#switching majors

[downy-roses]

Im dropping being a bio major. I think I’ve just been continuing the plan of a me who doesn’t exist anymore, and wasn’t even real. I love creative writing, editing, literary analysis, argumentative essays, and tutoring writing.

I hate science labs, reaserch, and math. I’ve joked about it for a while. I should have been an English major. I should’ve known after I made jokes about my gender for years in high school…. And now I’m a woman. My jokes usually mean *something* in retrospect.

I chose biology as it was something my past self was confident in and liked. And I think something subconsciously about stem being seen as masculine. Ugh the closet was glass and weird.

Welp, time to trade my more stable career path for something I actually am fully passionate about in entirety. I’m fucked. Be we roll. It’s English major time.

#shit post #trans girl #autustic #transfem #college #english major #switching majors #college sucks #transferring college

[redhotchilipepper1]

Changing your major is wild. I started as an English Major, then switched to psychology, and now all of a sudden I’m a fashion major-

I’m 18, it’s my 5th semester. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life 😭😭😭

#college #college student #switching majors #what am i doing #what is the meaning of this #college is killing me #i want my mom #oh wait no she’s a shitty human never mind #send help

[angebluee]

I have an exam but instead of studying I got possessed

#anime and manga #trigun #vash the stampede #vash #trigun fanart #trigun stampede #digital art #fanart #tristamp #trimax #anime #fuck it we ball I’m gonna bomb my exam tomorrow morning because I can and also the class don’t matter to my major #I switched majors

[existentialterror]

Fellas, if your story has...

Way too many narrators

Self-aware weird formatting

A metanarrative

Courier font

Meaningful colored text

The story existing as a piece of media within the story itself

A fucked up house

An unreliable narrator

Just way too much about the romantic lives of people who suck

That's not your story, that's

#homestuck #house of leaves #light writes #long post #h/t regicidaloptimism for help crafting this bespoke homestuck house of leaves shitpost #homestuck spoilers // #<- uh I think not major ones but I'm only partway through act 6 act 6 #EDITED: wasn't actually courier in the screenshot switched it with a correct one

[rochenn]

The Jedi Order mainly being an institution about teaching makes me sad that we never see more "Jedi classes" outside of the popular ones like martial arts, healthcare and Force wackery.

Alongside basic language and science education etc there have to be at least some trade and college courses on offer, right? The Jedi need a bunch of their own people with law degrees. Proper pedagogy studies for future crèchemasters. Cooks. Managers. All types of engineers. Electricians. Accountants. Researchers. How many Jedi hold a doctorate or professorate? Because I think a large number of them do. Their databanks are filled with millennia of dissertations. You can still find Yoda's articles from 500 years ago and cite them in your history research paper.

The Order just having its own micro-economy going on and every member getting their own regular job education next to all the lightsaber swinging adventures... pls

#like idk... mace actually has a phd in chemistry #what if yoda passed the fucking coruscant bar exam 700 years ago and now is a veritable law historian for the post-ruusan era #LIKE!!! #comedy potential but also so cool #it would also make the war so much more jarring bc now the padawans simply don't get to have a job that isn't “soldier“ #imagine being in the middle of ur nice little social science major as a 20-smth padawan and then the war starts #and your courses are spontaneously switched to officer candidate school type shit #:/

[buzzfeedunsolvable]

No hate to Steven or anything and a lot of the flack he's gotten in the yt comments is unwarranted, but one thing I think is interesting is how on Watcher he was painted as a business-guru type and yet he was like... a chemical engineering major. Like so was I for most of college and you know what we never learned? How to run a business

#I say 'most' bc I switched out of chemical engineering in my fourth year (switched to biochem) #but still #I think maybe a lot of non-STEM people hear engineering and think engineering = smart #and therefore qualified to run a business #when being a successful STEM major or engineer specifically has nothing to do with intelligence #I've encountered many STEM majors at 'good' schools who are dumb as bricks #a girl I roomed with got flying colors in organic chemistry and yet thought she could get high off of molly through the walls #tracking tag #rambling #watcher

