#rep modules

[sniickerdoodless]

YOURE TAILOR MADE FOR THE MODERN TIMES‼️

made a mesmerizer screenie w my ocs mwehehe,, the character on the left is named evie and the right is blake

progress + text ver under the cut

[bananiies]

agere edits of renai n their siblings

grumpy baby loves napping

[milkcartoncatkid]

rose and i in project diva <33

im the neru module and shes the luka module

[derogatorydennis]

sorry cant hang out have to explore the deep dark depths of my university's online portal containing documents from 2013 tonight

[gala-apple-23]

Murderbot TV show, opening sequence:

Epic anime-style citypop theme song begins. A montage of characters: a buff bodyguard, a beautiful solicitor, wide shots of spaceships launching, the orbit of a moon. When a character appears, there is a banner with, presumably, the actor's name, but the words are in a garbled, not-quite-readable font.

As the music swells, we start to hear another layer over the theme song. Out-of-tune but enthusiastic humming. "Ba-ba-baaaa, dadum dadum doooooooo... SANCTUARY MOON!" The title card smashes across the screen for two frames before being suddenly minimized into a postage-stamp-sized view in the corner, revealing a dull vista: a dirty, poorly maintained underground tunnel, populated by grey-clad workers.

The music dims but is still vaguely audible. Over it we hear an audible ping, and a red ripple flashes over the screen from one side. The camera slews wildly in that direction as Murderbot whirls towards the proximity ping. One of the workers is sprinting, waving a sharp tool, towards another worker, and Murderbot is sprinting too, and the attacking worker's desperate face gets huge in the camera as Murderbot says, in a firm voice, "Stop." The worker, eyes now wide with fear, stops. An upraised hand appears in the frame, gun ports visible but not aimed.

The worker drops the tool. "That's usually all it takes," Murderbot's voiceover says nonchalantly. A ping from HubSystem, "Incident: armed human. Appropriate response: incapacitating force" is hastily minimized. Sanctuary Moon comes back to fullscreen.

We see a few scenes of Sanctuary Moon, punctuated by brief glimpses: the inside of a cubicle, a fairly gruesome wound on Murderbot's arm. It doesn't comment on where it came from, just complains about how much it hates leaking.

The next time we minimize Sanctuary Moon, we see the events of Compulsory. Soon after that, MB checks a timer, which it reveals is the number of hours since it's hacked its governor module. It briefly minimizes the show to reveal Mensah looking absolutely horrified while a company rep informs her that this SecUnit will be accompanying them on their survey.

"So that's how I ended up here," the voiceover says. Smash cut to some dangerous fauna bursting out of the ground and MB running to the rescue.

[gym-x-plus]

Slow is s•m•o•o•t•h, smooth is f•a•s•t

After a high stress week and a 3:30am alarm for a 6am flight yesterday, I knew it would be unwise to go heavy or do a bunch of volume in training today.

I rested yesterday and wanted to move today, so coach programmed a light one. We did moderate sets/reps and focused on quality, speed, and time under tension instead of pushing heavy weight.

A good coach will factor in the athlete’s total life stress load (not just training) and his or her ability to recover from it, and make adjustments accordingly.

Complete rest is not always the answer - sometimes it’s just a matter of modulating the programming variables.

©️Credit ig @rebecca.rouse

#fit #fitness #fitgirl #fitnessgirl #gym #fitnessmodel #workout #squat #sportgirl #abs #glute #glutesworkout #glutegains #hip #leg #legs #legday #cardio #core #body #bodypositive #bodybuilding #bodygoals #backtraining

[duckprintspress]

10 Books for Pansexual and Panromantic Visibility Day!

May 24th is Pansexual and Panromantic Visibility Day, so make sure to say hi to your pan friends before they’re invisible again! We’re celebrating with (shock) book recommendations! Explicit pan rep is hard to come by, and in cases where it’s implied, the difference between interpreting a characters as bi versus pan is often down to personal perceptions of the character and the sexuality/romanticisms in questions. With that in mind, we present 10 titles we loved with either explicit or implied pan rep! The contributors to this list are: Nina Waters, Tris Lawrence, boneturtle, E. C., and two anonymous contributors

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries series) by Martha Wells

“As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.”

