#and being at uni in general

[witchwhaat]

the amount of stress i'm feeling on mondays bc the next day is tuesday and that means facing The Horrors 💀💀💀

[rosekasa]

creating for a fandom from teenage years to adulthood is so special because you can see where your subconscious was through the history of your works

[la-galaxie-langblr]

today on random languages my brain is going 👀 at is biblical hebrew and biblical greek

[hella1975]

day so bad u go hmm what if i watched brother bear

[meirimerens]

straight up not respecting some of the alleged p2 characters' ages as they were given on the VA's papers bc you're telling me this is a 27yo man on the left & a 35(!)yo woman on the right? you jest. this woman is in her 20s at most. she doesn't have a wrinkle of age on her face. just worry. i know men age like milk this is taking the piss. i know patho 2 is the "hot blemishless 20something white(-passing) women" game but at this point own it. don't try lying to me. she doesn't look a day past 29. got friends below 25 with more winkles. in the first half of the 20th century too. where would she be getting her anti-aging serums.

you're telling me this woman who's a chronic worrier, dealing with chronic pain, who smokes like a locomotive to cope is allegedly 5 years Older than this guy who's been drinking himself to sleep for like 5 years.

(mike's mic voice) don't piss me off

[megumi-fm]

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[thelivingsin]

it's normal to be disappointed when you learn that your dreams are already dead. but just like a phoenix, our death will lead us to our own rebirth; and like a supernova, some deaths are beautiful.

[unionizedwizard]

speaking of hairdressers, i just remembered my mother wanted me very badly to become a hairdresser. she started the hairdressing propaganda campaign when i was in first grade or late kindergarten or something and it continued unabated until i graduated high school (??)

needless to say i have never once in my life expressed the wish to become a hairdresser

[grimm-haven]

Let me take you to the moon and back.

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[iiusia]

what is it about becoming an academic that makes you like bad poetry

[mariemariemaria]

Does anybody else feel like mental health awareness has done very little to help them in material reality

[vamprisms]

adhd will have you forgetting or procrastinating tasks that keep you alive and people treat it like it's just an excuse for not doing homework

[vioyume]

I’m so sorry for being the slowest reactor ever but I can not believe they’re naming the next big Sonic game “Sonic x Shadow”.

Like the person who approved it probably has no idea what it implies other than a cool way to say collab or whatever or that theory about it being a cover up to purge the ship art in search results is true. Either way, besides the fans. I’m sure some people who work on Sonic know as well, I mean look at the American social media account.

Can you imagine the stupidest conversations you would get from this? Do you realize future generations will have to learn about the Sonadow fandom at its peak or even the insane ship haters knowing that this game is fucking official.

SONIC TEAM WHY IS YOUR GAME NAMED THAT?!?!! THERE ARE OTHER NAMES AND YET YOU CHOOSE THIS ONE!!

“Oh this song is nice where’s it from?”

“Sonic x Shadow”

“What’s your favourite game?”

“Sonic x Shadow”

This will not get old to me, and I’m sorry for beating it like a dead horse. If this was done when I was 13, then that horse will be pass the Earth’s core.

[th3swarm]

guys is it too late to 180 what i want to do at uni . i am so indecisive and everything interests me

[hella1975]

still thinking about ‘from rupert (not the bear)’

[the-busy-ghost]

Alright uninformed rant time. It kind of bugs me that, when studying the Middle Ages, specifically in western Europe, it doesn’t seem to be a pre-requisite that you have to take some kind of “Basics of Mediaeval Catholic Doctrine in Everyday Practise” class. 

Obviously you can’t cover everything- we don’t necessarily need to understand the ins and outs of obscure theological arguments (just as your average mediaeval churchgoer probably didn’t need to), or the inner workings of the Great Schism(s), nor how apparently simple theological disputes could be influenced by political and social factors, and of course the Official Line From The Vatican has changed over the centuries (which is why I’ve seen even modern Catholics getting mixed up about something that happened eight centuries ago). And naturally there are going to be misconceptions no matter how much you try to clarify things for people, and regional/class/temporal variations on how people’s actual everyday beliefs were influenced by the church’s rules. 

But it would help if historians studying the Middle Ages, especially western Christendom, were all given a broadly similar training in a) what the official doctrine was at various points on certain important issues and b) how this might translate to what the average layman believed. Because it feels like you’re supposed to pick that up as you go along and even where there are books on the subject they’re not always entirely reliable either (for example, people citing books about how things worked specifically in England to apply to the whole of Europe) and you can’t ask a book a question if you’re confused about any particular point. 

I mean I don’t expect to be spoonfed but somehow I don’t think that I’m supposed to accumulate a half-assed religious education from, say, a 15th century nobleman who was probably more interested in translating chivalric romances and rebelling against the Crown than religion; an angry 16th century Protestant; a 12th century nun from some forgotten valley in the Alps; some footnotes spread out over half a dozen modern political histories of Scotland; and an episode of ‘In Our Time’ from 2009. 

But equally if you’re not a specialist in church history or theology, I’m not sure that it’s necessary to probe the murky depths of every minor theological point ever, and once you’ve started where does it end? 

Anyway this entirely uninformed rant brought to you by my encounter with a sixteenth century bishop who was supposedly writing a completely orthodox book to re-evangelise his flock and tempt them away from Protestantism, but who described the baptismal rite in a way that sounds decidedly sketchy, if not heretical. And rather than being able to engage with the text properly and get what I needed from it, I was instead left sitting there like:

And frankly I didn’t have the time to go down the rabbit hole that would inevitably open up if I tried to find out