Dumbass Academia: A Concept

Making snarky jokes when someone asks what you plan to do with your major

Ex: “My real life plan is to marry rich and become a wealthy widow at a young age. College is just a pickup scene.”

Getting used to various mystery stains on all your books/essays/papers

Is it food? Is it a water stain from reading in the bathtub? Is it tears? Were you annotating the book and some ink blotted up? Who knows? Certainly not you, better read around it.

Speaking of annotating books: Underlining all the bad words

This is especially fun if it’s something more “high brow” like a poetry book

Your glasses (if you wear them) are somehow always either dirty or scratched. You can’t see with them off, but you can’t see all that well with them on either.

You have a book. You want to read the book. It is highly recommended. It’s supposed to be very good. It will allow your mind to grow. It may even have a deep meaning or important historical significance that you really care about absorbing. Alas, neither your brain nor your heart has room for new characters to love or new obsessions to fixate on. You read fanfiction instead.

Finding a way to justify pretty much anything you like as part of your preferred aesthetics

Ex: “The show Rick and Morty totally counts as dark academia because it heavily involves science and education and also because gay stuff happens in it.”

Ex: “Wearing black lipstick is totally within the realm of cottagecore because there are black flowers and good rich dirt is often black and there are black nights with beautiful shining stars.

Correcting people about small errors on an impulse and then realizing two days later that they were actually right.

Writing things in code and posting them randomly online

(If I get to 150 followers on this blog I will be doing that btw)

Posting stuff or saying stuff and pretending that you don’t care about people’s opinions on what you say because you’re in this for you but secretly anytime you get a notification you almost cry because you’re so excited

Using old beat up notebooks and any pens you can get your hands on because you don’t have the time or money for fancy stationary

Being a little pretentious and doing things purely For The Aesthetic but then ten minutes later you’re eating mac and cheese and watching cartoons in the bathtub because being elitist is fun but it takes so much time and effort

Having a lot of mottos but none of them actually really apply to you but you insist that they are in fact what you base your life on anyway. Sometimes they like, half apply? But never all the way

Ex: “Be gay do crime”

Were you a gifted kid who didn’t quite fit in with everyone else in the gifted program’s intellectual strong suits? Or a gifted kid who now feels like you’ve become completely mediocre/average? You fit in

Alternatively were you a student who wasn’t considered one of the “smart” kids and even may have been treated like you were dumb and/or less than other students because you didn’t connect to your schooling “the correct way”? You fit in too

Constantly changing your aesthetic because something else seems cool

You read those “tea or coffee?” things and scoff because who can decide?

Going feral over abandoned buildings for no reason

Making bad jokes that most other people don’t get because they’re about really niche topics

Whenever someone asks you about a book you’re reading or what you’re studying you panic and say something nonsensical

Coming up with or researching conspiracy theories, but more about small local things like why there are never major storms in your town than big conspiracies like the moon landing

Not that you can’t also be into the big conspiracy theories

Being either ridiculously emotional all the time or being completely devoid of emotions all the time.

#CisWithTheT Trends as Thousands Decide to Denounce Transphobia

Into reports of the sudden and wonderful blossoming of the #CisWithTheT twitter hashtag in Britain.

Some say it was a toxic BBC article spreading TERF lies that created the uproar, while others point to the Dave Chappelle tragedy.

Regardless, suddenly a lot of cis people had had enough of the transphobia and came out in strong support of trans people.

Here are a few of the tweets:

@SMichaelsonn: Cis lesbian here; I am not threatened by trans women using female spaces (where they belong) or using the term ‘lesbian’. What I /am/ threatened by is people constantly weaponising me against my trans sisters and policing gender non-conformity.

@SpillerOfTea #CisWithTheT currently trending at Number 4 in the United Kingdom. Because, as nearly every poll shows (except the ones conducted amongst 80 hand-picked transphobes), the majority of cis women support trans inclusivity, but are silenced by a minority of hateful bigots.

