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[skeleton-squid-boy]

I don't understand how we're different from robots.

maybe it's because robots are unfinished. robots have faults. but my mums fuse is broken, it blows too easy. my dads emotional receptors are broken, his father cut the wires. I was coded all wrong, it's all jumbled.

maybe it's because we don't programme robots to fall. when they fall they don't try to stop themselves. maybe that's how we're different. but I fall and fall and fall and I haven't figured out how to stop yet.

maybe it's because they have functions not feelings. don't feelings have functions though?how can my sadness, my anxiety, my every emotion be as wrong as the doctors tell me if it's not because functional peoples feelings have functions?

there's something wrong with their code that means they're not us. there's something wrong with my code that means I'm not you.

I don't understand how we're different from robots.

[losercxre]

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[heepthecheep]

There is very little in the medical/veterinary world that phases me anymore.

But birds are so freaking weird

This is what avian (and by extension, reptile) cells look like. Which is very different from human/mammal cells.

Luckily most of the time, it's just looking at chicken blood samples that farmers get sent to us. But very, very rarely, something called a lash egg is sent in. I cannot even fully describe to you what the hell a lash egg is, only that one first glance it looks like a tumor and would probably be more fitting for histology than a primarily diagnostic lab, but.

But that's because it's not a tumor. It's a lump of chicken pus and discharge that builds up in a chicken's ovaries and is eventually expelled. Therefore, it ends up in our territory because uh WBCs.

I don't know why I'm so bothered by it, because my job is to work with stuff the body produces. Blood, urine, abscess drainage.... I practice proper PPE and procedures. I know I'm being protected from the gross aspects of these things. But the chicken pus sack was a bridge too far, I guess

It's so gross but luckily I've only encountered it once so.... that's good? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[blueskittlesart]

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[ajxrn]

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(reblog >>> like, ty)

[batmanshole]

one thing they dont tell you about being a visibly disabled woman is the amount of men who will say things about you not being able to run away / fight back. i hope everyone dies RIGHT NOW.

[pegging-satan]

That scene from brokeback mountain but with basically all the bsd ships >>>

YOU KNOW THE ONE

[richardxoliverxmayhew]

For the touching meme: 37 + 9 + 14 + 35

Touching: ACCEPTING

II @vxctorx

37. putting their head on the other’s chest 9. listening to the other’s heartbeat 14. putting an arm around the other’s waist 35. kissing their bruises and scars

“How many times do I have to tell ye’, Vic? I’m fine. The bruises aren’t too bad. Seriously. Now let me go before ye’ cut the blood circulation off on my legs.” However, it seems that the Scotsman’s string of excuses and feigned, casual shrugs got him no where, as Vic remained stubbornly atop of him; his long arms wrapped around his waist, the gravity of the young lord’s head nestled too comfortably against Richard’s broad chest, whilst the rest of his body continued to lazily pin the shorter copper underneath him. “This is unfair, y’know? Usin’ yer’ oddly tall heigh’ to pin me to the sofa like this should be illegal. In fact, the next time ye’ do this, I’m gonna arrest ye’ for entrapment,” teased Richard.

Nothing, it appeared, was going to deter the young and stubborn lord from going about giving the copper a check-up from the prior night’s rather eventful case. In fact, Vic’s ‘check-ups’ were becoming something of routine, what with Richard’s seemingly, ever-growing collection of battered bruises and wounds. “I dunno’ if ye’ know this, Vic, but I don’t think tha’s how actual, professional doctors listen to people’s hearts,” smirked the Scotsman, as he felt the familiar weight of Victor’s head augment his chest. Richard wondered if the other could actually hear the clash of his heart, as it pounded frantically against the cage of his ribs, as if squirming against the addictive taste of intimacy.  “So. Righ’ then, doc. Wha’s the diagnosis?” inquired the copper, finally deciding to humour Victor; not that Richard minded at all, really. “Wha’ can possibly cure my ailments? Hm?” Finally, Richard’s teasing smirks and sarcastic wit was drowned out when he felt Vic take his calloused hand before letting his soft lips brush up against Richard’s battered knuckles. Suddenly, Vic’s face-- those princely features, and that golden smile-- were merely inches away from Richard’s own flushed features. He schooled his blue gaze away in an attempt to distract how now dizzied mind from the influx of flopping emotions felt in his gut, but not even the view of the nearby window could deflect the feeling of Victor’s lips trail against the blue-and-purple blossom scorched against the copper’s temple.-- How? How was it that Victor always managed to pull the rug from under Richard’s feet and plummet his entire world upside down with a mere curl of his lips and the deepened hum of his voice How? How? How?

