#tunned

[sofipitch]

#ao3 #archive of our own #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfiction writer #fanfic writers #polls #i'm honestly just curious #bc I usually go to exclude AUs immediately at least the modern setting one #i like fix it fics but usually I like the series for the canon setting and if I'm looking for fanfic it's bc I want MORE of that fandom #but maybe I'm weird stay tunned to find out

[batfossil-fr]

and last one, for epher's ephrem! had a lot of fun doing these

#been feeling kinda rusty but these were all great practice #enjoying leaving some stuff unrefined i had a hard time doing that in the past #tuns are funny because they're one of my favorite breeds to draw and one of my least favorites on site #i can fix you tundras. don't worry #flight rising #flight rising art #my art

[bo0tleg]

GEMS MY FRIEND SAID WATCHING TOP GUN (1986) FOR THE FIRST TIME:

"Look at those thighs! He's gotta be sitting on a dick, there ain't no way!" (about a random engineer in the opening sequence)

"This guy is too handsome to be a rando" (it was, indeed, a rando)

"Fifteen minutes in and I have no idea who the protagonist is." "Do you know what Tom Cruise looks like?" ".... No."

*Thought Cougar was gonna be the protagonist, was confused as hell when he left*

"The baldo is boring, but I think were gonna keep seeing him throughout the movie." "No, we're not." "We're not? Oh, thank god."

"Whoop, spotted the gay one. That wasn't even hard."

"That guy (Chipper) looks russian." "Nope." "No? What about that one (Slider)?" "It's the middle of the Cold War." "..... So?"

"A gay couple already? Wow."

"The blondie is trying to flirt while the other one is too concentrated on the rivalry."

"OH HELL NAH."

"Every old movie just feels the need for random straight romance– OH SHIT THAT'S HER? HE'S SO FUCKED." (In the scene where Charlie is 'officially' introduced)

"HOLD UP!" *Rewinds the scene* "What kind of flirting is that?" *Plays the scene again* "Did he just... Chomp? At him?"

"He has chemistry with her, but she doesn't want any chemistry with him. I mean, I can see she's attracted to him, but I think she just wants a quick lay." (Repeated this Every. Single. Time. Maverick and Charlie had a scene together.)

"Ah yes, the hetero scene that actually looks really gay." Later, remembering the scene: "How the fuck are you gonna play sports looking like a hot piece of ass without looking gay? You're not supposed to be hot! You're supposed to slap that fucking ball, not be like 'hahaha look at me, I'm so dainty and pretty.' THAT'S GAY!"

"It's cute, Goose treats him like a father would." "Don't you mean an older brother?" "No, he's too gentle for that. They'd be killing each other."

"See, Goose's wife treats him like an older sister would. By annoying him."

Charlie, on screen: "(...) Because I've fallen in love with you." "NO YOU FUCKING HAVEN'T, SHE'S JUST SAYING THAT FOR HIM TO STAY! SHE'S JUST SAYING WHAT HE WANTS TO HEAR TO KEEP HIM THERE!"

*Loud disgruntled noises I could hear from the kitchen over the sex scene*

"That's the one with the hard on!"

"I want more scenes of the blondie (Ice) and Maverick, I don't care about fucking planes."

"Did he die? Oh, no he's fine, the chute is there. Wait, he did die? NO!"

"Did he really need to be in his underwear for this conversation?"

"How cute, he's worried about Mavericks mental health. Shit."

*Screams*

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU IDIOT? SHE LEFT YOU AFTER YOUR BEST FRIEND DIED!" "And put on a song that reminds him of his parents." "AND PUT ON A SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF YOUR DEAD PARENTS!"

#now uptaded with her reaction to the volleyball scene #stay tunned for top gun maverick #icemav #top gun iceman #top gun 1986 #top gun #top gun maverick #tgm #tg86 #tg:m #goose bradshaw #carole bradshaw #ron slider kerner #tom iceman kazansky #tom kazansky #pete mitchell #pete maverick mitchell #charlie blackwood #iceman x maverick #iceman kazansky #rick hollywood neven #leonard wolfman wolfe #iceman top gun #nick bradshaw #top gun 86

[khaotunq]

is it a character primer or a "tag yourself" meme? Yes. Twins (2023)

