#many-stemmed

[beybuniki]

a hug from mom

#that fic chapter in which inko hugs bakugo and he starts sobbing it got me thinkinggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg so many thoguhts uhg #maybe mitsuki rlly doesn't hug him much maybe that's where his touch aversion stems from let me throw up real quick #live laugh l #ove and suc #bnha #bakugo mitsuki #bakugo katsuki

[wren-kitchens]

im annoyed and a little pedantic so can i just say as a blanket statement

queerbaiting is when the promotion for a FICTIONAL STORY intentionally hints towards two characters having a romantic relationship, without any intention to follow through in the show, in order to get queer people watching without discouraging the homophobic enjoyers of the show

queerbaiting is NOT:

a celebrity who you think is queer because theyre gnc or they have a 'vibe'. that is a real person and they cannot queerbait

two friends of the same gender pretending to flirt with each other for fun. those are real people and they cannot queerbait

a show with two characters of the same gender who are canonically friends that YOU PERSONALLY think would be better in a relationship. that's not bating, that's shipping, and subject to opinion

there are more but those are the main examples of people misunderstanding what queerbaiting is and being mad at something that isn't actually a problem

#the general rule if youre unsure is to ask yourself 'is that a real person i think is hinting that they are queer' and if the answer is yes #then that cannot be queerbaiting because thats a human person #apparently this is not a known fact anymore but even celebrities are human and have human emotions and human experiences #so sometimes their experiences appear to match yours and if your experience stems from your queer identity then often you can assume that #the celebrity in question is also queer #you may be right but you're probably wrong because you do not know that celebrity and have no way of knowing if they do not explicitly say #also its none of your business #anyway im annoyed at how many people dont know what queerbaiting is anymore #no jimmy solidarity and joel smallishbeans are not queerbaiting because they are FRIENDS and they are allowed to interact with each other #however they like because they are FRIENDS and they are not even remotely trying to hint that they themselves are queer or something #queerbaiting #queer #lgbtq #wren wrambles

[mqoisgotnan]

hombre vestido de chica chico caliente modelando lenceria sexy de mujer Jeny Flaca Latina Hot Wife rides strangers cock while hubby records Girl masturbating for his boyfriend Sissy siendo cojida por su novia Lesbian babes Ivana Sugar and Tiffany Doll lick each other's juicy pussies Chubby Daddy Sucking my cock while I spank his Fat Ass Snapchat girl play with her boobs Amateur lezzie scissoring with busty milf Skinny nude ginger boys and teen squirting cum for free gay Camping DIRTY pornstar caught stealing by nasty PERVERT gets SMASHED

#observandum #camp-shedding #barie #interlinkage #hollowness #many-stemmed #volunteerism #boulangerite #Comox #minibrain #assumably #photochromography #Sixmile #Nerland #underdealer #coroplasty #autokinetic #dibbuks #subpartition #cimbalom

[puffycinnabunny]

Yeah man ofc u can borrow my notes (if u can read them)

#chaotic notes #chaotic studyblr #study notes bc i cant draw often bc college is mean #stem studyblr #stem academia #stem aesthetic #stemblr #stem #study aesthetic #studyinspo #stem student #study blog #studyspo #study motivation #study notes #studyblr #chaotic academic aesthetic #chaotic academia #psychology notes #neural science #mind maps #too many mind maps #fountain pen #pencil #messy notes

[tubbytarchia]

@mcyt-yuri-week Day 5, Rose/Thorns I never stop thinking about SL episode 8 never ever