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #kingdom hearts #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #finally starting kingdom hearts 3 after 5 and a half years :) #(as long as I've run this blog wow!) #(3 of those were playing through all the other kingdom hearts games when they came out for switch) #I'm having a lot of fun! #I intentionally avoided most of the reviews and playthroughs and stuff #lmao I was looking at my other kirbs tagged 'kingdom hearts' #and this is the third february in a row I've drawn a keyblade kirb to celebrate major gameplay progress #but I guess that means it only took me 2 years to play through all the preceding games.

[yunogf]

NCT 127's Sticker (2021) as Michael Crichton's science fiction western Westworld (1973)

#nctinc #jaehyunnet #mine*works #mine*gfx #useroro #userresa #itsnctsworld #tuseral #baekwin #aleksbestie #useraweks #jadeblr #a fun lil concept switch that i've been thinking abt for awhile <3 #i wanted to keep taeyong as the robot but i couldnt make that 2nd cover work w him #jaehyun has major android face too tho so it worked rly well i actually rly like that one <3 he looks more like the yul brynner pic anyway #also why was mark the only one who actually wore a cowboy hat in the mv like . way to disappoint me boys #i wanted the title to say sticker but neo world worked better 🤷‍♀️ #these are remakes of the movie posters for westworld so if u wanna see what i used for reference u can google westworld movie posters <3

[taffywabbit]

i just woke up so i haven't actually watched the pokemon direct thingy yet, but i heard they mentioned they aren't pushing out another console release at all for 2024 and if that's true then frankly THAT news is way more hype than any actual game announcement could ever be. go girl let us wait!! this is genuinely what i've been begging for for years now

like, oh a new Legends game? that's neat i guess. oh wait it's being given literally ANY time to cook and they aren't crunching Game Freak to hell and back in order to pump out a bunch of half-baked annual releases for the first time in ages?? NOW we're fuckin talking. LOVE to see the torturous cycle broken

#buny text #pokemon #granted they may have just delayed their plans simply because nintendo still isn't releasing a new console til pretty late in the year #and they cannot feasibly keep trying to squeeze things down into a format the switch can (barely) handle without losing goodwill #but i'd like to hope that this also proves they don't need to be pumping out 3 console titles and multiple DLCs in such short spans of time #i'd love to see what might happen if the pokemon devs were ever given the kind of long thorough dev cycles that the zelda team gets #like let gamefreak cook for as long as they need and release when they actually feel it's ready. please. #as frustrated as i am with how SV turned out the majority of my frustration was that you can still FEEL the devs' passion in there #but it's massively overshadowed by jank and lack of polish and design decisions that would only ever be made under intense time pressure #the last chunk of that game's story is cool as hell but getting there was such a depressing experience that it's very hard to recommend #these are clearly artists who still have good ideas and interesting experiences to create! give them the time they need to do it properly!

[cookinguptales]

So back when I was much younger and much newer, I took a class at UChicago on ancient Egypt. This was so exciting for me, especially because UChicago has an extensive collection of artifacts from the ancient Near East -- which meant that we got to learn using actual artifacts.

It wasn’t that unusual for us to be sent off to the Oriental Institute to translate something as homework, and one of the things I remember vividly was this (partially restored) fragment of a tomb wall.

In ancient Egypt, names were important, and so was memory. The continued existence of the soul was associated with the continued existence and memory of a person’s name, which is one reason why we have all of these beautiful carved monuments to this day. They wanted to write their names down. They wanted to be remembered. They knew that they could live forever as long as they lived in one person’s memory.

But tombs are expensive. They take a lot of time, a lot of resources, a lot of work. It’s a lot easier to just scratch out one person’s name and replace it with your own. A lot of memorials were repurposed in this way, sometimes because they were actively trying to erase one person’s memory and sometimes simply in an effort to maintain their own. So there was a very real anxiety about tomb desecration and name erasure that comes up again and again and again.

