#but it's one more variable to look into

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

i love spanish conferences. for the london one the fee is £90 (£45 if you're a student) and i have no idea if as a speaker i also have to pay the fee or not. in this one in spain i'm planning to speak at attendance is free and if you want to be a speaker you have to pay a total of 10€ as fee.

#once again. southern europe supremacy #this is what we are talking about when we demand making academia and culture accessible #anyways i have no idea if i'll attend #because if they pick me. it's on may 3rd #i'm still in trento technically by then but. if i have that. idk what i'll do i'll have to consult my parents #cause i was planning on staying until may 8th cause there's a seminar on that day #but i could just leave earlier #the contract is for two months #beyond april i can stay until i want #moreover. the conference is in salamanca #so that's another problem. getting there #i say problem i'm sure there's a train i can hop onto #but it's one more variable to look into #whatever. i'll just apply and worry later #cause the conference is very cool. it's organized by a phd student organization and it is made to present your phd proposals to the public #mostly other professors #to get feedback and stuff #so that's cool i think

[pucksandpower]

I think that Formula 1 should get rid of sprint races and instead have all of the drivers race in cars with the same exact specs a few times each season so we can see who would truly come out victorious if they’re all in equal machinery

#sometimes i just want to know how the results would look if all other variables except for pure skill were taken out of the equation #and you can’t tell me this wouldn’t be way more interesting than watching a sprint race #f1 #formula 1 #formula one

[cupidle]

zazie

#trigun #zazie #zazie the beast #taps mic anyone here cares abt zazie. is it crickets. #i’ve been sooo interested in zazie and their lore/significance to the story since reading trimax #i feel like adding another variable to the conflict would have been rly interesting and that variable being the native species #on no mans land would have added more nuance to the story #and there was an attempt to discuss that but nothing rly came of it #cause of THE MENACE OF SOCIETY escaping his damn ward cell #i want more worm involvement #in a story so heavily focused on the survivability of one’s species and abuse of power i just think. looking more in depth at the hosts #of the planet would have been cool. #guy in chair rocking back and forth manically #and i love bugs also #cupidle

[muninnhuginn]

You know what's gonna kill me when we get the inevitable Lu Guang flashbacks?

The fact he's always described as "mature" as his post-dive self implies he must be different now than before. It's hard to imagine exactly what his personality was like before, and if it's written well, he shouldn't be completely unrecognisable. But we know he's been changed.

Imagine a first timeline where Lu Guang just follows along with Cheng Xiaoshi, no attempts to reign him in whatsover. Cheng Xiaoshi having the opportunity to come up with more of his complicated tricks but channelling it into lower stakes stuff like pranks and Lu Guang actually enabling him in that and having fun with it. Imagine tragedy striking when Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi are both allowing themselves to be genuinely happy, no facades.

We know that Cheng Xiaoshi used to put on a brave face in light of his parents' disappearances and what that meant for how he was treated and what he was missing out on. But we also know that Qiao Ling and Lu Guang together have been able to lift that into something more genuine. Imagine a world where Cheng Xiaoshi was able to do the same for Lu Guang. Where they both mutually brought that light into the other's life.

It's still true to some extent in the current worldline, but it's complicated by Lu Guang's own actions. Lu Guang can never be fully honest with Cheng Xiaoshi without (in his mind) losing him forever. But he has to stick by his side in order to have any chance in his hopeless quest. And so, he must distance himself in other ways, protect Cheng Xiaoshi, enforce the rules. Swallow the guilt. It leads to a more lopsided relationship, one where one side is always hiding something from the other and refuses to open up themselves. A relationship that in the original timeline must have been more equal, as partners.

There's something that's been lost here, and it's not just the original Cheng Xiaoshi.

#I know it's definitely on the cards that lg didn't have a good childhood + that's why he latched so strongly onto cxs #but at the same time the comments about him being mature are such an obvious indicator that he's jumped already #that his og go around he was a lighter person. and that was lost with the original cheng xiaoshi. #link click #link click spoilers #shiguang daili ren spoilers #also. the current dynamic is lg trying to control all variables. giving instructions and cxs has to act them out. #when we know cxs can hatch plans himself and lg is observant enough to troubleshoot them + add details #lg only eased up on controlling everything late s1 + look where that led. I do wonder if their og diving dynamic was also more mutual tho. #if their s2 dives are closer to resembling their prev timeline ones than in s1

[angstmachine-rw]

Five Pebbles turns up the graphics settings

BSM: Hey, local group, I know you are wondering what is going on. Uh... me too!~ BSM: I was not told about a-

BSM: What are- I'm dehydrated. I'm dehydrated? I don't think, uh... BSM: Hold on, let me check- uh... it does not say- FP: I'm turning up the graphics settings, once and for all. BSM: It does not say any- OH I CAN SEE THE GLINT ON MY HANDS!

