#academic adventures

[farcillesbian]

"I need to protect Laios, Falin, and the others... I must protect them...!"

pt: "I need to protect Laios, Falin, and the others... I must protect them...!"

id: end credit art from the dungeon meshi anime. it shows marcille and falin running to catch up with shuro, laios, namari, and chilchuck. /end id

welcome to my humble blog! ʕ`･ω･´ʔゞ [← waving bear kaomoji]

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id: a divider made of different plush bears /end id

more info about me under the cut!

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id: two identical gifs of a plush rainbow worm inching along. /end id

about me:

my name is peach or riley, pronouns are he/they/fae, and i'm a transmasc femme lesbian - see my pronouns page for more info if you're curious how i like to be referred to!

i'm 27 (♎ libra), i've been on tumblr since 2010, and i have a master's degree in biology!

i enjoy reading (seriously, i have read over 80 books so far in 2024) with a particular fondness for sci fi and fantasy. i also read a lot of manga!

i also really enjoy music - i love listening to albums front to back when i discover an artist i like and reading up about them on the internet. I have over 100 CDs in my collection. i have spent hours on end researching songs that fit a particular vibe that i want to curate a playlist around. i also love reading about specific genres and their origins. my top genres include midwest emo, screamo, and shoegaze, but i will generally listen to any kind of music. if you say you listen to everything except rap, you're being antiblack and you should shut the fuck up and think about it.

#tunez is where i share music i enjoy.

my favourite video games are the pokemon mystery dungeon games (explorers of sky is the best), the dragon age series (zevran is forever in my heart), baldur's gate 3, the mass effect series, dave the diver, final profit, and civ 6.

previous URLs you may know me by include zevbian (will probably come back to it when the new dragon age releases), dyketorbjorn, and chubey.

i write image descriptions because this makes the internet a more accessible place for many people - first and foremost, blind and low vision people, though it can be helpful to others as well. posts with only alt text are tagged "id in alt text" and posts without any description are tagged "undescribed". descriptions I have added myself are tagged "described". i do not tag fundraising posts as undescribed even if they aren't because i believe that they need as much exposure as possible and the images they include are usually secondary to the intent of the post.

feel free to look at my carrd that I haven't updated for a few years, lol

[letters-to-rosie]

not me turning in my 15 page paper 22 minutes before the deadline

[ostropest]

*opens a document with my thesis* I fucking hate it here

[stargatelov3r]

if i was in a petty mood when i took these lecture notes?

[mitigatingacademics]

{9.28.2024}

Maximilien Robespierre of French Reign of Terror fame being all too relatable during my reading at work last night.

Described as prematurely feminist for his time, Robespierre, in his pre-revolution, early days of practicing law, once argued that a woman should be exempt from debtors laws in the following way:

"The gullibility and inexperience of their sex allow women to enter too lightly into contracts detrimental to their liberty; their weakness and sensibility render them more vulnerable to the shame and rigor of imprisonment; there is also the terrible effect imprisonment has on their natural timidity and the fatal consequences of such treatment, especially during pregnancy - what more can I say? Women's delicate honor is publicly, legally, irreversibly debased in the eyes of men, whose tenderness disappears along with respect..."

With friends like that, who needs enemies, yeah? 🤨

Also, while I knew I was in for a wild ride with this one...I did not realize that our main character was actually 'become the prophet of a new religion' crazy. But here we are:

"When Robespierre unveiled a new and perfect religion, the cult of the Supreme Being, at a public festival of the same name, he assumed the central symbolic role of high priest."

"...he believed, to the point of insanity, that he was the instrument of Providence, charged with delivering France to her exulted future. If the French were not yet worthy of such a future, it was clear to him that they must be regenerated - through virtue or terror - until they became what destiny demanded of them."

...and we're just getting into the start of the Revolution.

More to come.

[yellowmanula]

Thank you so much for your kind reactions and support. So, onwards, right? 💗 On September 30, I start the academic year, and the topic of my PhD seems fantastic to me. The recruitment committee at the University of Silesia responded to it with enthusiasm. I'll write more about this in a long article for Znak. Thanks to the dynamism of Prof. Marecki, I’m also part of a research team working on the Atari computer, and there’s another Kraków-based writer in the group (haha, maybe she'll brag about it herself). So, things are happening. You’re right that there’s no time for sadness—it’s better to express it in a beautiful or at least interesting way.

[becca4leafclover]

It's right at the end of the semester and only now for the first time, is my Lit class unable to figure out what the teacher and our book of the week is hinting at through literary analysis, personal experience, philosophy, and bouncing off one another.

And the reason why? Because we're unable to imagine the hypothetical conspiracy world the book is talking about, because we already live in it

[caffeinatedth0ts]

People talk about things that interest them. HOT. people studying about their favourite subject. HOT. people educating you about their favourite subject. HOT. I am all ears for your academic love. please don't stop.

[langblr-gremlin]

Hate when I do academic research and none of the people writing the articles and books don't agree on the terminal.

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

colors of the sky.

[farcillesbian]

i will hopefully be starting my PhD application process this week... scary 😬

[letters-to-rosie]

it's so nice when you feel good about your outfit but are a little unsure and then you go to work/school (same place for me lol) and people notice your fashion yayyyyyy

[the-real-sigrid-borg]

Lets play a game of 'how many chapters of the same book can i cite in a 3000 word assignment before it gets ridiculous'. I'm currently at 3 chapters, although 2 currently share an author

[mitigatingacademics]

{Work Weekend: 9.26.23 & 9.27.23}

Went to the pumpkin farm.

Mindless Entertainment:

Only Murders In The Building: 3.09 -- (I've known "who" Ben was talking to in his dressing room since episode 3.02)

American Horror Story: 12.01, 12.02

Better Call Saul: 1.02, 1.03

Kitchen Nightmares: 8.01

Reading:

Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargain is a Bad Deal by Carissa Byrne Hess

Other Productivity:

Khan Academy - Regained 'advanced' proficiency level on 'ordered games'

[lanndscape]