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[masweird]

Name breakdown

@alyssalenko tagged me to pick a song for every letter in my tumblr URL.

A mix of instrumental and vocal songs, credits to the band/singer and composer/remixer.

M - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up), Fall Out Boy

A - At The Speed Of Force, Junkie XL

S - Still Waiting, Sum 41

W - We Have To Go, Steve Jablonsky

E - Everyone Is Digital, The Motorleague

I - In The End, Linkin Park

R - Rock Bottom, Hailee Steinfeld

D - Duel of the Fates (Epic Version), Samuel Kim

That wasn't easy. I need new music, or more "N" in my screen names lol.

Tagging anyone who's seen this and wants to do it regardless if they've done it before or not!!

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[masweird]

Science isn't afraid to admit mistakes. Knowing this compromised method of testing, I have no doubt that re-testing will occur with a new set of controls. The understanding of science grows and evolves, and learns from mistakes.

[masweird]

The Last Ronin, charcoal

[masweird]

Happy Revenge of the Sixth! A quick graphite stick sketch of Darth Talon's tattoos. Good learning experience.

#revengeofthesixth #DarthTalon #Art #starwars

[masweird]

May the 4th Be With You!

The Darksaber, white pencil.

[traaansfem]

F

[masweird]

Wd

[masweird]

"Of coruse this is effective sunblock, Shepard. And of course it could be *more* effective, so get over here ..."

[nocturnal-stims]

Flexible feather armor

🪽 Miscreations_us on IG

[masweird]

Might be time to bug my blacksmith

[zizicat]

[laterovaries-deactivated2017022]

This will always be my favorite gifset. Ever.

[onceuponamirror]

im morally obligated to reblog this every time i see it

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You can only drink the drink you get from this wheel for a month!

https://wheelofnames.com/uh3-8jf

how're you feeling?

Great!

okay, I could do it

okay, I couldn't do it

dead

horrible

im allergic/intolerant

Results

Voting ended onApr 9

[katestewartt]

"Try our new AI tool", "Use ChatGPT", "Our AI assistant can help"

[alyssalenko]

𝒓𝓾𝓵𝓮𝓼: list your ten favourite characters from ten separate fandoms, then tag ten people!

It's been a hot minute as I've been dealing with stuff in my personal life lately but @hazelestelle tagged me ages ago to do this, and of course I always forget everything I ever liked when asked these kind of questions XD

Aric Jorgan - Star Wars: The Old Republic

Minato Aino/Sailor Venus - Sailor Moon

Plagg - Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir

Wynne - Dragon Age

Beast/Prince Adam - Beauty and the Beast

Arven Turo - Pokémon Violet

Mieczysław "Stiles" Stilinski - Teen Wolf

Tali'Zorah nar Rayya - Mass Effect

Piper Halliwell - Charmed

Eliot Spencer - Leverage

Tagging: @amarmeme @hawkeykirsah @illusivesoul @darth-salem-emperor-of-earth @vorchagirl @thefrostyshepard @heroofshield @kittynomsdeplume @wickedwitchoftheweed @commander-krios @spacebunshep @masweird @my-favourite-zhent @silurisanguine

And anyone else who wants to play!

[masweird]

Tagged by @alyssalenko

10 favourites from 10 separate fandoms? Oof, this'll take a hot sec, and is in no particular order ...

Sheryl Nome, Macross Frontier

Lockon Stratos, Gundam 00

Ezri Dax, Star Trek: Deep Space 9

Ordo Skirata, Star Wars Clone Commando: Triple Zero

Makanouchi Ippo, Hajime no Ippo

Elsa, Frozen

Sailor Mercury, Sailor Moon

Ekko, Arcane

Damon Baird, Gears of War

Miranda Lawson, Mass Effect

Tagging: @alchemist-after-dark @keriweird @dandenbo plus any and all others who want a go! Bend the rules even!

