#why does nothing work

[lawrencespen1777]

“It’s gonna take me out.”

“Don’t say that.”

“It’s gonna eat me alive.”

“Shhhhh. Just take it easy.”

“I don’t know how to do this. I know you don’t either.”

“You’re right.”

“I don’t want to die.”

“I don’t want you to die either.”

[beeanddoddi]

not so fun news.....

i can't easily get the van registered... it's such a long and complicated process....

idk i just feel like i did so much waiting just to do more waiting and i've been so patient and so hopeful only to have to wait more and more and more and get my hopes up yet again.

another goal leaving date passed today and i still can't legally drive the van.

i can't leave in june i need to leave now....

[siennaditbot]

Today's mood:

Had one (1) picture taken of me for a school thing

I now wish to rip my entire face off and I want to never eat again

Aka

I probably have to go see a dermatologist or smth for my constant acne my parents like to remind me of

And I should probably quit sugar altogether cuz PCOS not happi and start to regularly exercise or smth but TIRED

I have made changes and I've been intermittent fasting for a while but UGH I HATE MYSELF AND I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO SEE ME

Also new life situation and I'm lost and stressed out and this. is. not. helping.

Anyway continue with your day, no need to interact with this, I just wanted to vent and my mom is both asleep and immediately going to tell me to do things which I do not want to hear right now

[cirrem]

my research code has decided to hate me. I am very sad.

heres a list of things that aren't supposed to be happening, but are happening: 1) atoms flying off 2) regions of brown+pink inside the purple 3) regions of brown and blue without their respective pink and salmon 4) 3 is likely caused by LAMMPS deciding to make 3 rows of brown+blue and 2 rows of pink+salmon 5) When I did it with a shorter simulation (as in the blocks of green+purple were shorter, and the brown+pink+blue+salmon were the same sizes everything worked fine 6) running my python analysis on the shorter one looks like this

which is very interesting! the highest strain seems to be not in the middle as I was expecting, but very much on one side, (aka, although mixing most occurs at 0.5, the atoms on the right move a lot less then the atoms on the left do) this indicates that one of the materials has a lot weaker intermetallic bonds then the other, and the stronger metal's resistance to movement can really shut down the amount of internal vibrations experienced by the other. However, I'm not super satisfied with the range - I want something to go further left and right because that would be interesting and I want to see the leftwards curve.

and on the bigger, more comprehensive graph, that should do just that, looks like this:

which looks like a face. I can't tell if its in pain or if its incredibly smug. either way, it makes me sad.

even worse: these graphs took forever to make. the larger simulation had over 100,000 atoms, and python is not necessarily a quick language.

if you want context: I'm investigating how stress/strain propagate between layers of a thin film between copper and aluminum, and how that changes if based on the amount of diffusion between them. except to keep things simple, instead of a thin film, im doing blocks with a thin-film-esque diffusion boundary. I think in a thin film the strains would overlap and superposition would happen, unless you wanted the thin film to be 1-2 atoms thick, which would be a very different type of analysis then what I'm doing. I guess I'm analyzing thick thin films.

[honeyimissjoo]

tumblr showing me all the rat posts in my recommended despite 2 hours spent blocking every species of rodent known to man is my villain origin story

[snippetclipper]

my tumblr "for you" page is just... not working? It keeps showing me the same 5 posts over and over in different orders over the last week. I've seen the fucking post about the cat named Brother Dubious 700 times.

[friendlyneighborhoodghostpal]

i’m just gonna say it i love how kaos handled orpheus and eurydice. i really did, im a huge greek mythology nerd and that story has always been about the refusal to give someone up even when you should, its not a love story its a story about grief. and i just- ah they did something really cool there didn’t they? i’m gonna rewatch the season and like properly form my opinions but i really like it.

[rbtlvr]

why does sissel know what a putting green is. did yomiel take him mini golfing. please this is fucking haunting me

[elftwink]

to preface this post i am anti-advertising i think we should explode the entire industry but it's sooo funny when you people make posts like "and they don't even work!!" like. sorry to be the bearer of bad news but yes they do. that's why we have to put up with so many despite everyone hating them and thinking its annoying. because they actually work really well and make a shit load of money

[un-pearable]

only ninja funding options i’ll accept

odd jobs and miscellaneous shenanigans that result in them ingratiating themselves with a handful of salesfolk around ninjago. e.g. the people of jamanakai having a fondness for lloyd after experiencing both Shitty Little Kid attacking them in s1 and The Green Ninja™ saving them in s4

actual real life jobs between seasons (s2 and 4 ily)

pixal’s investments

residuals from licensing (the ninja video game from s1 and s4 <3. and the movies and the actual merch made by dareth from s6 lmao)

residuals from jay’s TV-Show-Which-Will-Not-Be-Named (now on streaming. it’s real-kid-now-unagami’s favorite show)

ideally all at once. but also? they do not need traditional funding. this is an urban fantasy. they are not paying rent (when living on the bounty/monastery). they can and do grow a significant amount of their own food when they do have a place to live. they have multiple times explicitly started businesses?? after they already were publicly known for saving people? when would the government have started funding them if not then. the ideal ninja state is not worrying about money unless it’s funny, and then they’re spider-man.

