#'i spent YEARS RESEARCHING'

[elizabethan-memes]

Reviewer: this book used dated and discredited sources, mostly secondary sources. Unoriginal use of dated sources will lead to a dated conclusion.

James Taffe:

#james taffe #my brother in christ calm down #tudor history #jane boleyn #'i spent YEARS RESEARCHING' #yeah you're an academic now #you're gonna be critiqued...like an academic #jane parker #jane rochford #george boleyn #tudor memes

[ribbittrobbit]

The Devotion of Saint Kristen Applebees

"devoted to [her] mission, is faithful to the call of the gods on [her] life. [She] is willing to sacrifice [her] own interests to those greater interests (...). [She] binds [her] will and [her] heart to that task. This is what it means to be pious."

(bastardization of Alan Jacob, on the origins and early meaning of the term pius)

#no joke i spent hours researching eusebia and pietas and greek mythology for this #and comparing to catholic/ christian theology #as one does #totally normal behaviour #kristen applebees #dimension 20 #d20 fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #d20 fanart #dropout #dimension 20 fantasy high #fantasy high fanart #fantasy high #d20 fhjy #ribbittrobbit #rounded out the trilogy my dudes

[vse-kar-vem]

historical bokris inspired by @ya-boi-joule's 1780s au !!!!

#joker out #kris guštin #bojan cvjetićanin #i didn't do much research for this so i just based it off how i used to draw clothes in les mis fandom?? #which is at least 50 years after the 1780s 😬😬 so forgive me if the silhouettes are all wrong #for the amount of time i've spent in historical fandoms im really shit at drawing cravats 😞 #gradient maps i love youuu #peep kris in the robespierre waistcoat :/ who does he think he is ?? grantair-- (gunshots) #my art #bokris

[oatbugs]

my research partner and i are huddled in a blanket in paddington waiting for a too-late train i already miss you and you and you

#he keeps falling asleep almost on my shoulder and waking up and readjusting but i want to tell him its ok weve seen a lot #of each other ive seen your brainwaves you called me crying a few nights ago. research partner right now is a potentiality #friend is a certainty. i met a banker passionate about finance. he said his advice made the lives of others better and he likes the numbers #more than he likes anything else. on a high rise near canary wharf the view was wonderful and the people even moreso #he said i loved her but i spent 33 grand on her and i cant do this anymore. his voice cracked talking about her. he did love her. #and she talked softly she grabbed my hand she bought me a pack of Marlborough gold she told me to snap #the russian menthol cigarettes of the tortured polish man near us with my teeth i kept staring at her teeth #bright white and sharp. i couldnt find her heartbeat but i did find warmth and i did find her lips and i did feel #how she felt pressed against a wall. a pretty boy held my hand and i gave him my number. i couldnt stop smiling about her no matter #how many runways youve walked on how many collections youve designed how many students youve taught. senior lecturer teaches me how to do #very unethical things ethically over a double shot of vodka made by the half-persian with broken farsi. she talks softly #and she says her eyes are hazel but they appear a shade of red. pure gold on her hands and leather on her back and her fingers on my lips #(she talks softly sees through me she says something i cant hear but i wont forget the way she flies) she talked to my research partner #about the possibility of moving to sunny dubai with the rest of her family and my heart felt pierced. on her arm i traces a tattoo of a #knife passing through a rose. she told me she thought there was romance in severing so i kissed her some more. #he sat me down and asked me what i loved and i told him and he said no romance no person no tragedy will take that from you. #the room was filled with a collection of people in love with something that wasnt a person and i kept looking at her. #red eyes bitten jawline beautiful hands. it is 3 degrees Celsius my head is on his shoulder i miss my friends #we walked out the lecture hall with arms linked a photo of two years ago and we both said #jesus christ. i miss you all. and i miss logic metatheory lectures. im glad i get to stare at the depth of your eyes #i wish i had met you years ago. #crushposting

[soullessjack]

this isnt rlly a serious post more so than a thought I need to verbalize but like. there’s an INSANE difference between the fandom being like “hey what if jack was actually his age and got to be a little normal” vs y’all treating a grown ass man like he has to cover his ears when someone swears or sleep with a nightlight on because he’s afraid of the dark, and throwing the P word around to anyone who thinks he’s attractive. one of these things is not like the other.