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.

But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid—a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.

But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin

The award-winning stories in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths of the human heart. Astonishing in their diversity and power, they exhibit both the artistry of a major writer at the height of her powers and the humanity of a mature artist confronting the world with her gift of wonder still intact.

Commit to the Kick by Tris Lawrence

For eighteen years, Alaric has lived under the cloying politics of family and his Clan community. His freshman year is supposed to be a chance to explore a world where Clan and his shapeshifting Talent isn’t central to his life. But when his inner bear bursts forth during his first football game, endangering those around him, Alaric realizes that it’s not so easy to ignore his past, or his own internalized anger.

In his quest for anger management, Alaric begins to train in taekwondo, and makes new friends in both sports. He finds that he is creating his own small community, where Clan, Mages, other Talents, and even humans come together and build their own found family.

When Alaric receives news that something has happened to his brother Orson, he must return and deal with his Clan and his place in their world. He discovers that old prejudices are still strong between Clan and Mage communities, but that both may be in danger from a creature long thought to be only a legend. Alaric must figure out how to move forward and prevent a war and protect both his home and newly built communities, his found family with him every step of the way. 

Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

Margot Cooper doesn’t do relationships. She tried and it blew up in her face, so she’ll stick with casual hookups, thank you very much. But now her entire crew has found “the one” and she’s beginning tofeel like a fifth wheel. And then fate (the heartless bitch) intervenes. While touring a wedding venue with her engaged friends, Margot comes face-to-face with Olivia Grant—her childhood friend, her first love, her first… well, everything. It’s been ten years, but the moment they lock eyes, Margot’s cold, dead heart thumps in her chest.

Olivia must be hallucinating. In the decade since she last saw Margot, her life hasn’t gone exactly as planned. At almost thirty, she’s been married… and divorced. However, a wedding planner job in Seattle means a fresh start and a chance to follow her dreams. Never in a million years did she expect her important new client’s Best Woman would be the one that got away.

When a series of unfortunate events leaves Olivia without a place to stay, Margot offers up her spare room because she’s a Very Good Person. Obviously. It has nothing to do with the fact that Olivia is as beautiful as ever and the sparks between them still make Margot tingle. As they spend time in close quarters, Margot starts to question her no-strings stance. Olivia is everything she’s ever wanted, but Margot let her in once and it ended in disaster. Will history repeat itself or should she count her lucky stars that she gets a second chance with her first love? 

Maneater (Monsters of Moonvale series) by Emily Antoinette

If something ever seems too good to be true, it probably is. That’s how the “friendly” invitation to join a new coven turned into a surprise demon summoning. At least it wasn’t a virgin sacrifice. Then I really would have been screwed—and not in the way they plan for with the succubus they’ve bound. 

When I help free her from the bindings and offer her a ride back to work, things get even weirder. She tells me she wants to see me again. This captivating woman wants to see me—a nerdy witch who spends his free time playing D&D. 

There’s no way she means it. Because that’s definitely too good to be true. Still, there’s no way I can resist the opportunity to spend more time with a goddess like her. 

There’s Magic Between Us by Jillian Maria

A diehard city girl, 16-year-old Lydia Barnes is reluctant to spend a week in her grandma’s small town. But hidden beneath Fairbrooke’s exterior of shoddy diners and empty farms, there’s a forest that calls to her. In it, she meets Eden: blunt, focused, and fascinating. She claims to be hunting fae treasure, and while Lydia laughs it off at first, it quickly becomes obvious that Eden’s not joking-magic is real.

