phrenic-a

I put stuff here that I like and ignore stuff that I dont like. Lots of dimension 20 and sometimes I talk about microbes. she/her/hers

[parkchanwoohoo]

I'm fucking weeping rn

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[penny-anna]

Anyway here is my take:

I think trying to make a movie out of The Odyssey (not the story of Odysseus, but The Odyssey as in the poem) is a bit of a doomed endeavour as the structure of The Odyssey simply does not jive with the structure of the Hollywood movie

I think you COULD make a good movie out of the odyssey but would need to engage w the fact that it's a work which veers back and forth between fantasy and realism; that it's a story told out of chronogical order; and also that it is a Trickster Hero story first and foremost. It is perhaps best done as a comedy but with the occasional shocking swerve into graphic violence.

[penny-anna]

Here are my opinions:

The Odyssey should be a musical but ☝️only some of the time. When Odysseus is narrating? Musical. Penelope and Telemachus on Ithaca? 🙅‍♀️

Odysseus can break the fourth wall during the parts where he's narrating.

Movie opens with Odysseus inside Charybdis, whirling around and around clinging to a tiny raft and screaming. *Freeze frame* yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.

[penny-anna]

In essence am I implying it should be tonally similar to the emperor's new groove but with ultra violence? Perhaps

[banhmigoddess]

My one boring tip to anyone in their 20s is to resist the temptation to rot in your room every time you get a free moment. Dismiss any neuroses you have about going outside and "being perceived". Be a dictator about it, plan your hangouts like they are binding commitments. No excuses! Go to the bar with your friends. Be kinda hungover at work. Socializing is like exercise; even if you don't feel like you want to, you should still do it because it's good for you.

[happyllamaglama]

when the weird relative shows up to the farm

[krisrisk]

i have never seen an animal moving this silly

[bluewizardnonesense]

“Camels are far too intelligent to admit to being intelligent”

“Camels are largely made of knees, going in all directions”

“Camels gallop by throwing their feet as far away from them as possible and then running to keep up”

-Sir Terry Pratchett, discworld series

[the-hwaelweg]

The more Leverage I watch, the more I feel like it’s fanfiction of some alternate Leverage show. Like someone was like, “I love this show and these characters so much, and I need a college AU and a music star AU and an Office crossover and I want them to solve a mystery at a murder mystery party on a spooky island and and and…” I love it so.

[trekscribbles]

Leverage is fanfiction of every heist and action trope written by people who deeply love the genre (and who are even more deeply pissed off by current events.) And that’s why it’s perfect.

[feathery-thing]

@chershireswonderlandphoto

Thats why you should watch the whole thing!!!

[anaryllis]

reminders i need to like, tattoo on my brain:

1. if you feel judged and hurt by others, try sleeping

2. if you feel judgmental and resentful of others, try eating (the classics)

3. if you feel uncomfortable, try showering

4. if you feel directionless and afraid, go sit outside for a bit and maybe then you'll calm down. maybe even a walk if youre feelin crazy

5. take it easy, but by god, take it

[anaryllis]

oh and how could i forget. final boss. take your fucking medication

[evilwizard]

just a heads up. im gonna do a big curse soon

[evilwizard]

okay so honestly i wasn’t expecting they’d be able to hide the body for this long

[evilwizard]

LINDSEY GRAHAM ?

[sniperct]

The crabs got lost and ended up at the wrong rave?

[raraeavesmoriendi]

NOT THE CRABS WE EXPECTED BUT STILL SOME CRABS WE DESERVE!!!

[fishdetective]

Waiting in limbo while

foul Mitch McConnell he

lies in a hospital

gone to his grave.

Bloggers on tumblr are

characteristically

eagerly waiting to

let the crabs rave.

[spiribia]

i like how we all ignore that soldier / poet / king is probably supposed to all be descriptors for jesus christ and we're all just like this is my 3 blokes from the last television show i watched

[therantygeek]

Leverage: A Short Summary

[lordmogatron]

May I?

