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Winter Postlude: Pity
“I’ll be out for a bit, Father.”
Shit. Bloody shit. I can’t keep him inside that makeshift casket for long. I need to find her.
Amelia noticed her hand. They were shaking. Surprised, she let out a breathy laugh and a “shit”.
She’s nervous? A vampire like her? Preposterous.
Amelia takes a deep breath. She can’t find Teresa Williams because she’s been dead for centuries. How is she going to proceed with her plans without her?
I know those Watcher imposters chose another person to be a Pupil. The question is who?
Amelia wandered around, from Newcrest, to the Promenade, to San Myshuno, deep in thought. She needs to find Teresa’s successor to find the woman. The High Priestess. But she’s having difficulties looking for the new Pupil. On top of that, her father’s whining like a little runt.
Just then…
“What are you looking at?” She can see me. That shouldn’t be. My spell is strong…
A woman whose neck was covered (Amelia almost clicked her tongue with this) with thick colorful scarf was walking and was looking straight to her.
She opened her mouth as if she was gasping, as if she was surprised that she saw Amelia, shocked, at the sight of her, but she sneezed and turned away. The woman entered the apartment beside them, presumably her home. Her actions were a little…odd…though. It seemed like her sneeze was forced.
Strange.
I thought she could see me…her eyes looked straight at me. I might need to see her again…just in case.
Amelia finds herself sitting on a picnic table in the middle of who-knows-where in San Myshuno. The sun had already set, and the streetlights illuminated the city. If this was under normal circumstances, she would have enjoyed exploring what the modern world could offer, but she’s stuck with her father, and they must stick together, because they’re the “only ones who have each other”.
Or whatever her father said. He has plans.
Amelia knows he’s not going to accept unfulfilled plans. She knows her father – as spoiled as his sons. Whatever he wants, he gets. Whatever his plans are, it happens. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t get the Overlord’s friendship when another vampire maiden was chosen to be his bride.
I just know if I was the Overlord’s wife, I wouldn’t be stuck with him…
I don’t want to be his wife though.
Amelia let out a loud exhale.
When she got back to their refuge, she saw her father sitting on her stool. The candle was lit.
Is his dark vision waning?
“You left the candle lit, Amelia. What if I was burned?”
“I didn’t,” she restrained clicking her tongue, or even sighing. “You won’t burn, Father. That’s an ordinary fire.”
“Why do you keep this thing?”
“I like it. Why did you light it?”
He didn’t answer. Of course he won’t. Since when has he admitted things? Is he getting weak? Should I be worried?
“Did you find her?”
“No.”
“Amelia, you useless child! How long are we going to be like this? I need to find the Pupil now; I want to get my hands on Straud right fucking now!”
She tries her best not to snarl. With practiced patience, she replied, “It’s not easy looking for mortals in this cold, Father. They want to keep warm. Once the ice melts and the flowers bloom, it will be easy.”
And she wants to investigate this girl she saw earlier. But of course, she’s not going to tell him. If she did, he’d do everything himself, and her plans might fail.
He huffed. “A lord like me shouldn’t be stuck in this dump, feeding on rats.”
Her fangs gritted together, her head pounding. With a hiss, she angrily said, “That’s all I could give you without people suspecting us! Do you want to alert the Overlord? While you’re at this state?” She knows he might hit her for this, but it would be like an ant’s bite. He’s weak. He’s no longer as powerful as before. She doesn’t fear him anymore.
“It’s not enough, Amelia.” It was almost a whisper. But her sharp hearing picked it up.
His shoulders slumped. He mumbled, “Just this once, dear. Let Father have one mortal blood. My body just needs one more push…”
Amelia took a moment to let her golden eyes wander around her father’s body. She could feel his dark energy pulsating weakly, its tendrils barely enveloping his body. It no longer reaches her. He’s no longer frightening. It’s like it’s fading. Waning. The Overlord struck him well.
“I…”
She sighed.
“I’ll go look for a poor urchin. You’ll have to help me get rid of the body though.”
“I will…thank you, my dear.”
She turned on her heel and left.
A glance, before she went down the stairs, and she saw him returning to the makeshift casket.
Amelia sometimes pities her father.
