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got some essay feedback so nice I want to frame it:))

#personal #student #postgrad

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I knew the Strid would be 10/10 on this list! It's very near to where my family live and we used to go to Bolton Abbey and walk nearby here a lot when I was a child. There are signs saying not to go in the water, but it's definitely not as well marked as it should be. I take a weird amount of pride in living in the same county as a world-reknowned terrifying stretch of water

Here it is folks:

My definitive ranking of my least favorite bodies of water! These are ranked from least to most scary (1/10 is okay, 10/10 gives me nightmares). I’m sorry this post is long, I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this.

The Great Blue Hole, Belize

I’ve been here! I have snorkeled over this thing! It is terrifying! The water around the hole is so shallow you can’t even swim over the coral without bumping it, and then there’s a little slope down, and then it just fucking drops off into the abyss! When you’re over the hole the water temperature drops like 10 degrees and it’s midnight blue even when you’re right by the surface. Anyway. The Great Blue Hole is a massive underwater cave, and its roughly 410 feet deep. Overall, it’s a relatively safe area to swim. It’s a popular tourist attraction and recreational divers can even go down and explore some of the caves. People do die at the Blue Hole, but it is generally from a lack of diving experience rather than anything sinister going on down in the depths. My rating for this one is 1/10 because I’ve been here and although it’s kinda freaky it’s really not that bad.

Lake Baikal, Russia

When I want to give myself a scare I look at the depth diagram of this lake. It’s so deep because it’s not a regular lake, it’s a Rift Valley, A massive crack in the earth’s crust where the continental plates are pulling apart. It’s over 5,000 feet deep and contains one-fifth of all freshwater on Earth. Luckily, its not any more deadly than a normal lake. It just happens to be very, very, freakishly deep. My rating for this lake is a 2/10 because I really hate looking at the depth charts but just looking at the lake itself isn’t that scary.

Jacob’s Well, Texas

This “well” is actually the opening to an underwater cave system. It’s roughly 120 feet deep, surrounded by very shallow water. This area is safe to swim in, but diving into the well can be deadly. The cave system below has false exits and narrow passages, resulting in multiple divers getting trapped and dying. My rating is a 3/10, because although I hate seeing that drop into the abyss it’s a pretty safe place to swim as long as you don’t go down into the cave (which I sure as shit won’t).

The Devil’s Kettle, Minnesota

This is an area in the Brule River where half the river just disappears. It literally falls into a hole and is never seen again. Scientists have dropped in dye, ping pong balls, and other things to try and figure out where it goes, and the things they drop in never resurface. Rating is 4/10 because Sometimes I worry I’m going to fall into it.

Flathead Lake, Montana

Everyone has probably seen this picture accompanied by a description about how this lake is actually hundreds of feet deep but just looks shallow because the water is so clear. If that were the case, this would definitely rank higher, but that claim is mostly bull. Look at the shadow of the raft. If it were hundreds of feet deep, the shadow would look like a tiny speck. Flathead lake does get very deep, but the spot the picture was taken in is fairly shallow. You can’t see the bottom in the deep parts. However, having freakishly clear water means you can see exactly where the sandy bottom drops off into blackness, so this still ranks a 5/10.

The Lower Congo River, multiple countries

Most of the Congo is a pretty normal, if large, River. In the lower section of it, however, lurks a disturbing surprise: massive underwater canyons that plunge down to 720 feet. The fish that live down there resemble cave fish, having no color, no eyes, and special sensory organs to find their way in the dark. These canyons are so sheer that they create massive rapids, wild currents and vortexes that can very easily kill you if you fall in. A solid 6/10, would not go there.

Little Crater Lake, Oregon

On first glance this lake doesn’t look too scary. It ranks this high because I really don’t like the sheer drop off and how clear it is (because it shows you exactly how deep it goes). This lake is about 100 feet across and 45 feet deep, and I strongly feel that this is too deep for such a small lake. Also, the water is freezing, and if you fall into the lake your muscles will seize up and you’ll sink and drown. I don’t like that either. 7/10.

Grand Turk 7,000 ft drop off

No. 8/10. I hate it.

Gulf of Corryvreckan, Scotland

Due to a quirk in the sea floor, there is a permanent whirlpool here. This isn’t one of those things that looks scary but actually won’t hurt you, either. It absolutely will suck you down if you get too close. Scientists threw a mannequin with a depth gauge into it and when it was recovered the gauge showed it went down to over 600 feet. If you fall into this whirlpool you will die. 9/10 because this seems like something that should only be in movies.

