Dido Deserved Better

(ogre crossbowman) me going to use bone bolts after run out of poison ones and then me definitely going to rout

Happy pride to black trans people in particular I know it can be tough out here with how often the image of what and who counts as always seems to never consider us

i'm making myself wait a year before committing to a #stance about academia but i would like to invite you if you are in academia or if you are reading academic literature to ask yourself whose voices are missing from what you're reading. and in particular, who actually "survives" the system and makes it to publication etc. one thing i was thinking about from the first day i set foot on campus is that my friends, who are brilliant but more disabled than me, would not be able to get a phd solely on the basis of physical inaccessibility--they would not be able to get to campus. but those people have insights that are glaringly absent from the knowledge that is produced within the academic system. in a similar vein, i've come across a lot of scholarship by israeli academics in the field of classics, but none from palestinian academics--and of course this is a microcosm of the larger issue in which scholarship from the global south often never enters the conversation in the imperial core. (obviously other people have talked about these things far more eloquently--you can check out the bds page on the academic boycott of israeli universities for some more context re: palestine.) there is a lot of value in the scholarship that has made it to me but the bigger question i'm always asking is what perspectives are we missing and where can i find it. because we are missing so much.

please make sure your transfem friends don’t get excluded. please listen to their needs.

You should do more than just listen, actually. You need to ask her. You need to go up to her and ask her about things you can do to include her. We are taught to take up as little space as possible, you need to go out of your way to account for that.

adjacent to my last post i'm thinking about how so much tragedy scholarship feels very clearly written by people who have never performed or done much theater at all + talking to another performer in my program about one of the many contradictions we were experiencing, which was that the faculty seemed super excited about people who came from other disciplines/wanted to talk about things like performance but then when you actually tried to work with anything outside of a fairly narrow range of classics-specific scholarship you would get immediate pushback

like classics in particular 1. is a narrow field with artificial boundaries and 2. has a system in place that enforces those boundaries and this results in a body of scholarship that starts to eat itself at a certain point

> medical problem > unsure if it's serious or will go away on its own > sees a doctor to be sure > "why the fuck are you here. this is nothing. it will go away on its own"

> medical problem > unsure if it's serious or will go away on its own > decide to wait to not overreact > problem remains > sees doctor with concrete problem after all > "why did you wait so long. we could have done something if you had come immediately"

In my new gacha game, you can now pull for scantily clad anime women who represent famous airplane crashes.

was listening to an album like “this is good, how have i not heard this before?” and then 6 hours later i see an instagram post about how that album literally released today

my family fucked up my life by using spoonerisms interchangeably with their true phrase counterparts since before i was born and now i can’t escape from instinctively saying shit like “im gonna shake a tower”

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

saw someone including "Mandate of Heaven" as one of those christian terms tumblr likes to use to sound profound. which i get where you're coming from but t☝️hat one is chinese

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