#academia is a fucking mess

[athousandmorningss]

one of the uni's i teach at did a university-wide evaluation of faculty pay in order to readjust to national standards. full time faculty and adjunct faculty got a raise. adjunct faculty's raises are, of course, marginal. here's another thing they did: they broke the departments across the university into two groups. group a includes all of the departments that they've determined are "critical," while group b includes departments that are not "critical." all instructors teaching within the group a tier of the university are getting a bigger pay raise, meaning the cost per credit hour as increased. all instructors within tier b are being paid less, with the course per credit hour only marginally increasing.

as you can imagine, group a departments include all of the stem departments: math, nursing, science stuff

group a departments are all of the humanities courses: English, communication studies courses, second language acquisition classes, etc.

-

in a required meeting, the presenter of this information bullshitted us with saying "these changes do not indicate that we value some instructors or departments over others" to which a colleague responded, " Having two-sets of faculty pay definitely means that one set of instructors is valued more than another."

yeah. that part.

[pikahlua]

Sad man's death parade represents the sadness inside Himiko

And then Ochako touched all of it and made it all weightless

Ochako touched the sadness inside Himiko and made it float away

🥲

[studyblr-perhaps]

08/07/24 || Monday

I have finally understood why my (surgeon) dad's gallery used to be filled with random pictures of cut open stomachs. My gallery is now filled with just coatings after coatings on aluminium. Once the research starts, it genuinely gets so exciting. I love the work here and I finally, truly, believe I have chosen the correct career path.

[kurozu501]

its so funny to look back on how people used to talk about my hero academia now. i remember one of the first things i ever heard about it was chatter about how this new shonen anime was actually really feminist bc it had a tournament episode where a girl fought a boy or something. and then when i finally got around to watching it that episode is just like. ochako spends the entire fight being beat down by bakugo, the audience gets mad at him for "bullying a girl" but then the teacher calls out their sexism for not treating her as a full fledged worthy opponent like bakugo is, then she pulls a trick reversal that honestly should have won her the match, but bakugo wins anyway bc op bullshit. that's it.

ochako will go on to have barely any screentime for the rest of the show except as the mc's love interest rooting for him. all the other ladies will continue to have barely any screentime, barely any plot relevance, and if they do fight they will be weaker and less effective then the male heroes. even back in that tournament where people were calling the show feminist, all the ladies lose their matches. the top 3 finalists are all boys.

but hey, at least the sexy evil teenage girl villain is bisexual and creeps on the mc AND the girls. progressive!

[sarahjtv]

Guys, what if the final volume cover of My Hero Academia is a callback to the first one. Like, it would be Deku in the big background with a green color, his friends are colored in the background next to him, and the next generation of heroes inspired by him (like Eri and Kota) in the foreground. It will be so fucking over for me if Horikoshi draws this 😭

[itcamefrombeneaththeblog]

Bad Dream House

Warning: This poem is fucked up. SA TRIGGER WARNINGS. Proceed at your own risk.

Every time it's the same.

A long flowing staircase,

Impossibly curved,

Leading nowhere. Screaming mother,

See your child taken.

See me ripped from your arms

Forever.

Feral panic.

A foyer of dark antique wood and purple

Velvet like adorments,

Where lies ruin and anxiety,

That will never leave me.

And they dress so well,

To hide the viscious, cruel beasts within,

Their smiles are like screams.

They smile like death.

I am with the dead things now.

Suckling at the breast of a long dead corpse

I venture forth into the tomb,

A verbose and elequent stream of

Conscious want and desire.

Sweet smells,

Like rot.

They kill me there, by the fireplace,

Over and over again,

Laughing as they stomp, kick, beat, rip, tear, rend with teeth and filling me with themselves.

They fuck my soul.

Black bile injected into my veins,

Make the suffering worse. I beg them to make it worse so I'll die.

Expert hands know exactly how far to take the meat so it doesn't turn.

There is a need

To be alone, forever. To die.

Because I'm fucking tired. I wear death's visage, and yet no souls can I reap,

For I only wish to be in void. Purposeless, not a doll to be fucked by greedy, uncaring hands.

Downstairs is true horror.

Pitch black presence, threadbare furniture.

This is a room for disgusting, vile acts of wanton misery and the ruining of innocence for dark gods.

Smashing into running shins and knees,

Falling, tripped in that slow dreamlike

State of being.

It's coming, in the dark, and its laughing.

The face is always the same, somehow to big and to small,

Fleshy like a ball of unformed clay,

Pink and yellow,

Rotting formless meat.

It rips me asunder, spreading my soul out for all the other creatures to take and rape,

As it consumes me.

And in the brief moments of agony I find a moments piece, as I no longer exist,

Until I wake up, on the doorstep

Of the bad dream house.

[neo-shitty]

🙃.

[clandestinegardenias]

i look so fucking fly today walking around campus, if i'm not the hot queer weird professor of SOMEONE'S dreams what the hell am i even doing

[that-one-pencer]

Lowkey Kyo from Fruits Basket ran so Bakugou from My Hero could trip and fall horribly

[btxtyuri]

caleb is just writing fanfiction at this point

[entitledcrayonscribbler]

A doodle dump to let yall know that im alive (not dead)

[foaming-sea]

I'm tired of my own shit bro.

[zoereeb]

I'm so so fucked up!!

I know i shouldn't be this negative for my face but it's reality and like everyone just says "oh, it'll be fine, you need to stop worrying, you'll be okay, let it go" Etc. People. You don't know what i am going thru so stop saying things. Like, just be positive, and say affirmations every morning it will work. Girl, i said that's why my face got this messed up.

Y'all shouldn't be so egotistical about your beauty and faces, you shouldn't be so fucking proud of your beauty it will destroy you. Like me.

So stop saying again and again continuously "I'm beautiful, I'm amazing, I'm pretty, etc" Blah blah blah.

BEAUTY IS INDEED A TERROR!!!!

[roombagreyjoy]

I fucking hate it when a person turns out to have, in fact, zero understanding of a piece of media I initially assumed they were sensible enough to comprehend. Now my respect for your media literacy and capacity for critical thinking is gone. In less than five minutes. Poof! Just like that. Even more disappointing because it's supposed to be a colleague... like... come on man, you had one job. How do you fuck up so badly...

[itisthevelaness]

Now I have done it and ruined my life beyond repair. I don't know how to live it anymore.

[wendrin]

Maked some prettie boyz out of wax !!!!