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do y’all remember usernames??? from back when every fuckin website didn’t need your email phone number home address social security number just to join/sign up for something?? when you could make website-specific accounts that weren’t linked to literally anything else??? they tried to boil us like a frog slowly switching to “username/email” and then just asking for your email. but I remember. I remember usernames.
Hey phlebotomist side of tumblr - what blood type would a vampire find most enticing?
I don't know anything about blood types, but I have two and half hours left of work before Christmas and I have finished literally all of the work that there is to do, so here goes.
O+: the most common blood type. This has got to be fine-but-boring, right? It's the mild cheddar of blood types. No one is really excited to be drinking O+, but maybe there are some vampire hipsters trying to make it a thing.
O-: universal donor! Which I suspect means that for a vampire it tastes kind of... bland? Nothing remarkable going on here. Vampires will make fun of each other for not branching out beyond O-. The unbuttered toast of blood types.
A+: now we're getting more interesting. This is the second most common blood type, which I think makes it the blood type equivalent of going for the second-cheapest bottle of wine. It's basic, but it's good.
A-: apparently A- platelets can be given to all blood types. So that suggests to me that A- could be the choice of the platelet enthusiast. Maybe a more sophisticated, acquired taste. Vampires go slow when they drink A-.
B+: this is one of the most in-demand blood types in the UK because it's needed to treat people with sickle cell disorder and thalassaemia. I think this is the modern edgelord vampire's choice. They're not just going to drink blood, they're going to really fuck people over by drinking B+ blood.
B-: a rare blood type. This one, I suggest, is divisive - like strong coffee or really hoppy beers.
AB+: universal recipient! That must be exciting for a vampire, especially if the person has actually received donor blood. I imagine it's like drinking a cocktail.
AB-: the rarest of blood types. This is the connoisseur's blood of choice. There are vampires who boast of only drinking AB- (though - and no one's going to admit to this - it doesn't taste much different from A-).
every locked tomb character is one of the characters of all time but ortus nigenad really is The Character Of All Time my guy brought a fanfiction to the gun fight AND WON
spock’s room decor is actually fucking bonkers. The weapons??? the big red velvet curtain??? like ok phantom of the opera go crazy.
for reference jim’s room has some photos and a plant so we can surmise this is uniquely a spock being a dramatic weirdo thing
You are judging Spock’s room through human associations tastes. Remember, Vulcan blood is green and the planet Vulcan is red (Discovery even adds to this by showing red trees around Sarek’s property).
On Vulcan, red is the color of nature, so (assuming Vulcans even assign meaning to colors), red is likely a very calm and soothing color choice. Green is probably the Vulcan color of passion and/or danger.
From a Vulcan perspective, Spock’s room is a cozy cottage core with some historical knickknacks hung around.
Kirk’s green carpet, green plants, green lighting room is the Vulcan equivalent of a boudoir at best or blood-stained slaughterhouse at worst.
so what you're saying is Vulcan children's hospitals-
This is perfect. Love it.
Does this mean Vulcans dress up in green lingerie for sexy times as humans dress up in red?
Did Amanda ever wear green lingerie for Sarek?
I'm just asking questions.
i hate that "that that" is grammatically correct. why is english the joke language
by the way, this post was inspired by some writing i was doing last night where i wrote "that that" and got so mad that i had to take a break for the rest of the evening
it's understandable that that "that that" that ended your writing session would inspire a post like that
very funny things happening on the afab underwear post in the form of idiots in the comments tryna explain how "it's physically inconvenient for afab bodies to wear anything other than womens underwear" do you know how many cis lesbians wear walmart boxers you people are unsaveable. UN FUCKING SAVEABLE
in the 2000s, i forget if it was through hot topic or what, but there was a fashion for retro style 'boy briefs' with characters or slogans on them, but for girls. For my friend group however, these were a bit expensive and of course did not have characters that appealed to our spcialized (weeb) tastes.
This was also during a time when it felt like it became increasingly difficult to find 'granny fit' panties that would cover your entire ass cheek. Bikini cut aand thongs were the bane of me and my fellow 10th grade friend group. Many of us took a pe alternative martial arts class, and lemme tell you - bikini cut panties and axe kicks = having to descretely pick your slef administered atomic wedgie out of your ass while enduring the mortifying existence that is high school.
Thus, when one our friend group went and just bought pack of regular degular ass boybriefs from kmart and just atarted wearing them, it was like they cracked the code.
So due to all these reasons, I once gave all my friends group (majority girls), customized tighty whiteys with iron on art of their favorite (literally weeb ass) characters on them. And we all wore them for years.
