Fem wolfstar and they’re having ice cream. Sirius taking a lick of remus' chocolate flavor, arms pressed together and remus silently losing her shit because this woman is going to be the death of her
This line hit me like a brick when I first watched it as a lesbian who's only irl male crushes were all men who my best friend (that I was suspiciously close with) dated or had feelings for....
Some off-the-cuff thoughts on overspiritualizing patterns in science
I remember watching a talk in middle school youth group about laminin, the "molecule that holds your whole body together" which was supposedly shaped like a cross. The suggestion, basically, was that the cross's image was integral to our molecular makeup and that this was part of God's design in a very Significant way. I was a burgeoning STEM girl, so I taped a diagram of a laminin up next to my bed for a while.
(As I would later find out, the whole laminin thing had/has some reach among Christians. There are T-shirts and everything)
Fast forever to spring of my freshman year as a microbiology student. I take my first course in cell bio, and I learn that laminins are actually one of many families of ECM glycoproteins. They aren't really any more significant in "holding the body together" than collagens, elastins, or fibronectins. They're very important, yes, but ultimately just one type of adhesive protein among many. And! They also do a bunch of other stuff that's way cooler than just. Adhesive.
While some laminins do bear resemblance to a cross when diagramed, it's really only because they have three subchains. Some are t-shaped, but others are y-shaped, and those don't look anything like a cross. Also, when they're in situ rather than in a nice, neat diagram, they tend to be all floppy and then they look even less cross-like.
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And when I learned about this I was oddly relieved. It felt like I was right about something that I couldn't even put into words, and that somehow the field of what I could call glorious had grown wider.
Christians are called to see and marvel at the presence of God in creation. I love doing that! I see God left and right through my scientific studies. Yet I also know that the human brain is pattern-seeking and that we are prone to pareidolia. I honestly don't know that there's a substantive difference between seeing the cross in some laminins and seeing Jesus on a piece of toast. It's all just seeing patterns that arise from something else (in the case of laminins, being able to bind three different molecules at once) and attributing spiritual significance. God is sovereign and maybe in the grand scope of his vision for creation it means something, but in terms of seeing God's hand in science I just find it so... small?
You could spin so many four-chain or four-domain proteins or goodness knows how many other molecules into images of the cross if you pick the right diagram. You could take every pattern of three in nature (and there are many!) as an image of the Trinity. If you really, really wanted to, you could take every six in organic chemistry as a sign of the beast, which would be hilarious in its misguidedness. It just becomes so literalistic and dull so very fast.
Look! Wouldn't you rather talk about the fact that laminins begin to appear along the edge of a developing lung at just ten weeks of human embryonic development, suggesting that they play a role in alveolar morphogenesis? That they're present in the neural stem-cell niche, which makes them an attractive candidate for helping to treat degenerative neurological conditions? I want to go back to whoever gave that talk that I watched in youth group and shake him and say, "God did that, and you're still hung up on the fact that laminins have three subchains?"
this is extremely important to me it means so much....if u get it u get it and if u don't u dont.... (fics are all from the wonderful mother_of_houseplants btw shes amazing and so is her writing which is evident in these screenshots)
It's kind of crazy that Shakira is a singer, songwriter, dancer, very good looking, and multilingual to boot. Like she is close to maxing out the abilities in her pop star skill tree. (Ok if I pretend like I am back in the diva vocal analysis fandom, we can deduct points for her vocal technique which is nothing too exceptional, but umm. She can carry a tune well enough)
“That was the challenge, to create this final chapter [”No Time to Die”]. The key to it really was in bringing Léa Seydoux [Dr. Madeleine Swann] back. This woman is such an incredible actress. She is so truthful, and so real. That’s what made the relationship between them [Swann and Bond] really work, that you really believe this woman. And it’s so moving, her whole portrayal of this character. From the moment she’s in the car and she says ‘I have something to tell you’. And Daniel [Craig] is in his mindset and he shuts her up, ‘I bet you do’. To the last few moments, which are just heartbreaking, when she says ‘But everything’s good now.’
I really think that Léa was so key to making the emotional stakes of this movie so high...was brilliant in creating the opening of this movie when you realize that you’re seeing the backstory of the woman who is the most important woman in the Bond series.”
- James Bond series producer Barbara Broccoli on Léa Seydoux in No Time to Die
I feel like a douche if I have like any songs on a female character's playlist about her love interest but half this bitch's songs are about roxane and I'm always looking for more