#basic fucking science

[typhlonectes]

#flat earth #basic fucking science #Earth #science #space #space science #astronomy #planets

[quantumboogaloo]

It makes me so sad that there are genuinely people who believe the Earth is flat.

Like, the 18th century church was able to accept the heliocentric model. Why are we regressing like this?

So many inventions and improvements came about due to NASA and space exploration that better the lives of so many people.

Also flat earth literally makes no goddamn sense so there's that too ig

#the earth is not flat #the earth is round #basic fucking science #nasa #quantumboogaloo thoughts

[keferon]

Ah mmmm well

You know how in mermaid stories, the mermaid is typically the dumber one? I present to you the "and they were both scientists" plot.

Basically the concept is that mermechs and regular mechs can't talk to each other. But luckily even if they speak different languages they still use the same math~

I discovered a bunch of simpatico mer-fics. So. I wanted to do something with this concept too haha. If some physicist happens to read this - feel free to laugh at me. I know nothing about science👍

I don’t know if I’ll continue this thing. Should I. Idk. It’s midnight I might be going crazy lol. I made that cover anyway bc I love making covers hehe

[Next]->

#transformers #maccadam #our language of science #listen #Im not insane I swear #I mean I’m not THAT insane haha #mermaid mechs are fucking weird but l i s t e n Arachnid from tfp is basically the same #she’s like…half humanoid half spider #she has this mode without her humanoid legs #which is basically makes her..like…centaur. But spider. Spider centaur. Or spider mermaid #half of her body is humanoid and half is spider. And I’m going to use this knowledge for my defence okay?? #Because if she can have her spider half then other mechs can do the similar thing. In theory #okay I’m done proving the right of my vision to live #mtmte #lost light #perceptor #tf perceptor #brainstorm #tf brainstorm #simpatico #Chromedome #tf chromedome #yeah the whole world thinks mermaids are stupid but listen #I want smart mermaids okay. I want them to have their whole hidden civilisation. To be scientists #engineers #you know #I’m tired of (oh human need to teach this fish) I want the fish to be teaching the human #Btw Brainstorm basically found a mistake Perceptor made #ahahahehe #okay I’m done I need to get some sleep

[markscherz]

Just learned that tadpoles with injured tails sometimes regenerate them with extra legs

[src]

So that's neat.

#the more you know #frogs #science #animals #zoology #developmental biology #holy shit #this is called a homeotic transformation #and I think I have only really heard about them in fruitflies #so seeing it in frogs really fucked me up #how incredibly cool #I always thought the creatures from Pandora could not exist in vertebrates #because homeotic transformations in the *middle* of the trunk were basically impossible to achieve in a survivable manner #but it had not occurred to me that you could just… add more to the end #this changes everything

[sirmanmister]

Frostbite

A little gory/exaggerated but I actually like this a lot :D

I like the idea of the freeze being REALLY rough on the sole survivor, and there’s physical trauma involved that they have to deal with past the mental trauma of waking up 200 years in the future.

Damien gets pretty bad barotrauma from being frozen for 150 years, wakes up to see Shaun get taken, then freezes again pretty much immediately afterwards. It’s not like he could fully thaw in those 2 minutes it took Kellogg to open Nora’s door. So now Damien is deaf in his left ear, and he has trouble keeping his hands warm :)

Closeup under the cut

#it should be known Damien’s frostbite doesn’t actually advance to this I just wanted to dramatize it lmfao #cuz this is late stage with tissue death #but that takes a bit and he’d start warming up basically the moment he’s out of his pod #also technically Damien should have fucked up balance with his ear fucked like that #but I don’t care. artistic liberty lmao #I could ramble SO MUCH about semi-sciency stuff I HC about the freeze #like the potential for it to just. fuck with all your cells #it won’t mutate you like radiation or anything but it could still kill a LOT #sole survivor with IBS because their gut biome was eradicated LMFAO #sole survivor that gets vitiligo/their hair starts growing in stark white because the melanin producers all died #literally I could talk abt it so much. don’t quote me on the science tho I’m not actually smart #anyway real tags #fallout 4 #fallout #fallout 4 fanart #fallout fanart #digital art #male sole survivor #sole survivor #cryogenic freezing #blood #blood tw #frostbite #fallout 4 headcanons #serenade draws #Damien tag

[n1nthrule]

soapship ship dynamics (to me)

tyler will always have more power in the relationship than narrator

tyler never visibly loves narrator. his feelings towards him tend to be more like playing with dolls as a child.

narrator will always be jealous and seething with rage 24/7

tyler will never only show affection towards the narrator. the narrator is always shown as a sidepiece or a sad dead rat he can't help but feel sorry for

#basically narrator is tyler's weird freaky gay science experiment #thinking about this because i want them to have an equal relationship #but that would immediately stray into 'he would not fucking say that' territory #fight club #soapshipping #fic writing #?