#there’s a layer here about giving jack the childhood he specifically chose not to have #and ignoring his other choices because that’s just. idk a running theme with any character who struggles to have autonomy #but whatever idk #genuinely i think the past year or so that I’ve spent talking about this has burnt me out #either that or I’m just too fixated on VB to really care too much #like obviously I still care about it and wish more was done to help but it’s not really a warpath for me to walk currently #just. #I’m just tired dawg #it’s like talking to a deaf brick wall #please just do some research into infantilization I cannot keep having a one sided conversation with people who don’t care #spn #jack kline #baby jack #spn fandom #fandom critical #fandom ableism #tfw2.0 #not even just ableism it’s the whole mischaracterization woobified bullshit all over again #and the using baby jack as a prop for everyone else but I digress #jack: *chose not to be a child and hates being seen as one and is more than willing to get violent if he thinks he has to* #y’all for some fucking reason: he’s just a widdle baby he can’t handle the scary movie he needs his daddies to take care of him #I’ve already said all these things before #i am tired. so tired

[omnisexualcultureis]

Omni oriented aroace culture is feeling lots of tertiary attraction for people all across the gender spectrums a/ varying intensity, but nobody knows what that means even within the queer community so you just explain what aroace is, hope they don't hate you, and maybe explain further if you get to a point you trust them enough 🫠

That makes a total of 2 people that I know irl that know my full identity kinda sorta, and one of them is quite literally my queerplatonic partner 🙃 fun times /neg

😔

#omni culture is #omni oriented #omni oriented aroace #aroace #omni aspec #dont worry i understand what you mean! even though i'm not aspec :) #i just did a lotta research and spent a lot of time on tumblr 3 years ago lol

[brittlebutch]

honestly Adaine is so good at clarifying/directing Ayda socially that it begins to circle back to a dynamic of like, Ayda saying "i don't know or understand these rules" and Adaine responding "have no fear, I've been carefully studying and manually interfacing with these for years, I will explain:" in a way that to me is so autism4autism

#N posts stuff #like Ayda feels like someone who has spent most of her life alone / with adults and so lacks any context at all for socializing with Peers #she's good at Information (bc she's a librarian) and communicating Facts (bc likely most of her socializing has been helping #with research in one way or another on Leviathan) BUT she struggles a lot more with like #friendly gossip and flirting and boundaries <- because she's never interfaced much with people her own age so it's like being lost at sea #BUT Adaine to me at a certain point Stops reading to me as 'Neurotypical who intuits the rules and is just good at explaining them' #and becomes 'autistic with a special interest in social rules/dynamics' and it's less 'i grew up speaking this language natively' #and WAY MORE 'i've been studying this language intentionally for many years so I can help clarify and give you advice' #and i Love That for them I love when they're talking in Hellbound and Adaine is like 'oh lovely! do you have notes on this social phenom?' #because she's 100% canonically the autistic person who is taking notes on social cues (outright in Daddies&Demons) and is like #'Excellent. Surely with these I am going to get a good grade in Social Conversation.' #Autism win! You and the Librarian on a pirate ship have become Best Friends who think each other are SO cool and lovely and kind <3 #d20lb #fhsy #d20: bad kids

[tempest-loupnoir]

Thinking about Ducktales 2017. I’m still very salty about Duckworth’s murder being glossed over and him not even having a good strong role in the series. Every time I mentioned him, I was basically told he wasn’t important enough to deserve a good story. Do people not realize Mrs. Beakley’s agility and speed were originally from him? He was the ninja butler catching falling vases and statue busts. He was the one who plotted a way to capture hostile alien vegetables and free the slaves. He has good stories in the comics, and Quackmore, the Italian version of Scrooge’s butler, has even more good qualities to bring to the table, including figuring out how to use Magica’s spells to stop one of her attacks!

#yes I am not over it. #I got burned out trying to defend my viewpoint to other fans who kept treating me like I’m a boomer. I’m not that old or that nostalgic! #I don’t even Like Ducktales 87 that much. I barely remembered it as a kid. But I Do like Duck comics #I spent years buying and researching Duck comics to try to write the characters well. Now I’m just burnt out on the whole franchise