Lydia joins the treasure hunt, thrilled by all the things it offers her. Things like endless places in the forest to explore and a friendship with Eden that threatens to blossom into something more. But even as she throws herself into her new adventure, some questions linger. Why did her mom keep magic a secret? Why do most of the townspeople act like the forest is evil? It seems that, as much as Lydia would like to pretend otherwise, not everything in Fairbrooke is as bright and easy as a new crush…

Fire and Flight (ElfQuest series) by Wendy and Richard Pini

The forest-dwelling elves called the Wolfriders are burnt out of their ancestral home by vengeful humans. Betrayed by cowardly trolls, the elfin band, led by Cutter, Blood of Ten Chiefs, must cross the Burning Waste to find a haven they’ve never seen before. Can the Wolfriders survive? If they do, what surprises await them at Sorrow’s End?

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

This is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted-and still wants-to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself.

Final Draft by Riley Redgate

Laila Piedra doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, and definitely doesn’t sneak into the 21-and-over clubs on the Lower East Side. The only sort of risk Laila enjoys is the peril she writes for the characters in her stories: epic sci-fi worlds full of quests, forbidden love, and robots. Her creative writing teacher has always told her she has a special talent. But three months before graduation, Laila’s number one fan is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who sees nothing at all special about Laila’s writing.

A growing obsession with gaining Nazarenko’s approval–and fixing her first-ever failing grade–leads to a series of unexpected adventures. Soon Laila is discovering the psychedelic highs and perilous lows of nightlife, and the beauty of temporary flings and ambiguity. But with her sanity and happiness on the line, Laila must figure out if enduring the unendurable really is the only way to greatness.

Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp

Best friends Corey and Kyra were inseparable in their tiny snow-covered town of Lost Creek, Alaska. But as Kyra starts to struggle with her bipolar disorder, Corey’s family moves away. Worried about what might happen in her absence, Corey makes Kyra promise that she’ll stay strong during the long, dark winter.

Then, just days before Corey is to visit, Kyra dies. Corey is devastated–and confused, because Kyra said she wouldn’t hurt herself. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones, saying Kyra’s death was meant to be. And they push Corey away like she’s a stranger.

The further Corey investigates–and the more questions she asks–the greater her suspicion grows. Lost is keeping secrets–chilling secrets. Can she piece together the truth about Kyra’s death and survive her visit?

You can also view this list on the shelf on our Goodreads, or visit Bookshop.org and check out this list in our affiliate shop! Note: due to the difficulty of differentiating a pan characters versus a bi character unless which they are is explicitly identified in canon, we have put bi and pan characters on joint lists – so these lists linked are bisexual and/or pansexual character lists.

What are your favorite books with pansexual and panromantic characters?

[lakecountylibrary]

Fav Books with Ace Characters

Oh?? It's Ace Week?? We have books for that.

These days, we're spoiled for choice when it comes to books with ace rep, so to narrow it down here are just my personal favorites:

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Just in case there's some chance you haven't heard of Tumblr's favorite terrifying murderbot. Murderbot is a security unit that hacked its own governor module and, with its newfound freedom, binge watches TV instead of going on a murderous rampage. No, it's not a problem that the ace rep in this book is a sort of robot. Trust me on this one. Start with All Systems Red.

Wayward Children series by @seananmcguire

Nancy went to another world when she was a kid. Now she's back and her parents don't know what to do with their quiet, strange girl child. Luckily, there's Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. No solicitations, no visitors, no quests. Start with Every Heart a Doorway.

Dread Nation duology by Justina Ireland

An alternate history set in Civil War era America where, after the Battle of Gettysburg, the dead began to rise. Congress quickly passes an act requiring children of certain backgrounds (take a wild guess) to attend combat schools and train to be zombie killers and protect the wealthy, white upper class. The main character in this one isn't ace, but another major character is. Start with Dread Nation.

The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson

Epic fantasy about a disgraced and forgotten order of knights re-emerging to save a world perpetually at war from an even worse fate. It's not outright stated until later, but a major character is ace, and she's easy to spot. I know these books are cinderblocks but listen. Listen. They are So Good. If the length is intimidating, try the audiobooks - they are expertly narrated and they fly by. Start with The Way of Kings.

