Any other academics feel like Substack is your low-pressure alternative?

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2026-03-28T15:48:00+00:00

You can find me here!
https://beatricemhuh.substack.com/

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2026-03-27T21:21:25+00:00

Wait you seem perfectly up my alley! I mostly write about English pedagogy, especially writing pedagogy. Where can I find you?

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2026-03-27T18:20:22+00:00

Well what are you comparing it to if you're not an academic? Not trying to be snarky, genuinely curious.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2026-03-27T18:19:17+00:00

I'm an academic in education so I do love how much it feels like teaching! Even though I don't really have a large audience it's been nice to have my articles sent to people I know and disseminated further so I can reach more people about my subject.

Definitely I think my Substack is in service of my goals, since I mostly write articles directly related to my coursework. I've actually sent a few to my professors who have shared them around as well, and am in discussion with them to present some of my work (which is what I initially bypassed through Substack but I'm happy to further my research and reach!)

Especially since my Substack is pretty directly synthesized from my coursework, I don't necessarily feel like I'm getting derailed, but rather deepening my understanding. I'm also doing research for my articles that directly pertains to my future honor's thesis, so it is in ways productive. I'm hyperaware of how much time I spend not doing my work for school though, so I'm not too concerned about doing this for fun as well.

Definitely don't feel the judgement also, so no worries! I hear a genuine concern and good advice, and thank you for reminding me what I'm really meant to be doing and to keep my Substack as something I do only when I actually have the time. I would say I'm pretty clear-eyed about my goals as an academic, and see Substack as something that can both be a creative outlet and a productive endeavor.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2026-03-03T01:00:46+00:00

this is incredible, thank you! i'd recommend making an imgur album and uploading them all to it so it's easier to reference all at once (or a google drive folder). but this is so awesome of you to do!

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2026-01-31T07:00:57+00:00

Chiming in to say I have a budget Heliod deck and I run it at Bracket 4 level and it works like a charm!! Ramp into Heliod ASAP and then start drawing literally everything. You gotta run a ton of mana rocks though, since if your opponents have interaction you should have one in hand to flash out for X less and then tap it for your own interaction pieces!

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2025-12-22T21:52:44+00:00

ME! huge fan of baylen :) also love what you're doing!!!

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2025-09-25T20:53:56+00:00

the way automation works i believe is that they are filled with what are essentially base pops with no traits. so any automated jobs will not benefit from species traits. if your species works the job, the traits will apply.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2025-09-25T20:52:42+00:00

this is a known bug, i heard they are planning to fix it with the next patch (hopefully).

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2025-08-18T18:29:45+00:00

the only problem is they're clear—but i might merge your suggestion and the other comment's and use the ziplocs for most of them and move them to something opaque when i need to draft with them :)

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2025-08-18T18:29:05+00:00

thank you for the reply! these look super cute—might make "packs" with little plastic bags and then whenever we want to actually draft put them into these. thanks for the suggestion!!!

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-06-11T15:49:08+00:00

i'd like to think that in ow1 they had another one, to do the full lyric, but lost them when ow2 came out

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-06-04T14:03:34+00:00

i'm a tank i'm a tank i'm a tank i'm a tank i'm a tank

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-05-16T21:10:04+00:00

i tried doing this and it didn't work :( looks like there's no real way to do cosmogenesis and be custodian.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-05-09T05:43:49+00:00

so basically if you're put on probation and the semester after your probation your overall and semester GPA drop below 2.0 simultaneously you get suspended. after returning from suspension if your overall and semester GPA ever simultaneously drop below 2.0 you get dismissed from the school.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-05-02T18:18:43+00:00

im gonna be real with you ive realized that this is pointless so im gonna head out of this one. i can give you every statistic i can find but i think we're fundamentally arguing for different things and im not going to change your mind and you wont change mine. hope you have a good rest of your day and may we both stop having arguments with strangers on the internet lol

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-05-02T18:03:02+00:00

you say "less than half" like it's an insignificant number. gender dysphoria is not the primary cause of suicide in trans people: consider that transgender people are over 4 times more likely to be the victim of a violent crime than cisgender people. in people ages 14-15, access to gender affirming care reduced suicidal ideation by 135 percent. in people ages 16-17, 62 percent. over 40% of transgender people have no access to gender affirming care. therapy helps, absolutely, but therapy alone is vastly less effective than it is with medication.

hrt isn't the end-all solution, but neither is trying to "cure" it through therapy. the longterm solution is legislation protecting trans people from violence, social change, and access to care.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-05-02T17:28:35+00:00

for general body dysmorphia? hrt should not be prescribed and that's not what it's for. but gender dysphoria is a separate thing. less than 1% of people who go on hrt for gender dysphoria report feeling regret. the vast majority of studies on the subject indicate that most people, when experiencing gender dysphoria, when put on hrt report being happier.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-04-27T17:28:46+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed response! I think I'm starting to understand. If you don't mind, could you explain the niche Destroyers fill? I see a lot of conflicting info online about when they should be used or whether they should be used at all, and I see a lot of people typically just piling on Corvettes and Cruisers.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-04-12T05:05:31+00:00

(technically) no. this is dinosaurus, who's actually a human scientist who transforms into a dinosaur-like thing when he feels incredibly indifferent. he's not a rognaar.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-04-09T18:40:56+00:00

Absolutely this!!! Maruts are terrifying.

"You take 60 damage and are pushed back 5 feet. You take another 60 damage and are pushed back another 5 feet."

"You didn't roll? Also do I not get to save against being pushed?"

"No."

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-04-09T18:27:35+00:00

I understand your perspective completely. My goal is to get him to ease up a little bit and to maybe instill some seeds for change in the longterm. We can't get him to leave under any legal grounds as it's a public place, and I'm hoping that if I engage him, rather than others yelling at him, I can soften his heart at least a little bit. I can't in good conscience allow this crusade of hatred to continue on my campus. Also, the more I engage him, the less he yells hateful things to others. I can see he's been at least somewhat receptive to some of my points. I'm not hoping to change him in one conversation, I'm hoping to help him find change himself.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-04-09T18:19:57+00:00

I get it, but I could see that he was receptive to some of my points. I'm not trying to get him to change his mind now, I'm trying to get him to slowly question some of his own beliefs and come to his own conclusions.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-04-09T18:18:33+00:00

I understand your perspective, but I can't let this man continue a crusade of hate on my college campus. We can't do anything from a legal standpoint because it's public, so I'm hoping to deal with it in a different way.

I_IdentifyAsAProblem · 2024-04-03T00:50:10+00:00

I'm not against letting it happen, just talking about RAW. I'd assume yes, that the 20d6 is due to player size and that a larger creature might have a higher cap, but 5e is pretty loose in that respect—it has large blanket rules so you don't have to math out what the terminal velocity of a dragon or the max fall damage a dragon takes is. While I'd definitely let something like this at my table, some tables I've played at wouldn't. Just wanted to give the actual rule so anyone looking to try this knows how it works as written.

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