That was what we’d learned about in class that day, but I didn’t know why this wall fragment was our homework until I finished translating it.

I remember sitting there, huddled over my notebook as I crouched on the floor of the OI, sixteen years old and just beginning to learn the world. I remember painstakingly copying the inscription and then translating it to the best of my ability. And then I remember giggling as quietly as I could, not wanting to bother the other guests, when I realized it basically said, “HAHA, I MADE IT SO YOU CAN’T ERASE THIS.”

You see, he’d invented a technique that involved filling the carvings with a certain kind of colored paste. It was very, very difficult to completely remove -- and he was right. No one had managed to do it.

I remember sitting there on the floor and laughing and thinking to myself that humans don’t change, not really. We don’t ever, ever change. Our beliefs might and our goals might, but people? Our souls can traverse millennia.

Because over four thousand years had passed but I still felt this odd connection to a man whose pride in his own ingenuity had made me laugh. 

This all happened around fifteen years ago and I no longer remember how to read this wall. But you know what I do remember? His name.

I remember you, Nefermaat.

#I FOUND HIM #I found a site that talked about this exact wall fragment #so I decided to turn it into a post and share it with you #so you can remember him too #and his wife Itet at that #I ended up switching majors because I realized that I had ethical concerns with the discipline #and I felt complicit in things like imperialism and grave robbing #but I still remember this guy :) #ancient egypt

[decalcominia]

I love how they used language as a tool of power and an indicator on which side they are like for example lady maeda, having her speak in korean made her look as if they’re equals, since as a japanese person she certainly did not have to do that, but by dropping the act and taking on her native language, the language the people of joseon were forced to speak and understand, she takes the role of the oppressor again showing that, after all, she has never seen them as equals to begin with

#does this make sense #its so sad that the translation doesnt do all of this any justice #like its a major thing that they keep switching from japanese to korean #gyeongseong creature

[wstcqst]

#metalhead #black metal #metal meme #metalocalypse #metal #heavy metal #death metal #rahhhh #bleghhhh #spotify #music #heavy and thundery rain set to batter ireland as met eireann confirm ‘high pressure building’ ahead of major switch #blegh #blegh blegh blegh #raghhh #funny memes #memes #mentally fucked #thabk u #pretty #music recs

[theriverbeyond]

something re: the Gideon -> Kiriona evolution that is perhaps not the most important (esp on the scale of other things) but that i keep feeling fairly fixated on is that Gideon hated the Lyctor Aesthetic (”like Silas Oktakisseron threw up in the glitter drawer”) and she is so valid for that but now she’s dressed like “the military wing of disco”. and on a personal level i think her new look is incredibly sexy BUT i cannot help but fixate on how this is now the third outfit she has worn that is not really something she would have chosen for herself (cavalier skull paint, harrow’s body, military disco). and she only gets three outfits in the whole series anyway!! 

something something abt being butch and How We Dress being so related to Who We Are, and having that choice taken away is always some sort of thing. something something abt body autonomy and how she continues to have none despite her proclamations otherwise. she says ”nobody locks me up anywhere” but Kiriona Gaia is arguably locked up everywhere she goes, on account of her body having the fun feature of being able to be turned off by someone else. Gideon started her escape attempts at age four. four!!!!! something something abt how the one thing she has always fought for is her own freedom, and everything she has done and everything she has been through since then has only served to render her more and more under others’ control. on the Ninth she had an ankle cuff and at Canaan House she had the cavalier’s sword and as a prince the leash and collar is her own dead body, which is once again (as always) dressed by someone else. 

