#mod stem

[flecks-of-stardust]

wholeheartedly and with as much gentleness as possible, i truly think there needs to be more discussion about downpour in the community as it is now. for a variety of reasons.

#not main tagging this right now but #some tag babbling. like #some of yall are unnecessarily cruel about downpour. seriously. #you don't have to like it but you can also stand not to tear down someone's work like this #if every word out of your mouth is just about how much you hate downpour. why are you still here? #and i mean that genuinely. it's unpleasant for you and for everyone else. and i say this as someone who still prefers vanilla's lore #at the same time i think it's a real issue where some people take downpour as gospel and assume things about other people's creative choice #even though downpour is a DLC and it's hard to make certain claims about canonicity because of that #it has been publicly acknowledged as being an official AU. multiple times. by the MSC devs themselves #downpour is a fan made passion project that was worked on for years and years before it got DLC status #it was never meant to be scrutinized in the way it is now. i think it's more appropriate to regard it as like #a really popular fanfic most of the fanbase has read #i just feel like. a lot of the community conflicts i've seen stem from downpour's messy existence as a DLC that was originally a mod #and i think it's valuable to have community discussions about that. but also this is tumblr. so. i'm probably asking for too much

[blkmogai]

✦ 　──　a flag for lesbians ( WLW, NBLW ) who are stems ( stud-fems ), or “soft butch.” this flag is, by definition, exclusive to black lesbians whose gender presentation or identity falls somewhere between stud and femme.

✧ 　──　studs are stereotypically masculine lesbians, whereas femmes are stereotypically feminine. stems are typically somewhere in-between, but being a stem is a wholly self-determined trait, for those who feel they don’t simply fall into one “category” or presentation, or the other.

tagging @abandonedknowledge !

[ Alt Text : READ MY PINNED MOTHERFUCKER ]

#blkmogai #stake 𓂅 ✦﹕flags #mod 𓂅 ✦﹕sylvie #stem lesbian #mogai #lgbtq #queer #lesbian #transgender #black transmasc #stud #butch #fem #butch lesbian #fem lesbian #black lesbian #black transfem #black queerness #black lgbt #nonbinary #futch #mogai term #mogai flag #pride flags #aemogai #mogai blog #pro mogai #mogai safe #soft butch

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is being pissed off when you are on a colleges website completing their "fun" little quiz that reccommends what majors you should look into and HALF of the questions are about romance or dates and you are just sitting there wondering how on earth this even slightly relates to what you want to study

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#Anonymous #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod phoenix #literally none of that FUCKING matters!!!! #and i'm willing to goddamn bet that 'less' romantic/feelings stuff #gets thrown towards STEM #and like. bro. i will unhinge my fucking jaw and bite your fucking head off #i am in STEM *because* i am passionate and feel shit intensely #like!!!! look. i took a class on fucking fluid dynamics (among other things) and thought it was *fun* #i wasn't perfect at it but i was so *fascinated* by how much of it we don't know #and how extremely interesting and simple those cases can be #like!!! we don't know what the speed of a liquid is at a 90 degree corner in a pipe #as in like. in that exact corner #and there is straight up a $1mil prize for anyone who can figure out how to solve for that #it's such a simple everyday type of thing!!!! #and we don't know and it's so cool and the equation for every single other spot in that pipe is honestly very well understood! #but just not that *one* area! #and like. bro i just think the world is an absolute magnificent dance of improbable odds and i can't understand #when others think that the mundane is not art and beauty too #engineering gets such a rep as the uncreative nerds #but like... look. we're looking back at the history of our field to draw inspiration as reference #i don't understand how people can say that they'd hate to look at engineering references all day when they do art - #did they not study and practice and see the beauty and detail in it? #(ofc if numbers get fucked in your brain from things like dyscalcula or dyslexia that's not the same - #i personally can't use digital references for art without being very careful or i'll get a migraine)

[homestuckconfession]

to the epilogues anon: i think something doesnt have to be "out of character" for someone to dislike where the character was taken. like even if it is in character its pretty easy not to like jade being given a dog penis and using said dog penis to have a kid called yiffany. i think its warranted to dislike them making jane a fascist in both timelines despite there almost definitely being other continuations of her character possible.

idk i just think that even if a decision works for a character that doesnt mean it should be immune from criticism.

