iron lung: im vaccinated against polio so i dont need one

it: my pronouns are she/they

sinners: im an atheist

the backrooms: my house doesnt have that many rooms

Resident evil: id evict them

Midsommar: im swedish.

Get out: ok i'll leave

x: im still calling it twitter

train to busan: my destination is before busan

Aliens: im a monsterfucker

a nightmare on elm street: i dont live on elm street

Carrie: Thats not my name

Green room: my room is red

The orphanage: my parents are alive

I saw the TV glow: yeah they tend to do that when theyre not turned off

The Cabin in the woods: i only have a cottage

The Thing: i love fantastic 4

Part 2!

- was the only one to get an A the first grading period. had to stop them from putting me on their shoulders

- became the official classroom mascot on account of i was the only girl. this meant i was an integral stop on any and all workshop tours. was referred to as “Our Lady Helena” on these occasions

- almost set myself on fire once bc my prof stood behind me watching me try a skill he’d just demonstrated and he shouted very suddenly very loudly. restarted my heart and asked WTF WAS THAT FOR JOHN and he called me a “goddamn wonder”. i almost got third degree burned over a compliment

- mentioned offhand ONE TIME that swords were cool. also mentioned my birthday offhand ONE TIME. one of The Guys remembered both instances and also happened to find a sword in a dumpster so he gave it to me for my birthday

- came in fifth in an arm wrestling competition

- french braided my hair in class bc i didn’t have time to do it beforehand. ended up with an audience of like 5+ guys trying to figure out how tf i was doing it

- told The Guys my college friends call me barbie. Mistake. suddenly had all 12 of them calling me Barbarian

- had some down time and made a silly little sculpture with some scraps. The Guys were endlessly intrigued by this and demanded to see some of my art school stuff. had a small crowd around my phone cheering loudly every time i swiped to a new picture

- accidentally mentioned the cafe i worked at. Mistake. several days later all 12 of them came in to bother me

Project Hail Mary is perhaps one of the most scientifically-grounded stories I've ever read, and, as is true for many fans, that's a big part of why I love it so much. my day job is as an astrophysicist (in training, anyway); that spectrometer Grace pointed at Adrian to figure out its atmosphere? I do that for a living! every piece of real science in that book—from exoplanet study, to radiation poisoning, to biological evolution, to insert science here—was discovered by scientists who dedicated their lives to developing our understanding of us and the universe.

all of that is in jeopardy. again.

if you live in the US, you may have heard about the changes recently proposed by the OMB to the federal funding process (ie, how we as scientists get money from the government to do our science). these changes will make attaining scientific funding exceptionally difficult, shroud the process in political and wholly non-scientific bureaucracy, and make it possible for funds received to be revoked at any time without legitimate cause. scientists with federal funding would no longer have freedom to choose what conferences to attend, and would not be able to use their funds to cover the (extremely expensive!) costs of publishing their work in a journal—these are the two primary ways new discoveries are circulated.

these changes, if enacted, will choke out american science when it is already severely struggling.

the good news: we still have time to comment on these changes and tell them we do not want this.

I highly encourage you to read this article from the American Astronomical Society and take action as described within. this article dissects the worst of the changes in detail so you can leave an informed comment on the proposal, which can be done anonymously (or not) directly on the public comment page or through AAS's comment form (linked in the article). public comments will close on 13 July, 2026.

For the "crime" of not wanting to be tracked/have ads pissed into your eyeballs 24/7.

Even if you've paid for the "privilege" of the latter.

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Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.

Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)

I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.

All of the names are names of TMNT characters. They’re all dressed like their TMNT counterparts too, to the point where it feels like actually I’m looking at human designs for all the turtles. (The exception to this is Raph, or ‘Ralph’, but that makes sense considering that little reveal about him at the end). “Wait... this guy knows school” is a reference to the fact they’re all mutant turtles that never went to public school. But that’s not the only thing, because it so painfully obvious that the creator of this TikTok watched the 2012 cartoon specifically.

It’s completely insane. They all act like and interact with each other exactly like how they do in the ‘12 cartoon. It’s every little detail. Casey being a teenage delinquent. Donnie’s skepticism of Casey. The way everyone ELSE operates around Casey. It’s everything. I keep noticing new things every time I watch this video. Mikey’s the most obvious example of this, but I think the creator might be changing the way he talks to reflect Leo’s voice actor(s) too.

This entire video is a Spy AU fanfiction of TMNT 2012 with ridiculously high production quality. It fits so perfectly that it literally shouldn’t be able to be anything else. And YET - it’s so expertly crafted so as to make it indiscernible from any other stock Disney spy movie. This is so impressive it borders on manic.