At a panel and fearful that no matter what question I am asked I will answer I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THIS CAPS-PENS GAME I CAN’T WATCH RIGHT NOW THE END OF AN ERA I REMEMBER BACK IN 2009 WHEN—
LOOOOOOOVE
When you are in this house they clearly have a transformative experience
<Enyd Blyton that all feels now, even to me. But I think there’s a kind of adult-less magic that is important and necessary to experience.
Meanwhile, my students: “I can’t go to therapy/lgbtq center/a friend’s room because my parents track my location 24/7 and they’ll ask what I was doing there.”
My cousins and I would leave the house to walk in the hills and “pick cactus berries” and we’d come back six hours later covered in mud and with someone bleeding and our parents would be like, “wash up now!” We used to spend hours at a filled-in reservoir we called “the muddening”. It’s wild how >
Indeed!! Why????
Also I know this isn’t the salient point but this is just… chicken and pasta boiled in water and soap, right? She didn’t even salt her abomination??
okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless
My student, absolutely breathless with discovery at an 8:15am meeting:
“It’s this book; I don’t know if you’ve heard of it. Ulysses, by James Joyce?”
A rare instance of someone coming to a Wendy’s with a comment about hamburgers and not realizing the are, in fact, at a Wendy’s.
Sending hugs!!! Survival is sufficient when things feel like this. ❤️❤️❤️
Except, you know, using the right articles
We should buy an Visit Agenda Notebook
Please let one more person ask me, “You finish your PhD yet?” as I’m like, “Learn to answer an email, on our primary institutional exchange platform, which is a condition of your employment, yet?”
You are not alone…
As a fellow person on this journey please just SAY!!! (And though we have only spent time in each other's distant orbits in fandom, please feel free to send me a DM!)
God save us from our "innovators"
No picture more accurately captures the team dynamic of "ghoul and minions" than this
I believe I paid ten american dollars plus shipping for it.
No ragrets.
First carabiner keychain I had was in high school and one should never go back
A, JC Chasez has a diamond-studded ring on his left ring finger as he looms over Lance Bass and the person who sold it to me (on ebay? who fucking knows in the early 2000s) knew exactly how I felt about it.
From a medievalist and Early Modernist, this just ain't true, folks.
This also reminds me that I own a boy paper of Lance Bass and JC Chasez hugging and mugging at a bowling alley. It's in a copy of The Lorax that is in my parents' house.
boy paper.
amazing
I have feelings about AO3! Surprising absolutely no one, these are long-winded.
Or; AO3 is an anti-capitalist marvel and we should fight light hell to keep it that way:
www.tumblr.com/singingkingo...
This all-caps rant makes me sound a little deranged, I realize—this is obviously so complex, but this level of keeping tabs on one another is *not normal*. My mother is a tabs-keeper and if she’d had this technology in the 80s-90s, her anxiety would have gone from affecting my life to controlling it
And that’s partly, you know, hyper-capitalism and the technology state or whatever, but the real scream stuck in my throat sometimes is YOU HAVE TO STOP WATCHING EACH OTHER, TOO! The amount of interpersonal stress I see between students and between students and families that results from this…
We don’t know each other but YES. I work with undergrads too and as I try to help them navigate this societally created mental health crisis I always feel like screaming IT’S (PARTLY) THE SURVEILLANCE! You’re terrified of misstepping and always feel trapped and anxious because someone *is* watching!
Yes!!! I cannot comprehend how all my students have set up location tracking & sharing with each other!!! I don’t have lo-jack on my HUSBAND nor he on me!!! I realized yesterday tho that many had their PARENTS insist on having location tracking on them as kids, which normalized it for them?
The pain of… accomplishment, though????
On this year’s long covid awareness day, I want more people to read and think about what the late Shafiqah Hudson said before it killed her. Because she was right, as usual, and also early, as usual. Perhaps too early for a lot of people to listen.