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b1tstar · 1 month

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IM GONNA SHIT WHAAAATTT

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caimitos · 15 days

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saw a post about projecting your ethnicity onto a character and started missing vespa ilkay. so so bad

#pov u grow up in a 3rd world country(/planet) where healthcare workers are exported by the thousands like cheap produce to richer countries #it's your ticket out of poverty as long as you can deal with the loneliness the separation from everyone you know the discrimination etc #ive never talked about my hc that vespas mother was one of them sending money every month visiting every couple of years until it just stop #like why return to the swamps when youre doing fine working on a richer planet w much better living conditions #cost of living rises every year. sending home a % of your salary used to be enough to support your husband and daughter and then it isnt #you know how it goes #vespa is also dead set on this path until ranga realizes that hemorrhaging healthcare workers leaves them with little to none of their own #students on scholarships or in community/state universities are bound by return service agreements and are forbidden to leave the country #until theyve rendered a few years of work on ranga to pay back their tuition + as a really shitty solution to the brain drain problem #this is real in my country btw but my professors say a lot of ppl do break their rsa's and fucked off to work in other countries LOL #our state unis can barely afford decent facilities they do nottt have the budget to chase down their own alumni in other countries!#but the mental image is a bit funny #vespa ilkays first crime: tinakasan ang rsa #i do also think it lines up with her having a network of med friends everywhere in the galaxy (heart of it all) you kind of go into pre/med #expecting most of your classmates to leave to work in other countries eventually. mine are aiming for the usa / uae / europe / japan etc #anyway whether vespa breaks her rsa or not she leaves ranga asap decides to switch careers and the rest is history #i also deeply love the fact that she's superstitious i'm very sad it wasn't highlighted more (i've only heard s1-3)#as someone who did grow up in a rural area and went to more albularyos/folk healers than doctors in my childhood. (they never failed me)#lots of folk illnesses (ex. balis; pasma) local medical superstitions (dont eat noodles in hospital; youll have a really toxic shift) etcc #theres also a lot of potential in tying her past as a rangian + med student + assassin to me idk how to word this properly #being raised on cautionary tales of not to touch/disturb anything in the swamps then being given free reign to poke & prod at things in her #lab classes (now with the proper ppe)....she was having so much fun with the curemother prime too lmao #years of walking hanging bridges docks boathouses in ranga etc gave her great balance & stealth #cracking open alien shellfish in the swamps to cutting open bodies for studying then for assassination....#I MISS HER SO MUCH BALIK KN SAKEN 😭😭😭😭😭😭#i get why most people + the canon focuses on her being an assassin bc people find that cooler i guess #but vespa being a swamp girl > 3rd world med student > assassin is so personal To Me. the whole pipeline. eugh.#skl.txt

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bmpmp3 · 3 months

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when people complain about getting like, a 98% grade on something because it was "so close to perfect" its like. i understand what you're saying on a technical level. but that is a line of thought so far away from my experiences and ways of thinking that i do feel like im from another planet. 100% isnt even a real number to me

#i kinda understand when its something like a multiple choice test or something where there is an objective answer #it might feel like u got so close but just missed one #again still a bit alien to me because my scholarly performance is mysterious and anything over 70 is great to me #but i mean ive had a 98 before once in a math test. i did get exactly 1 bit of 1 question wrong #but i didnt really care that it was one off from perfect i was too busy being happy because that was the highest mark id ever received #and the previous math test i had taken got a 53% . grade 11 was a wild time for me in math class GHJKSHFKds #anyway i kinda see where ur coming from with stuff with right or wrong answers like that #but i sometimes get friends in class complain that they got a 95 or something on an art assignment #because they think they got docked 5 points for one or two little things #but i dunno. thats not really how fine arts departments in university tend to grade things #you dont start at 100 and get docked marks for things you got wrong. i dont think ive ever seen a 100% on something like that #tbh the numbers are a little arbitrary i find. i do prefer to try to get em higher because that helps with grants and stuff #but the numbers dont mean all that much in fine arts or in art history (my two majors) a 75 and a 95 can function the same depending on lik #weighting and context and feedback and whatever. i dunno its a wild world out there #it might just be the perspective of someone who did really goodbad in school. (GoodBad (tm) its when ur good but also kinda bad at school!)#compared to someone who got a lot of perfects in mandatory schooling. i sympathise i really do that kind of pressure sounds insane #but while i sympathize i cant really empathize as much unfortunately with this specifically orz its a world very far outside my purview!#100%s arent real to me so they never cross my mind to be worried about LOL

