#and the physics degree

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[ravings-of-a-mad-scientist]

Math

Geologist: I do more math than you might think

Chemist: I mean, chemical equations are basically mathematical equations. If you think about it (I also do math math)

Physicist: Oh, yeah, it’s all math but we just handwave it

Mathematician: YOU DO WHAT!?

Quantum Physicist: *regularly does math that is literally beyond human comprehension* *now resides in a higher plane of existence*

Engineer: If I don’t do this math correctly PEOPLE WILL DIE

Military Scientist: If I don’t do this math correctly PEOPLE WILL SURVIVE

Topologist: If I don’t do this math correctly PEOPLE WILL BE MOSTLY UNAFFECTED

Philosopher: But what even IS math, really? No seriously, what is it?

Organic Chemist: I kinda forgot how to do math, to be honest

Biologist: I literally only chose this field so I wouldn’t have to do as much math. I love stamp collecting

Biostatistician: wtf

#science #biology #physics #chemistry #geology #scientists sitcom #why tf do I need a calculus credit for a bachelors of biology degree??? #astronomy #engineering #math #military science #topology #biostatistics

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

#art #ive literally just been treating this game as a library simuator #i walk from bookseller to bookseller opening up all of their books #vivecs sermons are either a highlight or the point at which i stop reading #ive been trying to convince the ordinators that imitation is the highest form of flattery but it hasnt been working #let me wear your helmets please theyre so funny.. #posting morrowind in 2024 isnt a cry for help but youre not wrong to be concerned. #morrowind #almalexia #vivec #im going to explain the chitin armor give me a moment #so the bonewalker nerevar on the shrines is adorable and it was only after drawing it however many times that i realized #it looked relatively close to a modified chitin armor #and so i modified chitin armor a few times and this was probably the cutest result #i also know i drew almalexia relatively pristine and untouched by years and vivec not so much but my thought process was #vivecs role as if not a favorite then the most accessible divine or the most “hands on” in a manner of speaking #acting in ways visible to the general population or actions explicitly brought to their attention #like not that almalexia isnt doing anything she is #but the dissemination of information regarding that is very different etc etc etc #anyways to a certain extent a god is the face on a shrine or in art or upon a statue or carving #but vivecs presence is interwoven with the geography of vvardenfell especially and his actions and writings with pubished materials #and the arts and culture and customs etc etc etc #so to me the face of a god you know and feel a commonality with or a god that walks alongside you is a face you would recognize #and vivec is already otherworldly looking enough #the simple mark of the years on his skin in some way grounding him in reality felt more right #that and i think the ways in which he and almalexia care about outward appearance are slightly different- they prioritize different things #and the ways they present outward power and their embodiment of their respective attributes share some similarities as they both have that #important preoccupation with physical power and physical strength to a certain degree #oh my god nobody read this i am yapping so bad. #tes

[devotion-disorder]

*BANGING POTS AND PANS TOGETHER* APPARENTLY VREL SAID HARPER'S FAVOURITE POSITION IS THE STAND AND CARRY!!!!!!!!!!!11111111!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HARPER'S FAVOURITE POSITION IS LIFTING UP THEIR PARTNER AND FUCKING THEM (WHILE FACING EACH OTHER) DO YOU HEAR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM GOING FAWKKING INSANEEEEE WAUUUUUUUGHGHGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#degrees of lewdity #harper the doctor #harperfucker hours #AAUGHUGHGGHGH........... #i love you dol community on twitter #doing gods work compiling all of vrel's answers #of course harpers favourite position is one where their partner can't escape easily #and forces their partner to cling onto them #and super physically intimate #and easy access for kissing............................ #im unwell #head in hands

[hungwy]

literally just got an indeed job that was "required qualifications: a bachelor and some coding experience in python" with "preferred qualifications: physics degree with quantum computing experience". come on man. what are we doing

#also they want you to supervise student projects like bro are you sure you dont REQUIRE the physics degree

[miaoqing]

i really don't know how to feel about fics/aus where it turns out that sj's treatment of lbh is his own fault because he didn't speak up about issues with other disciples, genuinely misbehaved etc and also later (as bingge) lied about how much he actually got punished and in truth it wasn't any more than any other disciple, and that sj didn't know about the fake manual, when all of this is explicitly against canon.

yqy adresses this when sy wakes up, telling sqq to stop being so mean to lbh. in the sj extra, he himself says that lbh should have died a long time ago bleeding from the seven apertures due to the fake manual. sy says that pidw explicitly states that lbh was punished WAAAY more than any other disciple, and in those conditions obviously noone would tell their teacher about being bullied??

idk i understand altering canon for the sake of telling a story but... somehow it feels like a disservice to sj's character to ignore canon and water him down for the sake of making his redemption easier. and villifying lbh, which is what these fics inevitably end up doing, is also messed up - he was around 11 when he joined cqm. that's a CHILD. no matter how you look at it, sqq's "treatment" of lbh is neglect at best, horrible abuse at worst, and in modern times it would put him in jail faster than you could blink. giving him a realistic redemption arc is difficult, if not impossible, but if you truly love him with all his flaws and faults, isn't it worth the effort?

