Subjects That Belong In Academia Proletaria (and Should Be More Appreciated):

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so yesterday i fell asleep on accident so now i gotta write what i did then today dncndnf

so i allowed myself to be a little lazy cause i had to go visit some relatives. All i did was

-repeat the basics of c++

-take some notes on astronomy

welp, still better than nothing

Happy 2 year anniversary of the jewel and absolute joy that is the miniseries of Good Omens 

Good Omens + Tumblr (pt. 6) See also (pt. 1) (pt. 2) (pt. 3) (pt. 4) (pt. 5)

Okay but hear me out.

Chaotic academia.

Listening to classical records at full volume, double the speed, jumping around the room like a maniac.

Low alcohol tolerance, doesn't stop the flow of wine.

Tries to smoke. Cigarettes, cigars, pipes, you name it. But instead of the suave, graceful demeanour that other possess, it just ends in a hacking cough and nicotine stained fingers.

Stephen King books hidden away behind 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' on the shelf.

A crate full of classical records, but should you look through them, there's a Spice Girls single and 'Born in the USA' by Springsteen.

Guilty of the oh-so dreadful act of wearing jeans.

"Byron was waaaaayayyyyyyy sluttier than Mozart."

It's like Dark Academia, but fun.

french expressions with “en”🌼

these french words are also used in english (mostly older english), maybe to indicate someone who uses pompous dialogue, and the sentences below are examples of the usage of the words in english. 

1. En ami (“as a friend”): “I confide in you en ami.”

2. En arrière (“behind”): “Discretion is the better part of valor, I reminded myself as, letting my more valorous friends go before me, I marched en arriere.”

3. En attendant (“meanwhile”): “I entertained myself en attendant by thumbing through a magazine while she troweled on her makeup.”

4. En avant (“forward”): “En avant, comrades. Fortune awaits us through that door.”

5. En badinant (“in jest”): “Relax, my friend — I meant what I said en badinant.”

6. En bagatelle (“in contempt”): “He glared at me en bagatelle, as if I were vermin.”

7. En banc (“with complete judicial authority”): “I sentence you en banc, as judge, jury, and executioner, to death.”

8. En bloc (“in a mass”): “We can depend on them to vote en bloc in support of the proposal.”

9. En clair (“in clear language, as opposed to in code”): “The spy’s telegram was carelessly written en clair.”

10. En deshabillé (“undressed, or revealed”): “She opened the door to find me standing there en deshabille, and immediately retreated.”

11. En échelon (“in steps, or overlapping”): “The flock of geese flew overhead en echelon.”

12. En effet (“in fact, indeed”): “You see that I am, en effet, in control of the situation.”

13. En famille (“with family, at home, informally”): “Let us now return to that happy household, where we find the denizens lounging en famille.”

14. En foule (“in a crowd”): “He had the remarkable ability to blend in en foule.”

15. En garçon (“as or like a bachelor”): “I have separated from my wife and am now living en garcon.”

16. En grande (“full size”): The bouncer approached and, with a scowl, reared up en grande.”

17. En grande tenue (“in formal attire”): “She arrived, as usual, en grande tenue, and in consternation that everyone else was dressed causally.”

18. En grande toilette (“in full dress”): “The opening-night crowd was attired en grande toilette.”

19. En garde (“on guard”): “She assumed a defensive position, as if en guard in a fencing match.”

20. En haute (“above”): “From my perspective — en haute, as it were — I’d say you are both wrong.”

21. En masse (“all together”): “The members of the basketball team arrived en masse at the party.”

22. En pantoufles (“in slippers, at ease, informally”): “He had just settled down for a relaxing evening en pantoufles when the doorbell rang.”

23. En passant (“in passing”): “She nonchalantly mentioned the rumor en passant.”

24. En plein air (“in the open air”): “We celebrated by venturing en plein air.”

25. En plein jour (“in broad day”): “They boldly rendezvoused en plein jour.”

26. En poste (“in a diplomatic post”): “Though he was a friend, I decided to send the memorandum en poste.”

27. En prise (“exposed to capture”): “He found himself en prise, beset on all sides.”

28. En queue: (“after”): “I bided my time and followed en queue.”

29. En rapport (“in agreement or harmony”): “I’m delighted that we are all en rapport on the subject.”

30. En régle (“in order, in due form”): “I believe you will find the documents en regle.”

31. En retard (“late”): “Typically, they arrived en retard for dinner.”

32. En retraite (“in retreat or retirement”): “After uttering the verbal blunder, she ducked her head and exited the parlor en retraite.”