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giantkillerjack · 1 year

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People are so shocked that Black folks existed in ancient Rome like my dudes Italy is like 10 feet away from Africa some of it was literally part of the Roman empire don't make me google maps this for you

#they also didn't have the same kind of racism we have in america despite also relying heavily on slave labor #so people of color could be in high social classes and political positions #original #rome sucked but it did have diversity #roman history #ancient rome #the fact that tv and film represent history as monochromatic is because racism.#poc weren't like. invented in the 1980s and neither were lgbt people. time is not a linear progression towards a better world.#hollywood has always been racist and american racism is way worse than the racism of the romans tbh #pretending we are de facto less prejudiced than our ancestors is a mistake.#our society is in many ways less progressive than a lot of ancient cultures #also persian and middle eastern people would have been part of the roman empire at points #most roman slaves were from modern day spain and france if I'm not mistaken #again it was a shitty society that relied on imperialism and slavery #but complaints about 'forced diversity' in historical drama are just modern racism #Carthage #ancient Egypt #edit: that said if someone were to tell me that colorism WAS rampant all throughout the history of ancient rome i would be ZERO % shocked #get FUCKED ancient roman culture!#yeah i said it. what are they gonna do? delenda me? YOOOOOOOO #ancient rome was PROBLEMATIC #HOT TAKES FROM JACK ALERT

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mariemariemaria · 4 months

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The new channel 4 documentary on the miners strike is fantastic. It covers different points of view, from the striking miners, to working miners, to the women in striking communities, to the police. It also shows how the Battle of Orgreave on 18th June 1984 was planned and initiated by the police, and how the media (BBC and ITV) covered this up and showed only the police's side, while positioning them as being the victims of miners' violence (which was very minimal to non existent in reality), who simply retaliated because the "restrained...traditional British policing way" (I have to laugh) didn't work.

I also didn't know until watching this that Gareth Peirce, who represented the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six, also defended mineworkers who were victims of police brutality at Orgreave. What a woman!

#british history #working class history #miners strike #acab #im so interested in this period of history + chose this topic specifically as part of a british history module last year #so im really glad that this docuseries was made for the 40th anniversary and i hope it is never forgotten #and i often think about how miscarriages of justice against working class british people are exactly the same as #british miscarriages of justice against irish people. i was thinking this when watching #at one point an interviewee even says something like 'obviously i'd seen this happen in northern ireland but i never expected it to #happen in england!' and the way the police acted obviously made me think of what they did in the north of ireland #and the gareth peirce connection just confirmed it. but how many people saw those connections?#how many of the miners who were beaten by police saw the same things happen to irish people but didnt care? or thought they deserved it?#this isnt to blame them..they were fed lies that the irish were terrorists...but it suggests to me that this oppression is connected #also similar is how RE the post office scandal a lot of people were shocked that british justice had failed #a man in the drama even said that it was britain and he was british and that british justice wouldnt let them down #and you just think like...do you not know what british 'justice' did to innocent irish people? do you think they deserved it?#did you think you were immune because you were british? in ireland we know there is no such thing as british justice.#but british people never seem to learn this history lesson #what a better world it would be if working class british (and irish) people could recognise our similarities and joint sufferings as a #result of the british state. its quite frustrating to watch british people constantly put faith in their gov/justice system #learn from your own history!! they dont care about you!!

