#hello everyone

[daniilune]

You have come here in pursuit of your deepest urge... In pursuit of that wish which till now has been silent... silent...

~ 🖤

#the phantom of the opera #phantom of the opera #poto #christine daae #erik #the phantom #dark fantasy #artists on tumblr #daniiluneart #Hello everyone #I'm back #happy new year!!

[powerfulkicks]

We need to start sexualizing mobility aids

#hello everyone #disability #cripplepunk #cripple punk #cripple #disability is hot. thanks

[okitanoniisan]

#hello everyone #yakuza 8 #like a dragon infinite wealth #kasuga ichiban #ada speaks

[greatandquestionablecontent]

An introduction to narrative styles of the Locked Tomb series, care of me rambling about it on discord

Book 1 is like LMAO BONES. And hot girls 😏 Murder mystery dinner party, with sciency magic but mainly we just understand the swords. Protag has no idea what’s going on but that’s actually very helpful for helping the reader understand what’s going on.

Book 2 is like Psychedelic Celestial Griefcore, with very complex magic Sci Fi that gets elaborated on at length. Dark. We are In Space for most of the book. God is there. Protag has no idea what’s going on because her brain is fucked and it’s… sad? And extra confusing for the reader.

Book 3 is like Sunshine and Rainbows! Too much sunshine for most people actually! All the surrounding characters are living in a shitty urban sci fi dystopia but the narrator is full of love and joy in her city of riots and poverty and sweltering sun. Protag no idea what’s going on because she’s only been alive for 6 months. Love & Light 🥰

#nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #meta and rambles #im a locked tomb blogger now i guess!! wild that im getting all these notes #legit was just tagging for the purpose of blacklists and my own future searches #hello everyone

[sculkshrieking]

teasing

#scarian #hermitshipping #hermitshipblr #suggestive #my art #just a couple of guys being dudes #hello everyone #how are u all how's it going #i love using tags to talk as if text posts aren't a thing

[funnywizard3000]

yay bunny suit loop yay yay

#hello everyone #in stars and time #isat loop #isat #my #babys first isat fanart im showing up to show and tell haggard and wet. coughing and unfurling a scroll with this on It

[dreamingonmyown]

they really gave us meredith “mommy issues” grey and addison “good girl” montgomery and thought we wouldn’t run wild

#meddison #greys anatomy #meredith grey #addison montgomery #i’m joining the meradd fandom #hello everyone

[niymue]

yee—haw

#HELLO EVERYONE #IS IT TRUE DO I GET TO PLAY HORSES NOW #the sims #sims 4 #ts4 #ts4 gameplay #simblr #s1

[hey-hermy]

i love him so much

#hello everyone #meet Murphy #mister murph #murphlord #murphdog #etc. #i caught him mid sneeze in that second one lo l

[cellarspider]

Good lord I take a week off of tumblr and now there’s a lot of you

Hello to everyone who’s just followed me in the past week! Most of you have come from a long ramble of mine on interdisciplinary learning, medieval head trauma, and Gallus’ well-wishings on my recent graduation (https://www.tumblr.com/gallusrostromegalus/727017193756327936), thank you to Gallus for that. Thank you to those of you who’ve commented with kind words as well. Specific shout-outs, links to relevant rambles, and questions are below, in the section “Link Roundup and Shoutouts”.

Yes, this is a post with sections. This is how we roll here.

Introduction to Spider

For those who don’t know, I’m Spider! I’ve just gotten my PhD in Mammalian Genetics, having gotten a Masters in Informatics and a Bachelors in Medieval Studies before that. I’ll quite happily ramble about any of them, with the following caveats: an undergraduate degree means I know the basics, but they may be increasingly out of date. And advanced degrees are increasingly specialized in their scope as you go along—you gain the skills to more easily understand things from related specialties, but you only become truly, deeply knowledgeable on very specific topics. However, these topics are not always limited to the field of study generally expected by the degree-granting institution! My focus ended up being significantly divergent from everyone else’s, which resulted in an interesting challenge of communicating my project to others at the institute.

The field I dove into for my PhD was systems genetics. Rather than studying individual genes and how they function, my work examined the wider view: think the difference between a local weather forecast versus modeling the global climate. Both synthesize vast amounts of information, just on different scales and levels of detail.

Many people love studying the tiny details around individual genes, because they can dig down into the mechanisms that make the gene work, how it might break and cause disease, and maybe how to fix those diseases. My love is for the global view of things, which gives you the ability to characterize general statements about how genes are regulated and modified. It’s a field that’s very hard to study without good data that’s complicated to acquire, so it’s a very exciting subject to work on! I’m looking forward to carrying that on into a postdoctoral study, in which I’ll work with a new lab and learn the dreaded skill of grant writing. I’ll be starting this month!

…As Gallus mentioned, my time until then is very much devoted to Baldur’s Gate 3. Happily for me, the new research group I’ll be joining has also been going nuts for Baldur’s Gate 3, so I’ll have a lot to talk about with my coworkers once I’m back to the lab.

In my free time, I’m happy to ramble upon request about the subjects I love, including but not limited to my fields of academic study, my constructed language hobby, scientific ethics and its portrayal in media, creepy-crawlies (always appropriately tagged for people’s phobias), and Baldur’s Gate 3.

