#lateral displacement

[rajansmoorthy]

Experiment: Tracing the path of a Light Ray Through a Rectangular Glass Slab

Refraction of light through a glass slab Objective: To trace the path of a light ray passing through a rectangular glass slab for different angles of incidence, measure the angles of incidence, refraction and emergence and interpret the results. Materials Required: Rectangular glass slab Drawing board White paper Board pins Optical pins Protractor Measuring scales Pencil Refraction through a…

[yallstar]

“What was that for?” Viktor asked softly. Jayce smiled wider, tilting his forehead against Viktor’s. “I was happy, I guess."

more art for chapter 2 of differential burdens!

[unpersoniverse]

Skén:nen sá:sewh

as promised, here's Precious boy™ getting kissed by Precious wife™ because he deserves all the love in the world :cc

translation: Get home safe

[busnautica]

The red lights turn off. The controls go dark, joysticks limp in Al-An’s grip. The headlights shut off.  The thing lets them go. Whatever it was. Wherever it had come from. It lets them go and disappears, and the only reason Robin can even tell is because that blue mouth and red markings vanish somewhere out in front of them.  And then it hits her.  They're dead in the water. Dead, five hundred meters down, in a pitch black cave, with a tank that gave them less than four minutes of air and a sea truck cabin with a steadily depleting oxygen supply. A sea truck that was extremely damaged, maybe unrecoverable, but thankfully, for the moment, didn't seem ruptured.  Logic. Panic kills. Need logic.  Robin tries coaching it into herself, but somehow isn't able to. Just feels the fear gripping the both of them, the adrenaline causing her body to shake and leans into it. Doesn't mean to, doesn't want to, but there's not a lot of positives at the moment.  The flashlight is blindingly powerful in comparison to the previous darkness. Al-An holds it in one hand and tries pressing the ignition with the other, but all that happens is a soft clicking noise when the button is pressed. The engine's aren't online. They've probably been torn clean off.  Logic. Al-An’s good at logic. Al-An can handle it.  "Robin, calm down," Al-An's suddenly saying. Harsh, maybe without meaning to. He sounds stressed. Speaks through gritted teeth. "You're going to cause us both to panic." 

something something i said wounding was my comfort fic, and therefore again I need comfort lmfao - but also Oh my god my hand slippded my hand really slipped why go through grief when i can watch alyou go through it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway - I know you said not to say sorry but sorry i gotta tag you once more @crypticvirago - go read the rest here

[pezhead]

AGE GAP AU MASTER POST

AU where the 2012 boys are all different ages~

OVERVIEW ~ 1ST POST ~ AU TAG ~ ART ONLY TAG ~ ART: NOT MINE

Rise Crossover: QUADRUPLETS ~ SPLINTERS ~

Competition(s) related AU TAG ~

CTIYS: LINEART ~ ENTRIES ~

[steamingstewchunks]

someome tell Lugnut human babies don't hold onto adults like the primates he sees on national geographic.

or that one film he never sits through,,, what is it, tar-van?

hes getting ideas for maximum efficiency, and its not going to end well.

[transformers-spike]

Listen, as a Megatron and Breakdown lover, I hate that Dreadwing is in 4th place of having a big spike. Mans is MASSIVE. I am a Megatron small spike truther and Breakdown is p big not overtly big.

I am a believer in nonhuman anatomy for Cybertronian spike and valve builds. Dreadwing def is girthier than most and would have a knot. Additionally, he'd have lil bumps on the head. Sorry, I just love Dreadwing and he needs a defender like I.

going feral over this message I love designing weird spikes/valves for Cybertronians (each unique to every bot) - so I'm losing it over the spike to spike communication this message invokes. Dreadwing deserves all the love in the world and thank you for agreeing that he'd have a knot and a big spike. The honor is stored in the dick

[foibles-fables]

sometimes I think about this jump cut and it makes me wanna eat my hands

[frances-kafka]

I'm actually beginning to see the pushing of women out of the computer field in the 80s as actually downstream of very few of the things you think caused it

What is showing up for me is that it's inseparable from the general de-industrialization of the US and the scaling back of the MIC in a lot of surprising ways Basically, I'm working with the idea that women actually got pushed out downstream of that; this is a mass displacement event of men, and those men had to go *somewhere*

90s Office Job Gothic as a trope really nails this for me because what moderns don't understand is that midcentury saw that work as actively emasculating, or even women's work. Office Job Gothic shows up so heavily in the culture right at the point where PCs are taking over a lot of tasks and the typing pool has disappeared.

