#three channels

[yallstar]

“What was that for?” Viktor asked softly. Jayce smiled wider, tilting his forehead against Viktor’s. “I was happy, I guess."

more art for chapter 2 of differential burdens!

[felixwylde]

Idyllic Nostalgia

Your life without a computer: what does it look like? It’s hard to imagine, especially if you’re using this medium to read these words. What was life like before computers?I’m old enough to recall a world before home computers and smartphones. I remember building dens in the woodlands safely.TV wasn’t great back then, with just three channels at best, and kids’ TV had limited airtime, thanks to…

[reunitedinterlude]

dnp's best friends club

[electricpurrs]

hey you 🫵 do you want to grow appreciation for japanese media that you wouldn't know otherwise and grow a more diverse taste to all the weird art that exists in the world?

i have a few recommendations for you!

i've been dying to recommend some youtube channels that i really love but never have the chance to bring up, but i think they have interesting things to say about japanese media!

Hazel makes video essays about anime and other media, i'm currently very entertained by her videos about obscure OVAs and old playstation 2 games. i really enjoy how she talks about things and hearing her perspective on various subjects

Amelie Doree (though i'm not sure if she goes by that or Noelle which is what she uses on her patreon) makes videos essays on (mainly eroge) japanese visual novels, from very famous and genre-defining ones, to extremely niche and often completely untranslated and undiscussed in the west ones! her videos are incredibly interesting and have given me a whole new appreciation for the visual novel genre of which i wasn't familiar with before

a good video of hers to start is "Why a Forgotten Visual Novel is the Best Trans Story I've Read' it talks about sexual topics but i think its clean enough to leave its good first impression regardless of how you feel about the medium

RickiHirsch (i believe she goes by Ricki) makes videos about a variety of subjects but often including also japanese games, anime and manga. one of my favorite and first video of hers i saw was "Queer Horror: Understanding Gender as Body Horror"

and lastly, i want to prove my point by recommending a modern anime i myself have watched completely on my own that i really enjoyed and think others would like!

have a totally legal link to My Senpai is An Otokonoko

this anime is from 2024 and i stumbled on it completely by accident. i was scared off a bit by the title (otokonoko being the common japanese term to describe a crossdressing man) but i was kinda pleasantly surprised by the softness and sincerity in which this show aproaches its topics.

its a romance/slice of life/drama show and its melodramatic and sugary sweet but a genuinely wholesome experience. the main character is extremely transfem coded (if you can even call it that? its in the text) and the show doesn't mock or demonize her for it and fully focuses on her perspective and feelings the whole time (and doesnt in any way deny a trans reading), and also its the first romance story probably ever where i've seen a character realize they're actually aromantic as a conclusion to their arc. its cute its sweet and if you watch the first episode and think thats for you then all 12 episodes will go by flying and you will cry. because i did

do it for her ^^^

[hyakunana]

The Black Rabbit Brotherhood

[comicbookddr]

More Betty and Veronica gifs because I love them so much

[mxtxfanatic]

Mxtx, creating a beautiful and well-rounded female character that appears only briefly: Hey, isn’t it fucked up that this character who is so important in the world of this story and to the people that knew her can only be known to you, reader, through flashback memories because the people in power were willing and able to sacrifice her in their never-ending quest for ultimate dominance? Do you feel the constant grief over what could have been had her potential not been killed in its infancy? Do you understand that you as a reader are mourning in the same way that her loved ones she’s left behind are, knowing that the world has been changed for the worse by her premature death? Doesn’t it suck?

(English-speaking) Mdzs fandom the bane of her existence (probably): Killing women in stories can have no other meaning than that you hate women, so this was a misogynistic choice, actually.

[lazyevaluationranch]

*pats askbox gently* there are more Thermoreceptors?

(I'm sorry ur dome was so hot; I hope its much cooler now!)

My bluff has been called! Hooray!!

I am not a neurologist, a biologist, or a scientist. If anyone with better credentials than "obsessed with emergent properties" contradicts me, listen to them instead.

Cell membranes include little portal proteins that open under certain circumstances based on the shape of the protein and let chemicals into and out of the cell. These portals are useful for all sorts of things: managing water and nutrients, sending messages to nearby cells, serving the whims of tiny intercellular cats. Science hasn't found the tiny intercellular cats yet, but we all know they're there; the existence of a door that can be opened necessarily implies an indecisive feline.

