#dphil

[cr0ftisprocrastinating]

In my punishment library (The Sackler 🤢) to try and sort out this thesis chapter….

#pray for me #oxford #dark academia #dphil

[dangpaddles]

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[scholarshipja]

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[everything-is-as-it-was]

guysguysguysgUYSGUYS

WHAT IF THIS YEAR INSTEAD OF 'Top Dan Memes of 2023'

WE GET 'Top Dan and Phil Memes of 2023" CAN YOU FUCKING IMAGINE

#SCREAMING MY HEAD OFF #double act my ass #what the hell #dan and phil #dnp #phil lester #dan howell #dapg #dan an dphil games

[katatonicimpression]

I know it's been said but can we get less straight haired Starbucks Lorna and more frizzy haired blue and yellow shoulder pads Lorna please?

#I'm glad they remembered her phd #but like #have you ever met a dphil? #they're not straightening their hair #be real they're barely showering

[jonquilandlace]

I genuinely can neither understand nor believe that my graduate life in which we were told not to commit to anything extracurricular because of how busy we would be is more relaxed and calm than my undergraduate where we were told we shouldn’t complain about the amount of homework and make sure to do extracurriculars/more classes or else you won’t be employable—

#jonniejonniejonquil #this is WILD GENUINELY #I went. to a guest lecture. AND two bookstores today. AND the library #but not for class? for? fun!?!? #it’s 2:30 pm and I have nothing else to do #I have already sent out my emails for the day and all my homework #and I have to do laundry but I have no classes tomorrow so am doing it then #I just??? am??? free??? #like I can do work on my applications for dphil or work WAY ahead on my dissertation #but I’m??? NOT??? SWAMPED??? #I feel like I don’t know what to do with myself???

[just-about-nothing]

the urge to apply for the finances & law masters at oxford is extremely strong

#i rant #i was taught by a finance dphil there………………… #i’m just. extremely broke right now

[spikybanana]

I still cannot write an essay, but at least I've learnt to write an email

#nevermind that I've been drafting it in my head for the last twenty hours #also I had a dream the other day where I said something I want to do and tutor straight up said it's a horrible idea don't do it #what IF I get a dphil in philosophy huh? what if.

[h0lyground]

elaine scarry…anyone who is basing how to live their life on her is Not Right…

#what do you [redacted dphil student] mean when you say she taught you how to be just and also the body in pain is a good read 🤨 #like it’s Immense as a piece of work but What #alice.txt

[katakaluptastrophy]

While I'm overthinking eldritch John, I need you to understand that my mental image of him is some combination of weird bisexual sitting and uncanny valley head angle.

Yellow eyes reflecting the dim light in the cow dome when he's not uplit by his phone.

Mismatched socks, threadbare t-shirt from a university society he wasn't even part of during his DPhil, pair of dead-eyed corpses standing behind him.

#the locked tomb #john gaius

[oldshrewsburyian]

I hate-watched the latest crank documentary on the Princes in the Tower last night and I am mad about it for so many reasons. I will say, I was very entertained by the actually-respectable Dr. Henrike Lähnemann saying on camera that the only thing that could be definitely affirmed about a document issued by the chancellery of the Holy Roman Empire was that it was definitely written in the 15th century and authentically sealed. ...and then they ignored her. Also, the barrister who is supposedly this Professional Skeptic™ who will Dispassionately Evaluate Claims appears not to recognize the 15th-century equivalent of a scam email.

The fact that the documentary's conclusions are spurious and its methodology vacuous/absent has already been covered at some length here. But I'm still mad for other reasons, viz:

This documentary that supposedly is trying to convince its audience (?) just straight-up ignores the central question of identity

There is a lot of hand-waving and sleight-of-hand around the representation of people's qualifications. Ann Wroe, for instance, does have a DPhil from Oxford (1975). She has worked at The Economist since 1976. And if you haven't engaged with the field in 50 years...! The president of the Ricardian Society is represented as a "medieval historian." The Society's page has him as an "author and historian." Does he have any qualifications? who knows!!