#twins the series #twins #twinsseriesedit #asianlgbtqdramas #boyslovesource #userjamiec #mushiemaradame #tusersilence #userbon #user25shades #my gifs #my edits #mine: twins #mine: thai bl #mdl: it's thun! show: it's tan! jay: i'm spLITTING THE DIFFERENCE NOW HE'S TUN #i recognise many of zee's faults in myself ok don't @ me #i annoyed myself by forcing myself to stick to ep 1 #this was originally just sprite and zee #i have no self control #sprite's peace tee kills me i love it i love him i'm gonna go lay down

[welele]

#motos #star wars #tunning #w3

[bethanythebogwitch]

Wet Beast Wednesday: tardigrades

Last week on Wet Beast Wednesday I covered the largest animals to ever exist on our planet. This week I'm going to pull a full 180 and cover the smallest animals yet on this series. Meet the tardigrade, the internet's favorite micro-animal the is said to be basically immortal. How true is that? Let's see.

(Image: an electron microscope image of a tardigrade. It looks a lot like a potato with eight stubby legs tipped with long claws. At the front is a small, circular mouth. It has no other discernable features. In the background are bits of plant matter that look like seaweed at this scale. End ID)

The tardigrades are 1,300 known species (and probably a lot of unknown ones too) in the phylum Tardigrada. They are also part of the superphylum Ecdysozoa, which are animals that grow by molting their outer cuticles or exoskeletons. In particular, the tardigrades are believed to be a sister group of the arthropods, the group that contains crustaceans, insects, isopods, and a lot of other things. Tardigrades are truly tiny, the largest species reaching a whopping 1.5 millimeters in length, though most species reach no more than 0.5 mm. They have round, segmented bodies with four pairs of legs that end in either claws or suction discs. The body segments consist of a head, three body segments with a pair of legs each, and a caudal segment with the final pair of legs. The first three legs are used for movement while the final pair points backwards and is used for grabbing onto substrate. All of the body segments except for the final one correspond to segments found in the head section of insects. Tardigrades are missing many hox genes, genes that direct the body plan during development. Their ancestors may have had a body plan more similar to insects, but the loss of the hox genes has compressed them into walking heads with a bit of butt. The mouth is tubular and sucks in food. In the mouth are stylets, needle-like structures used to pierce food objects. Once food is drawn into the mouth, a structure called the buccopharyngeal apparatus activates. This is a combination of spines and muscle that acts like an inner jaw that pulls food into the digestive tract. The buccopharyngeal apparatus is distinct enough to be used as a major identifying feature between species. Tardigrades are translucent and many images you've seen of them have false color to show the details or are 3D models based on scanning electron microscope imagery of them. Tardigrades molt their exoskeletons multiple times (up to 12) during their lifecycle. Some species are unable to poop normally and instead all their waste is discarded during the molt. It was formerly believed that tardigrades could exchange genes with each other without mating, a process called horizontal gene transfer that is seen in bacteria, archaea, and other micro-organisms. It has since been discovered that while still capable of horizontal gene transfer, it is quite a bit rarer in tardigrades than we thought.

(Image: an electron microscope image of a tardigrade standing on a bit of plant matter. This one has a closed mouth with a ring of triangular tooth-like structures. It also has two simple eyes that look like black dots. End ID)

The name "tardigrade" means "slow walker", which is fitting as, despite their eight legs, tardigrades have a slow and awkward gait. This is the result of their legs being unjointed, only able to pivot at their connection to the body. Their gait has been compared to that of bears, hence why they are often called water bears and their discoverer, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, called them "kleiner wasserbär", meaning "little water bear". Tardigrades are found worldwide and have inhabited virtually every habitat, from the tops of mountains to the deep sea, from hot springs to the antarctic, from freshwater to saltwater. The one thing they have in common is a need to stay wet. Tardigrades can survive out of water as long as they can stay moist and are often found in mosses, hence another common name: moss piglets. The majority either eat plants or bacteria, but some will feed on smaller tardigrades or other micro-animals. Their famous survivability makes it easy for tardigrades or their eggs to be carried to new habitats by larger animals or other phenomena. Tardigrades are one of the first micro-animals to colonize a new habitat and they are a pioneer species, the first species to colonize a new environment and whose presence makes that environment fore suitable for other species to follow. Tardigrades are a major food source to other micro-animals and larger organisms. Most species have distinct males and females, though a few reproduce through parthenogenesis. In most cases, molting female will lay her eggs in her shed cuticle and males will them fertilize them. Other species have a form of internal reproduction. Males and females will court each other before mating and females will usually allow multiple males to fertilize her eggs. Female tardigrades are typically larger and more abundant than males. Eggs can take up to 14 days (species dependent) before hatching. All tardigrades of the same species have the exact same number of cells as each other. They are also born with the same number of cells they will have as an adult. Their growth is driven by enlargement of the existing cells rather than cellular reproduction making new cells. The lifespan ranges between a few months to a few years, depending on species.

