#jstor i love you

[unhauntng]

actually not emotional over graduating university, just over losing my jstor access

[ah0yh0y]

day i realised i was nerd is when i realised i read studies and like scholarly articles for fun

[garfieldfan420]

i am so thankful that i exist at the same time as jstor. i love reading 130 y/o journals about the representation of centaurs in ancient greek pottery while drinking my morning coffee. what a time to be alive <3

[spohkh]

@jstor HAS BOOPS ENABLED MY PSIONIC WARRIORS ATTACK

[loverboybrightsideghost]

jstor....

[jstor]

thank you jstor i had to do some curatorial research for an upcoming exhibition at the museum i intern at for indian-based embroidery techniques and history and a solid half of my research was done on jstor <3

This is so cool

[coquelicoq]

the virginia woolf reading experience

oh god what is this syntax. brb i need to apologize to the french

[stare off into space thinking about free indirect speech and her utter mastery of narration and the complexity of thought she is able to transfer, and how the absolutely batshit syntax is part of how she achieves this]

[stare off into space thinking about the nature of consciousness]

the books that are masterpieces to me are those that cause a feeling of such profound unity in every paragraph that you want to run into the street and shout its sentences to people (to say, hey, this author gifted me a piece of the world's substance made manifest in language, and i received it, look at me receive it, and now you receive it, let me watch you receive it), but are nearly impossible to extract from because to remove any passage from the ecosystem the author has created for it/out of it would be to remove its potency. because the content and the form are so inextricable from each other and from all that comes before and after

[stare off into space thinking about the miracle and limits of human connection to other humans & the void & mystery & death & history & posterity & suffering & love & understanding & smallness & bigness & entropy]

[cry]

[ice-devourer]

gonna go to a local cafe tomorrow,,,they serve coffee produced from different provinces here hehe AND they have dark chocolate with chili heheeh (✨ — ✨)

im gonna research and write about yosano there !! im so excited ARGGH!!

[the-everqueen]

@two-hands-toward-the-sun

so the gist of this hypothetical dissertation would be talking about queerness as an embodied concept in the OG sandman comix - namely how queerness becomes elided with bodily autonomy (or lack thereof). from my proposed triad, clearly i am thinking about the Corinthian, but i'd also want to talk about Wanda, Desire, Hazel and Foxglove. i'd be situating my analysis in relation to the AIDS crisis (which informs a lot of the comix), alongside a foucaultian understanding of biopolitics (whose bodies are seen as expendable and to what extent, whose bodies are under surveillance/control, etc).

some thoughts i'd want to explore: Wanda's womanhood and how it's realized through the medium but also contested among the powers that be - ritual magic vs the Endless. Desire as a villain and nonbinary identities as a disruption to spacetime as a storied concept. the Corinthian as specifically queer horror: he preys on young men, outing them in their deaths, and he's the worst case scenario of cruising, which involves a lot of vulnerability in the face of societal violence. (VERY interesting, also, that the second Corinthian's "redemption," so to speak, involves saving a small [read: innocent] child from violence and no real address of the desire that had him [heavily implied] sleeping with his victims.) who "gets" to embody queerness and what are the limits on that expression? what does queerness "look like" in the sandman universe? how are these bodies regulated/surveilled? there's a lot of overlap with queerness, violence, and/or disease in the sandman comix that reflects the ideas of the period in which it was made, but also...imho...deserves serious critique.

[knowlesian]

jstor reblogging me is up there with jacob clifton liking one of my tweets about the uselessness of discussing if we are “meant” for monogamy or not

it’s a Good Internet day

[anamelessfool]

I often watch footage to help me understand machines, processes and eras so I can be more descriptive or find plot opportunities. (The church organ rabbit hole was particularly fun, the adding machine one not so much.) This 1981 "I'm trying to make periodicals hip and sexy" short on microfilm readers is making me break out in a cold sweat

Secondo: "If we collect every local newspaper and read the classifieds starting in 1964 to now, maybe we can find who this Mr. S is."

Primo: "Can we go back to me being shot at?"

Tagging my academic ghesties @historian-crown @gravehags and @delullu

[caterpillarinacave]

Do you have thoughts about Baby Henry and his Great Aunt Matilda?

Oh BOY do I.

I could literally go on and on forever but I should redirect you to this entire fic which is basically a coherent, carefully constructed, novel of those thoughts:

(Those with an astute eye will notice that I call Matilda Henry’s aunt, as in his fathers sister, as opposed to his great aunt. Maybe this is due to the copious amounts of inheritance fuckery brought up in the first chapter. Maybe I forgot because rereading nothing but shadows makes me sad. Maybe I can make it work and I’m going with it.) 

[stars-eternals]

Today I learned (again) that waiting until the due date to do two intensive writing assignments is NOT fun. But also I got them both done on time so I will not carry this lesson with me into the future (again).

[superchlorine]

@jstor booped me! 😍

[goth-automaton]

Today in the JimaJima groupchat:

Medical nerd gotta nerd. :D