[gnar-slabdash]

YOU MAY

[phrenic-a]

Just wanna add here, for any unaware of leverage, that gnar slabdash is one of Nates many aliass in canon.

[tragic-cosmic-magic]

Leverage As Random Text Posts

Nate:

Sophie, about Nate:

Eliot:

Hardison:

Parker:

Nate & Sophie:

Eliot, Hardison, & Parker:

The Leverage Crew:

[thelambliesdown1974]

victory royale

[homunculus-argument]

We need to isolate and start selectively breeding the plastic eating bacteria so we can optimise their efficiency, and then somehow splice their DNA into the gut bacteria of an obligate carnivore, so we can put it in our cats gut biomes so they'll finally be free of having to choose between whether they want to eat plastic or whether they want to live.

[deoxyribonucleicacids]

As a geneticist and microbiologist who has worked with plastic-degrading microbes briefly, this is theoretically possible. The most difficult parts would be finding a microbe that could take plastic in it's unaltered (or slightly stomach-acid degraded) form.

For my project, we were trying to identify microbes that could use partially treated plastic as a food source and break it down further. The carbon bonds in our daily plastics are really hard to get at and break, hence the bad degradation, so breaking some of those bonds through heat and chemicals first can help microbes get access to them. Once we identify a microbe that can do this, we could test giving them slightly less degraded plastic to live on until they develop a way to eat it and go until they either get back to normal plastic or hit a wall where the microbe can't progress anymore (which may be likely).

An alternative approach to breeding (although you don't 'breed' most microbes since they reproduce asexually but instead find strains with mutations that lead to desired changes) would be trying to predict an enzyme that could break the bonds in plastic, engineering it, and putting it in microbes to test if it works. On one hand it could overcome any natural halt selection has but would be initially harder to discover.

The best solution would probably be to find the microbe that can eat the partially degraded plastic, figure out what enzyme is doing the work, then see how the enzyme could be improved to work through plastic in its default state.

Once you have that, the next consideration would be what byproducts are created from eating plastic? Part of the project was hoping that the microbe that could eat plastic would produce a useful byproduct that could be harvested, as an unfortunate reality of our current world is that if it's not profitable it probably won't take hold. But if we wish to put this in a living organism, we need to make sure it won't produce a harmful byproduct, or if it does, then ensuring the organism can quickly turn it harmless before it builds up.

Once all of that is figured out, the next hardest thing would be ensuring that whatever gut microbe you put the plastic eating gene in continues to express it. Since plastic is so hard to use it would probably prefer to use any glucose lying around first, and if that runs out then switch to eating plastic. We could try removing its ability to eat glucose (or whatever other compounds it lives off of), but then it would be less competitive in the gut environment and would require a steady source of plastic in order to not die off.

Although, I assume cats (and some people) would not find that a challenge.

[homunculus-argument]

...holy shit.

the only research I did for this post was 30 seconds to double-check on wikipedia whether or not bacteria have DNA.

[mareastrorum]

[dramatic music]

Brennan: Leaping through the sky, the driver's seat under your chin fires with a spring--SPROING--you fly through the air. Your mangled body, attached by the cord of a paddle ball to the clown's corpse, the clown flying through the air behind you, you grab Bat Child right before your human body is about to be dashed against the rocks. And in the back of your mouth, now full of plant sap and saliva, the clown's corpse flies into your mouth, caressing your cheek on the way past and goes, 'Home...' [WOOSH] as the clown disappears into oblivion, the portal sealing, the balance restored between oblivion and the mortal world and the ghost war occurring in oblivion. You guys didn't know about it, but this is what fixed it.

[music stops]

Ally: What? Zac: The ghost war? Siobhan: The clown was their god? Ally: He was the true soldier? Brennan: Some stuff was going on you didn't know about. It didn't come up. We were doing a sandbox-style campaign. There was other stuff going on. Lou: There was a ghost war? In oblivion? Brennan: In oblivion. But the important thing is that it's fixed now. The clown got home.