AFAB is not incapable of wearing mens briefs - in fact there are many situations were mens briefs are superior. Ive been wearing workmens kilts a lot because of the pockets, and ive once again returned to the mens underwear section because boxers are perfect for preventing thigh chafe. The womens section makes you wear TWO kinds of overpriced underwear to achieve that affect in a skirt.
This comfortable existence could be yours if you were not a coward
i graduated from boyshorts cut to actual boy briefs when i started T and i have never looked back. panties are so fucking uncomfortable, and for what.
Can’t believe that Lord of the Rings released 20 years ago already and ALL of their wigs were still way better than any other blockbuster fantasy show today
There’s a few reasons for this. There are the obvious “cheap” things, like the fact that you can’t see scalp in any of the wigs, either because there’s no part or because the weave pattern, which is always a dead giveaway. They’re too voluminous, which isn’t realistic. Or they’re chignons that don’t match color or texture. But it’s much deeper than that.
Coloring is a major thing. In Lord of the Rings, you may not even know some characters are wearing wigs at first because they match the actor’s coloring so well. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the actor’s actual hair color — Merry and Pippin don’t have the same hair color as their actors and Legolas is wildly different — but the costumers matched their wigs to their skin tone enough that it looks natural. This means that when Aragorn’s beard starts to grow in, it doesn’t break immersion because the stubble and wig match, and Legolas’s dark eyebrows actually work because his head hair has those brownish undertones. Geralt’s isn’t great for that.
Another part of the coloring is the undertones and highlights. Legolas’s wig, for example, changes from a silvery blonde to a golden to something almost brown depending on the lighting. That’s because the individual sections have been dyed to give a natural looking hair, which hasn’t been done in HotD save on Viserys (whose wig, imo, looks best). I would say Gandalf’s wig in the second film looks worst precisely because of the lack of undertones. I understand it was a choice to distance him from “the Grey,” but that doesn’t mean it looks good, and when his hair is tossed back and you can see the darker tones around his ears, it looks better.
There was also so much digital color grading that details could be smoothed out. The bleachy blonde wigs accompanied elves and wizards, so they got a different color grading that made them look less plastic. The hobbits were almost always warmed up, which integrated their orange-toned wigs better. Aragorn’s greasy, matted wig, is almost always darkerened, so we don’t see the texture as much, while his Rivendell & Coronation wig(s) coloration is practically chestnut. It’s the same color of hair, but the grading buys grace when it’s needed. (I think it was instinctual on the parts of the effects team; I haven’t seen a team do better, and even the Hobbit trilogy lacks some of the skill when it comes to character coloring.)
Another thing is that the textures are better. The dwarves almost exclusively had yak hair. Horse hair was used for smoother wigs. It gives a realistic texture and shine that you can’t get from synthetics — it also picks up dirt in a more realistic way than, say, Geralt’s.
Plus, everyone in Lord of the Rings is wearing a wig. Everyone. This means you don’t notice when there’s discrepancy between the hair of one character wearing a wig and a character not wearing a wig. The one scene where a character isn’t wearing a wig — when Bilbo is telling the story about the trolls and Peter Jackson’s kids are there listening — you can tell a difference between the wig and real hair, even if you don’t know what you’re looking at. Because everyone is wearing a wig, you don’t notice. Go through the wig photos and they don’t look all that bad… until they’re screencaps with non-wigged actors. Most shows do hair and makeup tests with single actors, maybe with two characters if they’re going to have a lot of screen time together, but are testing them against minor characters that don’t have wigs? Probably not. And that’s where it shows.
Another thing is that there’s more to it than just wigs. In LotR, Legolas’s contacts are inconsistently worn and the blue they are is very understated, matching his coloring. In the Hobbit trilogy, the contacts are aggressively blue and worn all the time and it’s really bad, particularly with the eyeliner. And it makes the wig look worse. Geralt’s hair looks much less like a wig when distance or shadow or digital editing is obscuring his fake looking eye color. Makeup can definitely change things; I mentioned Legolas’s eyeliner before, but also Cersi’s wigs look bad whenever the makeup department goes heavy on her eyebrows (so all of season 8). The costuming can be important — Daemon looks worse than other wig-wearers because all cool tones the costumers chose doesn’t offset the platinum wig tones, while the reds and golds other Targaryens wear does (not great, but better). The Witcher has, surprisingly, the opposite problem. The black leather armor is too bright and richly colored and the wig looks better both when Geralt wears cloth that’s less saturated and shiny (i.e., not his armor).
So there’s a lot of reasons, but mostly it comes down to bad design, cost-cutting, and a demand for turnaround that’s too fast for quality. Lord of the Rings was in pre-production for as much as two years (depending on your definition). Most movies have six months, max. TV shows may have as little as six weeks because they continue to write week by week and often have a mid-season break. You cannot create Lord of the Rings quality on a Netflix schedule.
im literally not exaggerating when i tell you guys this video saved my life
This is a damn MOOD FOR LIFE, I tell you what.
