#SciAm

[flimsy-spine]

shocking: new parents realize just how difficult parenting is 😱😱

[fanfrelon]

Alpha & Beta

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

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At this point, Pseudo-Scientific American is basically as reliable as The National Enquirer.

This is what ideological takeover looks like.

[teenwolfpackincorrectcaptions]

Scott: Okay, who's missing?

Liam: Theo and Stiles

Scott: Where's Theo?

Liam: In prison, apparently he committed 138 counts of conspiracy to murder, 312 counts of extortion, and 625 counts of assorted fraud, among other crimes

Scott:...and Stiles?

Liam: oh, he’s at home, he didn't want to come

(source)

[ruthless-rainbow]

Happy Halloween, y'all! 🎃👻🐈‍⬛🦇

I happily present this year's Halloween art. For @wolfboy88 's smokin' hot fic 'Dancing With Devils'. 😋🥵

Summary for the fic:

Liam loses a bet with Mason and has to wear what his best friend chooses to the halloween party on campus. The frat house where his two crushes happen to be a part of and not to mention his brother. Or really Mason is the best wingman ever and Liam finally gets his men.

LINK for fic; https://archiveofourown.org/works/42892503/chapters/107757270

Him putting Liam in a slutty angel costume AND having his nipples pierced. 😍🥵 I just couldn't help myself. And of course, I couldn't just draw the pretty little angel, he needed his naughty Devils to play with. 🥺

✌️💜🌈

[liamdunbarappreciation]

We want to say a huge and heartfelt Thank You to everyone who participated in Liam Dunbar Appreciation Week 2023! We received over 30 entries and couldn’t be happier to share them all with you here. All the creations were excellent and we were especially delighted by the volume of art made for this event. See more entries under the cut!

If we’ve missed a post, please send a message and we’ll add it.

Thank you for joining us in celebrating our favorite beta werewolf, and we look forward to hosting more events in the future!

Day I: The Sun, the Moon, the Truth / Emotions

A Little Less Lonely - fic by @wolfboy88

you’re frightened of your nature - edit by @metagalacticx

There’s So Much More to you - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

Not Psychotic - fic by @neoghoulukaku

Day II: I'm Just That Good / Relationships

A Hero can be Anyone - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

Play Me Something - fic by @wolfboy88

so i sat there - edit by @metagalacticx

Day III: I Fell in a Hole / Colors

Red - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

Yellow - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

Accidentally Yours - fic by @wolfboy88

white - moodboard by @metagalacticx

Day IV: I Can Be the Alpha... / Poetry/Lyrics

Let Me Get What I Want - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

Haven’t Had a Dream in a Long Time - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

Day V: Dealer's Choice / Alternative Universe

Language of Flowers: Gladiolus - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

a - edit by @metagalacticx

I’m Not Gonna Help You - art by @allyjostan

Head to Head with the Beast - art by @ruthless-rainbow

lil liam doodle - art by @allyjostan

Liam vs the Ghost Riders - art by @ruthless-rainbow

Liam Takes on the Hellhound - art by @ruthless-rainbow

Quagmire - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

Being Clark Kent - art by @ruthless-rainbow

a2 - edit by @metagalacticx

Liam + Lacrosse - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

a handful of onyx - art by @metagalacticx

The First Beta - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

Day VI: I'm His Flight Attendant / Fight

Friendship and Forgiveness - fic by @wolfboy88

You know, I Always Hated Mirrors - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

Liam Dunbar - art by @sceptemver

Day VII: What? I Like History... / Fav Lines

I Know Who We Are - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

Alt: Hands, Pre-Series, Foils and Mirrors

Hands + Poetry - edit by @seemebaremyteethforyou

hands - edit by @metagalacticx

AO3 Collection

[giantworshipper]

Happy holidays @teenwolfholidayfest !

I’m looking for anybody interested in writing any macrophilia fics for Teen Wolf

I’d love any featuring a giant Theo, Scott, or Liam with one of the other two shrunken.

