beneath the mask

a young streamer sits in his desk.

i definitely think minecraft won't be the game for everyone in the end and that's just how things are no problem but i do think *some* people who don't get the hype of it just need to play with their friends and build a house with them. its also for doing things like this.

dudes will literally be in public voice chats with push to talk turned off and start sniffling harder than a wild hog

not my fault if i smell a truffle when im gaming man

using tumblr age 14: i am going to end misogyny reblogging pastel art about choice feminism

using tumblr age 23: [in the tags of a poll] SPINACH SWEEP🔥🔥🍃💪🏼💯

So funny to see someone call a m/m/f pairing "het"....I believe in women and I believe she can have gay sex with those men. if she wants

only og minecrafters remember the raw emotion of: ok i need a block its okay just gotta scroll,,,, just gotta scroll some more,,,,,,, and some more,,,,, where the fuCK—

art dump for my spidersona/oc, Spider Fool! They're from Earth in the year 1200 or something idk

i cannot believe that since we started using the destiel meme as a breaking news alert there hasn’t been ONE destiel au fic where they’re co-anchors on the morning news.

cas confessed on accident while they’re on air and dean doesn’t know how to respond so he just reads the next thing on the teleprompter

It’s been long enough since I worked at the hideously mismanaged nanotech startup that I’ve started romanticizing it. Like, yes the hydrogen explosion was scary and I’m entirely too familiar with the odor of decaborane, and yes the CEO and CTO got in a fistfight in the conference room, but nothing makes you feel alive like turning chunks of graphite on an ancient manual lathe with inadequate respiratory PPE.

Asbestosis-like lung damage via inhalation of loose airborn boron nitride nanotubes, nitrate-induced chronic migraines, and a crippling caffeine addiction build character.

Fondly remembering the day where we decided to try a nickel organometallic catalyst instead of our usual iron. The difference being that while nickel should be a better catalyst, if you get an iron carbonyl leak the room smells bad for a bit, whereas if you get a nickel carbonyl leak you’re dead before you hit the floor.

So much adrenaline! We went home wired and giddy, full to the brim with nightmares and scientific euphoria. Every day I dreaded waking up, and every day I held the raw stuff of miracles in my hands. Good times.

god lived in this box, I’m pretty sure

No. Even with such egregious safety shortcuts, they barely even scratched the surface of what was possible. Sure, they had drive and vision, but never enough for my taste. They weren’t mad. They were barely even eccentric.

And I was no mere hench! I know the process. Every single object you see in these pictures was designed and assembled by me, with my own mind and hands. And moreover, I know all the radical experiments that they were too timid to attempt. All I need is some space, a bit of cash, and a used furnace or two, and I will spin up an operation to put my erstwhile peers to shame.

For as much as they were willing to risk with our health, they were unwilling to risk the money. Honestly, I get it. People do stupid things when funding is on the line. Happens all the time. I can’t even be angry. I’m really not.

No, I’m not mad, I’m just… frustrated.

OP how does it feel to be a real life mad scientist

Ok so if you haven’t already heard of it, there’s an excellent podcast on engineering disasters (and sometimes engineering disgraces) called Well There’s Your Problem, and they have a segment at the end of every episode called Safety Third, which is listeners writing in about egregiously unsafe experiences they have had especially at their workplaces.

OP, I am BEGGING you to write in with this because I want so badly to hear their voices read your email with mounting horror as they get to the pictures of the box god probably lived in.

(Also if this is the first you’re hearing of the podcast, last week’s episode had the wonderful Maia Arson Crimew @nyancrimew to talk about cybersecurity among other things, which was excellent. On the whole, great podcast, would recommend.)

124 episodes of workplace drama?????? Holy crap, this’ll keep me occupied for a few weeks, thank you!

I am enjoying the fuck out of the notes here, most of which are variations on “I thought this was a bit and then OH MY GOD THERE WAS A PICTURE.” and look I’ve mostly worked in the corners of science that are founded in naturalistic variation with very little room for hubris and I still believed every word from OP there. I’ve seen with my own eyes a video of the time my friend genetically engineered a hamster for maximum rage, okay? I’ve seen the consequences of the horrors and the thwarted sulking of those whose hands have been slapped by IRBs or Environmental Health and Safety or IT. I have two different friends on IRBs and one of these days I’m gonna make friends with someone at EHS purely for the cocktail party stories. And that is in the relatively tame field of behavioral research, okay, I’m not fucking with the stuff of material reality here.

Also I’ve read the inimitable Derek Lowe’s Things I Won’t Work With and I have a healthy fear of applied chemists.

hey what was in the water with the stucky fandom for real they did some off the fucking chainnnn things on ao3 and for what.

the full on courtroom drama fics. the illustrated fics on ao3 that were like fucking baroque oil paintings. the epistolary shit. some mf wrote pieces of a fake book by a historian. we had works cited. this fanfction has a bibliography. how can we bottle this and distribute it en masse to other fandoms.

