HAND ON MY STUPID HEART

róisín, they/them, 23. aotearoa/éire animediac on ao3

[jaywalkers]

ALL THAT LOOKING DOWN \\ kevin/neil/andrew + completed \\ 163.000 words

“Do you like it?"

The simplest question to everything. A yes or no, asked over and over. Do you like Exy? Do you like yourself? Do you like the language that you should have learned in school in a country you were ripped from? Neil and Andrew, last December, bent over him on the couch asking him do you like us?

Kevin hums, a rising note of both confirmation and avoidance, different to how it was as a kid with that tilted accent.

alternatively; Kevin Day’s horrible no-good very bad attempt at learning Gaeilge in the fucking USA.

[jaywalkers]

HANIF ABDURRAQIB

i love my washed team <3

[givemearmstopraywith]

better keep a close eye on that wandering ravenous beast you call a heart

[loveridden1999]

if you have trouble understanding rpf & its morals here are some truths abt it that you need to know : 1) rpf is always ethical 2) a rpf truther is always right 3) you should always ask yourself the question "how can i make this abt rpf?" 4) never give up, most rpf truthers give up just before being proven right 5) always remember to have fun with it. you're welcome

[cutebrini]

[drivestraight]

[lennonyoung]

what if you were the #1 2024 draft pick and you have a boy bestie on your team but you’ve been stuck in Canada all summer running up a hill and skating in sync with the #1 2023 draft pick but his boy bestie drops a summer dump and you’re not in it even though you’re training together and your boy bestie from the team is tagged in a pic on main featuring the boy bestie he technically replaced with you and Will Vote is there

[lennonyoung]

and then what if your boy bestie reposted the post on main for all to see and Will Vote is still there

[asteriskless]

Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff About Choice, Freedom, Limitation, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness, String Theory by David Foster Wallace

[aguard1ente]

Lunch Poems / Frank O’Hara

—St Paul and all that

[eevieurs]

and it's actually serious as fuck to me when you think about it because famously america down ntdp survivor william smith not reposting anything about the literal olympics gold and mack's whole "i just.. said... he just asked me how i was doing" bomb during his post olympics interview and then add in the stick and i might as well hang myself in the public town square and don't. even. let yourself think about the "you need to be proud."

is it casual if i'm your boy best friend and i keep reminders of all of your achievements for you because i'm so proud of you and how much you've accomplished through all of the adversity you face and would it be fine if you gave me one of your olympics sticks so i could display it in my house and remember every time i look at it that even playing on the world's largest stage wasn't enough for you to forget me or want anybody but me with you forever.

and additionally of course i want your stick in the front and center of my collection to draw the eyes of everyone who walks into my house because i would never try to hide what you achieve. and forget all the people who ask you if i'm jealous of all that you have because why would i be jealous when someone who's that much of a star is devoting every inch of himself to me.

would that be okay. if i integrate you into every piece of my life, even my childhood home. says will smith, the famous mosaic of everyone who has ever loved him.

[sapphling]

hey dude, idk how much you remember from the party last night but- yeah, everyone saw your want. yeah no it was pretty late and winding down so it was quiet enough that every single person there saw it throbbing and twitching in your chest and so wet with hunger it was glistening under the kitchen light. they said it looked like it was reaching for something

[havingapoemwithyou]

Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[whirlpool-blogs]

sometimes the story repeats again and again and again and

[loveridden1999]

the thing about phone in bed is that it's so awesome. almost makes you feel like betraying & destroying yourself for nothing isn't all so bad

[fus-mar-hoz]

where do posts come from

when two mutuals love each other very much,

[gaysie]

do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles

[gayagendaofficial]

actually pheromone sensing works differently from normal olfaction, since humans in our world don’t have a functioning vomeronasal organ (VNO), we don’t have any data on how covid-19 would affect a functioning VNO in omegaverse AUs

[gaysie]

Actually there is evidence that covid probably would affect the VNO and it stands to reason would accordingly impair its function. Briefly:

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid, can only infect cells expressing a certain protein called ACE2

ACE2 is expressed widely in nasal cavity epithelial cells but not in olfactory sensory neurons. 

Seo et al. (2021) studied potential nasal targets for SARS-CoV-2 using golden hamsters as a model organism (commonly used as a proxy for humans in virology studies)

They found ACE2 expression in the main olfactory bulb epithelium (MOE, your “normal” nose organ) as well as the vomeronasal organ (VNO)

Several cell types in the VNO were able to be infected and they also found significant inflammatory activity (macrophage activation, apoptotic cells, etc) 

The specifics of how covid actually causes dysosmia are not known for sure but epithelial damage by local inflammatory immune responses likely plays a role, especially because sensory neurons themselves are not affected (Bilinska, & Butowt, 2020). Therefore I would suggest a potential similar effect of VNO dysfunction as we see in the main olfactory bulb

From Seo et al.: “Considering the function of the VNO, infection and subsequent pathologic changes may affect the behavior of Syrian hamsters”

If it stands to reason that omegaverse individuals have functioning VNOs similar to members of the animal kingdom, then it is more than reasonable to conclude that covid may cause them to lose not only their main olfactory function, but also their VNO function as well

 References: (1) (2)

In conclusion the omegaverse economy IS in shambles.

[mahalidael]

OP this is very well-written but im still hung up on how you came onstage dressed as a clown only to tear off the costume and reveal yourself as a biologist