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

"shipping saiki is aphobic because he's aroace!"

stares at you with my demiromantic asexual in a committed relationship eyes then looks at the camera like im in the office

[idontcaboose]

Haunted car Au part 18

Previous. Masterpost

It was a while before Hood and Duke got done mother henning him about his entire situation, and after their private phone call they seemed to be making a plan.

Turns out, the Red Hood was a pretty cool guy. If you ignore the cursing that would have all the grandmas back home fainting, finding a switch, or grabbing soap. Either way, they would also tell your mom and a grounding would be the kindest punishment. 

Wait…. Does that mean he can curse here? 

…….

“I AM TIRED OF THESE MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING PLANE!”

This is now officially the best day of his life….

“LANGUAGE!” 

……...Hypocrites

---

“So?”

“'So’ what Glowstick?”

“Do we have any plan other than ‘Wait for the magic guys’?” 

Hood snorted.  “Not really. Why, you got a plan?”

“Well, I don't know about you, but I dont think Danny knows how to drive, and I am willing to bet he would like to learn how to drive if they take their time getting here-” 

“Are you asking to take Danny for a joyride?” Hood asked incredulously.

“What do you say Danny?” Duke was smiling with mischief in his eyes.

“HELL YA!” 

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[vintrage]

first dandelion in the spring

[lady-merian]

@emeraldchase okay, here goes!

I’ve seen a lot of jokes about how the best the Ring can do to tempt Sam is a garden. I’ve laughed at them too, but there’s an element to some of the jokes that dismisses the importance of the scene in my opinion. 

The Ring offers power according not only to a person’s desires, but to their abilities. We can infer from what the Ring offers Sam that Sam would desire to do good with it, (arguably, overthrowing Barad-dur and turning the wasteland of Mordor into a garden is a good desire,) but that doesn’t mean it’s not a dangerous power fantasy in its own way. The desire to remake the world in one’s own image and enforce it by any means necessary is something not even our dear Sam is immune to. He’s not imagining a world where nothing threatens peace, he’s imagining being the threat that enforces the peace. If it takes a flaming sword to bring his order into the world then it takes a flaming sword. The Ring tries to convince him it would give him the power to do so. 

The Ring is, of course, a liar, and it’s a credit to Sam that he realized that after rejecting what the Ring was offering him, but it’s also a credit to Sam that he rejected it in the first place. This is his equivalent to Galadriel’s test. Unlike Galadriel, however, he’s in possession of the Ring at the time the temptation comes upon him and I think that’s saying something. 

Curiously, his reward when he returns to the Shire gives him the wholesome version of these desires, not to mention many more blessings besides.

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

Though Sam as the mayor isn’t a position of great power equal to the great kingdoms of Middle-earth by any stretch, it’s a responsibility. (What that looks like is better seen in the unpublished epilogue to the story, in my opinion.) A responsibility he’s proven himself capable of handling. Likewise with a garden swollen to a realm. The part of the Shire that most benefited from his use of Galadriel’s gift was Hobbiton, it’s true, but he did travel the four farthings of the Shire to mend what harms he could. 

I’m not suggesting that Sam could have become this tyrannical ruler, because Sam hasn’t trained his will to the domination of others and also does not have the innate power that Gandalf and Galadriel both have. (Not to mention Sam is correct that Sauron would have seen him if he’d put the Ring on in Mordor: Frodo put on the Ring at Mount Doom and Sauron was instantly aware.) There are few enough who would survive a direct contest with Sauron in a situation like that, so I’m not putting Sam down either by saying that Sam putting on the Ring would have doomed Middle-earth. 

What I’m saying is that just because the vision was of a garden doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have been detrimental to Sam’s character if he’d accepted the vision. Gandalf was wary of even handling it. Sam meanwhile goes to the ends of the earth as far as his people are concerned, right alongside the Ringbearer, and remains mainly concerned for the welfare of Frodo. The thought of what he might do with the Ring hasn’t crossed his mind until that moment. When measured up against his devotion to his master and also his plain hobbit-sense, the Ring can’t compete.

[iidsch]

also more codelyokoposting but I really really dig XANA as a villain. It's not a person with a complex background that led them down the path of evil, it's not a morally grey character you sympathize with but condemn. It's a powerful AI capable of controlling almost anything in the real world. It doesn't have a face or a body, we only know it for its symbol and for the monsters it controls in the virtual world. It's willing not just to kill people through various methods (poisoning, drowning, car crash, fucking space lasers too?) but also Earth as a whole (it tried to blow up a NUCLEAR PLANT and crash two trains with toxic chemicals in them). And we don't even know why it does this, at least not for now. It may not even have a particular reason, just some sort of virus or malware in the form of an AI that seeks nothing but destruction without any goals in mind. This "pure evil" characteristic doesn't come off as childish, like in some children cartoons, it's just kind of scary to think that such an incomprehensible and destructive force exists, almost feels like a natural disaster

[eydilily]

me using a tissue box to prop up my drawing tablet... etho was on to smthg for real