#kiriona gaia #gideon nav #nona the ninth #ntn spoilers #trb.txt #tlt thoughts #this post was ORIGINALLY supposed to be a joke post like damn what gives i thought gideon hated john's aesthetic #but then i started writing it and i was like wait. hold the fuck on. anyway. poor gideon :( #wish i could elaborate on the like butchess/queerness and who we are and how we dress part but. #i dropped out of a gender studies major so i am not the best person to #to analyze that specific axis #@ my past self u should have double majored instead of switching so u would have been #appropriatly equiped to analyze The Locked Tomb book series #i mean like maybe she did choose it but. based on her thoughts on the whole lyctor outfit thing in HtN i dont think she did.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

Not to be uhhhh annoying, but Karkat's theme and Eridan's theme from Alterniabound at the very least have to do with each other.

Both of them start off with a melody, but switch it up at around 0:06 seconds. Then once again another switch at 0:52 (almost perfectly in sync).

At around 1:06, Eridan's theme goes slow and sad, and on the other end? Sounds of tediousness(TM). Barking, Super Mario ghost oooohing that sounds like rolling your eyes, and vaguely digital soundbites.

And THEN, at around 1:23, Karkat's waltz resumes, and Eridan's theme also becomes a waltz (more or less at 1.25x Karkat's speed).

Karkat's music ends at 1:57, WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT Eridan's theme kicks up. And then a "Hey!" is heard at 2:03/2:04, a couple of seconds after Karkat's theme actually ends. Quite literally: "Karkat pay attention to me. Hey. Karkat. Karkat. Karkat." lmao.

And guess which theme also loosely follows this pattern? Terezi's. A canonical crush of Karkat's (A lot more out of sync, though). Kanaya's theme doesn't, however. Much less Vriska's, or any other theme in Alterniabound's album.

Of course all of these songs follow a pattern, and they're made for the same [S] Pages. Karkat and Eridan's, though? Almost completely in sync.

I dunno, maybe I'm trying to fit triangles into square holes, but it seemed worth mentioning. I genuinely tried listening to both at the same time in two different tabs but I couldn't get much out of it.

(This is nosyDetective btw, I just can't send asks from this blog bc it's not my main 😔)

Unfortunately, the similarities seem pretty superficial - eridan's theme is mostly in 4/4 (2/2 technically because its a march) and karkat's is in 3/4 the whole time - but still, here's the two 3/4 parts mashed together for your listening pleasure, hahah.

#eridan ampora #karkat vantas #homestuck #erikar #REALLY quick and dirty #i only changed the tempo of eridan's part #which is why it sounds so dogshit #i am not a sound engineer lol #they don't even really stay in the same key #eridan's jumps between major and minor in a way that clashes with karkat's pretty horribly #so only in song structure are they the same and it could be a coincidence #this is all i can do with my limited skillll it would take a more skilled sound engineer to join the two songs properly #esp. because again karkat stays in 3/4 the whole time and eridan switches to 4/4 for most of it

[coladaminx]

he's gonna temporarily die and kacchan better catch him (╥﹏╥) i'm not lookin forward to this but i sense something crazy is happening..

#bnha #mha #mha406 #my hero academia #bkdk #dkbk #bakudeku #dekubaku #izuku midoriya #bakugou katsuki #major angst is on the horizen #unless we get a pov switch which is fine #my heart could use a break lol #but kacchan bridle carry when? #one last thing #i'm throwing this on the table #hori is surpassing our expectations #SO LET ME SEE KACCHAN REVIVE IZUKU WITH A KISS! #THANKS FOR READING! #:3

[jacksprostate]

Before Project Mayhem, before fight club, before Marla, before Tyler — there is still one sad sack of shit.

.

.

The hard part about work trips isn't making the plane or seeing another family of five burnt into their leather seats. It's missing support groups.

See, if you're lucky, the company will send you out to a major city. Cities are great. A little advanced work to find a slightly below average church or library, you're set each night you're there.

It's a bit of novelty, getting to be a new face all at once. People assume you've just been diagnosed. It's never the failed treatments, the degradation of their life and everyone in it, the continuous experience of knowingly dying — none of those things are the worst thing that happens to you.

