#or like. college newspapers???

[clueless1995]

american colleges are so scary to me. you guys have to share rooms??? on campus??? absolutely not i would’ve started killing too

#i don’t think i’ve been to a single uni party and i’m on my like. 7th year here #and the whole parents getting emotional sending their kids off to college is so wild i lived at home the first couple of years #my mum drove me to uni twice a week while i was living at home (VERY SWEET OF HER it was like 45 min each way and my classes were like three #hours long but i didn’t drive and the public transport system here sucks unless you live fairly central) #and now i Do live somewhere i can easily bus to campus i barely go to class skdhsjd #but yeah all of those scenes of college kids hanging out on the quad and going to mixers or whatever are so foreign to me #do not get me started of fraternities and sororities. the closest we have is like. the law society #or like. college newspapers??? #i AM jealous of college radio stations though i think i would be an iconic college radio host/dj

[night-skies-quiet-cries]

Kinda sad to learn that there aren't really any 'Popular Science' news sources that has actual scientists writing the article--more specifically scientists writing popular science articles about their paper.

#This is according to my professor at least #Realistically I could start something like this #It might be something I look into doing after college #and yeah there are blogs but those don't have as a wide a reach as a magazine or newspaper #if we want the public to understand science we gotta know how to explain it to them #science #journalism #onion rambles #scientific journalism

[sickly-victorian-boy]

Now that TMA is trending and we’re all collectively talking about archives again, I feel like it’s a good time to mention that the last time I went in for an interview to work as an assistant archivist, I tripped on my own shoelace midway through the workplace tour and nearly spilled a box full of literal human bones.

I still somehow got the job.

I don’t quite know what my point is here. Follow your dreams, I suppose? Archives are genuinely just Like That, although maybe mine is just weird? Either way, if I can manage to fuck things up almost irreparably during a first impression and still come out of it relatively unscathed, you can DEFINITELY do whatever you put your mind to. Just try not to spill too many sharpie-labeled boxes of human remains on the way there.

#the bones were supposedly relics but literally all of us knew that was a load of horseshit and they were just unknown bones #that’s far from the only interesting thing there though #reading through newspaper headlines is always a highlight #’[college] takes on fears of anthrax’ and ‘blaster worm virus attacks’ are particularly memorable #as was ‘drugs lies and large sums of money’ #not to mention the horribly titled books like ‘Warping and Slashing’ which I think is about weaving? #either way archives are interesting places #tma #the magnus archives

[caroldantops]

(sfw concept but my blog is 18+ so minors dni)

nancy loves dressing u up like her pretty little doll!! every morning she takes the time to lay out an outfit for you, it's gotta b at least a little coordinated with her own, and she always goes through like a million options and u just sit patiently while she holds up like every shirt u own and is like "hmm, maybe this one today baby? with the cardigan? don't want my baby getting cold."

after she's picked out your outfit, she starts taking care of her own little routine (and by little I mean she takes like, an hour to get ready) and you sit n watch her n kick ur feet and twirl ur hair as u watch her do her own hair and then finally nancy makes u sit in front of her so she can do your hair

and the whole time she's telling you about what you're going to do today and telling you how pretty you are and and and

"you look so cute in that new shirt i got you, sweet girl."

"you gotta sit still for me a little longer, i'm almost done."

"aw did I pull your hair too hard? mhmm, then whyd you moan?"

"i said sit. still."

#c: nancy wheeler #thirst tag #uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah #i want 2 be her little doll <3 #(also just for ref i always age nance up to college age just for more comfort for me <3) #(i hc she works at a local newspaper again but like a better one in the city) #thats all not rlly relevant here its just so u get my vibes

[kupahdraws]

Chat my art may be in a newspaper

#NOTHING INSANELY BIG its a canada college newspaper but hooooly shit. i like pooped my pants getting that email

[paradox-n-bedrock]

Hey! I saw throughout some of your tags that you got to see both Macbeth and The Enfield Haunting! (to which I'm insanely jealous, please hand over your memories to me at your earliest convenience!) What did you think of them??