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eldritchqueerture · 7 months

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the whole article is interesting and worth reading, so go do that, but i think this part really answers very well the argument between "palestine is good and israel is bad", "israel is good and palestine is bad" and "they both did bad things so they're both equally bad"

#this is the only post about this that'll appear on this blog #because to me tumblr is an escape from reality and i intend to keep it that way #but. i did want to share this #i know its not really my place to say this probably #but you guys ever sat in history class and wondered how in all hells could the world allow the holocaust to happen?#this is how. this is exactly how #palestine

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zouisalmightie · 3 months

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#im going to use these tags as a way to beat my soul about my job so if you come at me you’re a bitch and i hope you stub each individual to #i finally realized why im unhappy being a teacher and it’s because i don’t care about the future of these kids more than the cursory #‘I hope theyre ok’ you would feel for any stranger in the world #like i want to harm to come to them but i truly don’t care about them #like the kid that sleeps in class ? my thought is finally he’s fucking quiet the kid that’s got a 2% and doesn’t pay attention im like #whatever like im not motivated to get them motivated and if I wasn’t the kind of person that cared about her work id give them worksheets #for the rest of the year making them silently work while I r ead books all day #like I feel like at the beginning I did the calling home and the tutoring and the flipping over backwards to get as many of the kids to #their reading level and ensure they’re getting a great history lesson that’s going to reach every student and now im like #this is the lesson and if you like it great if you don’t idc you can pay attention or fail it’s on you #and part of me feels bad like I should want to dress up like x figure and get them engaged by doing xyz and like I just don’t want to #it’s like what’s the point im going to engage the same 9 kids in each class while the other 21 pretend to #pay attention while they’re texting under their desk and then they’re going to try to google or use ai the answers #and im like…. whatever i dont care turn it in don’t turn it in whatever #ik too young to feel this apathetic about teaching and it suck but also oof I don’t care #I want to quit at the end of the year before my apathy turns into hatred I’ve seen teachers that hate hate the kids and that can’t be me #like even if I stayed for 30 years it wouldn’t be me but the idea of it scares me #I don’t want this job to change who I am as a person but it’s taking away my care for the younger generation #I don’t hate them or wish them ill but I just genuinely don’t care about them or their progress or anything #it’s scary #anyways im rambling idk im just having a bad day ill see this tomorrow and be like wow girl get a snickers cuz this isn’t you #but rn that’s how im feeling

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polaraffect · 8 months

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planning classes has me going "hehehe *kicking my feet*" but i know as soon as i actually have to attend those classes my brain is going to be like "😐😐😐"

#damien.txt #having a revival of a very specific academic fascination bc my brain decided that rereading if we were villains is a good idea #which is like. one of the main driving forces behind my interest in history & english #and now im like................. hehe shakespeare #to be fair. the plan was always to take shakespeare next semester. the plan has been to take the shakespeare class since i started undergra #because quite literally i have been interested in shakespeare since i was 11 so. this is a long term interest #but now my brain is like hehe...... what if....... shakespeare ma #BITCH. where did this come from. hello????#first of all. do you know how many shakespeare ma programs exist in the world? like 4.#second. brain what. where is this coming from #and now it's trying to convince me of stupid things like 'you should try and learn latin again'#in what WORLD have i ever enjoyed learning latin (<- i have literally studied latin 3 seperate times in my life)#the answer is never. i have never enjoyed it. and i have hardly retained any of it #but ohhhhh boy the urge.... The Urges....#this specific mood always comes up whenever i get back into dark academia stuff again bc i am predictable and not unique #and i always get back into dark academia when it starts to get cold outside bc it's like something awakens within me #that goes 'oh right. we like academia. also the aesthetic hits' and i go FUCK. YOU'RE RIGHT.#but also here i am. writing this tumblr text post instead of doing my actual academics. so. it's all fake anyways #oh! but im very hype abt this shakespeare class actually #bc i think we might have a performance project.... which probably im going to dread when i actually have to do it #but <3<3<3<3<3 i love performing shakespeare so much. it's so much fun to me.#said like a true theater kid fr but. truly and honestly i miss doing that the most from theatre. and i didn't even really get to do it much #mostly just when i got to pick monologues out to do in class in between performances and stuff like that #so. i am a little bit hype. to do that. hopefully it is actually fun and not a complete drag #okay okay im done ranting

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snek-snacc · 10 months

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College professors are so much fun. You ask them for a book recommendation on the topic they teach and get so excited. It's like asking your friends to talk to you about their hyperfixation or special interest

