewritesinblueink]

academic validation from english teachers>>>

[kalashtars]

the worst feeling in the world is thinking you understand something and then taking a quiz on it and realizing that actually, you understood nothing at all

[nammagadbad]

eee

[discoursedumpster]

ok, let's unpack this for a second though.

The difference between fascism and just plain authoritarianism is violent nationalism.

In an authoritarian regime, power is concentrated in a tiny group, with limited or zero participation from the people.

A fascist regime is authoritarian, and it's weaponizing a racist, far-right, extremist ideology, plus military violence, to get totalitarian control over people's lives.*

All fascist regimes are authoritarian. Not all authoritarian regimes are fascist.

Why does this matter?

* (Footnote!! I need to note, here, that racism looks different in different cultural contexts. For instance, many Americans struggle to see antisemitism or Islamophobia as racism, because we have a strong cultural emphasis on religious freedom -- and a weak cultural understanding of ethnicity.

We likewise struggle to understand the roots of things like the genocide in Sudan, because to us it's two very similar groups that would both be oppressed here. We lack knowledge of Arab colonialism and the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade.)

Iran is a fascist regime. It's been run by an actual theocratic dictatorship for 45 years.

‘I wrote a piece in The Wall Street Journal, just before Khomeini came to power, in which I said the best way to understand Khomeini is as a theocratic fascist. This was a school of fascism – theocratic fascism. It’s a well-established, academically legitimate category. And that’s what Khomeini was all about; it’s what the Iranian Revolution is about.’ But, whereas the nation was the prime category of European fascism, in the Iranian case, ultimate fealty was pledged to Islam. ‘When Khomeini was on the plane from Paris to Tehran, someone asked him, “well, aren’t you excited about going to back to Iran?” And he said, “It’s not about Iran. People who care about Iran are pagans. This is about Islam.”’

Far-right extremist ideology: check.

Iran's dictatorship is the equivalent of the Christian Nationalist movement in the U.S.: a violent fundamentalist movement that warps religion into a sort of cloaking device.

Christian Nationalism is to Christianity as "politicized Islam," or Islamism, is to Islam.

It is not a religion; it is fascists weaponizing the facade of religion.

It uses people's loyalty to their country's mainstream religion to make itself seem moral and difficult to attack. It taps into the centuries of power-building, strategizing, and colonizing behind that religion, and finds lots of ways to "borrow" all that power. (It's not hard; people have been doing the same thing for centuries.)

Significant human rights issues [in Iran, in 2023 alone] included credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings by the government and its agents; enforced disappearance; torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by the government or on behalf of its agents; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest or detention; serious problems with the independence of the judiciary; political prisoners or detainees; transnational repression against individuals in another country; arbitrary and unlawful interference with privacy; punishment of family members for alleged offenses by a relative; serious abuses in a conflict, including unlawful recruitment or use of child soldiers and enabling abuses by terrorist groups throughout the region, the Syrian government, Iran-aligned militia groups in Iraq, and Yemeni Houthi militants, all of which were credibly accused of abuses; severe restrictions on freedom of expression, including violence, threats of violence, and

holy shit, just the list of human rights abuses goes on for at least another full page.

Military violence used to get totalitarian control over people's lives: check.

2. Iran has used "proxy armies" to extend its fascist regime into Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and even Palestine.

I am gonna save the infodump for a minute here, too. But oh my god, they're even worse than the dictatorship that funds them. Because they lack the oversight and visibility that you get with a giant federal government -- even a really secretive one that controls all the media.

3. Honestly, it's the exact same ideology that rich powerful men like Amin al-Husseini started, back when the Ottoman Empire fell and forced them to face the grim prospect of equality with the Jews they'd oppressed for centuries.

I could write an entire video essay about that.

But the short (by comparison) version is:

He was a rich fascist Hitler fanboy as early as 1923. He grew up in a very wealthy family that owned most of Jerusalem and had lots of rich friends in high places.

His family had very much profited from centuries of oppressing the Jews, and he was not here for having to treat them as if they were equal.

He was, in fact, pretty explicitly here for trying to rule as much as possible of the world around him.

He incited a massacre of the Jews in 1920 and Britain's solution was to... put him in a leadership position over Arab Palestine.

Then he organized a lot more pogroms. Including ones as graphic as October 7.

In the 1930s, he and his friend Hassan Al-Banna, who had started the Muslim Brotherhood -- a horrible fascist org with a nice name -- got funding and training from the Nazi Party for more violence. And used a lot of it to scare off or kill off every government official in Arab Palestine who supported coexistence with Jewish Palestine.

This culminated in three years of so much violence that Britain and the UN were basically like, "This isn't fucking going to work. These communities cannot coexist, much less collaborate on a federal government. We need to partition this into two states."

