#i hope youre not too stressed out right now bc boy howdy.

[timaeustestified-official]

Hiii Dirk, Did u know that ur Brother is probably dating an alien right now? I think that’s pretty neat don’t u?

I'm being supportive about it.

For clarification, I've never seen them kiss in person. This is all speculation.

[creweemmaeec11]

do you have any tips for getting words down bc boy howdy i could use. some tips. shjdksdj

Hmm, I have a few different strategies!

1) If you have an idea and just want to get it on paper, write the most rudimentary version possible, basically jot notes. Sometimes actually writing it can seem intimidating, so litterally just "person A gets upset. B apologizes. Person A feels guilty for getting so angry and B reassures it's alright,"

Sometimes this "bone structure" method is also great for if your stuck on a scene, or dont have the brain power to be detailed, or whatever lack of motivation you have, because once you get the basic strokes, you can slowly add meat to the bones, just going over it a couple times and adding more detail with each pass.

2) use technology! You have it at your fingertips, use it! Sometimes I litterally feel too sluggish to lift my fingers to physically type, that's where swipe to text, predictive text and text to speech come in handy! So what if theres a bunch of errors? You can go back and edit it later! The name of the game right now is to just get it down, so speak outloud and let your phone do the typing for you!

3) Bribe yourself! Theres no shame in telling yourself that, for every sentence you write, you earn a gummy bear. Or something similar! But make sure this bribe method dosent turn into punishing yourself, make the goals very easy.

4) Just not really "feeling" it? Grab a buddy and use them to get yourself hyped up! Tell your friend about the story you want to write, let them tell you how cool it is. Every writer needs a hype friend, because when they get excited about your story, suddenly your excited and much more motivated to write it! (I volunteer!)

5) Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. Open the text document and write one word, then close it again. Maybe write a sentence then go watch youtube. In between each video add a few words. You dont need to write a novel in one sitting. Every book started with a single word.

6) Write the ending first! Sometimes you just dont know how to start. You've been staring at that empty document for an hour and *nothing*. You have a scene you want to get to, but you just cant get it started, so, skip the beginning! Just start writing the scene you've already got, then fill in the holes afterwards! Sometimes starting is the most intimidating part.

7) Don't write. This may seem counterintuitive, but try it! Ban yourself from writing! No writing for a whole week! Your not allowed! This is more then just reverse psychology, where suddenly when your not allowed to do something now you want to, but sometimes you just need a break! A week of not feeling guilty for not writing because your not allowed to! A week of not thinking and stressing about it can be just the refreshing thing you needed. Sometimes just feeling guilty for not writing is enough to burn you out.

Sometimes it doesn't actually feel like burn out or writers block, you can have the idea and even the exact words in your head, but you just cant seem to get your fingers to type it. This is still a form of a lack of motivation, so don't beat yourself up♡

I hope these help a bit!!!

[crispyjenkins]

I dare you to write an Ani5 fix-it fic. I will not be taking criticism and will die on the hill that this is the most powerful ship and could’ve saved the entire clone wars. Bonus points if it features the ship Mace Windu/headaches (bc anakin is a walking mess of shatterpoints and lives to annoy Mace). Codywan to help knock some sense into anakin would also be top tier. I LOVE YOU ZEPH’BUIR

(of course i can’t do a whole fix-it in a quick prompt answer, but i think i’ve set it up for a far happier ending than in canon! support communication and education in relationships (ღ˘⌣˘ღ) and also adhd clones.

fives might be the most i’ve ever struggled with a character (‘cept maybe ahsoka....) so it took a little while to figure out how to write this scene in a way i liked. also, had to go and watch fives clips to try and get my autism brain working, and BOY HOWDY do i actually hate dbb’s take on the clones, especially the accent but everything else too. their character designs make me want to cry. so i’m begging, for me, to imagine this fives like this especially because then we get Tol Anakin and a Smol Clone BF and i think that is a seriously underutilised dynamic.

thank you for the prompt, ad, and for cursing me with this ship in the first place. someday i’ll get around to actually writing them as the battle husbands they are 🧡)

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  Echo's always been good with programming, but Fives is better with the actual building. He's not any good with inventing, maybe, but putting things together? Opening them up and knowing immediately what's wrong? Fives would even say he enjoys it — and being able to talk shop with Skywalker like they're nobody mechanics from the Outer Rim instead of General and Soldier makes the long hyperjumps between missions actually bearable. 

  How that led to him sitting in a rarely used hallway on the Resolute with Skywalker ("Anakin," he keeps insisting with a smile), both leant over a mouse droid in pieces on a drop cloth, Fives isn't really sure. It probably had something to do with Skywalker's excited bounce when he'd come to ask if Fives wanted to help him, the sparkle in his eye reminding Fives just how young the both of them are. How, technically, he's older than Anakin.

  Because, yeah, he is Anakin, not Skywalker, when they're like this. With his growing knight cut a curly untamed cloud around his ears, grease smeared on the underside of his jaw, with Fives stripped down to his blacks from the waist up, with even his blasters set on the floor next to them. 