[nefertittythegreat]

Ok, but can we talk about Myne's hair color!

Because the LN describes her hair as being “Midnight Blue”, but to my understanding midnight blue is this color.

Which is not the color she has in the Anime, Manga, or LN colored art pages

Like we can all agree that none of these are midnight blue. So that leads to the question, what color is myne's hair?

My first thought was that her hair is probably cobalt blue.

But it’s too bright and lacks that dusty-ness so then I found these

I think these four more or less encapsulates Myne’s hair color more or less, but what do you guys think? How do you see Myne’s hair color?

#like I wish her hair was midnight blue #This is not a knock on any of the artist or animators #her hair is very consistent #honestly across all boards #it’s basically the same color #it’s just not midnight blue to me #which is me overthinking I know #but hear me out! #i think we should figure it out for science #I personally like Dark Cerulean #but the other three are taken directly from other official arts like the anime #or the manga and LN #so AoB fam What color are we liking #we can also say fuck cannon and just actually make it midnight blue #idk I just wanna hear y’all’s thoughts #ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #Myne aob #rozemyne #rozemyne aob #funnily enough Ferdinand’s hair IS Sky Blue #technically LIGHT sky blue #what I mean is his hair reads Sky blue in art more than Myne’s reads midnight blue #you’re probably asking why is this important? #and the answer is FANFIC OC BABIES #what are the kids gonna look like????? #so we need to settle on myne’s hair color #thank you for your time

[unicornsaures]

oh my god i need to stop going onto tumblr after writint a single sentence. Doli this is why you cant get shit done

#hashtag i have hw too #fucking POETRY!! #ugh english my beloathed #ironically #i am posting this while I should be writing! #or doing homework #but preferably writing #becausr fuck poetry #and fuck science #biology i truly do hate you #and math #cant forget math #hashtag scientific notation review! #we did this like #too ling ago #get out of here w/ that #'7.9 x 10^5' #like STOTPLL #bring back basic math for my basic brain #go back to long division💯 #(literally learned 6 years ago😕) #bring back easy math im so ass at this #im ranting in tbe tags #as one does

[definitelynotshouting]

Can I ask, since you mentioned agreeing 'even if under duress' - how did the Watchers convince Player Grian to join them in hunger au?

So take this with the specific grain of salt that ive never watched Evo directly (but have friends who have ((thank you wren)), so i know tidbits via osmosis from them), but my thought has always been that the riddles the Watchers gave the Evo Players were all tests used to measure cleverness and intelligence-- the whole point of them attempting to copy the mind of a Player into a Watcher larva in the first place was to try and avoid the insanely high infant mortality rate their typical juveniles go through, bc they dont understand their own limits enough to even know they have them yet. So they needed a Player they knew they could instruct and who would listen to them, and, well. Grian, for all he was rebellious and outright defiant of the Watchers, still solved their puzzles and only had to be punished once before he stopped trying to mess with them

What ive always pictured is after the dragon fight the two main elders of the Watcher colony finally revealed themselves to Grian properly-- i have this crystal clear image of the two of them hovering above and next to the central end island, looming over Grian, and like, these guys are big. HUGE. A good 5x bigger than the ender dragon itself, at LEAST. It would be hard not to feel insanely intimidated by that, honestly, especially when there are two of them side by side, blocking your entire view of the End from that direction.

Anyway picture that with the context of these two giant floating winged worms youve never seen before, who have demonstrated their powerful ability to manipulate code in a way you cant.... telling you that they have chosen you to become one of them. Thats an immense amount of pressure, both from flattery and fear, especially considering theyve punished you before for defying them. I like to think even then, Grian balked a bit, and while i dont have exact dialogue beats here, i know the Watchers continued putting that pressure on him (likely while leveraging his friendships too-- like ive always said, if Grian hadnt been chosen, BigB wouldve been, and i can absolutely see the Watchers offering to take him in Grian's stead) until he finally caved and accepted their "offer" of joining them.

Unfortunately, he didnt find out exactly what that entailed until it was far too late.

