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cat on film 😽

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Cape Cod Evening, 1939. Edward Hopper, 1882–1967. Oil on canvas.

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anyone going to kalamazoo this year??

#medieval

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u know the phd decision stress is getting to me because i have two styes in one eye and another in the other eye 

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“In the injunction that we become our most “complete” or “self-realized” selves, no guideline was provided to help determine what differentiated a complete from an incomplete self. A new emotional hierarchy was drawn by psychologists – between self-realized individuals and those who struggled with a panoply of problems. But, and this is undoubtedly one of the most striking features of therapeutic culture, at the same time that it put health and self-realization at the center of a narrative of self, it also made a wide variety of behaviors into signs and symptoms of a “neurotic,” “unhealthy,” “self-defeating” self. In fact, when one examines the set of assumptions underlying most of the books using therapeutic language, a clear pattern structuring the therapeutic form of thought emerges: the ideal of health or self-realization defines a contrario a wide variety of dysfunctions. In other words, emotionally unhealthy behaviors are deduced from an implicit reference to and comparison with the model and ideal of the “fully self-realized life.” If we transposed this ideal to the realm of physical health, this would be analogous to saying that someone who does not use the full potential of his muscles is sick, with the difference that in the psychological discourse, the definition of what qualifies as a “strong muscle” is unclear and perpetually moving.” 

Eva Illouz, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism 

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Please do not dislike this skull. Once it could laugh and cry like you...

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truly my cat

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I haven’t been on here in ages!!! but i miss it!!!!! I have some updates on everything that has happened in my life!!!

- I graduated from my master’s at Oxford in 2022

- I fell in love and was heartbroken a year later :(

- I took this year off to work

- I applied to PhD programs!!! I got a doctoral studentship at Oxford (and declined it) & I got accepted to the PhD at H*rv*rd :0000 I don’t quite know where I’ll be going yet though 

I want to start posting on here again :)

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Moby Dick is like. Imagine if you had no place in the world so much that you were considering going at sea which is like dying but it's also the only way to live. Imagine if God was in the sea and Death was a beast in waiting and Death was a ship in the sea and God was in Death and the beast and the ship and in the book you are holding. Imagine if you could hear the thunderous voice of the almighty in every rolling wave but you were too stubborn to listen. Imagine if there was a fish (editor's note: not a fish) and this fish was the world and this fish was god and this fish was death and this fish was this book. But most importantly imagine the hottest man ever. Like wise and noble and broad shoulders and tattoos everywhere. That's my husband

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the magnus archives being so realistic by having like 3 characters named Michael

#irl I know like 10 Michaels

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after many frustrating rounds of feedback i'm realising i may have to 'break up' with a potential phd supervisor and feeling so emotionally weird about it 

#he just... does not Get It #I've vibed on the same frequency as so many people #about this subject #and he was literally like this is too arcane and the fact that no one has taken this approach before should be de-emphasised because it make #s the research feel too niche and specialist #well sir i am a specialist #and i'm sorry about that #but wow #its not like i haven't linked it with wider trends in scholarship to be clear #its just that they aren't in HIS area and so ... he doesn't think they are relevant #its like... myopia

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employing a rather catholic approach to capitalisation in this essay

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the group chat when i ask whos available to hang out next week

#this is always so funny

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is there anyone who follows me doing a US Phd in the humanities? I’m applying to US schools for the first time and feeling quite lost. The personal statement/ statement of purpose is such a delicate balance between being too specific and too general. it feels like they accept and reject based on vibes alone.

#this is the most anti autistic form for writing #I want to go on and on about my silly interests #but when asked to write about myself? in a ridiculously prescriptive form masquerading as ‘creative’? no no no