#nonacademic

[grelleswife]

New visual for the Kuroshitsuji 2024 collaboration café!

Plus some closeups taken by yours truly (apologies for the deplorable quality; my editing skills are borderline nonexistent 😅):

It will be open from September 14th, 2024 to October 14th, 2024 in Ikebukuro/Dotonbori/Nagoya and from September 25th, 2024 to October 14th, 2024 in Fukuoka/Sendai.

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[a-bucket-in-the-void]

i could have been done with stuff for the week by now and instead have been feverish in bed but noooooooo my body just had to save me from illness boo

[yelenadelova]

i am aware Suzanne Collins will likely never write a Finnick Odair novel so I have taken it upon myself to do it myself with fic

*insert thanos "fine, ill do it myself" meme here*

[antisisyphus]

i really love seing stupid discourse where the clear answer is 'both are true. simultaniously'

[sergeantnarwhalwrites]

I wanna draw. *my school work about to manifest into a person just so it can kick my ass*

[federicafaccin]

🌪️*probably unnecessary statement*, but in case you wonder: I usually tend to draw a lot of female nudes, so I wanted to resume some non-academic male nude drawings. 🖌️ . . . . . . 2021, mixed media, original sizes: 13 x 20,5 cm.

[tanumaskoipond]

i am sooo sleepy

[aswaki]

wait you’re not done with school in may??

our academic year ends next month!! which is torture bc i want everything to end already but i also need more time to finish everything 😔☝🏼

[explainslowly]

Phallic astronomical clock... They put a condom over it for the winter...

Every now and then I mention something about the city of Brno to my american friends and it often causes much confusion/concern, so I wanna try to make a list summary of Everything Wrong With Brno

imma start

there is a place called Hell

there is a public transport stop called Crematorium, it is named after the nearby crematorium

it is oddly easy to take the wrong tram and accidentally end up at the Crematorium

the crematorium looks like this

add more

[queercripintersex]

Crip and Cripple are different words

So this might be opening up a CAN OF WORMS but as a physically disabled person I just wanna throw out a clarification that I personally think is useful to have explicitly articulated. These two words are DIFFERENT:

Crip: a reference to crip theory and its friends. Refers to ALL disabilities (not just mobility/physical). Similar to queer, it's a way of seeing the world: disability is socially constructed, fuck eugenics, fuck capitalism, fuck colonialism, being disabled means you HAVE to be creative to navigate a world not built for you, disabled people are the OG makers/hackers, and so on. "Crip" is used as a verb to apply to this way of seeing the world to analyse different facets of society (e.g. cripping the arts, crip technoscience). Seen in academic terms like cripistemology and eco-crip theory but also nonacademic contexts like krip-hop and crip time.

Cripple: refers to physically disabled people ONLY. Seen in terms like cripplepunk, which is exclusive to physical disabilities. (Punks with other disabilities are encouraged to use other terms like dyspunktional.)

Yes, "crip" was coined as a shortening of "cripple". Yes, they are both reclamations of the same slur. But I think it is productive for us to understand these two words as distinct, and to be mindful of the difference.

Crip at this point has a very well established usage that is pan-disability, while at the same time we physically disabled we need space to talk about cripple-specific stuff.

I hope this clarification is helpful! I know the two words sound similar and share a root but I think it's a nuance that matters. <3

[beenreidingaboutyou]

High Infidelity

who? Spencer Reid x fem! reader

content warnings: loveless marriage, affair, implied divorce, probably something else I've forgotten

a/n: This one is based off of Taylor Swift's High Infidelity. I haven't written anything nonacademic in a while and this is my first Spencer fic so please please please be gentle with me. Formatting is a little wonky but I'm trying, I promise (there's not a good divider on this one because I'm trying to get it uploaded before I leave work). This one is bit nontraditional, but that's because I have a companion piece in the works that'll focus more on Spencer and reader's relationship. I also have a different version of this song fic that I've started, but wanted to post this one first because I know Margot @pathologicalreid doesn't like the Maeve storyline and this one's for her!

word count: 1.0k

Your moment of bliss in Spencer’s arms was interrupted by the alarm coming from your phone.

