cheritsundere:

newtsckamander:

so @biflash and I decided we need a realistic movie/show scene where the science character goes to do their amazing analysis in the lab only to have random realistic problems occur (b/c it’s unrealistic that their work is so accurate in like 20 min work time)

• science character: ON IT!!*4 hours later* “fuck, the gel cracked when I was trying to get it off the plate”
• a 3 hour long movie of some poor grad student stuck in a lab trying desperately to get data
• a 10 minute montage of everything that can go wrong going wrong
• Scientist after gel finishes: “I GOT IT!!! LET’S SEE WHAT WE’VE GOT!!!”

  Image: only shows ladder

  scientist: fuck 

•  background hero: in english pls
• forgetting which lanes represent what/forgetting to label test tubes/forgetting to add dye to their samples (I am guilty of this)
• accidentally running the sample off the gel 
• or stopping it too early and not having the bands separate accurately
• fucking up so badly not even the ladder shows up
• random air bubbles disrupting the formation of lanes after putting in the comb
• and the gel is already half solid so u cant just pour in more
• smelling like rotten fish all day because they opened a mini tube with TEMED in it
• accidentally running the sample from positive to negative instead of negative to positive and realizing they just wasted like half an hour
• the gel leaking as they pour it between the glass frames 
• getting into ninja poses as they try to see the nearly invisible wells while they try to load them
• forgetting to leave their tubes on ice and performing the whole experiment for no reason™
• forgetting to mix the restriction enzyme samples properly and screwing up the restriction digest

give us more realistic scientists who suffer pls. not all scientists can perform a badass experiment with the presence of one random mini tech machine. and even if they did, i bet you something would somehow go wrong hahaha.

• “What do you mean we were supposed to tare the beaker first?”
• *looks at an unknown amount* Eh, that looks like 5mL. We don’t have to measure
• *no product is formed* Okay, so it wasn’t 5mL.
• WHY IS IT NOT TURNING BLUE YET. WE ADDED THE BASE ALREADY.
• *cleans beaker with distilled water* Oh yeah, I definitely used soap on this. *whispers to lab partner* “I didn’t.”
• I’M TELLING YOU DR. ZHANG, THERE IS NO WAY THE PROTEIN CONCENTRATION IS ONLY 6%. YES. WE CHECKED THE ABSORBANCE. NO I WILL NOT REDO THE EXPERIMENT.
• montage of checking and rechecking the absorbance
• *whispers “mistakes were made” into the wind*