#it's not great

[ayukaze]

DIGI SAILORS REPORTING FOR DUTY...AND A LITTLE FUN (｡•̀ᴗ-)

[spotify-official]

Alright if you send in your wrapped I'll judge you, and! If you listened more than me, I'll give you a badge I made

[heretherebedork]

Not as they are but as they could have been.

[peacerisendove]

Me, multiple months ago: I hate how many of the bat boys have an undercut as their default hair style.*

Me, today: Tim would look good with long hair in an undercut style, and it would work if he still had the burn scars on the back of his head and neck.

*Note: I still hate the short undercut haircut and how it's like the hairstyle for three of the bat boys.

[thebuckandeddiething]

Me after that Eddie/Marisol still:

[sixth-light]

Hi. May I ask about PhD program applications?

I’m based in the US and in climate/climate policy work. Shockingly, funding has been cut for those programs. My work and research is rooted in supporting traditional ecological knowledge with western-based science and policy, and I mostly work with local tribes. Australia and New Zealand are now my top choices for doctoral programs. Is there a best practice I should follow when reaching out? Or is spam emailing potential supervisors and hoping for a response my best option? Thanks.

I don't currently work in a position where I take students but I know from my colleagues who do that they get a lot of approaches from overseas students who want to study here. By far and away the best way to stand out is to have a reason you are contacting those people specifically - i.e. don't spam everyone and anyone, contact the people to whom you can genuinely say, I read your paper on X, I saw your presentation at Y conference, these are the reasons I think we'd be a good fit. (It is OK to do some research, read some papers, and then reach out - those statements don't have to be true right this second.)

That will probably get you to the point of at least getting a response, and even if the first people you contact don't have funding or space, if you do the relationship-building work they might be able to point you to others. Approach it as an exercise in talking to cool people who do cool work and finding out how you can help them and you're still not guaranteed success...but it'll be a much better and more interesting time regardless.

I do want to emphasise though, the AoNZ science system is going through a very rough patch of its own. If you're looking to do a PhD that may work - be very realistic about the likelihood that you would find permanent research work here afterwards (minimal).

[goodluckclove]

Guys it's late, but have I made it clear enough that the only reason I strive to be as wholesome as I am is because I have witnessed Unbelievable Horrors and make a constant effort to choose kindness in order to avoid spiraling into nihilistic rage?

I've fucking earned my softness, people. It is hard as fuck to maintain this degree of wholesomeness in a world where C-PTSD has been known to reduce your overall lifespan and it is so easy to get drugs here. Oh my god. I was friends with a drug dealer for almost a year.

This isn't a cry for help or anything because your dad here is fine and dandy. I'm just saying maybe not every nice, soft person should be reduced to an uwu soft bean. I'm sure a lot of them are consciously deciding not to do this for themselves as well as those around them. It doesn't make them better, it doesn't make me better - but in my case the alternative is institutionalization or death and I'd rather not do that.

The way I live a choice I'm committed to making, but it's one that takes near-constant fucking effort. And if anyone says that's repression and not - like - managing mental illness and ending the cycle of generational trauma? I will hit you. It won't be a good hit. I don't know how to hit. But I'm going to try and then I'll feel pretty bad afterwards.

If you're a bleeding heart like I am, I'm with you. Have some of my lost blood if it'll keep you going a little longer. Hold out your hands, I'll squeeze it from my damp shirt tails.

You look thirsty. You should drink some water.

[little-laurance]

Aphtober Day 25: Maritime

(Song is Ship in a Bottle by Fin Argus)

[ekat-fandom-blog]

Symbiote AU prompt

John had been walking away from a seedy pub when he'd gotten the symbiote. He was tackled by the strange black glob he'd later learned called itself Amorpho, and it hadn't ever left. Luckily, they both seem to have similar senses of humor.

Symbiote powers and abilities or a more concise list here if anyone's interested

[tomatette]

Loki, S02E4 Leave him be, he doesn't know.

[irritablegallowglass]

Just Married - Peter Prentiss (Christian Kane)

[wildelydawn]

We're at the point of work where I am nonstop, constantly talking to clients all day and then becoming totally nonverbal afterwards. Its great.

[kittenkes]

I'm beginning to think I'll always be sick.

[wild-magic-oops]

It's amazing (and ridiculous imo) how you can steal the Idol of Silvanus and then intimidate your way out of a fight and literally nothing happens. The theft of the idol is treated like the theft of any other trash item. The npc later comments that the idol is gone but that's it. And the idol even gives a buff while it's in your bag.

[i3utterflyeffect]

Viral infections are hard to create medications for because any chemical that targets a virus would naturally also target body cells; the viral protein coat and body cells are made of the same parts, allowing a virus to gain entry into a cell and use its machinery for its own purpose.

The Dark Lord's skin (or coat, if you prefer) was shredded and nonfunctional, but still retained some of its power. After their escape, they never used it on themselves again. Each of their viruses, however, contains a part, however miniscule of their original skin. Something to give a partial (but not complete) immunity. Something to tell a computer system I am supposed to be here. Let me in.

fascinating......... i like this thought--

though that DOES make it a lot more dangerous for the others I think, since it bypasses immunity-- the only person who they'd probably even try and bother making immune is Chosen, which means it's dangerous for them too.... like. as i mentioned I was already thinking it wasn't sustainable for dark, partially because their skin is very much part of them; so if a virus has access to their skin, it has access to their insides as well so to speak........