BSM: I CAN SEE MY AGE. WHAT THE FUCK?! BSM: ALSO THERE'S NO WATER. BSM: Alright so this group senior doesn't know-

NSH: What is hap- what is going on?!

#a shitpost about the variable levels of detail in the overseers' projections #especially iggy #all of the more detailed ones of moon come from them #theres basically no consistency with character's appearance anywhere in this game #especially with moon #makes it so hard to figure out what any of these goobers look like smh #also moon swears here deal with it #rw spoilers #rain world #looks to the moon #five pebbles #rw downpour #snapcube reference #rain world shitpost

[anathemafiction]

Changed the Hadrian_Assertive variable from a true/false statement to a numeric scale... 🤭

#ehehe #so fun to finally begin to explore more complex sides of the romances #I keep changing variables on Book One tho #It's good you can't save at the end of the book yet because your saves would be broken T_T #sneak peek #Hadrian #The Golden Rose #omg why does the picture look so tiny on mobile!? #xD #it's ridiculous fjijfi #you'll have to squint darlings :(

[moeblob]

Unfortunately I was reminded of Variable Barricade and I'm like "haha ah yes, the worst love interests you can imagine thrown into one game so that the MC can be disgusted with all of them". Then I was like "I miss my son, Nayuta. What a little freak. I want to draw him again". But also had no idea what to draw so I drew him getting yelled at by Ichiya and OH MAN. WHAT A SHOCK. It's Ichiya's birthday and it was completely unintentional I didn't mean to give the man art for his bday but here we are.

#variable barricade #nayuta yagami #ichiya mitsumori #happy birthday you sleaze ball i guess #i genuinely enjoyed what i played and i should go back to it and play more at some point to see if ANY of them #actually improve bc im only really concerned with these two #but anyway i havent played it in ages #the worst thing about adopting a son in this game is my son is like PLEASE STEP ON ME AND YELL AT ME IF YOU WANT #and im like son no thats very awkward for everyone (both in game and me playing it) #he probably just ate food he wasnt supposed to that was for the mc ?? thats all i can think of #one day i will learn how to draw handsome men so i can draw ichiya but for now have someone who doesnt look like him really

[stamplerfag]

im gonna answer the other ask later but TRANSFEM SCARY I WAS. ALSO THINKING HBBBGNN

#willy goes both ways abt such things bcus. one he is a misogynist and a homophobe or at least was on earth. obviously #and he still holds you know that. hypermasculine toxic mindset as of s1 based on the uhhh #“overly feminine namby pamby” whatever he says #(kicking myself for not having it memorized) #but i assume that he encountered more variable things in the forgotten realms that may have made him more normal abt. gender variance there #god okay i. hes not. he has an opinion of “you can be a freak if you want whatever. ill play pretend with you. ill tolerate it.” #i really like transmasc ron for similar reasons.. of.... especially when they meet in the cabin where hes cooking fish #and willys like “thats right get some bass in your voice boy !!” #like i know its just regular like. ron isnt masculine enough. but it reads very sarcastic.... #“get some bass in your voice” like . you wanna be a boy so bad okay. ill humor you. hahahah. man up then. #um but transfem scary i like a similar. thing. of.... tolerating her being a girl and playing along but always being. #kind of chiding about it. #im so worried were not on the same pagw #which is fine obviously but i get so shy abt when. someone offers me headcanons that i dont agree with and i have to be like #“hahaha yeah whatever you say” like i cant say anything back cus its Wrong to me. BUT. #god though yeah her. visibly being hard around him & its both deeply sort of gross but very flattering to him like. i can work with this... #i think of him as a. opportunist. hes not into cock & not into kids really. dwindling upwards of teen girls but eh. #so when a cute troubled teen girl is literally. offering herself up to you at your feet man its like. why would i say no !! ♡ #hes more into taking advantage of her than any of her personal details you know. like her as a person doesnt really. matter. who cares #shes available and stupid and looking to him for advice and validation. #sorry again i havent LISTENED TO ANY OF THIS. I CAN BE WRONG #didnt anthony make the joke abt willy not being brave enough to try pegging. maybe this is his chance #who said that. who. said that #you really want to manipulate a teen girl then you humble yourself and suck her cock and shes yours forever. #im crazy. im crazy #.dxt #scary

