ACADEMIC FICATHON? FIC ACADEMIATHON! animus_wyrmis is modding it and I am helping her/letting her use movementmvt/ whatever she asks of me :D ( Read more... )

I got about three, three and a half hours' sleep this morning after emailing my BA draft to my colloquium group and my adviser around 6:30am. Then at 11 I went to my adviser appointment, not TOO groggily but yeah kinda, and she told me that my new draft was an improvement! Then she talked to me for an hour about the first couple pages and how I ( Read more... )

The total negation of the two fundamental classes of society in the Marxist view - one, the bourgeoisie, because it wasn't national, the other, the proletariat, because it wasn't revolutionary - made existing political systems nothing more than devious but clever stratagems of domination.

- UTOPIA UNARMED: The latin american left after the cold ( Read more... )

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so here's a thesis idea, how about "What is going on in Bolivian politics and what does Evo Morales see in Fidel and Chavez and communism anyway?" AND THEN I want to work in "Where does Marx come in? Or does he?" AND THEN MAYBE I will be like, "what's nationalism got to do with it, got to do with it?" (That's like a whole book's worth of thesis I ( Read more... )

silly things in graphic programs

( hetalia kanye joke, hetalia dick-in-a-box joke, marxist marx-brothers joke )

Today was a pretty good day! My brother and I went out for sushi lunch and it was delicious, we didn't talk that much but it was still good bonding time. Then I read some Eclipse (lol whyyy), then my dad called and we saw Food, Inc., which was sort of like a horror movie for me because they showed those livestock-abuse things like cows with broken ( Read more... )

GAH YES I FINALLY WROTE HETALIA! lassiterfics gave me the prompt on the kiss-drabble meme, and I wrote it, and I kept writing it, and then it exceeded the character limit for a comment, and then it reached 1360 words. Hell yes.

高度経済成長 / Wirtschaftswunder
Germany/Japan, at the end of the war
incl. Japanese post-war economic miracle, German "economic miracle" ( Read more... )

To the loveliest lassiterfics on this illustrious day of her birth, I bequeath this revolutionary AU (which we had already spun threads of here before it sort of was forgotten, and then I appropriated its general approach). This managed to start out simply enough, but then it then snowballed into a giant social-theory spree that got a little out of hand. It' ( Read more... )

I have this faint memory of last spring being fucking amazing. These days it is nothing but shittons of work, happiness at seeing leaves, and staying up till 2:30am every night, which is tiring.

Upsides: summer is coming and with it, hope. I like reading Simone de Bouvoir's The Second Sex - finally a writer I can identify with, someone not ( Read more... )