#GIVE THIS TO ME SCIENCE

[triflesandparsnips]

Accidentally started rereading Northanger Abbey, and was sudden reminded all over again that Jane Austen is, in fact, fucking hilarious.

NA is her parody/satire of Gothic novels at the time, and she starts the book by choosing violence-- she describes the "tragedy" of the main character, Catherine Morland, a girl Determined to be a Heroine even though ALL ODDS are against her: she has a sane father who doesn't lock up his daughters, a healthy mother who didn't die in childbirth, no preternatural talent for music or drawing through which to reveal her Deepest Soul, and-- most shockingly of all-- absolutely zero love interests for whom she can wander the hills mourning their starcrossed fates until she wastes away from the sheer Sentimentality of it all.

But don't worry! She's got this FIGURED OUT. She KNOWS why she has not yet found her TRUE LOVE:

There was not one lord in the neighbourhood; no—not even a baronet. There was not one family among their acquaintance who had reared and supported a boy accidentally found at their door—not one young man whose origin was unknown. Her father had no ward, and the squire of the parish no children.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

(SPOILER: She is introduced to a mysterious young man who lives in an ABBEY, which everyone knows means he has a DEEPLY MYSTERIOUS SECRET PAST and is maybe a TRAGIC HERO or even a ROMANTIC MONSTER and either way this is IT this is Catherine's TIME TO SHINE she is going to get a good grade in DOOMED LOVE, a thing that is normal to want and--)

(...meanwhile Henry Tilney-- an ordinary guy who never expected "get cast as the Hero in some Grand Gothic Romance" to show up on his bingo card-- starts wondering when exactly he started finding Catherine's attempts to locate bloody daggers in his linen closet charming.)

#Catherine: *literally breaks into a foreboding cabinet in the middle of the night - finds illegible papers no doubt related to murder* #Catherine: *accidentally blows her own candle out while trying to just lower the flame for Effect - proceeds to freak out* #Catherine: *woken up next day by a maid - the cabinet was a linen closet - the papers were inventory of sheets n shit* #Henry Tilney: “Why are you like this? And WHY am I apparently into it?? #Catherine: *too busy trying to stare through the keyhole of the abbey's Forbidden Rooms #totally doesn't hear him* #jane austen #northanger abbey #austen: both a diamond thief AND a talented humorist #give me a time machine and a dinner invite and I would 100% try and flirt with her #GIVE THIS TO ME SCIENCE

[great-and-small]

You know what I hate about the internet? Sometimes people will just lazily slap a “citation” on an infographic and trust that they’ll be completely taken at their word and nobody is going to dig deeper. And it works all the time. As an example, please look at this photo someone posted to dispute my assertion that garlic can be toxic to dogs.

Okay well, kind of a pain to manually type in that link but obviously I am going to look into this study that is confident enough to recommend people feeding their dogs garlic. So here’s the article, kind of a weird journal choice for this graphic to reference from but looks like a legit (though 20 year old) study

Funny thing is, almost immediately this article acknowledges that garlic can indeed be toxic to dogs. The health benefits mentioned in the graphic are referring to human health, not canine. This section is literally in the introduction of the article and one of the first things you read. Emphasis here is mine.

Crazy to me that someone would imply that this article encourages giving dogs garlic when it in fact immediately asserts that doing so has the potential to cause hemolytic anemia. The article does explore the anti-thrombotic effects of garlic components in dogs and humans, but by no means does it say that “contrary to misconceptions garlic is safe for pets”. It is dishonest to assert this in an infographic. However the creator of the image correctly assumed nobody would check, because the person who posted it took it as fact without further investigation.

I am begging you to be skeptical. Check your sources. Check their sources. Check my sources. Learn how to dig deeper and exercise that muscle as much as you can, especially on the internet. You will be absolutely shocked how much misinformation is casually stated and received as pure fact.