Then al-Husseini and his cronies refused to even participate in talks about partition, and instead lobbied every Arab League country to get them to send weapons and volunteer militias to try to "drive the Jews into the sea" before Britain even left.

And then to invade officially as soon as it did leave. Five countries invaded at once.

Oh, shit, I forgot: in between the violence and the... well, the further violence... he went off to try to organize a pro-Nazi revolution in the Arab world; failed but managed to incite the Farhud; and then ran Arabic-language propaganda for the Nazis, while pressuring Hitler to promise he'd kill all the Jews in Palestine too.

(Hitler was like, "I CANNOT PUT THAT IN WRITING RIGHT NOW, MY DUDE. You HAVE to wait until I beat the Brits and the Russians." But he did promise that al-Husseini would get to lead the troops to Palestine to start the slaughter.)

(Hitler did not beat the Brits and the Russians. This is basically why there are any Jews alive today. He was killing an average of 125,000 Jews a month; it would only have taken him two more years to kill the rest of the Jews in Europe. Three if he'd also had the Jews of North Africa and West Asia to kill. If he'd gained territory in North Africa and West Asia, or in Russia and then down into West Asia, and had been able to use those resources to speed things up? It doesn't bear imagining.)

Al-Husseini's propaganda work may have made him a literal Nazi war criminal, but it was enormously successful. The Jewish communities across that region had been there for thousands of years. By the 1940s, they were being subjected to repeated massacres and Nuremberg-style laws in Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Aden, and more. By 1972, almost a million Jews had fled.

Almost every single one of those countries drove out 90% of its Jews, or more, by 1972. In most countries, Jews were required to turn over all their money and property to the government before they could leave, resulting in Jewish refugees losing at least $6.7 billion in 2012 dollars.

The propaganda continued to simmer. It fed on resentment against Egypt, occupying Gaza and denying its people citizenship rights. It fed on militants and extremists in general.

Jordan was the one country that treated Palestinians well, giving all of them citizenship and letting them create "a state within a state;" and yet the PLO and the PFLP, operating under the name Black September, assassinated the Prime Minster and tried to take over Jordan in 1970. And then spent several years carrying out bombing campaigns against Israelis and Jews worldwide.

In 1987, with the eruption of the First Intifada, Hamas became the Muslim Brotherhood's armed wing.

Its founding documents are full of fascist rhetoric: violent nationalism claiming that the entire land, both Israel and Palestine, was essentially Muslim holy land (which it is not), and must be taken back by violent force.

Along with tons of such horrific antisemitic rhetoric that it actually urges the reader to check out The Protocols of the Elders of Zion for proof of what it says.

In 2005, Israel did in Gaza exactly what people say it should do in the West Bank, what they say they mean by "free Palestine": it made a unilateral decision to pull out entirely. No more police, military, government offices, Israeli businesses, or Israeli settlements.

In 2007, Hamas staged a violent coup, kicking the Palestinian government out of the Gaza Strip.

It has run Gaza as a fascist theocratic dictatorship ever since. For the past 18 years.

The rhetoric it presents to the West has changed significantly. It puts out tons of propaganda claiming to be an indigenous group, freedom fighters, "the Palestinian resistance," etc. All while Palestinians living under its dictatorship cannot even express dissent without being imprisoned and tortured.

But the rhetoric it uses in the Arab world has remained as boldly and wildly antisemitic as ever.

Its children's programming deserves a special mention for the horrifying giant Nazi bee.

To the West, the propaganda about October 7 says that this was an incredible, bold uprising against the cruel Zionists: an oppressed people breaking out of their prison to retake their own land.

On October 7, however, Hamas and PFLP fighters were not only committing mass gang rapes and sexual mutilation along with incredibly graphic murders, they were also saying things like, “Massacre the Jews!” “Everyone out, Jews, everyone out!” "Are there Jews inside?" "Shut up, you traitor, working with Jews," "See how many I killed myself, Baba. Your son killed Jews!" and “Down with Israel! This is Palestine! This is not Israel! Israel does not exist! Kill all the Jews!”

In short, there's one bold throughline straight from Amin al-Husseini to today.

And Hamas, as a direct result, is a fascist regime. It is theocratic, it uses military violence to control all media and all speech... and strangely, despite the fact that Gazans have been protesting it and Israel throughout the war, the pro-Palestine movement consistently refuses to support or platform their movement in any way.

4. Israel is a democracy in which people are actively opposing an authoritarian political leader.

I would certainly call Netanyahu authoritarian. Just to give one example, trying to remove the checks and balances of the Supreme Court is an inherently authoritarian act.

I would argue that right now, when fascism is very actively on the rise around the world and we need to fight it, is a bad time for us to keep watering down the meaning of "fascism" to "a politician or country I hate."

5. The U.S. and Israel aren't on the same side against Iran because "Zionists side with fascists." They're on the same side against Iran by necessity - because Iran is actively trying to build an empire, and two of its biggest goals are to destroy Israel and the United States.

