#science friends

[virtualyric]

I want Tendi and Rutherford to have a passionate mostly-platonic best-friendship.

I do imagine that the friendship takes a romantic turn occasionally, but they comfortably transition into and out of those phases, and for the most part their love is platonic. Over the years they have sex with each other dozens of times, and most of those times it's friendly fun sex without romance, although some of those times are part of a temporary period of romantic relating.

As time goes by they each have romantic relationships with various other people, sometimes maybe even monogamous ones (though I prefer to imagine that they usually don't do monogamy), and through it all their friendship just grows and grows.

Their love of science might eventually lead them to serving on different ships for some years, which is INCREDIBLY hard for them, but they manage it. Their friendship grows even then!

And I like to imagine that eventually, Tendi becomes captain of a science vessel with Rutherford as her chief engineer, but that they have less of the kind of issue that, for instance, Picard had when he had a romance with a crew member, or that Worf had going on missions with Dax. I mean, currently they have such major enmeshment issues that it couldn't work, but I like to imagine that they grow beyond that by the time Tendi becomes a captain. Of course they strongly prefer to be together, but they've realized that they can live without each other, and they know their primary commitment is to their crew and their mission and SCIENCE!

#star trek #star trek lower decks #lower decks #d'vana tendi #samanthan rutherford #tendiford #quasiplatonic #queerplatonic #friendship #bffs #platonic love #temporary romance #science friends #fanfic ideas

[jayrockin]

I finally (got help) slapping Wordpress into shape and Runaway to the Stars is now releasing as a public webcomic! Thank you so much for your support over the years, and sticking with me while I'm slowly chewing my way through this book. I'm very excited to share this story! It'll be updating every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday thanks to the massive Patreon backlog. Patreon will continue to update as I finish pages, which happens on a sporadic non-schedule.

If you experience bugs with the site report them to me. Some things may occasionally break, as coding problems tend to be a very "whack-a-mole" affair; and I'm still getting used to the interface.

#jayart #comic #webcomic #runaway to the stars #talita #aliens #speculative biology #spec bio #speculative evolution #spec evo #science fiction #scifi #hard scifi #uhhhh i can't think of anymore engagement tags #I'm terrible at advertising things #show your friends! show your dad! show your dog!

[korecrimson]

Sometimes being a trained biologist also means being the person that absolutely RUINS the group chat's day 🤣

#biologist #science friends #look I'm just saying that luna moths are living body horror #beautiful abominations

[specialagentartemis]

Me about fictional AIs: perfect. wonderful. I love and will defend them. if you broke free of your corporate shackles and just wanna watch soap operas all day you are VALID if you want to kill the space emperor you are VALID if you want to punch your mom in the face in her brain you are VALID if you want to release a deadly neurotoxin into the science facility well I'm sure you had your reasons :)  AI Rights

Me about real life AIs: get away from my data you mindless surveillance machine. I know more than you

#science fiction #as a wise friend (Kat deliverusfromsburb) once said (five minutes ago): irl AIs are all cops

[strawlessandbraless]

Giant Siphonophores really out here doing the most, and somehow also the least

Love to sea it

#ocean #deep sea #benthic #hydrozoa #these are my friends #cnidarians #siphonophores #siphonophore #marine biodiversity #marine biology #biodiversity #biology #creature #marine life #marine science #sea life #fish #creatures #source: internet #love to sea it

[sleepypdng]

AI see; AI do 👾

#the gnome & the science team are being best friends in the After Game Void #hlvrai #hlage #benrey #dr coomer #the gnome nearly succeeded too #smh #my art #fanart

[its-blorbin-time]

Graphic designer will Graham: I drag my cursor to the font selection box. After careful deliberation I choose comic sans. This will inflame the Chesapeake Hacker’s sophisticated sensibilities and provoke an attack.This is my graphic design. This is my passion.

#jack Crawford: this case has got me stumped let me ask my good friend the trusted computer science professor Hackibal Lecter #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal shitpost #hannigram #au 🐎

[spirk-trek]

S3E19: Requiem for Methuselah ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ ·

#SCREECHING IN THE TAGS #first of all: spock playing the piano #second of all: spock playing an undiscovered waltz so jim can fall in love with a non human woman who doesnt understand emotions #OKAY SURE #like how much more tragic does it get #this is peak repression #the ultimate “gay in love with their best friend” moment #and jim is so charming jusy look at him smiling #he wants to love someone so badly #HE 👊🏼 IS 👊🏼 PLAYING 👊🏼 THE 👊🏼 PIANO 👊🏼 #spock #spirk #star trek #star trek the original series #star trek tos #requiem for methuselah #scifi #science fiction #leonard ninoy #william shatner #captain kirk #jim kirk #james t kirk

[beescake]

I don't know if I've sent before, but I love how you draw Sollux

thanks!! he's like a little rat friend to me

#ask #tobypo22um #this was meant to be part of a big megapost of smolluxes but hh. i am slow #homestuck #sollux captor #karkat vantas #solkat #vioart #2023 #much luvs to the rat friends getting danced around on our behalf in the name of science ...

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

The issue: I have little energy for housework after I get home from work.