33. En revanche (“in return, in compensation”): “En revanche, I invite you to attend my upcoming soiree.”

34. En rigueur (“in force”): “We have arrived en rigueur to support you.”

35. En route (“on the way”): “En route to the post office, she passed by the derelict house.”

36. En secondes noces (“in a second marriage”): “The community was so conservative that she found her matrimonial state, en secondes noces, to be the topic of gossip.”

37. En suite (“connected, or in a set, as a bedroom with its own bathroom”): “She was pleased to see that the room was en suite.” (Also spelled ensuite.)

38. En tasse (“in a cup”): “I’ll take some en tasse.”

39. En tout (“in all”): “We’d like to use your banquet room, please — we are a score or more en tout.”

40. En vérité (“in truth”): “En verite, I am the one responsible.”

Source: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/40-french-expressions-en-tout/

idk if i should blame this on sleep deprivation or simply having a wohoo ass brain but i literally thought that i can see mushrooms growing out of my phone in the colours of the app im currently on so i switched to tumbl to make it more interesting so yeah

I am cryyyinnngg 😭😭😭

From the desk of

While I was obsessively searching through jet pens for cool stationary products - I realized school is a month or two away.

So I checked out the Prepare for your Classes tab at University of the People to begin my coursework in Computer Science. I downloaded the books and saved the course resources links and read through all the syllabi.

Here are the things:

Liberal Arts!!

Education Strategies & English 101

Programming!!

Programming Fundamentals

Programming 1 & 2

Computer Systems

Maths!

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Preparation Resources

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Week 6: Unit 6 – Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

Week 7: Unit 7 – Newton’s Method and the Integral and Antiderivative

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Week 9: Unit 9 – Course Review and Final Exam

So excited!

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Now what? Besides needing some more notebooks I am trying to decide between a digital or analog note taking system. One costs $800 bucks but will be higher quality with a slight learning curve - iPad Air and Pencil and a note taking app (probably Notability)

Here. Read. Learn.

Paperlike

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And a second article:

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I’ve read about the differences between IPad Air and Pro for note taking and Meh.

I like the latest IPad ($349) or the Latest iPad Air ($549). Choosing between the Apple Pencil 1 ($99) or Apple Pencil 2 ($129) isn’t the biggest deal breaker either.

Apple support is about $3.50 per month until you turn it off so... yeah.

In any case - this is the one I want:

The cost is similar for the IPad case. Not bad, but that’s a LOT of Notebooks, Washi Tapes, and Pens!

The conclusion?

For about the cost of an iPad Air bundle, I can purchase ALL OF THE stationary supplies AND a better digital camera AND a few months of unlimited data for my modem.

So you know.

In regards to Content? Both options?

Oh yes please!

AND new pretty furniture AND gaming system (XBOX) AND TV (LG) AND a streaming device AND you know - costumes?

Livestreamer blues.

Mics and stuff aren’t cheap man. Neither are cameras and elgato devices (effect box, cam link, game link). Boo!

The desire for moody dark academia study blr and pagan influenced live stream aesthetics aside...

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Until next time... I’ll be perusing digital camera and lighting kits... really I’m going to start my coursework. Maybe after dinner and a nap. Maybe.

Perhaps this is a Hot Take™, but as a queer person old enough to have very little formative concept of Representation In Mass Media, especially beyond queer-coded villains and the occasional Butt of The Joke (looking at you, the 90s & early 2000s), I cannot begin to see how people who are part of the LGBT+ community don’t see how deeply in love Crowley & Aziraphale are.

This is only compounded, I think, by my being an adult well past the Terrible Uncertainty of Puberty and Adolescent Feelings. That’s not to diminish the impact and potential depth of falling for someone as a kid/teen/young adult of the near-18, pre-drinking-in-America-legally persuasion; rather, that is merely to say that all this talk of “but they didn’t kiss or outright say I Love You, therefore It’s Not Canon” feels like it completely oversimplifies and wraps in far too tiny a box the matter of love, especially between queer folk. It simply overlooks how much of love is so much more than that easily wrapped box.

