#(it is a fictional thesis)

[nondelphic]

writing my thesis is so annoying because no one understands my frustration or the jokes i make about my work except the very niche group of scholars who have read the same journal articles as me but it's not like THEY are listening. like i can't come on here and joke about daniel 'i don't explain my references' scheufele or cry about how everyone cites tuchman (1978) while i'm using tuchman (1973) like PLEASE!!! UNDERSTAND ME!!! i yell as they drag me back to my room and put me in a straitjacket

[addersmire-moved]

LEECHCRAFT IS A GAME DRENCHED IN BLOOD — HEALING, BINDING, & CORRUPTING.

As a plague spreads through the isolated village you call home, balance your needs as a newly-turned vampire with your duties as a healer. Leechcraft is interactive fiction with a healthy dose of role-playing, steeped in a dark fantasy world inspired by medieval medicine.

FEATURES

Over 15k words of prose and dialogue.

Heal & harm the village and those you are tasked with treating.

Playable on mobile so you can play how you want.

(COMING SOON) Illustrated companion book with stories related to the game.

Play now on itch.io

[shslprince]

Tbh it's one thing to just not be into the ship and that's fine but saying maki's feelings for kaito came out of nowhere and worsens her character is baffling because

1) are you even paying attention to her the game practically tells you what her arc is about even in the prologue and

2) I feel like fandoms forget sometimes that romance can be used as a narrative tool to emphasize the themes of a work and not just shipping fuel.

[stargatedreamerr]

please tell me how your favourite character/blorbo has helped you in your life to help me complete my master's thesis project! - (i'm a psychology student)

Hi everyone! I'm currently working on my master's project for my postgraduate degree and I was hoping you might be able to let me know how fictional characters have helped you when times are tough!

if you have any problems or you think that I need to change something about this post or the survey itself because it might be offensive or incorrect please don't hesitate to reach out!

[luka-labrathor]

Dear jayvik ff writers,

I love you but please, I'm begging you, learn the difference between nominative and vocative in the language Viktor is supposed to be native in. Cause if the language is Czech, no matter how many Czechs you've talked to to make his lines right, you'll make mistakes.

So far I haven't read any English fic that used nominative for Viktor's nicknames. And I've read a lot of them. So here's a quick guide:

Nominative is what someone/thing is called. Vocative is what you call someone/thing.

English, Spanish, German, French and many more don't use vocative. Latin, Greek, Polish (wołacz), Czech, Ukrainian etc. do use it.

Nominative is used when you talk about someone/thing (you use it only as the subject in sentences but that's an unimportant detail rn). Vocative is for talking to someone/thing.

In practice: Let's say Viktor calls Jayce "lásko" (love). The correct use looks like this:

"I think you stink, lásko (voc)," said Viktor. His láska (nom) stank.

– "But why even bother? My Viktor doesn't actually speak Czech, he just uses one or two words as pet names! It's not like the people around him know what he's saying! They would probably get confused if they heard him suddenly change the final suffix."

Sure, it makes sense that Viktor would probably not insist on using Czech grammatical cases correctly while communicating in English. But there are 2 possible situations your Viktor could be in:

A) The Canon Adjacent Approach: Viktor is an immigrant or lives in a Czech enclave. He learnt Czech from his core family but actually studied in the majority language of Zaun/Piltover/USA. People like this sometimes lose their accent in the majority language but we know it's not his case because we can hear his Russian accent in the game and his Czech-ish-RAF-pilot-ish accent in the series. He knows Czech but he probably never used it to write an essay.

B) The International Student Approach: Viktor is an exchange student or he moved to Piltover/USA after graduating a Czech highschool. He knows Czech very well. He wrote a lot of essays in Czech.

The A-Viktor might have an excuse for using Czech words incorrectly or not really minding the misuse of vocative (for ex. like here: "This is my lásko," said Viktor). He knows that English speakers don't understand the difference between nom. and voc. so he uses a vocative form of his nicknames as if they were English words (pl. láskos, poss. lásko's). This usage would probably make a B-Viktor's ears bleed.

B-Viktor doesn't have to think about it when he uses a Czech word. He just uses whatever he'd use in Czech (and maybe if he'd need an other case than nominative or vocative he'd just use nominative cause that's the "default" case in dictionaries). I'm still kinda split on whether he wouldn't actually use only nominative when talking to/about people cause again, it's the "default" case and he would avoid people treating a voc. form like a nom. one. But if he actually tried and at one point explained to his close ones that "láska" is actually the word he's using, just in the vocative form (or just sent them this post, some jayvik fics can be very meta-fictional), he could be using voc. and nom. (lásko and láska) more or less as he'd use it in Czech.

Apart from that, if your POV is Viktor's, you need to use Czech correctly in your indirect speech or I'll come to your house with torches and pitchforks. If Viktor is thinking Jayce was my [Czech pet name], my dearest [Czech pet name], you need to use nominative for the pet name no matter what. One exception is if your Viktor actually doesn't know any Czech and only cosplays as a Czech person cause he loves our stinky cheese from Loštice. Then and only then I can accept him using nominative and vocative indistinguishably.