“Oh... Erm... Tha’s an old one. A bullet grazed it durin’ one of my first cases. I was just a rookie then,” rasped the Scotsman, barely managing to find the words. His throat felt tight, and his tongue leaded as he felt the tip now of Vic’s finger lightly trace the hilled contour of the aged scar that clawed against the upper portion of his left chest. Even the young lord’s touch was enough to send the hairs upon the back of his neck standing. Then, Victor’s lips traced upon the old wound. Richard’s mind had gone completely blank. Words finally failed him. “I-... Umm... Tha’-.... Tha’ should do it. Maybe yer’ a be’er doctor than I though’ ye’ to be,” he remarked, letting out a breathless chuckle.

[arrancxr]

What are the espadas thoughts about their living spaces in las noches (or even las noches in general) ? Do you have any headcanons about like... their sleeping arrangements, how they each got their quarters? I feel like they fought for the "best" spots.

In one of your loly analysis, you touched a bit on how this would be hell for hollows to be packed in such a place... and it bought me back to a scene in the manga where we realize that the hollows are actually super heavily monitored too (the cameras 😭🔪).

My general headcanon is that Las Noches kind of sucks for Hollows, just, in general. It's sterile, too clean, and endlessly white, and smells somehow never stick how they should— so everyone constantly feels like they're in one big, overlapping territory where boundaries are crossed left and right. This is not good for anyone's tension levels, and especially not the weaker Arrancar, who now have to live with basically pissing off stronger Hollows on a regular basis.

Their sleeping arrangments are a shallow imitation of what would work for a human or Shinigami, with little consideration for what's actually comfortable. Aizen made Las Noches look perfect, but its substance, when you look closely enough, can often be a little lacking; and the Arrancar's living spaces are perfect examples of it. The beds have that "hospital bed" feel. You know the thin, vaguely crinkly sheets? Yeah. They look perfectly fine, but would barely be comfortable for a human, let alone a creature that's more used to seeping half-buried in a hole in the sand. The rest of their sparse, bland furniture is more of the same; plain, white, and fake-feeling.

In all, the whole place is just uncomfortable. Hollows aren't meant to live so close together, and Aizen absolutely does not care about how miserable his minions are. But the living arrangements are better than, y'know, risking death out in the desert, at least... and low on the list of Aizen-related complaints people have, to begin with.

idk how to tag thissss

[jjkeverlast]

Not yet my drabble request (it is coming 👀) but for the ask game : 🙅🏻‍♀️📌 and 😜.

TELL ME EVERYTHING 👁👁

oh goooood meg omg hi shit okay… this is gonna be mmmm

🙅‍♀️ What is one trope you refuse to ever write?

anything that’s dilf because i’m younger than all the members and idk it just feels weird to me??? also because i would SUCK at it! 😔 (mostly because i would suck tbh)

📌 If all your fics/WIPs fell off a ship and were drowning (go with it), and you could only save one, which would it be?

FUCK OKAY WAIT THIS IS HAAAAAARD!!! i’ll do from both fics and wips rn… for fics: unexpected lovers hands down my personal favorite and just one i always go back to and being super proud of! (also because i literally am for once proud of that smut) and for WIPS? my upcoming mafia ficccccc, i swear i’ve never gone this deep for a fic before and i’m really testing myself with my writing because of thissss, so probably that one. OH SHIT IT HAS A TITLE NOW… it’s called ‘didn’t see it coming’ 👀

😜 Describe a current WIP without using character names. (Points if your followers guess who the fic is for.)

oh fuck well… all the wips i have rn… you already know about so i’ll tell you this one wip i just recently came up with. member and reader are best friends (hehe) member complains to reader about his recent ex girlfriend that dumped him because of his dick. (newsflash it’s big and hits the cervix) yikes i know… although reader likes pain and things get… interesting. 😙

oh wow i’ve never taken this long in answering an ask until now. thanks for sending this in meg! mwah!

tag game link if any of you want to join in!

[kiinghanalister]

WINDOWS ON THE WORLD (2019), starring Ryan Guzman

“I came here for the same reason you did Lou, because our family needs the fucking money.”

“So do mine, but we’d rather have our father back.”

[cozycreaturescorner]

i am grimy and full of love

[bisexurl]

[bookofmirth]

Hi!

I hope i don't bother you with this long ask, but do you have any tips on how to become good at writing meta?

I like to read discourses/discussions in tumblr and learn from them but i still have trouble writing my opinions or even replying to arguments, english is not my first language but i read a lot of books and i don't have trouble understanding them i rarely come across a line that needs to be translated and so far it only happened with classics.

Someone suggested that i should always practice automating new vocabularies but i find myself forcing them alongside my childish writing and it turns out bad.

In other words, i don't have trouble when speaking, hearing or reading english but when it comes to writing i always get stuck.

Yes!!! I do!!!

