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mycological-mariner · 18 hours ago

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Friend and I came up with black market academia which is just dark academia but imagined by two people who don’t know what it is, don’t have access to any academic institution archives and need to find some guys on the inside to smuggle out copies of primary sources for us to pass back and forth as needed

#‘hey my dealer can probably hit you up with that WWI journal’ ‘I can see if mine’ll send you a pdf of the letters you need’#I guess it makes research more fun? I guess?#anyways it’s come to what I’ve been dreading #absolutely no public archive or museum has anything I need #frankly an insane number of hoops to jump through to read like 7 (if that) pieces of paper from a son to his mum #thiiiiiiis close to just asking living descendants #sorry this is my white whale #if my next thing doesn’t come up with anything I’m gonna leave it be #I have another passion project that thankfully has basically everything I need in one place. for free. all it costs is an email to set up #an appointment at the archives #sigh #‘ if you are using this material for research please submit your final report/explain in detail what the project is’#girl just. just let me have 30 minutes to speed read #I know it’s about people making copies and selling them etc but. BUT. please?

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