  With it quickly becoming clear that Anakin doesn't actually need help to rewire the mouse droid, but had asked for Fives to join him anyways.

  They've been at it for a few hours now, their jokes winding down to companionable quiet as they both work on separate parts of the droid. It honestly might have been easier to start from a scrap droid than try to rewire this one correctly, but it's easy work Fives could do blindfolded, and sharing the mutually-focused silence is actually quite nice.

  Anakin is elbow-deep in the outer casing when he finally asks, "Do the clones feel love?"

  And Fives almost gets up and walks away. He knows not every battalion ended up with a good Jedi, that the 212th and the 501st had been so kriffing lucky to end up with "The Team", but sometimes he forgets. Maybe that's the worst part of it: slow, personal moments like this, Fives forgets he's not natborn and bearer of a face shared with millions. Being around his general makes him forget, and maybe he had taken that for granted until now.

  Or maybe it's for that reason that he hesitates from storming off, because Anakin had been the one to name Alpha, to insist on giving them proper leave, to defend them from anyone who talks down at them even if they're a planetary leader. And Rex had said something, once, about Anakin’s brain working in either/ors, being hardwired in some way to only see in black and white and believing that if you're one thing, you can't be another. That what Anakin says isn't always what he means.

  So instead, he asks, "What kind of love are we talkin'?"

  Anakin refuses to raise his head, and Fives can almost see him stressing about how to phrase this.  "Y'know, grand romance and stuff. One-and-onlys and holodrama romcom propaganda and imagining growing old together."

  "'Not quite sure what you're asking, sir." He takes a deep breath. "The short answer is yes, we can and do feel that, but the long answer is I can't speak for every brother, and I would not want to. Some of us don't feel that." Shrugging, he passes Anakin a socket wrench before he can ask for it. "But it's not because we can't, not because of the longnecks. We're bred to be obedient, sir, not emotionless."

  Quiet settles over them again while Anakin processes this, his mouth twisted rather horribly. Fives starts to think he would do a whole awful lot to turn that frown back into a haughty smile. 

  "What do you really want to ask, General?"

  "I'm married to Senator Amidala."

  Now, everyone with eyes knows that. Maybe Torrent knows even better, when they've been covering for their general for over a year now, and clearly the Jedi just aren't doing anything about it — but Fives also knows Anakin has never actually told anyone about this, not even General Kenobi. Rex says Anakin still thinks they've been discreet.

  "If I may be blunt, sir, this is not news."

  And Anakin actually laughs at that, shaking his head as he tosses down his tools to stare at the opposite wall instead. Fives watches his gaze go distant, somewhere far away from the Resolute lost in the middle of space. “I’ve loved her since I was nine years old, Fives. I loved her through not seeing her for a decade, through her assassination attempts and the First Battle of Geonosis and becoming a knight, and I...”

  Fives sighs once. “No one said you had to stay in love, sir.”

  “But that’s just it,” he groans. “I’ve never known how to do anything else, how to be anything else. I don’t... know who I am without it.”

  He has to look away from Anakin, then, because he’s seen brothers go stupid for people they meet on campaigns, or for their Jedi, and Fives isn’t nearly as young as some of the shinies out there, but he knows what it looks like, when they leap in without thinking. He lets out a long, slow breath, his eyes falling on the ‘saber at Anakin’s hip. “Permission to speak freely, sir?”

  Anakin blinks at him, and nods.

  “That’s too young to decide what you want to do for the rest of your life.” Fives raises a brow at his general’s startled expression, which is maybe more amusing (endearing) than it has any business being. “General, you’re barely an adult, just the same as the vode. If my mental timeline is right, you weren’t even twenty standard when you married Amidala, which, frankly, was reckless and unfair on her part.”

  “Padmé would never–”

  “I don’t mean intentionally, sir. The fact of the matter is, no wonder you don’t know who you are without her, because you’ve always had her.” That decade of no contact notwithstanding, considering Anakin didn’t not have her, either. “Senator Amidala knew who and what she was before you, and she’ll know who and what she is without you.”

  “That’s not quite fair,” Anakin grumbles, but his throat is flushed in what Fives hopes is entirely appropriate guilt, or at the very least embarrassment. “It was my idea to get married after Geonosis.”

  Fives snorts. “The idea of a child thrown into war, afraid to lose anything.”

  “You’re being uncharacteristically candid, Fives.”

  “Respectfully, sir, the last thing you need is to be coddled.” His general laughs again, this time good and bright in a way he hasn’t heard before; and then Fives can’t help what he admits next. “We weren’t allowed toys, or anything.”

  Laughter cutting off abruptly, Anakin’s eyes grow haunted instead. There might not be anyone else in the galaxy with quite the same experience as the clones, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t those that understand.

  “Hevy made me and Echo– Well, he said they were mythosaurs like Kal taught us about, but they looked more like sad loth cats. He cut up his own bedsheet to make ‘em, and couldn’t tell the longnecks what he’d done with it, so he just slept on the bare mattress.”

  “Fives...”