It's finding out they will.

So people cry. They crowd around, I sob like I've been told I've got stage four colon cancer and three weeks to live. We all cry. I sleep soundly on the plane back or in the nice, four star hotel my company provides me.

Flying out to a small town, though. I'll be awake enough to be hallucinating by the time I get back for Remaining Men Together. The only mercy is that the next time I show for all the groups I missed, I can see who thought I died. I get to be resurrected.

The other part about small towns, you have to take a second, shitter plane to a local airfield, or you have to take a rental car. One of the most popular rental cars available right now, it'll light itself on fire if you use the cruise control at the wrong time. I know this because I sat next to another guy with my job, who worked for a different company, and he said I'll show you mine if you show me yours. So I told him about the faulty airbags, and he told me about the overheating switch.

I prefer to avoid driving.

All the rental place at the airport has left for me, it's one of those flaming cars. I use cruise control. If I don't, one of my narcoleptic spells will send me into the Jersey barrier.

When you drive into these small towns, you have to try to pay attention, or you'll end up a county over talking about the wrong wreck. They're otherwise interchangeable, but the miles on your rental car won't line up and those are the type of records that might get pulled out when the company is finally sued for the big one ten years down the line.

As a result, I see the same decor on the way in every time. Meth lab. Abandoned homes. Garbage fire. Classic Americana. There is no four star hotel here; I sleep the same.

The only reason I've been brought out here is because the poor shithead who drove his truck into the ditch drunk was driving my company's flagship vehicle. It loses power steering if the car jostles the right way going above 55 miles per hour. I've been told to keep track of potential incidents and make sure the company can firmly claim it's not at fault.

We've had this problem for decades, and we will for many more. Sometimes, everything is falling apart.

The job is simple, and I only get tempted by the town's blatant opioid addiction for a day and night. Painkillers would probably make me sleep. The thing about being a recall campaign organizer, though, is like recognizes like. It's not only other Compliance and Liability guys who tell you company secrets while sharing the aisle in business class.

When I'm finally back in my own town, after my own support groups, after crying my eyes out into Bob's meaty middle — I pick up my mail. There's the newest IKEA magazine. Half of it looks like shit. The type of thing you'd only see in some curated art deco, modernist, post-modern traditionalist bohemian minimalist apartment.

I have to have it.

I go to sleep, hard, like God himself tucked me in. I sleep with my wallet net four hundred heavier, because even an IKEA spree tends not to outweigh a work trip. I sleep, with my called in IKEA goods only two short weeks away, my job well done, and I know, my life is complete.

#fight club #my writing #KEY INFO: this is Before Tyler #bit experimental as a result. how to peel away some of the narratorisms but have him still be the narrator? how to make him complacent #like a wisconsin dairy cow but still have undertones of extreme conscious and subconscious distress? #all car faults mentioned are real #ford had an overheating cruise control switch #and some other overheating fire switches #and jeep. i know because i knew a guy with a jeep — they randomly lose pwoer steering sometimes #horrific and scary and potentially deadly in any car — but jeeps have this known and bizzarely widely accepted flaw called the death wobble #which refers to the oscillations that rapidly feed on each other if the car is slightly out of tune #and can result in tearing the steering wheel from your hands #until you slow down #for some reason that's just accepted. #theres a lot of jeep propaganda #anyway you combine those two #you get the picture #i dont doubt theres been incidents even if there hasnt been major recalls lol #i hope this one comes across well... it's always strange to explore an almost hypothetical version of a character. the narrator where Tyler #is just a growing little menace in his head.... #I think what made this one fun for me though is the narrator would still be pretty openly bleak I think but the SUBCONSCIOUS stuff. #especially all the stuff I implied at the end. very fun to write #and it was also just fun to lay down the like.... seeds. of things #this is before Tyler in the sense that it's before he was well cooked. Before they met. Etc. Pretty early into the support groups. But yk #he is sleeping.