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This will be a pinned post with links for mobile as well as a short intro. To start things off, I’m Eren or Sionainn (pronounced the same as Shannon in English). I’m 31 and a xenogender nonbinary and intersex pan aroace.

My pronouns are xey/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself. They’re used like they/them, so it’s “xey are” and not “xey is”. They/them is okay if you can’t use any of my other pronouns.

My interests are scifi and fantasy roleplaying games, scifi and fantasy media in general, and natural sciences with a focus on geology and astrophysics. Current interests or hyperfixations may change. Back to my Elder Scrolls roots like when I joined tumblr almost 13 years ago whoops.

I’m an Irish-Italian American from the Midwest US. I speak some French, but I’m learning to speak Irish and hope to be fluent someday.

Here is my about with more details. I don’t have a “real” dni because I find them performative I'll just block you if I have a problem with you. The "dni" link on my actual blog page leads to a page with some joke banners, you should still click on it though bc it's funny (and if you have any more banners like that PLEASE send them to me I am collecting them, only send fandom ones if we share a fandom though).

People under 18 can follow, though be warned I do reblog adult humor which I'll tag as, which will be tagged as “nsfw text” if I remember (which I don't sometimes because of my memory problems so be advised). I try to tag common triggers, as well as “nudity cw” for characters with visibly uncovered breasts or artistic nudity for blacklisting purposes.

I have photophobia (light/brightness sensitivity) and bright images can cause migraines so mutuals please tag them if you can! I blacklist the tag “eyestrain”.

My icon is by eluvisen, header is by skullinacowboyhat

Ok thanks for reading :) Slán!

The Phoenix

for the good of all mankind

#i'm gonna throw up #the way tau ceti is centered on his heat like a bullet hole #project hail mary

drtrinitysantos

sdxfcgvzdxfcgvhzdxfcgvhbjnkmlcgvhbjnk science

dizzyhslightlyvoided

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)

copperbadge

My grandfather got the GI bill after the war and decided to become a chemist. He was a year into his degree when he spilled something on himself in the lab. The way he told it, he watched whatever it was start to dissolve the leather apron he was wearing, thought about what it might be doing to his lungs, and after calmly removing the apron, became an architect instead. I think chemists are Like That because the sane ones all self-selected out of the pool.

crazy-pages

My solid state physics professor in undergrad was an experimental ferromagnetic metallurgist on a shoestring budget. If you're not familiar with this field, this means she regularly handled magnets that could and had broken her bones when they slipped, and also home-built open-air radio furnaces that would have a dropped quarter halfway to slag before it hit the bottom. She once built a lock-in amplifier from a hubcab she found in the parking lot, a toy car motor, a flashlight, and a light sensor, and it didn't just work, it worked well. Her lab contained precautions against things like "the potential of an ever-expanding pool of death" and "actual fucking lava".

"Metal" would be an apt term for her, if only it wasn't too mild to describe her. This woman was casting lead ballast under her father's supervision to go sailing on a stormy lake when she was 8. She was one of the first women to be allowed in her grad school engineering program. She and her friend organized a 10 year long hostile takeover of our physics department's hiring committee and then spent the next 20 years systemically hiring decent and diverse people while driving out the bigoted assholes, driven by sheer bare-knuckled spite and an absolutely unbreakable will.

And I will never forget the horror with which she once described the insanity that is chemists. Back when she'd worked in industry, she'd had a crucible with a metal residue on the inside which she just could not scrub out. So she went to one of the company's chemists for help, figuring he'd know what to do.

And the fucking madman, in defiance of all sense and reason, pulled out a fucking squirt bottle of hydrofluoric acid from his desk drawer, spritzed it in the crucible, wiped it out with a rag and a stir rod, and gave it back to her. He then offered her the squirt bottle to take.

My professor - one of the most inspiringly hardcore people I've ever met - had a haunted expression on her face as she told us she had declined. But that the madman had simply smiled, shrugged, put the bottle away, and told her that it was no trouble, if she ever needed a crucible cleaned again just come on back.

Chemists, she explained to us, scare her.

#A SQUIRT BOTTLE OF HYDROFLOURIC ACID???#NUH UH

7-inches-of-satanic-panic

k but imagine Rocky wanting to learn about how humans became the apex predators of their planet so he has Grace “hunt” him in the biodome as an experiment and during it he thinks Grace isn’t trying or taking it seriously which is bad bad bad because this is for research purposes

only for Rocky to get more and more tired as the experiment goes on just to realize that Grace isn’t which makes him panic so he puts as much distance as he can between them and finds a (hopefully) safe spot to sleep and when he wakes up the human is crouching over him like “got youuu” and Rocky has never shrieked so damn loud before in his life

#Rocky: how do humans hunt?#Grace: oh haha we follow them until they get so exhausted they have to sleep. hey why are u backing up #<- prev tags #SCREAMS???#project hail mary

dreamycastaway

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

iwriterobots

dateamonster

messed up that you can literally be better and nicer in every way and the adventuring party will still be like "waaa its a shapeshifter waaaa the real whatstheirface would never say that" like ok maybe i am a picture perfect copy of your friend that i imprisoned beneath the earth and replaced when you werent looking. so what. maybe they were a cunt. maybe i thought youd appreciate an improved version of your friend. with awesome eldritch tendrils.

louisegluckpdf

every since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to aimlessly wander a blighted landscape

faeeevee

#YEAAAAAAH #it's back #the elder scrolls

jumpingpuddles

STARGATE ATLANTIS ↝ The Queen

#stargate

aalduin

Minecraft (2011) ➵ Scenery 🌸

#minecraft

lengthy-artery

discord letting you have custom emoji has really ruined my ability to communicate effectively on other apps. what do you mean i cant send jalute. what about givehand. cryingpat. torment. sittinghere. tvek. cant even send my wonderful beloved frogheart. whats the bloody point

#i can't exist without angy and madness and ben #and also faceplant and chairpose

youtube FINALLY recommending me the good shit i'm getting cave diving videos now - as in like actual videos of cave divers recording their dives, not horror stories of cave diving

#there's some seriously magical stuff in underwater caves y'all #people don't do these things just for adrenaline rushes #it's the sense of discovery and wonder and beauty #i love watching videos of cavers and divers sharing the wonder with the rest of us #i don't have the full body strength for diving but i'd love to build up my leg and arm strength to cave #eren.txt