[lemongogo]

i need 2 stop drawing static stuff . white bg . front facing pose. <will do it again

#i looked thru my media tab 2day .horrific #WHERES THA PURPOSEEEE E #there doesnt have 2 be any . of coursies . #but thats smt i want to work on rly hard T_T 2024!!!!!!!!! #smth smth reflection but i am happy with what ive done in 2023 #definitely havent finished as many things as id hoped but thats okay.kind of touched on it w that one trgn comp a few months ago #but i tried 2 be more confident in areas i wasnt so sure abt before and it paid off in a way that im happy with T__T❤️ #like despite all my gloom & burnout and artblock . i had a lot of fun . and im rly fortunate that ive been able to meet the nicest ppl #through it T__T #idk what jm talking abt anymore but j think . i am happy w the direction im headed in and i just need to work harder now on variability #and concept and composition. not rly sure where to start but i think compiling some of my favs in a single place #and studying them will help. :3.. AND NOT GIVING UP A SKETCH IF ITS FRUSTRATING ATM😭😭😭😭 #some of them ..that one w meryl and vash . i ould not for the life of me figure out and i was like soo done w it #but then i was likeno OK just do it who cares . and then i found a workflow that worked and it WAS SOO MUCH FUNNN AND I STILL RLY LOVE HOW #IT TURNED OUTTT .. #and the one w knives . the beautiful universe one . i rmbr being so annoyed by a similar attempt that inwas lkke fuck it im just gna use the #biggest brush ever and play arnd with stuff bc its not gna see the light of day and fhen j agonized abt sharing it and everyone WAS SOOO #NICE TO ME !!&2&2 LIKEEE it was one of my earliest trgn pieces so kind of new 2 da scene and lkke . idk man it helped me enjoy my art from #an outside perspective after struggling w the doubt and its now one of my favorites ever too … #ORRR .. the vash and wolfwood one w the silly blue sky bg .. the textures were so mindless and fun #or the elendira . SOOO MANY FUN ELENDIRAS.. the perspective nail gun one is still a fav bc i shy away from perspective bc its hard as shit #but it worked out and i luv it tew . #sory anyways . very happy. and thankful^__^ ik when j post stuff like URRG MY ART!!!it mostly jst comes from .like GAAH want 2 push myself #harder bc i know itll be fun once i get 2 where im going T_T #anyways if u got 2 this point u r lkterally angel my angelll~ hamtaro pic #tys

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: February 25

“Watermelon Crawl” by Tracy Byrd

#song of the day #I just remembered to go back and edit this song file on my comp so it has the correct artist #it was so stupid funny--last week-ish Duncan and I were talking about the playlist I'd made for him to veto things off of #(neither of the boys are any good at telling me what songs of mine they /do/ like so we've landed on this variably-successful strategy #where instead I make a playlist of my best guesses for their taste and then as it plays through they tell me which songs I was wrong about) #and we got to 'Brown Chicken Brown Cow' by Trace Adkins and I was like 'yeah you probably don't want this one do you' #and he was like *extremely flat expression* No. Thanks. #and I told him I'd already remembered to remove 'Ala-Freakin-Bama' (also by Trace Adkins. same album and all) so I should get partial credi #and he was like mm. sure. #and I told him how I'd started with my 'all country music on my laptop' playlist for scaffolding #and then added in pretty much everything I had by other artists he'd seemed to enjoy before #(Duncan's more tolerant of this playlist-winnowing process than Nick is so his playlist starts with a much wider net #Nick's playlist I was a lot more cautious with because if I lose him at an early stage we'll never get a successful final product) #anyhow so Duncan rolled his eyes so mightily at the mention of Ala-Freakin-Bama and I was like actually you know what #here's all the songs I have by Trace Adkins. tell me which ones you /do/ want and we'll pull all the rest now (to save your eyeballs) #and he looked over the whole list (about twenty songs) and finally he said 'oh! Watermelon Crawl! I do like that one. at least there's one' #and I had to laugh and tell him 'actually I'm pretty sure that's mislabeled. that's a Tracy Byrd song' and he rolled his eyes again #turns out there's actually no Trace Adkins song Duncan will tolerate! no respect for the artistry of the Honky-Tonk Badonkadonk

[festeringfae]

People talk about the season drop not being as good as appointment television sequential drops creating a literal Season out of new episodes of a show, and they are right.

