as much as madoka magica doesn’t deserve its reputation of inventing dark magical girl/shoujo deconstructions (it’s at least the third to do that) i really don’t think we give it enough credit for having one of its main characters’ primary combat style be “a bunch of guns she stole from the military”
As the oils produced from the microalgae are edible and have superior properties to those found in palm oil, the newly discovered method would serve as a healthier and greener alternative to palm oil, according to the research study published in Journal of Applied Phycology.
Compared to palm oil, the oil derived from the microalgae contains more polyunsaturated fatty acids, which can help reduce ‘bad’ cholesterol levels in blood and lower a person’s risk of heart disease and stroke, the study states.
Palm oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, found in many packaged products sold in the supermarket. While palm oil is the most efficient source of vegetable oil, its rapid expansion threatens some of the planet’s most important and sensitive habitats. The algae oil innovation could present a possible alternative that can stop the damage.
Besides serving as a greener alternative to cultivating palm trees for plant-based oils or fat, the NTU-developed technique also has the potential to help cut down on greenhouse gas emissions as well as food waste.
people always say stuff like “this company just did this dumb bullshit to distract from their unethical treatment of their employees” but i think in reality it’s more like with any given company, especially triple-A gaming companies, there’s like a 90% chance that they are simultaneously treating their employees unethically and doing some dumb bullshit all the time
i’m a very kind and loving person but also i have a lot of rage and i just want to kill and maim people all the time. but other than that very kind and loving.
(Yes, I fucked with all the names so it’ll theoretically stay out of the tags, but yes you can reblog.)
This many years later, it cracks me up when I think about the corner of Stev//en Univ//erse fandom that made smutty art/fic
Because the arguments over shipping would become incredibly vicious, and I don’t just mean fourteen-year-olds who shipped Lapi//dot being dicks to Am//edot shippers (though that was certainly a thing lol), I mean people being horrifically harassed for saying things like “Pea//rl might not be 100% a lesbian*” or people telling Jas//pis shippers that they were personally responsible for domestic violence or people getting freaked out by unusual genital configurations or heat cycles or putting “but aren’t they kinda like siblings” on every piece of shippy art of Blue and Yellow Diam//ond.**
Because here’s the thing: “normal” people? People completely outside of fandom?
They thought it was weird we were making porn of characters from a “children’s” cartoon. Anything past that didn’t register. It was all the same level of “really fucking weird, and borderline uncomfortable to think about.”
Like, I saw the looks on my IRL non-fandom friends’ faces when they put two and two together that I was writing that kind of fic about Stev//en Uni//verse. That whole “well you’re not doing anything wrong, but…ew.”
They never said anything, because they’re not shitty people; and clearly some of my friends thought it was fine because they were the ones who would ask me about it, lol.
But “normies” didn’t give a flying fuck about which ships we were writing about or what genitals we gave the gems in fan art. The whole thing was bizarre to them.
Anyway, the next time a big fandom argument is blowing up, remember that we’re all just fucking weirdos and it’s fine. Just don’t treat other people like shit.
(*I am too lazy to look up the interview right now, but apparently Reb/ecca Su/gar found it to be hurtful how vicious people were about this, because to some extent Pea//rl was Reb/ecca’s self-insert, and Rebec/ca is bisexual.) (**Literally any accusation of “but that’s like inc/est” with the gems is fucking hilarious to me, because the gems are manufactured and had zero concept of “family” until they met Ste/ven; they would have no clue what in/cest is, they don’t even have genetics, they can’t have the “raised together like siblings” thing because they pop out of the ground as adults, THERE IS NO INC/EST AMONG GEMS. Anyway Blue and Yellow argue like old marrieds, not siblings. Sheesh.)
I recently started a rewatch of Steven Universe, and frankly nothing in the world puts weird shipping discourse into perspective like: actually watching Steven Universe. It’s a show for little babies where a boy in a pink shirt has adventures. Getting aggressive about cartoons makes you a weird, creepy adult!