#shouting speaks #asks #hunger au #evo watchers #watcher!grian #grian #evo smp #tldr they pressured tf out of him to do it #through both flattery and also leveraging his own fear against him #he was a Player after all. they were likely bumping his mood post-dragon fight to make him more suggestible #the most painful thing abt this to me is that the Watchers still werent being deliberately malicious here like #with the way they viewed Players this was NORMAL to them #they just. didnt rlly consider them as much more than food/hosts for their young. in their eyes the Watcher that emerged was different #than the Player it had hatched from #even though it had Grian's mind memories personality and stats #every day i feel shrimp emotions abt this #the horror he went through..... and they never once thought of it as torture #they never once regarded Player!Grian as something that needed to know what was going to happen to him #bc it was normalized to them. yeah sure Watcher juveniles hatch from Player hosts thats NORMAL thats part of their life cycle!!! #the only new thing is this one would still retain the Player's mind #it was a fucked up science experiment basically and grian wasnt told ANYTHING before it actually happened to him #sobs and cries ohhh grian i fucked you up SO BAD huh #also huge shoutout to my friend wren for giving me a little context while i wrote this and confirming my ideas slotted in #rlly well with existing canon. character understander status continues to stay intact im winning #txt

[nvenjpg]

did both a year ago and left it to finish later,,,

i have a lot of opinions and feelings about life is strange, i love this game, this was like in the same week ive finished it or something im not sure anymore, its been a year after all

#lis #life is strange #lis fanart #max caulfield #chloe price #joyce price #poor girl did not have a moment of peace in her life omg #i do not remember their names and its late im gonna play some games and go to sleep #i do like them a lot though #like i would put their photos in my wall.. they are little beloveds #sometimes fucked up and straight up annoying but i like them bc of a specific thing they did? #didnt put every character i like but in the future i will #victoria; kate; that homeless woman; rachel and her science teacher are missing and maybe someone else too.. i cant remember tho... #i love you max caulfield basic girl of the year <3 #chloe is beautiful is the game but i think she should be more fucked up heheheh its so fun drawing her like this

[bardinthezone]

Night Vale and the Power of Stories

So I’ve been losing my mind about this latest arc. Full hyperfixation. Studying for finals? Calling my parents? Enjoying other hobbies? Eating?? Who’s she, never heard of her. There is only the “#wtnv spoilers” tag.

Anyways, inspired primarily by this post, this post, and this post, I have been thinking about Night Vale as a place of stories.

Night Vale is a deeply weird place. It is a place where all the crazy conspiracies and contradictions and creepy crawlies can coexist (try saying that 5 times fast), and it is built on stories.

We know from “109: A Story About Huntokar” that Huntokar singlehandedly saved the town from nuclear destruction in 1983. This in and of itself is beautiful, tragic, terrifying and wonderful (I could write a whole essay on the lasting effects of the Cold War on the American psyche and how that’s impacted our media, but that’s not what this post is about). But what Huntokar says in describing this moment is fascinating: “ The people of Night Vale huddled, waiting for the end to their story.” The use of the word “story” here is so poignant and poetic. This was her town, a narrative she had lovingly followed since its inception, with an ever rotating cast of characters, finally seeming as though it would come to an end. And yet she managed to continue their story. The people of Night Vale, of every alternate universe Night Vale, are kept alive because Huntokar wanted to keep the narrative going. It is a town kept alive-- inverted and shattered and bizarre, but alive-- because someone saw the tale coming to an end and wasn’t satisfied with that. Night Vale is a place of stories.

And Cecil. Cecil Gershwin-Palmer is such a wonderful enigma. He’s a deeply troubled man, he’s the town’s beloved radio host, he is the voice of Night Vale. As the town’s only (?) regular source of news, he carries incredible weight in shaping the public’s perception of reality. It is his radio show that keeps the people informed through all of these earth-shattering events-- it is Cecil who, for as goofy and cringefail (thank you @bigcommunist for that phrase) as he can be, has been responsible for keeping his citizens safe. In “227: A Word With Dr. Jones,” Dr. Janet Lubelle notes that one of his traits is “town leadership.” When Cecil speaks, things happen. He rallies the people, against Strexcorp or the Beagle Puppy or Steve Carlsberg and his dry, dry scones. Hell, he says “weather” and everyone stops, or sometimes (Like in “204: Audition”) it literally saves his life. @lostboywriting raises a fascinating theory about Cecil having inadvertently brought the Faceless Old Woman into existence through his repression of his complicated relationship with his mother-- and while this contradicts with the backstory presented in "The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives Inside Your Home," who’s to say that both origins can’t be true, with how splintered and fractured Night Vale’s existence (and especially relation to time) is? Perhaps Cecil, as the Voice Of Night Vale, is capable of changing the world more than he knows.