#this is specifically about my world cinema professor who took 2 weeks to answer my email asking for books on chinese cinema #because he had so many he wanted to share with me he needed time to write them all down and hunt for the links for me to find them online #i also asked him if i could borrow a book about the film jeanne dielman #and now he just sends me book recs whenever he gets done reading something he thinks id like #my world history professor did the same thing #he was so happy everytime i stayed after class to write down the titles of the books he used as references for his lectures #if all goes well i might have them both again this semester 🤞

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firefly-sky · 8 months

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i love how i’m barely a month and a half into school and i’m already burnt out

(self harm tw in the tags)

#seriously i have so much shit going on #i have an essay and a debate coming up about opposing view points #i have to finish a geometry test that i know i did bad on because i’m shit at math #i have to prepare for a deal of biliteracy test and i have a state checkpoint exam coming up for spanish #ap world history is absolute dog water #the only thing in history i was good at was belief systems and religions #i have a test in this class tomorrow too #and i already have a bad grade by my standards in that class #and i know im falling behind but i just can’t seem to catch back up #and chemistry this year is so visually taxing that i literally feel sick whenever im in that class #and i know my parents are gonna kill me if i get bad grades because i ‘don’t study enough’#and the thought of being yelled at again over grades makes me literally feel like im gonna have a panic attack like #this happens every year. i fumble and then i get in trouble because apparently i didn’t study enough #and i hate school because i always end up relapsing like once a month #and im currently 3 or 4 months clean and im nervous it’s gonna happen again because i don’t know how to handle stress #tw self harm #and then there’s my brother who’s in the top five of his class and i can barely scrape by in geometry because i’m a fucking moron #and i literally can’t live up to his level #it’s been like this forever though #i legitimately feel sick #i could hardly get out of bed this morning #and if i don’t get into national honors society my parents are never going to let me live it down #school literally makes me miserable #the only thing i look forward to is art class and even that is losing my interest #im not good enough #im never going to be good enough for anyone #skipper speaks #vent #not south park

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muirneach · 2 years

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oh my god i just got my timetable for the year i’m about to murder someone i was put into the fucking art class. if you weren’t here circa last semester the thing about me is i hate that art teacher with my entire being. good god. also inexplicably put into marketing for semester two which was not even remotely what i signed up for. oh my guidance counsellor is gonna be hearing from me for sure

#i signed up for law philosophy history english workplace math and environmental science #i got. law philosophy english workplace math. thats it #half of me is like well maybe stay in art but like. no matter how much i enjoy art i still despise that teacher #and she made me SO miserable last year i hated school so much because of her #<- well other reasons too. last year was a really bad year overall tbh #it sucks tho cause art is the VERY FIRST class of the day so i have to go there before i can get to guidance #unless i get to school really early but i dont want to overwork our poor guidance counsellors they are absolutely flooded in the first day #last year when the fucked up my schedule (was put in gym 😒) they let me tale world religion instead #and i had a blast. so hopefully there’s something good like that #and marketing… not SO awful but like. not ideal #god my school sucks so bad theyll be like ‘yeah we offer these courses’ and then. they dont #i have more specific criticisms but theyre very unique to my school and im not about to doxx myself #wagh!!#oh but i do have to hound the art teacher so i can get my fucking work back because she refused to return any work last year #which was so fucked up #and also um. i did accidentally leave one of my paycheques in my sketchbook 😭😭#i hope to god she still has the sketchbooks good grief #that incident i take full blame for but nonetheless i will be fighting to get my work back for multiple reasons

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song-tam · 2 years

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i have. so much history hw to do. hnngh

#don’t get me wrong i LOVE history but. this ap world summer assignment is kicking my ass #and. i did not do it over the summer like i was supposed to. instead i am scrambling to finish before class tomorrow. pray for me #roshan shut up already

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exoexid · 5 months

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i won't let anyone tell me ever again that my history degree is useless. i won't allow anyone to say that humanistic and social sciences don't count under capitalism, and aren't able to help us all """progress""", or bring significant changes to our reality. we are seeing the roots of the "no one of us can be free until everybody is free" quote (thank you maya angelou!!), and how it all comes down to learning and studying and listening to our past and the people all around the world affected by a (western established) multifaceted system that is failing now more than ever because thanks to social media and the global connection it's giving to all of us it cannot look away anymore. a system (and its enablers) that slowly but surely are being exposed and forced to take responsibility in such a impactful and inescapable domino effect.

