#got into grad school

[nilnco]

Just a little doodle - life's getting real busy now

[study-lizard]

ready to lock in 😤

was feeling down on friday and spent my weekend fixing things up at my coop, so gotta get back on the grind today!

[chuuyaandreaderkilldazai]

[lesbianshepard]

every day I thank god that I finished school before chatGPT became a thing

[botanyshitposts]

Eta on the YouTube video? No rush, just exchange

im gonna be honest man please do not count on me here lmao. my follow through rate for these projects is like 5%. real ones remember gourdquest and other related failed projects i came close to the sun on. if i succeed it will be huge for me on a genuine personal level and it will be the first time i've finished a creative project at all in years but if i do not. neither you nor me should be surprised

[yuwuta]

gojo would kill your work husband. but if he were the work husband, that's a different story

REAL!! he’s such a hypocrite because if someone mentioned you had a work husband, his entire world would stop and he wold devise the absolute worst plans to make sure that your co-worker, everyone at your job, and everyone in the next building over knew that he was happily committed to you 

but if he is the work husband, he’s very........ dutiful in his role. there’s a loose office/lawyer au in my head where satoru is your secretary, and for all intents and purposes, your personal assistant, and he’s good at his job, but mostly because he considers his job to be pleasing you. he has coffee for you when you arrive, he moves your schedule around without you asking, he has answers to questions before you can even ask them, he has fresh flowers on your desk weekly, pokes into your meetings to pretend to hand you a file that’s really just maybe a single document in a manilla folder with candy on top of it—he’s made himself your business, your partner; he’s made himself irreplaceable, and he loves to remind everybody of that fact. 

he’s also extremely loyal. sure, he could day a week’s worth of work done in about a day, but that doesn’t mean he’ll just use his talents for anybody. he’s your secretary, so he’s at your beck and call, and everyone knows it. they know he’s the best, but also that he’s off limits—not because you won’t share him, but because satoru won’t let himself be shared. 

he also extends his duties beyond work, of course. when he hands you a print out of your schedule for the day and you’re confused by the three-hour block of time you have in the middle of the day, satoru just helps you shrug your coat of your shoulders and smiles, “that’s for the lunch date you have with me, of course!” hanging up your coat in your closet for you, “i’m paying, see you soon, sweets.” and because you’re great at your job, and satoru helps you be great, nobody really questions when the two of you have time for a 13-course tasting menu at 1pm on a tuesday afternoon. and if they did, all satoru would say that you two had a lovely date 

[marzipaint]

extremely late barricade day post. barricade month

[fore-seer]

[here-comes-the-moose]

And if you kick every mentally ill, former gifted kid out of this country, then who is going to make up your fan base, Crosshair Bad Batch?

[kurthummeldeservesbetter]

Jayce and Viktor both doomed and then undoomed the world in their early-mid thirties so all I have to say is that there is hope for us all to dream big ya know? All it took was a break from their work to go on a solo international backpacking trip or dabbling in religion to realize they needed each other <3

[crosscheckings]

not the planet, not spinning — connor & leon & the edmonton oilers, ‘24

—not by big thief

[official-linguistics-post]

on reconstruction and historical linguistics

to follow up on today's reblog, i want to comment briefly on the apparent misapprehension that linguistic reconstruction is just guesswork with a fancy name, because that's not accurate!

reconstruction is based on specific, well-attested constraints of linguistic development. we know from centuries of investigation that languages tend to change in predictable ways. we also have a decent understanding of the complexities introduced by phenomena like language contact, which can result in borrowing on multiple structural levels. our methods are well established and borne out by evidence.

comparative reconstruction involves applying these known constraints ("rules") in reverse on a collected body of words in related descendant languages. when possible, we also incorporate historical written evidence, which often provides midpoint references for changes in progress. it is always recognized by historical linguists that reconstruction can be imperfect; we cannot know what information has been lost.

the results of reconstruction can be mixed, but i'll let campbell (2013:144) explain:

How Realistic are Reconstructed Proto-languages? The success of any given reconstruction depends on the material at hand to work with and the ability of the comparative linguist to figure out what happened in the history of the languages being compared. In cases where the daughter languages preserve clear evidence of what the parent language had, a reconstruction can be very successful, matching closely the actual spoken ancestral language from which the compared daughters descend. However, there are many cases in which all the daughters lose or merge formerly contrasting sounds or eliminate earlier alternations through analogy, or lose morphological categories due to changes of various sorts. We cannot recover things about the proto-language via the comparative method if the daughters simply do not preserve evidence of them. In cases where the evidence is severely limited or unclear, we often make mistakes. We make the best inferences we can based on the evidence available and on everything we know about the nature of human languages and linguistic change. We do the best we can with what we have to work with. Often the results are very good; sometimes they are less complete. In general, the longer in the past the proto-language split up, the more linguistic changes will have accumulated and the more difficult it becomes to reconstruct with full success. (emphasis mine)

or, to quote labov's (1982:20) pithier if less optimistic approach:

Historical linguistics may be characterized as the art of making the best use of bad data, in the sense that the fragments of the literary record that remain are the results of historical accidents beyond the control of the investigator.

in sum, historical linguists are very realistic about what we can achieve, but the confidence we do have is genuinely well earned, because linguistics is a scientific field and we treat our investigations with rigor.

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Campbell, Lyle. 2013. Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Labov, William. 1982. "Building on Empirical Foundations." In Perspectives on Historical Linguistics. Winifred P. Lehmann and Yakov Malkiel, eds. Pp. 17-92. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

[transmechanicus]

Rip to every trans person who did an initial Gender Affirming Wardrobe run as soon as they got financial/full independence and then later found out that those clothes don’t really fit their actual fashion sense or worse don’t fit at all😓

[sweetandglovelyart]

Knightfall in Dream Land - Page 16

Meta meets some surprisingly polite bandits in the Float Islands cave system.

[otrtbs]

as a fellow art history major i am ASTOUNDED by your correct opinions re your art monsters fic - the characterisation of each character's definition of art is so SEXY i cannot believe how well all of them fit... also i literally just picked up a copy of lauren elkin's art monsters the day i found this fic (unrelated i swear!) anyway if you ever want to yell art history/jegulus then please....

HIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIIIIIII FELLOW ART HISTORIAN HI!! HELLO!!

first of all, this is so sweet. second of all, i'm so glad you think they fit this is so validating for me. art monsters is just an excuse for me to write out all my pretentious art history thoughts and to rant and rave about art history.... like it really is my favorite thing in the world.

also have you read elkin's book??? i'm literally obsessed with it. i picked it up at an art museum gift shop in sydney and she's perf.

would 13/10 love to chat abt art history and jegulus any time !!! <3

[anna-scribbles]

h-how do you ever finish any of your work? genuine question because you seem to be productive despite your agreste syndrome and I need to learn your ways. but also how do you ever finish any of your work

unclear. last night i stayed up and finished a report worth 25% of my grade at about 5am, arrived on time for my 9am lecture, and spent about half of it zoned out while thinking about seventeen year old emilie agreste. and i was one of the most active participants in the class discussion