[cat-in-a-tesseract]

God I love older generation Lenovos.

This watch hinge laptop I got from work in 2017, that travelled to Germany and England with me, just finally this year gave up on its battery.

9y of hard use. Swapped in a new battery in about 20min, and it's humming again.

[masweird]

The right to repair is an important right. It teaches skills, critical thinking, and can reduce e-waste.

[keriweird]

WIP Acrostic

Thanks for the tag @hawkeykirsah <3 I was on a stretch of shifts and time got away from me.

My assigned word was ANGER. Taken from my newest WIP Mass Effect BAaT story.

A - All he wants is to peel off his soggy fucking clothes and hide under his covers for at least a week.

N - Now he can't wait to get back.

G - "Gagarin Station."

E - Even if he does find a way to contact his parents, what the hell are they going to be able to do about it?

R - Rahna's voice is breathy, like she's almost scared to put her realization into words for fear of making it true.

Tagging @shadoedseptmbr @masweird and anyone else that wants to. Zero pressure

Your word is Vanish

[masweird]

Tagged by @keriweird, so here's "Vanish" as pulled from a work-in-progress-original-fiction-piece-that-no-one-else-has-seen.

V- Vasar exhaled. “It’s been nothing but a brimmed glass of stercore, as soon as the Spe made it through the wormhole."

A- "Asher, can you grab me the tongs?" Ciel asked, interrupting his rambling thoughts.

N- "Now I need you to shower, I only want to taste you and me."

I- IA on the hunt, Miller. Keep tabs on Alcoa, may try to win points with Quaker. Grumman.

S- Shoot fast, leave a sexy corpse.

H- “Help me search through these, I’ll send you the barcodes I’m looking for,” she ordered, sending him a long set of numbers.

Tagging @alyssalenko @vorchagirl @dandenbo and literally anyone who sees this and wants to hunt through any/all of their fics! Yur word is "UNIQUE"

[vorchagirl]

VorchaGirl's Birthday Giveaway!

To celebrate my birthday on the Feb 4th I'm doing a fun ol' fashioned Tumblr Giveaway! I figure the world is miserable enough right now, so I want to do something fun!

Prizes:

The winner can pick one of the following:

1. I'll write you a oneshot fic or piece of original writing with your OCs. Up to 5k words.

2. A custom macrame crystal necklace

3. A pre-made resin raven skull lamp with crystals and flowers in it!

Rules:

- To enter your need to reblog and write in the tags which prize you'd like

- You must be following me (though new followers are welcome!)

- You must be over 18 years old, as I'm not comfortable writing or shipping items to minors.

- You can only enter once

- The winner have a week to respond to me once the giveaway is over, otherwise I'll choose a new winner

- The giveaway ends on Feb 3rd and will be drawn Feb 4th 2026

[vorchagirl]

Please check that you're actually following me on tumblr! If you follow me on a different main to the one your reblog this on, let me know!

[masweird]

I hope this works!

[andypantsx3]

Fanfic Ask Game (the movie, the sequel)

In celebration of me actually working on a fic, I made y’all an ask game instead of continuing to work on that fic. Pls enjoy.

💖 What do you like most about your own writing?

😐 What embarrasses you most about your own writing?

👻 What is one WIP you think you may never pick back up?

👀 Do you have any WIPs that you would never let see the light of day? If yes, what are they about?

📥 What is your fave fic to receive comments/messages on?

✏️ Do you write every day?

🖊 Post a snippet from a current WIP.

🏅 What is something you recently felt proud of in regard to your writing (finished a fic, actually planned for once, etc).

😈 Is there anything you enjoy doing that you think your readers hate?

🌙  What time of day do you prefer to write? Why?

👖 Are you a planner, plantser, or pantser? Is it consistent?

📊 Current number of WIPs

👨‍👧‍👧 Do you tell people in real life that you write fic? 

🌝 Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to?

📝 What is one growth area you have for your writing?

