Fallen

My Angel

the art of framing

@_filmspeak I thought you might like reading my blog posts - you’re one of the few who also like The Flash movie too! fallenkittie.com/2024/12/27/for…

I really wanted to see more of Kiersey Clemons as Iris West…

Jean Mallard Luciole

@DocDre @ADBoyntonII And even if you got that, you aren’t assured a job regardless. It’s a scam fr fr.

See also: academia It’s no way we should be expecting baby PhDs to have four or five pubs IN ADDITION to the diss

Josef Manes - "The Drowned" (1867)

“I don’t owe anybody anything!” Actually we are perhaps nothing but dizzyingly intricate webs of obligations to other beings and ourselves. The sheer weight of our obligations is all that keeps us from floating away into space. We can never do enough but we must try.

@stephengadubato It really is/was all a scam. They sold us a dream. Now, life is a nightmare.

Out of my 10 friends who got phds in the humanities in the last few years, only 2 got tenure track jobs. The rest are doomed to teach high school…or adjunct.

@stephengadubato I basically tell my students not to do one. Only exceptions are international students who can take it back home and usually get something decent there. Too many cautionary tales... collegetowns.org/p/my-interview…

'The Enchanted Glade' by Daphne Constance Allen (1899-1985)

America may be the first empire whose population mistakes being constantly exposed to criticism for having meaningfully transcended the thing being criticized. They think awareness is absolution. They think satire is resistance. Late-night jokes are resistance. Voting every four years is resistance. A documentary is resistance. A confession is resistance. No. If the structure remains intact, your self-awareness is just another luxury product. An empire that can narrate its own crimes without stopping them has achieved a level of moral decadence Rome would have admired.

@JediOso Batman to Clark😂

We cannot meaningfully discuss restoring those who caused harm while the people harmed are still trying to secure basic dignity and safety. There is still not nearly enough advocacy, protection or support for victims of sexual violence for us to be centering energy on the

Woman in bed, 1910, Jakub Schikaneder

I’m tired of being tired.

gloomy day makes me feel blue📸

La dolce vita

The future was much cooler in the past

Her logics rely heavily on appeal to the majority, the logical fallacy ppl fall back on to tell themselves that it’s OK if they are engaging in behavior that harms others, if a majority is also doing it. But they are also designed to hide that harm. Hence the elaborate analysis.