#gempearl #pearlgem #shinyduo #shiny duo #trafficshipping #I tried to word it a few different ways but I feel like its still so easy to interpret this as negative but noo its positive #because the thorns here are referencing the scarlet persona that Pearl's embraced. being left with nothing but it - the thorns #But it's not that Gem likes her just for her scarlet persona. She likes her for her. Pearl's not just thorns #Gem doesnt really care about the “thorns” or the petalless rose stem. she cares about Pearl. She thinks Pearl's cool (thumbs up emoji) #Pearl changes into her scarlet fit like she has many times before with the purpose of scaring people & leaning into her feared witch thing #but Gem's just like “omg slayyy” and its the best. And to Pearl it's like whoag #Gem never saw how she changed. Never saw her be ostracized and the aftermath #But she thought that the Pearl she did see in SL was cool and so easily accepted her when Pearl herself though herself so unacceptable #she got love from the Mounders and BigB and that warms my heart but Gem being a newcomer immediately embracing Pearl is just #it hits different #whoa jimbo way too many tags hghghgh #mcytyuriweekvalentines #at first I thought about smth like “where the others saw thorns you saw a rose” but I thought it was more fitting this way #I guess you guys be the judge of that haha idk what Im saying #tubby art

[buckboi]

One day when i have time to deal with inevitable backlash I will write a post about how actually Taylor Kelly is one of the most compelling minor characters on 911 with a heartbreaking backstory that fully explains (but doesn’t excuse) why she does the things she does and ALSO that i think she & Lucy Donato should be in lesbians together

#classic case of leaving the guy who cheated on you for the girl he cheated with tbh #i have so many thoughts but most of them revolve around how buck betrays her first #& even though we know why he does it (hello abandonment issues) #Taylor’s betrayal /also/ stems from her abandonment issues and the fact that she’ll never know the truth of what happened to her mother #so she feels obligated to share every other truth she can find (even though it will never be enough) #something something i support women’s wrongs #taylor kelly #lucy donato #911 abc

[starry-bi-sky]

okay a few more danyal al ghul au memes because i think they're funny to make. with bonus yaelokre danyal memes!

yaelokre! danyal 🤝 threes! danyal: being five years older than damian

yaelokre danyal comes from my oneshot right here. however, i would frankly recommend reading the version i put on ao3 because it's been edited and includes more content! shout out to my boy, he's got amnesia </3

Do i think that the LOA has technology in it? Absolutely I do. LED lights but in 3000k warm white instead of the jarring bright sterile white, if they've got glass windows they're those solar panel glass panes my college natural science building uses that detects sunlight position, which in term controls the lights, which in turn saves energy. Amber lights for outside, solar panels. Just. anything environmentally sound and friendly, they've got it, they use it.

Do i think they've got computers and tvs lying around for casual recreational use? ....that i'm not so sure about. For this au? I'm gonna say nooooottt really. That stuff is typically reserved for like, mission planning, debriefing, research, etc. Frankly danny probably does know how to use a computer, however i thought it was funny if he didn't. so the meme is staying in lmao.

If they're not training, they've probably like, got a greenhouse or two somewhere on base they can help with. The LoA's whole thing is balance, harmony, restoring the natural world with extreme environmentalism. All that jazz. Probably plenty of ponds, recreational areas outside, gardens, just, stuff to do that's not technology based. My most basic understanding is that these people are the world's deadliest hippies. They can't be training all the time, that's neither good for morale nor for their bodies, so when they're not training... they're off doing shit. If Ras has kept this thing running for thousands of years then it’s gotta be pretty lit enough that nobody’s revolted lmao.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc crossover #danny fenton is not the ghost king #danyal al ghul au #danyal al ghul #amnesiac danyal al ghul au #yaelokre danyal al ghul #hey i finally came up with an au name for my main danyal al ghul au! oh man i have so many posts to reblog. its called #things in threes au #im a good mom talia truther nobody @ me. the villanization of her character stems from post 9/11 racism that's slowly being undone #and there's not enough good mom talia aus in danyal al ghul aus. not ones i've seen at least. #Ras is not an idiot if he's kept this organization running for millennia. If he wants his warriors to be in top shape they *need* breaks #they need high faith and good morale to prevent dissension. Which means good food. things to do. socialization. things to keep them *happy. #Too much exercise is just as bad as not enough and your body will forcibly shut down if you do not do it yourself. Ras can't have that. #of course there's always ruling with an ironfist and dictatorship. but the league would not have lasted as long as it has if that were the #case. #ras may be a shit grandfather in threes but its still up in the air for yaelokre #we’ll see where the wind blows for him. the au is still young

