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Avant Garde Flavored Geek, M.A.
27. Silly little English adjunct professor. Creator of Dr. Julien Hyde.
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three (3) icons of lucia and jason from grand theft auto vi.
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this new reblog chart feature is FASCINATING and it is also highlighting how much people on this website fail gifmakers and other content creators. you NEED to start reblogging gifsets and art if you want this site to continue functioning and being a place content creators WANT to be on. look at this
there are almost NO reblog chains!! the majority of reblogs are directly from me, and then it just. ends. the like to reblog ratio is almost 1:4.
this is why posts die. this is why artists have left, this is why gifmakers are giving up. this is killing tumblr.
reblogging is the ENTIRE POINT of this website, and you can't just like something and move on and expect gif/editmakers and artists to continue putting in the effort to make content FOR YOU.
REBLOG. POSTS.
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“Oh, the places you’d go! If you weren’t oppressed by wage labor & class society”
Poster seen in Melbourne
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fascinated by this screenshot where they took out the poster's username and replaced it with a very small picture of alex the lion
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if a trans woman complains about the ongoing campaign of trans genocide in the united states and the uk and your response is “well it’s not TECHNICALLY genocide yet so you really shouldn’t use that word because it makes us look bad” i think you should perhaps actually just shut the fuck up and read literally any news coverage containing the words “trans” and “desantis,” just for starters
like wow so they’re not literally dragging us to camps??? it’s not literally a nazi germany style holocaust so you can’t call it genocide????? buddy do you think the fascists are BLUFFING?????????? grow the fuck up you child, because if you’re even a little bit not-cishetwhite they’re gonna use the “threat” us trans people represent as a pretext to come after you.
we call it a genocidal agenda NOW because that is THEIR STATED INTENTION. that is the ONLY logical outcome of the policies they’re proposing and the words they say and the hate they foment. we call it a genocidal agenda NOW because by the time it actually becomes a genocide it’ll be TOO FUCKING LATE
#trans genocide#murder tw#I've been saying it how it is and my ex (who is trans) thought I was being dramatic#you're in danger too!#I'm literally so fucking scared and since grad school I had to go BACK into the closet 95% of the time#I fucking hate it
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this tweet genre is so fucking funny i need more of them
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I'm teaching a composition course this summer for eight weeks. Today was the first day of the class.
I have willingly admitted I play GTAO, The Sims, City Skylines, and Minecraft as the "non academic" side of me.
My students were amused at the GTAO confession and I proudly told them I was a "Level 200 something." (I'm 221 right now.)
During their 10 minute break, a student of mine asked why it took me until this year to play Minecraft.
My answer?
"They were glorified Legos to me back then."
If you want to know the kind of professor I am, I know when to be serious™, but I would literally want to roll into class with a Razor scooter with my Starbucks vanilla cold brew coffee in hand, hollering a deep "YEET!"
#personal#dr. hyde without the crime#higher education#gta online#played the new DLC today and it was okay#I wish they elaborated on the lore and stuff from the storyline but that ship has sailed for R*
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The reason none of my wips get finished
#I tell my students to do a “rough draft” but I'm pretty sure 90% of them don't do a proper draft or two like I did as a student 😂#until my MA portfolio because that was important#higher education#but also fanfic
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Important Fanfiction Personal Update Below!
Putting this below a Read More because it is a but lengthy and I do not want people to scroll too much!
I haven’t updated my fanfictions in awhile, and there are two main reasons why:
I’ve tinkered and refined Julien behind the scenes.
I have major writer’s block.
Back when I began to write Grand Theft Immortal, I initially wrote this fanfiction to be a mostly original parody of the infamous My Immortal fanfic. I did not take it so seriously in the first few chapters. However, with the introduction of my OC Julien, that’s when it really took off.
I stopped where I did in GTI because I did not know how the second part of the fic would play out, and after some time, I was dissatisfied with Julien’s plot. I considered his feud with the publishing head to be way more ambitious than I thought it would be. Considering that My Immortal’s protagonist is a literal Mary Sue, I subconsciously made Julien into a Gary Stu to fit the parody. Am I re-writing his canonical situation to Julien’s mother’s death? Yes.
GTI was a real-time evolution to how I saw Julien and his character at the moment in writing. I put a lot of myself in Julien’s personality at the time, because I wanted to see someone like myself represented in a fic in terms of our trans and gay identities, as well as our love of academia. Julien and I are similar, but he has a more “serious” disposition. I also tried to fix My Immortal’s overused love triangle trope to a polyamorous one, as both Julien and I are polyamorous. Would Julien be involved with Michael? Sure, but he probably would stay far away from Trevor romantically. At the time, I was very invested in trying to write and explain how I saw Michael and Trevor’s relationship.
