the-hot-zone

the grief you carry is not dead weight.

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let’s see paul owen’s tumblr theme

welcome to the-hot-zone. the name of this blog pertains to a book about ebola i read over a decade ago.

Name: call me zone.  Pronouns: he/him & she/her.  Age: 22 Content: poetry & analysis. see zoetry for original work. sometimes i post cooking & baking; lately, i’ve been tagging lots of stuff for my fungal horror series + sci fi projects.  .  Other: white & Latino. my ask box and DMs are always open. i’m a very busy person, so i might not get back immediately, but i love to meet new people. 

[wildspringday]

rb with your major/degree, your sign and your favorite season

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every single time a miruko cosplay crosses my feed i pause to admire. i’ve never not seen peak

[volition2]

fucked up adn cruel....

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the treatment of female characters (lack thereof, design, storyline, etc) in bnha will never fail to piss me off. congrats to the hero misogyny show for whatever movie or fifa collab came out ig

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May 25: Six years since the police murder of George Floyd rocked the world.

The billionaires and their politicians were shaken by the popular uprising that followed, and now they are trying to exact revenge. But the struggle continues. We won’t give up. #BlackLivesMatter

[rhinco]

i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence

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every time i think i’m finally not busy enough to come back here and play reblog with my mutuals i get slammed again 😒 however. zone co-authorship in a scientific paper coming soon

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dunmeshi lovers: i got senshi’s and falin’s vas’ signatures ‼️

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[ID: a screenshot of Marcille from Dungeon Meshi. A speech bubble has been drawn over her head to make it seem like she is speaking the words of a tumblr screenshot. It reads "My coworker said he was having a bad day and I said 'it can't be that bad you haven't started howling like a sad dog yet' and he let out the saddest most pathetic little howl I've ever heard and I was like 'damn ok do you need to have a break?"]

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anime-loving mutuals. i need your help. 🫵🫵🫵

here is the situation: my very best friend whom i love deeply is taking her mcats this friday. she is celebrating by going to a large anime con that next day. last minute, a different friend who was going to be there is now unable to attend that same saturday. my best friend called me practically begging me to go with her knowing that a) i am a very casual anime lover and most of my anime knowledge is older and b) i am trying to save $$. regardless i said yes because i love her so much. this is where you come in. so i can maximize her enjoyment and muster informed excitement: what are the current popular anime i should try to watch beforehand?

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hm. didn’t like that <— me after mixing very hazardous and corrosive chemicals today at work

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carrot cake update: base was finished last night. my additions were more ginger, more cinnamon, and more of home made chai masala (i follow a gujarati recipe to be precise). i also did a 1:4 ratio of brown butter to oil and added toasted milk fats, for flavor and to preserve the moist crumb. now i will be doing the icing: cream cheese based, to which i shall add leftover brown butter and crème fraǐche for a more complex savory cheese note, to cut the sweetness. will also add some orange finishing sugar and maybe sprinkle some more chai masala. this is a wip ofc. i hope to decorate with lots of toasted walnuts.

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made pad grapao and gaeng keow wan and bok choy and rice for my meal prep :) and ofc dropping some off to my partner tomo bc they work with pastry and the farmers market season starts this week so they are very busy. and also because i am in love with them

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btw. life updates. i was offered a full-time paid position in a microbiology lab for the next 2 years as well as a PhD position, and my first project was a collaboration with several universities + nasa. declined the PhD position but i now manage multiple projects and undergrads on my own. celebrated six months with my partner last weekend. buying my own car with all the $ i’ve saved over the past 3 years soon. learned how to shoot rifle and found out i’m a very decent shot. also learned how to skin and flesh animals after hunting/trapping. joined a dnd campaign. reading lots (nk jemisin has my heart rn). i continue to throw down in the kitchen (working on a brown butter chai carrot cake recipe rn and just had momos for dinner). taking classes again soon (molecular genetics lab and computer programming, very psyched), aaand today my uni did an alumni spotlight on me for disaster response. how is everyone doing

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mind you ☝️ i am currently looking at other PhD programs while i become a more competitive applicant (ie publications). i am biding my time while i consider what to choose as my research focus since i have so many interests. also considering the md/phd route

[hi-raethia]

GIYUUUUUU

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btw. life updates. i was offered a full-time paid position in a microbiology lab for the next 2 years as well as a PhD position, and my first project was a collaboration with several universities + nasa. declined the PhD position but i now manage multiple projects and undergrads on my own. celebrated six months with my partner last weekend. buying my own car with all the $ i’ve saved over the past 3 years soon. learned how to shoot rifle and found out i’m a very decent shot. also learned how to skin and flesh animals after hunting/trapping. joined a dnd campaign. reading lots (nk jemisin has my heart rn). i continue to throw down in the kitchen (working on a brown butter chai carrot cake recipe rn and just had momos for dinner). taking classes again soon (molecular genetics lab and computer programming, very psyched), aaand today my uni did an alumni spotlight on me for disaster response. how is everyone doing