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ghoulodont · 10 months

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β-Lactam: Epilogue

Events from the subsequent tour cycle.

Relationships: Raindrop Characters: Rain, Dewdrop, Swiss Words: 767

“There you are.” Swiss pokes his head into Dew and Rain’s dressing room with a mischievous grin. His sights are set on Dew.

“Let me borrow you for just a minute,” he suggests, steering Dew by the shoulders out the door into the hallway. Rain gets up to watch them leave, curious. Dew looks at him and shrugs.

“You can come too, Rainy.”

Swiss leads the two of them a short distance down the hall to his own dressing room. He ushers Dew inside with a hand on the small of his back. Rain follows of his own volition.

Inside the room is an unfamiliar young woman wearing scrubs, maybe a nurse. She’s standing in front of an arrangement of medical supplies on the makeup counter. There are gauze squares, alcohol swabs, glass vials, and syringes filled with something bright red.

“What’s this?” Dew’s feet are rooted in place, one step inside the room.

“Vitamins,” Swiss coos, drawing out the word. “It’s good for your immune system. We don’t want a repeat of last time.” He presses on Dew’s back again.

Dew complies. The nurse directs him to stand at the counter and slide down the waistband of his pants so she can inject the bright red liquid. He doesn’t react to the needle, but wrinkles his nose when she presses down on the plunger at the end of the syringe. When she’s done, he pulls up his pants while aiming a vicious glare at Swiss and heads for the door.

“Your turn now.” Swiss pushes Rain forward with a hand on his back, just like he did to Dew.

A cold wave of anxiety runs over Rain’s body. His eyebrows shoot up involuntarily. “Me?”

“Why don’t you go first,” Dew suggests, poking Swiss in the back with one finger.

“I already got mine.”

Dew looks to the nurse, who nods in confirmation.

“C’mon,” Swiss encourages, leading Rain by the arm to the spot where Dew was just standing.

Rain lets himself be pulled into the room. Swiss returns to the entrance, leaning a shoulder against the doorframe, nonchalant.

Rain stands in front of the counter and reluctantly lowers his pants on one side. He has to hold the hem of his shirt up slightly with one hand to keep it out of the way. He looks down in an attempt to avoid seeing himself in the mirror. The syringe is right there on the surface in front of him. He’s not afraid of shots, he tells himself, but this one is so big and the stuff inside is so red and—

The nurse scrubs his skin with an alcohol swab and he shivers.

“Take all your weight off this leg, okay?” She pats the side of his thigh.

She keeps patting there until he shifts to stand mostly on his opposite leg. He feels dizzy. He rests his free hand on the counter to balance himself.

She grabs the syringe from the counter and removes the cover from the needle, which is really long and pointy, and Rain can’t look anymore. He whips his head around and tucks it against his shoulder. Inadvertently he looks toward the door, where Dew is watching him with a little frown. When they make eye contact, a crease forms between Dew’s eyebrows.

Dew walks back over to where Rain is standing. He peels Rain’s fingers from their now white-knuckled grip on the edge of the counter. He leans against the counter next to him, holding his hand, like it’s the most casual thing in the world.

“Ready?” The nurse asks. Rain nods, eyes closed.

“Three, two, one,” she counts, fast, and then she sticks the needle in, also fast. It feels like barely anything, a tiny pinprick.

When she pushes down on the plunger a tiny, stinging, concentrated muscle cramp blooms in Rain’s hip. It makes him inhale sharply and squeeze Dew’s hand. It quickly grows in intensity until he squeaks out, “oh—”

“Done.”

The nurse withdraws the needle and presses on the spot where it was with a gauze pad. The pressure hurts in a way that’s oddly pleasant, like scratching an itch. She disposes of the empty syringe in a nearby container so quickly that it’s like it never existed.

Rain exhales half a breath he didn’t realize he was holding. When he opens his eyes, Dew is watching his face. The crease between his eyebrows fades.

The stinging sensation has dissipated into a dull, barely-there burn. Rain adjusts his pants.

Dew, still holding his hand, turns and takes a small step forward, leading him towards the door.