📚 Do you read your own fic?

🌈 What inspired you to write [insert fic here]?

🤔 What is the hardest part of writing fic?

🧠 What’s an idea you have that you can’t quite call a WIP yet?

💻 Do you do research for your fics? What’s the deepest dive you’ve done?

✨ Choose three adjectives to complement your own writing.

💭 What is a headcanon you have about your own work?

🍰 Name one of your fave comfort fics (doesn’t have to be your all time fave).

👩‍🏭 If one of your fics was going to get you arrested, which one and why?

⏰ Do you spend more time reading fic, writing fic, or do you do both equally?

💋 [Freeform - what is something you want to know about one of poster’s fics?]

[masweird]

I regret nothing and everything.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

filled out that "performative male traits" checklist that's going around and while I didn't go in with any particularly high expectations I was still kind of thrown by how few of the 100ish items on the list actually seem to be any kind of performance at all. there was, like, one question specifically copping to posting lists of books that you've never actually read, which I suppose counts, but many other questions that seem to have deemed actually reading books to also be performative. reading a book, ESPECIALLY in public where anyone might see you, is apparently a huge performative male trait, which I guess makes me extremely guilty given that I'm prone to the ultimate nerd maneuver of reading while I walk to or from work. maybe I can get away with that, since I'm a woman, but it seems for men the only safe option is to either keep your reading to yourself or maybe never become literate in the first place, to be safe.

owning or god forbid using tote bags is performative, apparently, so that's another strike against me. enjoying matcha is bad for reasons that are lost on me since I'm not a coffee or tea guy, but I assume that if you are then the nature of matcha sins is probably totally rational. making playlists is bad, taking photos is bad, somehow even decorating your house with the photos you've taken is apparently bad. having a labubu also is suspect, and while I do agree broadly with criticism of overproduced and overpriced fad items that are inevitable landfill fodder and operate as a shadowy gambling system that's a solidly gender neutral criticism, whereas the issue here seems to be that a man engaging in an act of silliness is innately suspect.

it's really giving this tweet if I'm being honest

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

look it's not that men need me to fight for their right to knit or listen to Phoebe Bridgers but as rising social conservatism leads young women to glamorize being financially dependent stay at home girlfriends and eschew their birth control, mayhaps we should think twice about where the eagerness to demonize a man for owning a bag comes from.

[masweird]

As a (fairly) hetero cismale (I've already called myself into question by using those terms without a second thought) with semi-prominent cauliflower ears due to my own voluntary participation in a combative sport (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Freestyle wrestling are the main causes, but other sports I've partaken in include archery, fencing, and Taekwondo), I quite enjoy the juxtaposition of "what a male is supposed to be seen doing in public" and what I am seen doing in public.

Like reading. Having a good collection of books (it was bigger, but I had to sell some to make rent, it hurt). Enjoying tea regularly. I'd probably enjoy some matcha but I tend to stick with what I know because I already enjoy it (raspberry-pomegranate non-caffeinated with lemon zinger). Playing with my small child while also not forcing her to be interested in the same things I am (though that would make logistics less challenging perhaps). Being a goofball. Not spewing blood and testosterone because someone took my parking spot. I wear glasses. I get squeamish about things in my eye (or other peoples eyes), and that's a fairly public fact.

It's made a lot of people who have strong opinions on what men are supposed to be seen doing (or not seen doing, how dare we be literate in public?) and how men are supposed to react, especially since I work in a testosterone factory a.k.a. a gym. But few people have tried to make me change to fit their views. And I kind of blame the ears, or thank the ears (even though it actually affects my hearing). I tell people all the time I don't watch hockey (which is the preferred sport for the area I live in), and the line of questioning ends there most of the time, instead of the typical barrage that other people get.

Again, I think the misshapen damaged ears are the primary reason. So I lean into a bit. Also I love ordering dessert, but generally I'm too full from the meal!