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[thingstol00kat]

Christina Fernandez, Multiple Exposures

as seen at SFMOMA; January 2023

https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/christina-fernandezs-three-exhibitions

[sp0o0kylights]

A Steve who cannot buy his boyfriend Eddie's movie tickets all time, take him out to bi weekly dinners, or even publicly win him a teddy bear at the fair is a Steve who pivots, and starts making trips the the closest hobby store.

The bigger one, that sells more than just a handful of D&D manuals.

The guys who hang around there are initially confused--the sports guy who should clearly be buying sports cards is instead coming in once a month to load up on everything from fantasy books to new dice. Clearly he has to be a nerd in disguise.

Yet when one brave soul casually asked what his preferred game was he said basketball, like a total normie.

Finally after a full year of this, the guy opens the door to the shop, but for once doesn't step in. Instead, Eddie steps through and gasps, before spinning and loudly accusing Steve of hiding the store from him.

"It's not my fault you refuse to drive this far out." Steve fires right back but there's a smile on his face, and the stores entire crew watch in awe as Steve follows Eddie around.

Steve is always careful in Hawkins, when it comes to not acting like they're in a relationship but its hard in the moment, and he's not as careful as he should be.

Eddie brings an entire armload of things to the front of the store and Steve insists on paying because;

"It's your birthday man, I'm not gonna make you pay for your own presents."

They leave, the two of them practically floating, leaving behind a bewildered group of people who immediately start arguing whether or not they heard the weird sporty guy call the metalhead "baby."

[reddpenn]

I got a Geiger counter!

Let’s look through my collection for some Spicy Rocks!  I’ve never deliberately collected radioactive specimens, so I have no idea what I’m going to find.

First, though, let’s test the baseline level of radiation in my house.

It’s fun to hear the Geiger counter click as it detects radiation.  20 counts per minute.  Nice!  You’re unlikely to ever see a count of zero, as pretty much everything in the world, including the human body, gives off a little bit of radiation. 

20 is a normal baseline, nothing to be concerned about.  Standing in my house, I’m getting a radiation dose of about 0.00013 milliseieverts per hour - or a little over one mSv a year.  This is an average yearly dosage of radiation for people in my country, and is something my body can easily process.  For context, a dosage of 100 mSv would slightly increase my risk of cancer, and a dosage of 1000 mSv would immediately give me radiation sickness.

But enough about these boring, safe amounts of radiation.  I want to see some spice!  Let’s check over by the Rock Wall!

Hm, I’d expected the CPM to be noticeably higher around my rock collection, but I’m getting nothing!  Even testing each individual rock, nothing’s more than a few ticks above the baseline.  So far, my fancy new toy is looking like wasted money.  :c

WAIT!  THERE!!  62 CPM!  That’s three times higher than the base reading in the rest of my house!!!  YESSS!!  THIS ROCK IS SPICY!!!!

Here’s the rock that’s setting off my Geiger counter.  (Yes I’m touching the spicy rock with my bare hands, don’t worry about it.) 

This fossil, which is as big as my head, is part of the femur bone of a Megalonyx, a North American giant ground sloth!

These huge animals could grow as big as ten feet tall.  They lived alongside humans during the last ice age, and it’s theorized that humans may have hunted them to extinction.  This particular fossil was found in a phosphate mine!

Why is it radioactive?  Because... sometimes fossils are just radioactive!  They spend a lot of time in the ground, which is full of radioactive minerals, and often radiation just gets all up in there.  There are some fossils on display in museums which are so radioactive that they have to be coated with lead paint for the safety of curators and museum-goers!  Compared to those, this femur bone is barely radioactive at all.

So is it really safe for me to have this in my house, much less handle it with my bare hands?  Well, yeah!  Remember, despite having this spicy rock in my collection, the radiation baseline in my house is completely normal.  Here’s why.

Even just a few centimeters away from this specimen, the Geiger counter’s reading is halved.  A few inches away, and it can’t detect any radiation at all.  It basically has to be directly touching the rock to get an abnormal reading.  Which means I also have to be touching the rock to receive a meaningful amount of radiation exposure.

But even holding this rock in my hands, I’m only getting a dosage of about 0.0004 mSv per hour.  If I never let go of this rock for an entire year, I would get a dose of about 3.5 mSv.  Which is... still completely within the safe threshold for my body to process.  Nothing to worry about!

Man, I gotta start collecting some spicier rocks.

[jesuis-assez]

Tim celebrating Lucy's efforts over her parents refusing to celebrate her achievements

[iknowicanbutwhy]

a question about full cast! when they're.. acting like the rest of the party??? who's who? (as in, 'the FIRST siffrin is odile, the SECOND siffrin is mirabelle,' etc - completely random picks there and not intended as actual guesses) what's up with bonnie-loop?

or is it just Rule Of Funny?

OKAY so I forgot to tag a post, but like, This Post is very relevant to your questions!

GETTING ALL THE WAY UP TO 36 LOOPS IS LIKE. BOTH THE WORST CASE SCENARIO AND AN INCREDIBLY DEMORALIZING EXPERIENCE. It was just too fucking funny not to draw the Universe breaking under the strain of this Black Hole of a person.

Which is to say!! It's said it takes a village to raise a Siffrin but nobody there is playing any particular role at that point. There's no way to tell anyone apart beyond "A Loop" and "The Siffrin," "a New (hopeful) Star" or "an Old (jaded) Star." When you become one of the many, many failures, and the Universe won't let you walk away, you just. That's all that matters anymore. You can't even take yourself seriously, let alone those around you.

