#AND FLUID MECHANICS

[amberrash]

i have never been diddled so hard by an exam before in my life.

JASON, MOVE, ITS MY TURN TO GET HIT BY THE CROWBAR.

EVEN DRINKING LIQUID FEAR GAS WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER THAN THAT.

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

Something I think people are sleeping on Hua Cheng and his shapeshifting. I’m re reading and it’s really clear to me that Hua Cheng (who yes has self esteem issues) also does his disguises for fun. Like one of the things we first hear about him in this:

“The name Hua Cheng was very obviously fake, and his appearance was most likely fake too. In the rumors, he was sometimes a twisted boy given to capricious mood changes, sometimes a gentle and mannered handsome young man, sometimes a gorgeous seductress with a venomous heart, anything goes!”

Then later he appears in one of these forms. Like if you read the scenes of Xie Lian checking his disguise he is both giggling and twirling his hair at how smart his Gege is and how good his disguise is. He enjoys looking like a young pretty boy master with boyish charm. He literally changes shape just to play with his clothes. He switches forms I think at least 10 times in the novels possibly more (I’m rereading so I can’t actually remember) but like he has fun with it.

Like yes he does have self esteem issues creating the disguises would definitely be a part of that, but far too often I’ve seen the idea floated around that that’s the only reason he changes forms. Or if he does change forms it’s for self consciousness and for strategic purposes and Xie Lian helps him get over that. Like it seems to me a lot of people think when Hualian get married he never wears one when he’s only around Xie Lian and I just don’t think that’s the case.

Like yeah he does mostly take his true form with Xie Lian but I think that’s mostly because they are getting to know each other and he’s probably tired of masks being between them.

Genuinely he never stops changing forms completely once the reveal of his true form has happened.

Even when he’s forced to be shaped like a child he chooses a full fancy baby outfit and styled hair. He plays with his outfits and hair styles frequently and you’re trying to tell me that man is going to live out most of his married life in just one body type. You think he’s going to completely ignore woman’s clothing because I don’t. A female form is mentioned and I know there’s no way he doesn’t have a thousand outfits for her as well.

And while yes I do love the gender fuckery of it for my own headcannons I can also see him putting on his disguises like drag or to put on a persona to act. I think he just likes playing around and switching shapes because like everything Hua Cheng does he doesn’t go in for half measures. He doesn’t seem like some effort into learning how to shapeshift so perfectly it confuses even XL just because he’s self conscious of his own looks. Like that doesn’t really fit his personality.

Basically what I’m trying to say is my guy is fashionista playing dress up with himself as his own Barbie doll. Let him have fun! Stop making him using his disguises as an obstacle he has to overcome. Not everything has to be that serious.

[chrissy-kaos]

I think this is pretty universal..

But fuck, I hate gear oil 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

That is all.

[columboscreens]

[sainz100]

small throwbacks to Test Week last year since I'm excited for Wednesday | x

[andietries]

Just realised that I can accurately calculate the probability of two Vulcans going into Pon Farr in a Five year mission using my limited knowledge in Statgraphics and statistics

I can even make a tiny graph about it

How many do you think the average starship has? To make the Poisson distribution.

[bananadav]

Little furry beans are melting into the sheets!

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Ultra-Soft Solids Flow By Turning Inside Out

Can a solid flow? What would that even look like? Researchers explored these questions with an ultra-soft gel (think 100,000 times softer than a gummy bear) pumped through a ring-shaped annular pipe.  (Image and research credit: J. Hwang et al.; via APS News) Read the full article

[mouthtapedguy]

Cows have better highway MPG

[a-study-in-survival]

re-entering my adam parrish era (studying 24/7, getting no sleep, looking hot while working on my shitty 14-year old car)

[noosphe-re]

Toroidal flow pattern in the Taylor vortex flow regime. a , velocity field; b , pressure contours (low pressure on the inner wall, r = 8 ). (Climent, Eric & Simonnet, Marie & Magnaudet, Jacques. (2007). Preferential accumulation of bubbles in Couette-Taylor flow patterns. Physics of Fluids. 19. 10.1063/1.2752839.)

[sasquach-scratches]

Thinking about my non-dragonborn Skyrim characters again (cause I'm finishing the last art for Genevieve's bio finally) and with Oblivion In Vogue and them being the descendants of my Champion of Cyrodiil I once again hold to my headcanon that

Imperials and Bretons are virtually the same thing aside from facial features given the years of cultural exchange, similar origins of slavery under Mer, and that Oblivion has an obscene amount of Breton NPCs to the point where they're also inexplicably in largely Imperial families. Also the fact that Oblivion turned Cyrodiil into High Rock Lite

If it weren't for the fact that they have the Sharp Features™ and long ears and also that the men that married into the family were from High Rock, I'd consider Alois and Genevieve Colovians in spite of their ancestry and their dad's attempt to teach them about his home province.

[3-frogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

They can’t show me shirtless Matt with his girlfriend’s hand on his shoulder, literally holding him down (weighting him down or reassuring hand on his shoulder? different interpretations we’ll have to wait and see) and NOT have me wonder if his scars are ever addressed between them. Daredevil, and it seems Daredevil Born Again too, are shows that pay a lot of attention to their visual and the symbolism they hold (ex. Matt looking up at the city in red lighting while Fisk looks down in white lighting). If they wanted to simply show Mat unable to sleep and even include Heather in the shot, they could’ve done a side shot, maybe slightly angled. I’m no cinematographer, but I think it would’ve been easier to shoot. but they CHOSE to show him up front with some of his worst scars in full view, maybe as a reminder to the viewer, but definitely as an indication of what’s on his mind and the past consecuences of the life he’s planning to return to. Heather is a very perceptive therapist, but she’s his girlfriend, not *his* therapist. Does she see the scars for the first time and does she think it’s her place to ask? Does he pull out the same “I’m blind” excuse for his wounds he did so many years ago? Is that why she’s so worried when he comes back late? A lot of those aren’t bruises or impact wounds. They’re quite clearly slash or stab wounds, deep ones at that, and we don’t even see his back (iykyk). Or does she keep quiet? Does it become this unaddressed thing between them? “he’ll come to me when he’s ready”. When If she finds out he is was Daredevil, does she connect the dots? Does she sympathize or is she horrified? Does she have her “oh shit” moment, bc im sure that as she continues the marriage counseling she’ll start to connect SOME dots. How does a 5 second shot do this to me.

[mechanicalinfection]

toy chica design

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Chaotic Hose Instability

Steve Mould is back with another video looking at wild fluid behaviors. This time he's considering hose instabilities like the one that makes a water-carrying hose beyond a certain length to whip wildly back and forth.  (Video and image credit: S. Mould) Read the full article

[eddieintheocean]

trick or treat :v ?

starting off strong with a tr-

TRIIICK

MATHEMATICS IN YOUR STEM DEGREEEEEE