#history student speaking

[betweenheroesandvillains]

learning there is an entire conference about history of epidemics going on only when it’s already almost over and the last panel is really boring 🥲

[mysoulisfilledwithcereal]

ooooohhhh i’m sick

martin is like. THE big spoon imo

ref ^^

[birdyverdie]

School is about to start! I need to commission someone to draw the Usual Suspects in a college AU with each of them suffering in front of laptops and flashcards

[badolmen]

make all the blue hair and pronouns jokes you like because it was unequivocally badass when that girl who was arrested last week ripped off her kufiya and mask at our unpermitted, unlawful assembly rally the other day and screamed that she wasn’t afraid of you, you’re the ones that are afraid of her: a 100lb, blue haired, pronoun using queer girl who won’t be intimidated into silence.

[bmpmp3]

sometimes when i talk about race in media, in the back of my head im like "aaaghhhh am i just stating the obvious like im sure i just look like the annoying mixed race guy who just discovered water is wet or some shit" BUT THEN i remember that like. for most white people this stuff doesnt even cross their minds. like i forget. like this just isnt in their brains at all....

[wonderwithin-us]

9th of July, 2023 💕

100 days of productivity — day 3, week 1

To do list:

1. The Roman Empire — Complete

2. Mesopotamia — Revise

Treasure 🪙

1. The Song Of Achilles

2. Circe

Note: the exam is tomorrow, I'm so incredibly anxious! I'm seriously feeling like I know absolutely nothing :( I hope I do good, and I really need to work on my time management and procrastination fr. Anyways, hope y'all have a good day! What's your favourite thing to eat for breakfast? 💗

[the---hermit]

ngl the book I am currently reading/studying is making me feel very insecure about myself and my academic abilities.

[tortelli-ni]

England gave birth to stunning men, amongst them Charlie Hunnam and Tom Taylor (they look a bit alike, that's so english).

[wolfcat-hybrid]

Trying to do worldbuilding for a planet is very hard when you don't know anything about astronomy, physics, hard science in general, and haven't taken a math class in several years

I wanted the planet to be small but otherwise Earth-like but apparently a planet that small would not be dense enough to hold an atmosphere together unless it was real close to its sun and if I wanted it to be real close to its sun while still being habitable it'd have to be a red dwarf star and actually a planet that orbited a red dwarf star that close would probably be tidally locked and the colors would be all weird and wait, how old is the planet, what about the moon, fuck we gotta figure out the tectonic plates, how the fuck do THOSE work--

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..if this were a spec bio or sci-fi setting these would be interesting topics im sure. But I'm trying to put together a HIGH FANTASY SETTING. These guys wouldn't even appreciate the work I'm doing here!! In their setting the sun is a deity who handles LEGAL MATTERS they don't CARE ABOUT THISSSS

[thedissociatives]

who would've thought that me this morning clicking on a random history course on the ucas website would lead to me having a full-on crisis and reevaluating what exactly i want to do

[betweenheroesandvillains]

also like. listen it’s not like expect some good takes on the complexities of snyder’s bloodlands on this site. this is not why i come here - that’s what i go to uni for. but where do people go wrong when they feel the need to put funnie little “morally correct” one-liners under what is undoubtedly technically a complex historical topic just to.... what? virtue signal? bloodlands is roughly 500 pages of historical contextualisation, analysis, interpretation - and you think your little comment under a chosen five lines of it can give any insight the book itself doesn’t? seriously? listen i love being a historian, i chose to do it, i choose to continue to do it! but it’s moments like this when i almost lose all belief in what i even do it for.

[villalunae]

Are you an academic lesbian? 👀

unfortunately yes

[gender-trash]

for the long-running albeit recently lapsed housemates star wars rpg campaign, i built a character and @combat-epistemologist built a character; we quickly discovered that a two-person party kind of sucks, so dm @transbionic-shieldmaiden built a bunch of other lesbian npcs for us to hang out with. in a typical encounter each of us will be given the steering wheel on a lesbian or two in addition to our regular PCs, just to liven things up a bit. (which i guess is less of an NPC and more of a... quasi-player character? or something.) they didn't necessarily all have to be lesbians, but have you MET @transbionic-shieldmaiden??

so anyway i'm working on my silly little dice.py TUI and flipping through the pile of character sheets for various star wars lesbians as i add all their weapons to the character library and i keep looking over at @transbionic-shieldmaiden and saying, like, lin zeria can reroll all 1's on her blaster damage??? why would you do this to me TT__TT

@transbionic-shieldmaiden: i'm so sorry :/

me: oh, her crowbar attack is "reroll lowest" AND she gets an extra damage die but -2 ATK with rapid strike? i'm going to fucking kill myself

@transbionic-shieldmaiden: i'm sorry! i'm sorry!!

[revacholianpizzaagenda]

friend asked.

[marsti]

the dreaded C1 language level. good enough to understand complex and nuanced ideas but incapable of expressing them yourself.

[wonderwithin-us]

8th of July, 2023 💕

100 days of productivity — day 2, week 1

To do list:

1. The Roman Empire — The Early Era

2. Mesopotamia — Notes Review

Treasure 🪙

1. Moriarty the Patriot ep 1

2. Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Notes:

It was my first exam today! It went quite alright, I do need to work on my speed but otherwise I knew almost everything ~ I hope I get a good grade! I also really need to work on my answer making :,)

Today I spent a lot of day on my phone, so I'm gonna use the night to study a little with music to relax with 🎶 hope you have or had a good day! What's your favourite song?