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@theflyingkipper / theflyingkipper.tumblr.com

I like trains || 21 || ๐Ÿš‚

my name is Dokki or Kips (don't forget the s!) depending on which is easier to pronounce for you. I use he/him/his and it/its. peep/peepself neopronouns are also appropriate.

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a lot of my art is signed "SP" although lately ive been signing dokupine at my speculative biology blog. I also have a minecraft/myct blog and a pixar cars blog. I don't post original work there very often, though.

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I welcome anyone migrating from other social media sites (twitter, reddit) as long as you promise to be courteous to people here on tumblr.

heckling, bullying, or any unwanted attention, or attempting to get my opinion on discourse will get you blocked. I also block if people have too much personal information in their bios, which is kind of an arbitrary scale. If I do block you, its not a personal attack.

'Oh, life would be so much easier if he had any control over his own destiny but he was a machine dependent on humans and what was the use in wishing for impossible things?'

once again i insist that everyone reads futurerust's impossible things. on my most recent reread i just wanted to draw even more for this wonderful fic, and i've had this idea in my head since the second time i'd read it, so here we are!!! this took me forever but i am So pleased with how it has turned out- now all i can say is please go read the fic everyone!!! it's so good!!!!

i love re-consuming media i used to love when i was younger. like wow! child me still is in me i am holding her hand and keeping her safe and doing her favorite things with her!!!!

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

Hey whoa hi. Hello. I am looking directly into your ear canal. What do you mean you drank a tube of virus concentrate.

So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.

I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.

Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.

(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)

(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)

(for science.)

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