…Lots of Baldur’s Gate 3. (I’ve only just reached the Lost Light Inn, please no spoilers!)

Link Roundup and Shoutouts

For those who are interested to see my ramble about why European medical texts in the medieval period tended to be terrible, it’s available here: https://www.tumblr.com/cellarspider/680342023316930560/hi-please-rant-about-medieval-european-medical

Thank you to all those who dug up the name of the academic text I’d forgotten! Its title, in all its wordy glory, is Injuries of the skull and brain, as described in the myths, legends, and folk-tales of the various peoples of the world, with some comments on the significance and reliability of this information in evaluating contemporary concepts as to their nature and lethality by Cyril B. Courville, 1967. It’s a fantastic book, and good lord that title just does not stop

Thank you to fellow spiders @one-spider-from-mars and @vaspider for their comments. We are many. We are mighty.

Thank you to @belovedbright for the fantastic story of the death of Conchobar mac Nessa via brain trauma inflicted by a brain https://www.tumblr.com/belovedbright/727132485919604736

To @doomhamster's question on whether egg whites were used in the medieval treatment of burns: I don’t know! Unfortunately I can’t access the translation of the medical manual I referred to back then (https://worldcat.org/title/1123716578), and the only version I can find online at the moment is in 14th century French (https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_1977). Egg whites do appear 33 times in the translation, according to the limited ability I have to search the text, and they show up throughout the book.

#spider rambles far too much #good lord there's a lot of you #hello everyone #I guess this is my intro post now

[sinmv]

Dead Ringers (1988) dir. David Cronenberg

#jstuff #dead ringers #Hello everyone

[daylightdreamscape]

#chris evans #edits #hello everyone #how you doing?

[crybaby-bkg]

There are certain days where Bakugou just doesn’t get to expend all of the energy he saves up during his work days. So on those days, when he comes home, eyes alert and darting around until they find you, your body is instantly getting ready for—something. It tells you there’s a predator nearby, watching, waiting for your guard to lower so it can pounce.

And he does, he always does. Sets his bag down all slow, eyes never leaving yours, doesn’t even unlace his boots before he starts stalking toward you. And you take off in a dash, a deer sprinting from sharp teeth, quick around the kitchen island as Bakugou pounces.

And it would be terrifyingly scary event, if you weren’t giggling the whole goddamn time.

“Kats! Stop it! Can you please be normal for once?!” You screech in a laugh, trying to keep the joyous sound at bay as you catch your breath in a moments reprieve. You’re facing off against each other, him on one side of the counter huffing, you on the other. He splays his hands over the countertop, eyes narrowing, an evil little grin overtaking his face.

“Just cmere and I’ll stop.” He tells you, a lie that you’re already aware of from believing him countless times before. So you stare at each other for another beat of silence again before he tries to run around the counter to get you, and you’re darting off again into the living room.

He hops over the couch, misses you by a strand of hair as you giggle raucously, sliding into your shared room as you can hear his heavy stomps hot on your heels. You try to close the door but Bakugou is quicker, dives on you before you can brace yourself, flips you over midair so that his body lands on the floor and you’re cushioned between his strong arms and chest.

“Get off!” You scream to him, laughter filling up the space as Bakugou only grunts and peppers your face in kisses.

“No, fuckin’ brat. Running from me ‘nd shit.” He tells you in between wet smacks to your lips and nose and cheeks. You can only lay there and take it, face smushed against his as he squeezes you until you huff out another breathy laugh.

“You like the chase!” You exclaim, trying to wriggle free from his grip, and he lets you. Only because he can see you’re gearing up to run again and he still needs some energy to expend from the slow work day. So he grins, splayed out on the floor, one knee hiked up as he stares at you from under his lashes, readying his body to attack.

“I do,” he admits, lunging at you and missing as you quickly turn the corner. The chase begins, and once again ends in you pinned to the ground covered in too many kisses for you to count. It’s both of you guys’ favorite way to get rid of that extra unburned energy for the day.

#hello everyone #lol why was that so formal #have this thing I’ve been thinking about for a while #I feel like it doesn’t make that much sense but I kinda liked it #hope u guys do too :) #—new treat in the streets! 🍫 #bakugou treats! 🍬

[jjwannie]

BTS

Initialism of Bangtan Sonyeondan [pr.] a proven source of happiness {1/?}

#userbangtan #usersky #annietrack #heyryen #useremmeline #usermaggie #trackofthesoul #userdinnerthing #btsgif #dailybts #jiminedit #taehyungedit #*gifs #*ba #hello everyone #quality sucks #sorry #i will also have a jin kiss in the upcoming week #bye again

[nostalgicphile]

I know I haven't been around these parts in ages, but I have actually been watching The X-Files again for the first time in a long time. I find myself back in TXF loop in times that I am feeling a bit down. Recently, I suffered a devastating personal loss, and cozying up with some of my favourite XF episodes is like a warm blanket, a hot mug of fragrant tea, some toast and jam, and my dogs cuddled by my feet.

#txf #comfort for the soul #hello everyone #the x-files