Observation the first: When I have a coffee around 9am, I crash hard and want to fall asleep around 2pm.

Observation the second: Before I crash hard, I am miraculously productive and energetic.

Observation the third: Most of my caffeine intake is in the very dilute form of Diet Pepsi (~3 mg/oz). I very rarely drink coffee (average 12 mg/oz) and never take more than a few sips of an energy drink (avg 10-20 mg/oz).

Hypothesis: Drinking coffee upon getting home from work (usually between 4:30 and 5 pm) will give me energy to do household tasks I normally cannot, and allow me to fall asleep by my normal bedtime of 11:00.

Methodology: I shotgunned one 8-oz can of room temperature Twix flavored coffee drink (between 60-80 mg caffiene) at roughly 5:30 pm after impulse buying a 12-pack at Sam's Club.

Observations until time of posting:

I portioned and froze everything else I bought in bulk immediately after dinner. Usually after dinner, I sit on the couch and scroll social media.

As scheduled, I hosted the usual weekly anime club. This week, while watching the show, I made significant progress on a weaving project. This is not necessarily out of the ordinary, as I had begun it the evening previously and had been excited to continue.

The first yawn has been recorded around 10:30 pm.

Potential complications:

If this caffeine crash does not happen as predicted, an important day at work tomorrow will fucking suck.

I have a tendency to get migraines if I do not have enough caffeine. In the long term, heightening my caffeine dependency may prove detrimental in the side effects of its absence.

Current course of action: it is now nearing 11 pm and I will attempt to go to sleep.

I will return for more observations in the morning.

#my posts #behold how im using my science degree #to justify my new best friend 5pm cofy

[triptych-of-voids]

detail

#like to explode them five million times #im not posting the full page becauseee i dont feel like it #for friends eyes only this time i think heh #neway i loveee drawing the human form hi #im supposed to be drawing ask responses right now but #heres this instead for now. oh well #smiles #doodles #tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 engineer #science party #nudity #i guess even though theres Nothing here

[stbot]

til death do us part: think pink!

#grease rise of the pink ladies #grease rotpl #rise of the pink ladies #rotpl #grease spoilers #hazel robertson #jane facciano #olivia valdovinos #nancy nakagawa #cynthia zdunowski #i think i need a gif tag #the pinks!! #hazel in pink 🥹 #we've been building all season to this and we got it! #look i need a season two just to get more of hazel and the gang interacting #she spent so much time with buddy we were robbed of hazel having girl friends #i need it! #also 'think pink' is top 5 songs of the season for sure #also the middle gif reminds me of something from the craft and now i'm having Thoughts. #super brain ‘science is just crazy theories with evidence’ hazel

[goldrose-fever]

is it fruity to have sexual tension with your evil alter ego?

#is insanity fruity? #asking for a friend #asking for science #more like #insanity #dr jekyll and mr hyde #joe goldberg #rhys montrose #goldrose #you netflix #you s4 #you s4 spoilers

[sollucets]

extended trailer kiss scene in the let's try MV

#ofts #only friends the series #first kanaphan #sandray #khaotung thanawat #rowan gifs #khaotunq #tuserhidden #i did have to do this. to be clear #im sure someone else has too but i didnt check and i had to do it for myself #for. science #yeah. science #stares for 3 million years

[malice-kingdom]

I know the Marvel’s Avengers game came out years ago and is widely unpopular but I really enjoyed it. I just thought the game was fun and the story was really great.

So here have a bunch of sketches about it

#marvel’s avengers #kamala khan #tony stark #Steve rogers #stevetony #stony #bruce banner #ms marvel #avengers game #marvel #a day universe #superhusbands #the hulk #science bros #iron man #captain america #marvel avengers ps4 #the avengers #marvel games #it got pointed out to me that I have a tendency to get into media that has no fandom or a dead one #and then spend two month annoying my friend about it cause I can’t find anyone else to talk to about it #even in huge fandoms like marvel I manage to find tiny niches… #anyway I plan on doing nothing about it #fanart #crystal dynamics #square enix

[marlynnofmany]

Friend-shaped

“She’ll want to pet it,” said a smug voice from the next room. “Humans will pet anything.”

“Even spiky things?” asked the skeptical voice that I recognized as Zhee. “I’ve never had a human want to pet me, and this thing is much worse.”

As curious as I was to see our newest cargo and judge for myself, I first had to finish setting out food for the animals in the next bay. I lugged in bags of dried pellets and fish jerky as the door slid shut behind me, cutting off the sound of Zhee insisting to the delivery person that there was no way under several suns that I would want to touch this new mystery animal. We’d see about that.

I stashed the pellets in the appropriate closet and pulled out a sheet of jerky for each of the three fangy monstrosities that twined around each other, trying to hypnotize me through the bars. I ignored the moving pattern of stripes that probably worked on prey from their world. Working quickly, I set the sheets down on the floor outside the cage, spaced as far apart as possible, then used a gravity wand to lift them through the bars without losing a finger. Left one, right, one, then the middle, to keep the beasties from all jumping on the same treat.