  But it’s clear Anakin doesn’t actually know what to say, so Fives pushes on. “Some of Fett’s instructors tried to teach us Mando’a, you know? I think Spar is the only brother that ever got fluent, the rest of us have been making up words and combining them with Basic and Kaminoan and whatever else the Cuy’val Dar spoke that sometimes we don’t even remember what language they are anymore.”

  “I didn’t learn Basic until I was five.” Anakin thunks his head onto the wall behind him with a sigh, the mouse droid forgotten at his feet. “Other padawans always told me I was lucky Master Obi-Wan knew Huttese.” Ahh, kark, his general had been a Hutt salve; at least the spice runners made sure their slaves could communicate with their customers. “I couldn’t read a word of Aurebesh when I first came to the Temple, though to be fair, I couldn’t read anything else, either.”

  “You grow up around other kids?”

  “Yeah, my mom and I lived in the biggest slave slum on Tatooine.”

  Fives doesn’t need to tell him how lucky he was just to have had their own quarters. “I think, sir, that the vode know better than you think, what it’s like always standing on the edge of losing everything.”

  Squeezing his eyes closed, Anakin inhales sharply and clenches his fists over his knees. “What happened? To your mythosaur toys?”

  “One of the longnecks found them while we were in training, ‘threw them out before we got back. I think Hevy was even more upset than we were.”

  The leather glove over his prosthesis creaks as he tightens his grip on his own palms. “Was it easy? To just... forget about them?”

  “Of course not,” Fives snorts and crosses his arms, “we were the equivalent of eight standard at the time, but we honestly didn’t have a choice. As we got a little older, we stopped trying to put meaning in things, because we weren’t allowed things. Our names are our only real possession, even our armor can be taken from us, but we will not, cannot, let anyone take our names.”

  Groaning, Anakin scrubs his hands over his face before pushing himself up to finally look at Fives properly. He still doesn’t speak for a moment, just watching him, then teases flatly, “You’ve been spending too much time with Cody and Obi-Wan, you’re starting to speak in riddles.”

  “They are riddles only to you, sir.” He offers a small smile, and is only slightly disappointed when Anakin doesn’t return it.

  Instead, he lets out a winded breath. “So. You’re saying that it’s not easy to let go of even small things, but we must. And then there are things that we shouldn’t let go of?”

  “Some things aren’t ours to keep.”

  Anakin swallows. “Like Padmé,”

  “Like any person, no matter what sort of love we have for them.”

  Groaning, Anakin pulls his knees back up close and drops his face into his arms. “But I still love her.”

  Knowing that this is not a new problem, that General Kenobi has been trying to teach his general this for as long as they’ve known each other, Fives takes a moment to consider. “You don’t really have to stop loving her.”

  “But you said–”

  “You think I stop loving my brothers when they die?”

  Whether or not it’s healthy to hold onto affections for someone after a romantic relationship is a conversation for another time, Fives decides, and leans over to pick up where Anakin had left off with the droid.

  “General, it sounds to me like you already know all this,” he says, twisting a wire into the grip of his glove to yank it from the motor. “And  that you’re digging your feet in — which is the crux of the problem, isn’t it?”

  “You sound like Obi-Wan,” he groans, but doesn’t deny it.

  “Hmm, well, at least we’re still just kids.”

  Anakin very slowly looks up from his arms, just enough for Fives to see his wide eyes. “What do you...?”

  “Well, we’ve still got time to learn, don’t we?” Fives raises his eyebrow as he fits the new wire into the motor and starts to close all the panels back up. “I still think about Hevy and Droidbait and Cutup, and honestly, I still think about Echo’s and my mythosaurs. That’s not a bad thing, I don’t think, not even the Jedi would think that’s bad. I’m still angry when my vode don’t get funerals and I honestly hold that against the Chancellor and the Jedi both. But I don’t get to go back to Kamino and take my anger out on the longneck that took our toys, and I’m... working on it, not being so angry with the generals. I’m still angry. But I know the Jedi have about as much say in all of this as we do, and I know burying my brothers won’t bring them back. So I’m working on it.”

  “I... don’t have to be good at it all at once.”

  “Great Maker, General, just because you’re the Chosen One doesn’t mean you have to actually be good at absolutely everything from the start. You just have to try, and you still have time to.”

  He looks up and finds Anakin already smiling back. “Fives, I could kiss you.”

  “Considering it sounds like Senator Amidala just divorced you, I think that’s a very bad idea, sir.”

  “Bah, you’re no fun.”

  Fives feigns offense, “This mouse droid we’ve rigged to follow Captain Rex around and scream says differently.”

-

  The night the 501st returns to the Resolute after finally (kriffing finally) leaving Umbara, Fives finds a hand-sewn stuffed mythosaur on his bunk, with a string collar and a dogtag etched with CT-782.

