#haven’t studied at all lol

[k-aveh]

Shall I text him ?

I think the thing that will forever haunt me is the fact that the only people who could tolerate me at all are slightly older people who just want to use me. They’re the only ones who could deal with how impossibly exhausting I am, who could put up with me, give me the time of day, be prompt, actually make me feel like I’m not a burden or a hassle…

[hypmicdaydreams]

is anyone still in the mood for a hypmic imagines blog these days lol

[beasts-image]

Happy WIP Wednesday y'all

[thormanick]

The real question is if Neuvillette = surname, does that mean that each and every Melusine is also Neuvillette?

[shoutyourporpoise]

I guess, for me, I like. I don’t hand-make a personality for each new situation but I am also not very good at the skill of switching up my mode of being as the situation calls for it? Which means I’m a sort of pithy and animated person with my friends and I am also that person with my therapist and when I’m at work and when I’m attending my friend’s parent’s funeral. So in some of those situations I’m the life of the party and in others I come across as flighty at worst and cruelly self-involved at best.

And the result is that while many people are initially drawn to me for being a little flute of champagne, eventually they either dislike me for being Like That all the time or ignore me because they believe me to be all sparkle and no substance. The people that stick around eventually get to the tootsie pop it just takes a fucking while.

To be clear this doesn’t really bother me bc I think over time I’ve 1) learned at least a *little* situational awareness and 2) have self-selected for a friend group that is cool with me being as I am. But the people who confuse ME the most are the people who keep talking about how rip-roaringly hilarious I am when in my mind I am asking something bluntly and without grace.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

When I was in the ER the other day for the second time my nurse had on the funniest pair of crocs. Bright yellow and a really wacky texture. She said she had to liven up the boring grey scrubs somehow 😆 Do you have a favorite pair of shoes for work?

Also saline (I think that's what you give for dehydration) is weirdly cold and the stuff for CT scans (reverse something-or-other?) is weirdly warm. IVs are a party haha

Why are you in the ER so much hon 😭 Keep this up and they’ll start putting you to work lol. I hope that was your last visit!

Our bodies like to keep things roughly around a balmy 37C/98.6F, so room temperature saline does feel quite cold! IV contrast, on the other hand, is just weird, it can either be freezing or scalding.

Here are my work shoes! I like making them colorful because my scrubs are pretty plain. I used to have three pairs of shoes but I wore a hike right through one of them and the others have been missing for months, so I’m stuck with these lol:

[fingertipsmp3]

I feel like I’ve lived through at least a month just in the past 3 days. I checked the date just now and damn near had an out of body experience when I realised Monday was only two days ago

[peapod20001]

I’d fucking LOVE to put the various designs of an oc side by side like I am so not ashamed of how they used to look and I just wanna fucking SHOW people them all the time

[pepprs]

also cringefail double vent posting over things that are not actually that big of a deal once again lol but i am so fucking miserable today in ways i don’t even know how to articulate. i need to move out. i know exactly where i want to live but they raised rent $300 and i can’t afford that but i want to live by myself so badly but my parents are adamant that i can’t bc i can’t drive and im a “diminutive inexperienced young woman” and i want to punch something. i read half of the drivers manual and cried reading it which is fucking stupid bc it s just the drivers manual. but i want to move out so bad. i hate sharing a room with my sister and im not getting the new room anymore bc we don’t have money to finish it up bc my mom is still sick and no one knows what’s wrong with her and she has to get all these tests. i never have a space i can go to that’s just quiet. i don’t want noise. i don’t want to block out noise with more noise. i want QUIET. i don’t want to be afraid to go into rooms or hear noises i don’t want to hear. and i don’t want to be living here for the three extra months it’ll take me to ng et my permit. im just done. i don’t want to live here!!! and things at work suck and are exhausting and draining and so unbearably overwhelming and i feel terribly lonely and disconnected from everyone and small and scared and i don’t have energy to fix any of it or explain what’s going on or ask for help or get a therapist or whatever. and i keep pulling muscles in my neck. and i want to go to sleep!!!!!!

[thefactsofthematter]

i hate dance exam season fr

[lesbianlenas]

the way my friend texted me today if i was free to hang out tonight but i went home yesterday quite literally wanted to lie in the street HATE passing up an opportunity to spend time w friends i love spending time w friends 😭 i should be dead in a ditch for this.

