thoodleoo:

honestly if anyone ever tells you that academia is fueled by anything other than passion and bitterness they are lying. so many papers get written because someone read something shitty about a topic they love and had to set everyone straight on their bullshit

I wrote an entire research paper/presentation because the author of a book we read in that class insulted William Herschel and mocked him for thinking the moon was occupied (in the 18th century! Like he could have possibly known differently, asshole.) and never once mentioned that his discoveries doubled the known size of the solar system and that he discovered the first planet found since antiquity.

Dude was an asshole to one of my history crushes. I couldn’t let that stand.