#it is such a wonderful disease

[waltwhitmansbeard]

For the Hospital prompts, may I request

17. "Please tell me that isn't your blood on your shirt." Perc'ahlia in Vamp Machina?

If it's not fitting, you can pick another universe <3

17. "Please tell me that isn't your blood on your shirt."

Vex isn't used to the worry. When one is a powerful, nigh-indestructible undead killing machine with razor-sharp teeth and an ass that won't quit, one becomes accustomed to feeling untouchable, unshakable, even in the face of acute danger.

And then some skinny nerd with a death wish and annoyingly nimble fingers comes along to turn everything upside down, and here she is, arms crossed tightly around herself as she resists the urge to tear open this receptionist's throat in rage. All she gets is a phone call from the witch her brother's been knocking around with—"Percy's in the hospital. I...I thought you'd want to know."—and she's not even allowed in to see him. These fluorescent lights are hell on her skin, make her look even more undead than normal. How much longer is she expected to wait before someone gives her some fucking answers?

She's left to stew in her own anxiety for so long that she almost misses when they come out, Percy half-draped along Keyleth's side as she helps him hobble toward the door. In a flash, Vex is in front of them, earning a gasp of surprise from the witch. She inspects Percy, taking his chin in her hand as gingerly as she can to inspect his face, his neck, his clothes. "Please tell me that isn't your blood on your shirt."

And despite the swollen black eye and the stitches on his lip, the fucker laughs, gravelly and low, and Vex wants to bite him in all the best ways. "Not all of it."

Keyleth scowls. (As annoying as she finds her brother's fascination with the little witch, Vex can't deny she's pretty, rosy and delicate in a way she bets tastes wonderful.) "He stumbled across three vampires feeding on a woman in alley and thought he'd take them all on himself." Vex frowns; he's a talented vampire hunter, she is aware, so surely three wouldn't be enough to do this kind of damage. Keyleth continues, her voice dripping with acid. "Why don't you tell Vex how many wooden bullets you had on you at the time, Percival?" Oh, how fun—this kitten has claws.

Percy's eyes flick up to the ceiling, clearly over being chastised. "Two."

Vex's stomach swoops. Two bullets? For three juiced-up, pissed-off vampires? Gods, she's lucky he's alive. She drops his chin. "I thought you were intelligent, Percy."

His eyes—eye, really—narrow into slits. "What would you have had me do, Vex'ahlia? Let them kill her?"

Yes, she wants to snarl. Fuck that bitch, better her than him. Vampires killing humans is the natural order of things, but she'll burn this city down if he's one of them. She's aware of the hypocrisy, of the irrationality of her bone-chilling desire to keep him safe, but she can't be bothered with reason. He's hers, and Vex is not interested in sharing. She sees the challenge in his eyes, his waiting for her to say it out loud, her willingness to say that some nameless human woman should die in order to prevent this level of devastation to his body, the body she is so very fond of, but she won't give him the satisfaction.

She slips her arm around his waist, on the opposite side of Keyleth, and begins to urge them forward. "Come. I'm sure your witchy roommate has supplies to heal your pretty eye back home, and I'm going to take that shirt and use it to find the one who did this to you."

"If you want to see me shirtless, Vex'ahlia," he murmurs, low and weak, "all you need to do is ask."

Fuck, Vex can feel the heat of the embarrassed flush on Keyleth's cheeks, but it's overshadowed by her own heat simmering low in her belly. She brings her lips right up to his ear, which is also caked in blood. "You and I both you know you enjoy it when I don't ask."

That, at least, seems to rattle his self-satisfied confidence; he nearly trips as they exit the hospital. Vex grins, eager to get him home and punish him deliciously for his recklessness.

[hadesoftheladies]

it's infuriating how women belittle the impact femininity has on girls. like it was horrible in the 2000s when girls and women were being made fun of for being bulimic, fat or anorexic on tv. when their illness was a fetish. but now the insane consumerism of apps like tiktok and instagram have really just BALLOONED the standards to a completely unachievable degree. like y'all think 12 year olds and 16 year olds are just watching women doing their cute lip-looks but it is 100% increasing their self-monitoring. they are checking filters, mirrors, constantly contorting their faces and then editing them to an unnatural degree on capcut before uploading. they then watch the playback and its featuring a total stranger who's a slightly hotter version of them. divorcing them further from themselves.

their cortisol levels are insane. they are the demographic suffering the MOST mentally from social media. the constant self-policing they have to do (even in their own minds when the camera is off bc they can't shake the feeling of being watched) has definitely inflated their anxiety levels. coupled with the misogynistic abuse and predatory stalking? more body dysmorphia, gender dysphoria, etc. add diet misinformation, and you've got a recipe for another dead girl in the next five years.

just for some women to say how happy they are they grew out of their tomboy phase and matured into a "real woman" AKA an insanely expensive misogynistic and pornographic caricature of womanhood.

these girls immune systems are being ROYALLY damaged not just by constant stress but by chemicals they shouldn't even be using. women are literally KILLING these girls. and we need to take fucking responsibility.

[pininiu]

“Maybe if you bleed gold, you’ll be able to afford what you need”

When you get consumed by the soundtrack more than anything, and I also can’t get the idea of the golden blood in greek myth out of my head

So yeah I drew my own Vesper, I named mine Wisp

[artsekey]

Reminder to get your COVID booster when they're available. I kept putting off my next dose because of my schedule, and I've been out with COVID for eight days now.

