Lady Grey

I've spotted a huge decline over the last two years. What's upsetting is how so many of our current third years have declined since their first year. I did a seminar with them the other day, on the topic of the environmental impacts of different diets. One guy told me confidently that there would be no additional agricultural lands if we all went vegetarian.

"Cool," I said. "What's your source for that?"

"I'm sure I read it," he said.

"Fair," said I, "go and look it up. Find an academic source, let's assess it to see if it's robust."

The first thing he did was go to Google, and then read the AI summary.

"That's not a source," I said. "Find me a source."

Five minutes later, he happily tells me that a Guardian article says so, and mentions the World Economic Forum.

"Okay," I said. "Neither of those are academic sources, and the WEF is secondary anyway. Go to Google Scholar, and find a journal article."

Ten minutes later, he tells me he can only find articles that say it's a very complex issue in spite of pop cultural received wisdom, and we don't actually know.

A THIRD YEAR. This man has a dissertation due in THREE MONTHS. This is a skill we taught him in first year, and it's all dribbled out of his ears in the quest for easy summaries from an autocomplete algorithm. And I dearly wish I could say he's an exception, but Jesus Christ, that would be a lie.

I'm currently writing a lecture for the second years for their research methods module, and I normally wouldn't need to do this. But I'm having to re-introduce them to the basic concepts of how to actually analyse findings rather than lazily take whatever they seem to say at face value. I'm trying to find a good paper that had Surprising findings, because I want to show them a research question and a set of results and then get them to speculate and research on why they found something so different, but that's a difficult thing to search for.

Ai has only made things worse. When you do not value critical thinking instant answers are Amazing. And these brains are going to be trained to accept and go to AI when they need answers. (Despite teachers trying, the most vulnerable to this have already been told teachers are the WOKE left.)

*slams down photos* I have so many

(Affiliate links below)

We Call Them Witches

by India-Rose Bower

My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond

By Hugh Ryan

No God but Us

by Bobuq Sayed

There's Only One Sin in Hollywood

By Rasheed Newson

Saturn Returning

Meet Marina Shafir buff Judo girlie who is the always ready to hurt people.

She runs with a bunch of guys called the Death Riders and she is often interference muscle (though she is currently being homoerotic with Toni storm).

She's not "one of the guys" but a part of the team and I love it!

Marina Shafir ex. Judo girl who gave up trying to be pretty!

She is the guard dog of the a group of feral men known as the death riders. And not in a "aww she is their sweet mom who babies them. No in the *they hold her back from punching people*

Behold, my favorite art piece of the Iron Triangle ever, by the artist 尘V土!

How to get a semi-transparent overlay of this, along with 3 other pieces of art, to put in Iron Widow and Heavenly Tyrant:

IT WAS JUST A STUPID JOKE ABOUT BOOBS

[ID: A poster. Large white text in the centre reads "Queer Disability In Fantasy". In the upper left corner, smaller black text reads "Disability in Books". The background is a wood grain pattern, with the top and bottom of bordered by a row of book tops. In the upper right corner, the logo for the Disability Book Archive. In the lower left corner, the disability pride flag in the shape of a heart, and the rainbow pride flag, in the shape of smaller heart slightly layered on top. In the lower right corner, a stack of cartoonish books. /end]

[ID: The same poster. The text and stack of books has been removed. The hearts and logo have shrunken in size. There are 7 book covers. From left to right, the covers are: "An Unkindness of Ghosts" by Rivers Solomon, "A Spindle Splintered" by Alix E. Harrow, "Bound to the Monarchs" by Brooke Winters, "The Bedlam Stacks" by Natasha Pulley, "The Broken Kingdoms" by N. K. Jemisin, and "Brute" by Kim Fielding. /end]

[ID: The same poster. The book covers have been replaced. From left to right, the covers are: "City of Strife", "City of Betrayal" and "City of Deceit", all by Claudie Arseneault, "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardguo, "Deathless Divide" by Justina Ireland, "The Extraordinaries" by T. J. Klune, and "Crooked Kingdom" by Leigh Bardugo. /end]

[ID: The same poster. The book covers have been replaced. From left to right, the covers are: "The Faithless" by C. L. Clark, "Gideon the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir, "Into the Drowning Deep" by Mira Grant, "Harrow the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir, "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao, "Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites" by Joy Demorra, and "Lakelore" by Anna-Marie McLemore. /end]

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A list of 21 fantasy books featuring queer, disabled, and queer-disabled characters and themes!

I believe that the "fantasy" section is one of the biggest sections on the archive. At some point around adding the 9th book I stopped and asked myself if I should be including urban and historical fantasy in this as well, so I did. There's also more fantasy horror present on here than I thought there was.

Every book on this list features characters who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community, are disabled, or both, but both themes, at some point, are present in every book.

The books featured on this list are:

🏳️‍🌈 "An Unkindness of Ghosts"- Solomon, Rivers

🏳️‍🌈 "A Spindle Splintered"- Harrow, Alix E.

🏳️‍🌈 "The Bedlam Stacks"- Pulley, Natasha

🏳️‍🌈 "Black Sun"- Roanhorse, Rebecca

🏳️‍🌈 "Bound to the Monarchs"- Winters, Brooke

🏳️‍🌈 "The Broken Kingdoms"- Jemisin, N. K

🏳️‍🌈 "Brute"- Fielding, Kim

🏳️‍🌈 "City of Strife"- Arseneault, Claudie

🏳️‍🌈 "City of Betrayal"- Arseneault, Claudie

🏳️‍🌈 "City of Deceit"- Arseneault, Claudie

🏳️‍🌈 "Six of Crows"- Bardugo, Leigh

🏳️‍🌈 "Deathless Divide"- Ireland, Justina

🏳️‍🌈 "The Extraordinaries"- Klune, T. J.

🏳️‍🌈 "Crooked Kingdom"- Bardugo, Leigh

🏳️‍🌈 "The Faithless"- Clark, C. L.

🏳️‍🌈 "Gideon the Ninth"- Muir, Tamsyn

🏳️‍🌈 "Harrow the Ninth"- Muir, Tamsyn

🏳️‍🌈 "Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites"- Demorra, Joy

🏳️‍🌈 "Into the Drowning Deep"- Grant, Mira

🏳️‍🌈 "Iron Widow"- Zhao, Xiran Jay

🏳️‍🌈 "Lakelore"- McLemore, Anna-Marie

Every book on this list and more can be found on the Disability Book Archive.

i wanted to draw something instead of using that ai