#and it was on like... JSTOR

[uinferno]

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?

[amphibious-thing]

Too many people don't know that libraries can get you through paywalls in a completely legal way.

[paranoiahaven]

A random encounter from today:

[jstor]

Aayla, Mustafar, Jingles and bonus Abbish the dog

It looks like they match each other's freak

[knowlesian]

jstor: the people’s “hey, has anybody smarter and/or more thoughtful than me written about this already?” princess, tbh

[butchkaramazov]

TUCKER, AVIEZER. “Sins of Our Fathers: A Short History of Religious Child Sacrifice.”

[saintpetercladinleather]

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

[sexygaywizard]

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

[kashilascorner]

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

[42eyeballs]

for being 26 years apart these echo a very similar sentiment

[grand-taire]

which one of you little shits did this

[jstor]

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!

[uraeuseraph]

While you were "online" I studied extinct branches of mystical philosophy

[spongebob-connoisseur]

Just finished reading a 26 page academic journal article about modern Spongebob.

You really can do anything

[neverbelessthan]

Rhys Darby just casually eviscerating me at 9pm on a Monday evening. (x)

[ondeadpeasantgirls]

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?