-

Mando’a: Cuy’val Dar — “Those who no longer exist”, group of 75 Mando’ade and 25 others put together by Jango to train the clones vod/e —  “brother/s, comrade/s, sibling/s”, technically gender neutral but used most often in fandom as “brother/s” (*in this context, fives is using brothers as gender neutral as well, because you won’t take trans and nb clones even from my cold dead hands*)

[askthetotallynotcampcamp]

jaspvid for the s o u l

michael: oak aye

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Jasper: *first day working at the camp 😳😳* *vIbES near the entrance lmao*

David: GOOOOOOD MORNING JASPER! READY FOR YOUR FIRST DAY?

Jasper: Totally!! Is the camp still the same as when we were younger?

David: yup! Obviously different kids, they can get crazy so be prepared!

Jasper: Oh jeez, okay.

The b u s: *i am alive*

David: ah! They're here, oh you're gonna love them Jas!

Max: *walks off the bus* who the hell is that?!

Nerris: yeah I've never seen him before! Hello sir I dont know!

David: well kids, this is your new counselor, Jasper!

Jasper: Hi kids-! I hope I can make your summer great!!

Neil: *😒😒*

Harrison: Oh cool! A new person to show my magic to!

Space kid: howdy do Jasper!

Max: okay just another person to make fun of!

-all the kids are in the mess haul now-

David: I told you to be prepared! Dont let max get to you, hes always like that

Jasper: he’s just a little, uh, insulting. kinda rude, I can handle it though! Don’t worry about it

David: alrighty!

-time skip bc I'm lazy-

David: *getting ready for sleep time* do do dooooo

Jasper: ughhh, I do not understand how you deal with those kids all day *😔*

David: I've gotten used to them, maxes words hurt sometimes but I'm fine with it. And you dont have to work here ya know, if it isnt fun for you

Jasper: I wanna work here because I miss being with you all the time, homeslice- I’ll get used to it eventually

David: awe that's sweet, but you can always tell me if you want to leave because this place can stress you out! Now you, should get some sleep mister

Jasper: *😳😳😳* ah yeah, you too homie *bed time bro*

David: goodnighttttt!

Jasper: goodnight-

Time: smellbert day time

The camp: i am going to burn down

David: OH GOSH THE CAMP!

-after they fix the camp bc I'm lazy and tired-

David: *collapses against a tree* now that, that was a workout

Jasper: *collapses nexts to mr tree* is that how it’s like everyday?

Neil: *a p p r o a c h e s*

David: yeah basically *jumps up* hello Neil!

Neil: Hey can I show you something I’ve been working on? *is neil*

David: ah yes of course! *grabs Jaspers hand and walks over*

Jasper: *😳😳😳😳*

Neil: Okay, so, this is my science stuff, and this right here is a calculator

David: very...interesting! Right Jasper!

Jasper: I like the uh, bottles?

Neil: The test tubes?

David: *tries not to laugh*

Jasper: I mean- I guess? I don’t know, I never did science

Neil: Literally everyone knows what a test tube is-!

David: oh come on Neil cut him some slack, hes not all about science

Neil: david, literally everyone knows what a test tube is!

David: well Jasper isnt everyone! Keep up the good work! *walks back to the cabin*

Jasper: *taps david’s shoulder 😗✌️* hey hey hey, quick question

David: hm? *turns around* yeah Jasper?

Jasper: Can I talk to you alone for a hot sec

David: yeah of course! What's up buddy pal

Jasper: uh, so, since I was a kid i thought you were super cool-?

David: wow really?! Youre really.. what's the word you use..radical!

Jasper: Wow thanks! Anyway, I was thinking and like- I like you??

David: well duh, we're best friends!

Jasper: yeah, but, like-like you homie

David: *very red* oh gosh- i- um-

Jasper: *😳😳😳* uh- yeah-

David: a-are you sure? Out of a-all people?

Jasper: *nodnodnodnod*

David: well uh- lucky for you- *kisses his cheek😳😳😳*

Jasper: *😳😳😳😳* oh dang-

David: *smiles at him*

Gwen: well that was lovely

Jasper: Wow gwen okay

David: oh h-hi Gwen..*v red*

Jasper: *😳😳😳😳*

Gwen: I saw the whole thing, it was WAY better than trash tv

David: well is this good for your trash tv? *kisses Jasperteehee*

Jasper: *is a red*

Gwen: *:0* Oh damn!!

David: oh wait I actually did that-

Jasper: jesus- *lmao covers his face or some shit*

Gwen: 👏👏👏

David: okay uh toodaloo! Bye! *runs to the cabin*

Jasper: uh, i’m gonna go too-! *fOLLOW*

Max: they're so gonna makeout

David: *in the bathroom* WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH ME

Jasper: *kNocKs oN tHe dOoR* uhh, davey are you okay?

David: AH! oh Jasper, hello! Uh yes I am completely fine why would something be wrong what

Jasper: you ran away really fast, are you sure you’re okay-?

David: yes of course! *comes pit of the bathroom and is like face to face w/ jasper bc he was standing right outside of the door??*

Jasper: *😳👉👈* *s smooch*

David: *😳😳😳😳😳😳*

Jasper: i’m uh, sorry *😔👉👈*

David: nononono it's okay! *hug*

Jasper: *hug 😔👉👈*

David: hey, you okay? *ruffles his hair and laughs*

Jasper: *:) 👉👈* of course!