This gets me to another thing I've been mad about before. The barrister says at the conclusion of the documentary that "History is for everyone" (true!) and that this means that anyone can just go off to archives and discover things and make field-changing discoveries. This is so laughably untrue that we have seen how wrong it is in the documentary! because Langley appears incapable of any sort of paleography at all! Seriously?? Seriously??? You're going to show us 15th-century documents in multiple languages and then the neatly typed-up translations that some poor graduate student probably did for you and then say that "anyone can do history"? HAHAHAHAHA but also this is no laughing matter as departments and degree programs and positions are being cut everywhere. I am livid. I'm also livid because professionally-trained historians everywhere (including self) are begging for funds to do the most basic functions of our work--attend conferences, go to archives--and applying for endless grants and self-funding what our institutions, if we have institutions, won't cover. And Philippa Langley gets £££ to swan about Europe with her barrister accomplice (paramour??) drinking good coffee and going misty-eyed over her own personal Richard III fantasies? I hate everything.

#history side of tumblr #princes in the tower #philippa langley #adventures in academia #flames--flames on the side of my face

[dangpaddles]

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[pacific-rimbaud]

For the never have I ever game- have you ever written a greenhouse spicy scene?

No! Which is surprising given the amount of Panville I've written. I had a story idea for Pansy as a very young widow processing a lonely, humilating marriage to an emotionally abusive philanderer. She has two little girls, and hires freshly minted DPhil in Education Neville as a live-in nanny, which works well for him as he returns from studying abroad and focuses on organizing a new nature-based primary school for magical children. They would absolutely have desperate greenhouse sex in that one.

#you asked I answered #Panville #Story ideas

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

#greenteacup asks #sidebar: I know Minister “of” Magic is an Americanism but mea culpa #Someday I might actually bite it and pay someone to britpick Lionheart but I can't do it now #because I have a ban on editing published fic unless it's finished. Otherwise I'll never get around to writing the actual ending #I have a Process #is it the best process? likely not! but it makes the words go. so here we are. #I also think the fact that JKR is Gen X makes a difference here. careers worked differently in the 80s and 90s than they do now #i.e. we have the gig economy and a lot more mobility and EXPECTATION of mobility in your early life #that means career changes & professional pivots through your 20s and 30s are increasingly normal #and in fact have always been normal — but the image of the 'true' or 'ideal' career has changed #so we look at those careers and go hm. really? none of them changed? #none of them even went to uni? do wizards... just not? #but again. I believe the epilogue was written almost completely without consideration as to what happened between the BOH and then #I really believe that JKR did not know what happened to Harry except a wedding and 3 kids. because that was the whole point #I don't think she even knew what his career was when she wrote that scene #It existed to marry everyone off and do a quick munchkin headcount #because of the understandable temptation as an author to keep your hand on the wheel. but it didn't even matter! #the epilogue changed NOTHING! it was the most useless chapter in the series! I just — GOD #you can absolutely accuse me of being sour grapes about my ships getting nixed. I AM sour grapes. I AM a hater. #AND I have plot/theme/craft reasons for disliking it. #I'm not objective. I just want credit for being a sophisticated hater. my grapes may be sour but they're still artisinal.

[lya-dustin]

A Comedy of Non-mathematical Errors

Prologue

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the eldest Catton is always a maths genius.

Through careful selection of life partners and a regime called the Catton Method, the finances of the Catton Family are always secured through the eldest child for the next generation.

The other children after may be savants like their elder sibling thanks to their genetics and upbringing, but the first born must always be a math genius.

Felix River Catton was not a maths genius no matter how much his poor dear parents tried.

It was not his fault ---nor his mother, Elspeth, having a DPhil in History of Art--- it was the fault of the wretched nanny who kidnapped Michael Cherwell Catton, Felix’s fraternal twin brother when she took him out for a walk and only the overturned pram was found.