“Shit, I gotta get going. He’s going to expect me home soon.”

Spencer reluctantly let you get up, “I don’t understand why you won’t just leave him.”

This wasn’t the first time Spencer had made the suggestion. Honestly, he was right. You didn’t have a good reason for staying with your husband and yet you did. So here you were, frantically getting dressed so you could go home and spend another night with a man you didn’t love when all you wanted was to stay with Spencer.

“Spence, I don’t have time for this conversation right now.”

He sighs and watches as you pull your hood up, covering your face before you leave his place. 

As you open the front door to your home , you plaster on a fake smile and try to act pleased when you spot your husband in the living room. “Hey honey, how was work?”

“Where have you been?” your husband replies, ignoring your greeting.

“At book club. I sent you a text to remind you I’d be at the library.”

“I know you weren’t there. We haven’t been on a date in a while so I thought I’d meet you there and take you to dinner at that restaurant you like downtown. I waited outside for you, but you never came out.”

“You must have just missed me, we got done a little early tonight.”

“I was worried that might’ve happened so I went in to ask about you.Barbara looked shocked to see me. She told me you haven’t been to Thursday book club in months. So let me ask again, where were you tonight?”

You look away, unable to come up with a good excuse.

“I deserve an answer, y/n”

“Okay, you’ve got me. I went on a run. I needed to clear my head.”

“I do so much for you and you can’t even be bothered to tell me the truth?” your husband steps closer to you, demanding your attention. 

You don’t respond, your mind wandering to exactly how you’d ended up here. 

 You had only started dating Brad because your mom wouldn’t stop pestering you about getting a boyfriend. After a year or so, just dating wasn’t good enough. Both Brad and your mom began dropping hints about marriage and you were just along for the ride. You would’ve left Brad at the altar, but your grandmother was so happy that she’d get to see your wedding you couldn’t bear to let her down. She passed away a few months later. That was when reality set in and you realized you’d doomed yourself to being a bored housewife. Brad made so much money at his job that he insisted you stay at home all day, “You’ll need to get used to it. After all, we both agreed you’d be a stay-at-home mom and this is good practice.”  You went along with it, like you always did whenever Brad suggested something. Not because you were weak-willed, it was more like you were just… numb.  

At least, until you met Spencer Reid. You had been desperate to get out of the house, like you always were, and decided to go grab a coffee from the cafe down the street. With your coffee in hand, you planned to go to the park or window shop. Something, anything other than go back to your empty home. You were so lost in thought that you didn’t notice Spencer, bumping into him and dropping your coffee.

He apologized instantly, as if it were his fault that you hadn’t been paying attention. After buying a replacement coffee, the two of you had talked for hours, quickly losing track of time. That coffee soon became a regular thing until it moved from coffees to dinners to spending nights at his place when Brad was out of town for work.

  You’re brought back into the moment by Brad’s voice, “I gave you the chance to be honest with me. I’m tired of all this skirting around you’ve been doing lately. I hired a private investigator to find out what you’re keeping from me.”

“Excuse me? You hired someone to follow me?”  

“Who is he? Tell me who he is.” Brad demands as he throws a stack of photos on the table. Each one from a different day you had spent with Spencer. Your heart ached when you saw how happy you looked in those pictures, how in love you and Spencer looked. You can’t help but smile to yourself as you realize just how much better your life has been since you met Spencer.

  “Do you really want to know Brad? Do you want to hear how he’s made me feel alive again after years of being pushed around by you and my mother? Do you want to hear how much I love him? How I’m not even sure why I keep coming back to you other than some stupid sense of duty?”

“Is that really how you feel? After everything I’ve given you and the life I’ve provided for you, you’re just going to throw it all away for some guy?”

“He’s not just some guy. I love him. I love him in a way I have never loved you.” It feels so good to get that off your chest, to actually tell Brad the truth about your relationship.

You can tell he wants to argue, but you don’t give him the chance. You grab what you need for the next few days and go, ignoring Brad’s numerous attempts to talk to you as you pack. 