#we finally get a look on the aurums#and they're not looking good#this was not originally planned but i had an idea so i had to sneak this in before gen 2 starts#amelia aurum#andres aurum#lavender lee#Beneath#the sims 4#sims 4#sims 4 vampires#sims 4 story#ts4#ts4 vampires#ts4 story#simblr
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im already at the south downs cottage guys, catch up
#good omens#ineffable husbands#aziraphale#crowley#they're nb in the flavour of being lesbian gay men bc its such a lesbian move to pine for someone for a few thousands years#and literally not make a move#PLUS u know when they have sex it takes like 9hrs and if you wrote what they did down on paper it really wouldnt look like much#but they still had to take intensity breaks bc they kept getting overwhelmed and then just making out for an hour#thank u for coming to my ted talk#high amounts of gender of all types happening all the time with these two
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A new treatment combining ReCET and semaglutide could eliminate the need for insulin in type 2 diabetes, with 86% of participants in a study no longer requiring insulin therapy. The treatment was safe and well-tolerated, and further trials are planned to confirm these results.
Groundbreaking research presented at UEG Week 2024 introduces a promising new treatment approach for type 2 diabetes (T2D) that has the potential to greatly reduce or even eliminate the need for insulin therapy.
This innovative approach, which combines a novel procedure known as ReCET (Re-Cellularization via Electroporation Therapy) with semaglutide, resulted in the elimination of insulin therapy for 86% of patients.
Globally, T2D affects 422 million people... While insulin therapy is commonly used to manage blood sugar levels in T2D patients, it can result in side effects... and further complicate diabetes management. [Note: Also very importantly it's fucking bankrupting people who need it!!] A need therefore exists for alternative treatment strategies.
Study Design and Outcomes
The first-in-human study included 14 participants aged 28 to 75 years, with body mass indices ranging from 24 to 40 kg/m². Each participant underwent the ReCET procedure under deep sedation, a treatment intended to improve the body’s sensitivity to its own insulin. Following the procedure, participants adhered to a two-week isocaloric liquid diet, after which semaglutide was gradually titrated up to 1mg/week.
Remarkably, at the 6- and 12-month follow-up, 86% of participants (12 out of 14) no longer required insulin therapy, and this success continued through the 24-month follow-up. In these cases, all patients maintained glycaemic control, with HbA1c levels remaining below 7.5%.
Tolerability and Safety
The maximum dose of semaglutide was well-tolerated by 93% of participants, one individual could not increase to the maximum dose due to nausea. All patients successfully completed the ReCET procedure, and no serious adverse effects were reported.
Dr Celine Busch, lead author of the study, commented, “These findings are very encouraging, suggesting that ReCET is a safe and feasible procedure that, when combined with semaglutide, can effectively eliminate the need for insulin therapy.”
“Unlike drug therapy, which requires daily medication adherence, ReCET is compliance-free [meaning: you don't have to take it every day], addressing the critical issue of ongoing patient adherence in the management of T2D. In addition, the treatment is disease-modifying: it improves the patient’s sensitivity to their own (endogenous) insulin, tackling the root cause of the disease, as opposed to currently available drug therapies, that are at best disease-controlling.”
Looking ahead, the researchers plan to conduct larger randomized controlled trials to further validate these findings. Dr. Busch added, “We are currently conducting the EMINENT-2 trial with the same inclusion and exclusion criteria and administration of semaglutide, but with either a sham procedure or ReCET. This study will also include mechanistic assessments to evaluate the underlying mechanism of ReCET.”
-via SciTechDaily, October 17, 2024
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Note: If it works even half as well as suggested, this could free so many people from the burden of the ongoing ridiculous cost of insulin. Pharma companies that make insulin can go choke (hopefully).