Oh hi!!

The Enfield Haunting was enjoyable. Reviews for it have been overly harsh, for the most part, and I think part of that might be the genre bias horror often faces. The dialogue is clunky, particularly in the beginning, but I can say it's a fun show if you're a Conjuring, Enfield Poltergeist, or general haunted history fan. It presents the supernatural influence vs troubled children aspect in a balanced way, as is necessary for this plot. It also builds tension rather effectively once it gets going, while letting Catherine punctuate it with moments of lightness and her usual impeccable timing. There are some really good parts where a theme seemed to come together of this overwhelmed woman dealing with a rotating cycle of overbearing men (invasive investigators, infatuated neighbor, disrespectful ex-husband, and the poltergeist, of course) making nuisances of themselves in her home while she's just trying to push through each day without losing herself or her children to their collective unhappiness. If the theme had carried through more cohesively, it would have been a strong play. Unfortunately, I was left yearning for a bit more of that story, as it gets messy and lost maybe two thirds of the way though when the focus shifts to the investigator. But mainly, Catherine is so, so talented. She carries the whole thing on her back, with some help from the young actress who plays a very creepy Janet. It's hard to take your eyes off of her as Peggy, even when she's harried and anxious or reacting in furious silence to the action happening on the other side of the stage. She just... draws your gaze. And when she steels her spine to stand up for her family and her space, she's positively luminous. Plus there's an unexpected delight in a couple of scenes where Catherine sings Only Wanna Be With You--very sweetly, just a bar or two--and my heart felt like it was going to fucking burst. Hello, her voice... I need her to do another musical, preferably one we get a soundtrack to.

And she's so kind at the stage door. It was a two show day and she had a con the next morning but she still took the time to speak to every single person that was waiting there.

__

Macbeth, I wasn't carrying even the slightest hope of seeing but then I was able to get a standing ticket in my cart while on the flight there (though I had to let it go) and realized my years of stalking concert presales were about to come in handy. Ironically, my partner was the one who did snag the tickets two days later. I... actually ended up with a first row seat, though she was in the standing section. But that's just me rambling about the process because I still can't believe it worked out the way it did.

I'm not even sure what to say about the show itself. The whole cast is phenomenal. The production is conceptually very cool. The audio tricks they play with the witches--via a headset for each audience member and the eerie sense of movement and foreboding conveyed by bilateral audio--plus the starkness of the empty white stage and simple dark costuming just work. The contrast of the blood when David is centerstage, distressed and panting as he washes it away, feels poignant rather than pretentious. He's captivating the whole way through, but especially then, when he temporarily strips away the ambition along with his stained clothes to reveal the broken and guilty thing underneath. There's nothing like how DT delivers Shakespeare--the meaning flows out of him as naturally as the words themselves and it's incredibly approachable without losing any of its gravitas. The dynamic between the leads is atypical in a really lovely way. David's Macbeth and Cush's Lady Macbeth come across more like codependent partners and ruthless accomplices than a greedy but hesitant royal and his calculating wife egging him on. He looks to her for support rather than a push to kill Duncan, and the adoration between them is palpable, even as they each deteriorate in their own ways. I walked out of this show feeling so deeply affected, it was like a religious experience.

(Macbeth also feels very gender, which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's a fan of DT's Benedict, though this is obviously in a very different way. As does Malcolm, played by Ros Watt--who's non-binary--and Ross, played by Moyo Akandé. I adore the whole cast, honestly.)

#the enfield haunting #catherine tate #macbeth #david tennant #david tennant macbeth #oh my gosh thank you for asking #i never would have wrote this up without the incentive #hopefully it's not too obnoxious #i felt like i started to channel my college newspaper art review days #as short lived as they were #asks #shakespeare #theatre

[ectonurites]

omg good luck for your interview

awh hehe thank you... its just a lil phone thing talking about the place i work but i hope it goes well <3

#its funny tho bc the area im working in rn is like 15 minutes away from my college #so this is the same newspaper i've been interviewed for for like college theatre reasons as well sdfhgfg

[suncaptor]

Making me waive my rights to class action lawsuit before doing repeated things to deny my renter's rights.... I feel like something HAS to be done about this. Like they can't keep get away with this forever.

