Opheliac

He/Him. Queer af nerd, knows his wires. Just some personal notes. But also lots of multifandom stuff. Please correct my mistakes whenever you see them. Thanks! (By the way, you can also find something completely different here. Dare, always dare.

[kosmogrl]

[2birds1pencil]

twin high maintenance machines

[horsegirl]

how can we lose when we’re so sincere is forever always one of my favourite peanuts bits

[horsegirl]

[deadbirdlife]

Today my Advanced Clinical Pathology professor trailed off in the middle of class and said, “If I seem distracted, it’s because last night I was talking with a friend and she asked ‘Who’s that chick in Titanic?’ but all I heard was ‘Chicken Titanic,’ and ever since then I’ve been thinking about a chicken on the bow of the Titanic like Kate Winslet, wings held high. It’s all I can think about.”

[deadbirdlife]

My hand moved on its own

[magicratfingers]

so rare and beautiful when the art is exactly the image u saw in your mind

[kosmogrl]

[lunarriviera]

[transfemmbeatrice]

thought of this immediately and was delighted to discover it’s the same op

[griffineatsbread]

The 1978 Version of javerts death is so iconic for all the wrong reasons. Any gravity or emotional impact just gets ruined by that random ass trumpet flourish, the fact that it's like the lowest point you could jump in the seine from, and of course, the flip

[ohcaptains]

[lazaruspiss]

People know that the whole "don't portray [harmful action] because viewers might recreate it" thing is a rule for children's shows right? It's supposed to be shit like "don't show peppa pig playing with fire so we don't get sued if a kid watches it and burns their house down." Not like, fanfiction for adults.

[lazaruspiss]

smth smth "are u ok? i noticed u were reblogging my post about smut not needing the censorship of childrens media again"

[ihappentobeadoorknob]

Mental illness is the powerhouse of the cell

[space-writes]

the Writer Mood™ when you've got the shadow of a concept of a scene and a couple lines of dialogue bouncing around in your head like a screensaver and you have to be like buddy, come back when you're something coherent. i can't do anything with this.

[auntierayeraye]

[ithinkthatsmykink]

Me off my meds for 5 days: the world is beautiful and full of wonder and I love who I am and nothing will ever change that

Me off my meds over one week:

[thatswhywelovegermany]

über seinen (eigenen) Schatten springen

literally: to jump over one's (own) shadow

to step out of one's comfort zone; to do something that is actually impossible for someone because of their personality, principles, or personal likes and dislikes; to change previous behavior for the better

[mjalti]

[david-goldrock]

Smart woman next to an unbelievable achievement is a picture niche that will never get old

[awnerd]

Then you’re gonna love this photo of Annie Jump Canon.

Working at Harvard in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s as a “Computer”, Annie Jump Cannon cataloged stars using their spectra from photographic plates, in an effort to understand the mysteries and peculiarities of stellar spectra.

This was hard, detailed, nuanced work. By 1889, three years into her work, she had classified over 1,000 stars. By 1913, she could classify 200 stars an hour. She could classify three stars a minute, just by sight. Using a magnifying glass, she could classify stars down to 9th magnitude, 16 times fainter than the human eye can see. And she did this all with exceptional accuracy.

Over the course of her career, she personally classified more than 350,000 stars, accounting for a mind-boggling 98% of all contemporary stellar spectra classifications, a feat that wouldn’t be bested until the 1990’s with automated digital sky surveys.

Cannon used these classifications to develop the Harvard spectral classification system (O–B–A–F–G–K–M), organizing stars by surface temperature and physical properties.

It is hard to overstate just how foundational her work was to modern astronomy and astrophysics. Her classifications have enabled more than a century of breakthroughs in stellar structure and evolution, including the understanding of how stars change over time and how temperature, luminosity, and composition are related. The system underpins the Hertzsprung–Russell (HR) diagram, one of the most important tools in astrophysics, and remains embedded in modern research, from stellar population studies to galaxy evolution.

The immense scale of her work was itself a massive contribution to astronomy. For comparison, before Cannon, star catalogs contained between 600 and 4,000 stars. Her work single-handedly proved that large-scale stellar classification was both feasible and scientifically valuable. She helped establish systematic star catalogs as a core method of modern astronomy and laid the groundwork for astrophysical research on stellar structure, evolution, and populations that continues today.

[sandersstudies]

Annie Jump Cannon features as a character in the play Silent Sky, which focuses on another woman computer, Henrietta Leavitt. If you can find a showing near you, it’s a wonderful piece.

[slaviclore]

"To many observers from the West, the miseries caused by Poland's incorporation into the Russian Empire were often thought to be essentially constitutional in nature. Since Russian Autocracy ran contrary to Poland's traditions, it was imagined that a few modifications in the form of government -- a few concessions to local autonomy, a few gestures in the direction of democratization -- would somehow eliminate Polish grievances. Hence, when Polish insurrections continued to occur in spite of the reforms of so-called 'liberal Tsars', western opinion tended to lose patience and to believe the Russian stereotype of the ungrateful, incorrigible, and anarchic Pole."

Norman Davies, God's Playground vol 2

[gray-ace-space]

meanwhile, russia is continuing to be a hell country; they want to criminalize looking up information on lgbtq+ topics. we are a couple steps away at most from a queer person simply being alive qualifying as extremism.

non-russians, please 1) give a shit about us and 2) consider that (for usamericans and brits specifically) this is the direction you are heading, too, and do something about it while you still can.

[vesnaaa]

Džablka 🍏