And I love anything to do with feet, farts, or armpits

1.) Liam shrinks unexpectedly on a chair. Theo can hear him cause of his wolf hearing, but pretends not to and sits on him

2.) Scott punishes a shrunken Theo for his betrayal of the pack by sticking him in his gym shoes

3.) Liam takes care of a shrunken Scott, but Scott finds himself drawn to the scent of Liam's pits

Those would be some of my favorite scenarios, but switching any of those characters around, or anything macrophilia in general with them I would love

[wolfboy88]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Isaac Lahey/Scott McCall/Theo Raeken/Liam Dunbar Characters: Liam Dunbar, Theo Raeken, Isaac Lahey, Scott McCall (Teen Wolf) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Human, One Shot, Polyamory, Getting Together, Fluff Summary:

Liam returns to his dorm to find the permutations of their relationships have evolved into something new.

@thiamsxbitch  @chasing-chimeras  @equallyloyalandlethal 

The follow up is here... 

[scribeoffate]

10 for liam/mason ?

Thank you for the prompt! Edited to scott/liam/mason with the prompter's blessing 10. “This is going badly, isn’t it?” "This is going badly, isn't it?" Liam says, looking between Scott and Mason. His hair is plastered to his heart, and rain drips down his chin.

It's hard not to think that he looks like a drowned puppy.

Scott figures from Mason's face that he doesn't look much better.

"What gives you that idea?" Scott asks. Technically they've made it to the motorcycle show. "It's just a little rain."

A gust of wind sends Mason stumbling into Liam just to prove Scott's point. Most of the people showing their bikes are hurrying to store them and find shelter. "We need to get to shelter," Mason shouts. Scott nods and grabs Liam's hand, Liam grabs Mason's, and they find their way to the basement of the store hosting the event, along with a crush of humans. The wind has picked up, and between that, the murmur of the crowd and the tornado sirens blaring, it takes Scott a second to scale his hearing down. He looks immediately at Liam after he's gotten himself under control.

Mason has an arm wrapped around his shoulder and is holding his hand with his other arm in their laps. Liam's eyes are glazed over, but not yellow. Scott breathes. Situates himself to sit on Liam's other side.

"You okay?" Scott asks.

Liam nods. "Yeah. Sorry."

"For what?" Mason answers.

"I just wanted to... I thought it would be fun to come here." "Hey, Scott," Mason says, "did you know Liam was psychic? Can totally tell when tornadoes are gonna happen. That's so cool." Scott can't help but smile at how earnest Mason makes it sound. Liam laughs, too.

"We'll see the bikes," Scott assures him, taking his other hand and running his thumb along Liam's wrist. "But this is kinda nice, too, right?"

Request a Ficlet

[flimsy-spine]

you put two gay bitches in a room together and they don't shut up about their boyfriends

[fanfrelon]

Tyler Posey & Dylan Sprayberry

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Jerry Coyne

Published: Jan 7, 2024

Oops! Scientific American did it again, this time with an op-ed that could have been ripped from the pages of The Onion.  As is so common these days, the piece proposes that we change the language of science (astronomy in this case), since some of its terms are bad in four ways:

a.  They are violent, sexist, and triggering b. They are not “beautiful and elegant” like astronomy is, but grating; and they are “not kind” c.  They are non-inclusive, presumably helping keep minorities out of astronomy. d. They are untruthful and distort astronomy

In my view, none of these claims holds up, for the article is all Pecksniffian assertion with not a shred of evidence. Author Juan Madrid assumes the role of a bomb-sniffing dog, snuffling the field of astronomy for linguistic mines.

Click the headline below to read and weep, or find the piece archived here.  The author is identified this way (my link):

Juan P. Madrid is an assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

The piece begins by describing a collision that will take place, 4 to 7 billion years hence, between the Milky Way and its closest galaxy, Andromeda.  Immediately the word “collision” is seen as triggering. One of Madrid’s students described the future collision instead as “a giant galactic hug.” But the person who sent me this link added this comment:

My wife says that if Andromeda doesn’t want the Milky Way to hug her then it’s interstellar sexual assault.

