#institute proves

[sweenstar-reblogs]

is anyone else tired

#it’s hard to prove suppression of a language when it’s more like . work n social spaces related like this #but this is shamelessly overt for once #‘it might be offensive !’ to the tar pit with u . #companies/institutions/majority of north Irish ppl stop equating Gaeilge with terrorism challenge (impossible) #i just can’t abide this shit . Gaeilge existed long before the IRA and barely any of its own members speak/spoke it . #it’s more exhausting when ppl do this with any SWANA language btw . utterly exhausting #gaeilge

[apas-95]

like. okay yeah I have my own criticisms of bourgeois academia as an instrument of class rule, but some of this is a bit silly. a lot of people are acting as though academia refers solely to like, literature degrees.

like at a fundamental level, yes, the purpose of a degree is as a barrier to access - but that is not in and of itself always a negative thing! the proletariat also requires the ability to produce, assess, and verify intellectuals. all the 'why the fuck should I care if the student across from me cheated on their tests, never attended class, etc' talk falls apart when the question being answered by their possession of a degree is 'should this person be permitted to design and construct buildings'! fundamentally, yes, someone cheating on their exams devalues a degree, because the confidence in qualification granted by that degree is lessened - not to mention the inherent danger of a fraudulent qualification! (strangely, this argument hasn't been extended to driving license exams yet, though I'm sure the inevitable libertarian convergence isn't far away.)

in all the discussion of burning down the local polytechnical, i have seen vague mention to academia existing as a barrier to access, some scant reference to discrimination against poor and minority students, but zero mention of the actual role of bourgeois academia and the intelligentsia in upholding bourgeois rule! it's all simply coming from the point of view of the restrictiveness being bad because it prevents people from getting high-paying jobs or the like, and the vague notion of elitism. again, with all abolition discourse here, given the lack of any real class analysis, the question is - are we talking solely within the context of capitalism, of existing bourgeois institutions? if so, why? why limit our positions to capitalist realism, to an essentially liberal discourse? if not - then how have we not reconciled the real, practical value of these technologies (mass education, examination, qualification) with their specific characteristics under capitalism?

everything has both positive and negative aspects. bourgeois class rule itself, even, was once a truly progressive thing. we can acknowledge the negative side of bourgeois academia without ignoring its positive side - and still take it on the whole that it, along with all bourgeois institutions, should be torn down and replaced by proletarian ones. that, stripped of their capitalist character, these are useful barriers.

Fundamentally, the point is this: why is our focus on attacking the barriers keeping us from class mobility, from high-paying jobs, themselves; instead of on attacking the existence of the high-paying, middle-class jobs that themselves characterise a fundamentally useful, practical system like examination as an instrument of class rule?

#this is coming from a mentally ill student with good aptitude and passion for my subject but an intense difficulty with examinations #like yes on the one hand the structure of existing academia serves as a means of enforcing class distinction and is inflexible as such. #but also. #i should not be allowed to do work i cant prove im qualified for. no amount of change to the structure of the institution changes that

[spooksier]

one thing i respect about beholding avatars is that when one of their little schemes fail even a little bit they’ll immediately resort to incredible acts of violence 

#text! #tma #we see slaughter avatars kill maybe 2 people that entire podcasts but those absolute losers @ the institute drop BODIES #shoutout elias for bashing an old man's skull in then calling it a ''slight overreaction'' #shoutout gertrude for turning a man into a CANDLE to prove a point #shoutout jon for being alone with Helen for one (1) minute and deciding to eviscerate her ass out of existence

[protagonistkiller]

I love how the difference between Welcome to Night vale and The Magnus Archives is just the difference between how Americans and the British deal with the supernatural.

#prove me wrong #American’s made a radio talk show #and the British ended the world #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus institute #tma s5 #welcome to night vale #wtnv

[frevandrest]

Do you think things would've been different had Louis and Marie Antoinette accepted constitutional monarchy.

Oh, definitely. I am bad at alternate history (which I dislike about myself, because it is super interesting), so I can't guess how, but it would sure be a very different situation if they honestly accepted constitutional monarchy.