One thing I haven't seen in contrast, though, is the penny dreadful effect full season drops have. As in, binge watching creates a much larger tolerance for continuity errors, ESPECIALLY in mystery stories of any kind, because of the rate at which new information is provided.

#obviously target audience matters here too obviously #if mcu stans did not gulp whatever they are given down i could drive myself insane wondering #how playing with the variables of release schedule and existence of The Song would impact perception of Wandavision #The Song should be studied because its like. it actually WASNT agatha all along. it was smt unforgettable that made MUCH less sense! #but the song was a bop & much more memorable so nobody cared! #shame we can't radicalize Lin-Manuel Miranda because truly the man makes Don Draper look like that one RNC candidate who paid ppl to canvas

[warmthpdf]

learning to enjoy exercise hehe ive been trying to find what feels good nd what feels achievable and i think im starting to get it :) this time ive been so focused on reframing exercise to be positive and more about health rather than weight and its such very intentional shift to make and its easy to fall back from it but i feel like im getting closer to something :( even when i was little i thought sm about my body, but now i feel like im finally seeing the progress ive nurtured through learning to be warm to myself again

#mine #nutrition and exercise is also just one of those topics that goes in so many diff directions with so many variables #so i find it fun to look into and then take what i can from it and apply it where i can yk :) #being in love makes me want to take care of myself more. by loving him i start loving me while knowing its already possible

[cosmicpines]

I’m not putting this in the tags of the podcast I just reblogged in case the writers see lol but the worldbuilding is very post-transcendence world for the old tau gang still following

#also mg more honest opinion is I think it’s a bit variable in quality in terms of being a bit heavy handed #one part in particular I thought was quite egregiously tell-y at me #there was also like a pretty wild conclusion that was drawn and then a wildly bizarre response to it imo #if that conclusion was supposed to be accepted which I honestly don’t know #it is fun tho I promise #the characters are funny and full of energy #but look I can’t just Enjoy Things you gotta get my full opinion #mary blabs

[headspace-hotel]

I forget why, but I was on the Wikipedia page for polycystic ovarian syndrome, and I started researching hirsutism in women, and I learned the following things in this order:

there's a diagnostic criteria used to evaluate how hairy a woman is

This is important because being too hairy is a diagnostic criteria of most disorders that cause hyperandrogenism

Disorders that cause hyperandrogenism can be diagnosed by...measuring how hairy you are (this is the main and most important diagnostic criterion for PCOS)

Disorders that cause hyperandrogenism are important because they are correlated with obesity, infertility, and...being too hairy?

I think to myself, wait, what is a normal range for testosterone in women? I find this article...which set reference ranges for "normal" testosterone levels in women...EXCLUDING WOMEN WITH PCOS?

Quote: "Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is another notable condition in genetic (XX) females, which is characterized by excessive ovarian production of androgens. This condition is included for comparison with DSD, as the affected females with PCOS are genetic and phenotypic females. The elevated levels of testosterone in these females can lead to hyperandrogenism, a clinical disorder characterized variably by hirsutism, acne, male-pattern balding, metabolic disturbances, impaired ovulation and infertility. PCOS is a common condition, affecting 7%-10% of premenopausal women."

So: the study claims to demonstrate a clear distinction between the normal range of hormone levels in "Healthy" men and "healthy" women...with "healthy" being defined in the study as...having hormones within the "normal" range.......................

So I researched what the clinically established "normal" range for testosterone in women is

THERE ISN'T ONE????

