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Reblogging this for my sister

Okay, hear me out: The seven decide to do a trauma candy salad on Piper’s social media, and within a day it becomes her most liked post and starts 6 new conspiracies.

Percy: Hey, I’m Percy Jackson, and when I was 12, I accidentally blew up the gateway arch, and there was a nation-wide manhunt for me because they thought I was a terrorist. I brought Reese's Pieces.

Annabeth: My name is Annabeth, and when I was 7 years old, I ran away from home and lived on the streets with two other kids until one of them was murdered in front of me. I brought starbursts.

Leo: Hi! I’m Leo, and my mother died in a warehouse fire, but my entire family blamed me for her death, so I was put in foster care. I brought skittles!

Piper: I’m Piper, and my dad was held hostage, and his kidnappers tried to blackmail me, so I brought the m&m's. 

Jason: My name is Jason and I was abandoned in the woods and raised by wolves. I brought some Swedish fish.

Frank: I’m Frank, and when my mom died, my grandmother kicked me out of the house and told me to go to California. After I came back to ask her about our family history, the house burned down and she vanished. I brought some gummy bears

Hazel: When I was 13, I died. I’m putting in life savers :)

Part 2!

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Ooh okay

Anya from Anastasia (special interest ayo)

Glinda from Wicked (or Elphaba but I fit Glinda better)

Elsa from Frozen (Even though I'd probably fit Anna better)

Fellow theater people:

Rb w/ ur top 3 dream roles! I am bored and curious

Mine are:

Evan from Dear Evan Hansen

Michael from Be More Chill

Remy from How to Dance in Ohio (new one lol)

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Moana 2 finally

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Moana 2 is on Disney+ so here's some Moana 1

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Started making these again for obvious reasons

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Writing advice? Sort of I guess?

Are you a writer who is constantly coming up with new ideas and abandoning old ones? Well here's what I do - that new story idea? Is now a piece of media within your current WIP. It makes for great world building! You can flesh it out as much as you want, it's still all world building! And you can consider how your OC's would interact with this piece of media. Maybe it's the Harry Potter of your world. Maybe it's a cult classic. Maybe it's your OC's favorite fandom! You're still getting to explore this new story idea without losing interest in your old one.

I have over a hundred Broadway shows for my sci-fi story that takes place a few hundred years in the future. I've developed the favorite book series of one of my OC's so much that I've imagined the memes she would make about it. This strategy might not work for everyone but it totally works for me, and maybe it'll work for someone else.

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Every time I listen to So Much In Common from How To Dance In Ohio and it gets to Drew's part, I think of the scene in Brooklyn 99 when Jake is nervous and listing things he likes about Amy and he says "I love how beautiful you are, I love your face, and I love your butt- I should have written this down first" and I expect Drew to sing "Marideth, your eyes- no, your hair- no, your butt I DON'T KNOW"

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Songs that they probably played at the HTDIO second chance dance

Based on the actual youth with disabilities dance I just went to

I Gotta Feeling

Uptown Funk

Shake It Off

Take On Me

Take Me Home, Country Roads

The Final Countdown

Blurred Lines (except everyone sings the Weird Al cover over it because no one knows the actual words)

Blinding Lights

Cha Cha Slide

YMCA

Monster Mash (it was not Halloween)

Never Gonna Give You Up

Sexy And I Know It

Cotton Eye Joe

Footloose

Don't Stop Believin'

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Nothing At All is a Good Song

Nothing At All is a song from How To Dance In Ohio the musical that I really really like. I have this whole animatic to it mapped out in my head, but I haven't got the skill or patience to actually draw it. But the song's singer Desmond Edwards said that they would want to read the outline I've written, so here it is! It's very long and I'm sorry.

I work in a lab at a hospital, and this is about my job.

I walk into the lab, into the break room, and put my purse down. On “It’s not like I’m shocked by the ableist cliches, but they do make me tired,” I reach into my purse and put on a barrette (which I actually wear everyday). The barrette then turns red and becomes a wisp of smoke following me. 