#would be super interested to hear from people with expertise in the area about how this sounds#obviously it's a small sample size#but they're going to do more trials#and LOOK at that effectiveness rate#insulin#diabetes#healthcare#medicine#diabetic#type 2 diabetes#public health#medical news#good news#hope
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Ludovica and Sausage I mean Luck (gif version:)
#artists on tumblr#animation#tiger tiger#ludovica bonnaire#l. luck. sausage. they're impossible to tag in the wider scheme of things just roll with it#fanart#GO READ TIGER TIGER IT'S SO GOOD AND INSPIRING#there are other panels I'd like to animate for funsies but. Maybe after I do some other stuff first LMAO#animation takes ten years this is the curse#edit: GIF LOOKS NIGHTMARISH ON MOBILE SO UHH HAVE THE VIDEO TOO#pic
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rot and ruin
this was heavily inspired by thatkorka's lovely fic! please check it out, it's such a good take on Gale's arc :')
#btw astarion is doing the flehmen response in the 4th pic... cat fr#TO CLARIFY ITS THE CAT FLEHMEN RESPONSE... THE HORSE ONE LOOKS SCARY OHMYGOD#i was thinking of the spaced out look cats have with their mouths hanging open when there's a smell they're trying to parse#bg3#baldur's gate 3#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#astarion#astarion ancunin#my art#bg3 fanart#bloodweave#please skim over the text im verbose and allergic to making sense#i started this in late october.. i'm never making comics again (lying)#these two are too curious for their own good
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People sorting ao3 solely by stats and only clicking on fics with a certain amount of kudos or comments, you will not survive the winter, nor the summer, nor at all, *brings out knife,* run
#ao3#fanfiction#because if everyone thinks like that then so many fics that might be great get buried and fall into the void#someone has to read it with no hits or kudos#not to mention sometimes people just have wildly different tastes so you don't know unless you look at it yourself#i put a bunch of exclusion filters and then go by summary and tags and open all the ones that sound interesting to me#if they're bad well easy enough to move on#but lotta good ones hidden in there with not a comment in sight and i must change that#knife tw#?#tw knife mention
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Species Swap AU! Retired couple gets a fairy godchild to help repair their relationship
#fairly oddparents a new wish#fairly oddparents#hazel wells#fop cosmo#fop wanda#fop species swap au#god it felt so wrong drawing cosmo and wanda not green and pink. the assignment was to make them human but blonde cosmo feels so cursed#shoutout to my friend who kept pointing out how depressed i made human wanda and cosmo look. good. they're 5 fights away from a divorce#Cosmo and Wanda start with the dynamic they have in the later seasons of the og show but end with the loving dynamic they have in new wish#fairy Hazel's outfit is from 'Crock to the Future' but with blue pants and no hat or bag. Fairy GodParents dress formal so shes fancy#I know Hazel got a fairy design in the new episode but there's too many fairies with blue hair ok- i am stealing the sparkles though#Peri and Dev incoming. still deciding whether Dev would be an anti-fairy or just a regular jealous one. Peri gets to be a dentist#my art
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don't let their seemingly straight-passing tension fool you, they are still very gay and dysfunctional
#they trans their genders good for them good for them!#my friends always give me weird looks when im like “oh they're all the same two people”#doctor who#dr who#dw#the doctor#the master#thoschei#spydoc#twissy#the doctor x the master#doctor x master#master x doctor#the master x the doctor#gomez!master#missy#12th doctor#dhawan!master#twelfth doctor#13th doctor#thirteenth doctor
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say what you will about steven universe but it's objectively hilarious that arguably one of the most toxic ships in the series is just. two coworkers at the same shitty minimum wage food service job
#eliot posts#su#steven universe#i kinda shipped them as a kid looking through steven's eyes but as an adult rewatching good god you make each other sooo much worse#they are not THE most toxic canon-ish ship (that honoyr goes to malachite) but like. they're up there and that is SO funny to me#what minimum wage and Being Eighteen does to a pair of mfs
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the fritter (frin critter)
#inspo struck right after posting the last two. some kind of a hermit crab. a snail#they think they look all cool and mysterious under their safety shelter but if u remove it they're a disastrous puffball of uncombed fur#the hat is not accurate to an adult human btw. i tried to put them in a full size hat and they were lost forever. this is a child sized hat#they need to swap out for bigger hats as they grow#MY FRIENDS WROTE AND DREW SO MUCH FOR THE FRITTER I HOPE THEY CAN REBLOG AND ADD BC THEYRE SO GOOD <3#we started making a whole au about critter species in the wild and how they interact and survive. very fascinating.#i need to collect all the worldbuilding into one place eventually. rn all i'll say is.. overworked odile petsmart employee (tealgoat's idea#isat critters#isat#in stars and time#isat siffrin#my art#a6se/twohats (this tag only) implication then is that loop is bald i guess aksdks. loop = wild shorthair. fritter = domestic longhair.