Indeed! But Madrid hastens to instruct us why using “collision” is not only grating, but misleading:

The kindness, but also the accuracy, of the language my student used was in sharp contrast to the standard description we use in astronomy to explain the final destiny of Andromeda and the Milky Way: “a collision.” But as astronomers have predicted, when Andromeda and the Milky Way finally meet, their stars will entwine and create a larger cosmic structure, a process that is more creating than destroying, which is what we envision when we use the term collision. A galactic hug is scientifically truthful, and it’s led me to believe that astronomers should reconsider the language we use.

First of all “collision” doesn’t mean “destroying”, but simply two objects hitting each other. In this case, two galaxies “collide”, but their stars are spread so far apart that they’ll simply merge into one big galaxy and star will not hit star.  You could say “merge” instead of “collide”, but that also implies that perhaps the stars will absorb each other.  If you want to convey the idea that “nothing gets banged up,” then, Madrid suggests using “galactic hug”. He actually wants astronomers, their classes, and their textbooks, to adopt this new, kind, and romantic term. (There are, of course, more salacious terms that could be used.)  But they won’t be because they sound dumb, and in fact “galactic hug” is just as inaccurate as the other terms, for “hug” implies that there is some mutual enfolding, when in fact, the entities merge and do not remain separate, as humans do when they have a (temporary) hug.  When Fred and Sue hug each other, they don’t merge into one person. . .

And so Madrid, combing the literature for other terms that are jarring and, he says, misleading, finds more, as of course he would. (You can do this in any field of biology, chemistry. or physics; all you need is a sufficiently diligent Pecksniff). I’ve singled out Madrid’s instances of bad language below by adding my own links, and putting those words in bold.

For instance, in galaxy evolution we invoke imagery strikingly similar to what you would expect if you were eavesdropping on Hannibal Lecter: words like cannibalism, harassment [JAC: no instance found],  starvation, strangulation, stripping or suffocation. There is a rather long list of foul analogies that have entered, and are now entrenched, in the lexicon of professional astronomy. We have grown accustomed to this violent language and as a community, we seldom question or reflect on its use. Strangulation is a particularly cringeworthy term in astronomy, referring to the decline of the number of stars born in some types of galaxies. This is a vicious crime where most often the victim is a woman; the perpetrator, a man. Yet, we use this word mindlessly to describe a slow astronomical process that takes millions of years. Under certain conditions, some galaxies use up or lose the gas that is the primordial ingredient to form stars. When that happens, galaxies make new stars at a lower rate. But these galaxies do not die or suffer great harm. They will continue to shine and will live their natural evolution. This is but one of many examples of violent language in our field that actually describes something gradual, slow and perhaps even gentle.

Madrid was savvy enough to impute misogyny to one of these terms: “strangulation”, giving some woke heft to his thesis. But if you look at how the terms are used, only someone who wants to be offended would be.  Moreover, they are not inaccurate. “Starvation“, for example, refers to something that cuts off the flow of gas that galaxies need for new star formation. I don’t find it inaccurate at all. In fact, none of these terms are inaccurate—what Madrid really objects to is that they are “triggering” and “unwelcoming”. He tries to sell his campaign to deep-six these terms as being “untruthful”, because he doesn’t want to look like an ideologue, but I’m not buying it. Also he allows “explosion” for the creation of a supernova, in most cases he finds this language “needlessly vicious and [promoting] inaccurate connotations.”

In short, Madrid finds this language triggering, for that’s the only explanation for why we should avoid this kind of “vicious” language.  And, as he says below,

The use of hypercharged words in our field ignores the fact that this violent imagery can trigger distress in colleagues who might have been victims of violence.