The Bolton Strid, England

This looks like an adorable little creek in the English countryside but it’s not. Its really not. Statistically speaking, this is the most deadly body of water in the world. It has a 100% mortality rate. There is no recorded case of anyone falling into this river and coming out alive. This is because, a little ways upstream, this isn’t a cute little creek. It’s the River Wharfe, a river approximately 30 feet wide. This river is forced through a tiny crack in the earth, essentially turning it on its side. Now, instead of being 30 feet wide and 6 feet deep, it’s 6 feet wide and 30 feet deep (estimated, because no one actually knows how deep the Strid is). The currents are deadly fast. The banks are extremely undercut and the river has created caves, tunnels and holes for things (like bodies) to get trapped in. The innocent appearance of the Strid makes this place a death trap, because people assume it’s only knee-deep and step in to never be seen again. I hate this river. I have nightmares about it. I will never go to England just because I don’t want to be in the same country as this people-swallowing stream. 10/10, I live in constant fear of this place.

Honorable mention: The Quarry, Pennsylvania

I don’t know if that’s it’s actual name. This lake gets an honorable mention not because it’s particularly deep or dangerous, but it’s where I almost drowned during a scuba diving accident.

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I wrote an essay last year on queer theory in musicology where I referred to a academic using they/them pronous whilst also clarifying in the essay where relevant that they were a trans scholar... and my lecturer marked me down for using the third person ‘plural’ pronounds because it was apparently “bad grammar”. In a class where we had been discussing QUEER THEORY.

academics learn to use the words 'they', 'them', and 'their' challenge

#he also grossly coopted queer theory to talk about the sexing of women's bodies in music as if they're the same thing... when they'e not #and yes #he absolutely was

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not so gentle reminder that academia belongs to the queer, the weary, the women, the people of color, the poor, the ill just as much as it does the rich, the white, the privileged. if your academia isn't accessible, i don't want it.

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omfg there’s a guy in my research team who’s been shockingly bad at cooperating with the team and meeting deadlines, and when my (other female) project manager has called him out on this he’s trying on some fucking gaslighting and saying that I’m making him feel “wrongfully irresponsible” ? He’s also tried to claim that he’s not received important emails from me... When the emails are literally in the same thread as this correspondence..?? what the fuck???

I hate that I have to bring this up but you can fucking bet that if his manager was an older man he’d have a bit more respect. I’m so tired

#personal #rant #why can't men just fucking respect me in the workplace

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professor: ur research paper is due tomorrow

me:

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I’ve started a new lockdown project- a crochrt sunflower afghan!

Finished the first square and whilst it’s not necessary as... squarish as I’d like it to be, as the first thing I’ve ever crocheted I’m pretty happy with it!

Only 47 more squares to go...

#sunflower #crochet #crafts #sunflower afghan #sunflower blanket #cottage core #cosy

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31/10/2020 // happy (slightly belated) halloween!!

How did you spoops celebrate? I tackled some work I had been stressing over for weeks (truly scary stuff), had a zoom halloween film fest with my friends and read some Over the Garden Wall comics  🎃

#halloween #studyblr #studying #over the garden wall #spooky #spoopy #happy halloween #MA #masters student #postgrad

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TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

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did some embroidery on my new kanken!

#kanken #fjallraven #kanken rainbow #rainbow kanken #embroidery #kanken embroidery #fjallraven kanken #cottagecore #sunflower #lgbt #kanken decoration

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I watched over the garden wall for the first time yesterday and honestly I've never fallen in love with anything so fast

Welcome to The Unknown, boys. You’re more lost than you think.

OVER THE GARDEN WALL (2014) 🎃🍂

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✨Brilliant.✨ — Like my art? You can find way more on my Patreon!❤

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Special IG Giveaway: We’re giving away seven vintage Penguin Books by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Richard Adams, and others. This is a special giveaway for macrolit followers who are following on both Tumblr and Instagram. Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr and on Instagram (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post and adding your Instagram profile as a tag. We will choose a random winner on 19 December, so reblog now! And yes, we’ll ship to any country! Easy, right?  For our Tumblr-only followers, here’s our regular giveaway of 15 paperback classics, which ends TOMORROW! Good luck! :D

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Batcats! Catbats! Vampire kittens! Spoopy Halloween!