#stem-core

[theunaestheticstudyblr]

STEM-CORE

Fresh, warm, printed papers

The smell of preserved specimens

Charging your calculator instead of your phone

The sound of scissors in flesh

Field days

Data days

Migraines from typing code all day

Wheelie chairs in the lab

Microscope rings around your eyes

5 coffees a day

Your favorite pen running out of ink

Annotations everywhere

12:02 AM

SO many jackets

Cold coffee with your comfort research paper

Phone reminders to stretch and to eat

The smell of a freshly opened box of gloves

Hot coffee with a new scientific paper

Nostalgia for your 7th grade science fair

What day is it?

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[likeshestoleit]

today

[slut4motherearth]

Christy Turlington 🍸🫧

[dyingroses]

[kiddokori]

his ass is NOT getting up for his 8am lecture

[sillygoofyqueer]

"Hey, Four, what about those oneshots/LH update/TH update/other works/education you need to focus on?" *looks at you in disgust*...so anyway back to the mad scientist AU- Lan Wangji is struggling to even walk on the uneven terrain, let alone clamber down rope - the only reason he manages to get down is because of the typical arm strength that people proclaim the Lan to have. Even then, Jin Zixuan is waiting at the bottom like he was half ready to catch him which is...nice, he supposes. (He's pretty sure Nie Huaisang put him up to it.) All warmth he feels at the surprising comradery is soon cut short when Wen Chao says that they were going to bleed one of the disciples in order to lure out the mystery monster they're hunting. Then Wen Chao's...mistress says that they should use Luo Qingyang, and people actually move to do it.

Before he (and Jin Zixuan) can step to her defence, Wei Wuxian's voice rings out from where he's perched on top of a large boulder in the middle of the lake, proclaiming that "no monster would be interested in dirty Jin blood!" Xue Yang, who seems to cling to him, moves to slice open his own palm with a dagger, but Wei Wuxian's hand reaches out to casually halt the blade. Of course, his blood is spilled by this, and everyone seems to hold their breath as they look around the room. Nothing happens for a few moments, before there is a sudden rumbling as the boulder that Xue Yang and Wei Wuxian are on seems to move, and a head raises up to stare at the two on its back.

While Lan Wangji (despite his best efforts) hopes that the monster will just eat the two before they can react, Wen Zhuliu moves as if to grab them, but Wei Wuxian barely shakes his head before the older man is freezing in place. The room is deathly silent. Arrows are trained on this monster from all sides. Wei Wuxian and Xue Yang are staring into the face of death, the older boy with one arm thrown in front of Xue Yang as if to protect him. Then someone makes a sound in the crowd and one of the Wen soldiers accidentally looses an arrow at the monster, causing it to rear back and knocking the unfortunate boys into the lake below.

All hell breaks loose. People are screaming, the Wen make an effort to attack the monster but it becomes quickly clear that it sees their attacks as nothing more than inconveniences, Xue Yang is throwing soggy talismans from a perch nearby and Wei Wuxian is-..where is Wei Wuxian? Lan Wangji expects him to be fighting either the monster or the rebelling disciples (yes there is a sword in his hand, no it is not his own), but he looks over just in time to spot the boy taking a blow from a branding iron that was meant for Luo Qingyang of all people. His cry rings out before becoming lost in the sounds of battle, just as the Wens seem to retreat as one. Wen Zhuliu takes only one look back (his expression filled with rare concern) before dragging Wen Chao and his mistress along.

Wei Wuxian, despite his injury and the fact that he has been left behind, takes initiative and practically orders everyone to move deeper into the caves. Lan Wangji would never dare to stoop so low as obeying a Wen in normal situations, but really it's just a logical suggestion and he would have done it anyway, regardless of what Wei Wuxian said. It is very obvious that Xue Yang and Wei Wuxian are very outnumbered when it comes to enemies, and Wei Wuxian's jaw is clenched against the pain of the burn upon his chest. It would be so easy to get rid of these psychopaths. However, it would also not be honourable to strike a man while he is down, as the saying goes - plus, he may be their only ticket out of there. It seems that everyone else has similar thoughts (except one impossibly cocky Lan disciple who almost ends up skewered on the end of Xue Yang's blade).

The duo separate themselves from the rest of the group in this new cave, sitting beside one another and muttering about something or other while using a dagger to draw something in the dirt. The rest of the disciples talk amongst themselves, trying to figure out a way to get out of this hellish situation, and Lan Wangji is just trying to maintain his composure while sitting down in an attempt to ease the throbbing pain in his leg. The two 'groups' don't try and interact with each other until Luo Qingyang hesitantly makes her way over, followed by Jin Zixuan (who is acting as a guard of sorts probably), and asks why Wei Wuxian took the blow for her. "It's wrong to attack someone for trivial reasons, and violence for the sake of violence is something I won't stand for," he says it casually, as though he isn't still bleeding from the chest, "plus, I never liked her anyway." It's honestly shocking to hear of a Wen with (relatively) good morals, and it leaves Lan Wangji reeling as Luo Qingyang silently hands over a perfume bag and retreats. (Yes yes "it's still going?!?!!" THIS IS THE BASIS OF AN IMPORTANT TURNING POINT OKAY. GOTTA GIVE IT TIME TO WORK. Anyway after I finish the cave scene I'm going to focus on how the Wen siblings play into all this (and Nie Huaisang, but that's to be explained))