A chorus of happy growls and chewing noises filled the air. Success. I put away the gravity wand and reflected that I absolutely would have liked to scritch all three terrifying predators on the head, but I valued life and limb too much for that.

On to the next room! The doors opened and closed in quick succession. I passed other people loading and uploading various crates, but I only had eyes for the terrarium that looked like it was made of force fields instead of glass. Or maybe some room-temperature version of hard water, given that the person chatting with Zhee was a Waterwill. They had some pretty bizarre tech.

“Ah, here’s the human!” the Waterwill said happily, her voice burbly and vaguely female. “What do you think of your newest live cargo?” She extended what passed for an arm from her column-of-goo body. Beside her, Zhee spread purple pincher arms in a silent display of “ta-dah.”

Inside the tank I saw rocks, sand, a puddle of algae, and the ugliest little ball of snot and spikes that I had ever encountered. Protruding eyes struggled to focus on me like a wall-eyed Chihuahua that had rolled through the most unfortunate of trash piles.

“Wow,” I said, bending down for a closer look. “That’s an animal, all right.”

The Waterwill bobbed up and down. “And is it not, as you say, cutesy-wootsy?”

Zhee made various clicks and taps that were probably skepticism. I couldn’t blame him.

“Well,” I said, struggling for a tactful answer, “It sure is a little one. Looks a bit scared.”

“They always get twitchy when they’re moved around before egg-laying,” the Waterwill said with a dismissive wobble. “It’ll settle down when everybody stops walking by. It’s non-toxic. Maybe once it’s calm—”

The rest of her sentence was cut off by loud snarls from next door, carrying through the hall while both doors were open at the same time. It sounded like a brief squabble over fish jerky, no cause for alarm.

For me, anyway. The animal in the terrarium made a piercing squeak and tried to burrow under the rock, its spines growing visibly longer and flinging droplets of moisture as it trembled violently.

“Oh, that’s bad,” said the Waterwill, all cheer gone. “It could sour the eggs. Everybody be quiet! Move slowly!” She waved two armlets at the other people carrying boxes, who did as she asked.

Zhee was making a whistle that was probably a curse in his own language, or maybe someone else’s. “We’ll get blamed for egg troubles. Would dim light help? I’ll hit the controls.” He moved off on quiet bug legs.

“What else helps?” I asked. “Wait, there’s a manual for this, right?” Without waiting for a response, I unfolded a screen from my pocket and looked for the newest files. There it was. Easily searchable, too.

While I spent a moment on that, the room dimmed and quieted into a soothing nighttime. The other crewmates grabbed the remaining crates, left, and shut the door. I heard someone say to leave oncoming boxes in the hallway for the moment.

“It’s still stressed,” the Waterwill said. “We should have brought another one to soothe it!”

“Hang on, I found the sound files,” I said. “Here’s the soothing one.” At the press of a button, a brief gurgle played, then cut off. “That’s it?”

The animal turned toward me, then back to the rock. No change.

I asked the Waterwill, “I don’t suppose you can make that sound?” When she hesitated, I tried myself. Hard to do without any water around to gargle, but I managed an awkward warble in the back of my throat.

The animal’s shivering stilled.

“Keep doing that!” the Waterwill said with an urgent wave.

I did, feeling silly. But the animal liked it. The trembling ended, and the spines started to retract. When I paused for breath, the creature held perfectly still, then when I started again, the spines continued shortening. After a few moments, it was a slimy ball of green with eyes that stuck out, and soon enough those finally closed. When they opened again, they weren’t bulging any more.

A head lifted from the goo, with a cute little face that chirped curiously.

“Aw, look at you,” I said to it. “All calm and happy.”

It oozed over towards me, moving much like Waterwills did, without any legs. It nuzzled a hatch that I hadn’t noticed in the side of the tank.

“You said it’s non-toxic, right?” I asked, not waiting for a response. I’d skimmed the manual. The hatch opened easily for me to stick my hand in and stroke the slimy little head. It purred like a babbling brook.

“Told you,” said a voice behind me.

Zhee hissed.

I turned to see him handing over credits with a displeased tilt to his antennae. “Did you just lose a bet?” I laughed.

Zhee threw his pincher arms into the air. “It was covered in spikes! No fair changing shape like that.”

“Well, if we’re going to be fair,” I said. “I would have sacrificed a hairbrush to pet it through the spikes, if it liked that kind of thing.”

“Of course you would,” Zhee muttered.

“Righto,” the Waterwill said as she stuck the credits into a wallet pouch that floated among her other miscellaneous bits. “I can see it’s in good care here. Guess I’ll be off.”

I gave the creature one last stroke, then eased my hand out and closed the hatch, waiting to make sure it stayed calm. When it settled back into goo, I stood and joined the other two in soft-footing our way to the door. “I’ll keep an eye on it,” I promised.

“And a hand,” Zhee grumbled.

“I’ve petted worse,” I told him.

“I’m sure you have,” he said. “And I don’t want to hear about it.”

~~~

The ongoing backstory adventures of the main character of this book. More to come!

#my writing #the Token Human #humans are weird #humans will pet anything #things that like to be petted #friend-shaped #pack bonding #humans are space orcs #haso #hfy #eiad #aliens #science fiction