Why those two countries? Because Iran was VERY actively marketed to by Nazi Germany, and is now run by the most antisemitic government on earth. And guess where 81% of the Jews on earth live. (In Israel and the U.S.)

The United States is also, of course, by FAR the most likely country to try to stop Iran from either destroying Israel or building an empire.

(Destroying the U.S. would be a real fucking stretch goal, let's be honest. Unless Iran did produce the bomb, and didn't care about starting a nuclear war. But I would also rather not live through Iran trying to destroy the U.S., which would 100% start a world war.)

But the kind of theocratic fascists that run Iran blame both Jews and the U.S. for "decadent, corrupting Western culture."

In the exact same way that their Christian Nationalist counterparts in the West see them as "violent terrorists who corrupt democracies."

Both sides are just rivals in the same battle for power.

6. I am so fucking sick of people appropriating the word "Zionism" and making up their own abstract definition that boils down to "something something evil jews," I can hardly fucking stand it.

I am only saying this outright because we're both autistic. And therefore, I think, we both really really care about the truth.

(i am sure many allistic people care deeply about the truth too, please don't @ me allistic people)

It's partly horrible because there are TWO competing definitions for this stolen word. And the people who use one rarely seem to know the other, and frequently push back really hard against the info that it exists. Which is a total mindfuck, in a sea of mindfucks.

(The rest of the sea is the constant misrepresentation, erasure, and flat-out lying about every single bit of the history and politics involved. As an autistic history nerd, it is absolutely maddening to be constantly lied to. Especially, usually, by people who will go to any lengths to either blow off corrections or defend their disinformation, no matter how obviously at odds it is with reality.)

There are the people who think "Zionism" means, basically, "a specifically Jewish movement in favor of genocide."

And then there are the people who know and loudly oppose the actual definition: basically, that Israel exists, and that it deserves to exist, in the same sense that any country does: i.e., we generally don't support wiping countries off the face off the earth because that's genocide.

It is horrifying how little it seems to matter which definition any given pro-Palestine group or protest uses. The more prominent a group is, the more loudly it calls for the violent destruction of Israel, Israelis, and "Zionists" worldwide.

Fuuuuck, wait, I get it.

They're both saying the same fucking thing, aren't they.

The anti-Zionists who think there's a big Jewish movement to commit genocide don't care if other anti-Zionists openly want to commit genocide against Israel. Because they associate Israel so strongly with Zionism. They see those as the same thing.

That's why they target anyone and anything from Israel. That's why they've protested regularly outside that cafe in San Francisco for years, because the Jewish owner's parents immigrated here from Israel and that made him "a Zionist." That's why it's escalated to smashing his windows and writing "die Zio" and "death to Israel is a promise" on the walls.

That's why, when that guy in San Francisco last week started yelling "Free Palestine" and "Fuck the Jews," the bystanders who pulled out their phones to record the assault joined in yelling, "fuck Jews."

That's why if Jews demand the hostages be released, they're not perceived as calling for something that should end the war, they're perceived as "Zionists" that it's okay to firebomb.

That's why people who have spent their lives advocating for peace get killed for working at the Israeli Embassy. By a killer who yells, "Free, Free Palestine," while murdering two of the few people who are in a position to effectively support and advocate for Palestinian human rights. (It's also why nobody opposes Egypt's treatment of Palestinians. Or Lebanon's. Or Syria's.)

It's all the same thing.

Anti-Zionism was never "just criticism of the Israeli government." It's always been loaded with antisemitic tropes. It's always been weaponized against Jews.

It's always been a veiled threat: it's "not antisemitic" because it's never against ALL Jews. It's always been equipped with a little escape hatch.

"We don't mean Jews are worthless and evil! We only mean the Jews who don't want us to destroy a country where almost half the Jews on earth live are worthless and evil!"

It's just another situation where Jews are being promised that they might be allowed to live, if they don't oppose the massacre of all the "bad Jews."

This quote from the meeting between Amin al-Husseini and Adolph Hitler is hitting different now:

The Fuhrer replied that Germany’s fundamental attitude on these questions, as the Mufti himself had already stated, was clear. Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews. That naturally included active opposition to the Jewish national home in Palestine, which was nothing other than a center, in the form of a state, for the exercise of destructive influence by Jewish interests.

i'm agreeing with a trump truth social post what the fuck is the world we live in

[lamusedhermes]

Curate everything.

Curate your hygiene routine, curate your clothing items, curate your home, curate your habits, curate your nutrition, curate your environment, curate your circles, curate you socials, curate the content you consume, curate your social skills, curate your financial situation, curate your emotions, curate the version of you that shows up in public, curate your hobbies, curate your knowledge.

[hinge]

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[jessyourhusband]

𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐

[thewhimsicalarchives]

“it'll all be worth it in the end,"