#tenured professor

[evilhorse]

Whoever heard of a tenured professor quitting his job to become a professional assassin?

[creator-of-calm-queer-chaos]

Yeah checks out

let’s see paul allen’s mall-based outfit

[mrmanbat]

So, ik, Tim dropped out of high school.

okay? I understand that-

I also know he briefly went to university (tho I'm not sure if that got retconned.)

Okay, I know all the lore-

But I also desperately need Tim as a college kid.

I NEED Tim to have to hide his vigilantism from his shit stain of a roommate.

I NEED Tim to hunt down rouges with degrees in his class subjects to get their help with an essay.

I NEED Tim to have an overtly evil Dr Doomfesmersts-type professor, whom Tim has to take down, but he does not want to take down Profester Evil because that's the only class he isn't failing.

[goddesspharo]

Glen Powell leaving The Twenty Two London - 02.22.25

[pilkypills]

Oin. because he's cool

[fannedandflawless]

The Virgin Theory: Severus Snape, and the Sanctity of Unlived Intimacy

Let’s begin with the quiet truth no one dares whisper in the halls of Hogwarts or the depths of Tumblr:

It’s entirely possible Severus Snape died a virgin.

And no, that isn’t shameful. It’s shattering—because it wasn’t about purity. It was about penance.

This wasn’t a man who couldn’t get close. It was a man who refused to be touched—as if intimacy itself were a sin after what he lost. After what he ruined.

Because when he had loved someone so deeply that the echo of them still rang at twenty-two, and thirty-two, and thirty-eight—all while they were long gone and never his—he didn’t offer his body to others. He archived it. He let it gather dust like an heirloom he believed no one deserved.

Snape didn’t swear off others for lack of attention. He swore it off because he had already given everything to someone who never asked for it.

Not romantic. Not idealised. Absolute.

—

We have no canon that says it outright. But show me a man who:

Never flirted

Never dated

Never even hinted at interest again

And I’ll show you someone not untouched by inexperience—but untouched by choice.

Virginity, in this context, is not innocence—it’s a slow bleed. A devotion. A life sentence stitched into the lining of his robes. His body became a battleground he refused to let anyone else step on.

Because what if he let someone close? What if they asked for softness and he only had shadow? What if they loved him—and it felt like betrayal?

So he closed the door before anyone knocked.

—

Let’s be honest, darling: He didn’t need to be saved. He needed to be mourned while living. And no one mourned him properly. Not even himself.

So yes. He might’ve died untouched. But he didn’t die unloved.

Because he loved once—so fully, so ruinously—that he decided no one else would ever be allowed to touch what he gave away long ago.

And that? That is not pathetic. It’s terrifyingly sacred.

—

🕯 Could Someone Have Loved Him?

Yes. Absolutely. There would have been witches who saw through the darkness, who admired his brilliance, who were drawn to his complexity.

But Snape? He would’ve deflected. Dodged. Withdrew. Possibly cruelly. Possibly awkwardly. But always deliberately.

Because in his mind, he’d already loved once, failed once, and paid in full.

—

Related Post: Severus Snape: Widower of the Living

[3liza]

I know for a fact not everyone living in NYC is that goofy looking i just don't understand why that blog only posts people who look like they got dressed from a series of clothes lines in people's back yards during a humorous slapstick foot chase scene

[ad-hawkeye]

my fav thing about prefect luminary is that even though he is... very different from the other alkaids, he is still Very Much So an alkaid. the innate traits are there, it's just that different ones are expressed because of his upbringing and environment.

pl cares about optimization and hates wasting time and resources. the same is seen with most other alkaids and their desire to learn new skills and achieve their goals in an almost perfectionistic way. this is especially seen with modern alkaid. there's an odd, reoccurring trend where pl seems to use this as an explanation as to why he doesn't just kill people or destroy planets for the hell of it or to prove a point. it's wasteful. of course, this doesn't always apply and the empire has messed him up immensely, but my own theory is that the innate kindness each alkaid has is mixed in here somewhere. that pl subconsciously uses resource management as a means to justify it. key word being subconsciously - pl does not strike me as being self aware in the SLIGHTEST.

speaking of an alkaid's innate kindness, pl is a very interesting case where he seems almost defensive if accused of showing kindness. and he always has an explanation. "this is just one exception" or "this is just to be resourceful"... the only way i can even try to describe it is like... he's almost, kinda tsundere? which makes sense. if you take an innately kind guy and put him in, well. the empire. that will likely be the outcome.

pl almost seems bored by his job - i often joke about this, but it's true. there seems to be a lack of fervor in his actions compared to the other empire boys. when stuck in the same position for years and years with no upward mobility - and with no personal passion for the job - you get an alkaid who lacks freedom. and when an alkaid lacks freedom, much of his personality is being restricted since that's a key component to who he is and what he stands for.

pl is sarcastic, blunt, and sassy. every other alkaid is as well, and i'd go as far to say this trait is the only one that perfectly aligns with the other alkaids since it's allowed to be expressed in the empire. though, with the other alkaids, it seems to be toned down with strangers or anyone he doesn't know too well. this is compared to pl who will straight up write sarcastic and blunt emails to coworkers and subordinates.

pl only feels real emotion when it comes to mc. this is pretty similar to modern alkaid. pl and modern alkaid have the most similarities in terms of emotional repression. both have been trained to repress who they are (because of the empire and tammy's organization respectively), and as a result, are deeply emotionally constipated individuals who see mc as the color that paints their monotone lives. the difference is that modern alkaid has a family who does genuinely care about him, a relatively normal society, and the freedom to pursue what he wants when he wants. so he's more well adjusted despite his issues. pl, on the other hand... lol.

i'm kinda curious to see how other innate alkaid traits get twisted with pl and the empire. specifically would be curious to see how an alkaid's tendency to overthink and to protect comes into play. very, very curious actually!

[dreadfuldevotee]

I can't draw so youre all gonna have to theater-of-the-mind with me Oops! all lesbians Femme Louis and her leash trained butch lesmandaniel

[yuechihua]

most insane piece of anaxa official commissioned art to me. imagine you're stressing over your philosophy 101 finals and you hop online to game only to get brutally eviscerated by some guy who types in full, grammatically correct sentences and keeps nitpicking what you do wrong and then you get on vc and find out it's your fucking professor. and you still need to turn in your paper after this.

[sealrock]

febhyurary, day 10: class

the studium's graduating class of '51, late spring—

hector wormwood; faculty of phytology elaine tatlonghari; faculty of archaeology

[greatvaluegirlfriend]

robby is such a fuckass (complimentary)

[horsegirlhob]

Mark Scout getting fired from Ganz college for showing up drunk to lectures lmao his ass did NOT have tenure

[stealingyourbones]

O to have the wardrobe of a 1980-1990s background comic book character

[natural-blogarithm]

my advisor is a great person and i am very lucky to have someone who is both extremely accomplished and extremely kind advising me but i will never get over the fear of her finding my tumblr

[pathetic-gamer]

love Remedy's commitment to putting Alan in fun little outfits, but giving him a messenger bag and tweed suit is so fucking funny. bestie where r u going? what r u carrying? textbooks? joseph campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces? u have a lamp in there.