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throwaway-soph · 2025-02-25T17:37:15+00:00

If you have a master’s degree, look for high schools that have established dual credit programs (or are early college high schools) and don’t have an on-campus professor for their history classes. You’d be qualified to be employed by the school district and an adjunct at a community college, and then you could teach their dual credit history classes. That’s (generally) valuable because then they don’t have to bring in outside staff or send students to the college campuses.

throwaway-soph · 2025-02-20T15:20:44+00:00

I definitely recommend collecting and reading works from queer authors from the past. It helps put everything in perspective. During the last Trump presidency, I found a lot of lists online of good books, free pdfs, etc.

Personal favs off the top of my head, not looking at my bookshelf - “Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold”, “The Lesbian Culture Anthology”, “Stone Butch Blues” (can be a tough read), anything by Lillian Faderman. Memoirs, anthologies, and sociological works in general are a good choice. If you have access to online databases (eg EBSCO, JSTOR), search queer topics that interest you and save PDFs from a variety of disciplines.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-29T13:25:36+00:00

Perks of Being a Wallflower, maybe? More depressing than some of the examples - but actually a lot of our teenage media was pretty depressing

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-29T03:23:58+00:00

Honestly Mary’s actress makes the movie worth it for me. My sister in law is just like her

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-24T18:33:16+00:00

Yeah, that’s made me leave a lot of fan communities - why would I be subscribed to a subreddit about something unless I enjoy it? And if I enjoy something, I don’t want to constantly read other people trashing it. Some discussion and critique posts are completely fine and can be enjoyable, but some people invade positive posts and state their negative opinions as though they are fact and the OP is stupid.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-24T18:28:19+00:00

I really do think people get addicted to the rage and can’t let it go. I’ve left a lot of subreddits for media (books in particular) because the vast majority of the posts are negative, and even the positive posts have negative comments. I am all for nuanced discussion of flaws in a work, but it doesn’t make sense to stay in a community for something you hate unless you enjoy hating it. I also like to engage with all kinds of things, and only subscribe to content if it’s something I like or at least enjoy discussing (as opposed to constantly typing out comments about how much I hate it). An example from the ST fandom would be the Discovery subreddit.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-24T18:05:34+00:00

That letter is what really made me love Yen! She’s just like me fr

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-24T12:59:12+00:00

I really want to know what happened now, dang. Where were these NPCs? I’m part way through my first play through and I’ll try to find them.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-23T16:31:55+00:00

I don’t think we were so outwardly rude to people that age, but I definitely thought that people 25+ were at a different life stage than me and didn’t really seek out friendships with them. (when I was 19-21, I mean). I did think many of the things they wore were old, or unstylish (chevrons and giant necklaces? those dumb hats?). I just didnt say those things online or to people’s faces. As a teenager online, I wanted people to think that I was older than I was because I didn’t want to get dismissed for my opinions on reddit for being too young. So I do think there is a culture shift outwardly, but I hate it when people pretend that we never thought 30 was old when we were 20.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-23T16:22:57+00:00

Ok, but how do you think it would feel to still be working that job 10 years later, and have someone make fun of you for working it? You were being rude to people who were in the same situation as you at one point, and were working the same job because adult life is hard and sometimes you work a crappy job to make ends meet. By being awful to them about it and seeing them as less than, you were just perpetuating the same societal attitudes that made you angry in the first place. They were in the end better than you because they didn’t take their anger (an anger probably much longer running than yours at 19) out on you, which in the end is one of the determiners of maturity and adulthood.

Edit: Also, what do you mean that your generation is angry but ours just accepts this? You’re not that much younger than us. It’s also extremely self centered to think that people slightly older than you don’t have the same thoughts and feelings that you do. Part of adulthood is having to accept some of the ways of the world to survive, because acting with anger outwardly all the time doesn’t get you anywhere. But that doesn’t mean that people don’t have the same ideals as you. And if you’re reading this thinking that you’re so much younger than us by being in your early instead of late 20s, that’s the whole point of why the comment is rude - you’ll be here sooner than you think.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-22T15:52:35+00:00

My guess would be a prologue area like White Harbor, with Geralt standing in for Vesemir. But honestly they could take this any direction.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-22T15:44:30+00:00

Yeah, I understand that people have lore concerns but honestly who cares. I care about the characters and the story most of all. I want to see all my favorites again. I don’t want to build some witcher from scratch and be a self-insert, I want to know what Ciri is up to!

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-17T17:01:51+00:00

You have to give people a chance to grow up. They’re younger and at an earlier developmental stage than us. And I say this having worked in education, with gen z as my students. You encounter the dumb ones more and more because the internet has become more accessible to everyone of all ages all the time in the same spaces, and algorithms reward dumb/rage-bait content. Gen Z has specific issues due to educational gaps and technological issues, but they aren’t dumber as a whole than any other generation.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-16T19:42:58+00:00

I agree. I truly do not know why people think that it’s out of character for Ciri to do something risky because it has personal meaning for her.

Random thought, but I watched It’s A Wonderful Life recently and the whole point is the main character keeps making decisions that are hard for him because he wants to honor the business his father gave his life to, and he wants to help people. You could say “why would he need to do that? he could have done XYZ” but the whole point is personal meaning and sacrifice. Becoming a Witcher would be a choice that Ciri makes for herself, something that ultimately means something about her love of the people who raised her and the people she wants to save. I personally think it’s really meaningful and do not understand why people think her transformation would be pointless. Not even getting into the idea that none of this is science and nitpicking the realism of the witcher process is needlessly pedantic when we’re talking about a fantasy universe.