There is this misconception of the French revolution as the "mob"/revolutionaries jumping at the first opportunity to crush royals, but in reality, Louis and MA were given so many chances and things dragged for several years until it became clear that they were uninterested at being constitutional monarchs. Then and only then the republic was founded and monarchy abolished. (And all of this before any of them lost their head).

We know is that the people of France - revolutionaries at least - wanted constitutional monarchy more than Louis and MA did. National Constituent Assembly prepared everything for it to be put into place, all while the royal couple pretended they wanted to play along. In the writings and speeches of many prominent revolutionaries, there is a clear will and hope for constitutional monarchy. Only a minority (mostly among Girondins) called for a republic. Still, the project of the constitutional monarchy was well underway and constitution prepared when Louis and MA decided to flee the country.

It became clear in the summer 1791 that Louis never really supported the idea of a constitutional monarchy. And yet, they did not proclaim the republic then and there - Louis got another chance. So things dragged for another whole year, but this is where the idea of a republic was truly born: through Louis' actions and treason.

So given that the king's treason and unwillingness to accept the constitutional monarchy led to the proclamation of the republic (and (in)directly, other things, such as the war with foreign powers and a surge of counter-revolutionary efforts to name a few), I can definitely say that things would've been different if he and MA honestly accepted constitutional monarchy.

#i can't say what else would've happened #what would be the treatment of sans-culottes and their rights #would there be food shortages etc #i can't guess how stable or long lasting this constitutional monarchy would've been #but with the foreign and civil wars and counter-revolutionary efforts avoided there would be more time to figure things out slowly #build institutions and organize things #so even if constitutional monarchy proved unstable the revolutionaries would have more time to organize things #versus what happened - working in the situation of a war and civil war and counter-revolutionary efforts #try building a country from scratch in the middle of a war with half of europe #another thing that is often forgotten when comparing the “good” 1789 and “bad” 1793 #there was no war in 1789 #anonymous #frev #french revolution

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

Rewatching atla and realizing I like Akutagawa so much cause he’s literally Zuko in a different font

#returning to my roots #being a good person but raised in a shit institution and placing your entire self worth on being able to prove something #being unable to move away from that worldview without tremendous efforts and fuckups #god we need to put uncle iroh in bsd #it would fix so much #bsd #bungo stray dogs

[jewishbarbies]

yes, let’s invite the white racist popstar to be part of our secret awards club so she can help us exclude deserving minorities from getting awards!!

#g talks #this makes no sense #she’s not an actress #the only thing she does well with movies #is making songs for them #she’s not an actress and she’s not a director #she’s a musician #WHY tf would they want her other than to say she’s there #like bc of popularity #it’s a disgusting institution that needs burned down #and if she accepts she’s further proving all our point #*our #mine #/mobile #/okay to reblog #anti taylor swift #swifties dni

[dingdawny]

Sunshine Institute story?? ‼️ OH OH I’M EXCITED-

Built so much for this silly story and in the end it's an oc x canon 🫶 cowardly old bald man filled with regret and a longing for something more, doomed by the narrative and forced to conform to the will of a god who is no longer himself... meets a tired soul who has spent his whole life in the shadow of those above him, sent below the bedrock, submitting to the will of the universe with no real idea of what he had just done... only to once again be placed second in the ranking, an even darker shadow cast over him.

It's ok tho they're just silly billies !!

#I'll introduce Vice soon I think. He's very silly I think you'd like him #basically Vice is the Warden's erm.. Vice Warden.. bc of a big dramatic crying session from the Warden after Romeo tried to replace him #he made Vice second in command instead bc he didn't want to deal with his whining #also bc the institute was falling apart at this point and Romeo didn't want to deal with it #but he knew he could drop the workload on the Warden and Vice without argument #plus Romeo likes to prove himself right #so if Vice could handle things better in five minutes than the Warden could in fifteen years #he'd feel that rush of power again #there is a LOT more to it than that #like derealisation. the Warden losing his eye. there's a genuinely important game of chess in the void. it's a crazy intro #and like Vice's bacstory in general deals with Ellegaard and I have a whole thing built with the warden and carmine OUGH there is a lot #but the main story generally follows the Warden and Vice falling for each other and understanding each other's struggles :] #the power imbalance quickly fades as the warden starts realising that woah.. this guy respects me beyond me just telling him what to do... #wahhh I don't want to give away all of it #but I got like. a big oxblood story in there too. he has a big storyline with Vice. #OUGH I'm TERRIBLE at explaining but I PROMISEEEE IT'S SO MUCH COOLER THAN I EXPLAINED #very silly but also genuinely tragic story #romeo just didn't predict the old man yaoi when he appointed Vice