#β #bonus content #guys this is so stupid i apologize #it did not come from a place of mental stability #i wrote it because i needed to... what did i say earlier #balance out the universe or something #if theres any meaning to it i cant see it anymore

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azoart · 1 year

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I got fixated in a lost media ukagaka

Her name is Beeta/べータ/β更新/β

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #artwork #my art 𖣣 #fanart #ukagaka #ukgk #beeta #べータ #β更新 #β #anime #2000s media #2000s internet #lost media

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neesocks · 2 years

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#ルリドラゴン #ruri dragon #制服 #百合 #β #( akdfkgljshg GOD ! too real!! too real!!!! aaaaaaaaaaa killmyselfkillmyself goddd… literally was 100% just like this… ughhhhh… )#( except if we’re slotting in place where i’m ruri yuka would have been my girlfriend well… we all know ruri & yuka are actually dating )#( straight up they’re girlfriends & if shindou masaoki doesn’t do it like that we all know it’s cause he’s a coward ! a coward ! )

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phosphatas · 1 year

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Would anyone be willing to beta-read a short fic (555 words) of mine?

Fandom: Downton Abbey, what else, and Category: Gen

I mostly want to know if it makes you feel something and if it flows well :) but if there’s any glaring mistakes, I don’t mind hearing about it.

I‘ll put the tags and the summary under a read more.

#fanfic advice #β

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temporalystupid · 2 years

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You've hear of alpha-males, you've heard of beta-males, and even sigma males. I am here to announce my new project: phi-males! The club for guys and gals and anything else that are just there, and really like Greek letters.

#Φ #A #β #Σ #to sum it up i thunk greek letters are neat #and thunk its stupid for people to gove people categories that are based on greek letters #and the whole idea of alpha and beta is from a bad study that has since then been disproved by its own lead researcher #but hey what can you do #also i think its funny to have a thing thats pronounced like females in the whole alpha-male spehere.

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whats-in-a-sentence · 1 year

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The tubulin monomer of microtubules is a heterodimer composed of two similar polypeptide chains (α- and β-tubulin) (Figure 1.24A). (...) A microfilament is helical, a shape resulting from the polarity of association of the G-actin monomers (Figure 1.24B).

"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.

#book quotes #plant physiology and development #nonfiction #textbook #tubulin #α #β #heterodimer #polypeptide #microfilament #helical #polarity #monomer #g actin #alpha #beta

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aweiwp · 1 year

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#freightrain #graffitieverywhere #freight #graffiti #grafflife #greek graffiti #fr8 #cargo #boxcar #graffittiart #graffitiflowers #Β

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vocalsynthsource · 8 months

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VOCALOID β-STUDIO

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Announced on August 8th, VOCALOID β-STUDIO is described as "a research studio established by Yamaha for a limited period until the end of March 2024 to break down the common sense of singing voice synthesis."

Nine vocal libraries have been released for VOCALOID β-STUDIO, including libraries for UTAUs Gekiyaku and Kazehiki, whose silhouettes had been teased prior.

#gekiyaku #kazehiki #utau #vocaloid #vocaloid β-studio #voicebanks #yamaha

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carsthatnevermadeitetc · 1 year

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What a difference 41 years makes juxtaposition of Renault 5 Alpine Turbo, 1982 & Alpine A290 β Concept, 2023. Renault marketed an Alpine version of the first generation R5 between 1982 and 84. The new A290 will be Alpine's version of the new generation electric Renault 5

#Alpine #Renault #Renault 5 #Renault 5 Alpine Turbo #Alpine A290 β Concept #what a difference #hot hatch #high performance #1982 #2023 #concept #special edition #40 years #1980s #2020s #electrified

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ghoulodont · 11 months

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just to emphasize that all details in my recent fic were the result of insanity i want to share a little tidbit

there are only 2 numbers in the story that are completely "arbitrary" in that i consciously made them up because they are not describing something with an established cardinality or in some way based in (e.g. scientific) reality and they are:

two thirds

eight (= 2³)

both of them are combinations of 2 and 3. the 2 represents raindrop, the 3 represents raindrop plus a proxy for their interaction (either aether or the made up doctor) <- thematically relevant

#β #when people talk about angel numbers or 11:11 on the clock ?#i have that personality trait but worse

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azoart · 1 year

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Beeta sketches

I drew her as an adult because whynaut lel