[brittlebutch]

i can’t stop thinking about this weird little storm chaser AU my brain dreamed up where bill&ted are the POV characters but crucially not the main characters but the problem is that I truly don’t know anything about storms and I worry I’m not smart enough to understand if I do start researching LOL

[lyriumsings]

think i’m gonna make it a point to always participate in wip wednesday just to get into the habit of drawing at least once a week

[fen-the-space-dragon]

Every passing day. My need for therapy grows. Exponentially. Yet every time I try to get it, something gets in the way. Isn’t that funny? Cuz I think that’s so fucking funny. Now my parents are trying to help me get on meds. I wonder what will get in the way of me getting help this time

[fruitlicense]

The cosmology class I took this past spring briefly covered parallel universes/multiverses, and while I’m not gonna share my prof’s lecture slides on tumblr, I am going to summarize the concepts he went over because that shit is fascinating!!!

DISCLAIMER: I just finished a degree in physics, so I have more background in this than the average layperson, but I’m still a student and not an expert by any means. If something in this explanation is wrong, it’s cause I was cross-referencing my class notes instead of citing academic papers. This is for fun, guys. :)

So, there’s four levels of multiverses - basically, four frameworks to think about ways we could have different universes existing in parallel. Reminder: this is THEORY, but it’s based on mathematical logic and our current observations of the Universe, so it’s not cold hard fact but it’s not complete conjecture either.

A Level 1 multiverse hinges on the difference between our observable Universe and our actual full complete Universe. The observable Universe encompasses the limits of what we can see and detect, and it has a hard boundary based on the age of the Universe as a whole. The Big Bang was 13.7 billion years ago, and being a singularity, no information can get to us from “before” it, if “before” the Big Bang is even a thing. Effectively, time in the Universe started from zero 13.7 billion years ago. That’s a finite age, and light has a finite speed that it can travel at (3 x 10^8 m/s), so there’s stuff in the Universe as a whole that isn’t part of our observable Universe because there’s no possible way that light from it could have reached us yet. No information travels faster than light, so anything outside of the horizon of the observable Universe will always be unknown to us in every sense. And this is before accounting for the expansion of the Universe and the fact that as space expands, stuff is going to zoom away and disappear behind that limit even as the limit grows with time. TLDR: we will never see most of the vast infinity of the Universe.

Now, the Universe overall is infinite. I know that makes me referring to it as “complete” very hand-wavey, but whatever. The point is, just over from the boundary of our observable Universe is another observable universe that’s in the same overall Universe as us, but we’ll never see them and they’ll never see us. Think of the Universe like a sheet of cookie dough and each observable universe as a cookie - if you’re making your cookies right, none of them will overlap, but they’re part of the same sheet of dough. If you’re working with a standard baking sheet, none of those cookies will be identical, but think about an infinite sheet of cookie dough. Eventually, in an infinite cookie dough Universe, you’ll run out of ways to uniquely arrange your chocolate chips, and you’ll have two identical cookies separated by many cookies in between. Particles in the Universe are just like chocolate chips in your dough. We only have so many kinds of fundamental particles in the Universe, and there’s an unthinkably large amount of ways they can be arranged, but eventually, statistically, you will get patches of Universe that will never detect each other, but that are identical down to the quark. You’ll have even more patches of Universe that are very nearly identical save for a few particles. So in an infinite Universe with infinite parallel observable universes within it that don’t overlap, there are identical AND near-identical versions of every one of us somewhere out there!

Personally, I think that’s cool as fuck. :)

Since all universes in a Level 1 multiverse are part of the same cookie dough sheet, if you will, they have the same physical constants, laws of physics, dimensions, fundamental particles, etc. If you could go into another universe in a Level 1 multiverse, it wouldn’t have a different law of gravitation or speed of light or anything crazy like that, because it’s just a different piece of the same larger Universe. In a Level 2 multiverse, you don’t have that guarantee that the laws and constants are the same.

Explaining a Level 2 multiverse takes some understanding of our early Universe right after the Big Bang and how it influences some weird shit about the Universe now. Our problems include that we can’t explain why the average temperature of the Universe (and of the Cosmic Microwave Background, which you can look up because it’s too much to go into detail about here) is more or less the same everywhere we look, we can’t explain how that could happen in regions that are too far away to communicate with each other (ex. places on opposite sides of our observable Universe), and we can’t explain why our Universe appears to be exactly flat when it’s had a lot of time for any not-flatness to become very detectable. Except that we can explain all of those problems (and one more that I don’t feel like explaining but you can look up magnetic monopoles if you’re curious) with the theory of inflation. In the very early Universe, if the Universe had an inflationary period where it went from a more “normal” expansion rate to expanding exponentially and then went back to a normal expansion rate, all of those problems would make a lot more sense. Areas that look the same used to be in causal contact, any fluctuations in flatness were smoothed out, etc.