#and do NOT get me started on the hypothetical sy/sj confrontation #it would get physical so fast #i think it would actually be a pretty even fight? sy in sqq's body probably has approximately the same martial abilities #so it would be down to sj fighting dirty vs sy fuelled by pure rage #because sy would NOT go omg sj gege poor meowmeow 🥺 #like. my parents were assholes to me when i was little (obvs not to sj's degree) #and my friends STILL hate them #and in sy's case. THAT'S HIS HUSBAND!!!!! #svsss #sj #sqq #lbh #svsss meta #shen qingqiu #shen jiu #meow

[nightmaretour]

#cripplepunk #cripple punk #physically disabled #disability #physical disability #I had to sit up for my eye test :( #I'll finally be able to see the tv properly again when my new glasses get here though #But again there's a degree of vision loss they can't correct

[komorezuki]

OI! Need a help!

Yeah i am totally normal about the nebula book in the first episode.

I am definitely not trying to recreate the text and content

Or schemes at least.

Does anyone knows any AI tools for sharpening of very very small text?

I only see some kinda emission spectrum (left below line)

@ineffable-detective-agency @drconstellation maybe you know something?

#my fucking master's degree in physics is not helping #good omens 2 #ineffable investigation #ineffable detective #good omens #crowley #good omens fandom #what if

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

#how long ago did i watch pacific rim? i feel like it might have been last year but i finally drew this lmao #sometimes it just takes a while. newt specifically gets under my skin tho bc i think his research interests r kinda similar to mine #at least in a broad sense. but im dealing with cyanobacteria which is less exciting to most ppl lol but any fanfic i read thats like: newt #has 6 phds im like fucking what? what r they in? they have to be literature based right?! when would u have time to independently design. #carry out. write and defend for 6 independent projects in different topics by his age? #what as waste of time. i say as a person who would happily fuck around and collect degrees without ever having to get a real job #idk characters i relate to make me a little unhinged bc i do not like to relate to characters lol #pacific rim #herman gottlieb #newt geiszler #newton geiszler #tw blood #tw gore #also i agree with herman abt the numbers quote. physics is like literally understanding the fabric of the universe so like yeah #also i cant draw hermann and i cant see his face without thinking of owen from torchwood who i hated lol #pacrim

[romansmartini]

have you ever seen two people more married in your entire life. please

#doctor who #twelveclara #so much to unpack here. #first of all the banter. just kill me. #the fact that he's helping her students on a regular basis. the intertwining of their lives to a dangerous degree #the fact that he jokes about their season 8 breakup as if that's something they joke about #the hug. THE HUG. #suggesting that physical touch is something they Do now #him admitting he missed her. not a huge deal but meaningful To Me. #the doctor who classic 'im never leaving you!' <- dies 1-3 episodes later. which will never get old #can we return to the hug one more time. insert joke about how i know he takes it from behind. and so on and so forth. #and last but not least the way he looks at her. man. stares off into the distance forever #i always forget about this little moment but it really is such a beautiful one

[its-yashas-strong-arms]

so how do you cope with the realization that we're all going to have 40 years of full-time work at jobs that don't fucking matter. living for the weekends where you sleep one day and dissociate the other and then it's back to work on monday. and if you're lucky you retire just in time to start deteriorating physically and mentally. how do you live with that

#im graduating with a master's degree and honestly a job as like. fruit picker or some shit appeals to me on a weird level #at least with physical jobs you can point at something and say i did that! and now a new thing exists! #anyway I'm dealing so so well with exiting the safety of academia #im having. a week. sorry folks

[quixoticanarchy]

so @nereb-and-dungalef and i were trying to make the geomorphology of Mordor make sense, as one does - or rather, as one fails to do, since orogenic processes do not tend to favor Rectangular Box of Mountains. but even if you chalk Mordor's shape up to Ainur activity, you'd think that Sauron would have taken pains to make his mountains form a better box, if a box was what he wanted. and yet it's not a perfect quadrilateral. it hasn't even got proper right angles.

therefore, our solution: Sauron did have a perfect set of geometrically balanced mountain-walls surrounding a volcanic hotspot - once. however... geological processes can only be slowed so much by one guy. the earth still changes. the crust still deforms. mountains are uplifted and erosion carves them down. hotspots move. you can't freeze geology any more than you can embalm the world at large. you can't prevent change. (not a lesson Sauron is eager to learn.) so Mordor is neither the product of natural processes nor intentional design - it's the interface of conflict between both.

#i just think it's crunchy if mordor's very physicality is a representation of what sauron wants to make the world into vs the world refusing #you have to picture us walking around like the school of athens guys except in 105 degrees #also I Know the pace of geological change is off here. i know mordor has debated origins anyway. but humor me. shit gets weird w ainur #sauron #lotr #mordor #tolkien #arda geomorphology #skravler

[wardenofthesixtyninth]

SO MAGICAL GIRLS EXIST AS A WAY TO GET AROUND THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS???

FUCKING LET ME AT THIS BITCH ASS CAT IM GONNA FUCKING KILL HIM

#madoka magica #on behalf of my physics degree FUCK YOU KYUBEY

[intotheelliwoods]

the out of nowhere urge to make a very heartfelt fma comic with more effort in it than I usually put into comics

#nonsense #you never would have guessed #but its about hands- #and characters being huggytouchy- #this is just my thing guys leave me alone #I love physical touch in fiction to a horrifying degree LMAO #anyways I had this idea for it in my brain for months #oh well

[horreurscopes]

they always talk about how hard it is to draw the other eye but nobody ever talks about how hard it is to draw the other boob

#getting a degree in jiggle physics

[alexysmugg]

quick whitney nsfw, idea from this ask sended to madison!

nsfw version here!

#degrees of lewdity #whitney the bully #. art #changed a little my m!whit hair #idk the older one was kinda #too normal??? #i mean its a drawing physics doesn't exist!!! i can create the more unrealistic hair and it would be ok