Now, I have very different feelings about GTI. It did serve its purpose in trying to find my identity as a young scholar and academic in Julien and cultivating and working hard at a polyamorous configuration. (In real life, I have had lackluster experiences with past partners and my ex metas- a poly term for my partner’s partner(s).) The fic served its purpose in working out the nuts and bolts for Julien as an OC. However, I think it is time to “abandon” the fic. This means while I will still have it for people to read, it is certainly not 100% canonical in terms of Julien’s events.
This is still canonical about/for Julien:
He is a professor at ULSA and has a PhD in English
He is a vigilante assassin who works behind the scenes (he rarely gets on the front lines)
His mother’s unfortunate demise
June Margot is his surrogate mother
He is trans/gay/poly
He’s a dual citizen of Canada and the US, but grew up in the US.
He speaks enough French to get by and have a conversation, but he is not 100% fluent. (His mom was French Canadian - Quebecois)
This is NOT canonical for Julien (as of 5/22/23):
His mother’s killer is the publishing head.
He is personally involved with the GTA V trinity and other characters.
He did not write a script for a movie.
You can say GTI is both a fever dream and a fanfic study. I am indebted to the readers and commenters, as well as the friendships I made with others over my fic. However, due to my feelings about where I see this fic now, it is time to shelve that away. Also, with My Immortal’s foundation in being a HP fanfiction and of its series’ author being a major bigot, it feels unethical for me to continue GTI.
That also means Blue Eyes and Homoerotic Vibes is a fever dream in itself, although I still find it quite enjoyable to read. (And downright sexy.)
In terms of my fic with Julien and Juan (Éxtasis en Aguamarina), that is another fanfic case study. Julien in a million years would never associate with Juan due to his own safety in mind. At the time, I was super simpy for Juan and I wanted to write more homoerotic fanfiction.
Fanfiction will always hold a special place in my heart, and I want these stories to still be accessible because I want the guys/masc folks in the GTA V/GTAO fandom to enjoy fanfiction written by someone like me and to see themselves being desired.
I still very much play GTAO, but I have so much development in terms of Julien’s character in the works behind the scenes. If I were to upload that content, it would technically not be fanfiction. It would be original writing. Let’s see where this goes, and I will find a place to house these original works of Julien.
Is this to say I will stop writing fanfiction for good? No. My fanfiction writing comes in waves. I just have to be really hyperfixated on a fandom and have a lot of ideas. Right now, I don’t. My priorities in how I engage in fandom morphed significantly these past couple or so years. I still very much love to discuss and analyze media! I’ve analyzed both as a student and as a young adjunct. I just enjoy the nonfiction parts too. I’m that guy with an iced coffee who will sit down with individuals who want to play Operation on media and discuss, analyze, and critique media in the lens of scholarly and informal inquiry. If that sounds like you, I would love for you to join me at this metaphorical table.
I still very much am invested in Julien, other OCs, and your fanfictions! I am just taking a step back from the fanfiction writing table to focus on Julien’s world buildings.
If you read this far, then you’re a champ. Here’s a gold star!
Much love,
Avant
#personal#update#gta v#gtao#fanfiction#remember kids just because you put yourself in an OC does not mean you agree with a character's actions#i.e. I wrote Julien with some of my personality in him but I do not do crimes obviously#anyway enjoy my blurb
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cant believe we live in a reality where getting a silly iced drink can set you back 7 dollars. it's like they want me dead
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It’s weird to think that some people aren’t daydreaming 24/7 and creating all kinds of stories and worlds in their heads. Do you mean that when you’re listening to music or walking somewhere your mind is just blank? Sounds weird.
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when i die i will be converted into a beautiful pdf
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More stories from hell (retail) today I was ringing up this lady and she goes oh I want to do part of this on a gift card and the rest on normal card and I go ok and then she hands me a folded piece of paper. I think oh OK it must be folded around the gift card, right? Wrong. It is a folded sheet of 8×11 printer paper with "$40" written on the inside in ballpoint pen. I go what is this. She says a gift card. I say this is not a gift card. She says yes it is. I say this is a piece of paper with "$40" written on it. She says "well it's a gift card." I say it absolutely is not. I am grinding my teeth. She says well I want to use it. I say you physically cannot do that bc it is a piece of paper. I cannot scan or swipe it. I apologize, as if this is my fault, and not because she is completely insane. I hate it here
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