Level 2 multiverse theory asks, “well, why the hell do we assume that inflation works the same in all parts of the Universe?” The universes in a Level 2 multiverse are separated by their different inflationary periods. One might have expanded exponentially for much less time than ours, or for far more. Another might not have been flattened out by the exponential expansion enough to avoid having curvature. Situations like that could lead to very different-looking Universes because fundamental constants like curvature actually determine a lot about the way things work in our Universe. Level 2 multiverses are harder to explain with the cookie dough analogy, but I guess it’s like if you rolled out the dough kind of funky? Each universes of a Level 2 multiverse can also be its own Level 1 multiverse, so the cookie dough metaphor kind of starts to fall apart there. :/

Level 3 multiverses are somehow easier to understand than Level 2 multiverses, which I find lowkey hilarious, but I think it’s because the idea made its way into the pool of general knowledge a little more easily than the ideas of Level 1 and 2 multiverses. You know the concept that every choice you make could split off an alternate universe where you made a different choice than the one you actually did? Level 3 multiverses are based on the quantum mechanical version of that. In the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, every time a particle makes a “choice” about what state to be in, a parallel universe splits off where it’s in the unchosen state (or parallel universes, if there were more than two options). Quantum particles change state all the time, so that’s a lot of universes! I won’t lie though, I don’t really understand Level 3 multiverse theory beyond what I’ve typed here. How do the parallel universes split off of our Universe? What “space” are they splitting off into? How would we know if we’re in the original Universe or not? Search me, I don’t know.

Speaking of things I don’t know, Level 4 multiverse theory is impossible for me to explain because I don’t understand shit about it. Paraphrasing from my prof’s slides, “if the underpinnings of mathematics change and we have different mathematical structures, we get different fundamental equations of physics.” What does that even mean??? How would that work??? I’m no mathematician, so it may just be a mystery to me forever (or at least until I beef up my understanding of the type of crazy abstract math that people with PhDs in it do, which I don’t anticipate happening anytime soon).

Anyway, this has been the very very basics of multiverse theory with @fruitlicense! Level 1 multiverses are my personal favorites, if anyone was curious. :)

[dearru]

who’s the cute boy with the thick accent? | a.miya

pairing: college student!miya atsumu x gn!reader | sfw | cw: cursing, atsumu being annoying, not proofread | genre: fluff ig ? | wc: 453 | masterlist

synopsis -> ATSUMU MIYA loves when people play hard to get. It’s well-known across campus that he loves the thrill of the chase. So, when he suddenly takes interest in you in the middle of the library, you know exactly what to do.

“I’m trying to study, Miya,” you chide coolly to your university’s star setter, who’s decided to sit right across from you when there’s a dozen other empty tables he could have sat at. You stare down at your textbook, avoiding his piercing gaze.

“C’mon,” he coos, leaning in closer. You feel the air thicken, and it’s suffocating, “Ya can call me by my first name. I ain’t gonna bite.”

He claims he won’t, but his silky and persuasive tone, almost daring you to give in and look at him, suggests otherwise. Deep down, you know you’re just another prize to him— a challenge he’ll forget soon after he overcomes it. Knowing this is the only thing that holds you back from succumbing to his overwhelming charm.

You bite the inside of your cheek, trying to keep your gaze focused on the words in front of you instead of him, “I’d rather not. Thanks, though.”

He feigns an exaggerated pout for a moment before replacing it with a smug smile, “Yer really gonna say no to me?” He props his head on the table to look up at you teasingly, forcing himself into your eye view, “Yer actin’ like it’s a dirty word. ‘S just my name, ya know.”

While you know he’s only playing with you, your heart pitter-patters. Unintentionally, your gaze flickers down to his forearms resting on the table. His arms are toned and muscular, a reminder of his athletic prowess. You may be trying to ignore his advances, but you’re not blind. You’re all too aware of his stupidly cute Kansai accent, and the way his golden hair seems to glow when the sun hits it just right. It drives you crazy.

Years of practice have clearly made him a professional at knowing exactly how to push people’s buttons, and you’re no exception. You don’t want to give in. You don’t want to feel anything for him. But the way you haven’t absorbed a word of information from your textbook since he sat down is evidence enough of his affect.

If he was just another pretty face, maybe it would be different, but he has these alluring eyes that draw you in, making you forget all your inhibitions with the way they glimmer bright with a dangerous mischief.

The corner of your lips twitch into a slight smile, betraying the dirty look that you’re trying to give him, and he smiles as if he’s already won.

You’re totally fucked.

—a/n: atsumu sucks (i need him so bad). wrote this while bored at work lol. also drafted a scene from his pov. maybe i’ll post it idk!