David: that's great! *smiles at him*

Jasper: we should uh, leave and see what the kiddos are up to *walks out backwards???*

David: okay! *kicks the door open* owie

Jasper: oh dang are you okay-

Nikki: What SPICY DRAMA happened??!

David: nikki what do you mean??

Nikki: Max said you were gonna make out!

David: nothing happened! *😳*

Jasper: *holds onto david’s arm or smth lmao oop*

Nikki: hmmmm

David: nikki nothing- uh- nothing happened!

Max: Likely story DAVID!

David: fine, what do you think happened?

Max: you two made out or some gross shit and then you came out like nothing happened!

David: well you are incorrect!

Jasper: very incorrect!

Nikki: Oh damn it!

David: well anyways, since it's getting to sunset now, its campfire time! *skips over to the benches*

Jasper: come on children!! *follow*

Children: kk *follow*

Max: jasper I seriously dont understand how youre in love with HIM

David: *making a fire*

Jasper: I mean, he’s really nice, Max- I’m sure you’ll feel the same way about someone eventually

Max: pft- yeah, no

David: *stands up* okay and we are ready for action!

Jasper: oh come ON max, stop being so heartless *walks over to the f i r e*

David: *sits down on a log and puts on his sweatshirt* (I LOVE DAVID WEARING A SWEATSHIRT)

Jasper: *sits next to d a v i d* oh dang, are you cold?

David: eh, it's just summer night air

Jasper: yeah but i wanted an excuse to do this *puts his arm around david 😳*

David: *goes wide eyed 😳😳*

Jasper: *forehead smooch 😳😳*

David: *hides in his sweatshirt😳* Jasper not in front of the campers!-

Jasper: Oh dang i’m so sorry *n not*

David: *rests his head on his shoulder* hmph

Jasper: oh no, am i in trouble now? *hug teehee*

David: *shakes his head no*

Jasper: cool cool cool *😘😘😘*

Gwen: *👀👀👀*

David: *sleep*

Gwen: I think you need to go tuck your boy in

Jasper: Righto, Gwen make sure nothing burns down *picks up mr tree mans and cArRiEs hIm To tHe CabIn wOwIe*

David: huh..oh hi jasperrrr

Jasper: hola *drops mr tree mans onto his bed lmao rekt* you fell asleep

David: oh sorry *laughs tiredly?? Is that a thing??*

Jasper: go to sleep, you sound tired *forehead smooch 😳😳*

David: *pulls him down to....hug him duh*

Jasper: oh dang- *hug hug hug*

David: what? I love youuuuu (he ain't gonna remember this-)

Jasper: *😳😳😳* shoot- i love you too homie *s sits on the bed or smth*

David: *sits up and hugs him* thank you for working here, now I get to see your adorable face everyday

Jasper: jeez- calm down- *😳😳😳*

David: I'm just saying! *smiles at him*

Jasper: *😌😌* okay go to sleep now- it’s late, homeslice

David: okay *kisses him* goodnight *:)*

Jasper: goodnight weirdo *escape*

-morning-

David: *wakes up and sits up* best sleep I've ever had

Jasper: *uhh already out watching el children*

David: *gets dressed and walks outside* GOOOOOD MORNING JASPER

Jasper: hello hello, how did you sleep?

David: very good actually! I just dont remember anything from the camp fire

Jasper: oh great, you were hella tired last night man

Nikki: *f fire*

David: GOSH DARN NIKKI NOT AGAIN WITH THE FIRE!- *runs*

Jasper: *ahaha just vibes honestly lmao* righto children, who wants to go do something cool

Max: what do you consider cool

Jasper: dunno, what do YOU consider cool?

Max: I dont know that's why I'm asking you!

Space kid: how are babies made

Jasper: okay, we’re not going over that today- what if we uh, go to spooky island and find cool stuff

Nerris: david said we arent allowed over there!

David: I heard my name! Wassup

Jasper: we’re going to spooky island because i almost died there so we are allowed

David: *:0* ooooo adventures okay! Boat time! *walks to the boats*

Jasper: alrighty everyone get in groups of threes to go in the bOaTs and then don’t get lost

David: *gets in the boat in front of thy jasper* is Gwen coming?

Jasper: I don’t think so-

Space Kid: *is on their bOaT now because he asked how babies were made*

David: *starts paddling the boat* weeeeeeee

Jasper: *lmao also pAdDlInG*

Space Kid: David how are babies made?

David: uh well- *😳*

Space Kid: because neil told me that-

Jasper: okay okay okay let’s not talk about this today

Space kid: do you and jasper make babies?

David: NO *😳😳😳*

Jasper: *w heeze*

Space Kid: hmmmm, well do you want to make babies?

David: SPACE KID JUST STOP TALKING *😳😳😳😳*

Jasper: *literally sobbing* this is COMEDY

David: JASPER DONT ENCOURAGE HIM

Jasper: It’s so funny-!