[buzzfeedunsolvable]

No hate to Steven or anything and a lot of the flack he's gotten in the yt comments is unwarranted, but one thing I think is interesting is how on Watcher he was painted as a business-guru type and yet he was like... a chemical engineering major. Like so was I for most of college and you know what we never learned? How to run a business

#I say 'most' bc I switched out of chemical engineering in my fourth year (switched to biochem) #but still #I think maybe a lot of non-STEM people hear engineering and think engineering = smart #and therefore qualified to run a business #when being a successful STEM major or engineer specifically has nothing to do with intelligence #I've encountered many STEM majors at 'good' schools who are dumb as bricks #a girl I roomed with got flying colors in organic chemistry and yet thought she could get high off of molly through the walls #tracking tag #rambling #watcher

[learnyouabiology]

Fun Fact: Starfish get around using a hydraulic system!

I want to start off by saying: you may have heard that starfish have sea water instead of blood! This is not true!

Before I explain, let me point out this little dot that every starfish has (and I SWEAR that this is relevant)

(It’s like they all have lil’ buttons on! 1, 2, 3)

This little spot is known as a madreporite, from Italian madre (”mother”) + Latin poro (”pore”). 

What is it? Well, to over-simplify:

The madreporite is basically a pressure valve for the insides of the starfish. It lets water in and out of its water vascular system as needed. In order to prevent debris and sea life and other non-desirables from getting inside the starfish, the madreporite filters the water that it takes in.

this is what the madreporite looks like up close:

(Name origin: apparently someone saw that and thought “huh, that kind of looks like madrepore coral, but tiny! They... weren’t wrong.)

Now, you may look at the name “water vascular system” and think “hey, I know ‘vascular’! That's related to blood!” This is a reasonable misunderstanding.

While in humans, the circulatory system is part of a vascular system (along with our lymphatic system) in the starfish’s water vascular system, seawater is NOT analogous to blood in a circulatory system. Or, well, it’s complicated, because it does do some things that are similar to a mammalian circulatory system, such as transporting certain types of immune cells, but still (source: Ferguson 1966)

Instead, these seawater-filled tubes are used for things such as the movement of starfish arms (and their little tube feet), which in turn allows them to move around their environment, find and consume food, and stick to surfaces. Mammals generally don’t use their circulatory systems in this way (if I am wrong about this, PLEASE let me know, as that would be absolutely WILD).

(diagram of a starfish’s water-vascular system, revealing the starfish’s final form: some sort of fidget toy, I think)

I admit that “starfish use seawater instead of blood” is a much more attention-grabbing headline, but it’s not true, and it’s also kind of sad, because the water-vascular system is really cool without the misinformation!

(before you ask, yes, this entire post was prompted by one (1) person saying something that was WRONG, and that person may or may not have been related to me 😤😭😭😭😭😭)

The water-vascular system is, essentially, a hydraulic system. By adding and expelling water, as well as opening and closing internal channels via muscle contractions, starfish can create positive and negative pressure within their bodies. This allows them to “flex” their tube feet in surprisingly complex ways, among other functions.

(these^ are a starfish’s “tube feet”. They are little structures with suckers on the ends. If you’ve ever held a starfish in your hands, you probably felt these feet holding onto you. They have a surprising amount of strength!)

You can imagine this sort of like how a whacky inflatable tube man uses air pressure to straighten up and fall down, except with hundreds in one connected, complex system (and also the pressure is more tightly controlled in order to prevent all that flailing, and also to allow fine control required for things like ripping open a mollusc shell).

(I always imagine this when looking at starfish tube feet. And now, maybe you will too! join me. 1, 2)

The confusion regarding starfish blood being seawater is understandable, but in the end it’s essentially a misunderstanding.

Plus, starfish have coelomic fluid, which is honestly more analogous to blood.