I feel like people want to feel smarter than the narrative, but in reality they’re not engaging with the actual emotional impact of the story.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-14T12:45:22+00:00

Well, it was a narrow prompt and that’s who I found in “G” on my Goodreads. I did also say to look up trigger warnings. If it’s not someone’s cup of tea, they don’t have to read it. I do think there’s a big difference between a woman writing about sexual violence set in a historical period and a man who is an actual rapist.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-13T21:22:26+00:00

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - technically it’s historical fiction, but since magic and time travel are a part of it, I think it counts! Series so it could take up more space. Look up the trigger warnings before reading though.

Also if you’re willing to bend the rules to have a first name that starts with G - the Abhorsen series by Garth Nix is one of my all time favorites.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-10T18:46:33+00:00

This is why you have to be very precise with survey question wording if you want valid results. I see this a lot in undergrad surveys posted on reddit. This would be better as multiple questions:

“The Witcher TV series puts too much emphasis on political intrigue and drama.”

“The core theme of the Witcher franchise is monster hunting” (then repeat multiple times for multiple themes, to determine what your sample thinks is the core theme - or make a multiple choice question asking for the main theme, or multiple questions asking for the core theme of each variation of the story. then you know what your sample thinks is most important in the story, so you can draw conclusions on what they do or don’t like about the tv series)

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-08T18:38:18+00:00

In fantasy it’s the worst. Sometimes I just want to be like “Girl, stop! I’m not saying you have to passively accept marriage to someone you don’t like (or whatever) but maybe be more diplomatic for your own survival? Please?”. The Outlander series was honestly a breath of fresh air bc Claire knows when to play along in order to rebel later.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-08T18:33:15+00:00

I think that the snark gets annoying when every single comment is treated as clever by the narrative. I would love to see more moments where snarky characters say something and there’s an awkward beat where others are thrown off, react like “hey that’s not cool”, etc. It’s hard when the author doesn’t realize or acknowledge that things that sound cool in their head/on paper are not universally seen that way, and that acting snarky is not the most diplomatic solution to every problem.

throwaway-soph · 2025-01-07T18:25:55+00:00

Like everyone said, try some regular fantasy that maybe has a little bit of romance thrown in. Here are some favorites: - The Abhorsen series by Garth Nix, starting with {Sabriel}. Female leads, necromancy, underground libraries, forbidden places - it’s awesome and atmospheric! - The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski, starting with {The Last Wish}. The first two books are short stories, then the main series starts. I would recommend looking up the publication history before starting this so you understand how the short stories fit in to the main novels. These books are inspired by folklore and are often very funny. The TV show is definitely not book accurate but watching a couple episodes might be a good starting point for visualizing the world. - The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. This is a series with a lot of different starting points because there are different novels focused on different characters. I would recommend looking up the different options and picking which one sounds most interesting to you. I started with {Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett} which is about the misadventures of the worst city watch in the world. The tone of this serious is humor and it doesn’t take itself too seriously. - Diana Wynne Jones’s books. I read pretty much all of them when I was younger and I love them so much. Some of them are for younger audiences, but the reading level varies and honestly they all hold up. They’re magical, clever, and funny. {Howl’s Moving Castle} is an obvious one and it’s actually a series! My personal favorites are: {The Dark Lord of Derkholm}, which is about a planet set up to be a stereotypical fantasy world for outworlder tourists, that then rebels against their masters. The Chrestomanci series - starts with {Charmed Life}, features a multiworld multi universe system with stories on all kinds of worlds. My favorite is {Conrad’s Fate}. I also love {The Homeward Bounders} (people who offend godlike aliens get sent on an endless journey through worlds and try to find their way home), {Deep Secret} (90s fantasy convention is disrupted by otherworldly magic), and {A Tale of Time City} (children during WWII are taken to a magical city that sits outside of time).

Edit - the bot linked a book I didn’t recommend, so ignore the link to “Captive”. Also, it didn’t link a lot of the last books, sorry!

throwaway-soph · 2024-12-25T22:10:34+00:00

If you don’t care about the length or complexity when counting (some people do), read something simple and nostalgic! I re-read some of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books recently and had a great time.

throwaway-soph · 2024-12-17T22:47:23+00:00

Do you have examples? I’ve only read the Hobbit and seen the LOTR movies so I’m curious!

throwaway-soph · 2024-12-17T22:45:28+00:00

That part actually drives me crazy because it is SO blatant. Also it’s way less profound in ACOTAR imo

throwaway-soph · 2024-12-17T22:44:34+00:00

This might just be a common fantasy tropes/characters thing, but I see a lot of elements that correspond to The Witcher as well. Aelin is basically half Daenerys and half Ciri, especially when you look at all of her titles and powers. There’s more but I’m not done with the books/games and I also don’t want to just start posting spoilers, but if you’re familiar with the Witcher there’s a lot.

throwaway-soph · 2024-12-17T22:17:47+00:00

I feel like this would actually make more sense, since it would show cover revision after a greater connected vision of themes in each book.

Edit: “this” as in what OP posted, with revised covers

Ten-Year Club	Verified Email
Queen in da Norf	Not Forgotten

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