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #an accurate representation of my day #I did not make anything (aside from a little knitting and a pan of crescent rolls) #I just spent. uh. 5 hours researching resin crafts. #I've been fascinated with resin for like a decade #but it's so expensive! and I thought the applications were so limited! #so I intentionally kept myself out of it! #like obviously I knew it was great for water facsimiles #and I was vaguely aware I could use it to make the little cabochons for lolita accessories and stuff #but in the past 5 hours I have learned how shaker charms work #(which I've always kinda wanted to make gorb shakers but assumed they *had* to be done by a manufacturer) #and I've been reminded that bezels exist and if you're careful with how you go about things they can be made very very similar to enamel pin #*pins #(something I've *also* wanted to make for years but haven't due to sunk cost and minimum order quantities) #so uhhhhhhhhhh #if I get to stay on the good med there may be more gorb merch this fall. #since I can make it by hand. #(superaenbow had the great idea of making like set boxes of merch instead of a la carte individual items) #(since they're also chronically ill and it takes a lot less energy to pack 20 identical boxes in a row when you've got time flexibility) #(rather than like 10-40 unique packages) #(I would probably be doing something like that. or like maybe mostly set boxes and a few extras a la carte or something.) #(could make prints and maybe do die-cut stickers since it would take less wrestling with the machine than the kiss-cut) #(anyway no guarantees! dunno if I get to keep the good med!) #favorites

[zilabee]

“He was my best friend,” says Ringo softly. “Yeah. I loved Harry.”

rolling stone interview

“Ringo and I spent a thousand hours laughing,” Nilsson said.

ringo: with a little help, by michael seth starr

Mark Hudson: “I think that Harry's friendship with John was also very very close, but I - I don't think it was as intimate as his relationship with Ringo Starr.”

Harry Nilsson: “I had a relationship with John - we were roommates a couple of times you know, short times […] But uh, Ringo and I are the, Ringo and I are friends. It's funny I always thought I would be closer to John but then over the years Ringo and I ended up being pals.”

Michael Seth Starr: Harry, born in Brooklyn, New York, in June 1941, was less than a year younger  than Ringo. They were both three years old when their fathers (Richard and Edward,  respectively) abandoned their families, never to return.  They both enjoyed alcohol and practical jokes and were garrulous in nature, at  least early in their relationship. Neither man had completed any semblance of an education. Ringo left school at the age of fifteen; Nilsson, who was extremely  bright, dropped out of school in the ninth grade. 

Ringo Starr: “I think I could always call Harry, night and day, and he would come and save me. I'm very lucky with friends like that.”

Chris O'Dell: “They became really, really close friends, and a lot of it was based on how much  alike they were. They shared a sense of humour. You can never  underestimate Ringo’s sense of humour. It’s there, it’s a huge part of who he is.  Harry was also like that. [...] They were like brothers.”

Harry Nilsson: “I saw Ringo in an interview once looking very nervous saying “Well I'm probably the best rock and roll drummer in the world” and the truth is he is. But he looked very scared saying it. I could see him being scared about it, not scared, but not comfortable about it. And I wanted to be right there and say “Yes! You are! It's okay! You are the best rock and roll drummer in the world ever. That's it. Period, the end.”

Doug Hoefer (Harry's Cousin): “They would fight about shit  and hang up on each other. Then time would go by and one of them would call the  other back and they would pick up where they’d left off. I’m not really sure exactly how they pissed each other off, but they would . . . because Harry had a very strong personality as well.” 

Stephanie La Motta: “He said, ‘I’m Harry’ and he goes searching all over the  place - and I’m screaming for Ringo - who comes out and hugs Harry, because he  loved Harry. They had a special bond. It was unbelievable this bond I saw between  them. He loved Harry as much as Harry loved him.”  (she was screaming because Harry was barging into their hotel room and she had no idea who he was)

Ringo Starr: “Harry’s no longer with us. He’s been gone 20 years now. I still miss him.”

Music played this way All I need is my imagination Take me far away Where I can be with everyone who loves me

Harry's Song, by Ringo, 2008

There's no more oyster bar There's no more Ringo Starr There's no one left to love but you and me

UCLA, by Harry Nilsson

Ringo paid for Harry to have cosmetic dentistry to straighten his front teeth. [...] Some of Nilsson's closest friends believed that self-consciousness about his crooked teeth had been a significant factor in his decision not to appear in live concerts. Samantha Juste, for example, said: "He didn't have great teeth. I remember when he had his teeth fixed, it did a lot for him. In the early days he didn't smile really. Those teeth made a big difference to him, and to his confidence."

- from "Nilsson, The Life of a Singer Songwriter" by Alyn Shipton

Most commentators have focused on "You're Breakin' My Heart" as the one song that expressed Nilsson's emotional torment about [his wife's] departure. However, there is another interpretation, which was that it represented his first quarrel with Ringo Starr. There are coded references to Starr and their social life together, notably in the lines, "You won't boogaloo - Run down to Tramps - Have a dance or two". The reference to the Beatles' Drive My Car [You won't drive my car, might be a star] is another clue to this possible interpretation.

