#RESEARCHER AND FIRST AUTHOR

[chamiryokuroi]

Me trying to read more Latin American authors and being face to face with the most sexist for the male gaze only description of a woman ever: …I hate it here

[shig4dabi]

Guess what I became obsessed with in the past 4 days

[angy-grrr]

i have an issue I see with ppl trying to make shippers "understand" their ship could not become canon, and I dont think many would expect it.

Why are we pretending being in your late 30s is being middle age? Dont get me wrong, being a middle aged person doesn't have to mean anything about someone, but its just- not middle age literally.

I dont really understand bringing that up anyways, iit feels wrong to me to believe just ppl in their teens and 20s could ever do anything pro LGBT+ in general... I find it insulting, as if this is a new thing or impossible to believe older people could believe in queerness in a positive light or be queer themselves. The main reason in the west, and im assuming other parts of the world, there arent as many or as visible is, well, because people were dying because of the AIDS crisis + the isolation from being older and every single public space made for or just young queers or cishet older adults.

I get the point, but if I remember correctly every time I see someone trying to do that (of course im believing they have the best intentions in mind), they have to bring up how this is a Japanese middle aged man as a good enough reason.

I don't really mind about what others want to believe or how much they care in terms of shipping -if you prefer to be casual and not paying that much attention to what's canon or not, good for you! Many ppl are also like that and its completely valid, here in this side of Tumblr might seem like all of us believe and theorize about their endgame potential bc we are the ones that usually make more posts or longer content. But I dont like those assumptions about queerness being tied to young westerners, and I wanted to rant a little bit.

Again, I dont believe that was the intention in any of those posts, and im not trying to call out anyone, just rant.

[sitdwnandstudy]

My paper was published!!! I'm so happy! I might actually cry.

[voidartisan]

thinking about crossing the desert and wandering into the mountains instead of doing finals

[solarpunkani]

Minor W for the solarpunk zombie story, we finally reached the front gate of the town GOD BLESS

Already shoving other OCs into the project as minor characters

Now the problem.....

I am overthinking EVERYTHING

[moltengoldveins]

someone: you should check this diet book out! The guy who wrote it had a lot of your same health issues and he’s a lot better now! It can’t hurt! me: ok! book: “I dunno where my symptoms came from, but I DID get the MMR vaccine four years before I got sick, which has been proven to cause colon diseases and might even cause autis-“

me, slamming the book shut while the voice of HBomberguy rings in my mind: NO.

[borealopelta]

first publication of my academic career dropped yesterday btw. and i? am so fucked up about it

[striveattemptfail]

being a nerd is getting ridiculously excited by finding academic papers in my leisure time

even better when they're available for free

[solar-lombax]

Ppl of the atla fandom I need to find this specific fic I lost

It's abt southern water tribe zuko au - ozai sends an assassin to kill zuko when he was a wee baby but the assassin took pity on tiny zuko so somehow zuko ended up in the southern water tribe. Bato begged to have zuko bc he and his wife wants a baby after so many attempts and then well bato gets zuko. Zuko then is getting sick bc he was away from agni for so long and he was like blessed by either tui or la. Years passed and katara and sokka are cousins of [insert name that bato gave zuko].

[finnlongman]

Dunscaith, Isle of Skye, 2018 (Ulidia-Finn) | Emain Mhacha, Co. Armagh, 2024 (Ulidia 7)

Would visit sites associated with Cú Chulainn with a group of Ulster Cycle specialists again 👍 Though might invest in a new raincoat before the next one, as this one is evidently getting on in years.

[captainsjack]

every time an author mentions ethan’s supposed military background i immediately have to close out of the fic. girl ethan hunt would not touch the us military with a mile long pole. clearly you never sat for hours on you basement floor on cold ass tile straining your neck up to look at the tv & click through all of the characters’ background files on the mi1 dvd special features . u don’t KNOW him

[alexjcrowley]

Hey I just want to know something: am I the stupidest person on the planet or the f1 fandom is built differently?

Everytime I go on a social media to look up f1 content I see cute/horny (let's be honest) edits and everybody calling the drivers pookie or making memes. And that's alright, I guess.

I most definitely know that a bunch of (mostly white) men in a very competitive male-dominated sport rooted more than many others in capitalism are probably going to have scandals around them. I am not that dumb. I also know that because probably none of them is scandal-free and people who get crushes/hyperfixation on them just learn to live with them, but I didn't think they just...ignored them? Swept them under the rug? Let me explain.