Purely out of curiosity, does the zuko x toph ship exist? What would you even call that? zoph? toko? zukoph? beilord? firefong? lordlord?

im sorry but im just imagining a random servant accidentally overhearing toph say "—but, if i were the firelord's wife—" while walking with zuko and jumping to the conclusion that zuko and toph are planning to get married.

(in reality, their conversation went:

Toph: Not to diss on your mom or anything, but if I were the firelord's wife—which, ew—i would have kicked the loserlord's balls at least once before i left.

Zuko: Just once?

Toph: I definitely would have made it an unforgettable experience.)

anyway, the rumor spreads pretty rapidly much to toph's manic delight and zuko's resigned acceptance when they found out.

toph would go to random restaurants and stores within caldera and proclaim, "send the bill to the royal treasury!" or "give me your best goods. your future firelady demands it!"

when confronted by annoying advisers, zuko realized that the easiest way to shut them up is by saying, "I'll leave you to discuss this matter with the future firelady."

it also helps that ever since the rumor grew, the advisers have stopped pestering him about getting married already. after all, who knows how the master earthbender would react to this kind of slight against her marriageability.

iroh thinks it's absolutely hilarious. he even formally gives toph "his blessings" in public. (*after toph singlehandedly defeats assassins after zuko during a public event* "I see that the fire nation is in good hands 😊")

it's all fun and games until sokka overhears the rumor. "aang, as the avatar, you need to stop their marriage. or else the world will never know peace."

Aang has a horrible idea.

"Sokka, I need you to pretend to be Zuko's mistress."

Aang has a glorious idea.

things i’ve watched, found interesting, and enjoyed on youtube lately

The Ugly Truth of Acne Representation  - Rowan Ellis Quiet Luxury Is Loud — Amandamaryanna Bo Burnham’s Inside and “White Liberal Performative Art”  - F.D Signifier The Predictable Fate of Andrew Tate - Banned in Real Life - D’Angelo Wallace Why Cruise Ships Don’t Sink - The Infographics Show

the aftermath of tiktok fashion (the shein effect) - Jordan Theresa The Fever Dream Era of Youtuber Tours - Ashley Norton Stereotypes & Nonsense… Why Euphoria Needs a Writers Room  - itsJODONNA entertainment media’s history of mistreating young women 📸💻📰 - ModernGurlz let’s talk about the Japanese Schoolgirl - Mina Le The Eras of an Icon: Britney Spears - Mila Tequila

Why You Stopped Reading  - Answer In Progress A Retrospective on Teen Dystopian Books  - The Book Leo A complete history on my feud with Colleen Hoover - Caleb Joseph How the Publishing Industry Failed “Lolita” (as told by terrible book covers) - Man Carrying Thing Horror Books Have Lost Their Identity - In Praise of Shadows A Monstress Comes of Age: Horror & Girlhood - Yhara Zayd

What is the Point of the Sims? - Series History & Design Retrospective - Complete FULL DOCUMENTARY - Michael Aguero Inside the Love(Sick) World of Fanfic Culture - Shanspeare Let’s Look At the Gruesome World of Victorian Medicine - Kaz Rowe Manipulative Villains are Terrifying (Chainsaw Man, Madoka, inuyasha, Arcane) - How To Write Anime - AxelBeats! I Survived Sensory Deprivation - Ryan Trahan I Built a Heated Dog House for Canadian Winters - Drew Builds Stuff I Made a Miniature Howl’s Moving Castle Out of Junk - Studson Studio

From The New Anecdota Americana, 1944

diversity win! this farmer is poly

Hello happy pride month, here are some sweet and relatively low-stakes queer reads for you:

Cursed Cocktails by SL Rowland - a blood mage retires after decades of fighting to protect his people, and moves to a small coastal town where the heat will be good for his chronic pain. He opens a cocktail bar and maybe falls in love with his business partner.

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - case worker has to investigate a group home of very powerful magical orphans. One of them is the antichrist. He tries not to lose his mind. Finds love (platonic and romantic) along the way

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree - badass orc barbarian decides to retire from her life of fighting and opens a cafe in a town where no one has heard of coffee before. Finds a family along the way.

A Rival Most Vial by RK Ashwick - two rival potion shop owners who hate everything about each other find out they have to work together on a potion for the mayor. Find out that maybe they don't hate each other that much after all. Oh and there's a found family in there somewhere.

obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"

DJ don't kill yourself antidepressing on the beat

my eyes get teary with joy

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3