Either way, this is why Dr. Lubelle’s Explaining of the town has so much of a tangible effect on it-- because she’s coming in and using something “empirical” to change the narrative. That is why she’s so threatening-- because how do you argue with the facts? How do you argue with science? She is using logic to insist that her reality is right, that these stories and poetics used to keep the town alive are meaningless. That it would be better for them to not exist than to exist outside her narrative. She said it herself-- she cannot imagine that anyone thinks differently to herself about anything, and she is all to happy to provide any who disagrees with an Explanation. No matter the cost.

In 227, Cecil remarks that “Science is not good or bad, as language is not good or bad, as religion is not good or bad, because humans are not inherently good or bad.” This sets up a fascinating play between science, language, and religion that I think is perfectly encapsulated by Dr. Lubelle, representing science, Cecil, representing language, and Huntokar, representing religion. Whether she knows it or not, Dr. Lubelle is directly undoing all of the hard work of Huntokar, and attempting to use Cecil as the most powerful tool at her disposal.

And this works in conjunction with my distinction of the What vs. the Why. We can take the incursion point of November 7th, 1983, and view it through both lenses. From Huntokar’s perspective, we get the Why: Night Vale was in danger, and it needed saving, so she saved it. But from Dr Lubelle’s perspective, we just get the What: Night Vale was the target of a nuclear missile. Nuclear missiles are unstoppable by any force known to science. This is a town that should have been empty for 40 years.

I posit a world in which Dr. Lubelle reduces Night Vale to what it “should be:” A town ruined by nuclear destruction. The empirical facts, the anchors that held Night Vale down to reality, the threads that Huntokar broke-- Dr. Lubelle is seeking to tie them back together. And with the Voice of Night Vale on her side, Explained and ready to share the Truth, of course she can make that happen. Perhaps Huntokar takes center stage again to show that science is not the end-all-be-all. Perhaps Carlos steps in to replace Dr. Lubelle as the Scientist in this equation, to provide a good alternative to her callous methods. 

Or I could be totally off-base with that prediction. I imagine the bodies being dug up in the sand wastes and the murals of flesh will play a major role in the finale. Maybe she’ll uncover the splintered realities of Night Vale and won’t know how to explain them away. Hell, people keep hyping up a Desert Bluffs return, what with the Sandstorm tapes and the talk of doubles-- Maybe Kevin and Lauren will be the “religion” in the triumvirate, and drive Dr. Lubelle mad with their unrelenting fervor. Who knows? I have my theories, but I’m just excited to see where this all goes.

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Also from a meta perspective, this is 100% harkening back to all those early-days fan theories that “Night Vale is a normal town and Cecil is just off his rocker” (Thanks @maxgicalgirl for that one!). Welcome To Night Vale is a show that has never been about continuity and tight lore-- it’s about spinning a fun narrative, it’s about the poetry, the music, the aesthetics; it’s about everything that Dr. Lubelle HATES. From a meta perspective, Dr. Lubelle is every theorist who tries to ruin the magic of a story, who nitpicks it endlessly because it doesn’t adhere to how the “real world” functions. She doesn’t care about why story elements are included, she just needs what’s included to adhere to her worldview. And I can’t wait to see her get taken down, no matter how it happens.

Thanks again to @maxgicalgirl, @lostboywriting, @eclipse-song​, and everyone who’s been sharing their thoughts about the latest arc on tumblr. I would not be writing this without y’all!!

#im sorry to everyone who says shes hot but shes basically a colonizer #''im new to your community but your culture is backwards and wrong'' #''let me fix it with my superior science and reasoning'' #shes so evil i hate her /pos #finknor wrote her so well #and janet varney is an incredible VA #i cannot express how much I love this arc so far #i really hope we get more on the 1983 storyline because that is just positively fascinating #a town that should have died long ago #that should have been reduced to ashes #and yet here they are #lubelle would fucking hate that if she found out #also WHATS GONNA HAPPEN TO EVERYONE WHO GETS EXPLAINED??? #cause if cecil is getting explained i dont think itll be permanent #but #ough its just so GOOD #also carlos. my man. where are you. when are you gonna show yourself #when will we get to know your tragic backstory cause there is SOMETHING going on there #i swear she was just trying to get to carlos and the rest of the town was an added bonus #wtnv spoilers #wtnv 227 #wtnv #welcome to night vale #welcome to night vale spoilers #cecil gershwin palmer #dr janet lubelle #uowii #huntokar