But there are two points to be made here. First, as I noted in a recent post, giving the relevant studies, “Trigger warnings don’t work” and can even cause more trauma. There is no evidence that using this sort of language somehow harms the students. In fact, the remedy for those who are traumatized by certain words is not to avoid exposure to them, but to learn to not be upset when you are exposed. There is therapy for this.

Second, as is so often the case in these screeds, Madrid gives no examples of how the “bad language” upsets people. He should be able to produce at least a dozen cases on the spot, like “Jane got upset and left the class when she heard the word ‘strangulation'”, or “Bob reported Professor Basement Cat to the university for using the term  ‘cannibalism’ on the astronomy exam, which, he said, made him think of the Donner Party and prevented him from completing the exam.”  In nearly all of these language-policing articles, there is a surfeit of outrage and a dearth of examples or evidence of harm.

But Madrid circumvents the lack of evidence and simply suggests ways that we can censor this language, again pretending he’s interested mainly in scientific truth:

To shift toward more welcoming and truthful language in astronomy, scientific journals can push to change the currently accepted language. The referee, or the scientific editor, can ask the authors to consider more appropriate descriptions of the physical processes involved. Referees, editors and editorial boards can step up to enforce scientific accuracy and stop the use of violent, misogynistic language that is now pervasive. This is a call for scientific precision. The use of hypercharged words in our field ignores the fact that this violent imagery can trigger distress in colleagues who might have been victims of violence.

“Can”, “could have”, “might have”. Where are the examples of this? The sweating professor gives none. And isn’t it amazing that the more accurate language is always the kinder language?

And, as expected, Madrid manages to drag race, inclusion, and diversity into his discussion, even though none of the terms above have anything to do with race. And this belies his faux concern mainly for scientific accuracy:

As astronomers, we must strive to create a more inclusive and diverse community that reflects the composition of our society. Valuable efforts to provide opportunities for women and minorities to succeed in astronomy have been created. However, by many metrics, the progress made towards gender equality and true diversity has been painfully slow. We must listen to the new generation of astronomers. My student showed me that while some astronomical processes can be intense, the universe revealed through astronomy provides us with the most fascinating sights known to humankind. Like many other young scientists, she thinks that when we explain astronomical phenomena with wording and phrases that share our excitement and appreciation, it also encourages others to join in and wonder what else we can discover together. The universe is beautiful, elegant and ever-changing. Astronomy would be wise to follow its lead.

And so, in the end, we see that this kind of misguided effort, concentrating on words rather than science itself, is part of the corruption that has entered science via DEI and its ideology.  What we have is one more attempt to control thought by controlling language.

There is no evidence that minorities and women are being kept out of astronomy because they don’t find its language “inclusive,”, though that’s really the thesis of Madrid’s piece.  But the very idea that this thesis is true is laughable. Promoting the idea that galaxies hug each other is not going to bring people pouring into astronomy.

Once again Scientific American, trying to ride the woke bandwagon, has fallen off the train. Blame not only the author, but the editor, who actually approved this nonsense.

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These people are fucking lunatics.

[teenwolfpackincorrectcaptions]

Scott: Theo doesn’t look very happy. Liam : That's their happy. They're just a bitch.

[msginnymalfoy]

DYLAN SPRAYBERRY REPLYING TO TYLER POSEY'S NASTY ASSHOLE CYBERBULLY .....SO TRUE KING 👑

Tyler and his friends are 100 times better person than me cuz they say "hope you heal" to that asshole. but i would just curse that little shit and make my fans drag him to HELL. 😈

[liamdunbarappreciation]

Welcome to Liam Dunbar Appreciation Week!

This is a Teen Wolf fandom event running January 9-15, 2023! Fan works of all kinds, including fics, gifs, playlists, art, edits etc. are welcome!

To participate, create and post Liam-centric content and use the tag #LiamDunbarWeek2023 and/or tag us @liamdunbarappreciation. We’ve included some suggested prompts below, but feel free to share whatever Liam-centric content you are inspired to make for this event. Written works may be added to the event's AO3 collection. We look forward to celebrating our favorite beta werewolf with you!

