#Events Academic

[downthetubes]

Cambridge University hosts major academic Comic Conference, "Better Living Through Comics", next month

A major academic conference poses the question "Do comics have a role to play in wellbeing?" at the University of Cambridge next month

The 2023 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society opens on 3rd July at the University of Cambridge, offering an interesting programme of talks aimed, largely, at academics and comic archivists. Entitled “Better Living Through Comics” the organisers pose the question, “Do comics have a role to play in wellbeing?“ “We find ourselves…

[sayruq]

[phoenixyfriend]

I think referring to the James Somerton situation, or the hbomberguy and Todd in the Shadows videos in general, as "YouTuber Drama" is really underselling the level of academic dishonesty, intellectual theft, and malicious misinformation being discussed and spread by this man and others like him.

This isn't makeup gurus accusing each other of being inappropriate at a birthday dinner or a philosophy channel getting in hot water on Twitter for having a controversial queer celebrity do a voiceover line without fully vetting everything he's ever said.

It's large scale plagiarism and hundreds of thousands of dollars of profiting off other people's work without even credit.

(And 64k in scams. That too.)

And no, I didn't know who any of these people except Harry and Todd were until now, with the exception of MAYBE having heard of Internet Historian in passing, so I had that same "who even are these people" response as most of you.

People like James are why I cannot in good faith just Tell people my college major.

[sugurusfavemonkey]

WELCOME TO JUJUTSU TECH COLLEGE

synopsis: you attend the prestigious college of Jujutsu Tech, a university known for its superb academic program, athletic prowess and grandiose buildings. Along the ride a few interesting members of the student body capture your interest.

select the next episode:

✧ big man on campus!Gojo Satoru

coming soon...

✧ roommate!Ino Takuma

prologue || one || two || three

✧ barista!Kamo Choso

coming soon...

✧ tutor!Nanami Kento

coming soon...

✧ partner!Higuruma Hiromi

coming soon...

✧ rival!Geto Suguru

one || two || three

✧ frat pres!Sukuna Ryomen

coming soon...

✧ jock!Fushiguro Toji

coming soon...

[chronurgy]

Gortash designs and builds mechanisms so I imagine he has to be able to sketch fairly decently in order to sketch his projects and designs. And I'm imagining a pile of charcoal sketches of Durge, done over their entire acquaintance, starting out with sketches of them in battle and then slowly becoming more detailed and intimate and as they do, the titles changing from things like "The Bhaalspawn" and "Bhaal's Chosen at Their Bloody Work" to "The Chosen in Contemplation" and finally just Durge's name

[cracklewink]

I know its not canon but I always liked the idea that Flurry Heart grew up to be a normal pony. Never went on any princess-title-earning quest, no grand magical destiny, no real royal responsibilities. Just a normal pony (who happens to be an alicorn) free to enjoy life with her friends and hobbies

[shurale-walks-the-woods]

and every song i wrote became an escape rope

tied around my neck to

pull me up

to Heaven

[cor-lapis]

all of the sumeru cast in one place = comedy the likes of which we haven't seen since Itto

redesign credits under the cut

al-Haitham and Tighnari

Nilou

Layla and Kaveh are mine, WIP

no redesign for Faruzan because I haven't found any + I think she's supposed to be Greek anyway? feel free to correct me there

EDIT: I have been corrected! many thanks to @traitorsinsalem for linking this thread about Faruzan's inspirations. no thanks to mhy for the continued colourism :I

[lo-batteryy]

Imagine angry Gale seeing Tav lick the spider. How pissed would he be on a scale of 1-10?

The thing with Fer is that she'd literally put anything in her mouth if she's curious. At this point he'd probably have seen it plenty of times and would just step in so that's an 11/10 angry gale on the meter

[aroaceleovaldez]

do. you consider the graphic novels to be canon (in some way)? and if so, what do you make of sadie and carter wearing the chb and cj t-shirts respectively at the end of tot i think

I consider the graphic novels to be their own individual canon - they're an adaptation of the source material and follow a different series of events than book canon, so they're in the same category as like the movies, show, or musical to me (and DS game, lmao). They exist completely separate from the canon they're adapting from, so they're their own entities.