(Image: a color photo of a tardigrade. It is a pale, translucent white, making it hard to make out details. Its body is curved, with the front end pointing at the camera. It has two simple eyes. End ID)

(Image: an electron microscope image of a tardigrade egg. It is round but covered in small pores and conical structures. End ID)

The most famous feature of tardigrades is their legendary durability. It is commonly said that tardigrades can survive just about anything (except for the things that are actually trying to kill them. They are prey to a lot of species after all). Among the things they can survive is extreme heat, extreme cold, dehydration, extremely high and low pressure, exposure to ionizing radiation (that's the scary kind), low oxygen environments, environmental toxins, heavy impacts, and the vacuum of fucking space. While the can survive in extreme conditions, tardigrades are not considered extremophiles. True extremophiles thrive in extreme environments and are negatively impacted by leaving them. Tardigrades can survive in extreme environments, but are negatively impacted and can't survive as well there as they can in less extreme places. The main trait that has allowed tardigrades to survive all five mass extinctions in history is cryptobiosis. Cryptobiosis is the rare ability for an animal to enter a state of dormancy where their metabolic processes come to an almost complete stop. While in cryptobiosis, metabolic activity drops to 0.01% normal and water content drops to 1% normal. In this state, the tardigrade is called a tun. Tardigrades usually enter cryptobiosis in response to arid conditions. One experiment showed that a species of tardigrade could last for at least 30 years in this state and return to normal lifestyle functions when exposed to water. Tardigrades will also enter cryptobiosis in response to low oxygen, toxic chemical exposure, increased or decreased temperature, and excessive salt content in the water. Tardigrades also show extreme resistance to both high and low pressure. They can live in 0 atmospheres of pressure and some species can survive up to 6,000 atmospheres, more than double the pressure at the bottom of the Marianas trench. More interesting is their ability to survive dangerous radiation. They can survive 1,000 times the dose of gamma radiation that humans can. Early tests focused on tardigrades in cryptobiosis and concluded that the extremely low water content of a cryptobiotic tardigrade doesn't leave much opportunity for the radiation to react with the animal. However it was later found that active and fully hydrated tardigrades are still considerably resistant to radiation. Studies into this resistance indicate that tardigrades can very efficiently repair damaged DNA and have unique proteins called Dsup that provides additional protection. Dsup introduced to human cells has provided additional protection against x-rays.

(Image: an electron microscope image of a tun - a tardigrade in cryptobiosis. It is smaller and very wrinkly, with the legs and mouth retracted into the body. End ID)

Tardigrades were the first animals to be exposed to the vacuum of space. They were exposed for 10 days, some in a state of cryptobiosis at the time of exposure and some still active. It was found that they were able to survive the vacuum when shielded from the sun's ultraviolet radiation, with those already in cryptobiosis doing better. Upon being rehydrated, many were able to resume normal life functions and successfully reproduce, though others died after being rehydrated. Those that were exposed to UV radiation fared much worse, with only a few hydrated individuals surviving. The individuals in cryptobiosis had a lower survival rate when exposed to UV than those not exposed to UV and were less successful at reproducing afterwards. Studies of tardigrade's space survival abilities and resistance to radiation could go a long way in helping human space travel. One of the largest dangers of space travel is that space is full of nasty radiation from the sun that Earth's magnetic field protects us from. Some scientists speculate about the possibility of accidentally seeding other planets or moons with tardigrades or other space-resistant organisms. This is a problem because introducing Earth life to other world has the potential to damage any native ecosystems and if we find life in space in the future we don't want to have to figure out if it's something we accidentally put there. While tardigrades could likely survive on other planets, they would eventually die without a food source. Some sources reported that tardigrades may have colonized the moon after an experiment with them crashed. Unfortunately, the moon is not crawling with tardigrades now. It's way too dry for them to exit cryptobiosis even if they survived the crash, which they probably didn't.

