Flutissimo

Hey, my name is Anniek (she/her), and I'll be posting about what keeps me busy, mostly music, university, plants and scouting. Don't expect any structure and enjoy your stay :P

[flutissimo]

My university's lab facilities are located in Villa Flora, and old greenhouse that hosts start-ups and the university. The lab itself isn't that spectacular, but we do have a model of the gastrointestinal tract :)

[flutissimo]

merry christmas everyone!

[flutissimo]

hi guys! i haven't been active for some time (probably won't be but who knooows), but I felt the sudden urge to tell you guys I've been dating my awesome girlfriend for 5 months now :). so there's hope for anyone :P

how have you guys been doing? curious to hear what you've been up to!

[politicalsci]

[aint-coming-back-lol-deactivate]

Seeing biblical teachings being reversed into conservative teachings is one of the funniest things holy shit. Like this makes it painfully clear that Jesus taught the exact opposite of all these things yet conservatives in the US wanna call themselves “men of god”.

[red-umbrella-811]

[false-gods-and-petty-kings]

[doorstoplord]

have i ever told y’all the story about how a snake knew I was trans years before I did

[doorstoplord]

okay so

my 7th grade social studies/8th grade science teacher (he did both classes. Somehow…) had a snake lovingly named Hisser. Hisser would occasionally be taken out to crawl and he was held by kids and when there were fire alarms Hisser was taken along, usually to his chagrin. 

This was one of those days where we had in class work time and most of us were just chilling and so Mr. A got Hisser out and started passing him around.

Every girl student that he came to, he would immediately snuggle up to, wrap around their arms, and get cozy. With boy students, he would just sort of sit in the coiled lump that he’d been handed in. This was true with just about every single student, and Mr. A said that Hisser likes girls a lot better than guys and this has been thoroughly proven by Hisser’s attitude.

Then Hisser was handed to me. He was a loveable cold scaley rope as you would expect, but he didn’t coil around my arms. He didn’t get cozy. He just sat there. And Mr. Anderson said, “Huh. That’s weird. He usually likes girls.” 

I passed the snake to my friend and surely enough, Hisser wrapped around her arms and got cozy. 

I came out as a trans guy about 7-8 years later, and just recently realized that Hisser was right about me not being a girl all along. 

I’ve also decided that whenever anyone asks me “Why I think I’m a boy,” which is my LEAST favorite question ever, I’ll just tell them that a snake told me a long time ago. 

[apple-dandy]

[hungwy]

my ancient greek history professor is making us post memes weekly. i swear to god

[blackpyrefly]

heres one for you

[thepringlesofblood]

my time has come for hyperspecific classics memes

[saltykingsalty]

I…I need context. I’m gonna research all this shit one day.. If I remember after work

[lemonsharks]

I understand most of these!

[finmoryo]

My brother has to submit memes about ancient rome to his class so I’m definitely going to give suggestions.

[wintersoldierfell]

the reason bisexual and nonbinary people get so much hate is because we challenge the idea that people can be separated into little boxes to stop them from mixing with and “corrupting” the others. doesn’t matter which bathroom i use, if they’re marked with a binary gender then i’m gonna be in there with people who aren’t my gender. doesn’t matter who i date (or don’t), there’s always the potential that i could date someone with a gender different from previous partners. we are living breathing proof that any attempt to contain human gender & sexuality is doomed to failure and i think that’s very sexy of us

[wintersoldierfell]

someone made the extremely valid point in the tags that this also applies to pan people, agender people, and aroace people, which it absolutely does. what’s up my pals, let’s be queer and do crimes destroy the cisheteropatriarchy together

[tschaikovsky]

[barelyup]

Oh my god ❤️

[lilbluemoo]

Absolutely love this

[caffeinatedlanddetective]

Wow.

Please watch this. 

[doeing]

i was a little apprehensive to watch this because it’s four minutes long and i have a short attention span, but within the first 30 seconds i was hooked.

watch this. please, you won’t regret it.

[slythecosmosrunner]

That last line

That fucking last line hit me.

[meara-eldestofthemall]

Stop whatever else you’re doing and watch this. This is an amazing story of the best of humanity amidst the worst mankind is capable of. It’s proof of that one act of kindness can last a lifetime.

[lilacblossoms]

just a quick heads up that the english sub pronouns for the baby are incorrect

[prismatic-bell]

….and I am crying.

[myhoneststudyblr]

Things that you need to remember to understand the vast majority of European history:

Britain and France’s foreign policies towards one another was essentially a mutual fuck you

Russia is big and cold

(On a related point: invading Russia doesn’t work because Winter™️)

The Pope loves a good crusade

There were a lot of treaties of ‘Perpetual Peace’ that totally worked (lol)

Trying to maintain the ✨balance of power ✨ pretty much always led to war 

German wasn’t Germany until quite recently but when Germany became Germany it made everyone a bit nervous

Italy also wasn’t Italy until pretty recently

The French love a revolution

They also love a republic but aren’t great at keeping one around 

Napoleon (the first one) was a Bitch and messed everything up

Standard British answer to any reasonable request: ✨no ✨

War is the answer to everything cause who doesn’t love a good war?

