#giant heart

[longreads]

Two stories tall, 100 times the width of my heart and yours, the giant heart looks alien. It consumes half the room. Its bulbous red self is gripped claw-like by raised blue veins and red arteries. A red aorta emerges from its top. A blue vena cava hugs its right side like the trunk of a ghastly Seussian-blue tree. These vessels ascending from and extending into different parts of the Heart Wing suggest that the entire museum is somehow subsumed by the circulatory system of a giant. The museum says this heart befits someone 220 feet tall.

You can enter the giant heart. You can let proportion shrink you to the size of a blood molecule and traverse the four chambers, through tricuspid, pulmonary, mitral, and aortic valves. That is, you can do so if you aren’t in a wheelchair or don’t need handrails to manage steep steps. And you might do so if you aren’t yet menopausal like one of my museum guests and aren’t sent into raging hot flashes — because the giant heart is warm as blood and stuffy as a concert port-a-potty. Bipedal and of (albeit waning) reproductive years, I round the back of the 28-foot-wide organ, walk along a muddy-pink wall that’s lumpy and gently marbleized and meant, I’m assuming, to evoke the unsettling aliveness of human flesh. I duck beneath a big blue artery. The drumming gets louder.

I have not yet said this: The entire Heart Wing throbs with a nonstop lub-dub, lub-dub. Deep as a bass drum, pulsing about once per second, it’s the constant auditory reminder that the organ in your chest can’t stop, can’t stop, can’t stop. This means that, if you’re like me, the zone under your ribs — just slightly left of your sternum — starts to ache.

If you've ever been to The Franklin Institute's Giant Heart exhibit, our latest feature is a must read. If you haven't, Heather Lanier’s “The Heart Wing” will transport you there.

[meatlessmcmuffin]

14. But fonr real 24

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

[bitterly-almond]

AU: Kuina lived and her father was supportive of her ambition. He sent her to Wano to learn the way of the swords so they meet again when Zoro arrived at Wano.

I just rlly wanted to design a giant Kuina after seeing how big Kiku is :)))

[ami-ven]

Happy 70th Birthday, Giant Heart!

[crowkip]

ᯓ★

[ask-dark-pinkie]

Giant Heart-Shaped Pan Cookie Celebrate Valentine's Day in a big-hearted way with this super quick and easy giant heart-shaped pan cookie adorned with colorful M&M's.

[divedrive]

Recipe for Giant Heart-Shaped Pan Cookie With this incredibly quick and simple giant heart-shaped pan cookie decorated with vibrant M&M's®, you can celebrate Valentine's Day in a big-hearted manner. 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar, 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened, 1 egg, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 cup candy-coated milk chocolate pieces or to taste, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract, cooking spray, 1/4 teaspoon baking soda, 1 cup all-purpose flour or more as needed

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[punk-rock-paganism09]

…It’s raining in my city, right now…

(Actually, it’s storming. Pretty badly.)

h34r7

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x09 - “The Dirt Under Your Nails.”

[luckylectio]

Art for @starlight-eclipsed's Doppelgänger AU! In which Legend, aka Legato, goes through Linked Universe for a second time, because time-travel shenanigans never cease (not that he's complaining). Go give it a read!

[panthermouthh]

“You doubtless recollect these papers. Here they are. Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin… the minutest description of my odious and loathesome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indelible. I sickened as I read.”

[joelwindows7]

Iyeayiyeaiy

Nobody:

My cardiophile ass: What if we kissed… in the giant heart at the science museum

[adventure-waffles]

So I never stopped thinking about my giant human form rouye...

First part here

[fexjam]

Medic headcanons💉