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#homestuck #homestuck confession #I mean in the postcanons defense it is not actually confirmed whether the dog penis part is legit or a lie stemming from insecurity #and a LOT of people are just weird about her having a penis at all which is transphobic #mod commentary

[askaerialstem]

I absolutely love your art!! As for a question, what would you say your favorite candy is?

mod: THANK U AGAIN THIS IS SUCH A NICE ASK!! For future reference (for anyone!) if you're referring specifically to me, if you could put something like "to the mod" in your asks, that would be rad!! :D

#answered #aerial stem #mod speaks

[just-antithings]

about that one ask with "cw mpreg" in it. which was talking about male pregnancy.

just say "cw pregnancy". there's nothing disgusting or wrong with men being pregnant or wanting to be pregnant. you're just being transphobic. idc if people say "oh but it's only cis men I find it disgusting with!" no. the reason you find it disgusting in the first place is bc of transphobia.

male pregnancy isn't somehow more wrong or "triggering" than female pregnancy and it doesn't need a "cw". you're just transphobic

#mod erin #ask #housekeeping #fan mail #image #i will continue to tag both mpreg and pregnancy separately bc people are triggered by different things and it doesn’t necessarily stem from #transphobia #if it bothers you that much you can unfollow

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Kanaya: Not Having A Crush Is Dangerous

Kanaya: What Am I Supposed To Think About

Kanaya: What If I Invent Something

#submission #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #kanaya maryam #source: twitter #unrelated but i just finished the PSATs! #it sucked #and i have the actual SATs in the spring 😔 #but still! #// #mod terezi #if you're gay you only have two choices #either hopelessly pine and swoon for your beloved or become a STEM major

[squares-begone]

// i just had a thought

// what if i anthropomorphized the spire-

#mod post #this stemmed from that one glenfolk saying that the tower spins #and me wanting to do a goofy with sol #probably won't ever happen #but like what if-

[toxic-mothers-tourney]

getting a LOT of submissions for evil scientist moms who experiment on their kids. I wonder at the widespread connection in media between presenting a woman as cold/cruel/unmotherly/inherently evil and their non-traditionally feminine careers

#feel like I should have done my reading before making this poll #to be clear I AM that woman in STEM and I don't plan on having kids #but from the way its presented in a lot of media it's implied it's like that's bc scientist women are unnatural and inherently callous #when in real life (in my own experience at least) I know so many warm and wonderful mothers who are also passionate about sciences #and I really love children I have younger siblings and cousins I took care of but for various reasons I don't want to have my own #mod speaks

[thewanderingace]

I just found a section on my new job's scheduling app (who knew such a thing existed!) where I can set my preferred availability!? They didn't tell me about that! So I set it up so I'm unavailable/prefer not to work every other weekend. Along with the Tuesdays and Thursdays I cannot work. This way I can pick up a shift those weekends if I want to but I could avoid working every single weekend AND it leaves my WWII reenactment weekends available and I'd only need to put in time off requests for the fridays before. I HOPE THIS WORKS AND THAT I DID IT RIGHT AND IT WON'T UPSET MY NEW BOSSES! I'm still gonna work weekends just hopefully every other one and not every single one.

#mod post #personal #i know this all seems ridiculous to fret kver but when you have anxiety thet partially stems from the fear of upsetting someone #or being a burden or anything in that realm #then shit like my work availability becomes a big deal #i dont want to look lazy by not working the full 30 hrs a week #i dont want my bosses to think im lazy or a flake #but i also don't want to make my household schedule any more complicated than it already is #im trying to please everyone and i just end up making myself insane #story of my life #if this availability works with my bosses then that gives me 3 days a week occasional weekends of for life things #while also still working weekends which are peak traffic days for the museum #and i can always pick up a weekend day if needed and im available #they said theyre pretty good at accommodating people's preferred schedules #so i guess ill see how this goes #cant wait for the newbie feeling is gone and fully into jaded exhausted long time worker #i much prefer that stage cause then the job is easy and second nature #this beginning stage i just feel useless and awkward and nervous and dumb and i hate that so much

[when-wulf]

Hair and clothing mods my beloved.

#bg3 my tav #bg3 tav #so much of the monk armor is ugly #mostly stemming from having a different color crotch for some reason?? like the superhero undies meets action figure leg joints look #I like the willow hair for Asena but it really doesn’t match any of the pulled back styles for any sort of hair evolution #so I was v happy to find a mod that separates out the bangs for you to use #yeah I do just wanna play dress up like the sims #oc: asena #bg3 screenshots #remove everything but the drapery in the last one and it’s classic dnd Asena

[citrinide]

Guuuuuuys if my Portal dating sim has mod cores does this mean I legally have to add Stirling and Conly now? :( /J

#cecil.fm #Imagine working on a game so long that a new beloved portal mod comes out with new cores. pain. #i would smooch conly though. i love women in stem. #... DLC /j #thought of this because I have the p2 core's design concepts done and ive moved on to the ps:m and a.t. cores #p1 cores are going to take me digging through my old physical sketchbooks to work on— #i dont even HAVE designs for stirling and conly yet because ive been thinking of them with one of my friends designs the whole time— #because she's so objectively correct thats how rhey look i agree sm

[aro-culture-is]

incoming freshman/early highschool/college aro culture is getting real sick of all the romance centered advice when you go looking for advice....