#scicomm #vetblr #veterinary medicine #I already know people are going to say they like giving their dogs garlic and will continue to do so- whatever pls just don’t tell me 😭 #sorry if the link doesn’t work for you you may need access #dogs #pets #science literacy #biology

[zephyrine-gale]

thinking about scaramouche team dynamics ft scarabedo

#genshin impact #albedo #scaramouche #wanderer #my art #two artificial humans??? interacting?? #i need it rn mihoyo pls give me their interaction #one can create things with the power of science and the other was created to be a powerful vessel #i wonder if albedo would be able to create a beating heart... #i think albedo would be curious abt scara since they are kind of similar #scara probably hates the word experiment and research (esp when done to him) though #so that's a learning curve they'd have to get over #EDIT: OMG I FORGOT ALBEDOS NECK MARK #I EVEN WROTE IT IN MY NOTES YSTD............

[nicnevans]

him face

#giving me access to the camera tool was a mistake #i'm sorry for the person i'm about to become #bg3 #halsin #maybe if i take enough screenshots of him i'll learn to use the camera how about that! it's science. and study. and not just for me #obligatory halsin tag

[seizethedeansofproduction]

they're like the Beatles for people obsessed with one specific aspect of pop culture

#and i love them for it #honorable mentions: #they're like the four horsemen of the apocalypse for terminally online annoying nerds #the mcelroy brothers if they slayed #they're like the four elements of online video content #they also all give me gender envy but that's unrelated #brennan lee mulligan #brian david gilbert #jonah ray #hank green #dimension 20 #dropout #polygon #bdg unraveled #mst3k #mystery science theater 3000 #vlog brothers

[ofekma]

"noo but this time it's different! Our antisemitism is morally justified! We really do have a good reason to hate the jews!" - every antisemic person at any point in history.

#Israel #Antisemitism #i/p conflict #Oh? You think that because you use the word 'zionist' you suddenly magically have the moral high ground? #You think that everyone else who hated jews did it wrong but you? #You think that if you twist history and current events instead of science or religion to fit your world view then you are any better? #Give me a break #The future will remember you as just another enemy the Jewish people had to deal with #People will think of you like they think of crusaders or nazis #But hey many of you say that Hitler was right #So I don't think you would mind being packed with the nazis

[supercalime]

Just thought about sharing this frame right here

Do with it what you will

#the split second before the lips touch are always my favorite part to analyze like a psycho #sorry about the motion blur #this was a bitch to screenshot but I had to #for science #also can you tell that I really like Tommy and buck together and want them to be endgame? #I’ll hide the next bit in the tags cause some shippers are scary: #I don’t really want buddie to happen #im not against it but there is something about eddies actor #that makes me feel like he’s one of those bros is fine with gay people but not near him #and this is purely my own impression #I don’t think he said or done anything to give that impression #you know how there are certain actors who simply refuse to kiss men because of fragile masculinity #because I’m straight bro #anyway #Back to Tommy and buck #I really like them together and they better have at least one kiss as intense as buck had with other partners in the past #not just a peck like last week to get diversity points #ya know #shmexy kisses #lety rambles #tuck #bucktommy #evan buckley #tommy kinard #911 #911 abc #oliver stark #lou ferrigno jr

[carrotkicks]

the power of friendship wins!

#bsd #stormbringer #doodle #doodles #chuuya #adam frankenstein #dr mary wollstonecraft shelly #dazai #behold! a mary shelley design! #she gives me twin buns-mad science girl energy #i bet she and chuuya are friends they're like around the same age or so #they must still be in touch #considering ADAM HAS TO MAKE A COMEBACK #and therefore she will too <3 #anyways me being once again obsessed with the stormbringer supporting cast :)

[stylinsuns]

please reblog and put in the tags your birth month, your favorite season and if it snows where you live. trying to see something

#this time it truly is for science so #as many answers as y'all can give me please #text #in the tags #inthetags

[speremint]

scribbles them as i get my ass beat in tf2

#science party #doodles #team fortress 2 #tf2 medic #tf2 engineer #engies pls give me a dispenser pls i beg of u #i'll uber you pls

[thebookofbill]

ALEX HIRSCH POSTED BILL CIPHER VALENTINES. JOE PITT DREW THEM. I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS REAL. THEY DID THIS FOR ME

“I’m broken, wanna fix me?” HE KNOWS WHAT HE’S FUCKING DOING.