(Image: art of a tardigrade floating in the vacuum of space. End ID. Source: University of California - Santa Barbara)

#wet beast wednesday #tardigrade #water bear #moss piglet #micro animal #microbiology #marine biology #biology #zoology #ecology #animal facts #informative #science #space #astrobiology #radiation #cryptobiosis #tun #image described

[leier-coyol]

It's Monster hunter anniversary!

So here's my finished ruby Basarios

I've never shown the back of my works, so here it is

#monster hunter #モンハン #embroidery #next proyect will be either Plesioth or an adeptus custodes #so stay tunned >:D

[hoodzgyal]

My toxic trait is thinking I can top Jason Todd like that 6”4, 230 pound man wouldn’t have my head over the edge of the bed squealing and crying 😵‍💫

i’m literally a whole foot and one inch shorter than him,,,,,,,,,, idk why i act like i wouldn’t be runnin from the dick bc ts so fuckin big.

letting out pretty squeals and gasps bc the dick is so far in ur tummy. i’m sorry i just- he’s so. big ??????? and he’s incredibly conscious of it😩💀💀

always humming and cooing, “don’t run from it, mama. don’t run from me,” and “let me stretch you out, huh baby?”

UHM UM UM IMN WJSNSKSNS

#— evie speaks #— evie’s boytoys ! #I KNOWWW THAT YOU KNOW. THIS NIGGA SAYS DONT TUN FROM IT. #ITS HIS FUCKING CATCHPHRASE. FUCK MEEEEEE WJWNWJNEJE🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾😩😩 #jason todd x black!reader #jason todd x reader #jason todd smut

[kyymie]

//throwing tantrums//

#guys Im making a 2012 tots compilation stay tunned #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #update : turtle tots compilation is up! go dig my blog

[cary-elwes]

for anon

#cary elwes #a castle for christmas #2021 #he is so wonderful #he is everything #an angel #my angel #ilysm #Ich schwöre wenn ich ihn halten könnte jetzt würde ich es tun #ohne ihn ist alles so dunkel #mein Engel <3

[lyr-caelum]

160 frame animation coming up!!

#ehehehe #evil laugh #sorry this was ment for valentines but i didnt had time #and i might went overboard #stay tunned #wolfstar #animation #sneak peek #sirius black #remus lupin

[dead-girl-screaming]

Es ist so ein verfluchter Kampf zwischen

Lass ihn gehen. Sei frei. Leb' dein Leben.

und

Schreib ihm. Fahr zu ihm. Rede mit ihm. Du liebst ihn immernoch..

#einsam #einsamkeit #i miss you #gefühle #allein #trauer #schmerz #i miss him #scheiße #was soll ich tun #d #eigenes #frei sein #vermissen

[deutsche-bahn]

Wichteln mit meiner Familie, die Geschenke werden zufällig durch Würfeln verteilt. Mein Onkel packt einen Damenrasierer aus, währenddessen bekommt meine kleine Cousine einen Cashmerepullover. Meine Oma reißt ihn ihr aus der Hand mit den Worten "Da ist der! Den habe ich schon seit Tagen gesucht!". Mein Großvater zeigt auf ein Geschenk, brüllt "Ich will das! Das könnte eine Flasche sein!". Es ist ein Miniraclette. Mein Großvater ist am Boden zerstört. Alle schreien durcheinander, Geschenkpapierfetzen fliegen durch die Luft. Ich packe mein Geschenk aus. Es ist ein Luftballon. Ich gieße mir Sekt nach.

#was dieser familie gut tun würde ist ein stuhlkreis mit redestein #weihnachten

[footballandshit]

...why that al-janoub stadium shaped like a- [gunshot]

#look at it's curves HSHS i'm HOWLING why didn't anyone tell me this #al-janoub stadium #world cup #wc22 #world cup 2022 #australia nt #tunisia nt #tun vs aus

[seimsisk]

#willy's chocolate experience #willy wonka #tag yourself I'm Cartchy Tuns

[basi-boy]

Neuer Diskurs (cursed):

Ist das Tragen von Lederhosen und Dirndl als Nicht-Bayer kulturelle Aneignung? Let's discuss.

#kam mir so in den kopf #ich mein. ich komm nicht aus bayern und hab mit der kultur da so gar nichts zu tun #wär es cultural appropriation? #andererseits ist bayerische kultur nich marginalized.. #anyway just a very cursed thought. feel free to disregard this #german stuff #i speak