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#Anonymous #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod axel #student aro culture #genuinely for college advice DM me on just-aro #contextually i am a STEM major with a lot of humanities friends #so unless you want school of business stuff i can provide a fair amount of ideas #(and even then i know someone that did 2 years of business before switching)

[touhoutivations]

dear miss himekaidou,

i unfortunately have not been employed. so, i’ve been working on a few journalist articles, mostly as practice for my skills in case i ever decide to go into the practice and im worried that the articles i’ve been making aren’t of high quality.

how do you manage? i know such insecurities might be common in a profession such as yours, so…. any advice?

yours, eientei’s favorite kon-consultant

"Trust me, to start off- a great journalist is one that already is thinking about the quality of their work and doesn't shut their brain off for ideas. So I think you're off to a good start! It's hard, because while it's a job- you aren't gonna like, be able to push for the great caste system revolution-  I mean hard-hitting journalism all of the time. Sometimes you're gonna get stuck with 'Pick your favourite wagashi and we'll tell you your personality!'" "Buuut, I think there's something to learn from each article you write- even if you scrap them, you need only look. For example, I- loathe as I am to say it- did do such pitiful writing as that article- but the person that requested it also offered a coupon for a senbei stand… 'Dorayaki lovers are hot headed and there's more to them that meets the eye- but they can get caught up in their own world, so they should try some senbei!' 'Senbei lovers go with the flow, but don't pursue their own wants, so they should buy some more senbei!' I'm kinda curious, if I ran that article a week later, would I get a different result? There's a buncha conclusions and thoughts you could ask about the journalism even in such a 'low-quality' article."  

"I've been talking with that outside world human, and everything down to 'memes' and 'tagging systems' can show different sides of a story and the intentions of an article. Liiiike, there was this one time this crazy village man, Yoshimoto- he started raving about 'how there was some chemical the yamawaro were putting to turn the frogs into youkai'- and some newbie that wanted a week off just handed him a typewriter for him to start his rantings. But then when I actually used my thoughtography to check that river…well, he wasn't wrong? Sorta. The frogs were having extra legs- but when I wanted to write about it, up top said 'It's already been covered'. But it hadn't been. Not properly." "So how could I word it? I mean, 'Yamawaro machinery production found to have linkage in extra limbage of amphibian population'- bo~ring! What about '3 ramblings of Yoshimoto- Number 3 is suprisingly true!' and I slap a couple memes on it? Would that draw eyes? Is Yoshimoto actually concerned, or was this coverage intentionally from a crazy old geezer to discredit a potential problem?"  

"These are like, the hard stuff that comes with our industry- especially if you don't get the freedom to go independent. But I know that by asking, you're off to a great start. You have to be asking questions, every time- how can I see this differently? How can I write this differently? How are -other- people writing stuff differently? What's language that's 'hip', what language is alienating? Seriously, can Aya stop using red circles and arrows in her articles like [Mii]Tube thumbnails?!"

"Not everything is gonna be a magnum opus, and not every wagashi listicle is gonna be the lynchpin into your socialist uprising theory deprogramming toolkit- and that's okay. As long as you put questioning and engagement- actual encouragement of media literacy- at the forefront of your own work and viewership, I think that's more work than a lot of other grifter sheeple are doing. There's more than meets a camera's eye, and as long as you keep collecting, I know you'll become someone that will paint a better landscape for Gensokyou- so get your brush, and crow all you want, mmkay?"

#hatate himekaidou #hatate touhou #touhoutivations #work #confidence #mod yuyu #//also yes the 'yoshimoto' anecdote IS true the real story behind the 'gay frogs' memes is absolutely fascinating and a masterclass in how #//journalism and who says what in what way can completely discredit an actual concern gay frogs was a psyop in this tedtalk i will #//hatate do you read noam chomsky? can we make hatate a noam chomsky fan? #i know the person that sent this got their job resolved but buzzfeed leftist getting radicalised hatate was too much fun to pass up #//very normal about aya's right wing grifter character arc can you tell i love that zun wrote ALTERNATIVE FACTS in eastern utopia #//afieu lives in my head rent free and i /gen think it should be a rec reading. absolute masterpiece in media literacy #//i'm sowwy i'm a stem major and i'm VERY passionate about the interaction between scientific/stat literacy and media literacy wrt news #//edit! credit to touhou-memories for the SECRET hatate sprites #source: touhou-memories[.]com/post/157251770364/hatate-himekaidou-double-spoiler-i-did-not-draw

[stained-brutal-crackpot]

🌸🌿

i need my empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology

#this is equal parts vent art / prayer for good luck / lore #the good luck seemed to work last weekend so. here's hoping! #women in stem (slaughter torment ecoterrorism murder) #calamity mod #terraria calamity #terraria #silva

[crucible-memes-4-salem-teens]

#arthur miller #the crucible #classic lit #classic literature #classic lit memes #women in stem (stealing treachery evasion manipulation) #n e ways. real talk i do think that the girls using their vulnerable postion to turn the tide in their favor #is a bit fucked up. but of course they are characters (narrative tools) so to apply morals to them doesn't make sense. #still. fuck that fr. #proud of their organizational skills though. they'd be great in modern labor unions all things considered. #mod dio #queue-cible #happy monday i'm crying shaking throwing up bc school 2day. perhaps i died as a result of school. you won't know till later ;)