I Want You To Be In My Future

Hello! I’m Nova :) She/Her | 26 years old Art Account: @TonariOfJananda Insta: spectacular_supernova

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[redpandarascal]

in conversation about white people who go to Japan and expect their knowledge of anime to culturally carry them, I was once posed with “it’s like if there was a Japanese guy who was obsessed with spongebob and came over here and thought he could get by just communicating in spongebob quotes.” This is a false equivalence because if such a man existed we would crown him king. We’d love him. Americans would fucking love that. sometimes I get sad that this isn’t a real guy I can invite to a party.

[hong--zhi--zhu]

[frustratedasatruar]

[rainbowgod666]

Ok the last one got me laughing actually

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

posting about being a "sensitive white boy" in 2026 just makes you sound like this

[holedyke]

obsessed with this pic from the wiki for kneading (cats)...eternal sweetness....

[tourdion]

say what you will about the reserve bank of india these are some cracking coins

[theradicalkanji]

[cuntubus]

[postarcadian]

the thing I love most about how tumblr users use tags is that it’s like what if a social media website had a footnotes system

[achesspiece]

in chess the queens can kill each other which is toxic yuri and the kings can never get within a square of each other which is doomed yaoi

[cpericardium]

[adhd-alien]

Why can I only get myself to work 2 days before deadline?? 😭 Part 2 & Poster version http://adhd-alien.com Why am I a Fish? I don't know but I'm live right now http://twitch.tv/adhd_alien/

[crittaslink]

"who said that" is a powerful spell that casts a defensive bubble around your most vulnerable thoughts

[irondive]

[cantotallyeven]

[raibura]

Is this unethical

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 9 hours

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Will turn their noses up at "ethnic smelling" food but wanna eat yeast from inside a corpse 😭 I just don't get it

[juniperjelly]

i get that it's kinda weird, but ya'll know they don't do this sorta shit for no reason, right? it's isn't just some researcher going "oh i wonder if i can make bread from this dead italian guy" just for fun, this is experimental archeology and anthropology. yeast that's been on otzi the iceman (he's the mummy in question!) for over 5k years is going to be very similar to other yeasts from around the time he was alive, so by making things like bread with the yeast sampled from him we can learn what those things would've been like in that region when he was alive! not to mention making bread is just a good way to test the properties of a yeast strain, stuff like how quickly it reproduces or produces CO2, and from what i read otzi's yeast might prove to be incredibly useful in medicine due to its ability to break down toxic phenols! and it's not like someone just decided on a whim to dig some goo out of otzi's guts n throw it into a sourdough starter, the study of his gut microbiome grants incredible insight into the diet of people and state of the ecology in his time and locale, and its been under study for a while now. also, the yeast wouldn't have been directly from otzi's body, that's unsanitary at best and illegal n likely to get your funding cut at worst, they propagated a sample of the yeast from his skin on something like an agar plate so they could make the starter using a clean sample of the yeast without any of his skin cells in it. it'd be a lot like if i propagated yeast from my own skin for a sourdough starter; sure it's weird and some people would understandably find the idea of making bread from it gross, but calling that cannibalism is either misinformed or just dishonest. archeology undeniably has roots in weird racist shit, and people treating the long-dead like objects to do anything they want with, including grinding them into a powder to consume because you've misunderstood some ancient medical text. this isn't an example of that. you're understandably grossed out by reductive headlines n shock reporting, and just not knowing lab procedure. ethics and regulations in archeology have come a long way from what used to be basically just grave robbing with a written record of what you stole, otzi the iceman is treated like the holy grail. if they can't study something about him without badly damaging him, they won't do it until they figure out a better way! he probably has as much care put into keeping him safe as the next most popular italian mummy, by which i mean the pope.

[inkthecryptid]

“White scientists (I would be shocked if anyone else was involved)”

Such an incredibly frustrating thing to hear when the first microbiologist quoted in the very article this is referencing is an Egyptian man named Mohamed Sabry Sarhan.

We’re doing an excellent job at training the critical thinking out of our brains. Nobody stops to read an article anymore, the headline gets briefly chewed up and extrapolated into the most heinous bad-faith interpretation supported by zero context. It is right and just to be outraged at the way racist historians and archeologists have defiled the remains of marginalized groups. This is really not one of those times and you could probably have surmised that by reading some extra words.

[galaxianmothman]

Pssst!

Live in the US?

Need to call your representative or senator, but nervous about making the phone call?

Do it at 2 am!

I'm not kidding. It will go to voice mail and you don't have to talk to a human person, and your call still counts!

Signed, someone with major phone anxiety who has pushed through it to do this several times now.

You've got this!

[zeelatunes]

how come nobody raps about the master emerald anymore

[filmphotofranz]

[mikus-sleepiest]

[scunthotter]

People who are making posts telling us what is happening over on threads, twitter, and Instagram are like war correspondents sending us reports from the front.

[rowanisawriter]

write insane shit that’s way beyond your perceived ability and skill level even if you don’t finish it even if you think it sucks