Keep reading

The poetry of the ineffable husbands

It’s me ya boi I gotta go to bed in an hour so I’m writing it as fast as I can so I don’t lose my idea tomorrow. 

So, what do I mean by that? Literally what it says. I’m just going to ramble about how beautiful and full of metaphors their relationship is and how it just gives me a reason to live. It’s not going to be good rambling. Just rambling with a little bit of passion in it.

Ight imma start with the classic things. As a former Wattpad loyal user I know all the angel x demon tropes. And I am sick of them to my stomach, I can’t stand one more uwu baby angel corrupted by demon. And this is what is surprising but does make sense about them husbands. They cannot, in my opinion, be called angel or demon, they literally became 2 halves of the same entity, the supernatural entity that watches over humans and makes sure there is a balance between good and bad. Like Yin and Yang. Good and evil, black and white, light and darkness. Not opposing, but complementing each other.

 Aaaand they were like that from the beginning. Remember when Crowley said  "Funny thing is, I keep wondering whether the apple thing wasn’t the right thing to do, as well. A demon can get into real trouble, doing the right thing. Funny if we both got it wrong, eh? Funny if I did the good thing and you did the bad one, eh?". They somehow knew it, Crowley wasn’t evil and Aziraphale wasn’t as obedient as an angel should have been. From the first time they ever got in touch in each other (we do not have any information on the times before Crowley’s fall) they somehow ended up thinking they didn’t do the thing their roles assigned them to. And this just shows how interesting their relationship that would come will be. In their relationship they always ended up stepping on their values that were assigned and for what? For the sake of each other.

Now, I got into the light-darkness thing and I feel the need to extend it. I somewhere saw a theory that angel’s halo’s are so bright that it blinds them, the angels having to rely only on God’s word. Meanwhile, the fallen angels, the demons, had their halo’s broken, forming the shape of the horns, being able to see and think on their own but not having any form of guidance. Now that we uncovered that doesnt a relationship between a demon and an angel just make sense? Like, the angel, blinded by the divine light, would rely on the demon’s words and rationalizing. The demon would then be guided by the angel’s light, this way both benefiting for each other and having to bond to each other. It just makes me so soft to think about that need of each other, and just a silly little thing my brain just said: “the angel could guide the demon through the darkest of times’’ (yes I just quoted my brain deal with it). I am just a succkerrr for this kind of soft thing and many people would probably not empathize and thats okay.

Now the really corny shit. Like the “forbidden love” kind of. This is, again, a well-known trope, but this time one that didn’t lose as much value as others did. When you think “forbidden love” there are so many posibilities. Like... gays during the history, a maiden and a prince, a gay knight and a prince, mafia gang leader harry styles and crime detective, the entire plot of hannibal, drunken me and a laptop to write, hold on I’m going too far, just young people in love and not affording it aaannndd 2 people from opposite sides. Heaven/Hell I mean. Obviously very opposite. And what we have learned about this forbidden love kinda stuff? They almost always end up running away together. Yes I am proving Crowley is head over heels but like, isn’t that poetic as fuck? Being so sick of having to do your work, to hide your feelings, to just hide yourself and the person you would die for that you just want to dull off together and live the perfect life without being judged?

Related to the past point, even if this was an innevitable choice, just the fact that Crowley chose Alpha Centauri is just making my brain and fingers go nuts. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system, 2 of them forming a binary star, basically two stars that are pretty close to each other. Now I know this doesn’t really make any sense, but what if those 2 stars represent Crowley and Aziraphale, and the 3rd one represents Adam? Like in that moment they went during the time before the world was created. I just think it would be cool as fuck that there would actually be an association made.

Also just the ship’s name: Ineffable. What does it mean? Beyond words, beyond understanding. What we always try is to put our feelings into words, and we more than usual fail. Because feelings aren’t something to be shown by words. They are ineffable.

Where did I go with this? Absolutely. No. Idea. I just poured all I my thoughts on a tired keyboard until my fingers have gone cold. It’s just that there are small details or just small ideas that maybe aren’t that revolutionary or special, but why not randomly post them on the internet?

*screeches in happy*

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I'll definetly have to restart this, but i thought it would be nice to update

bUT I took the first exam and it went pretty well actually I am quite proud of how I did in it. Can't wait for the results!

Now all I have to go through is tomorrow's exam and I am fucking free, cant wait

I will spend the free time betwee the exams studying for the last one. Everything will be okay