[compacflt]

have you ever considered writing more about icemav's respective childhoods? i'm always thinking about val kilmer saying in his memoir and documentary that he had obsessive dreams about ice's father who made him feel he had to prove himself as The Absolute Ideal Man and that the interactions he dreamt about between ice and his dad surely "imbued ice with greater fury" and his obsession with perfection made him arrogant.

yeah i go into ice’s childhood a little in my slider one shot since they’re right out of high school when they meet. But val and I took it in two completely different directions. Val’s ice has daddy issues and a poor relationship with his father (extrapolating from excerpt above); my ice has lack-of-daddy-issues and NO relationship with his father. No dad = no man to model himself on = overcompensating. When I said, in mavericks POV (debriefing), that ice “clearly doesn’t know how to talk to other men,” I meant that with my whole chest.

i appreciate Val’s insight, and I’m not sure when his memoir was published, but i think TG86 Ice is complicated DEEPLY by his plot-necessary accession to COMPACFLT in TGM22. At least for me, his end rank of O-10 casts him in a totally different light. It implies that what he wants is not necessarily to be “The Ideal Man,” he wants to be The Ideal OFFICER. And there’s a lot of data to back up that claim in Top Gun 86, too: he’s so gentle with Maverick, even when he’s trying to intimidate him (take the intonation of “I heard that about you. You like to work alone,” for example—is that how you’d say that if you were trying to piss someone off?); and there’s also the fact that two of the five times Ice talks directly to Maverick are explicitly about his safety practices and how they affect the safety of the TEAM (“Who was covering Cougar while you were showboating with this MiG?” / “I don’t like you because you’re dangerous.”). I said in a post last week that I don’t think Ice is a team player—but a good OFFICER doesn’t have to be a team player to make sure that the rules are followed and everyone stays safe. I think if Ice were trying to be The Ideal Man, he’d look a lot more like super-cool bad-ass rule-breaker MAVERICK (the buff daredevil male protagonist of a pro-military propaganda movie), who is canonically overcompensating for HIS relationship with his father/his incredibly unhealthy toxic masculinity.

So, yeah. that’s just how i see it. Again, idk when Val’s memoir was published—the writers of TG and TGM treat Ice as a character very differently, and both characterizations necessarily reflect on the other. I did not get the sense that TGM Ice was “imbued with fury,” for instance. So I think Ice trying to be/feeling pressured to be the best OFFICER makes more sense in light of TGM than Ice trying to be/feeling pressured to be the best MAN.

I feel very shrug about mav’s childhood. Kinda seems like he got over that in TG86. He got to save his team the way his dad did, AND lived to tell the tale. Yay. His development’s pretty much done for the franchise.

#idk you will have to read what i think when i post slider & would love to hear what u think #i also related ice to Cold War politics and gave him something more to prove #there’s a reason the TG screenwriters in the mid-80s gave him (semi-antagonist) a Russian name #anyway those are my thoughts #top gun #top gun maverick #icemav #tom iceman kazansky #in an institution like the navy the Ideal Man and the Ideal Officer are similar #because the military values perceived strength etc #but the Ideal Man and the Ideal Officer are still not the same. #im ‘death of the author’-ing val. sorry brother but i only have what you gave me onscreen to analyze #authorial intent except none of what you said was actually in the screenplay #I can & will argue the last sentence of this post if anyone wants to #edts notes

[ivory--raven]

Ed wedding topper?? Ed wedding topper in a dress?? Was not ready for this

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd edward teach #ofmd blackbeard #wedding topper #WEDDING #ed in a dress #ed be like #stede getting married? #again? #Who to? susan? #Is she giving him money or something #bet it's stedes wedding #does he marry ed or do they not need the institution of marriage to prove their lovr #ofmd teaser #october 5 #October #WE HAVE A DATE EVERYONE #our good shadows #ed would be so pretty though #ed is everyone's angsty post breakup valentine's day mood

[takiki16]

Watching Miami sans Messi and Alba playing the other bottom half eastern teams struggling for a playoff spot is like watching two blindfolded fencers dueling with pool noodles. Stoppable force meets moveable object every gotdam week.

