#this is my dissertation apparently

[lesbiansfor-blackbeard]

because wymack is the one you call when you're just lost and you don't know what else to do

we know neil calls from the airport but he also calls from the mall, when teammates have dragged him out after andrew has graduated and there are too many people and he just wants to go home

kevin calls many times his first year out of school, alone, standing in the liquor aisle of the grocery store and just needing to hear that he still matters

seth would have called after he found out his wife was pregnant and he runs out the door. he calls wymack from his car in some parking lot and gets an earful and a game plan

maybe jean calls when he can't get a hold of kevin and hes spiraling. wymack doesn't let him hang up until jeremy is sitting next to jean and wymack has found kevin

dan calls after her aunt shows up. she has a spine she built herself, and wymack reminds of her of that. he reminds her that yes, she has a soft spot and wants to help, but that he wouldn't have made her captain if he didn't have faith in her ability to stand up for the foxes. and he reminds her that she is a fox as well.

renee just calls to talk. she calls because she worries about wymack as he gets older. she calls after her mom passes away. she calls just to keep in touch.

allison rarely calls. she sees him on holidays and misses him but she finds it hard to keep in touch. one morning a scandal breaks: a gossip site has found allison with her girlfriend. it's too soon, she didn't want everyone to know. and that's the face she puts on publicly, but the morning it breaks she calls wymack just to sit, and to remember the family she was and is a part of that will always have her back

andrew calls because he misses wymack but her never admits it. like neil, wymack was the first man who let him be safe, who listened as he crashed through his meds and let him be himself one night a week and believed in him. andrew calls to say nothing, but that's okay because wymack doesn't know what to say either.

it takes aaron a while to call. he liked wymack, sure, but he always knew his brother was the first choice. it's actually wymack that calls first after aaron graduates medical school with a "congratulations" and an "I knew you could do it" aaron starts sending pictures and videos of his daughters and he even tries to get the original foxes organized for a meet up once a year

nicky calls just to say hi, much like renee. but many years after they've all graduated he calls, and thanks wymack for gluing his family together when he was coming apart at the seams to keep his cousins from drifting.

matt calls after his first kid is born. "I don't want to be like my father" and wymack is a little taken aback because he has a hard time seeing how matt and his father are even related and eventually matt says "I want to be you." and wymacks heart heals a little when he hears that because he is so unlike his own father that one of his foxes wants to be like him

this got a little off topic but I love post-uni foxes

[inchidentally]

“some great teamwork as well from Mr. Norris over here, keeping me in second” (bashful Lando smile)

x x

[regicidal-defenestration]

Big news from the criminology trenches. Did you know that if you treat someone like a human being rather than Someone Who Will, We Know, For Sure And Undoubtedly, Commit A Crime, So We Must Lock Them Away Before Their Foul Words Can Infect Our Pure Minds, then conversations about cybercrime are more successful? [1]

[1] R. Brewer, M. de Vel-Palumbo, A. Hutchings, T. Holt, A. Goldsmith, and D. Maimon, "Targeted Warnings and Police Cautions" in Cybercrime Prevention: Theory and Applications. Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2019, 77-99

[specialagentartemis]

I love lying to the government (citing a book in my NSF proposal that I didn't actually read)

[rattini]

when i tell you my biggest regret this year is uninstalling FO4 to make more room for other stuff

[enzombie]

[afieldinengland]

is there a way we can read your dissertation, dear one?

oh, you’re very kind to ask!! i’m afraid i’ve become more uncertain about posting excerpts here since i heard that people might have been stealing my new labour edits. not that i think they’d do the same to my dissertation— after all, it’s on shakespeare and marlowe, not blair and brown— but it has made me realise more clearly how protective i am of it. it’s so much more valuable than any tumblr webweave, of course, not only because it’s a piece of academic writing and a hefty one at that, but because i worked so hard on researching and writing it, and the idea of putting any of it somewhere i know a thief might operate has made me…. leery of posting it, to say the least. it’s perhaps the piece of work i’m proudest of, and it contains research that i’d like to build upon over the rest of my academic career. and needless to say the consequences of it getting stolen would be more significant, too. i’ve sent copies of it to some trusted friends who have requested to read it, and i’m always happy to discuss it, but i do want to keep the actual work safe. this might sound a tad absurd, i don’t know. but i hope you understand

[corrodedbisexual]

I AM FREE 😭😭😭😭😭

[angelofblackblood]

I’m so tired.

[chicago-geniza]

Due to being the biggest humanities nerd in our generation and also the poorest one in this generation of our family and also the only person still alive who can read Russian, Polish, and Yiddish, I keep inheriting treasure trove libraries from long-dead distant relatives, and it turns out An-sky's Folklore brainworms were fairly typical. I am not the first Neubivko autist to teach myself Old Welsh for fun and zero profit because they got obsessed with the Mabinogion. I am, however, the first Neubivko to do so after [checks notes] the end of the Polish-Soviet War, and on the North American continent

Our family has had English for a long time in part because so many people have been like, Bundists who were also autistic about Beowulf, which is hysterically funny to me. My great-uncle, born in the Russian Empire, had a little Anglo-Saxon primer with Russian and Yiddish annotations in the margins. Why are we Like This

[sere-ness-ima]

(source: En avant marche ! by Gérard de Nerval, 1831, Polish translation: Wiesław Mateusz Malinowski)

i'm soooooooo normal about them

but also how is it no matter how good of a hetalia writer you are there's always some romantic poet who wrote it better (and first)

[bookishforce]

i am going to Thailand next year and im so hekkin excited ~~ motivation to get through the next 6 months ~ lowkey manifesting a forcebook event while im there hehehe

can't wait to eat the amazing vegan food in Bangkok & Chiang Mai and go to the grand canyon water park from fbsr and I accidentally booked a hotel so close to the gym that was featured in forcebook show real omg and totally gonna box and play squash and rock climb and generally go on adventures heck ~

[waugh-bao]

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[necromancy-savant]

Return of the Living Dead and Bartholomew Fair are holding hands as works of art that nobody appreciates or deserves except for me and like two other people

[mediapen]

what i love about sprints is i dont think ive watched this for even a second

[combeauferre]

got my final grade the other day. while im happy with it i also found out that the history paper i had so many breakdowns over it was ridiculous didnt even get fucking marked