List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers. 💜 (no pressure, of course!)
1. Baldur's gate three
2. Dragons + fantasy-related animals
3. Silly things that makes noise when shaken (my bracelets, the two 3d printed dragons I have, etc)
4. Anything science related
5. [insert incoherent rambling about everything I have ever been interested in because there's too many specific things that make me happy that won't fit in this]
Ok so our Chemistry sir really went off the rails here -
He walks into the class, after a min we all go down but the last two boys are still talking and sir goes " wow great chemistry between you two there" and we all laugh and its all fun and jokes but then he goes "any physical attraction too ?" And now ppl are still laughing but many are not, because then he crossed a limit you see.
And then he leaves it at that but after some time he again says to the two boys, in front of the whole class "though honestly, ive never seen two boys sit so close and look at each others lips like that" like WHAT ?? THE ??? FUCK ?? IS ?? YOUR ?? PROBLEM ???? And he also threw comments like "do all these activities in a private room" and "I can set u up with a relative of mine" "I know a great doctor for stuff like this!! "
Like they weren't even talking after the first comment and he just went on embarrassing them in front of the whole class !! and note that we are all 16yrs old, and he had been teaching us for barely a week !! LIKE NO SIR U HAD ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT TO TELL 2 TEENAGE BOYS TO FIND A ROOM WHEN ALL THEY WERE DOING WAS TALK !! GO DRINK SOME HOLY FUCKING WATER AND GET UR BRAIN OUT OF THE FUCKING GUTTER !!
look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,
If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.
Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.
What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.
Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.
Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.
Cesium-133, let it be. Cesium-134, let it be even more.
Periodic Table Regions [Explained]
Transcript
[A periodic table with regions labeled.]
[Hydrogen:] Slightly fancy protons
[Lithium and Beryllium:] Weird dirt
[Group 1 & 2 metals, Periods 3-4:] Regular dirt
[Group 1 & 2 metals, Periods 5-7:] Ends in a number, let it slumber ends in a letter, not much better
[Left side of the transition metals group:] Boring alloy metals Probably critical to the spark plug industry or something (but one of them is radioactive so stay on your toes)
[Most of the top row of the transition metals + aluminum:] Regular metals
[Below the rightmost "regular metals" - the "ordinary metals" and some transition metals:] Weird metals
[The platinum group:] $$$$
[Boron:] Boron (fool's carbon)
[Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Phosphorus:] You are here
[The Halogens:] Safety goggles required
[Noble Gases:] Lawful neutral
[Iodine and Radon:] Very specific health problems
[Ordinary metals and metalloids - Arsenic, Antimony, Tellurium, Thallium, Lead, Bismuth, Polonium] Murder weapons
[Astatine and Period 7 from Rutherfordium onwards:] Don't bother learning their names - they're not staying long
[Lanthanides and Actinides:] Whoever figures out a better way to fit these up there gets the next Nobel Prize
my 2022 highlight was when a guy was driving me home after a date and his phone was playing songs on youtube thru the aux on autoplay BUT he was also using it as a satnav so we had to just cope with whatever song came on. anyway we listened to the isolated vocals for "eye of the tiger" in silence because neither of us acknowledged it and it got to a certain point where it would be even weirder if one of us did say something
/edit: I realise a text post doesn't even do it justice, it went exactly like this