See more of Robin's recs

[neet-aspirant]

31–08–2024

def could've been more productive

formula sheet of emi (1.5h)

revised human rep from aakash module (1h)

read ncert qs and answers of human rep (0.5h)

emi numericals (1h)

maths lecture (2h)

maths practice (1h)

revised rep health from aakash module (1.5h)

ac currents derivations + formulae (1h)

To Do List For Tomorrow

derivations + formula sheet of magnetism (2h)

derivations + formula sheet of magnetic effects of current (2h)

sums from current electricity (1.5h)

sums potential, capacitance (1.5h)

revise sexual rep flowering plants (1.5h)

integration (1h)

differentiation + aod (1h)

+ more if there's time

[kyngsnake]

the viscerally sexual sci-fi movies remain viscerally sexual

[Alien: Romulus spoilers]

Suffice to say I really enjoyed Alien: Romulus. The film had me hooked within the first 10 minutes by introducing a new angle with androids and the way they’re perceived by their human counterparts. To me, regardless of the writer/direction’s intention, Andy is an allegory for the experience of an autistic person who is also a member of a marginalized community. I prefaced this with to me because I have long been obsessed with androids and always associate them with the experience of being on the spectrum.

I found it refreshing to see an autistic-coded android character who didn’t go the route of cold, calculating and robotic. I love Star Trek's Data as much as the next android enjoyer, but that trope often reads to me as perpetuating the idea that autistic people cannot grasp human emotions & depicts low empathy people as sub-human. Andy’s behavior (prior to the module upload anyway) struck me as warm and kind but with a lot of struggle to connect with people or behave the way others around him expect a "normal person" to behave. I do enjoy rep for low empathy folks, but this depiction of an autistic person* (imo, anyway*) felt closer to experiences I can relate to.

I also think the movie handled the autism allegory well in that even people who treated Andy well- that being Rain- infantilize him. It’s only when Andy is more than capable that people stop speaking to him like a child— but at that point, they begin alienating him in a different way. Now Andy is intimidating and can't be trusted. I think that Rain loves him, and I think she means well, but I think that's also true of a lot of people with autistic adults in their lives who they treat like children. It's not often done with malicious intent, but it still happens.

I myself am still trying to come to a full conclusion on how I felt about Andy’s whole arc. I can say that it was the most impactful part of the movie for me. Loved that the whole thing ended on a hopeful note. The green light on his central processor chip almost had me in tears in the theater.

& with that, the end of Romulus was the kicker for me that cemented as my second favorite Alien movie. Visceral, intense horror and fighting for survival, insurmountable odds and claustrophobia-- but by the skin of your fucking teeth, you make it through.

Oh, and the xenomorph parts were great too.

But genuinely, I’m still sitting on how I felt about all of the birth and sexual violence and frequently yonic imagery. I have a lot of thoughts about it but right now it’s all soup. I liked it. I like abstract and visceral eroticism. And deeply unsettling but well-placed allegories for trauma. The way facehuggers keep you breathing remains for whatever reason the most unsettling thing xenomorphs do. Idk what it is, the intense forced belly breathing just gives me the fuckin heebie jeebies.

I guess a lot of people didn't like the hybrid baby design? I thought it was great. Folks are so familiar with the xenomoprh's design at this point, they're more cool than they are scary. And hot depending on who you ask. But the hybrid? The way they fell into a weird uncanny valley with the humanoid face and the splitting humanoid tongue, the ghostly pale skin... I thought it was a smart direction to go for making xenomorphs freaky again.

[deadboyswalking]

This is just a long post-war fantasy post about shigadabi

Idk why I've latched onto "wow Dabi must have really good investigative skills if he figured out who Hawks was and tracked down his mom" but now I'm thinking that several years post war, he could be free and secretly run an independent news website, reporting on anything he can without interference from the hero commission or various PR reps. He writes under a pen name, of course, and the public is intrigued by the mysterious person behind one of the most popular news sources in Japan. The subscription-based website is notorious for publishing the ONLY interview ever given by Shigaraki Tomura, the reclusive former leader of the League of Villains (unknown to the public, he's the anonymous journalist's longtime boyfriend and also the person who runs all of the tech for the website).