#gravity falls #bill cipher #valentine’s day #Last night I saw a repost of Alex’s tweet from 2018 about a Bill valentine he found online #and I thought ‘he should do that again. it’s the perfect time’ #I love when that happens #I am the target audience #I love how it’s mostly adorable and pink and Valentine’s puns and then hits you with The Weirdness #little guy 🩷 little guy 💘 little guy 💕 little guy 💖 little guy 💗 little guy 💞 little guy 💝 little guy 💜 Cosmic Horror Eating Human Heart 🫀 #I appreciate that 3 of them are purple and one is a math joke and one is a science joke #is for me? #if someone sent me one of these I’d genuinely give them a chance

[uiuishii]

Lae'zel and Shadowheart.

Just sayin'

#baldur's gate 3 #kinda obsessed #shadowheart #lae'zel #shadowzel #i swear they're loving each other #this headcanon in my mind is so powerful #gave me Laura x #Carmilla #vibes #moody unhuman #x #moody human #each interaction gives me 5 minutes more of live #gay science

[kkerasik]

Since finishing playing portal and portal 2, it has been occupying my every thought and almost everything reminds me of it. Even my coffee machine reminds me of Aperture now!!

#COMON IT LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE IT WAS MADE BY APERTURE AND THAT THERES A 50% CHANCE THAT IT WILL GIVE ME TUMORS #portal #portal 2 #aperture science #aperture laboratories #I AM SO CLOSE TO STICKING AN APERTURE LOGO STICKER ON IT #currently having a huge portal brainrot and having the time of my life actually

[msenglishgent]

This is going to do bad things to me…

#give me the strength to not spend 130$ each for these rn when I have a few hundo at most to my name which I need for food and bills n life #like god fuck oh my god I’m so easy to pander to #the way the call the fem Spock ‘Vulcan science officer’ or something like #lmao for real #star trek #spock #uhura

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

more scribbles to throw in the salad

#ft. frank being a disney princess. except better #have mercy on me my experience with buterflies consists of VERY simple scribbles #the first one is just me trying to practice the neighbors tho #ive got barnarby down to a science and im getting there with julie #but howdy is giving me trouble #i've barely attempted eddie so far. he gives me issues #idk what it is about that funky felt man but i Cant Draw Him #i got him right once!!! Once!!!! #scribble salad #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home fanart #ah shit have i been forgetting to add my art tag to my latest posts. #softly but with feeling: ....fuck #now im gonna have to go back and edit all of em #but thats a problem for future me! after i sleep! im making these tags at 7 am! i have not slept!

[karamazovanon]

controversial opinion maybe but it BEWILDERS me when people (mostly americans ime) genuinely seriously with their whole chest complain about how impossibly hard russian names are. like. do a single google search. i don't see how you can comprehend that charles = chuck and margaret = peggy but can't fathom that rodion = rodya. how is this such a huge barrier of entry for people

#and this doesnt apply to ESL ppl or any other ppl who have actual reasons like dyslexia or something #im talking about other americans who go yeah i had to stop reading bc i couldnt understand the names #how are you seeing different cultural naming conventions as an unsurpassable barrier that forces you to quit and give up on ever reading it #instead of an opportunity to learn and expand your narrow worldview?????? and over something SO SIMPLE?????????? #like i know damn well yall know a katherine that goes by katie or a john that goes by jack #and those make even less sense than something like aleksey -> alyosha! #there are general rules and patterns unlike english! like the progression from aleksey -> alyosha -> alyoshka -> alyoshechka is so easy to #comprehend i dont understand how its SUCH a common complaint #i definitely understand the struggle of keeping characters straight when they have the same first name #like katerina ivanovna and katerina ospovna in t/bk etc #and of course the names in general are something you have to adjust to if youve never encountered it before! it takes a bit of thought #but its NOT FUCKING ROCKET SCIENCE and its asinine to shrug your shoulders and say welp guess im incapable of ever reading any ruslit! #like ohhh my goddd it grinds my gears so bad #bare minimum effort #anontalks #sorry for rant but i keep fucking seeing this shit and it rubs me the wrong way every time #like yeah its funny that dunya = avdotya and grushenka = agrafena #but richard = dick and elizabeth = betty so who fucking cares read the damn book