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Long distance besties. This definitely happened after the third movie (source: trust me bro)
Based on this
#anyways time to yap in the tags 😋☝️#but first ummmm lemme just tag some shit#how to train your dragon#httyd#httyd hiccup#hiccup haddock#hiccup horrendous haddock iii#toothless#httyd toothless#ok i think that its done#anyways this definitely happaned after the dragons left like just trust me bro 🙏🙏🙏🙏#omfg i wanted to make this with hijack as well cause lol. do you get it. they're long distance LOLOLOL#maybe i will make it who knows. is it weird to make the same art trend with different characters??#OH WAIT FORGOT ANOTHER TAG#hicctooth#is this the duo name for them#or is it called#hictooth#doesnt matter. what matters is that theyre literally the definition of platonic soulmates bro#like wtf i love them#sorry for making them look miserable i didnt meant for them to look lile that 😭😭😭😭#omg with that being said#BROOOOOO I AM NOT GONNA DRAW DRAGONS ANYMORE IM DONEEEEE HOW DO YOU DRAW DRAGONS 😭😭😭😭😭🙏🙏#anyways first attempt do you like it. SAY YES RIGHT NOW#if you read this much till the end you need to kiss me rn muah muah muah#also say i did a good job at making them look like cookies like#say it rn#okie bye byeeeeee#I FORGOT TO ADD HIS BRAID IM GONNA KMSSSSSS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO#omg i failed
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Do you think they're Tumblr mutuals
#mindless media consumption looks so good on them#they're playing DTI i know it#tomura shigaraki#my hero academia#mha dabi#dabi#todoroki touya#touya todoroki#shigadabi#league of villains#bnha dabi#bnha#mha#boku no hero academia#shigaraki tomura
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"Well he's certainly not naked anymore!"
The glance at Crowley in this scene though LMAO
#he looks so guilty#they're not even officially an item but he looks so guilty#aziraphale#ineffable husbands#ineffable idiots#aziracrow#good omens#gomens
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more kofi stuff while I also work on the donation ones
CelestiaxKyoko and CelestiaxKirumi for Sam
Taka and Kimbolton in a field (not quite frolicking sorry) for Churro
Hajime giving Fuyuhiko a "little" kiss on the nape for Whiteheart7 (messed up the little part oops)
TsumugixMiu for Kro
#Celesgiri#kirumi tojo#celestia ludenberg#kyoko kirigiri#Celestojo#K1b0#Keebo#kiyotaka ishimaru#fuyuhiko kuzuryu#hajime hinata#kuzuhina#miu iruma#tsumugi shirogane#Tsumiu#.??? I don't know their ship name#I work on these between waiting for feedback on commissioners so I have a while to go#sdr2#super danganronpa 2#danganronpa 2#an art#Drv3#danganronpa trigger happy havoc#They're not all gonna look this good tbh I'm just having a good art wave rn
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....right??? [id in alt]
#zukka#zukka fanart#zuko#sokka#myart#avatar the last airbender fanart#i am going to fight colors. im done with how they look completely different when i post them. hgrnrgnngngngnng#i imagine all of the court and attendants all have bets on when zuko and sokka go public. they're not super good at hiding it#and then sokka leaves. and zuko is moody for Totally No Reason and they have to all pretend like they uh. totally don't know why
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Ghouls night out
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#Scopophobia#Don't be mean Lan Wangji - the dead girl aesthetic is a curated one. Support women's rights to look dead!#I have been waiting for this scene for ages...the ghost girl entourage is such a good look for WWX.#And by gods does the audio drama actually do something interesting with one of them.#Namely that we actually get to see WWX talk with them and learn about who they were and what they left behind.#I love necromancer characters but it's way too common for them to be like “Go! Ghost no.145!” like they're a pokemon#and not...you know...someone who had a whole life that they left behind.#I love me a necromancer who has an awareness to whose soul/body they are using. It adds a lot of flavour!#MDZS is a little hit or miss with this. I think the fans do a lot of the work with making Mo Xuanyu a bigger character.#Yi City has this in spades. Even though we don't individually get character backstories#We get many painful reminders about how these 'corpses' were people.#We also get a few lines about how WWX used whatever corpses he could get his hands on (including grandparents - Woof!)#MDZS often (but not always) likes to remind us that every sacrifice and every ghost was a person.#It is so close to nailing the landing regarding the deconstruction of the necromancer character.#Anyhow. You may have noticed the uptick in quality in the last two comics. Rule of three means next one is going to be a treat B*)#See you all very soon!
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