@KateHeywood8 I’m a CIS woman and am furious on an almost daily basis by the increasingly absurd actions of the toilet obsessives. Trans women are most definitely welcome to use the same spaces as me. Love to our trans sisters #CisWithTheT

@hotmessica__ I’m a cishet woman and I’m genuinely terrified of the GCs [gender critical feminists] who try to reduce my womanhood to just my genitals and organs. I’ve been questioned in a toilet once because I’m tall, broad shouldered and dress tomboyish. GC ideology is a threat to all people #CisWithTheT

Link to open letter here!

@rhipratchett: Hate can not be allowed to win. Be better humans. Choose kindness, understanding and inclusion. I stand with the trans community today and always. #CisWithTheT

@AffleckEmma: I am a cis lesbian and I am so sick of seeing people who normally don’t give a damn about lesbian rights (and who are outright homophobes) tweeting #IStandWithLesbians because they want to claim all trans people are predators. Your bigotry is not progressive. #CisWithTheT

@23rdspiral: I’m a 40yr old cis woman. Until last year I had an amazing elderly relative who transitioned when I was a teen. It never occurred to me she was anything other than herself. I miss her. Trans women are women. GCs don’t speak for me their ‘feminism’ is not feminism. #CisWithTheT

It seems good cis people have had enough of the constant barrage of transphobic falsehoods produced by trans-exclusionary radical feminists and right wing extremists. Good people see and feel the suffering this propaganda is causing among trans people. Many of them also understand that this is a repeat of the homophobic rhetoric of yesterday.

Keep up the good work, cis allies. This is helping!

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astrolabud

4 years ago

LUCIFER SEASON 5 TRAILER

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7 years ago

Why We Love Lee Seokmin ♡ Happy Birthday, Dearest Dk! Thank You For Always Wanting To Show Us The Best

why we love lee seokmin ♡ happy birthday, dearest dk! thank you for always wanting to show us the best sides of yourself and for not being afraid to show us how you feel. we’ll always be here to protect and root for you. we love you ♡

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4 years ago

i started demon slayer thinking it would be nothing like attack on titan and yet here i am crying over a character that appeared in manga only about ten times

Useful TRE links + short explanation

I realized no one has done this yet, so I thought it'd be useful to compile them all.

• The Remarried Empress : English Webtoon

Probably the most well-known here. The English translation of The Remarried Empress webtoon, hosted by Webtoon.

Link : https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/the-remarried-empress/list?title_no=2135 or here

• The Remarried Empress : Korean Webtoon

The Korean version of the The Remarried Empress webtoon, hosted by Naver.

Link : https://m.comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=735661 or here

• The Remarried Empress : Korean Webnovel

The original Korean webnovel + pictures. Hosted by Naver.

Link : https://novel.naver.com/webnovel/list.nhn?novelId=765207 or here

• The Remarried Empress : Interactive Story App aka Maybe

A story app where you get to play as Navier and pick out of 3 love interests as your happy ending (Heinrey, Kaufman, Sovieshu). Other interactive storylines (such as A Good Day to Be a Dog) as also hosted by the app Maybe.

IOS : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maybe-interactive-stories/id1508286483 or here

Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cinamongames.maybegv&hl=en_US or here

• The Remarried Empress : Book + Merchandise Purchase

A place where you can purchase books and limited edition packs such as photocards and the author's autograph (some of the stuff might be sold out tho)

Harumio : https://www.harum.io/products/remarried-empress or here

Naver : https://book.naver.com/bookdb/book_detail.nhn?bid=15405177 or here

• The Remarried Empress : Wiki

This wiki is a compilation of information from both the Webnovels and the Webtoon. Pages can contain information from the free chapters of the webnovels. Proceed with caution before viewing each page!

Link : https://the-remarried-empress.fandom.com/wiki/The_Remarried_Empress_Wiki or here

Extra Info

I don't think the author has socials, but you can check out the artist of the webnovel (the one who drew these) at @chi5onchi5on or @a_fine_c on Twitter and Instagram. You can also support the one in charge of the webtoon storyboard on @here_lee on Instagram and Twitter

And these ofc aren't the only resources you can use to read TRE. I just tried to compile the important, legal ones for obvious reasons

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