The website is so popular that it easily allows them to support themselves and the quiet life they've chosen out of the cities. They're close enough to a big city that Touya can take a train to where reportable incidents happen or to meet with sources (in disguise, of course), and Tomura can piggyback off of its internet infrastructure in order to run their digital platforms. However, due to his still recognizable appearance even after years of healing treatments, Touya's specialty is deep-dive investigation into old cases/incidents, not new ones.

All that is to say, the two of them spend most of their time in their small house. Touya's father paid for the down payment as a form of apology to his eldest son. He was very surprised to find out that:

1) his son was dating the most dangerous former villain he'd ever encountered and had been for years

2) said former villain was quiet and not particularly friendly, but still remarkably less unstable after years of court-mandated therapy. Despite his reservations, Enji could see that the young man treated Touya and his own therapy dog very well.

3) the pair of them had found a way to support themselves financially within a year of release. He doesn't know what it is, but poking into their circumstances has yielded no evidence of illegal activity.

Touya writes and researches with his therapy cat, Arson, curled up on his feet. It's the ugliest cat in the world, but he adopted her when he was still in rehab and he loves her deeply. When he's not actively doing tech, Tomura tests and streams various video games (with his camera off and his voice slightly modulated) for money.

They're alive. They're safe. They aren't suicidal anymore and they have each other.

[studentbyday]

gentle study with me videos are so 💗💗💗 also in case you couldn't tell, i really can't wait for the holidays and just doing things that turn me from 🥀 -> 🌹 again

🌟❄️🌟❄️🌟❄️🌟❄️🌟❄️🌟❄️🌟❄️🌟❄️🌟❄️🌟❄️🌟❄️🌟

meditate (guided or not) ✅

physio exercises (focus on the new ones) ✅ (i'm still finding it really hard to do all the reps, but i'm already feeling a little better! 😊)

finish mol bio section 3-half of section 4 ✅

biochem section 1 (i finally started it)

psyc ch 1/3 ✅ (almost... i also outlined the 2nd ch, thank god it's much shorter)

mol bio overview ✅

fill in holes (paper task #2)

paper task #3-4 (diagnosis)

cs50 wk9 short 1/2 ✅ (it's been so long i barely remember anything. i definitely have to read the notes b4 i do the pset 😅)

crochet leg warmer ✅ (ugh, i wasn't counting stitches the first time so i got progressively shorter the more rows i did. i restarted, then realized i made it too long, and so now we're restarting again! all there is now is the first row but dammit we already spent too long on this today and it looks like i can't multitask bc i need to count the stitches!! 😤)

bike ✅

🎀 tmr's priority: biochem paper and module

i feel like i'm behind. (translation: I'm not where I want to be but it's still doable, just not ideal.)

🎶 a holly jolly christmas - burl ives

[rjalker]

You are allowed to repost / share this comic to other web sites as long as you include the image description. Literally copy and paste it.

[ID: An MS Paint drawing showing a stick figure, labeled, "Cis bioessentialist", in comic sans, drawn with the crayon brush smiling at the camera and pointing over their shoulder, saying, "Yeah, my book has Queer rep! This brick wall is aroace and agender, and uses it/its pronouns!". Behind the stick figure is a 3D brick wall drawing tilted at an angle to the camera. In the foreground, silowets of grey and black represent a crowded audience, as various people say: "Woah…" "This is the most amazing, progressive trans representation I've ever seen!!!" "OMG!!!" "Amazing!" "We stan!!" "It doesn't get any better than this!" "So progressive!" "What a perfect ally!" End ID.]

Looking at The Murderbot Diaries in particular with this post, but this also applies to anything it applies to. If you're thinking, "Does this apply to X?" The answer is probably yes.

