#and it was on like... JSTOR
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Where the fuck was that one moment of clarity for research I experienced when I decided to debunk the etymology of French Toast in random fucking Reddit thread?
#someone claimed it originated from a colonial american inn keeper named french who called it ''french's toast''#and date the origin circa mid 1700s#i ended up finding the only sources with that claim all being recipe blogs#with the only reputable source at the bottom of one being the Smithsonian#didnt exist. i did find a recipe book from the 1600s for french toast where you soaked french bread in eggs; seasoning and orange juice#and it was on like... JSTOR#an engaging pice of research imho
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Too many people don't know that libraries can get you through paywalls in a completely legal way.
#like if you're a Australian citizen you do not have to pay for jstor#this doesn't work for everything and depends on where you live &c but it works for a lot of things
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A random encounter from today:

#I didn't know they even had an account here until today#it's like seeing your professor out in public#jstor#college#college memes#university#literature
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Aayla, Mustafar, Jingles and bonus Abbish the dog
It looks like they match each other's freak
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jstor: the people’s “hey, has anybody smarter and/or more thoughtful than me written about this already?” princess, tbh
#i am gonna have to speedrun my free 100 articles this month it’s been Weird i forgot to do it before now#also for anybody who isn’t already a fan of jstor it is INVALUABLE#free jstor plug here: they rock they will help you they are here to make being curious better#anyway starting with a review of gender and the archaeology of death that sounds like it slaps#ps: check out jstor
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TUCKER, AVIEZER. “Sins of Our Fathers: A Short History of Religious Child Sacrifice.”
#iphigenia#classics#paedocide#quotes#id in alt text#jstor#i'm sorry but this reminds me so much of hannibal. like abigail hobbs?? mmfgh??#hannibal
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Please lord I need @jstor merch for the club, for mothers day brunch, for buying a used car, for punk shows, for everyday.
Please jstor let me bare my heart to the masses
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I'm writing a research paper on the origins of city pop for a music cultures class but it's honestly crazy hard to find any good academic sources on it. Or maybe they're not in English that I can find easily idk lol
#JSTOR you are failing me JSTOR#anyways if anybody knows (good) (academic) sources for stuff like that lmk#i talk
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To Dumas, at least in The Count of Monte Cristo, class is a pantomime (a really expensive one) and status is a somewhat elusive force. To him distinction as Bourdieu puts it does not quite exist which I think is absolutely fascinating. All you need is money, but sometimes you don't even need that.
The novel is plentiful with characters intruding and altering the high class, often being quite on par with old money people. This is probably indicative of Dumas living in a time of deep and rapid historical change and probably a society with significant class mobility (at least compared to other time periods), and a notably porous high-class because otherwise these plots would be far too unbelievable. Dumas and his crew have an eye for detail though and make efforts to tie in even the more fantastical elements of the plot, with the at least partial exception of the orientalist element. It strikes me that the fluidity and relative malleability of class structures at the time must have seemed plausible to his contemporaries.
On the other hand, I can't think right now of a modern piece of media that has so much cross-class movement across different subplots, characters and moments in time. Rags-to-riches stories tend to focus on a single individual or maybe family/group of friends. In TCOMC however, multiple characters radically change their status throughout the novel, the most obvious being the Count himself and Mercedes and Fernando but there is also Danglars and his wife, Benedetto/Cavalcanti, Abbé Faria, Bertuccio, the Morrels, Caderousse, Haydée (though she differs significantly from the rest as she does not so much lose her status in terms of actual lifestyle as her literal freedom)... Much of the major cast goes through a status/class transformation either upward, downward, or both, in a way that has to do mostly, but not only with their money or lack thereof
#the count of monte cristo#laura reads#i would need to read more on class and finish the book to elaborate this fully#so far i can't believe i did not find anything in regards to class in the book on jstor? like to me the class aspect it's very obviously a#major aspect of the book even if unintentionally (and i do think it's intentional btw. dumas is too snarky on his comments on high society#paris for it not to be at least half intentional lol)
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for being 26 years apart these echo a very similar sentiment
#and both about a person. a woman textually but arguably a man. you know how it is.#a need a better database to look for star trek articles. jstor i feel like youre holding out on me#st#tos#ds9
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which one of you little shits did this
#sherlock#bbc sherlock#mormor#jim moriarty#...#johnlock#if i was on jstor and a scholarly paper just mentioned fucking mormor like that. i would#WAIT#ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX PAGES?!?!??!!?!!?!?
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I would love to be able to sideload books and articles from jstor to my Kindle, and converting from pdf to AZW3 or MOBI often turns my files into an unintelligible garble. Is there any way to download non-pdf files from jstor????? please help :((
Hi! We're sorry you're running into issues here. I ran into a similar issue recently, and it's quite disappointing!
Right now, we have some articles and books available as epubs (like here), but file types apart from PDFs aren't widely supported across JSTOR. We expect to host more content available as epubs in the future.
PDFs aren't the easiest for conversion to other file types because they contain a lot of... stuff, to put it simply. You could have plain text or you could have a series of image scans, and these all behave differently. I've seen suggestions to convert PDFs to .docx or .txt files and then create epubs/other files out of them (but even that can get messy).
In short, there doesn't seem to be an easy solution for file conversion here because you're starting with a PDF. If anyone in the community has found a workaround for this, we'd love to hear it!
#jstor#ask#please if anyone has thoughts feel free to share!#apologies if this is kind of nonsensical your local JSTOR mod is not a foremost expert on these topics#but i have similarly tried to put things on my kindle before with little success (pdf to epub destroyed the page scans)#my solution was to compress the pdf and add that directly to the kindle but i lost some functionality like syncing across devices
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While you were "online" I studied extinct branches of mystical philosophy
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Just finished reading a 26 page academic journal article about modern Spongebob.
You really can do anything
#I don't agree with all of it#It is the academic version of why modern spongebob is bad#Some points were good tho and I do agree on some stuff#Just not all of it#But i still admire the effort#I'd like to do this some day#I was bored and on jstor today if you can't tell#spongebob square pants#the spongebob connoisseur#spongebob squarepants#spongebob#sb#spongebon squarepants#spongebob meme
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Rhys Darby just casually eviscerating me at 9pm on a Monday evening. (x)
#like nbd nbd#just destroying me while i'm trying to jstor and chill my way through assessment week#also this is me lamenting having let my Photoshop CS lapse because i'm cheap and reasoned that i'd never need it again#PhotoScape is not my jam and I am not paying premium to access curves because i do not care enough#so it's whatever#these are way too blue but they sort of match so it's fine#ofmd#our flag means death#stede bonnet - human sunshine except in these four still specifically#rhys darby#coming for my throat
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we ask what makes the targaryens genetically pre-disposed to incest when we should be asking why practice brother-sister incest even though it was intensely taboo for everyone else? well why shouldn’t the men on dragonback set themselves above other men by marrying only as a god can? why not try to minimize succession crises when when civil war risks destroying millions of lives and the dragons, their irrefutable claim to god-hood? and if they’re gods, well, who else is more worthy of a god’s love than another god?
#I’m sorry I went on Twitter and still have access to jstor. the ptolemies make Aegon II look like a reasonable patriarch#house of the dragon#a song of ice and fire#hotd#house targaryen#asoiaf#none of this is original#game of thrones
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