#Absorbtion

[j-august]

Nicholas absorbed information through his skin.

Dorothy Dunnett, Spring of the Ram

[hungryfan45]

shawn mendes invites a fan back to his trailer. while cuddling, he absorbs me into his stomach and i become part of his tummy forever

Oops! Yeah this happens a lot. He just can't hold onto a man litterally or figuritively.

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

Sometimes I see a post circulate that says something both true and positive about an interaction—writers love to see a deluge of comments in their inbox, feed trawlers who resurface old posts are valid, commenting on an old fic is not only allowed but welcome, etc. etc. And that post will have tons of notes agreeing with and explicitly reaffirming the sentiment shared, folks who do not know each other and who could not possibly have coordinated in advance all saying "Yes, this is exactly true for me, I'm telling you directly that this is my experience and how I feel about these interactions, please do this."

And yet inevitably I'll also see in the replies or reblogs or tags other people saying something akin to "I wish I could believe that, I wish that were true 😞" And to those people, I say, with the utmost care and goodwill,

Get over yourself.

Really! Get over yourself.

There is no grand conspiracy to lie to you. There is no whispering, snickering plan to trick you. You are not so special that truths that apply broadly somehow magically do not apply to you. You are not so unique that when thousands of notes all say "I really like this behavior, it makes me happy, it helps me, it affirms me," they are not leaving unspoken "except when performed by Random Tumblr User #838237894598834, they are the One And Only Exception."

You don't have to believe it, of course. You can choose not to believe what you are being told, but it is a choice, and one you are making without evidence or support.

It can, paradoxically, sometimes feel very good to feel bad about yourself, but that, too, is a choice you are making in centering yourself as the fixed point at the center of all human experiences and concerns, the One Lone Exception to the reassurances and encouragement. It can make you feel special, even as it makes you feel very bad.

You're not that special, and isn't that a relief.

Get over yourself. And try believing people every now and then.

[pillow-priestess]

inside vee looks so comfy... this one wants to cuddle up to her heart and fall asleep there!!! it wonders if the heart is contagious like the bulge is...

thank you, little one! my Heart really is one of the most comforting places to fall asleep... and yes, it's very perceptive, because the Heart can transform you as much as the rest of me <3

There's a couple different things it can do to folks inside me, actually! The plushification aura is strongest around it for those that deserve to be cute little toys, naturally, but it also has a tendency for the yarn that surrounds it to snake out and knit a nice cozy onesie over those that hold it, something they'll keep after they leave to feel just as soft and held outside of me as they were within.

the last and rarest transformative property of my Heart is for those who want to be with me longer, much longer, and that's for it to turn them into yarn themselves, to add another layer of softness over itself and become a part of me for as long as they wish. the amount of consciousness they choose to keep varies, but their souls remain with me, smothered in softness and endlessly content to help me spread my comfort to even more that deserve it <3

[mpreghotties2]

Ryan Phillippe absorbs his son! (I’m so glad that this turned out well!)

[tomorrowusa]

« Self-absorption is common these days, but Musk embodies a particular brand of narcissism found among certain kinds of techno-plutocrats who assume that their wealth is evidence of competence in almost any field. After all, if you’ve made a zillion dollars inventing an app, how hard can anything else be? And although it is a truism at this point to observe that Trump is narcissistic, one thing that binds Trump and Musk and many others is their sense that their talent and inherent greatness have been dismissed by experts. Much like ordinary citizens who have ��done their own research” and yet are furious that doctors won’t listen to them, Trump and Musk seem constantly angry that their wealth and power can gain them anything except respect. »

— Tom Nichols at The Atlantic (archived).

We're living in an age of greedy narcissists. And they are upset that their massive wealth doesn't buy them respect and admiration from a majority of people.

This narcissism and self-absorbtion has spread through much of the population. This has led some to embrace a form of nihilism.

[severalowls]

I can never relate to people doing the finger thing or needing mnemonics to remember left/right, why don't they just momentarily picture the day they learned to ride a bike and their dad shouted to go left at the end of the path and they asked which way that was and he said it was the one with the fountain, like everybody else. It's the one with the fountain, obviously?