- again from "Nilsson, The Life of a Singer Songwriter"

For reasons of his own, Ringo did not attend Harry’s funeral, which was held on  January 17, a day that was rocked by aftershocks from an earthquake in nearby  Northridge. He claimed to be too grief-stricken, and Barbara went in his place.

- from Ringo: With A Little Help, by Michael Seth Starr

"We tried every which way to get Ringo to talk on camera. What came back to us each time was that there are three people he just does not feel comfortable talking about in person: John Lennon, George Harrison and Harry Nilsson. It’s just too emotional for him and I totally respect his feelings on the matter. Ringo was, however, tremendously supportive of the film including providing us with photos and making it possible to use Son of Drac, a film that Ringo and Harry made in the early 1970s but has been locked away in a London vault since 1974. At the end of the day, we were happy to have his support and understood the decision he made. Sometime later we had heard that he saw the film and liked it but thought some things were missing from the story. And I said to myself, “Yeah, Ringo, you were missing…” (laughs).

- John Scheinfeld, about making 'Who is Harry Nilsson..?'

(I have found absolutely no evidence that ringo starr knitted this)

#harry nilsson #ringo starr #the beatles #the fact that the nilsson biography thinks the song about his divorce is probably actually about ringo #I googled and nobody else is claiming that song is about Ringo #just the person who has spent years researching Harry's life #and when you do that #you apparently come to the conclusion that #everything is ringo #(it reads much more to me like a song to his ex-wife complaining about the fact that she's *not* Ringo #so still very shippy) #and it's also the song that George made everyone sing at Harry's funeral because he clearly ships them too #there's a nice quote somewhere about how harry kind of worshipped john but he just loved ringo #I'm pretty sure there's also a quote out there of Ringo complaining about everyone asking him about the beatles when #there are people he loves more than the beatles #and I think he names Harry because of course he names Harry #but I can't find it anywhere #so I might have made it up

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

“they’re saying only 1% of people die of covid so why are you worried?” ok then. not looking at any sources, let’s go off that statistic for this post. note: we’ve lost over a million people and counting in the united states alone.

i’ve seen some estimates saying 10%-30% of people end up with continuing symptoms (fatigue, brain fog, etc) after the end of infection, which could mean tens of millions of people. however, if even only 2% had persisting symptoms and we go by that 1% death statistic, that could be 2 million people living with some form of long covid impacting their daily life.

don’t wanna listen about covid? ok, let’s compare it to another disease known for its lasting symptoms and its “long” form: polio.

polio could be asymptomatic, but symptoms presented as flu-like if there were any. all things considered, paralysis was rare in comparison to infection numbers. i’ve seen a lot of polio statistics, and some say only 1 in 1,000 (0.1%) polio cases resulted in paralysis, though this seems like a rough average between the three variants. still, there were tens of thousands of cases of poliomyelitis paralysis. 1952 alone had over 20,000 paralysis cases reported, and that’s one year of many polio outbreaks (the most well known u.s. outbreak was 1948/49-1952).

just because a percentage seems low does not mean the damage is minuscule. be knowledgeable about how information is being presented to you and what the actual impacts are. small numbers do not equal little harm.

#im so tired of people who don’t know shit about disease trying to talk about it #although the cdc is supposed to know things and they’re only spouting bullshit too so who fucking knows #sometimes i wish public policy went with the polio route of ‘scare the shit out of people about this disease to keep them safe’ #because the management right now is complete bullshit #anyway hi i spent years researching disease as a hobby and took an epidemiology class with a semester focusing on polio #i could compare covid to the spanish flu pandemic too but that would be another post #anyway im tired of this bullshit. viruses have the potential to wreak havoc on the body and covid is a prime example. the studies coming out #and the anecdotal experiences of many should be worrying to you and you should be avoiding it at all costs. you will not get lucky every #time against disease. knowledge is power especially when talking about disease #other source if y’all don’t think the research + study were enough and want me to have first hand experience seeing the disease progression: #my dad died of covid. i watched that disease wreak havoc on every part of his body as it progressed. it was absolutely terrifying and #exhausted his body to where his heart couldn’t keep up anymore. this isn’t a fucking cold #coronavirus #my post

[fagbearentertainment]

Fnaftwt is finally talking about how bad this comics portrayal of cc is lets gooo

#if you weren’t here for when I did it a few months to a year ago #it’s extremely ableist #like so badly ableist it’s physically painful to read #just looking at some pages makes me want to peel my skin off #and I spent ~two days researching cerebral palsy to make my version of cc better than this #it also has a shit portrayal of every other fnaf character featured in it but that’s another story #fnaf