Quote from the above article: "Several different approaches have been used to define endocrine disorders. The statistical approach establishes the lower and the upper limits of hormone concentrations solely on the basis of the statistical distribution of hormone levels in a healthy reference population. As an illustration, hypo- and hypercalcemia have been defined on the basis of the statistical distribution of serum calcium concentrations. Using this approach, androgen deficiency could be defined as the occurrence of serum testosterone levels that are below the 97.5th percentile of testosterone levels in healthy population of young men. A second approach is to use a threshold hormone concentration below or above which there is high risk of developing adverse health outcomes. This approach has been used to define osteoporosis and hypercholesterolemia. However, we do not know with certainty the thresholds of testosterone levels which are associated with adverse health outcomes."

What the fuck?

What the fuck?

It's batshit crazy to make a diagnostic criteria for medical disorders by placing arbitrary cutoffs within 2-5% of either end of a statistical distribution. What the actual fuck?

"The results came back, you have Statistical Outlier Disease." "What treatments are available?" "Well, first, we recommend dietary change. You should probably stop eating so many spiders."

Another article which attempted to do this

Quote: "Subjects with signs of hirsutism or with a personal history of diabetes or hypertension, or a family history of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) were excluded."

"We're going to figure out the typical range of testosterone levels that occur in women! First, we're going to exclude all the women that are too hairy from the study. I am very good at science."

Anyway I got off topic but there are apparently race-specific diagnostic tools for "hirsutism." That's kinda weird on its own but when I looked more into this in relation to race I found this article that straight-up uses the term "mongoloid"

#what the fucketh #science #random #racism #?

[astrangergivingthestrangewelcome]

And with The New Woman receiving its 55th kudos today it has officially put Bitter Waters, my one Arthur POV, in dead last out of all seven of my dracula fics, despite it being written fifth, rip to arthur holmwood, I still think you're neat.

#of course it just be worse than the others #but my personal opinion is it's a neat little window into fandom interests #my renfield one was published one month later and it has 76 kudos to arthur's 54 #that particularly interests me bc both renfield and arthur are solidly side characters that don't narrate their own stories #arthur's telegrams barely count in the grand scheme of things #but renfield seems to interest people more? #idk too many variables but still fun to look at #arthur holmwood

[wild-at-mind]

Re: birds in captivity again, another example happened near here recently when a bird from a small falconry experience place escaped, slipped his radio tag and was on the lam for a few days. Everyone kept their eyes out and reported all sightings to the owners, and unlike most stories of escaped parrots (which I never see updates on and fear the worst :( ) this one had a happy ending and they got him back. Then the usual comments came ‘I’m glad you got him back, but he should be in the wild, just my opinion :( ‘ which was pretty funny in this case, as apparently when his falconer arrived with the glove he flew right to it immediately. This suggests he had had quite enough of catching his own food and was ready for reliable meals again. All working falconry birds are expected to work for their rewards so it’s not like he was going to go and sit in an aviary and never stretch his wings again, but all his ‘hunting attempts’ (falconry behaviours) would end in food while with his owners. Seems a better deal to me and in cultures where falconry birds are traditionally released after a few years this is how that’s possible- it’s not taming but an exchange of favours. Also this bird was a genetic freak of its own, it was an odd looking falcon so once they had him safely back I asked what species he was- turns out he’s an unconventional hybrid between two falcons of different sizes and with completely different hunting methods. Hybridisation of some types is common in falconry but usually of species similar in most ways, and dare I saw it this cross seemed a little gimicky, maybe to try and create a unique bird to make their business stand out a little :( Not sure I’m a huge fan of that kind of thing. But my point is if this bird went wild permanently I’m not sure the 2 completely different hunting methods his parent species use would interact well!!

#it's like a few years back when partially melanistic barn owls were all the rage #the more gimicky falconry places were calling them a new species and saying there were only x number in the uk #or claiming that black barn owls were killed by their parents as chicks #which i could find absolutely no proof of and seemed like one of those things people say to potentially justify taking animals from the wild #always be suspicious if someone calls a colour variant of an animal a new species!! #but anyway barn owls are very variable and in some places they are chestnut brown with limited white #so a little melanistic as well wouldn't be a huge issue #that's if the chicks even look any different as barn owl chicks are white and fluffy #i doubt grey and fluffy would cause infanticide on the part of the parent #there's now enough partially melanistic barn owls in uk public facing falconry for no one to bother claiming weird things any more #hopefully nothing unscrupulous was done to obtain the original ones #honestly we just find them interesting here because the wild barn owls here are very ppale and white on the chest and face