i know families can be the fucking worst so if your family is the worst i am your family now, i support you and i love you and you’re my beautiful babies and never forget that my lil dumplings
you trans? i love you. you gay? i love you. you not sure what’s goin on? i love you. i love you. i love you! if your fam doesn’t support you, fuck ur fam, babe. i love you. you’re perfect! i love you.
jonathan from queer eye turning up in skirts and jumpsuits and off the shoulder tops and french braids in front of crusty old straight american men…braver than any us marine
not to harp on this point but the care with which a girl you’ve known for maybe three weeks will ask you “what’s wrong?” if you look even mildly distressed is more emotional labor than you’d receive from any man over the course of six lunar cycles
if my dad sees me crying, he pretends he’s getting a call so that we don’t have to have an awkward conversation, but a drunk girl who stumbled across me in a public bathroom would literally become my emotional triage nurse
favorite story: apparently, while filming “black swan,” the director would try to pit mila kunis and natalie portman against each other, telling them that the other woman was doing a better job, in hopes of making their characters’ rivalry seem more authentic. but it completely backfired, since instead of getting angry or competitive, natalie and mila would just congratulate each other on doing such good work.
Directors who do stuff like this are pieces of shit
What men think women are like verses what women are actually like
also this:
Let’s name the director:
Darren Aronofsky. He has since directed mother! where he forced Jennifer Lawrence to reshoot a scene after she broke a rib or something. He is still really praised in cinephile circles, which is why I want to name and shame him.
And let us all admit that directors like Darren Aronofsky are not being praised DESPITE this behaviour but rather BECAUSE of it. They’re seen as edgy and willing to take risks and do what needs to be done, no matter the fallout, to get the perfect shot. They take risks for their art.
Except, of course, they don’t. They make other take risks, they push and damage other people, not themselves.
Darren Aronofsky banned bottled water on the set of “Noah”, and after a long day of filming, Emma Watson came back to her trailer so exhausted and dehydrated that she unthinkingly drank a glass of water that had been left sitting out for weeks, maybe months. The water had gotten filthy by that point, and it made her horrifically ill. When she told Aronofsky that she was sick, he refused to let her take a break from filming. He told her to “use it”.
[Narrator: A scientist in Peru [pause for peep] captured this, escaping from the tiny body [pause for peep] of a sleeping hummingbird. [pause for peep] A high-pitched [pause for peep] but unmistakable snore. [pause for peep] Hummingbirds are loved for their beauty and speed [pause for peep] but this one was behaving a little bit like a human. [pause for peep] The perfect cute-response trigger.]
If ur arabic ur great
If ur arabic and muslim ur great
If ur arabic and queer ur great
If ur arabic and muslim and queer ur great
I know it seems hard to believe but you’re not bad you’re not awful
Hey if you’re not arabic can you reblog this? I hardly ever see any positivity towards us and I just wanna spread love to my Arab siblings
It’s Wednesday the mods are asleep post centrifuge memes
Y’all, I have a story.
In my lab we have a number of centrifuges. All benches have at least one microfuge, and there’s small benchtop fuges for full-sized tubes scattered around the lab as well.
We’re also the only lab in the building with a pair of full-size ones, that you can use to spin down liter bottles and such. They’re the kind with exchangeable segments so you can spin four giant things or hundreds of small tubes.
One of them is a standard fixed centrifuge, the other is free-swinging.
But that wasn’t always the case.
The lab, apparently, used to have two fixed centrifuges there. Keep in mind that these things go fucking FAST. They’re also tens of thousands of dollars.
Well, apparently, one day a student forgot to balance one of them. They turned it on and walked away.
The thing started shaking and rattling almost immediately, and the student panicked and tried to turn it off, but it was too late. The central spinning mechanism was spinning so violently that it PUNCHED THROUGH THE OUTER UNIT and zipped out of the lab like a goddamn sonic-ass hedgehog in a hamster wheel. It went all the way down the hall and crashed into the reinforced glass door before stopping.
Needless to say, underclassmen aren’t allowed to handle those centrifuges anymore.