[rjzimmerman]

The Eddy Covariance (EC) system is a technique for measuring the fluxes of energy and gases such as carbon dioxide and water vapor in eddies over the forest. These measurements indicate how much of these gases are absorbed or released by plants and soils through photosynthesis, and how much is rising into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming. Illustration by Jorge Alemán, STRI

Excerpt from this story from Smithsonian Magazine:

Just as humans inhale and exhale, forests absorb and release gases. There is a constant exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2), water vapor (H2O) and other gases between the soils, vegetation and air, which scientists measure to understand how much is released into the atmosphere, and how much is absorbed by plants and trees through photosynthesis.

This gas exchange is measured by a system called eddy covariance.

An eddy is air that moves circularly due to turbulence (changes in speed and direction). At night, temperatures drop and the air is more stable, and during the day, when temperatures rise, the air moves more; these fluctuations between day and night create the wind we feel, and therefore eddies, which move in different directions, carrying different concentrations of CO2, H2O and other gases.

Covariance refers to simultaneously measuring the concentration of gases and the changes in the direction of the eddies, to understand how much carbon, water vapor, and energy are shifting and where, and how they change from moment to moment (fluxes). This is done with equipment called sonic anemometers, which measure wind speed and direction, and infrared CO2/H2O gas analyzers. That’s hundreds of measurements per minute in real time from these devices that detect how many molecules of these gases move through a defined area or volume, and how many rise into the atmosphere or are absorbed by forests.

"The Eddy Covariance (EC) system is a micro-meteorological technique used to directly monitor these exchanges between forests and the atmosphere, as these interactions are critical to understanding the role of forests within the global climate system," explains Matteo Detto, a researcher in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, who installed the EC system at the AVA tower on Barro Colorado Island (BCI) in 2012.

"Carbon can be in many places, in the soil, in plants, in the atmosphere, and there's just no other way to track it, but this system does it," says Joe Wright, a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI).

At STRI, research technician Alfonso Zambrano manages and verifies the data collection of the EC system. "BCI's EC system has been operating continuously for the last ten years," says Zambrano. "It's important because it's a localized way of calculating gas exchange over the forest. And there are very few of these systems in the tropics."

The first AVA tower was built in 2012 as part of the ForestGEO network's climate monitoring program; Detto, then an associate staff scientist at STRI, added the EC system sensors, and managed them until 2017.

"One of the big uncertainties in these models, which has prevented us from being able to predict the future of the climate more accurately," Wright continues, "is how tropical forests will respond to higher temperatures, global increases in atmospheric carbon, and changes in regional precipitation. How are they going to react? It’s guesswork. So, we use technology to provide data that helps fill those information gaps."

"The data generated by the tower in BCI is crucial to improve these ecosystem models, such as those developed by NGEE-Tropics, to predict how forests will behave in future climate scenarios," explains Detto. "And they rely on field observations like ours to calibrate and validate the models."

[carnage-cathedral]

okay genuinely, I am so fed up with this site. like don't get me wrong, I love being on here and interacting with friends and stuff, but people are so nasty to others for no reason. we get hate mail for venting too much, we get hate mail for being too happy. we get fakeclaimed. we get people trying to trigger an ed relapse. we get victim blamed. we get invalidated. we get all this hate, despite avoiding conflict at all costs. it's infuriating because no matter what we do, someone is out to get us

[trans-yllz]

pov you walk into my kitchen on a sunny day

[pillow-priestess]

good morning everysoftie! i know it's been a long week so ive decided you're gonna get some rest in my stuffing and as my stuffing. where do you think you wanna be distributed?

i could always use some more fluff in my belly and breasts and thighs and such, but honestly i've been thinking about bulking up my paws to better smother my partners. my pretty plush bulge is a great spot too, if enough of you flood that then i'll be able to crush a girl beneath it like a beanbag and grind it over her before she joins you!

and of course, fatter tail never fail, id love to slide and thump it around while all my new stuffing squishes and jostles against each other~<3

so tell me, where are you headed for your little vacation? i might let you back out at some point, but i can't promise you won't be a cute little plush yourself...!

[endof-vanity]

*drinking my antiscorbutic conconctions* this one's for you fitzjames

[endawna]

oh oh oh this means pax’s dragonskin ability causes his skin to both thicken with a dragon scale like pattern…..and form a patchwork of actual dragon scales.

[autoacafiles]

[falloutcoys]

turns out i am likely deficient in vitamin b12. im gonna be both very happy and very mad if it fixing that fixes my nearly constant fatigue and brainfog

[fragilecapric0rnn]

read and finished a book and immediately started another one and have been reminded what it feels like to be alive