#like they get away with it because the lease is super stringent and insane and all their tenants are young college students #who have like only lived with their parents and dorms basically #like. I've lived many other places and I actually DO read the insane legalities in the lease. and guess what. this is fucking predatory #and insane #someone should put this in local newspapers or something #sorry i sound insane ♥️♥️ #i might not be the person bc i can't articulate myself without sounding insane but like i swear my concerns are valid. #they also charged my roommates full months rent after making them MOVE OUT and back in over half way through the quarter while their leases #werent signed and tried to charge one of them late fees because it didnt show up in the portal and she had to fight it. come on. #delete #vent

[clitology]

man my friends can be so condescending sometimes i literally hate the way they talk to me about anything academic

#college is the first experience in my life where i am not the most academically ahead of all my friends #which like. yes we are all smart that is obvious considering we are all studying in this college w less than 5% acceptance rate #but my friends are literally. nationwide toppers who were interviewed in national newspapers because they got perfect scores on everything #i don't mean to sound bitter or jealous it's just the implicit academic hierarchy. gnawing away at me #this super competitive academic side of me is probably the meanest & most deplorable that i can only confess to on tumblr dotcom #personal <3

[liu-anhuaming]

I had my final review for my probationary period at work today, and it went really well. Feels good to finally have a boss who appreciates the fact that I'm a perfectionist/neurotically detail-oriented weirdo

#also oddly enough the research skills i cultivated in high school/college are really helping me in this job #my boss was like 'you're always doing stuff that i would never think to do and it's impressive' #and i'm just like #you've got all the weird research projects i did at school to thank for that #like i did an internship at the start of covid for a literary org in chicago #and they wanted me to find important dates in authors' lives so we could make a chicago literary calendar #and i was like. okay. lemme find out when they received certain awards. #which then had me spending DAYS combing through newspaper archives from the last century trying to find the specific date an award was give #i also found one author's wedding anniversary #like is this an uncommon way of going about a project like this? bc my internship supervisor was impressed #and i was just like. well newspapers tend to report on awards like this so it just made sense to me? #and my supervisor said they wanted stuff outside of birthdays & death days #and imo the next most notable event in a lot of authors lives/careers is receiving awards or getting a novel published #(which yeah i also combed through digital archives to find publication notices for certain books)

[hotniatheron]

me and my lecture on the importance of local newspapers even if you think that they're nothing but obits and coupons because the journalists and the editors are part of the community they report on and so have a vested interest in what's happening:

#like it's always the small newspapers that bust the corruption or murder cases #i'm like this bc i did write for my hometown newspaper in college thru our tedx chapter jsjsj

[omni-scient-pan-da]

OMGCONGRATS ON GRADUATINGGGGGGGG!!!! COLLEGE BOUNDD!!

THANK YOUUUUUU I somehow did not see this until now but I appreciate it!!

#panda posts #the all knowing panda answers questions #ask number 139 #bragging in the tags because i don't get to say this stuff to anyone irl but i graduated as unofficial valedictorian of my class 😌 #my school doesn't do valedictorian or salutatorian for whatever reason but the newspaper publishes the top ten percent in a specific order #that has no like... visible ranking? like it's not alphabetical so everyone assumes it's by clsss rank and my name was at the top #i also graduated with a perfect 4.0 gpa and was one of the 5 out of the 250 #-that graduated in my class #michelle was another one of the 5 to graduate with a 4.0 she was number 3 in the unofficial ranking #i made it into half the colleges i applied to (which is to say i made it into all the in state schools I applied to and the out of state #schools i applied to were yale harvard mit brown and upenn so like my chances of getting in were not very high) #however i did get into the honors program i applied to at the college i ended up going to (if you've picked up what state i live in you can #probably guess which college im going to just by knowing i stayed in state) and i only applied to the honors program on a whim like... 5 #hours before applications were due and still managed to make it in 😌 #granted now i regret that because michelle did not get in and I don't get to live in honors housing but it's whatever #anyways that's the end of my little bragging rights i just wanted a chance to show off a little bit and I don't get to irl so i figured i #would here since tumblr is a judgement free zone