[pyjamaart]

My entry for the 7th Anniversary Gallery! >:]

#every year i tell myself that im never drawing this many characters again #but anything for my man woodman #the gallery was so amazing. there were so so many great pieces of art #fun fact i had no idea what some of those pizza chains on the voices remote were #so me and my friend had to spent hours researching american pizza restaurants. amazing #but yeah. still had a lot of fun. #i fucking love woodman so much its unreal. #siivagunner #woodman #wood man #nozomi tojo #the voice inside your head

[murmurmurl]

sometimes I read something and it's exactly what I experience, just scarily relatable, like if someone went into my brain and scooped this right out of there, and then turns out it's about a CERTAIN THING and I think FUCK WHYYYY NOT AGAIN- and then I pretend nothing happened and completely ignore it <3

#this sounds like im actually serious snd upset abt this hjelp- #im not i just think its funny #i hate self diagnosing unless i spent like at least 2 years obsessively researching to be very very sure #so #im juuuuuuust going to ignore this amd hope itll go away :3 #because i do NOT have the energy to research anything rn #and also i cannit handle knowing theres more going on than i previously thought🔥🔥 #murl murmurs

[quaranmine]

Honestly I'd love to know what kind of comments you'd be adding to the fic for your mother. Very curious :0 (also I'm terrible at knowing what information an outsider would and wouldn't have and/or would need)

Sure, I'll add a few. (Redacted since my google account is my full name.) Also remember that y'all also got the benefit of my author's notes, but I'm not giving my mom the AO3 copy because over my dead body does she look at that account. I'm giving her a document copy. So a lot of the comments will likely be details you guys already got in either a post or author's note.

^^^ This one is written specifically because my mom, like me, has been going to Big Bend National Park since she was young. A member of my family has gone there nearly every single year since....1965? lol. So it's a fun tidbit for her to know I was thinking of it while writing this. (There will be a similar note when the Pinnacles trail comes up, because I named Pinnacles after a trail in Big Bend.)

me trying to explain Scar's general dramatic flair (i also have a comment somewhere explaining that Scar is dyslexic and that is why he occasionally mispronounces stuff in the fic, and why he says the scientific documents the rangers let him borrow were difficult to get through)

nicknames

My mother and I are both Gary the cat stans. Trust me she knows Exactly what I am picturing here.

^^ a few other comments on the story, ranging from "background character details" to "research details" to "totally unecessary personal opinions"

it's also fun for little self-aware asides:

She already knows a significant amount of the plot, including the ending, because I talked to her about it. That is also why she gets to read it, because the moment I opened my mouth about writing it I basically had to. I don't always talk about my writing with her but I really wanted to talk about this one. So! By talking about it I just made the decision for myself that I'd allow her to read it. She is....very excited haha. And I am too? I mean I think I am going to send it to her and then just immediately go back to my apartment so I don't have to be in the same house as her while she's reading it LOL. The embarassment of people who know you too closely reading your things etc etc. But I'm very proud of this story and I don't think she realizes how good of a writer I can be. She knows I'm good at it (like, she's read my essays and newspaper stories) but not how I handle fiction.

#quara asks #hc_firewatch_au #i considered making ANOTHER copy for general friends/family/other audience as well #since i know at least one friend asked to read it back in december #i wonder if she still remembers she wanted to read it. i may not remind her LOL #i'm picky about real life people seeing my work. it's so much more intensely personal than showing them my other creative stuff #it's also just a deeply unhinged hobby to write fanfiction in general #i'm not saying that to denigrate fanfiction. yall KNOW i love it deeply. #but you gotta admit there's a level of derangedness to showing Normal People(tm) something like this #hi yes i spent a large portion of my last year writing deeply researched & angsty fiction about minecraft blorbos. here go cry while u read #anyway the reason it'd be a whole new annotated copy and not just the same as my mom's is that i've got a specific relationship with my mom #that will influence how all these annotations are written #we're besties btw. #i'm not even worried about killing her at all on our upcoming 16 day trip together! #i feel like that reads sarcastic it wasnt meant to be

[halfyearsqueen]

one thing about her is she's very petrified of failure

#failing her children #failing her mother #failing her father #failing the people who have spent so long supporting her since she was a fourteen year old child forming her own political faction #failing her kids #of people she loves beginning to believe the vile shit that gets spread about her #like she already feels like she's failed her children because she can't even begin to remedy the scrutiny they're going to face purely by #being hers #much less the bastard allegations #i'm gonna be here after i do some more research