And as you walk out, you hear Brad put on his favorite record, one you had always hated. You can’t help but feel a sense of relief that he’s not trying to follow after you and force you to stay. 

You pull out your phone and give Spencer a call, “I did it, Spence. I finally left him.” 

[trans-axolotl]

Hi! I'm trying to find some good antipsych resources for my younger brother. Ze's been passionate about a lot of related stuff for a while due to zir own experiences with psychiatry and I want to encourage zir but ze's only 16 and has never read the kind of complex or academic stuff that a lot of antipsych writing I've seen is. Can you recommend anything? Especially if it overlaps with youth liberation.

Hi anon! I'm mostly going to link resources that are more about the politics/principles/history of psych abolition/antipsychiatry rather then antipsych resources for coping with madness, but let me know if it would also be helpful to have those kind of resources.

content notes: a lot of these materials talk directly about psychiatric abuse, incarceration, suicide, and self harm.

Articles/Zines:

There is no abolition without anti-psychiatry by the Campaign for Psych Abolition

Myths of Psychiatric Incarceration by @ embracingambiguity (insta)

Belief in Psychotherapy by Kai Cheng Thom

Myth of Mental Health by Kai Cheng Thom

Mental Patients Liberation Front newsletter 1987

Abolition Must Include Psychiatry by Stella Akua Mensah

Psychiatry's Role in the Occupation of Palestine by Campaign for Psych Abolition

Sentenced to Trauma: Inside the volatility and disorder of prison by Carla J Simmons

Camille Moran Papers

Girls do what they have to do to survive by YWEP

Madness and Oppression by the Icarus Project

Asylum Magazine

Madness Network News

Books:

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll

here's the link to my full drive of psych abolition resources sorted by topic as well.

if followers have nonacademic antipsych resources to add on, please do!

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

reynie getting a phd.

reynie in grad school...... i think he would have so much fun. reynie getting a phd in some weirdo bullshit....

[academicfever]

50/100 days of productivity!

Hi lovelies! I’m back after a long break! Thank u for all the love 💕 let’s get back to absolutely crushing it!

Positive affirmations: Read these slowly, take deep breaths between each one, and really let them sink in. Repeat them while looking in the mirror or write them down.

I choose to approach this day with energy and purpose. I don't need to be perfect - I just need to begin. My future self will thank me for the efforts I make today. My determination grows stronger with each task I complete. I am in charge of my day and how I choose to spend my energy. My work matters and contributes value to the world. I have unique talents that deserve to be shared. Today's actions are building the foundation for tomorrow's success.

To-do: 27.1.25

🎧strange_august D

Morning exercise

Start writing chp2

Class 2P

Textbook session 2P

Long yoga session

Nonacademic reading _P

Journaling_ meditation

Read b4 dbed

[truthful-frights]

academia reminder

reminder to all demonolators, witches, and pagans who are in college: your school library may have something. im in community college and our online library has tons of Asmodeus resources both academic and nonacademic, including The Devil Upon Two Sticks. always good to check!!

[piosplayhouse]

Read some genuine and serious published and peer reviewed yaoi research the other day that was interesting but that I had a few criticisms of due to its position that yaoi is desirous to assumedly heterosexual women particularly because it presents an unattainable fantasy of sex that has zero risk or intent to reproduce. However while I understand where this is coming from I'm calling BS because what about the massive amounts of mpreg and omegaverse??

Because of this I am curious if any of you would be interested in a completely nonacademic informal survey on if/why mpreg/reproductive yaoi (technicality in that the guy doesn't actually have to get pregnant just have the capability to ig) interests you on a self-reflective level. Beyond because it's hot to get guys pregnant we know that already but if you have anything to extrapolate on the psychology of it I would be fascinated to know. Anyway I would probably make an anonymous Google form with a few free response questions for you all to type your deep thoughts on reproductive-centered yaoi if you would be interested-- there would probably be no crunchy data and I won't share anyone's answers unless they specifically want them to be shared. I'm just genuinely curious and would like to hear a variety of perspectives from a variety of backgrounds : )