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did my dissertation presentation/defence and the responses were ‘you’ve done Too Much’ and ‘it coheres’ so I stay winning ✌🏻

#got told I know my material well and connected it all together #despite the massive subject (apocalypse) and scope #it’s always why did you pick seven texts and not was analysing seven texts fun #(it was not but I digress) #my mouth hurts

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shit’s so dire out here. how are you calling Circe a feminist masterpiece and praising Rick Riordan for making Greek mythology accessible (??) and basing your whole ass dissertation on this without reading the source texts??

#not saying read all of the primary sources for greek myth ever but on god at least the odyssey #+ she literally said ‘you would not go read the iliad but you can still know greek myths by reading riordan’ #we are Never making it out of the trenches

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sat at me dissertation defence/viva and just listened to the most mid analysis ever from another student only for a professor unironically call it ‘very good effort’. we are never making it out of the trenches.

#my desire to try continues to plummet like a fucking stone

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at any given moment the urge to remake my blog is low but never zero

#I’m lying it’s very high #too many people on here especially from my frankenstein posts when they Do Not Get It #society if we had a mutuals only notification filter #also. it’s been two years and too many posts it’s a right mess

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why was this so sweet, what did he expect people to say, "no mr. brian may from the band queen, you do NOT have permission to play the sea shanty, put down the guitar and go back to the astrophysics" like,,,, what a silly goose

#literally so obsessed with this ydek

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everything is better post dissertation <- had a wank like you wouldn’t believe

#log.

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having no more dissertation is great, I get to do stuff for fun. will get back to hxh and spn today + read a book in addition to that. can you believe this shit.

#I still have my defence upcoming but that’s just waffling innit I can do that #I wrote the thing I was there #+ one exam which ik nothing about but /idc/ about so I’ll start studying a day or two before it #log.

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can I be mean for a sec? I hate how the majority of the fandom cites Joshua Gillespie as someone who ‘won’ against the Fears. he really, really didn’t; in fact, he gives us one of my favourite lines + the most devastating, fundamental truth about the tma world:

#log. #the magnus archives #also oliver banks saying with a bitter laugh that he ‘learnt to live with it’ #tessa winters ‘defiant in her well-worn terror’ #there’s no winning!! there’s just the never-ending defeat

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every day I am burdened by the fact that the Web is about having your story written for you whilst the Beholding is about narrativising yourself, under the ‘Eye’s clarifying influence’, putting on a show rather than being puppeted, whilst also forcing everyone around you to replay their trauma over and over as if they were stuck on a stage, spotlit to hell, and there is very little difference between the two, the choice is illusory because one is always free at someone else’s expense &c. &c. and none of that mattered bc the Eye is stupid apparently. be so serious rn

#so much of s5 was just simplifying/flattening what Was an interesting nuanced narrative #into a disney cartoon lvl morality play of the worst sort #but this specifically pisses me off more than all the rest #then again I should have seen it coming when a/lex called himself a narratologist before pointing towards a tvtropes page #whatever sorry this is petty as fuck #my fault for doing a metafictional reading of tma for my dissertation & working myself up all over again #the analysis I did made tma sound more thoughtful and coherent than it was #log. #the magnus archives

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There is some discussion about Elias being, if not directly representative, at least reminiscent of a surveillance state (different from the capitalism takes), and on my end, I'm personally... sceptical that he's meant to speak to an anything state. The idea of totalitarianisms is that they have all the resources at their disposal. But Elias needs to use quick-thinking strategies and blackmail to keep a few police officers doing what he wants them to, and it still doesn't stop him from being punched in the gut by one of them. Maybe I'm taking things too literally, but I don't see an angle where he resonates as a political authority from our world.

#the magnus archives

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i found the tenth circle of hell: it's where your fave blows up on tiktok

#civilised autobiography.

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RARE SIGHTING: a good redditor opinion about riverdale

#riverdale

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Not sure where I screenshot this interview with Thomas Ligotti. Will update with source later, if I remember.

#seventy minutes. #ligotti

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Pier Paolo Pasolini

photographer: Dino Pedriali

#also how I read books #aes.

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Lake Burlinskoye Location: Altai Krai, Western Siberia

Lake Burlinskoye is a pink lake in Siberia with a train that runs through it. The train collects sediment from the lake bed using harvesting tools, as a part of a salt harvesting operation dating back to 1768. This method yields 65,000 tons of salt each year.

#aes.

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I love subjects and topics

#me pre-dissertation