what is THE worst thing you’ve ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why
Hey whoa hi. Hello. I am looking directly into your ear canal. What do you mean you drank a tube of virus concentrate.
So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I’d finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.
I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.
Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can’t knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was “sterile rot”. A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube’s inefficiency as a shot glass.
(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)
(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)
tumblr hatemail is so funny because no one wants to feel icky about sending death threats so instead they send shit like “star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight: I wish that someone would cut your dirty head off and roll it down the street. Not me though! Dear me, no, I’m far too squeamish for that. And I need to keep my hands clean so I don’t have to answer any difficult questions getting into heaven.”
It is my dearest wish and deepest hope that a comically oversized anvil would fall out of the sky and squash you utterly through a series of complex Rube Goldberg processes that could in no way be traced back to me or anyone I am affiliated with.
Dear enemy,
I hope this hateful message finds you unwell. My heart dreams of your painful and humiliating demise and the absolute obliteration of any and all value you had to offer the world. I pray that the worms that feast upon your rotting flesh are lethally poisoned by it and that the soil beneath which your remains are smothered remains untouched and shunned by all plant life until the end of time.
But that’s just how I feel. Do not read any kind of intent or agenda into this message. For legal reasons my hatred shall remain unactionable.
Yours cruelly,
mouse-in-a-jean-jacket.tumblr.com
Wretched and abominable beast—
I must alert you of the relentless and terrible yearning I harbor for your ultimate destruction. It would please me beyond all earthly ecstasies to see you laid low at last. Visions of violence heaped upon you dance behind my eyelids each time I shut my eyes. Nothing would bring me more profound joy than your complete undoing—may every living cell that has ever touched you with tenderness and affection experience sudden and explosive lysis. I crave the privilege of watching the light leaving your eyes as your wretched husk convulses in pain and misery… after some weird coincidental accident that I am not responsible for in any way and also powerless to prevent despite my best efforts as a prosocial and unproblematic innocent bystander who abides by local laws and the TOS.
I bet you won’t publish this!
Hey there!
Hope someone guts you. Couldn’t be me though. I’m not the killing type. These hands are the soft and gentle hands of a seasoned keyboard warrior. I couldn’t hurt a fly. But if someone else were to pick the lock on 261 Warwick Road apartment 445 and wait for you behind the shower curtain with a long knife…. well…. who am I to complain?
My most important task, as a feminist and tumblrina, is to bring Civil War memes from male dominated online spaces here so that the fujioshis can see them.
still thinking about when i saw a girl on here with ~3 partners and one of them was a lesbian with a “MEN DNI” banner and one of them was a tboy with a “‘MEN DNI’ DNI” banner
i dont hate shipping i just think a lot of you people maybe like shipping too much
its ok. you can engage in a fandom without shipping. its ok. there are other things you can do. not everything needs to be about romance and characters being cute and kissing
“you can engage in a fandom without shipping 🤓 🤓🤓” ok and?? I don’t want to. I’m perfectly happy with everything being about romance and characters being cute and kissing
i was being too lenient before i have now decided no one is allowed to ship anything. in fact nobody is allowed to like eachother romance is banned in my beautiful world #hatred #ihatelove #mybeautifulworld #imalwaysright 😇
Pill Scarab Beetles: these beetles are covered in plates that perfectly interlock when the beetle folds its limbs, lowers its head, and curls itself into a ball
Above: Eusphaeropeltis sp. (top/bottom left) and Ceratocanthus aeneus (bottom right), two different species of pill scarab beetle
Beetles of the Ceratocanthinae subfamily (also known as pill scarab beetles) rely on a unique form of conglobation to conceal themselves. As the beetle tucks its head down and folds its legs up against its belly, the plates on its head, thorax, abdomen, and legs all come together to form a solid shield; the plates on its legs even have grooves and corresponding ridges that allow them to neatly interlock.
Adult Ceratocanthinae are best known for their ability to conglobate: rolling into a nearly perfect ball. The elytra, pronotum, head, and all six tibiae interlock with each other by means of grooves and corresponding ridges, forming a tightly connected external surface. Many beetles take the form of a tight compact structure when threatened, however in Ceratocanthinae the tibiae of all six legs participate in forming the external hard surface of the sphere, unlike in other beetles.
Above: Ceratocanthus sp.
The Ceratocanthinae subfamily contains many different genera/species, and they are all collectively known as pill scarabs.Many of them have a colorful, metallic appearance; they may be green, red, blue, brown, black, or multicolor.
discussion about right wing radicalisation focuses near-exclusively on men becoming white nationalists but i wonder how it might manifest elsewhere. like, imagine a heavily online subculture of mostly women and they’re dedicated to rooting out degeneracy, maintaining a rigid social order, refusing to acknowledge scientific consensus, being violently paranoid of a dehumanised other, adhering to exclusively eurocentric standards of beauty and politically dedicated to exterminating a minority group (possibly one that was already historically targeted for genocide). that’d be fuckin crazy lol
We joke and all but some of you really forget that people hate women.
Seeing people wonder “how can people say stuff like this” and “why does [x misogynistic thing] keep happening” is a bit disorienting because when you take a five second pause to think about it you can realize quite immediately that it’s because people hate women. Like guys… people HATE women.
follow up: a lot of you guys forgot that YOU hate women
Basically, I don’t think there’s going to be an announcement that Tumblr is getting shut down. If the pattern we’re seeing holds, I don’t even think it’s going to happen intentionally. I think Tumblr is going to go out like an early 2000s forum: they’re just going to keep cutting the tech support budget until something goes wrong in a way that none of the remaining skeleton crew know how to repair, which could be tomorrow or three years from now. If it does happen, it’s probably going to happen completely at random, so there’s no point stressing out!
Fun fact, on top of being staunchly against genAI, ellipsus literally has an Export To AO3 button. I do the majority of my writing in LibreOffice, but I’ve been moving all my GDocs over to ellipsus for a bit and I really love the interface. If you’re looking for an alternative to GDocs, this is The One.
i’ve started to use ellipsus for editing my novel! having a really good outline menu on one side and tabs of related documents in the other feels a lot better and more organized than gdocs.
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