“Do I only exist on this planet to make somebody else feel inspired?” I’m grabbing a lab coat from the closet when the wisp flies away from me, I turn to follow it and see one of my coworkers waving at me. Said coworker is drawn with no eyes or nose, just a mouth and eyebrows - everyone in the animatic is drawn like this except for myself. I wave awkwardly back. 

“I’m no object of pity, and if that’s what you see, then clearly you aren’t seeing me” the camera circles around me, showing a hallway that looks like I’ve made it longer for dramatic effect but that actually is that long, and then pans around so you can see my face as I start walking down the hall towards the core lab. 

I pretend to be my own OCs a lot, so the characters I turn into are my own characters. As I turn into each one, the wisp of red smoke becomes an article of clothing on them. First is Jaimy, who has a big red bow. Then Tris, who has a red ring, and finally Jada, who has a red headband. As the line gets to “today’s look is nothing, nothing at all” I fade back into my normal self with the wisp of smoke at my shoulders, and walk over to my work station. I type at my computer with the wisp curling over my wrists, I grab a pneumatic tube that’s just come in with the smoke curling around the tube and my hands. 

“I try to have patience meeting folks where they’re at” I sit at my chair talking to my boss, who is on one knee in front of me because she's really tall. “But this gets under my skin” she stands up to walk away. “Cause if you’re writing about me, then getting to know me should be where you begin” my boss goes over to one of my coworkers, a guy who acts like and is treated like he’s a supervisor even though he’s not, and says something. The two of them look directly at me, then back at each other. 

“It’s so condescending assuming the worst” We see my hand reaching towards a piece of paper on a printer, which is me attempting to do an assignment that I’m capable of doing but don’t have permission to do. The wisp of smoke curls around my hand and pulls it back, forcing me to turn away and see my boss. I glare daggers at her but that’s all I can do. 

“When I’m Wanda Maximoff” My glare fades and I turn into my OC Taylor, the red wisp becoming a wand in my hand. “I can change my own reality” using the wand, I open up a centrifuge and remove the tubes of blood to float in front of me. Unlike most of the animatic, which is black and white, the tubes are in color. They’ve been spun already so you can clearly see the red blood cells at the bottom, the separator gel, and the plasma/serum on top. Some of the tubes have light green tops and some have gold tops (if you’re curious what I’m talking about, look up centrifuged blood gold top). “When I’m Gaga I’m ready to rehearse” I change into my OC Jodie, stepping forward into a pirouette, the red wisp turns into a rehearsal skirt, and the tubes of blood are still floating in front of me. “When I’m Miles Morales I really do believe I am a superhero in the multiverse” I change into my OC Cytherea and start to float, the wisp becomes glowing red eyes, and for a moment the tubes of blood turn into crystals in front of me. “But todays look is nothing, nothing at all” I morph back into myself and come back down to the ground. The tubes of blood become tubes of blood again and return to my hands. The red wisp goes back to being a red wisp at my shoulders. 

“Then come the voices of doubt saying right on cue” we see the core lab, where my coworkers are doing regular core lab stuff, like typing at computers and putting stuff into machines. “This world will never make space for people like you” my coworkers all look at me, now looking angry, and now shaded red. I take a step back. “I see my past rejections framed and hung on the wall” The tubes of blood fall out of my hands, not like I dropped them or anything but just like in a floaty way. I also start to float as the background becomes black behind me, and we see representations drawn in red of various crappy things that have happened to me. This includes F’s on papers, children laughing at me, and mean quotes people have said to me. They scroll by in the background. 

“And I wish I felt nothing, nothing at all” I start crying and I curl up into a ball. The background changes to say in giant red letters “Autism.” But then the red disappears from the actual word, turning it white; the red becomes becomes the wisp again, circling around my whole body. “Nothing at all” the black background fades, leaving me in a cloud of red. “So sick of good intentions, that only make me feel small” still surrounded by the cloud. I look up and see the lab in front of me, except I am literally small now, and it is huge. “Your good intentions all add up to” I fall to my knees with my hands over my ears. “Nothing at all” suddenly I am normal sized again, holding the tubes of blood like I was before. I shake my head a little bit and look startled, as if I was trying to shake myself back to reality after zoning out. 