Moderns don't understand that computers weren't the aspirational job for normal men (no, that was SALES! You have no idea!) in the midcentury, let alone even for the first half half of the 80s (and still not very cool until later), nor do they understand the degree to which non-elite women basically got displaced out of office work as it rebranded, nor the degree to which women office workers ended up totally displaced unless they ~Learned To Code~ (which worked for some of them up until the dot bomb, it worked for me) or competed in narrowing and more specialized ranges of office work

[grimark]

feeling the overwhelming urge to write a deeply self-indulgent doctor who/star trek crossover fic right now, because you know who else would fall so fucking hard for the master's goofy little spy schtick? julian bashir, that's who.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Salt Houses

historical fiction

follows 4 generations of a Palestinian family from Nablus between 1967 and 2014

uprooted and grieving after the Six Day War, they start to build a life in Kuwait, until they’re once again displaced in 1990 and scatter to Paris, Beruit, Amman, and Boston

different chapters from almost every family member’s perspective, skipping years in between

explores complex family dynamics, grief, and loss of home and identity through displacement

[ichooseyoupikajew]

Re: the last post I reblogged -

I can't help but cynically wonder if some of the intense antisemitism that has come from the LGBTQ+ community over the past few years or so comes down to resentment.

I've seen multiple people on Twitter/X insist that Jews are "white people who want to be oppressed so bad" and are "constantly playing the victim" - and I can't help but wonder if a great deal of the white LGBTQ+ community has internalized that kind of hatred about themselves and project their anxiety onto Jews.

To Jews, a Jew is a Jew. But I've seen multiple queer people express anxiety over their fear of "not being queer enough" or "not doing enough for the queer community" which sounds...exhausting. On Tumblr alone, there's so much bickering and gatekeeping on who gets to 'count' as a member of the LGBTQ+, who gets to identify as what, what spaces you can and can't walk into. Sometimes it feels like a new version of Catholicism.

White guilt often leads to anger and resentment. On the right, this resentment is amplified and, instead of unpacking their privilege and addressing the past, they use their identity as a shield and project onto Jews as being the cause of their woes ("Jews will not replace us"). After 10/7, I see that a similar feeling exists amongst the left as well.

[noknowshame]

black sails ending possibility #72: whether or not silver successfully 'unmakes' flint doesnt matter because it turns out that after spending a decade in asylums and prison camps thomas has also gotten radicalized as fuck and immediately reverses all of silver's efforts

[backfliips]

Thinking about how when I was in middle school I thought I was the most original person in the world for coming up with the idea of cave elves in some intense political fantasy story I was writing only to find out that I did not in fact come up with the concept of cave elves and the high political drama of elves bring displaced and crammed into cities and discriminated against was literally exactly the setup of dragon age origins

[notyonatto]

If you saw my earlier vent mental health spiral.

No you did not!!!!

[likealittleheartbeat]

"Scholars often dismiss physique references to ancient Greece as a mere ruse or rhetorical framework--a "classical alibi" or "discourse of validation"--to avoid censorship. But an examination of the lives of the founders, contributors, and members of the [physique studio and pictorial] Grecian Guild [1955-1968] tells a different story. The Grecian Guild was instrumental in helping a community of men struggling to find a discourse to explain and valorize their sense of themselves, particularly men outside of urban gay enclaves. Benson and Bullock [the founders of the Grecian Guild] took a discourse about ancient Greece that gay men had been using for nearly a hundred years and gave it mass distribution. They used it like gay men used reference to "the Greeks" or Mary Renault novels--as a way to signal their homosexuality. It was a rallying cry that brought in customers and helped them imagine a better world. As historian and biographer Benjamin Wise argues about the way Alexander Percy used the language of Hellenism, it was "a way of speaking out and covering up at the same time."

Invoking classical traditions in order to make an argument for gay rights has been largely forgotten in the twenty-first century, as such a line of argumentation has become politically and historiographically problematic. Indeed, much of modern LGBT historical scholarship and queer theory has asserted that a homosexual identity is a creation of a modern, capitalist world--that homosexual behavior in ancient cultures was understood in very different terms from the way it is today. Invoking classical antiquity also smacks of a Western bias that privileges European ancestry over other cultural and historical influences. Such arguments also raise the specter of pederasty and pedophilia--or at least age-discordant relationships--that play into the hands of gay rights opponents who relentlessly use the argument that gays recruit children to fight gay rights measures...

Despite these changes in cultural understandings and sensibilities, the use of the classical Greek trope to name gay organizations, periodicals, and commercial ventures continued for decades, even when the need for an alibi had eroded if not disappeared. The lambda or lowercase Greek "L" became one of the primary symbols of the 1970s gay liberation movement. During this same period Seattle's largest gay organization was the Dorian Group, and a Jacksonville, Florida-based gay magazine called itself David--a reference to Michelangelo's Renaissance statue--an indirect link to the classical tradition. Like the Grecian Guild, David offered membership in a fraternal organization with features such as a book club, a travel service, conventions, and even legal aid. As an online website, it continues to serve as one of Atlanta's premier LGBT news and entertainment sources.

...

While severely limited by the forces of censorship, the desire to create opportunities for customers to correspond, meet, and get acquainted attests to the palpable wish of gay men to connect with each other during this period. If few members attended a Grecian Guild convention, the possibility of doing so resonated widely. As a teenage Grecian Guild subscriber in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Michael Denneny read the articles so carefully that he underlined the important parts. "That was proto-political organization, the agenda was very clear to me, and I think to everybody else who joined," Denneny remembered..."These magazines were really important to me," Denneny recalled. "They brought this whole possible world into being, which I'm not sure I could have visualized otherwise."

David K. Johnson, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement