#tumor pinata

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I never actually played Team Fortress 2 myself (time-consuming academics and all) -- I just kept up with all the comics and short videos. So I don’t have much to contribute to #SaveTF2.

At least, in terms of actual stories about playing TF2.

So I’m about to tell you Teufort Tumblrites a very, very different story about my involvement with this fandom -- back in the days when I was an undergraduate, the servers were thriving, and my friends were always ready to make jokes about this game.

This is the story of the tumor pinata.

My background is mostly in two overlapping fields: biology and bioengineering. In one of my undergrad honors seminars, I had a group project where we had to do a presentation on a paper on a topic of our choice. We chose antigen-specific cancer immunotherapy -- essentially, using the immune system to fight cancer without hurting the body with its own immune cells in the process.

Now, I love presenting, and I really like to do fun multimedia things to make my presentations more fun for the audience. In particular, I like having interactive aspects, and I like giving out food. So in this case, I decided that I should do the same thing with this presentation, to make it more memorable.

Specifically, I decided to make a big pull-string papier-mache pinata. Which I painted to look like a GIANT TUMOR.

You see, the students in the audience were supposed to represent the immune cells, and they would come up and pull the strings to kill the tumor. Which I had decided to fill with Starburst candy.

It was a massive hit with my class. Naturally, this meant I decided to tell my friends all about it.

My friends who played TF2.

I was a fan of the series already. I had read all the comics, watched all the videos... except one.

You see, because of how focused I was on my studies, I didn’t always have time to check for updates to my favorite series, whether they were games, comics, shows, or anything else. And I, pre-medical biology student and creator of the tumor pinata, had absolutely no clue that Expiration Date had come out shortly before my presentation.

It should also be noted, at this time, that I have a very obviously German surname.

Hoo boy, I got a LOT of jokes about the Medic and his tumor bread.

I ended up just kind of running with it -- he’s my favorite TF2 character, so I’d say I got a good deal out of this -- and Expiration Date quickly became my favorite video in TF2′s entire repertoire, partially just because of its legitimate quality, but also very much because of the tumor pinata. Because of this, I got way, way more involved with the Team Fortress 2 community, both with my college friends and online, and started following TF2 fandom blogs, meeting other people who liked the game, sending memes back and forth, etc. I’m even still friends with some of them, after all this time!

So that’s the story of how I made my first real connection with the Team Fortress 2 fan community. Not through fan fiction or fanart. Not via cosplay or conventions. Not even by playing the actual goddamn game.

My friendships in this community were fostered, at their core, by tumor candy.

As a side note, I stored the remains of the tumor pinata in my family’s garage for several months, until it was finally eaten by mice that decided to live in it. Archimedes might have competition.

[icarianarts]

made isabel do this already but what do you think of naraku from inuyasha? and also fergy from viva pinata

This guy is cute and all but I think being married to him would be a nightmare. He looks like he’d have you up at five in the morning out foraging in the plains for nutrient rich tubers and eating out of ant holes like the gorillas in the tarzan Disney movie did.

As for this being I can’t have any position to question it because when I was like 5 I had a crush on that yellow ball from Horton hears a who I think kids are just all like that. Very colorful but also concerned as to whether that is a tail or a large cancerous butt tumor

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My Favorite Albums of the Decade (2010s)

(It really doesn’t matter if it’s a mixtape, EP or Album, i will put every type of project in this list.)

1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

2. Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

3. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

4. Tyler, The Creator - Scum Fuck Flower Boy

5. Toro y Moi - Causers Of This

6. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

7. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

8. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE

9. Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School

10. The National - High Violet

11. Sampha - Process

12. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

13. FKA Twigs - LP1

14. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City

15. Andy Stott - Passed Me By

16. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today

17. Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands of Love

18. Actress - R.I.P.

19. MGMT - Little Dark Age

20. Jai Paul - Jai Paul

21. Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$

22. Travis Scott - Rodeo

23. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

24. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

25. Ariel Pink - pom pom

26. Arca - Mutant

27. The Knife - Shaking The Habitual

28. Iceage - Plowing Into the Field of Love

29. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

30. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition

31. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

32. Planning For Burial - Below the House

33. The Weeknd - House Of Balloons

34. Crystal Castles - (II)

35. Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo

36. Death Grips - Exmilitary

37. Beach House - Teen Dream

38. Brand New - Science Fiction

39. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness

40. Viet Cong - Viet Cong

41. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

42. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

43. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

44. Destroyer - Kaputt

45. Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste

46. Chromatics - Kill For Love

47. The Twilight Sad - It Won/T Be Like This All the Time

48. Lorde - Melodrama

49. A$AP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP

50. Real Estate - Days

51. David Bowie - Blackstar

52. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

53. Jeremih - Late Nights with Jeremih

54. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap

55. Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION

56. Jay-Z - 4:44

57. Snail Mail - Lush

58. Jamie xx - In Colour

59. Swans - To Be Kind

60. Denzel Curry - TA13OO

61. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs

62. Lil Peep - Crybaby

63. Liars - Mess

64. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

65. Black Midi - Schlagenheim

66. Bladee - Icedancer  

67. BROCKHAMPTON - SATURATION III

68. Dean Blunt - Black Metal

69. James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual

70. The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now

71. Alex G - DSU

72. Rich Gang - Tha Tour Part 1

73. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

74. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata

75. Lil B - Gods Father

76. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

77. Women - Public Strain

78. Disclosure - Settle

79. Future - Monster

80. Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls

81. Liars - Mess

82. Wild Nothing - Gemini

83. James Blake - James Blake

84. DJ Rashad - Double Cup

85. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

86. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper

87. Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys

88. Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth

89. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors

90. Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.

91. Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli

92. Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us

93. King Krule - The Ooz

94. Sigur Rós - Kveikur

95. Bones - Scumbag

96. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise

97. Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions

98. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want

99. Kanye West - Yeezus

100. Ariana Grande - thank u, next

101. The Caretaker - An empty bliss beyond this World

102. Playboi Carti - Playboi Carti

103. Internet Club - Redefining the Workplace

104. Chief Keef - Back From The Dead

105. Vince Staples - Summertime '06

106. Chuck Person - Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol.1

107. Taylor Swift - 1989

108. DJ Seinfeld - Time Spent Away From U

109. Young Thug - Barter 6 

110. Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017

111. Weezer - Weezer (White Album)

112. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

113. Deafheaven - Sunbather

114. Wiley - Godfather

115. Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation

116. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana

117. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race

118. The Field - The Follower

119. Boris - LOVE & EVOL

120. Ab-Soul - Control SYSTEM

121. Burial - Street Halo

122. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!

123. Washed Out - Mister Mellow

124. PARTYNEXTDOOR - PARTYNEXTDOOR

125. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory

126. Mac Miller - Watching Movies With the Sound Off

127. Todd Terje - It's Album Time

128. Wiz Khalifa - Taylor Allderdice

129. Mac DeMarco - 2

130. Lone - Reality Testing

131. Slowdive - Slowdive

132. Salem - King Night

133. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places

134. JMSN - Velvet

135. DeepChord Presents Echospace - Liumin

136. DJ Koze - Knock Knock

137. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In

138. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

139. Loscil - Endless Falls

140. Sd Laika - That's Harakiri

141. Pusha T - My Name Is My Name

142. Grouper - A I A : Alien Observer

143. Saint Pepsi - Hit Vibes

144. Migos - Culture

145. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel

146. Alvvays - Antisocialites

147. Kevin Gates - Luca Brasi 2

148. Benoît Pioulard - Sonnet

149. Gold Panda - Good Luck And Do Your Best

150. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme

151. The Chemical Brothers - No Geography

152. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass

153. Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic

154. Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom

155. Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin

156. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit

157. A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord

158. The Flaming Lips - The Terror

159. Anamanaguchi - [USA]

160. Trust - Joyland

161. The War On Drugs - Lost In the Dream

162. Grimes - Visions

163. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch

164. Floating Points - Crush

165. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

166. Lil Ugly Mane - Oblivion Access

167. Aphex Twin - Syro

168. Sun Kil Moon - Benji

169. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound

170. Caribou - Swim

171. Zomby - Dedication

172. Childish Gambino -  "Awaken, My Love!"

173. Health - Death Magic

174. Roly Porter - Third Law

175. Japandroids - Celebration Rock

176. Gucci Mane - Everybody Looking

177. The Drones - I See Seaweed

178. George Clanton - Slide

179. Amnesia Scanner - Another Life

180. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me