The Blade/Dan Heng ship isn't torture, it's abuse. The whole point of character torture isn't to abuse the character, it's to make them face down obstacles and earn their happy ending. In the Blade/Dan Heng set-up, that pretty much is an abusive relationship, both between the characters within the story and between the author and the characters being written. There is no love there.
Maybe mention it in lip service but never actually feature anything relevant in the story
That's what I meant by "focusing" on the many degrees. Not the content of the degree, but just the possession of the degree, as if having a piece of paper can prove expertise. It's a really shallow understanding of both academics and academia.
But, no one thinks someone like Ratio who has both engineering and comp sci degrees wouldn't have any robots to do his cleanup and/or cooking? Or that Aventurine couldn't afford to buy an advanced roomba? -_-
More shockingly to me is that apparently delivery and dining out, the staple of most academics and business men, are not the main form of food intake. Ratio is easily upper middle class and Aventurine is unequivocally upper class. Why are they being domestic? Where are the servants and maids?!
slice of life usually do a lot of portraying Ratio doing grading or lectures (remote and in person), getting into bad moods when coming across particular stupid assignments
This is why I clarified I wasn't talking about actually teaching a class. I don't need college AU. What I would like to see is how Ratio's life philosophy informs his social interactions. Like, does Ratio ever bitch about shitty bureaucracy getting in the way of bringing in reasonable students or blocking a good hire? Does he get angry at the admissions process that cuts out qualified students to cater to kids from rich families? What kinds of social injustices pisses him off when it comes to equal opportunity access to education? These are the things that ought to matter the most to Ratio based on his personal story snippets.
Much like how professors at universities organized to protect their students' right to protest during the mess of pro-Palestine protests or how the President of a university wrote an op-ed in defense of their student's right to speak out against American foreign policies. Ratio is an academic, this is the kind of stuff that should get him furious and ranting. I mean the guy refused membership to an exclusive club because he believed in egalitarian access to education. He really ought to be supremely infuriated by systemic inequalities.
And no, I don't think the fact that the majority of his degrees are in STEM disciplines means that he'll somehow be less interested in social justice. The STEM professors are usually the first ones to get targeted by politically motivated policies, since there's always a fear from the higher ups that the "wrong" types of people are in STEM, the foundation of a group/country/state's technological advantage. (I mean did we forget Einstein was leading the resistance against nuclear weapons development due to ethical concerns?)
Maybe we're reading different fics?
I mean it's possible. I didn't delve very deeply into the whole thing because my early forays into the fics made me so spitting mad. Like the stuff was obviously written by people who have ZERO insight into the academic life or know that "Ph.D." stands for "Doctor of Philosophy". Gah.
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Date: 2024-09-19 06:17 (UTC)The Blade/Dan Heng ship isn't torture, it's abuse. The whole point of character torture isn't to abuse the character, it's to make them face down obstacles and earn their happy ending. In the Blade/Dan Heng set-up, that pretty much is an abusive relationship, both between the characters within the story and between the author and the characters being written. There is no love there.
That's what I meant by "focusing" on the many degrees. Not the content of the degree, but just the possession of the degree, as if having a piece of paper can prove expertise. It's a really shallow understanding of both academics and academia.
More shockingly to me is that apparently delivery and dining out, the staple of most academics and business men, are not the main form of food intake. Ratio is easily upper middle class and Aventurine is unequivocally upper class. Why are they being domestic? Where are the servants and maids?!
This is why I clarified I wasn't talking about actually teaching a class. I don't need college AU. What I would like to see is how Ratio's life philosophy informs his social interactions. Like, does Ratio ever bitch about shitty bureaucracy getting in the way of bringing in reasonable students or blocking a good hire? Does he get angry at the admissions process that cuts out qualified students to cater to kids from rich families? What kinds of social injustices pisses him off when it comes to equal opportunity access to education? These are the things that ought to matter the most to Ratio based on his personal story snippets.
Much like how professors at universities organized to protect their students' right to protest during the mess of pro-Palestine protests or how the President of a university wrote an op-ed in defense of their student's right to speak out against American foreign policies. Ratio is an academic, this is the kind of stuff that should get him furious and ranting. I mean the guy refused membership to an exclusive club because he believed in egalitarian access to education. He really ought to be supremely infuriated by systemic inequalities.
And no, I don't think the fact that the majority of his degrees are in STEM disciplines means that he'll somehow be less interested in social justice. The STEM professors are usually the first ones to get targeted by politically motivated policies, since there's always a fear from the higher ups that the "wrong" types of people are in STEM, the foundation of a group/country/state's technological advantage. (I mean did we forget Einstein was leading the resistance against nuclear weapons development due to ethical concerns?)
I mean it's possible. I didn't delve very deeply into the whole thing because my early forays into the fics made me so spitting mad. Like the stuff was obviously written by people who have ZERO insight into the academic life or know that "Ph.D." stands for "Doctor of Philosophy". Gah.