(dean Voice) If I Could Crawl Into Your Ribcage And Make A Home There I Would. That Way We Would Never

Story time:

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.

So whenever I see crap like Elizabeth Holmes’s blood test scam or pharmaceutical trials which are unable to be replicated or industry-funded research that reaches wildly unscientific conclusions, I just remember those fucking sweet potatoes. I remember that curiosity dies when people are just trying to give their superiors the “right” answers, so they can get the grade, get the job, get the paycheck. It’s not about truth when it’s about paying rent. There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.

i get a little bit of free time and start going "what if i taught myself woodworking" girl work on ur resume

These are all so amazing i love them.

the people deserve to know my random tma headcanons

- melanie and jon are the exact same height. it pisses both of them off. 

- daisy is the oldest archival assistant, she doesn’t tell anybody her birthday tho (except basira)

- tim has a nose ring, dont argue he just does 

- tim and sasha pretended to get engaged to get free food from restaurants more than once 

- melanie and jon have the same birthday. it pisses both of them off.

- jon steals everybody’s laundry and has worn at least one item of everybody’s clothes 

- martin’s crush didn’t start until after mag22, jon’s started after martin told him about his cv 

- jon is literally incapable of standing still

- elias made his bet with peter in ep100 

- something in my heart and in my soul is so certain that jon lied about how many statements he took during his intervention 

This describes, like, ninety percent of my favorite characters.

He's so pathetic, queer, and neurodivergent

I desire him carnally.

As someone who sometimes uses ao3 specifically for the freaky stuff sometimes, i'm a little confused that this is even a thing. Like, if you don't like it, just filter that stuff out. You can exclude anything. Problem solved.

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

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if you think about it it’s only fair that Character With No Canon Physical Description is declared sexiest man by popular vote. on the Critically Acclaimed Movie That Doesn’t Fucking Exist website

@lengthofropes’ Milestone Celebration - Day 5: body language // sadness ↳ Dean + crying