The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t the Roman Empire but they liked to tell themselves that it was

The Habsburgs liked to be in charge

😍 m o n e y 😍

Britain liked ships

Spain also liked ships

So did the Portuguese

The Spanish were very Catholic  (but the Spanish Inquisition were actually expected)

Basically all the royals were related (*haemophilia has entered the chat*)

England and Scotland were Not Friends but France and Scotland were (which equaled Major Problems)

The Dutch were 💰rich 💰and everyone wanted a bit of it

Religion was a *bit* of an issue

✨ feudalism ✨

Everyone want to be the Romans 2.0 

You could making a drinking game out of all the French Wars of Religion

Everyone found the Ottomons a little bit scary (cause they were *gasps and screams of horror* not Christian)

There has been more than one defenestrations in Prague 

Poland Lithuania was not very Lithuanian

British policy to land/important cultural item/anything that they come across: ✨finders keepers ✨

[the---hermit]

Also:

If you need to guess the name of a French king, it’s probably Louis

If it’s a English king chances are he’s a Henry

The Roman Church really doesn’t like pagans unless they have a good army that can protect them

Is your opinion different from mine? You don’t think I shoud rule the world? That’s an heresy! - said every Pope ever

Quick way to claim your power is to say “heey look at us we are the new Rome”

Are you from a noble and rich family? Good here’s money and land. Oh wait you’re not the first born? That changes things then, get the hell out of your brother’s land and either become a knight or a monk.

Are you a woman who who has ancient knowledge on how to cure the sick? YOU’RE A WITCH you shall burn.

Are you a woman who is slightly too indipendet for everyone’s opinion? YOU’RE A WITCH you shall burn.

Are you a woman and you take too much care of your hair and yourself in general? YOU’RE A WITCH you shall burn. (Yes it was a good reason to accuse someone for witchcraft)

Are you a woman and have you a particular mole on your body? THAT’S THE SIGN OF THE DEVIL AND YOU ARE A WITCH you shall burn.

Are you a woman? WELL YOU ARE PROBABLY A WITCH.

If you are a greek from anywhere and really need the help of spartans chances are there are really busy at the moment sorry but there’s rituals and stuff to do and ask for help somewhwre else.

Being called a king in the Roman republic was the worst accusation™ (ask Caesar how that went).

Augustus was a soulless bastard but at the same time one of the biggest political genious of all history.

Is it preferable to have a noble name and no money or being rich af but no noble title? People are not really sure for the whole modern era.

1700s aka the enlightment era in a few words: superstition is bullshit and maybe killing and exploiting people is not the best BUT POWER. And that’s a how enlighted monarchies were born.

Ancient buildings and monuments? Do you mean free building materials?

All young rich dudes form around Europe during the 1800s : “ who would have thought that Italy had so many historical buildings and art? ”

[seashel1]

The History of Loneliness

Until a century or so ago, almost no one lived alone; now many endure shutdowns and lockdowns on their own. How did modern life get so lonel

what an article. here are some of the parts that stuck out to me most:

[little--leaves]

I crave a quiet love.

Watching you play video games while i lay on our bed and hyping you up. Going grocery shopping together and laughing at a bad pun in the spice aisle. Waking up in each others arms. Stopping by the others work to drop of food on our day off. Sending each other memes even though we're sitting in the same room. The soft touches whenever we pass by each other. Cuddling while watching a show on netflix. Having a cup of tee or coffee on a lazy Sunday morning and sitting, legs tangled, on our couch, being in love.

[myhoneststudyblr]

my masterpost | my studygram | ask me anything

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[transcript under the cut]

Other advice posts that may be of interest:

How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To

Active Revision Techniques

How To Do Uni Readings

How to Revise BIG Subjects

Keep reading

[moonlionn]

me posting nothing but incoherent nonsense and still having some sort of following

[jabletown]

did you know that a side effect of the covid vaccine is a heavier period?

guess who found that out by getting gettysburged yesterday?

like for real. the worst day of menstruation of my life. for people who know their menstrual cycle and haven’t gotten a vaccine yet, book it around your cycle if at all possible omg.

[seekingthemacguffin]

I got my first shot a week ago and the lead-up to my period was very strange. Normally I start getting cramps about half a day before I start bleeding, but I had that pre-period crampy feeling for three days this time followed by a pretty heavy period. I was pretty concerned until I realized it might have something to do with having just gotten the vaccine. I’m definitely pleased to see they’ve started collecting data about it.

If you have room to maneuver when scheduling your shot definitely keep your cycle in mind. 

[bakugo-sucks]

IS THIS WHAT FUCKING HAPPENED TO ME

[bananakarenina]

If any vaccinated menstrators are willing, Dr. Kate Clancy at the University of Illinois is collecting survey data for a study on the COVID vaccine and menstruation. You just need to have menstruated before at some point in your life (not necessarily currently) and also have had at least one shot of the vaccine (or feel free to save the link and complete after your second!)

It’s through a secure, HIPAA-compliant data collection site called RedCAP (which I’ve used before when I was a research assistant on brain injury studies).

Link here: https://redcap.healthinstitute.illinois.edu/surveys/index.php?s=LL8TKKC8DP

[redwineonawhitebed]

Kate is a great scientist and this is a really well done survey.

[reconstructionbaby]

so what do u think about plays

i like how in a theatre time and space are necessarily metaphorical. i don’t like how plays always have to begin with someone walking onstage and talking. too many directors try to work around this by having someone walk onstage and brood in silence for a moment before talking. this is worse. 

[sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2]

If you were directing a play, how would it begin?

[reconstructionbaby]

bagpipes at the back of the auditorium so everyone turns their heads and when they’ve turned back around the play has already begun

[flutejesus]

if I made an only fans I think the first thing I would buy with my only fans money was that 4k azumi flute i saw at a fair years ago

[brucebocchi]

sorry to post facebook videos on main but the sound of jello going through an industrial shredder is both mesmerizing and horrible