Some protein shapes open up if the temperature is within a certain range. This means that if a cell with that sort of protein in its membrane experiences a temperature in the right range, it will move some chemicals around. This is used to make nerve cells that send a message towards the brain whenever they experience a certain temperature.

Because evolution does all its best work the night before the deadline while on a Code Red Mountain Dew bender, the opened-by-temperature portal proteins are mostly copied from opened-by-a-specific-chemical portal proteins. All of them, in fact, still open for specific chemicals, which means there exist out in the world liquids you can put in a bottle that most animals will instead perceive as "a temperature between 8 and 26 degrees" So things can get a little weird.

Temperature-opening portal proteins:

TRPA1 Opens for temperatures below 12C (not air temperature, skin or body temperature, so you might be kind of in trouble when this happens). Used by hunting snakes to detect where heat isn't so they can find prey. Feels painful in an itchy sort of way.

This one also opens for allyl isothiocyanate. Many plants have evolved to take advantage of the existence of a chemical most animals perceive as itchy pain, especially horseradish and wasabi. Allyl isothiocyanate is harmful to plants, so they keep two separate components in tiny compartments. When an animal bites the plant, the compartments break open their contents mix to create allyl isothiocyanate.

"This plant tastes like itching" is a good defense against almost all animals, but some humans have taught themselves to appreciate the taste of itching.

TRPM8 Opens for temperatures between 8 and 26 degrees. Opens for menthol (peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen) and linalool (roses, orange blossoms, basil). Feels cool or cold.

"This plant tastes like cold" is a somewhat less effective defense against being eaten than "this plant tastes like itching" but it's a more widespread defense because TRPM8-activating chemicals don't harm plants and don't need elaborate two-part storage.

TRPV4 Opens for temperatures from 27-37 C. I'm not sure what this one feels like, or if even feels like anything, since it covers normal human body temperatures. Whatever feeling we get from this one, we're feeling it nearly all the time.

Plants do make a chemical that tastes like this temperature, and it can repel nonhuman creatures with different body temperatures: allicin, the flavour of garlic. Like allyl isothiocyante, it is stored in two compartments inside the plant, and combined when the plant is bitten.

Maybe this is why vampires abhor garlic. There is a feeling that, as humans, we always have. Something we don't notice, something deeper than touch. That feel disappears forever when you become a vampire, except those unbearable moments when garlic returns to you for a fleeting moment the experience of lost humanity.

TRPV3 Opens for temperatures 33-39 degrees. Opens for eugenol, found in cinnamon, nutmeg, bay leaf, holy basil, ginger, allspice, and cloves. Feels like warmth.

Plants with high quantities of eugenol, like holy basil and Japanese star anise, are sometimes sacred to buddhists because they smell nice and bugs don't like to eat them, so you can burn them as incense without worrying about all the little crawly guys.

Humans apparently think food that tastes like "warm" is comforting.

TRPV1 Opens for temperatures over 43 degrees. (The one I was experiencing in the overheated dome, which I had never felt from air before) Opens for capsaicin, the active chemical in hot peppers. Opens for the combination of temperature and acidity of fevers and infected wounds. This one we feel as pain, as burning, as flame.

TRPV1 says: Your flesh is failing, and your doom is very near.

Humanity says: This is incredible. We are going to breed plants that cause this sensation as much as possible, and we will spend thousands of years getting it right. We are going to dry this and powder this and flake it and grill it and ferment it and eat it with everything.

And when we leave earth and go into space, we take hot peppers with us. Without gravity, fluid builds up in nasal passages, and astronauts sort of have colds the entire time they're in space and can't smell food very well. But the Nearness Of Your Doom is not a smell and is not perceived by the nose, so - with their doom always on the other side of ten centimeters of insulated aluminum - astronauts can taste hot peppers. In 2002, Peggy Whitson, commander of the ISS, jokingly refused to let a replacement crew on board until they handed over the hot sauce.

We are a strange and wonderful species.

[whichbasketwitchbasket]

Astro Placements Channeled Messages

As always, take what resonates and leave what doesn't. Entertainment purposes only. Buy me a coffee?