you start by reading about i/p and then you find yourself reading and informing yourself about yemen. about the ethnocide of the uyghurs. about armenia. about sudan and tigray and the congo. about why namibia is responding to germany. about south africa, and about the numerous human rights violations north american first nations have been suffering for centuries (about the residential schools, about how many reserves don't have clean drinking water...). about thousands of refugee camps and dangerous migrations and why people risk their lives to cross the mediterranean.

it all comes down to caring, even if just a little bit, about things that happened not too long ago actually. in history terms some of them practically happened yesterday. it's beautiful to see so many people fighting for justice and for a better future, but that can only be achieved if we know our past. one of our uni professors used to tell us that we don't study history because of that saying about how a society that doesn't know its past is condemned to repeat it, but because the day might come in which someone might try to deny a fact or event that definitely happened and definitely affected some group of people, and we have to be able to identify it and correct it. we have to be able to identify if oppressive tactics of any kind are being established and pushed again, even if they aren't exactly as they used to be (because they never are) to stop them. we are here thanks to our ancestors, and we owe it to them. we cannot, we mustn't forget.

#idk i think humanity is worth it despite despite despite!!!!!!#nuance is the most important aspect when it comes to studying history i'm aware #but i honestly believe it's essential to listen to different (historian) experts. history is everywhere (for better or for worse lmao)#& it's so encouraging to see how many often overlooked poc voices are being centered in these conversations bc of all the raising awareness #and it makes me emotional seeing so many people trying to educate themselves and trying to integrate said nuance into their perspectives #writing this bc as a graduated history student i do feel like i have some sort of responsibility ¿? to listen to everyone to compare #to analyze to divulge and to amplify these voices. now more than ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's truly important #we all make mistakes and u can't be informed about everything that's why it's vital to listen and learn from those who know more than u :)#and it pains me to say it but. thank you twitter 🚬 or well. thank you to the fact that everyone is on twitter AKJSDHA #on the one hand it's cool that we can all see what's happening in the world and politicians can't get away with everything but also.#it's insane how international relations can be shaped because of some tweet in an instant like.... just thinking abt it is too much omg #but AAAA what i'm trying to say is that we cannot lose hope. things are changing!!!!!!! the more you know the more you act!!!!#(we need to bring back the working class collective consciousness from the early XXth century fr)#insert ursula k le guin saying that even tho the power of capitalism inescapable so did the divine right of kings!!!!#the world is in shambles but the world IS also ours!!#dara.t

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navysealt4t · 6 months

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imo a teacher should almost always be on the students side. trying to help them as much as they can

#shout out to my ap human geo teacher #i hated his class most of the time #but he tried to help me so much #and i did learn a lot from that class #also fuck my world history teacher #fuck teachers who dont let u turn in late assignments in general #also shout out to my chem and ap sem teacher #bc theyve been helping me out actually #my sem teacher was like 'basically all you have to do is this assignement and youll be good'#have i done it? no but i rlly appreciate him just. offering that help yknow #same with my chem teacher but i rlly dont like how she teaches so .#also shout out to the app i use to check my grades bc it lets you know how ur possible grade on an assignment could change ur current grade #is rlly helpful in figuring out what assignments i need to do

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marmett · 7 months

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i rlly like my new job, my coworkers are great and i get to be openly nonbinary and use my preferred name (rook). but also, there is a lot of time where i dont have anything to do, so ive been working through my nonfiction reading list, ive only finished two books so far, but i already feel so enriched and enlightened.

#rn im focusing on my world history reading list... but i will start on my political theory reading list soon sweats #its not like im starting from square one on political theory #bc i did have to take some classes in college that had some political theory readings in them #and ive read some on my own #but ik its tougher for me to parse than history stuff

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marchlione · 8 months

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#one of the things that haunts me is back in hs #in a joint history geography class #we did this grade wide project where the everyone would take the positions of each major country #and the goal was to take over the world #idk what the point of this was maybe some bizarre sinulation of geopolitics?#but in any case i was given russia #and the current russian invasion of ukraine was almost exactly the way i played the simulation #though i did end up annexing belarus and basically reforming the soviet union by the end #i found the final report i did #that shit was fucked up #and i feel guilty af

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