[hinsaa-paramo-dharma]

School mein ghuss te hi meri volume kam kyun ho jaati hai 😭

#We had a Sanskrit class where sir was just asking basic questions and stuff #Hindi and Sanskrit students dono ki combined thi and since maine 6th se toh padhi hi hai Sanskrit I knew most of the answers #But meri volume hi itni kam thi ki mujhe aur meri friend ko chodke kisi aur ko sunai hi nahi diya 💀 #And bhen ji itni greedy hai for popularity ki mere answers usne hi bole #And since she is loud sir ko sunai diya #And he said referring to my friend “You seem to have mastered the basics #well done beta" #I WAS LITERALLY CRYING ON THE INSIDE #she just memed about it kyuki aisa hamare saath bahut baar ho chuka hai 🤠 #Like the time no one had any fucking clue ki lakshadweep ki capital kya hai and I had whispered “Kavaratti..” and she heard it #Aur usne answer karke saara credit le liya and sab kavaratti-kavaratti mujhe bula bula ke dimaag khaa te hai 🥺 #She Apologised for it and I don't mind main bhi toh kabhi kabhi usse science ya maths mein help maangti hu #But Dil mein dukhta hai yaar 😭 #Anyways this was such a childish rant-

[tennantwhittaker]

After seeing everyone's takes on bi-generation and thinking about the in-universe implications I think my only problem with it is the splitting of the TARDIS. It feels like it was only done because it's part of fourteen's happy ending rather than narratively making sense.

They spent two episodes reaffirming to Donna how dangerous traveling in the TARDIS is. First she almost gets left behind in WBY and is seconds away from dying before the doctor comes back for her. She literally watches her death coming towards her. Then in The Giggle the Toymaker tells her how most of the companions since her have died, and she has to listen to the Doctor make justifications about their deaths. There is no way after that she should want a functioning TARDIS anywhere near her family - ESPECIALLY her daughter.

Also in The Giggle fourteen gives a big speech about not knowing who he is without the TARDIS or his sonic. The proper narrative resolution to that isn't "oh well you get the tardis forever so we'll never have to know", it's "you'll get to spend the rest of your life finding out, and isn't that wonderful?"

It's almost like RTD set up this whole finale about the doctor finding happiness in having normalcy, but was too pressed about giving David his "perfect ending" to really go through with it.

#doctor who #like i dont care if the “science” of it makes sense #fucking with established cannon is basically who's whole thing #its just narratively unsatisfying

[neverendingford]

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#ughhhhh I fee like a fucking animal in human skin I want to race and scream and tear and howl and fuck and climb and tear and bite and twitc #how do people survive how the fuck do people survive I can't live with the human ability of forethought and future prediction my mind goes #linsane with the fact that there's so many possibilities and it's all unknown asnd we're all just fucking around hoping things work out lik #we hope and it's all just fuckin cerebral torture and torment and I just want to be a fucking labrador I just want to be an animal followin #.instincts and just doing what feels right without having to constantly doubt my own thoughts because I can trust the physical messages my #body sends but I can't fucking trust my thoughts or emotions basically ever and I joke about doing science and collecting data but for real #I'm doing that becasue I can't trust my conclusions I can' #t trust my hypotheses I can't trust my theories I can only trruyst the outcome of my actions because I can't predict what will happen I can #just trust what actually happens when I do it. I have to fuckk around and find out because I don't know what will happen otherwise because #can't trust what will happen otherwise oooohohsdlfkhslgkhasl;dkfjfslkghjlk fuck I hate this #.

[cinemagh0ul]

I am once again thinking about motherfucking Tarrare

#I need to write a biopic on this fucker immediately it would be so interesting yet so upsetting #the fact that this man existed is mind boggling and goes against any form of science #this man could swallow cattle with room for seconds but was slowly dying of starvation and only weighed up to 100 lbs #his jaw could apparently unhinged like a snake and his throat was basically just a straight up hole directly into his stomach #DOCTORS COULD LITERALLY PEAK INTO THIS MAN’S STOMACH JUST BY LOOKING IN HIS MOUTH #He would eat trash; inedible objects; live animals; entire buffets; his own shit; other ppl’s blood; and allegedly a fucking baby #this man in no universe should be able to exist BUT HE FUCKING DID #DOCTORS COULDN’T EVEN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE FUCK WAS WRONG WITH HIM #I’m telling you a biopic of this guy would be a body horror fan’s wet dream and if no one else has the balls to make it then I will