Coelomic fluid is, basically, the fluid that fills the starfish’s body cavity between all of its organs and such, facilitating nutrient transport, gas exchange, and overall being more blood-like than the water-vascular system in general (Andradre et al. 2021).

And ok, technically the liquid part of coelomic fluid comes from seawater, ultimately, but that would be like saying I, a human, use tap water for blood. And, ok, yes, there is water in my blood, and that water came from the tap, but no one would say that I have tap water instead of blood! Except my brother but he also says trigonometry doesn’t exist so we will be ignoring his opinion at this time.

(a more detailed diagram than the one before. The coelomic fluid is found in the coelomic cavity! Also, as a bonus, you now know where a starfish’s anus is! Enjoy this new knowledge next time you look at a starfish! source: x)

Starfish aren’t the only animals with a water vascular system and a madreporite. They can also be spotted in other echinoderms, such as sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers (although in the sea cucumber the madreporite is inside the animal, so you probably won’t see it in the wild).

That said, starfish have my favourite madraporites, because I think they look like little badges. They all win the award of being lil friends (and also keystone species that are essential to many marine ecosystems. So.)

This has been Fun Fact Friday, telling you all about wacky lil friends who have funny little feet and DO NOT HAVE SEAWATER INSTEAD OF BLOOD!

I will do battle with my sibling later, as is tradition

Sources under Read More:

Andrade, C., Oliveira, B., Guatelli, S., Martinez, P., Simões, B., Bispo, C., ... & Coelho, A. V. (2021). Characterization of coelomic fluid cell types in the starfish Marthasterias glacialis using a flow cytometry/imaging combined approach. Frontiers in Immunology, 807. 

Ferguson, J. C. (1966). Cell production in the Tiedemann bodies and haemal organs of the starfish, Asterias forbesi. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 200-209.

Mao, S., Dong, E., Zhang, S., Xu, M., & Yang, J. (2013, July). A new soft bionic starfish robot with multi-gaits. In 2013 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (pp. 1312-1317). IEEE.

#biology #science #stem #fun fact friday #science side of tumblr #animals #starfish #marine biology #there are many benefits to being a marine biologist #such as knowing the location of a starfish's butthole

[jakeperalta]

I have to say that for me none of this has been about expecting taylor to listen to fans about her personal life. no part of me expects her to go "oh look the fans aren't happy about my boyfriend I better break up with him". it all stems from the fact with it happening in the first place. I'm not disappointed that she's doing something I personally don't want (my opinion on her life is unimportant!) I'm disappointed that someone I'm a fan of is acting in a way that totally opposes the values she's previously preached. it's just the sinking feeling that she's showing her true colours and they don't entirely align with what I thought.

#i'm not expecting my best friend taylor to read my posts and dump her boyfriend #and i think reducing it to 'fans are too invested in her personal life/why do you expect her to listen to fans about' #is just missing the mark #i mean maybe that's where some people's disappointment stems from #but for me and i imagine many others it's more just the acceptance that she's not necessarily the person she's presented to the world #or at least those things she spoke about aren't as important as it seemed #talking #ts discourse

[yananamjoon]

the loki show could never

#from: immortal thor 3 #THIS is loki #this run is keeping me sane and healing the damage the show is doing #i feel like loki is currently on a path where she is embracing their title of god of mischief #seeing it as complementary to his role of god of stories #which i love love love #cause so many stories stem from loki’s tricks in the mythology #loki #comics loki #thor #comics thor #brodinsons #anti loki series #marvel #comics #mine

[iloveyou-writers]

You had an idea at 3am?

Write it down.

Not sure if you'll like it in the morning when you get up?

Write it down anyway.

Even if you wake up being like 'what is this nonsense,' there is a possibility that rereading your idea may spark another awesome idea.

Don't lose amazing future WIPs because you thought the idea wasn't good enough to write down.

Hell, you may come back 6 months down the line and realize that the idea would be really cool if you tweaked this detail and took that one out.

Never underestimate the power of a 3am writing idea.

