Dean Leetal

Oooo, if you gave one online, I would love to take part!

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That sounds so rough 💜💜

Kid on the train: why do you have a beard?
Me: some people are both a man and a woman.
Kid: why don't I have a beard?
Dad: you're a kid.
Kid to grandma: you don't have a beard. Are you also a kid?

And some toasted seeds!

I used to do a thing on the other app where you describe a person you're holiday shopping for and I tell you a really good book they would like (usually history but other ones too). Y'all want to do that this year? Comment if so. 🎄

kaeyacat, a grey and white dilute tuxedo cat, lying flat on his back on a multicoloured rug. his back legs are spread and his front paws are curled into mr burns hands and he looks off to one side with wide yellow eyes. he is florida man in cat form.

area cat very cute

Oh, absolutely 💜 I loved his role and that we got to see a main gay character! I especially love his conversation with Norma.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode and - Star Wars, Marvel

I found no gif but have you SEEN Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria? Nonbinary icon

Later, in a more perfect society,
someone else made just like me
is certain to appear and act freely

(Cavafy)

Safe to say Bean is now Damien’s baby

Day 8, challenge:
Truthfully, my biggest challenge in academia right now is ableism. It literally keeps me up at night worrying about how I'm going to survive this PHD. Had there just been accommodations, it would have been such a good experience....

#ResearchAdvent

A close up of the soup, in a brown bowl

I made mushroom noodle soup, yumm

Lol, yup!

Hey 💜 I usually just Google their email 🙂

[transphobia]
Still thinking about the cis researcher, that I gave notes to. Her paper was genuinely painful for me to read, it was so (I believe inadvertently) transphobic. I gave her notes about how to fix that fairly easily. She shrugged it off w "I knew some people would find it hard to read".

Day 7, read:
A really fun thing to do while reading papers, is to find people who wrote papers you love and tell them. I am still looking for Melissa N. Bruce , who wrote one of my favorite Supernatural papers:
journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
#ResearchAdvent

Day 6, joy:
Oh, the utter delight of realizing something cool in what you are researching, making a connection or seeing something from a different perspective - that's joy
#ResearchAdvent

It's gonna be for sure!
Thank you!!!!

Day 5, engagement:
This is an odd one for me. I have 26 academic citations to my name, and that fills me with great joy. And I am very fond of some academics I'd like to call friends.
Still, I would haved love writing to be less lonely, to have a more active, a real community.
#ResearchAdvent

I randomly started watching a movie named Crush, from 2022, and it's fun! I'm horribly picky, too!

So, naturally, I checked, and there's fan fiction <3

Day 4, Hope:
I hope academia becomes far more inclusive, and a safe, happy place for a truly diverse community. I need it.
#ResearchAdvent

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<3<3
I am so glad you found it!

Oh, definitely, there are A LOT of good things!
I just mean I haven't been able to find my place there as a fan for some time.

Fan fiction has changed so much in the past few years, I'm not sure it's for me anymore....

you are not alone

if this season is a struggle, you're not alone.
made a thing.

Day 3, appreciation:
One group I REALLY appreciate is people who do peer review well. Who are kind, above all. Who give insightful notes and useful citations, who make my papers so much better, and don't even get credit for it. You know who you are (and I don't!). THANK YOU.
#ResearchAdvent

Frost might have chosen the road not taken, to avoid slipping in other people's snowy footprints.

In my experience, it's option 1. I am still hopeful about creating a community of option 2, but I have not been able to find partners for that other than my romantic partner, sadly.