When I so much as stumble on a TikTok with a song by The 1975 or McCafferty- or hell even Lovejoy recently- I see comments flooding with "bUt DoN't YoU kNoW tHeY'rE pRoBlEmAtIC?". Same happened with content about cinema or books. And on Tumblr happens less but still happens. As soon as you mention something that has ties with sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. people will soon point it out to you. Maybe because they're some of those people with the obsession of only consuming "morally pure" content, maybe they genuinely want to inform you, maybe they fucking hate that song/book/movie and want to give YOU a reason to dislike it.

But can someone tell me if I'm fucking dumb and I managed to stumble in the wrong part of instagram/tumblr/TikTok or NOBODY fucking talks about the shit some drivers have done? Because I am stumbling on a LOT of shit done by drivers I really liked lately even though I have been interested in F1 for a while now. Not too long, but enough that I think I would have heard some stuff.

Like, if I spent like 6 months on the hashtag of Guy Who Drives, why am I now finding out that they said something really discriminatory? I am just confused, I simply thought it would have popped out sooner, but apparently it was buried under 500+ posts about their abs? Like what?

I get that anyway it's not like you can cancel a driver, no matter what shit they say they'll probably still going to be racing the next weekend, but why people don't talk about it? Was my socials' fault for showing me horny posts everytime I simply looked up the name of a guy or do people don't talk about this stuff in the f1 community because "what are you gonna do anyway"?

I am leaning towards the second option because there are a few things that happened while I was already watching f1 (not in order: Lando's comments about, Trump, Hornergate, most drivers saying Hornergate was just noise) and at first people were talking about it but then they just...stopped? Like, I don't know, personally the words of disenterest many drivers expressed about Hornergate made me change my opinion about them at least a little and people seemed so outraged at first but now...it's like it never happened. Everybody back thirsting on main for Ricciardo, Norris, etc.

Genuine question, is the general response of the f1 community to these behaviours "forgive and forget in time of the next gp"? Am I missing something? I don't think they should be crucified but why I have not seen more people talking about this stuff? The "serious sport bunch" seems to be uninterested in "gossip" or whatever happens outsid the tracks, the good old fashioned fandom is writing fanfiction/making edits/funny posts, who keeps tracks of this stuff?

I have never been interested in a sport before. In the artistic world (cinema, literature, etc.) some scandals can get you out of a job and a long lasting hatred from the community. In motorsports, because the success of a driver does not depend from his fans' engagement but can be "objectively proved" by results and victories, do people just...make peace with the fact that some athletes are pieces of shit?

I want to specify it one more time, I am NOT saying LET'S CANCEL ALL THE DRIVERS AND BOO THEM BECAUSE THEY HAVE DONE SOMETHING QRONG AT SOME POINT, I am asking:

how do you deal when an athlete you cheer for does something really fucked up, and you know other athletes in the same field are no saints?

[klugpuuo]

in my Primary AU:tm: of sammax, the duo fuse with their alternate timeline dead selves, gaining all the memories and cleanly explaining the frequent references to max's 'latent psychic powers' and turning into a kaiju despite the fact that the max who actively knew abt those things was ultra super hyper duper dead. and though i'm not quite sure about how i'll portray sam's Melding Fusion with his past self, i'm absolutely certain that i want to portray max's fusion with his future-present self as something akin to integration in systems

we hc max as a system maybe a bit excessively, but like how could we not when the vices are very much a thing.,..

anyway. we've sorta been thinking of portraying present/future max as a being more or less made up entirely of trauma.

max (and sam!) are extremely traumatized, but one way or another they Deal With It. they make jokes about it, heal in weird wacky ways, or just find a way to ignore or get over it without much fuss (or bury it so deep down they're convinced they don't have it but that's another post entirely)

i've been enjoying my idea of present-future max basically being stuck in time for a while, not able to think or really process Anything as he put himself back together and reformed his spirit. while usually max was able to just continue past his trauma, present max was very literally unable to, so when he Does manage to come back, and he sees sam moved on without him. uh yeah

i kinda lost where i was going w this but basically i think past max would see all the pain and jealousy and rage that he bottled up for ages in present max and present max would be envious of past max;s continued ability to hide his thoughts and feelings and that their later fusion would be them both coming to terms with all the shit they've gone through and deciding to try and Work Through It instead of brute force it, however much they'd despise doing so lmao

would also probably be a very sure sign that they're getting old but oh well .

[gaytobymeres]

absolutely love when you are reading a biography for some slightly obscure person in history and it's clear that the author has formed a parasocial relationship with the person in question

[aquitainequeen]

Applicants for the Editorial Assistant position: I love reading and literature! I spend a lot of time on BookTok! I'm passionate about exciting narratives!

Me, alternating between assessing candidates and scrutinizing a manuscript to make sure there are no nasty permission surprises: Oh, you are applying to the wrong department, my friend.