David: uh-uh! Its embarrassing!

Space kid: you guys have definitely made babies

Jasper: *FIDNKSNSKSK* OH MY GOD *teeheehaw*

David: OKAY WOW LOOK WE'RE HERE *gets off the canoe*

Jasper: *escaped canoe* kk kids stay in your groups and find something cool

David: I guess space kid went with harrison and his group, so that's leave us alone *😳*

Jasper: *😳😳😳* *👀👀* *smooch 😳*

David: *😳😳😳* *kiss:)*

Jasper: *:)))*

Nikki: GUYS IT IS HAPPENING

David: NIKKI I SWEAR TO GOSH IF YOU DONT GO AWAY-

Jasper: *😳😳😳* Woah Davey chillax

Nikki: Everyone wanted to know!

David: well I think it's pretttttttty obvious that I am deeply in love with Jasper!

Jasper: 😳😳😳

Nikki: WOAHH!! Like my mom and Carl!!

Neil: nikki pleeeeeease dont bring that up

David: oh god-

Nikki: Why not! That was true love Neil!

Jasper: what even- who?

Neil: that was sex! Theres a difference Nikki!

David: their parents hooked up on parents day-

Jasper: *elbow nudge ;))* *LMAO WHEEZE JK JKING*

Nikki: There is no difference!

David: JASPER NO

Neil: they only did it for pleasure!!

Jasper: I was joking homie!

Nikki: oh REALLY? how would you know!!

Neil: beacuseeeeee that's why people do it nikki!

David: okay....homeskillet!

Nikki: have YOU ever done it!!!

Jasper: oh jesus- we should stop that before something bad happens

Neil: NIKKI I AM 11

David: yeah-

Jasper: *picks up nikki or some poopoo* Nikki, just listen to Neil on this one

Neil: THANK YOU

David: *giggles*

Nikki: this isn’t over NEIL

Jasper: okie dokie kids- Nikki you’re coming back with me because I don’t trust you with neil

Neil: NIKKI YOU LITERALLY EAT DIRT SO I DONT THINK YOU WOULD KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SE-

David: OKAY ENOUGH OF THIS

Jasper: alrighty everyone we’re going back- david go back with neil

Nikki: *g rowels*

-when they get back-

David: *flops on to his bed* well that was a experience

Jasper: *s sits on david’s bed* oh god it sure was

David: *sits up and leans against the pillows* I haven't been that stressed in awhile-

Jasper: *😳😳👀* *smooch*

David: *smooch😳😳😳😳*

Jasper: *😳😳😳😳smooch*

David: *hug* hiiiii

Jasper: *hug 😳😳😳* hello hello

Dsvid: not to be that weird person but you are way better at kissing then I thought you would be- *giggles*

Jasper: *😳😳😳😳*

David: okay soryyyyyyyyyyy

Jasper: you’re so dorky

Space Kid: *knocks on the councelor cabins door*

David: ugh can we ever be alone! *opens the door* oh space kid! Why are you up?

space kid: i had a nightmare that space wasn’t real can i stay with you :(

Jasper: ughhhhhh

David: yes of course! *picks up him* where do you wanna sleep?

Space kid: uhhh in space

David: let me rephrase it, where do you want to sleep in the cabin?

[real-goblin-kris]

LIVE REACTIONS TO ENDGAME FOR THE FIRST TIME

Oh fuck man... my boy Hawkeye...

Nice song for the title card tbh.

Tony and Nebula??? PURE. I love this.

Man Tony... oh fuck... my boy...

I’ll dream about you... ohhhh fuck my heart...

It’s really pretty seeing Tony among the stars but like holy shit...

Poor Tony just wanted a nap and what’s he get? Explosions and shit.

OH FUCK THATS NOT AN EXPLOSION ITS BRIE LARSON

Baby face Cap. I like it.

Would die for Captain Marvel now.

THEYRE MAKING UP?! AND PEPPER?? ROCKET AND NEBULA?!!

Shuri... Parker... Eric...

I thought you were a build a Bear.

Oh they’re not making up it’s a fight again goddamn this is too much...

Rhodey is the real hero.

Tony... oh hell.

Where you going? To kill Thanos. Uhhh duh?

That’s cute Thanos has a retirement plan

Thor be like mmmm fuck this

Before, you didn’t have me. Carol what the fuck bruh

I like this one. Oh Thor...

LANGUAGE CAPTAIN

Thor is not practicing seatbelt safety.

Who here has NOT been to space?

Cheap... why bring up fucking Peggy now she’s already dead

Armor scarecrow. Big farmer man.

Seeing Thanos in a T-shirt is... jarring and uncomfortable.

Hey asshole, take 2!

Lmao the stones are gone

Just fucking kill the asshole please

I used the stones to destroy the stones. Wow.

I am inevitable. Bitch that’s... uhhh...

YAY DECAPITATE THE FUCKER

I went for the head. Yes baebey I’m proud of you.

What a wasteland... wow.

Support Group Steve Rogers, that’s poetic.