This is beautiful, not just because of the lyrics, harmonies and relatable message, but also because Cinderella (Brandy), One of the Hercules Muses (Roz Ryan) , and Mama Odie (Jenifer Lewis) are singing it. Like we have been blessed.
one of these days I will not watch this video when it comes around on my dash, but today is not that day
Some days the internet delivers the thing you need to see when you need to see it. This is that day, and this is that content
Stopping yourself mid-conflict to change your perspective is allowed! It’s okay and normal to be mid argument with someone and realize you disagree with your own stance. Often I find myself and others caught up in trying to win the argument (not the point of arguments!) or too embarrassed to back down and be wrong. I promise there is so much more pride in going “Stop! I’m wrong. I hear you and I see how I wasn’t in the right and I want to amend my view” than digging your heels in.
openin’ the door to the microwave one second early because you don’t need all the hootin’ and hollerin’
I'D LOVE TO ELABORATE because this is one of my favorite astronomy stories.
Okay. So in the field of Radio Astronomy, there's this phenomenon called a "fast radio burst", a very short, strong radio pulse picked up by a radio telescope. They're still poorly understood, and are considered very exciting to radio astronomers because of how rare they are.
In the 2010's, astronomers working at Australia's Parkes Radio Observatory identified a number of radio signals picked up by the telescope that appeared to resemble fast radio bursts, which they called Perytons.
However, they quickly realized that the signals had to be terrestrial in origin due to the strength of the signal.... as well as the fact that they always occurred during weekdays, around the same time.
The signals tended to be clustered around midday... hmm...
Further evidence that the signals were man-made... this trend also followed daylight savings!!!
(Unless aliens also follow Australian daylight savings conventions, which is highly unlikely...)
It took the astronomers several years, but they eventually tracked down the source to a microwave oven in the facility's break room.
They were unable to recreate the signal, until they tried opening the microwave door before it beeped. Turns out the microwave was letting out a tiny amount of radio emissions when the door opened, which the nearby telescope was sensitive enough to detect.
The Peryton signals had been popping up in the data for over a decade, presumably because astronomers taking their lunch breaks had been opening the break room microwave prematurely for the same reason cited by OP.
I imagine they must have a big sign reading "LET THE MICROWAVE FINISH BEFORE OPENING" hanging in the break room now.
TLDR: If you work in radio astronomy, let the microwave beep before opening it and removing your lunch.
(PS: I highly recommend reading the paper explaining the origin of Perytons, it's short and also pretty entertaining.)
"I remember going back and going, ‘No, wait a minute, this isn’t a woman’s role.’ This is … ’cause you gotta think 25 years ago, what I was getting was, you know, “Kids, get off that couch!” and sitcoms and really light stuff where [you were] the girlfriend or the victim or the killer. Nothing well-rounded. And this comes along and I was thinking, ‘Wait a minute this is a man’s role. They made a mistake.’ And when I found out it wasn’t a mistake I was so excited I remember, I had a dark green shift dress … and I went out and got a pair of Doc Martens, and the Doc Martens kind of informed me, where I was and who I was. I listened to a lot of rap back then, I still listen to rap, but I really pounded it in my car on the way to my audition, and that was my prep for it and I walked in and I was fully Kira when I walked in the room."
rb with your most common recurring theme in your nightmares. mine is pregnancy
i love wikipedia and i think it is good and right to give them money but all their funding drive messages are “well… we’ll be killing ourselves tonight. we asked so little of you and yet it seems that simply nobody cares about lil ol wikipedia anymore….sad…”
I'm cursing my followers with this one, bestie
"a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend"
4x07 The Initiative
Y'all this is a piece of history right here. Every single time you see a reference to a "shovel talk" in fic, defined here as "someone threatening harm to a potential romantic partner of a friend/loved one," it's referencing this scene. This scene specifically. Everywhere else that is not fannish internet, that interaction is referred to a "shotgun talk," referencing the father threatening a daughter's boyfriend with a shotgun. This scene gave a lot of people a chance to reframe that interaction in terms of a protective friend rather than a possessive father, which for a lot of obvious reasons resonated with people a whole fucking lot, and it immediately spread like wildfire into fannish and then general internet lexicon. I've seen people try and backronym it into an extension of the shotgun talk, as in, "I've got a shotgun and a shovel to bury you with," but I've asked a lot of rednecks from a lot of different necks of the woods and no one has ever encountered that variant in brickspace life. It's all Buffy, babey. This shit is linguistic history in the making.