[el-im]

ban first person pov in any and all writing

#i hate college students I feel like whacking people on the heads w rolled up newspapers #KNOCK IT OFF #captain's log

[vaugarde]

pokemon has become such an odd interest to me bc most people i know personally who play it are of course adults and in fact when i look on discord and such, im more likely to find adults into pokemon, but then i mention liking pokemon in public around ppl my age and they’re just like “um isnt that a baby thing. thats not appropriate for college.”

#not like i dont ever see ppl irl who like pokemon like i know a few ppl at college who do #but like its strange bc like. on the newspaper for example i suggested a scarvi review #for when it came out (this was in september) #and the person in charge was like "ahaaaaa um. wow. i mean...... i guess if some people like it? i dont get it tho'' #and then put it on the log and removed it when the meeting was done #which was weird bc ppl also suggested reviews for disney movies #ig tbf she didnt want a video game on there and it was more that than ''ew baby thing'' #but still #echoed voice

[obstinaterixatrix]

last year: yeah I’ve been into musicals for a while but I can’t really say I’m a hardcore fan only because I don’t know much beyond a couple specific shows and I haven’t gotten to see much at all for a while

this year: an entire world of resources has been opened up to me I’ve watched 3 shows 7 times each and have been chewing on this workshop recording with rabid intensity for months

#talking abt musicals #the thing is I actually usually don’t get into musicals by soundtracks #I actually do have to see or know something about the show first #during high school I got mom hooked and we were able to see a pro show or two every year or two #plus I was in this… program? where I got to see free high school productions by volunteering to write reviews #and then some… people would choose which reviews fo publish at the school newspaper or maybe even local papers #I never ended up getting picked so it didn’t really matter #I don’t think any of my reviews were what anybody wanted I didnt know shit about writing like a theater critic #also I have no memory of how I got into this #so other than the pro shows I was also just seeing a lot in general I guess #for… one year? one semester? #and doing stage crew and doing ensemble when I was a senior (bc obviously seniors pass auditions right) #man I was doing chorus and color guard and set building and musical rehearsals that year #and I’m pretty sure some county chorus also #did I really do all that? #wack #no wait yeah I remember I think it was wednesdays mom had to drive me to the local college for chorus rehearsals so that wasnt the hs chorus #anyway it’s because of the review program thing I actually got to see more than I would’ve #but I only remember… wait no it was way more than 3 #it was thoroughly modern millie and chicago and sideshow and once on this island and peter pan #OH AND LITTLE WOMEN #wow I completely forgot about all of that #I remember because sutton foster’s the lead for millie and little women and I was really into sutton foster because of the one song I knew #from drowsy chaperone #WAIT ALSO LES MIS #I remember the high school bridge scene #and then in borders I’d go to the music section and look up cds and listen to them #I don’t think it was as common to upload osts on yt? #and I’m pretty sure we ended up seeing shrek on bway specifically because I wanted to see sutton foster #and then she DISAPPEARED INTO TV

[starbuck]

diversity loss: the father of the guy whose gravestone you saw at an antique store one time hated the Irish

#i mean. PROBABLY. i can’t prove it (yet) #that’s just what one source suggests but they may be biased #it’s proooooooobably true tho based on the timing #researching actual famous historical people < researching completely random people whose gravestones you see in weird places #anyway the dad is buried in the town where I went to college for a hot second so next time I’m there i’ll flip him off #like. bro. those are my LITERAL ancestors you’re discriminating against! fuck off! #nobody saved your cringe fail newspaper because they were too busy wiping their asses with it. cheers. 😜✌🏻