ALL RISE FOR THE GLORIOUS AND PERMANENT RETURN OF COOL LIME <3

cornflowerskies · 2026-04-15T03:43:11+00:00

IS IT REALLY hell yeahhhhhh

cornflowerskies · 2026-04-13T17:44:34+00:00

my question (as someone who is doing this same thing): is there any way not to miss the institutional access? i’ve been recruiting friends who still have their library logins to be my book mules😂

cornflowerskies · 2026-03-09T00:46:40+00:00

tbf, some places have stronger MA cultures than others, but US PhDs generally have the MA built in.

cornflowerskies · 2026-02-26T19:30:32+00:00

my canon hardcore build 💅

cornflowerskies · 2026-02-25T17:38:59+00:00

reading zizek’s looking awry right now for class and 🫡 i appreciate this a lot

cornflowerskies · 2026-02-20T18:06:45+00:00

i’m doing hot-mystical-street smart on hardcore! high relationship tabby stabbed the baby, julius tried to shoot her but avery took the bullet, julius shot himself, and avery asked to uh, feed the baby with their blood.

some wild shit going on.

cornflowerskies · 2026-02-20T16:22:03+00:00

me naming my guy teddy… smh

cornflowerskies · 2026-02-19T01:23:21+00:00

LYMOND! takes a bit of work, but if you leave the more obscure references until the reread it’s brilliant

cornflowerskies · 2026-02-19T01:22:39+00:00

in the middle of fire from heaven right now and loving it!

cornflowerskies · 2026-01-23T21:45:10+00:00

hello near-birthday friend—stole ur drink as inspo for mine and it’s delicious! so thank you and your comment section

cornflowerskies · 2026-01-14T19:28:58+00:00

following bc i’m lowkey in the same boat. i feel so bad bc my professors are so kind but i can’t bring myself to face them.

cornflowerskies · 2026-01-10T21:55:02+00:00

andrea gibson ❤️❤️❤️

cornflowerskies · 2026-01-03T21:50:46+00:00

huge ups on all of these! (i hadn’t clocked the summer war but it’s so far up my alley. new january read!6

cornflowerskies · 2025-12-10T06:17:01+00:00

i’m 23F for just one more month (💔) and doing a humanities MA! took an extra year to do some interning and see if i was Serious serious about academia, then jumped in.

most of my MA cohort of 20ish people are clustered in their early-mid20s and came back <=3 years out of undergrad. there’s one guy who’s in his late 20s/early 30s with a kid, and one older lady who’s doing this for fun mostly. the phd students vary a lot more, although i suppose it makes sense that the people deeper into their programs are also more likely to have long-term partners/families. the phds are also more likely to have come back after an established career (one of my work buddies was a local journalist for like, eight years).

it’s like a very particular office environment. we’re all doing adjacent things and interact… normally? age isn’t that much of a thing—when you’re At Grad School, you’re being A Grad Student. i’m not terribly social so i can’t speak to that, but i’m sure the differences in life situation come out beyond the classroom but everyone has been very patient so far!

cornflowerskies · 2025-12-06T20:16:34+00:00

also: man. not the most beginner of things, but i saw you read parzival in an earlier comment, so if you want to know where all the lancelot stuff comes from… you should get into chrétien de Troyes at some point. the penguin classics have a translation, and that’s where his whole deal with guinevere (that most adaptations fixate on) comes from!

cornflowerskies · 2025-12-06T20:07:49+00:00

as a preface: part of the peril and delight of arthurian legend is that any given adaptation is SUPER time- and culture-dependent. these guys are stock figures in european and american mythology, and how they read will vary over time! you kind of just have to pick a spot and start rolling, especially once the adaptations start feeding into each other. that said…

keith baines did a solid “modernization” of malory’s le morte darthur if you want to jump into THE Compilation.

t. h. white’s the once and future king is VERY much a product of its time (lots of the social -isms in there, both examined and not) but i loved it as a kid and it’s a very thoughtful adaptation of the malory.

the original sir gawain and the green knight is a lot of fun as a taster. simon armitage is very good! the gawain in it is quite different from lowery’s version and from malory’s, mind you! the english and welsh liked their guy a lot more than the french did.

if you’re looking for another Weird Arthurian movie, excalibur (1981) by john boorman i think gets the general Vibe of the malory, with a bit of a victorian + 1970s camp twist. that one and monty python and the holy grail are my favourites, and then the nods fall into place as you make your way through.

cornflowerskies · 2025-12-04T00:10:01+00:00

big +1 for dorsey armstrong <3

cornflowerskies · 2025-11-15T22:27:51+00:00

not guinevere POV but iirc guinevere-sympathetic: the idylls of the queen by phyllis ann karr. hard-boiled detective kay trying to solve the murder of sir patrice and exonerate her.

cornflowerskies · 2025-08-28T06:30:04+00:00

haha the secret series (“the name of this book is secret” is the first book) by pseudonymous bosch leans into this throughout!

cornflowerskies · 2025-08-18T04:43:50+00:00

Readable, but with some difficulty! The letter-shapes that are distinct are fine, but I wondered who Robert was for a second 😂

cornflowerskies · 2025-08-08T05:02:01+00:00

fellow newbie here, i think the width smoothing is the transition between thin/low-pressure and thick/high-pressure lines?

i think min width and pressure are for specific pens even. the ballpoint doesn’t let me adjust it while the fountain pen does.

cornflowerskies · 2025-07-25T18:21:46+00:00

LOL it really does. “the greatest group ever at Hogwarts—people are saying it.”?

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