In the instrumental break, I walk over to one of the stations in the core lab and put the tubes of blood in the rack. Then I’m seen getting my purse and leaving the lab. 

“That’s why tomorrow night I will not be at the formal dance” we see me driving home, coming inside, and walking upstairs to pull out my laptop. “though I’ve worked hard to get there all this year.” The red wisp settles around my shoulders, still weird and wispy but not floating anymore, just resting. I take a deep breath and open my laptop. “That’s right, tomorrow night I will be doing my first livestream” I open up a zoom meeting entitled ‘Ableism in the workplace’ and click join, “to discuss the controversy further here!” I wave at the people in the meeting, and you can see the clock behind me displaying the time 5:30. “Cause the whole conversation” we see a girl wearing noise cancelling headphones talking on the screen. “Needs a huge overhaul.” We see a boy talking on the screen. “And if we simply do nothing.” I wave again, and you can see that the clock reads 6:30 now. I close the laptop and look sad. The red wisp starts to float again “nothing will change at all.” The wisp becomes a single red tear which falls down my cheek. 

In the final instrumental, I wipe the tear away. My hand stays on my face as I move it up to rub at my head, like I’m pushing my hair away from my face. When I pull my hand away, the red is gone and it has turned back into the barrette that I put on at the beginning. I set the barrette down on top of my laptop, alongside my employee badge, and stand up to walk away. The end.

Don't worry though, this makes my job sound awful, but it's actually really cool and most of my coworkers don't suck. This is a picture taken for lab week a few weeks ago, I'm the white girl sitting in the front :)

@wakanda-never I hope you like it! I know it isn't exactly what the song is about, but it's what it makes me feel. Thank you for everything you did with HTDIO, it's one of my favorite musicals ever because it makes me feel so seen.

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HTDIO because this show has me in a CHOKEHOLD

Bonus picture of me when I saw the show!

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Hey, phlebotomist and lab assistant here! The friend is sort of right. Many tests can be ran on the same tube. But there are reasons why they have to draw more than one tube, and sometimes even more than one tube of the same color. Reasons include:

Whether they need plasma/serum or whole blood. While light green plasma separator tubes and gold serum separator tubes will always be spun in the centrifuge, most tubes have both tests that get spun in the centrifuge and tests that don't. If you've got one spun test and one non-spun test, they can't go in the same tube.

Temperature and light! Some tests need to be kept cold, some need to be kept in the dark, some need both, and some need neither! While it won't necessarily damage other specimens to be kept cold or dark, it's better to keep them separate. And some specimens even need to be frozen.

Sharing tubes. Most of the time, the different departments of the lab can share specimens and everyone can get along. But sometimes, both departments need to do something to the sample that will make it so the other department can't do the test. There's also something that is specific to smaller labs like mine, and there's send outs. We do a lot of the more basic and common tests but when they need one of the weird ones, we send it to be done at a different lab. Occasionally a specimen can have a test done on it at our lab and then be sent out after, but usually in that case it needs to be different tubes.

Test timing. Some tests need to the specimen to sit before it can be done and some need it done fast. This one is pretty uncommon, since the usual reason for different timings is whether or not the blood needs to have clotted, and most of the additives are there to activate or prevent clotting. There are a few though where the problem has to do with what will happen to the blood over time.

Some tests (the ones in the blue tube) need to have a "throwaway" vial drawn. It can be drawn in any vial, and then you just have another vial. At my lab we will take those vials and put them "on hold," keeping the sample in case the doctor wants to add on a test while it still can be done. That way we don't have to draw more blood!

I've only been doing this a short while and I don't do any of the actual tests, so I'm sure there's other reasons I don't know. But there are several reasons, we're not just drawing a ton of blood for fun! And you think five is excessive? A few weeks ago I drew seventeen off of someone!

got blood work done today and i just remembered a time i got blood work done as a teen. after the nurse drew like 6 vials of the stuff, i asked him “is all that mine?” and he said “not anymore” and walked off

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Need some of this today

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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This is fine

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Moana make way make way

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I finally got to actually see Beetlejuice!

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Brave is underrated. This is not an opinion this is fact. 

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