Cancer moons

This girl isn't worth your time. Redhead, blue eyes, sharp teeth? Yeah. Secret bitch. You're too sensitive for her kind of drama.

Leo risings

Have you been lonely lately? People miss you. It sucks reaching out first, but relationships work both ways. If you had plans, and the other person hasn't texted to confirm? Text first.

You have to be a little annoying to make connections. It's the social contract.

Pisces Midheavens

GO PRACTICE YOUR ART. I know you want to. You're sitting here scrolling tumblr for "inspiration", but your guitar sits in the corner and your paintbrushes are dry and your doc is unused and and and. Go. Practice. I don't care how motivated you are. Go. Fucking. Practice.

Sun/Mars conjuctions/trines/squares

Take inventory of the things that really matter. There was this art project that I saw where this woman took pictures of everything she owned. And I mean *everything*. (Here's a link to the article about it. Interesting minimalist read). Does it spark joy? is it taking up to much space? Is this *relationship* stressing you out?

Protect your peace. Nothing matters, so therefore everything matters. It's your reality and you matter most.

Saturn in the 5th house

Go get a job. I'm serious. You need to fund your passions somehow, and right now? You're dead broke. Startup costs are one thing, maintenance costs are a whole new beast.

March Pisces Suns

Happy birthday soon!!! For those of us who have already had our birthdays, I have a feeling that you were dissapointed. Hugely dissapointed. You're questioning your faith in magic, manifestation, and the laws of the universe. That is normal. You just need to rest.

[gremlinshatephilosophers]

“And you get this shit”

Ooh uncensored swearing on AmazingPhil 🚨

Do you think Dan left it in on purpose for the lols or did he just forget after the 20 other bleeps

[dizzydizney]

⭐Descendants Ship Tournament Results!⭐

Honorable mentions: Jaylos & The Sea Three

Second Place: The Core Four

And the winner is...

HUMA!!!

It was a close call but they squeaked by with 54% of the votes in the final round to win the whole thing!

Thank you to everyone who voted, everyone who reblogged, and everyone in the Descendants fandom! Love you guys!

[blackkatdraws2]

ANIMATION TEASER [Blank Scripts AU]

[bruceawaynefrfr]

btw guys smosh post around 34 videos a month over the 4 channels and mythical post 46 videos a month on 3 channels

[hotpinkandsparkly]

why are they on a date

[royalarchivist]

Jaiden: Oh my goodness– WHOA! Whoa– wait– you can't– who's– Well who's this, Bobby? Who's this??? You can't have other Eggs on– you can't have Eggs in- in your– [Bobby breaks the bed] Oh!

Roier: [Laughs] No Bobby, who is that?

Jaiden: Bobby has a girlfriend already? You can't sleep in the same bed as this other Egg!

Roier: Bobby, is this your girlfriend? [Laughs]

A small misunderstanding during the first day of the QSMP Egg event.

[ Full Subtitle Transcript ↓ ]

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Roier: A... a bed. No?

Jaiden: Oh, do we? Does– do you want a bed or do you want a little nest, maybe...?

Roier: Do you want a bed, do you want–

[Bobby places a bed down, which has his Egg model in it already]

Roier: [Laughs in surprise] What? WHAT!

Jaiden: Oh my goodness– WHOA! Whoa– wait– you can't– who's– Well who's this, Bobby? Who's this???

Roier: No, who is this?

Jaiden: You can't have other Eggs on– you can't have Eggs in- in your– [Bobby breaks the bed] Oh!

Roier: [Laughs] No Bobby, who is that?

Jaiden: Bobby has a girlfriend already? You can't sleep in the same bed as this other Egg!

Roier: Bobby, is this your girlfriend? [Laughs]

[Bobby wiggles]

Jaiden: Twins? No wait– no twins, not twins! Girlfriend...?

Roier: Bobby, you're not old enough to have a girlfriend, Bobby. You're too little! No! [Chuckles] He can't have a girlfriend, he's too young.

Jaiden: I don't think– [Laughs] I don't think we were ready for– for this already! Already Bobby having girls over...

Roier: No... No Bobby...

Jaiden: Bobby, what– You grow up so fast, Bobby!

[scarlethellfiresblog]

CONGRATULATIONS AND GOOD LUCK TO THIS BIG FRANCHISE!