Written Prompts

Day I: The Sun, the Moon, the Truth - The struggle to stay in control is a cornerstone of Liam’s character throughout the series. This prompt wants you to delve into Liam’s rage, emotional state, and the implications of his diagnosis.

Day II: I’m Just That Good - Star lacrosse player, history aficionado, video game enthusiast. What else do you think Liam is just that good at? What hobbies didn’t we get to see?

Day III: I Fell in a Hole - An iconic line that illustrates Liam’s whimsical side, this prompt is meant to celebrate the brighter parts of Liam’s character! What other shenanigans do you think he got up to?

Day IV: I Can Be the Alpha…? - Liam shows great promise in his development as a werewolf, friend and leader. Use this prompt to explore his personal identity: who he is, and who he wants to become.

Day V: Alternative Universe - Spy AU, Dance AU, Street Racing AU, Historical AU — go wild and write about any alternative universe you can think of for Liam Dunbar. Today’s prompt is all about the what-ifs for Liam!

Day VI: I’m His Flight Attendant - When it comes to his relationships with all characters, whether platonic, romantic or general in nature, there’s so much to explore! Canon and non-canon ships are all welcome!

Day VII: What? I like History… - At the end of the series we see Liam retreat into the night with the rest of the pack. Today is all about what Liam’s life post-canon might look like — that could mean a day after the finale or even 15 years ahead.

Alternates

I: Hands - Fists, claws, holding a guy’s hand: a prompt for one of Liam’s motifs.

II: Pre-series - Prep-school, family life, growing up: explore Liam’s life before the events of the show.

III: Foils and Mirrors - Foil to some, mirror to others: dive into how Liam’s character contrasts or parallels others in Teen Wolf — whether friends, enemies or even people he never got a chance to meet.

Visual Prompts

Day I: Emotions

Day II: Relationships

Day III: Colors

Day IV: Poetry/Lyrics

Day V: Dealer’s Choice

Day VI: Fight

Day VII: Fav Lines

For more details on prompts click here, and check out the event's submission guidelines here.

[scottappreciation]

Scottuary2 Week 2 Round-Up!

every week of february, we’ll post a masterlist of all the fics posted for that week. the bingo card represents all the fics posted within that time period, with each new line in a square representing a fic. in this square, for example, “Death” has two lines, representing two fics.

FEB. 8-14, 2023

'till we have faces, by @lexluthorswigcap (Holidays)

body check, by @scribeoffate (Werewolf Abilities, Lacrosse)

sacrifice, by @scribeoffate (Canon Emissaries, Significant Objects)

the meaning of life, by @scribeoffate (Death, Memory)

memento, by @scribeoffate (Scott + His Parents, Roxie)

collateral damage, by @scribeoffate (Monster Inside, Canon Divergence)

Love is Suicide, by @redmoonfever (Death)

Until It Kills You, by @redmoonfever (Depression/Motel California)

The Discussion of Inevitability, by @redmoonfever (Canon Emissaries)

You Let Me Fall, by @redmoonfever​ (Scott + Anger)

All My Dreams (Never Quite What It Seems), by @redmoonfever​ (Dreams)

Valentines Day, by @redmoonfever​ (Holiday)

Monster Inside, by @redmoonfever​ (Monster Inside)

Anatomy of Healing Aching Scars, by @letthestorieslive (Scars)

Bonds, by @wolfboy88 (Holidays, Canon Divergence)

Three's A Charm, by @wolfboy88 (Rare Pairs, E)

Fuerza de carácter, by @silent-snake7 (Scott + Canon Emissaries, Roxie)

in case it hasn't gone, by @daughterofluthien (Memory)

Golgotha, by @princeescaluswords​ (Holiday)

Pink Pen, by @princeescaluswords​ (Significant Objects)

Click here for a blank bingo card + the list of rules, or here for the fanart edition!