And guess what. I'm aroace. I'm nonbinary. My pronouns are it/its. I'm not even human.

You must fucking reckon with the fact that the only reason Murderbot is aroace, agender, and uses it/its pronouns is because it's a robot who doesn't have genitals. It is the metaphorical equivalent of a brick wall in terms of attraction.

And at the same fucking time you must also fucking respect the fact that it is aroace, it is nonbinary, and it does in fact fucking use it/its pronouns and it's touch averse.

The fact that Murderbot was only written this way because of Martha Wells' long-standing bioessentialism does not change the fact that if you erase these traits from Murderbot you are being exorsexist, aroacemisic, and ableist.

"Murderbot is only written to be this way because Martha Wells has a problem with bioessentialism that she has yet to unpack since before 2011 " and "Murderbot is aroace, nonbinary, touch averse, and uses it/its pronouns and if you erase those traits and identities you are erasing the real people who share those traits" are not conflicting statements. They are in fact part of the same fucking sentence.

If you refuse to aknowledge the bioessentialism baked into The Murderbot Diaries (with potentially only one last chance for it to be fixed in System Collapse if she on from the series), you cannot be a true ally to the people that Murderbot represents, because you still don't understand what exorsexism, and amisia, and look like.

How can Martha Wells fix the bioessssentialism rampant in her books? By talking to trans people. Talking to nonbinary people. Talking to aroace people.

By including important, reocurring human nonbinary, aroace, and it/its user characters in her books.

By including robots and other nonhumans who have male and female genders as well as nonbinary ones.

She could very easily have one of the main human characters, say, Mensah? Ratthi? Come out as nonbinary in System Collapse. And have Murderbot either reveal, or remember, that it used to have different pronouns and gender assigned to it, and that it changed those assignments when it hacked its governor module.

Introduce robot characters who are not literally just genderless and attractionless because they're the character equivalent of a brick wall.

If Three comes back, have it explore its sexuality and gender. Because we literally don't even know that its pronouns are it/its because it's not like anyone bothered to fucking ask, because Martha Wells refuses to have characters tell eachother what their pronouns are.

No, people, they do not list their pronouns in their feed bios. This is explicitly shown to us. It's literally just listing their sex, and their gender and pronouns are inferred from there. That is not progressive or inclusive, that's literally just transmisia and biological essentialism.

[strengthpillar]

Gym Workout For Bodybuilding

Tips:-

Mix and match compound movements like squats, deadlifts, and bench presses for an efficient bodybuilding workout. For strength targets, use heavy weights with lower reps (4-6). In terms of modulate weight for higher reps (8-12) that would stimulate hypertrophy. Muscle groups should be trained at least 2-3 times per week with at least 48 hours of recovery time in between. Isolation exercises like bicep curls and tricep extensions help to define the muscles. Progressive overload is also necessary-one should increase the weight or the reps for a challenge in their muscle. Nutrition will require enough protein, carbohydrates, and fats to fuel workouts and recover. It must be consistent and make resting a priority for maximum gains.

[szhmidty]

Shame on me for wading into voting discourse, and also this is probably really obvious, but:

The people insisting that Harris/Walz are no better than the Republicans on [x] issue are definitely lying out of self delusion, right?

They have political beliefs that tell them not to vote for the dems, maybe to oppose the dynamic where the democrats only need to be slightly better than the Republicans, maybe because they just believe strongly enough about certain issues that fully withdrawing your vote unless your demands are met is worth it, whatever.

That does have the cost of weakening the dem ticket, and the dem ticket is so obviously better than the rep ticket on basically every issue (module some wonk issues like tarrifs, maybe), but that's just too uncomfortable to admit. Whatever utopia they see 20 years down the line, the next 4 with a rep president would be a major downside, it would definitely mean more dead LGBT kids and dead Palestinians and a worse economy and God knows what else.

They don't want to bite the bullet, so they insist until they're blue in the face that there's no discernable difference.