BUT!!! Say we keep it to Four Loops, a much more manageable number. I mentioned in the previous post somewhat about how they don't differentiate very well - except for mini-loop, who was fortunate enough to at least look different - until they all decide on what role they're going to take up in their silly little one-person play. They just Don't intrude on each other's lines, on each other's characters, too caught up in their own - unless they're being Siffrin, just to tease him. They're as happy as they can be, having found a way to be.. well, not themselves, per se. But not a group of failed Siffrins. Not all the same doomed narrative. And in a way, they get to experience the people they love again.

When they have the energy to keep up the act, they talk differently, they walk differently, they focus on different things, and it's enough to tell one from the other half the time. And they'll keep going with this until it inevitably gets to them, just how much they're still. Worse versions of someone else.

Oh, but mini-bonnie-loop was made that short both because they worded their wish weird trying to find a loophole (tee hee) and also because the Universe was like. I'm gonna make this really funny. And well if the Universe is making them out like they could replace Siffrin's entire cast, who are they not to follow?

[cissa-calls]

Countdown to Agatha All Along: Day 805

Agatha: “Was anyone gonna wake me up? Or were you content just to watch me slumber until the panic of lateness seared my brain into a traumatic bout of adrenaline?”

Wanda: “You can’t possibly blame us Agatha, remember what happened last time we tried to disturb you?”

Agatha: “…not particularly?”

Y/N: “You threw a pillow at me!”

Agatha: “So? It was a pillow, or are feathers just really that scary?”

Y/N: “It was your BOOK PILLOW! WHO STORES A BOOK IN A PILLOW CASE?!”

Agatha: “WHAT IF I WANTED SOME LIGHT READING?!”

Wanda: “…more like heavy reading, am I right?” *chuckles at herself*

Y/N: “I will throw the book pillow at both of you.”

[thatgirl4815]

An important collection of Ray thanking Sand

[tanoraqui]

Nice.

[seirindono]

[sound on]

Grillby’s counter, ep3

Grillby's, one of the Underground's hot spot.

Many people have come here to drown their sorrows or celebrate their moment of happiness. The walls may have changed, but it looks as if it still has many years ahead of it.

[Update once a week on Monday, polls close on Thursday.].

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[iamthecomet]

Puts hand on ur shoulder

I have to also inflict you with the image of trans masc Rain sandwiched between cirrus and Aurora, getting absolutely fucking ruined on both of their straps...

Aurora may be little but she chose something big, something that swells to a knot nearly as thick as Aether's, and Cirrus promised the eager little bird that Rainy would take it.

And oh Cirrus fucks his ass, pulls on his tail when he starts to go limp, scolding him for being so cockdrunk he can't keep himself upright. Aurora loves how much of a mess he is for them, teary and drooly and dumb.

I dunno.

I just think the princess should get ruined by a princess, supervised, of course :))

Anywaysssssssss hope ur doing well 💓

- Void

Hey. Void. WHAT THE FUCK OH MY GOD?!?!?!? HOLY FUCKING SHIT DUDE I'M GONNA DIE ABOUT THIS. Just thinking about Cirrus looking at Aurora over Rain's shoulder as they fuck him, nodding her approval. Telling Aurora what to do like Rain isn't there. Really only addressing Rain at all when he starts to slump, starts to go boneless from pleasure. Scolding him for letting himself drift too much. Cirrus won't let him drop his weight down on Aurora. Won't let him move either. Aurora gets to decide how fast or hard he gets fucked. Cirrus follows her lead, praises her, but never Rain. That makes him shivery, desperate, whiny. Tears pricking at the corners of his eyes from how fucking good it all feels and how much more he needs. Bet Cirrus leans down after a while, catches her teeth on the shell of his ear and promises him he'll be stuck on Rora's knot before long. Tells him he just has to take a little (a lot) more. They'll take such good care of him when they've had their fill, she promises. Rain can't do much more than whimper at the thought.

[sforzesco]

you know that post about how scholars talk shit about each other when they write the phrase 'one might be tempted to assume,' or however it went. the entirety of crassus scholarship is like this.

[iristial]

[rockthistowninsideout]

Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning (2023)

[reddpenn]

I got to play with some uranium ore today!

Video transcript:

Okay, so here's something cool! This is a piece of uranium ore. This is not a piece from my collection, this is actually a piece from a collection that I'm getting to view here. Very neat! So yeah, that's uranium right there.

You might hear some clicks, and that is my geiger counter, so we're going to test how radioactive this uranium is. So this is just the base atmospheric radiation that's in this room. And let's see what happens when we get it next to that uranium.

Aw, there it goes!

Yeah, I'd say that's radioactive.

And for anyone concerned, this is still completely within reasonable dosage limits. Obviously you don't want to, like, eat this, or have it next to your skin for extended periods of time, but it is perfectly safe for me to, you know, pick up and handle.

It's giving off... what is it giving off? Let's let it tick up here and see what it gets to. About five microsieverts? It can probably go a little higher, we've clocked it a little higher before.

Eh, about five and a half microsieverts.

So again, completely safe for me to handle. But measurably very radioactive! So that's a very cool piece that I got to view today. I think it would be fun to have some of this in my collection at some point. Maybe I'll see if I can get the owner to sell it to me! Here's hoping.

Anyway, I just thought that was cool and wanted to share!

[pretendpopstar]

Somewhere City by Origami Angel

[justfriendsbestthings]

Gonna dare everyone to write some happy wilmon soon I swear (affectionately)