#writers of tumblr #writeblr #positivity #writing advice #always write down your 3am ideas #I can't tell you how many of my more popular ideas stemmed from 3am brainstorms #xD #encouragement

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Thinking about step 9 and the whole concept of forgiveness of one’s self and others and it bringing healing and how bobby and Eddie have been paralleled a fair amount and the idea that Eddie started this process back at the end of s5 with his forgiveness and acceptance of his father but how he hasn’t yet gone anywhere near his mother and their relationship .

How his catholic guilt storyline seems more likely to play on his reltionship with his mother than his father (if his father wasn’t around that much it would’ve been Helena taking him to church etc each week) so the idea of an Eddie - Helena storyline that plays on catholic guilt and potentially his queerness in relation to that has me chewing on glass - it could be so epically good

#I’ve always viewed Helena as the biggest issue in Eddie’s relationship with his parents - Ramon has always - to me a least always seemed to #just go along with what Helena wants or dictates #it made sense with how his trauma ptsd army related arc played out that it was Ramon who was the centre of that #now though - catholic guilt - possibly playing into his queerness and suppression of that queerness #to keep some kind of reltionship with his mother - who only seems to view him through a lens of failure #leading him down a road where he wasn’t able to be his true self - it would be so powerful #there is so much potential there #eddie saying his mother wasn’t an issue in s6 - was such a choice and so pointed that they have to be wanting to explore that #so many aspects of who Eddie is and why he is the way he is - his want to nest but not being able to with women - stems from his mommy #issues and the fact he’s been denying they exist #I will eat it up - it would be the right kind of angst for the show and Ryan would deliver #plus the way it parallels with Bobby and his relationship with Catholicism would be fascinating #not to mention the whole Eddie not having a relationship with the faith he was brought up in only to start dating someone who is a literal #embodiment of that faith - and female - as a symbol of his needing to explore and reconcile the actual reasons for his faith lapsing- become #could not be queer and Latino and catholic when Eddie was growing up - it wasn’t an option - so if you step away from the faith that’s #denying a fundamental aspect of who you are #even if you still can’t act upon it - ​it is easier to keep that part of you concealed #911 spoilers #911 Thinky thoughts #eddie diaz #I need this arc to be a thing so badly #911 abc

[cannibalismyuri]

i think the thing abt terf idealogy is that its so Sad. imagine calling urself a feminist and saying what makes a woman inherently a woman is her uterus. her ability to produce children. is that what women are? is that what women need to be?

#no reason for this post lmao im just. so tired. #india has come so far in stem but remains so backward in thinking. heard one too many transphobic comments from uni classmates #anti terf #anti radfem #trans

[phoenixyfriend]

Where did the "Obi-Wan's parents tried to drown him in a river" headcanon even come from?

Like. What canon we do have (admittedly Legends), about his childhood is that he was pretty happy, and had a brother, and then he joined the Jedi. Nothing about the river headcanon!

#star wars #stewjon #obi wan kenobi #I'm like 90% sure it stems from #Jangobi #I have seen it SO many times (especially in Mandalorian-region fic) but I'm pretty sure it's not canon so??? WHO STARTED IT #phoenix talks #infanticide mention #child death mention #drowning mention

[automatic-midnight]

Ritsuko Akagi in Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0

#fun fact I made my friends (who’ve never seen Eva) watch this movie and they were basically dead silent the whole time until this scene #when gendo gets first shot offscreen and then it’s shown to be Ritsuko we all all lost our shit #like I went crazy the most but that’s the biggest reaction I got out them besides huh what’s going on #Evangelion #neon genesis evangelion #nge #ritsuko akagi #thrice upon a time #anyways Misato really has faith in Ritsuko because I would simply never stand in front of someone like that if they had a firearm #headcanon misato taught Ritsuko to shoot during the 13 years because I know her STEM ass would not know how to shoot #eoe anyone she was pointing the gun with her eyes closed GIRLIE #Anyways ask me about my headcanons about the 13 year timeskip I have so many Thoughts regarding them #my gifs