#dissertation struggles

[complementaryhalves]

when you find a paper on english and globalisation and it's by skutnabb-kangas & phillipson you just know you're in for a treat. absolute banger of an analysis, never a bad take

[cuubism]

i feel like dream in human aus is usually characterized as being more stoic and stern while hob is more easygoing, but i think it would be funny to have a university au where hob is the professor who's like "no work is deserving of 100%. find 27 more sources and do it again" while dream is just like "they put their dreams into it, hob 🥺 A+! A+! A+! A+!"

[motions1ckn3ss]

Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk: Classical Allusion and Desire in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables

or, the long awaited les mis dissertation! i'm so incredibly proud of this work, and i hope you enjoy reading it as much as i (mostly) enjoyed writing it :)

[shadelorde]

i'm going to start blocking the fucking words "gen z" and "gen a" and "millennial" because y'all are doing the exact same damn thing that you complained about older people doing to you and it REALLY shows

[beartitled]

I’m struggling

/silly

Mini announcement

There’s probably going to be less posts? I dunno for sure, most likely will be posting old art or some sketches

Currently concentrated on finishing writing and drawing my diploma project, so need some time to get over with it 💪

[boirad]

Hello all guess who just got an email back from THE AGUSTIN FUENTES (non-bioanthropologists this probably means nothing to you and honestly even like bioarchaeologists this probably means nothing to you either) BUT LIKE THIS IS THE BIGGEST DAY OF MY LIFE AND HE LIKES MY RESEARCH AND WANTS TK CHAT IF THERES ONE THING TO TAKE AWAY:

SEND THAT EMAIL! You never know who will respond !!!

[magpiecollectingknowledge]

dissertation work is taking up a lot of my time while I wait for lectures to begin for my uni’s summer semester. the hot weather makes me not want to work, so I’m fighting against my lizard brain urge to soak in the warmth and be lazy.

happy pride month to all! it’s time for us gays to be insufferably proud and celebrate our wonderful selves. to my gay followers: you are valid; you’re supported; you’re perfect as you are. I’m proud of you, and you’re not alone.

the Lego flowers in the last photo above were gifts from my girlfriend and I wanted to share them because they’re so beautiful. we’ve got matching Lego flowers and I love them so much because I always get sad when living flowers die! I love her so much

have a good weekend all!

[greenerteacups]

You've spoken about Narcissa before, and I always love to read your thoughts on her and the Black's. My question is technical/emotional: how do you refrain from softening her? She is so warm and loving, so witty and charming, and so brave - such a perfect, interesting, beloved character - how do you resist the temptation to have her let go of some of her rigidity and become the perfect mother? (I'm very glad that you HAVE resisted, but I don't think I could do it! You are made of sterner stuff).

Oh, that's the interesting stuff about her! The sharp edges of her character, especially as Draco starts seeing her outside of a purely domestic context, are what make her fun to write. There's very little to think about when a character fully embodies their virtues; what makes them real is the ways that they fail to perform what they believe, or succeed in performing a mistaken belief. That's where you get the contradictions and the pressure-points that arise in real life, and even the best mother you know has probably had at least one episode where she snapped and yelled at her kid, or lost patience, or forgot to practice a particular virtue of motherhood. That's what makes them real people. Watching an idol be good at something isn't all that impressive; it's the struggle against weakness and vice that makes a character recognizably human, and therefore lovable, when they triumph in the attempt.

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

got a new laptop on sale yayy 😎 hopefully a zoom meeting will no longer threaten to wipe out my whole machine

[proto-language]

'neverland' has made me insane enough that i don't even know how to post about it. btw.

[torchickentacos]

I hate when spotify gets lyrics wrong. Like if I can hear the right words with my processing disorder, then spotify has NO EXCUSES tbh

[motions1ckn3ss]

from this:

to this:

[cramberry24]

Me looking at Stairway to Heaven and trying to find the best lyric for this week’s chapter title

“And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter”

“In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees, and the voices of those who stand looking”

“And as we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls”

“My spirit is crying for leaving”

“Your head is humming, and it won’t go, in case you don’t know”

[iamthepulta]

i did it u_u

[magpiecollectingknowledge]

Got my dissertation goal for August done! It was to create a full outline of each section and organise my key sources, which was time-consuming but will be super helpful when it comes to writing.

Saw a cool big boat this week and also went with my gorgeous girlfriend to a beautiful place with caves, and got to see the lovely views. Look out for loads of those photos in my future posts.

Have a good week all!

[dionysus-complex]

it turns out that in order to have a dissertation you do indeed have to actually write the thing