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are you five nights at fucking kidding me

Oh man I haven’t had a new interest in a while. It’s always been the same three things on repeat. I wonder when I’ll st-

Ok.

valtsv

i hate it when people ask me to "explain my thought process" like hell if i know

valtsv

"what's going on in that head of yours?" nothing i want to be a part of

titsay

bowowark

“character who gained weight to show how they are healthy now” trope my beloved

demonadelem

ostolero

unseelie

i wish this was in my cart and not someone else’s

melonmemes

proudtoehaver

“I was on a strict diet during Episode VIII, and she was like, ‘Kid, get into that fridge and take some chocolate bars. I have many there.’ And I did,” he recalls. “I failed my diet because Carrie Fisher told me to. And it [felt] great.”

-John Boyega on Carrie Fisher

fuocogo

This is the Carrie Fisher post of body positivity reblog for a chocolate bar from her fridge

goblinchief

Sent a 12 year old on a fake Hero’s Journey last week and holy shit he actually did it

hippy-craic

thememedaddy

m-o-p-e

Everything that can remember, forgets...

power-chords

cafffine

be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

rheumaticrhetoric

eclecticopposition

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

carby

Hey whoa hi. Hello. I am looking directly into your ear canal. What do you mean you drank a tube of virus concentrate.

whyamiherewhosummonedme

So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.

I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.

Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.

(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)

(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)

(for science.)