The material I consider strictly "canon" is the first series, so Percy Jackson And The Olympians only. Then HoO and TOA as extraneous canon on top of that - sort of a like "recommended but optional." TKC and MCGA also kind of operate as their own canons within themselves but can be linked to main PJO canon, so similar category. Published companion novels and similar material (so like Singer of Apollo) are also optional add-ons.

Stuff like Un Natale Mezzosangue and Nachos After The War where they weren't ever formally published are non-canon official material to me, kind of in the same vein as promotional material released alongside the books (the activity guides and such). The official art exists in the same sphere to me. I also personally consider CHB: Austin's lore to be semi-canon or non-canon official material, because they're actually affiliated with Rick Riordan (he has directly interacted with the camp's activities in the past) and I think it's just kind of cute.

The ReadRiordan articles are just straight up strictly non-canon. They just are. That is just an objective fact about them. I am slightly more lenient towards some of the old official Riordan website's media, like the interactive Argo II map descriptions, just since those descriptions were one-and-done and presumably had to have been approved versus a ton of articles with different anonymous unaffiliated authors. It's at best in the same category as the non-canon official promotional material.

As for Sadie and Carter wearing camp t-shirts - it's a cute cameo! And also kind of interesting in that they're technically one of first official published depictions we have of the camp shirts with any kind of details on them (the old official art doesn't count actually cause that was also bonus material).

[downthetubes]

On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion - comic conference announced

On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion is an upcoming two-day conference about comics at Ulster University in Northern Ireland in May

On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion is an upcoming two-day conference about comics at Ulster University in Northern Ireland in May, “Exploring Why Comics Matter”. BEANO artist Nigel Parkinson is among the speakers, addressing the success of DC Thomson’s surviving humour weekly. Art by Nigel Parkinson Other comic creators taking part include artist and writer John Farrelly,…

[sayruq]

If you're a North American academic, sign here.

[revvethasmythh]

I think something we're sleeping on in the Gale epilogue is that he says he wants to try writing books about our adventures, which directly puts him in competition with Volo, who is also writing about the same adventures

This would--inevitably--devolve into a writer/academic feud for the ages, spreading copious misinformation to the masses as both writers can accurately claim to be primary sources, with wildly different tellings between them. There will be synthesis commentary papers written about both of their works by historians for centuries, and even though Volo's is full of blatant lies it must be considered because he is....well, Volo. and, like, he was verifiably there and involved with everything. there is no world where that is not infuriating to an academic like Gale. Gale will be blowing a gasket for the rest of his life about being in competition with Volo's Tome of Lies. There will be sniping in the footnotes of all his papers at the bard for the rest of his life. Bitter bard vs academic warfare, that's what we're looking at here

[drtrinitysantos]

the thing about birthday depression is that birthdays are. fundamentally. the #1 day to be happy that you're alive. Which is hard to do yourself if you're not actually happy to be alive and also the people around you can't win because if they forget (or don't acknowledge it) that feels like evidence that nobody else is happy you're alive either but if they DO try to celebrate it makes you feel guilty for not matching the vibe

[study-core-101]

so i got a 12/21 (57%) in part one, 6/18 (33%) in part two and 19.5/48 (40%) in part three. sum up is 37.5/87 or 43% (passing grade being 70% or 65% i think).

academic weapon era is over, im rocking the academic failure

[beastsovrevelation]

Warrior Nun characters and their perfect fragrance

Ava: Angel by Mugler

Lilith: Inexcusable Evil by Toskovat

Beatrice: Light Blue by Dolce & Gabbana

Camila: Ego Stratis by Juliette has a gun

Adriel: Noir Extreme by Tom Ford

Mother Superion: Jazz Club by Maison Margiela

Jillian: Baccarat Rouge 540 by Maison Francis Kurkdjian

Mary: Wood Sage & Sea Salt by Jo Malone

Yasmine: Vanille Antique by Byredo

Michael: Luna Rossa by Prada