Flash Gordon!

The BFF and I rewatched Flash Gordon (1980) last night!

I always remember the weird art film buried in it (when Zarkov's mind is ostensibly being wiped, the villains play the highlights of his current memory on a ... TV? and along side strange images of cats etc he's revealed to be a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who was able to escape to the USA, build a career in NASA, unjustly fell into disrepute, and his wife unrelatedly drowned). I had forgotten that one of the villains remarks that Hitler had potential (...) and that Zarkov later reveals that he preserved his mind by reciting the Talmud, the equations of Einstein, works of Shakespeare, and a Beatles song to protect the integrity of his thoughts.

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I love my aasimar warlock, but having 13 AC is such a twitchy existence. I think my next character will be … like, a high STR human fighter with a defense fighting style + eldritch knight for Shield. ALL THE AC.

[ETA 4/28/2024: in reality, my next character was a wizard. :D]

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I reblogged this post about the horrors (email) and added:

#adkf;ad #i sent an email to my committee chair this morning and didn't put off reading his reply so i was like... okay my day is over now

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I’ve gotten a bunch of new followers recently and I’m not sure why—but regardless, hi!

[ETA 4/28/2024: I'm cross-posting this one mainly for record-keeping purposes, though I've added Dreamwidth-relevant clarifications in brackets. I've also been recently fixing, consolidating, and adding some DW tags for a more consistent system over here, so some older posts are only under the tags for the relevant fandoms and characters rather than the specific book, show, or film they're referencing. Anything Austen-related is under #fandom: austen, say, but many of my older Pride and Prejudice-specific posts don't have the P&P tag because I instituted the specific tag more recently.]

Run-down: my name is Elizabeth and I’m a 30-odd, US American PhD student. I study 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century British literature, primarily 18th [ETA: and early seventeenth, these days]. I also kind of hate academia at this point, lol, so you’ll see a lot of complaining about it unless you block #ivory tower blogging [DW tag: #uni and academia for anything related to academia, while #complaining covers exactly what you'd expect].

I talk reasonably often about mental health issues; I have autism, bipolar II, and anxiety, and my general tag is #rare breed of attack unicorn [DW tag: the same; I also tend to tag the specific disorders more often over here, since I don't have to worry about them going into a site-wide autism tag or whatnot; e.g., posts about anxiety are tagged with both #rare breed of attack unicorn and #anxiety].

I write original fiction in addition to fanfic and angst about it; the tag is #original fic rambles [DW tag: #original fiction, though plenty of it is either locked or under a different account], and vaguer or more general writing stuff is just #writing [DW tag: the same]. Rambling about my fanfic is under #fic talk [DW tag: #genre: fic talk, usually accompanied by a specific tag for the fic or verse, such as #fic talk: lucy skywalker for my f!Luke Skywalker fics].

My main fandoms and other tags include:

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I reblogged a post/meme about video game locations that fill you with "aching serenity."

Tagged: #pre-searing ascalon T_T