Felix’s grandmother had blamed his mother all the same because it was her empathy that led to her hiring a troubled nanny instead of one without a history theft and drug abuse.

No one had expected her to steal a fucking baby especially from his nursery in Saltburn.

Just like that the true heir to Baronetage of Saltburn disappeared from the face of the earth ---and it was the heartlessness their grandmama displayed during their grief that led to Aunt Federica running away to America.

The Catton family would be fucked in the coming recession and no hope seemed to appear on the horizon ---Venetia sadly was not a maths genius either.

That was until Felix saw how outcast Maths student, Michael C. Gavey, ate a crunchie bar on Christmas Eve.

He was tall and blonde and ate a crunchie just as Felix’s father and his little sister, Venetia, do in private due to the strangeness of it. Looked like his mum’s younger brother does, right down to the carabiner on his cargo pants and the glasses.

Could it be that this was his long-lost brother?

There was only one way to find out without Farleigh thinking he’d lost it.

Felix needed to make Michael’s only friend, whatever his name was, his friend and gain an introduction.

A/N: this actually a crack fic fix it au written as if it were a serious fic, if you want a plot that makes sense you may not find it here

Thank you @exitpursuedbyavulcan @elizarbell @apothe-roses for this wonderful idea and the title

#crack fic #saltburn fix it #saltburn au #michael gavey #felix catton #oliver quick

[aloysiavirgata]

Ms

Hi A.V.,

Apologies in advance, but you're so talented, I just had to throw this out there and see what happens. Rhyme time, four word prompt: sarcasm, phantasm, protoplasm, orgasm.

Absolutely love your work!

“Patriarchal systems ruin everything,” Scully says. “I mean sure, you’ll hear people talking about how in medieval Europe they believed a female orgasm was necessary for conception, but it was just so that rape allegations could be dropped if the victim became pregnant.”

She stabs angrily at a beet.

Mulder holds his hands up in a gesture of surrender. “I’m not defending it. I got my DPhil in psych but I’m hardly a Freudian, I read Half the Sky. Big fan.”

Scully glowered. “Do not. Get me started. On Freud.”

He won’t, he never does.

“Anyway,” she says. “I mean look, I’m a cradle Catholic, it’s my comfort zone, but….”

“The Patriarch, the Kid, and the Sacred Phantasm not doing it for you anymore, Doctor Scully?”

She sighs at a candied walnut. “I just…I don’t know. Maybe I need to be more in touch with the Divine Feminine. The Blessed Mother, in Catholic terms.”

Mulder ponders this. “Funny you work with so many men in dresses.”

Scully smiles a little. “Listen, I’m glad to be practicing medicine again, I am. But Ybarra is…” she rolls her eyes skyward, assuming the Heavenly Host will understand her dilemma.

“No fucking fun at all and a complete asshole besides?”

Her thin smile grows to a full grin. “Pretty much.”

Mulder touches her face then, just a quick thumb at her Michelangelo cheekbone. “Well, I’ll keep your skills sharp. Sarcasm, sardonism, irony…all the major classes of smart remarks. I got you, babe.”

Scully laughs her adorable laugh. “What a lucky girl I am.”

“As long as you’re aware,” he says, modestly.

Scully furrows her brow. “Though, actually…what is the difference between sarcastic and sardonic? I was never clear.”

Mulder spears a chunk of roasted potato, gestures with it vaguely. “I believe that was covered at Oxford at some point too, actually. But I don’t recall, and who cares about semantics? Pop quiz, hot shot - what’s the difference between protoplasm, cytoplasm, and the biological ectoplasm?”

He sits back, waiting.

Scully, of course, looks smug. “Well, the nucleus is inclu-“

“Oh my god, shut up,” he says, and leans across the table to kiss her.

#xf fanfic #xfiles fanfic #my fic #msr #prompt