Based on your writing in this ask, I don't think that your grammar or vocabulary would be an issue. Meta and analysis is much more reliant on critical thinking and being able to come up with questions that you can then investigate. tbh, anyone who would criticize your grammar instead of your actual thoughts isn't worth your time.

***I'm going to use a bunch of examples of fandom arguments or metas that I have seen, but I don't necessarily agree with them. I am just explaining how they work.

***One more thing, this is generally about developing and supporting arguments - analysis of a text is a separate though related thing and I have a post in my drafts about that. I will try to get that finished by the end of this week!

Make your argument clear. Complex grammar isn't necessary. All you need to do is make sure that you are using modifiers or hedging or contextualizing your claims. So for example, if I said "I think that characters will die in acotar5", that's super vague. What characters? Why? How? The conversation is dead before it starts. However, if I said "I think that Lady of Autumn will kill Beron in acotar5", that's put some parameters around my argument and now I have somewhere to start. I know what kind of evidence I will need. I know what characters I will need to consider. Also think about contextualizing, like "well if X happens, then this other thing is possible." Absolute statements (e.g. "Sarah has never written a logical magic system") will get you into trouble because they are easy to pick apart. Even if they are mostly true.

Have evidence! I always have the ebooks because they are easily searchable. You could also mark up your book, if you think you'll need that info a lot. I like to use colored tabs in my physical books, and sometimes I write notes in the margins. I got used to marking as I went when I was in university, noticing themes as I went along.

More on evidence: something that is just as important as having evidence is knowing how to use it. I see a lot of posts that are 20% writing, 80% screenshots from an ebook. NO. DO NOT DO THAT. Why? Because we've read the damn book. We know what it says. If I wanted to read the book again, I would read it again. That's not why I am on tumblr. The reason you are writing a post is because you have an argument. What is that argument? How are you interpreting that scene? What do you think is the meaning behind a piece of dialogue? Throwing a quote at your audience and hoping it sticks is not effective use of evidence. You've got to explain how and why you are using it.

Still related to evidence, is make sure that the evidence both means what you think it means, and that it supports the argument you think it supports. If you have evidence that is supposed to support one interpretation of the text as being more reliable than another (e.g. what a lot of the ship war arguments are doing right now), then you will need a lot of evidence that can be interpreted the same way. For example, I believe that Azriel has never truly been in love, and I have a collection of evidence that together supports that interpretation, even if on their own those quotes could be interpreted differently.

Think about the implications of your arguments. This means that if you say "Elain is sus", then you need to think about how her being sus would then impact the characters around her. How would that change the way we interpret her behavior? How is that related to what we currently know about her motivations and wants and needs and values? I went through this process in this post about whether or not she knows how the mating bond. I took someone else's argument, thought about who Elain is as a person, thought about the people closest to her, and what the implications of that argument are. We can't just say something like "Elain doesn't fit in with the Night Court" without then looking at her relationships and comparing them to other relationships, comparing her current relationships with her past behavior, etc. Basically what you're doing is testing the argument in different contexts and seeing if it still makes sense.

And yes, be respectful. People will misunderstand you. Sometimes unintentionally, sometimes just to be assholes. But we can't control their responses to us. Just on a basic level though, the moment someone feels attacked, they shut down. Conversation over. (The only exception to this is if the person is bullying, being racist, ableist, etc. Then fuck being respectful.)

Side note three, the stuff about evidence is one of the main things I teach my students and it's not an easy skill to master. It takes time.

Let me know if that helps! You do have to get into a rhythm and it takes a lot of practice. Like a lot a lot. But you can say things that are wrong and that's fine. If someone is rude to you in response, block them. The end!

[vikos-world]

Seeing Butch and Bubbles as a used to be thing in this dumpster fire they call a script, gives me war flashbacks to when I was really into PPG (as a lil kid, like really little) and all that fanart, yt videos and I think I'm getting whiplash from it

Like this is just

[17776-brainrot]

thanks for 103 followers and sorry i disappeared for a week

holy shit y'all, thank you so much.

100 followers is legit a milestone i never thought i'd reach, especially on a blog for little more than aimless rambling and reblogging memes. i really wanted to do something special for this occasion, but uh, my health has been not so good and i have been pretty much out of commission for awhile. 

i’ve been really sick lately and had to go to the ER twice, they still dont know whats wrong with me but they gave me something for the pain and referred me to a specialist so maybe they’ll noodle things out there.

i’m taking a short break from tumblr, no more than a few weeks i promise. hopefully by then i’ll have this all fixed, i’ll be back to normal, and i can get back to posting that sweet sweet foobaw content. i’ve got some post ideas i’m working on, so sorry if i spam the tag a little when i get back.

thanks to anyone who read all this, it really means a lot to me to know y’all care. hope y’all are doing well, and happy holidays. stay safe out there folks!

-james