[chaoticneutraltor]

[phoenixwithapencil]

I don’t know what, exactly, went on in Angeal’s past to make him The Way He Is, but I do know that healthy, well adjusted people aren’t, by and large, in solider and that the being a mom friend and the seeing himself as a monster and immediately choosing to isolate himself and seeing his honor as a burden so heavy it is most aptly represented in the buster sword— none of that is likely to have spawned from remotely healthy places.

I am of the belief that he is just as much of a trainwreck as his two friends, he just happens to be the most socially acceptable about it

[averlym]

litany of the martyrs (click for better resolution!)

[a-lady-and-her-quill]

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Hey 🌸˚˖⋆, so lately I've been thinking of ways to romanticize my college experience and decluttering and re-organizing my digital space with Notion has been helping with this.

What is your favorite kind of aesthetic for Notion.

[slut4motherearth]

[addisonraesbaby]

🍸intro to me moodboard🍸

• hi i’m jane! (janey/jay) • she/her

likes: taylor swift, billie eilish, gracie abrams, audrey hobert, sabrina carpenter, addison rae, finneas, the favors, chappell roan, doechii, clairo, alex consani, ariana grande, ethel cain, HAIM, florence pugh, kelsea ballerini, madison beer, megan moroney, maisie peters, lorde, charli xcx, leith ross, olivia rodrigo, billy joel, elton john, sza, don mclean, wicked, glow in the dark stars, jelly shoes, espressos, water, glitter, silver, jellycats, ocean, canary melon, cats, cherries, music, mini baby piggies, bows, angel wings, martini emoji, swans, otters

dislikes: sand in bathing suits, sweating, haters, men, people who sexualize pop girlies, corn 💔, most foods tbh, greasy hair

my features described: prada glasses, very dark brown eyes, short light blonde hair, very pale skin, 5’2, my face rev: here

mood boards: here

fyi this is like my 4th account so i’ve gotten around

warnings: dni if it’s hateful, no flirting or sexual comments/petnames

[ruvviks]

PLEASE DO NOT TAG AS YOUR OWN OC OR PAIRING.

Nathan and Ruben share a bond more powerful than most; mutual understanding through past experiences no one should ever have to go through, and through past actions so horrible they cannot be spoken of. Their grief and the blood on their hands binds them to the STEM technology they created, which has alienated them from the rest of the world— but they give each other the comfort they have both longed for so desperately for years, and that is all they need. They are each other's counterpart; you cannot imagine one without the other, like two sides of the same coin. Through their pain, their grief, their desire, and their regret, they have become one.

anna akhmatova, the guest // bones; equinox // 'i won't become' by kim jakobsson // agustín gómez-arcos, the carnivorous lamb // by oxy // achilles come down; gang of youths // czeslaw milosz, from 'new and collected poems: 1931-2001' // 'extended ambience portrait from a resonant biostructure' and 'migraine tenfold times ten' by daniel vega // a little death; the neighbourhood // marina tsvetaeva, from 'poem of the end' // by drummnist // katie maria, winter // 'nocturne in black and gold the falling rocket' by james abbott mcneill whistler // micah nemerever, these violent delights // body language; we are fury // 'the penitent' by emil melmoth // chelsea dingman, from 'of those who can't afford to be gentle'

taglist (opt in/out)

@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart;

@lestatlioncunt, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman;

@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;

@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree

[louthestarspeaker]

hope everyone's out there having a normal day grasping the significance of a black Norman Osborn saying "with great power comes great respect" :)

[inkykeiji]

Can't decide if i think Caleb would be into slow passionate sex or rough kinky sex. He does scream brat tamer to me though

omggg okay so in my opinion, i think caleb’s natural baseline is rough—without him even meaning to be or noticing it (which means when he intends to be rough he is extremely rough). there are just so many times he is so physically aggressive with mc and it seems to me that he doesn’t even notice how imposing, assertive, and forceful he’s being, which is what leads me to believe that he’s just inherently rough by nature.

with that being said, i also think caleb is very easily capable of slow, soft sex—something that is romantic and gentle and thoughtful—but i think that he needs to consciously be attempting to act that way. irregardless of which he’s currently indulging himself in, i think he is always passionate—even his rough, kinky, sometimes borderline dangerous sex is full of passion and ardour, because caleb is inherently an intense and fervorous person, especially when it comes to mc. there isn’t a single thing caleb does that isn’t infused with some sort of passion (good or malicious), even when his emotions are extremely restrained beneath his tight mask of colonel. ALSOOOO i AGREE he is 100% a fucking brat tamer; respect seems to mean so much to this man. a twisted sense of respect, and an overwhelming need for control.