Minerva Victrix
Early Modern English PhD candidate (queer and disability focus)
she/her🏳️🌈pan/polyam
Wrestling/VTM/WOD/sci-fi/fantasy/history/writing/lit
Pro union/queer/socialism/trans/sex[work]
Unstable as quicksilver and as perverse as a demon fresh from the pit
- I need someone to explain the USPS shipping system to me like I'm 5. Why on earth did my package go from the UK to Chicago to Cincinnati to Detroit, to then just have to be brought to Toledo? Also, why did it take longer to get from Cincinnati to Detroit than from the UK to Chicago??
- "When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row." ~Alice Paul
- Whenever I feel like I'm a bad instructor, all I need to do is visit r/professors, and I suddenly feel better about myself and my work.
- Hive-mind: with the job market being the garbage fire that it is, how does one go about getting into a new line of work in this day and age? If employers don't even seem to want to hire qualified, experienced people, how do you then convince someone to hire you for a job you HAVEN'T done before?
- It will never not be funny to me to see people from clearly enfranchised, majority identities suddenly understand that representation matters once they don't see themselves represented by default. No, cishet white dude, no one is "erasing" you by representing queer/trans/Black/POC/indigenous folks.
- "We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished..."
- “It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.” ~Molière
- Hot take: more academic books should get audiobook formats. I'd know so much more theory and foundational texts if they were available for me to listen to on my commute, or when I'm going to bed.
- Reposted by Minerva VictrixI actually had a discussion about this yesterday. The hate for fanfiction has 4 components: 1) It directly defies capitalism. Capitalism tells us that only things that are profitable are of worth. Most fanfic is free and so people equate free to bad. 🧵 #fanfiction
- Food and nutrition content creators: be careful adding more beans/chia seeds/fiber to your diet! You need to do it gradually! Me: (eats a can of beans as a snack) Also me: (doubles the amount of chia seeds in my drink) Also also me: ...When do I need to start worrying, again?
- Hot take: no adult is owed a relationship of any sort by any other adult, and if someone chooses to end a relationship/friendship/acquaintance/whatever...they are allowed to do so. Even if you don't like it. Even if you don't want them to. Even if you think they're wrong.
- Many of you may be unaware of this, but I was raised in the Southern Baptist Church. I grew up in an environment where women were not allowed to preach, lead mixed-sex discussions/lessons, or hold any sort of authority over men. The official position of the SBC is one of complementarianism.
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- Not-so-gentle reminder: if someone is venting about the cost of rent/groceries/gas/daycare/whatever... "Move somewhere cheaper" "Get a better/second/third job" "Stay home/work from home" are not the helpful, brilliant advice you think.
- Reposted by Minerva VictrixYou and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
- Reposted by Minerva VictrixThank you to all the performers who are canceling their events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
- Reposted by Minerva VictrixI can’t believe how stupid everything is
- Me: I'll get some dishes done once @yfmsilver.bsky.social goes to work. Also me: Ugh, now I have to go downstairs and wash dishes.
- Reposted by Minerva VictrixThis message hits hard.
- 2026 Goals: ~finish dissertation ~get my PhD ~get an academic or labour union job ~new tattoo (back or forearm) ~new piercing (industrial ear) ~second car
- Found my Mother's Day gift for next year!
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HXT... When my jam comes on (I unironically love this song)
- Why will students look at an assignment sheet that says (as an example) 1000-1500 words and say "oh, better triple space this so it looks like I wrote enough!"? My sibling in Odin, we have word counters.
- Just saw a content creator claim that talking badly about your partner to others and then hiding it from them is "cheating, only you're not getting laid." She was reacting to a different content piece where someone said she hides her phone from her partner not because she has other guys in it...
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- Just submitted a fellowship application in which I propose they pay me to talk about how early modern English ideas and lies about the Romans influence[d] the Hunger Games books.
- Reposted by Minerva VictrixRob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
- Need a quick and easy gift? Wanna help my kid's class go to DC? Just like games and food? I gotchu 😘 www.groupraise.com/offer-campai...
- Also, here's your semi-regular reminder that you owe no one anything for accidents of blood and DNA. Not your parent, your grandparent, your sibling, your aunt, your cousin, none of them. They get access to you only if you choose, and that access can be revoked at any time.
- It will never not be funny to me that once every couple of months, some well-intentioned banker from our bank will call us to see if we want to come in to discuss "wealth management strategies." Ma'am. Be so fucking for real. I'm a GTA and my partner works 25 hours a week right now. What wealth??
- Reposted by Minerva VictrixI hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
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- relationship-compass.com This checks out lol
- Reposted by Minerva Victrixif you replace the blueberries in your food product with unspecific berry style flavor crystals i will notice and i will judge you for it.
- Me: I don't have much of a sweet tooth. Also me: (buys 8 different sweets at the middle eastern market)
- Reposted by Minerva VictrixIt shouldn’t take a slur that impacts you personally, or losing your healthcare or SNAP, or being forced to sell your farm, or having to watch a loved one get unjustly detained and deported...to walk away from a madman. Cruelty isn’t strength. Reject it. Always.
- Tell me why my father in law just jovially told me the Lions lost when I just sat here and watched it happen?
- Amazing to me that we're totally used to and okay with men committing horrible acts in the name of power, freedom, order, et cetera...but it's somehow "unnatural" if a woman does something cruel to protect herself and her position. Human nature is just that -- human.
- Reposted by Minerva VictrixCarrie Fisher was the blueprint. Protect your people. Call out the predators. #RESIST
- So I go downstairs to wash some clothes, only to find that my washer did this fun thing it does where it shakes the power cord loose during the spin cycle; the clothes that were washing never finished 🙃 I went down again to check on it; it was mid-rinse cycle. I came back upstairs for the oxyclean
- Friends and neighbours, your girl is SLOW AF How did I literally JUST now realise that Clove from District 2 in the 74th Hunger Games isn't called after the spice but after a MASONRY term (the past tense/participle of cleave)?? I feel IGNORANT right now lol
- For those who may not know or have forgotten, I used to work in admissions at a tiny, super religious college in North Carolina. They treated me badly and misled a LOT of students. Every once in a while, I look in on their webpage to see how things are going there (I've yet to be impressed).
- Today would have been my grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary. This somehow hits harder than her birthday did back in August. It's the first year I didn't get to make a call to let my grandma know I was thinking of her on her special day. But I'm still thinking of her, and my grandpa, always.
- How many times will I have to explain to LinkedIn that I'm not hiring for ANYTHING? I don't hire. I barely have a job, much less any authority.
- Me: (writes an email I mean to schedule to send to my advisor for this morning at like 9am) Also me: (accidentally hits "send" instead of "schedule" at 3am) ...Oh well, she knows I'm a garbage fire anyway!