LOVE OF YOUR LIFE MY ASS ROGERS

Oh hi Scott

Howdy bro why all my shit gone

Fuck my shit where’s my WIFE

AWWWW FUCK IM CRYING HIS DAUGHTER YOURE SO BIG

We handle it by NOT handling it.

PB&J and some serious drama.

My babey... mom Rogers is my dude...

Nat is... my depressed self...

She... called them family... oh wow I feel Nat so much right now...

Quantum physics for conversation! Cute.

Is that anybody’s sandwich? I’m starving.

Yeah... like a time machine.

I get emails from a raccoon. Trash panda!

I would DIE FOR MORGAN STARK. RIGHT NOW.

Back to the Future references!

I adore Morgan. I literally adore her.

I’m SO CONFUSED...

I love Hulk??

DAB!!!! HULK DABS!!!!!!!

Oh... Tony and Peter...

Did... Tony Stark invent time travel?

Morgan says shit????????

I got some important shit goin on!

That’s EXTORTION.

I love you 3000... that’s the cutest goddamn thing...

Oh the put a pin in it...

Lol hulk is the BOY.

You’re right. I do, Captain America.

It’s a baby. Scott! As a BABY!

Somebody peed my pants and I don’t know if it was baby me or old me... or... me me...

Oh tony drives an Audi

Sup bitch it’s ya boy tony

Thor.exe has stopped responding.

Oh wow Thor...

I worry for Fat Thor

There’s beer on the ship. What kind?

Why the fuck is GENJI IN THIS MOVIE

Whom the fuck

What the fuck

BARTON?!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t give me hope. Wow fuck I felt that.

Oh Thor...

Oh my god. Wow.

So back to the future’s a bunch of BULLSHIT?

Oh wow...

Thor, what do you know? Is he asleep?

No, I’d like a Bloody Mary.

You wanna go to space? You wanna go to space puppy?

Not it (on Vormir)

Pleeeeeeease tell me Thor gets to see Jane again...

I think it’s gratuitous but whatever...

The Ancient One is a Pain in the Ass

LOKIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no... I heard Jane... I’ll cry...

FRIGGA...

My poor baby has PTSD over this.

CAN I PLEASE HUG THOR?????

It’s a long way from Budapest.

Sister drama? Jeez.

What the fuck is that bigass sword Thanos?

Abusive shitbag thanos.

Lookin at AMERICA’S ASS!

Flick me.

Take the stairs. HATE THE STAIRS.

HAIL HYDRA?!!!! BIIIIIIIITCH

RRRRRGH SO MANY STAIRS

Is that... Axe body spray??? Oh fuck Tony...

OH HELL LOKI

lmaooooo cap thinks he’s Loki

Yeah I KNOW... I know...

THAT IS AMERICA’S ASS!

Oof this is crazy shit my head hurts bc of this time travel drama

The Ancient One stresses me out.

Squidward is back.

FRIGGA... oh... I’m gonna cry... mommy...

The feels of old Asgard ok... what a mom moment...

THOOOOOOOR! I GOT IT!!!!!!

IM STILL WORTHY IM SO SAD NOW GOODBYE MOM SWEET FUCKING JESUS HOLD ME

oh I love the opening scene for guardians

oh... shit... Nat...

oh my fuck I don’t have words.

I always knew Bruce loved Nat but man this is hard

This is a MESS WHAT THE FUCK

THANOS BOMBED THE COMPOUND WHAT

I love Barton so much right now who’s the baddest bitch?? CLEARLY CLINT

I’m gonna fuckin wait here like the dickwad I am duh

That’s my man. You lose this again, I’m keeping it. Ohoho I missed avengers banter.

Ew, it’s a dick with a big sword.

Aww, look! Fat Thor got a lil braid in his beard.

Eat a fresh, hot asshole Thanos. You’re obviously fucking stupid.

SHRED THE UNIVERSE AND REMAKE IT??? Someone fucking sounds like he read too much Pokemon Diamond and Pearl manga, you sound like Cyrus you little bitch

Clint “Bad Bitch” Barton yeets out of trouble

Thor plays tennis with Mjolnir.

STEVE WITH THE HAMMER FUCK YEAHHHHHHH

DID THANOS GO FOR THE DICK?!

PETER!!!!! THE HUG!!!!!

Oh shit GAMORA

Peter Parker is VALID AND IMPORTANT AND SO PURE

Yeahhhh CAROLLLLLLLL

Thanos looks so sad Alexa play All Star

SHES GOT HELP HELL YES MY WOMEN ARE BAD BITCHES

Scarlet Witch is everything. EVERYTHING. I would DIE FOR WANDA MAXIMOFF.

Headbutts Carol “bitch do I LOOK AMUSED”

TONy

I AM IRON MAN

Oh FUCK

MY HEART

Get fucking WRECKED BALLSACK FACE

This reminds me of when Voldemort went cornflakes

I’m crying so fucking much oh god

BABY STARK

Was that Harley I can’t see there’s too many tears

MORGAN AND HAPPY

I thought I was gonna hate Falcon Cap but I really can’t when it’s like this

I still want Stucky and will ship it forever but I can’t really hate this ending scene.