S láskou,

Your čtenář

P. S.: Use whatever words you want, like, your fic will read like 10 Czech people in all it's eternal lifetime on ao3 so don't overthink it. I'm overthinking it cause I don't have a life separate from jayvik.

[astriiformes]

Was tagged by @starfoozle to share some of the books on my to-read list for 2025 (thank you, friend, this is a fun one!)

First on my list of reading goals is actually to try to finish at least a couple of the in-progress books I carried with me into the new year, but for this challenge I picked ones I haven't actually started yet -- with the exception of Wonder and the Order of Nature, which I read a chapter of for a class years ago and loved (and which may or may not end up being the beginning of PhD dissertation reading in 2025).

This list is mostly non-fiction, as is my wont, though there are a couple fiction books in here for once -- both recommended by friends, so I'm slightly more optimistic I'll actually read and enjoy them. I hear tell the Rivers of London series even has a canon aromantic character, and that Mongrels is actually good werewolf fiction, so I may scratch a couple itches with my reading this year.

Tagging @marypsue @tam--lin @eternalgirlscout @so-i-did-this-thing @lafseanchai @professionalowl and @eighthdoctor, though of course there's no obligation to participate (I just suspect all of you have excellent to-read lists, haha)

[foenixed]

The "robot/alien learns how to love" trope is just aphobia btw.

[communistkenobi]

I don’t like when people ask how many books you plan to read/have read this year one because I think that’s a weird relationship to have to books and two because I think even reading a chapter or a portion of something is valuable. this is especially true with non-fiction but even with fiction I think any amount you read, even if you don’t read the entire thing, is not a failure or ‘incomplete’

[theancientfootsteps]

may God bless and keep all academics who upload pdfs of their own books and papers so that they can be accessed for free

[marsplastic13]

Loved when my thesis supervisor asked me if I'm completely sure I want to write my thesis in English. Bestie when I'm not working for you I'm writing fanfics, don't worry

[thefastestclockintheuniverse]

I think she just wanted to be believed.

Shucks buster, I wonder why?

[taintsconverse]

I have the biggest fattest crush on Chema from the movie Thesis 1996 . He is the man of my dreams. That's all I wanted to say.

[littyngeeky]

quick question to the lit majors/scholars:

what comes after postmodernism? is it metamodernism or something else? if so, what are the recurring narrative styles/genres that sets it apart from postmodernism?

welp.

pls share this with your well-read friends who might know the answer. i wanna know everyone’s opinions.

[sherbertilluminated]

Anyone have any recommendations for works of art, esp. films based on the lives of poets, thinkers etc? I've been rewarding myself for progress on my finals by slowly watching scenes from the 4-hour 1978 Heine TV biopic and although I know it's not very good, I'm finding that I enjoy the historical fiction/biopic genre for its own sake...

They don't have to be well-made or correct. In fact it might be more fun if they aren't.

[theprissythumbelina]

Biography of a horse

This is a small piece of my current writing project for class. I ended up writing a Black Beauty-inspired short story from the perspective of a working horse in rural Guatemala. It is also heavily based on my research and experience working with an NGO in Guatemala this summer.

Birth Equine pregnancy lasts an average of 11 months, and nearly always results in a single offspring, called a foal. Male foals are called colts, female foals are called fillies. Foals are expected to stand and nurse within one hour after birth. My earliest memories are of my mother, and the family we belonged to. They were there when I was born. I remember those first few moments, in the shock of cold night air, my wet ears sticking to my head. My mother spoke to me in soft nickers, telling me her name, telling me that I was a horse, I was her baby, she loved me. She licked the birth waters from my coat, drying me slowly, as a family of humans peered over the fence, whispering and murmuring to each other. This is our family, she told me, licking clean my ears and face. I wobbled back and forth under her attention. This is our home. I blinked up at the sky. Family? Home? Yes, she said, our home. And I am your mother. I nickered back. The humans made soft sounds of happiness at my first nicker. I pushed my feet in front of me. They were so long. Get up, said Mother. She moved back a step. Stand up. I didn’t know how. I pushed one long front leg to the side, then a back leg. I pushed my others underneath me. Up, my instincts said. Up, Mother said. I tried. There were just too many legs. I toppled to the side. Again, she licked my wispy mane encouragingly. Try again.

for my friends to see what I've been working on during my hiatus

@thetruearchmagos @thatndginger @amaiguri @sergeantnarwhalwrites @jacqueswriteblrlibrary

[coldilikeit]

Guys, we're supposed to make a thesis and new inventions, so far we have thought of soap, creating a new religion, going back in time to kidnap Albert Einstein and making a bomb so big it makes another big bang theory

If you guys give me ideas, I will update 3 chapters continuously, or if you want, give me an invention idea and I will write a head cannon you want 2000 words max

It's a promise.