#IS MLS TRYING TO PROVE A POINT?! WE GET IT. THEY CANT DO IT WITHOUT MESSI #HEAL HIM AND PUT HIM BACK IN. and institute international break in the meantime!!! #football #inter Miami

[beeapocalypse]

head in my hands dedicating far too much thought to this anatomy class student turned archival assistant idea. her names amelia novák (jan novák from the statement. amelia was the most popular name for baby girls in london 2014) and her little fear farm on the side as she tries to stay on her best behavior inside the institute to spy on them for as long as possible is shuffling thru a myriad of different identities and going out to the same circuit of clubs at night to freak out the ppl who come to recognize Bits of each identity intermixing with all the others

#might shuffle around the timeline a bit bc while doctor elliott makes his statement in 2015 i quite like the idea that she was hired on-- #--way early into jons time as the archivist as a way for him to try to prove his own competency to himself lol #tim runs into her one night while she coincidentally looks rhe most like she does while at the institute and it is a-- #--real awkward time trying to explain why shes using a completely different name lol #its a bit loose but i like HER being the subject of observation for her connection to the eye. a perversion of vision that blends it w thw-- #--stranger u know

[springcatalyst]

they should invent an applying for jobs/schools/internships that doesnt feel like such pretentious posturing

#let me in because im xyz minority. let me in because ever since i was a little girl I've dreamed of working for abc institution #let me in because i think the work you specifically do is the most important thing in the world #let me in because im giving your boots a biiiiiiig smooch #i hate it. just like. look at what i have done and am capable of doing and you need workers/students/etc #let me in because i want to do the work and because you need the work done. let me in without me having to sleeze my way onto your arm #it feels SO postury. i HATE posturing. i can do it just let me prove it dude #i fucking hate it here #i dont WANT to write a personal statement. none of your BUSINESS. let me in without requiring me to spill my life story #or more accurately because fuck that. without making me make up some intricate lie that sounds good #come ON dude

[like-butterflies-and-glitter]

class 11 cbse english excerpt from a biography of einstein had such an effect on me i still talk about it so much. this happened in 2019 for me i think

#vidhik.txt #if you know it #when the doctor says you wouldn't be asking me for this certificate if you weren't close to a nervous breakdown #like yes please you shouldn't have to do a song and dance and prove your distress to academic institutions and workplaces #in order to get the help and grace you need

[glittertimes]

I turned 24 yesterday and I think this is the first time I’ve been excited to be older rather than terrified of it

#coming home and taking my time in grad school without pressuring myself to finish as soon as possible #has been so healing! I didn’t realize how much pressure I felt to succeed in undergrad / community college #and right now it feels like I’m where I’m supposed to be #I have a paid internship lined up for the summer and I really like working on the youth rights blog #it feels like I’m accomplishing a lot of what I wanted as a kid and it’s really rewarding #but I’m also not pressuring myself or defining myself by those accomplishments #I feel like not going to school in person also takes the away the pressure to fit in to academia #or to overwork myself trying to prove myself bc I don’t feel like I belong in academic institutions #personal

[adanseydivorce]

The detail of Tessa really wanting to be accepted by shadowhunters as co head of institute and being so excited/intent to make a good impression with the few visitors they do get :(.

#I wish we got to actually see Tessa struggle with this in tlh instead of just little bits about it from James… also wish we’d gone more into #it in modern timeline. the scene in qoaad where she speaks at the Clave meeting about once being one of them and her treatment is the most #we really get that’s what I want but I want more #at first I was like ‘would Tessa really be so intent to please shadowhunters’ but then I really thought about it and #it does line up with her Victorian woman socialization combined with her role model who shows her some different ideas about womanhood bein #Charlotte she’d also want to live up to her even if Will is technically the head of institute #and Charlotte bore certain indignation’s before finally being respected* so Tessa being determined to eventually prove herself to them #makes sense. #anyway. #s speaks #s rereads gotsm #prev.gothictessa #tessa gray #tsc #tid #gotsm