Final Thoughts: Endgame has officially ruined my life and I’m okay with it. My face hurts from crying. I need a hug. And to go see FFH again.

[biobab]

undergrad immunology internship: 3/14 update!

SO its basically been a month since I started working, and so far, I'm really enjoying it!

50% of what I do is media and buffer prep, which maybe would include making antibiotic plates on some days, and 50% plasmid processing. oh and 30% of that first 50% is running around the building checking and waiting for and fixing the autoclaves.

but boy howdy have I learned a lot! I'm way more confident making buffers and sterile solutions from stock reagents. I was so lost at first bc I had to learn where to find everything, learn their waste disposal procedures and the most efficient way to make certain media. because it was QUITE A SHOCK to me that agar settles within 0.5 seconds in a graduated cylinder, thus sticking to the bottom when you try to pour it out??? yeah so "1L of plate media" actually means "1L of media + 15g of agar".

ok so this gets REALLY LONG and i go into detail what my day is like, so if u into that keep reading but tl;dr,,, i’m learning a lot and doing things!!!

I've also learned labs should REALLY invest in disposable metates or somethin bc a lot of crystalline reagents form clumps that are like ROCKS. so i'll spend like a good minute chopping up salt crystals with the tiny side of a scapula when it really needs 5 seconds with a mortar and pestle. but ANYWAYS

buffers were scary at first bc I nearly accidentally inhaled the imidazole (why the FUCK does it smell like that??) but they are super chill and easy now, more a waiting game for things to dissolve anyway.

so like 40% of my job is autoclaving a buncha stuff, and always gotta be autoclaving 250mL flasks. now there are like 3 different brands of flasks the lab uses, and all are valid but have different shaped mouths (like the top of the flask). there are the Lipped Ones, the Skinny Guys and my favorite,, the Chunky Bois!!! i gotta cut EXTRA large aluminum foil for them, bc boy they got GIRTH. anyhow i am just a stones throw from naming and recognizing each individual flask of the maybe 100 in the lab :-)

the autoclaves i may also name too. there are three in the building. the north one is the Good Child who occasionally acts up and refuses to work, but that has only happened once this whole past month. the south one is Extremely Problematic and will just,, refuse to open and scream as it holds hostage your stuff, until to call Walter, its only friend, to coax it back open (S.O. TO WALTER THE FACILITIES ENGINEER HE'S A HOMIE). and then theres the Forbidden One, which we of the first floor are technically not allowed to use, as its on the second floor and only for those labs to use. but,, if we really weren't supposed to use it, why would they install an elevator? 🤔

so we use it when Extremely Problematic is screaming and Good One is in use.

now finally the benchpros. these little powerhouses i love them but tina-marie (who is SERIOUSLY one of the coolest ladies I've ever met and I have SO MUCH respect for her and she STILL catches me off guard with how nice and understanding she is, despite how stressed she always seems, which is pretty understandable she does so much) always talks about them with a suspicious trust, as if they are only communicating in the midst of a cease-fire. anyways they extract and purify DNA from e. coli cultures, which you just dump into a tub, insert some cartridges and press "run". i like how compact and easy they are to use, and when you finally collect the purified DNA there is like a sense of small excitement bc you're like "hm! lets see what we got!". the moment of truth is getting DNA concentrations of at least 300 ug/ul, and lately we've gotten upwards of 1000 ug/ul! which is weird but not bad.

anyhow the other interns are really nice, esp. the one i work with the most, she goes to SDSU and is really sweet, its nice to talk 100% comfortably with someone there. everyone else is super nice, but also tend to keep to themselves when working (besides tina-marie). I kind of prefer that actually, I find I do best when I'm working by myself, bc I dont have to worry about what someone else is doing or coodinate. I have more stuff to do, but I actually really like the constant pace and always having something to do. its very fulfilling to start with a whole list of stuff to do in the beginning of the day, planning how to tackle it in your head as you put your hair up, then gradually wipe off every task you complete, until there is nothing left before you leave, a little tired but happy everything is done and done right.

SPEAKING of done right,, I've had a few whoopies (besides the agar debacle.....) but none too serious and I've recovered well, havent made the same mistake twice. First was forgetting to vaccum filter a buffer solution, then foiling the LB flasks for autoclave while floating the caps, then not finishing the processing of a couple cultures, then using TBS to blank the nanodrop when I should have used water, and today discovering I used the wrong LB tablets to make media (I DIDNT KNOW WHAT LENNOX WAS BUT APPARENTLY ITS DIFFERENT FROM NORMAL LB). more affirmed that asking questions is a good thing!!

all in all, I really enjoy working there and I really hope I can do full time during the summer. if not, I can easily still do part-time but I'll probably have to do something on the side as well (grubhub, taskrabbit, esty?)

this was REALLY LONG but i wanna document my journey through this so. idk if someone reads this plz like and maybe give feedback maybe it'll help someone idk!

thas all for now~~~