Posting the symptoms I had to inform others as COVID is constantly evolving:

Day 1 (3 or 4 days after exposure): started as a feeling of "imminent sickness" in the back of my throat. I otherwise felt 100%.

Day 2: Extremely tired. Congestion. Limited all contact.

Day 3: 101 Fever. Congestion. Extremely tired. Couldn't make it through lecturing my class (remotely). Began medicating with Theraflu (acetaminophen). Tested positive for COVID with the fastest and clearest positive test I've ever seen.

Day 4: Fever between 99 and 101.5. Cancelled all activity. Spent all day in bed. Extreme congestion. Extreme aches & chills at night. This day was absolutely miserable. My friend brought me soup. I cried about it. Continued with Theraflu. Considered going to the ER due to severity of symptoms.

Day 5: Intermittent low-grade fever at 99.8. Congestion continued, coughing and sneezing began.

Day 6: Fever cleared. Coughing & sneezing intensified. Tested again as per CDC recommendations: still a strong positive. Began taking Robitussin (cough syrup only, no acetaminophen).

Day 7: Coughing worsened significantly. Lots of liquids, lots of Robitussin.

Day 8: Today! No fever, no cough, some slight congestion remains. Once again tested positive for COVID-- with a weaker positive this time! I expect I'll be back to normal by day 10, but... trust me, if you're going to get your "booster" through a needle or ten days of this, choose the booster! As a reminder, you can order up to 4 free COVID tests at the end of September through HHS.gov!

[sandboxer]

it’s actually very boring the way some people will claim to be a “freak” and kink-positive and then make these very funny “jokes” about how they couldn’t possibly reblog art where a character happens to have their shoes off, they couldn’t possibly put an ounce of detail into the feet in their art even when the legs are perfectly rendered… because what if people think they have a foot fetish, how mortifying would that be, lmao imagine having a foot fetish, don’t you dare accuse me of something so WEIRD!

[acevity]

"Do not enter" is written on the doorway

Why can't everyone just go away?

Except you, you can stay

[crimeronan]

well. this Did just make me burst into tears. (which is probably good since i've needed to cry for days.)

yeah. yeah That's how it feels....

[kurthummeldeservesbetter]

Imagine being Singed though, knowing Viktor? All you wanna do if find a cure for death (lmao right) and bring your daughter back to life, then one day this little boat enters the cave you keep your mutant salamander in, and a little boy with a cane finds it, offers to help because its dying and you’re like hell yeah an apprentice I’m good with kids.

Then this kid doesn’t get that the salamander ain’t a pet, it’s drugs/tester for drugs, and leaves angrily (bro thought you were chill) and you never see him again though you do hear things about him being a co-creator of literal magic technology and you’re probably like damn that’s cool.

Then about twenty years after you first met he comes back to your lab, looking sick af (literally) and is like I totally get why you were torturing that pink lizard, do you have a solution that will keep me from dying? And you’re like yep sure do, he’s some modified heroin-crack I made from the lizard for you, people are gonna hate you though. And he only is like “Jayce will understand” and you’re like fuck he’s repressed and gay, whatever

Then a few months (idk) later you find out he survived an explosion, got fused with the thing you wanted to see (👀) now the leader of a cult, has a hivemind, can heal people and see memories and thoughts, and he’s trying to reverse the process on your wolfman, once again forgets the lesson you tried teaching him (bro, the mutation must survive!) even though you just showed him that very private memory of your dead daughter. And refuses the wolfman blood.

So you’re like, fuck it, stops the process anyways on the wolfman, his ex boyfriend shoots him in the chest, he cocoons himself in a weird sphere, his boyfriend rejects him again, then he’s like fine whatever use the blood. Then he ascends to godhood, you use leftover parts to bring your daughter back to life, and later find out that while in the hivemind his on-again off-again boyfriend told him they were soulmates, and they blipped out of existence.

It’s like what if the kid you babysat one time came back when they were an adult with like, ten college degrees and a co-ceo of apple, bought your own brand of weed, and then half a year later became Jesus.

[ziptie-bouquet]

Capillaries. Myelin sheathing. Microglia.

I love how the game seems to take inspiration from those simplified cell drawings with bright colors and exaggerated shapes.

I love how the devs seem to have used microscopic images as a reference to make their alien world feel more alien.

I love the way the myelin sheathing is on the cables because it makes electric signals travel at a faster speed in real life... Those designs work and don't feel limited by what they took inspiration from.

[ourwhisperingtorment]

I was supposed to reblog but my essay got too long. I saw a post saying that Junho could have crawled out of the water on his own because the shot Inho gave him is nonfatal.

The medical student in me is screaming so I decided to make a very nerdy essay.

Junho probably never got to crawl out of the water on his own after being shot. That could be the only reason why he was in a coma that lasted for a year. It’s either he had a concussion or he drowned for too long (more than 5 minutes). Both drowning and concussion (traumatic brain injury) can lead to hypoxia/ anoxia, which means reduced or complete cessation of oxygen in the brain.

The extent of the damage depends on how long oxygen got cut off from the brain and considering Junho was in a coma for a year, the damage was very severe.

But how could he drown if he knows how to swim? There was probably a tide? Or he was too depressed to even try to save himself? I mean did you see his face when he said, “hyung, why?” Bro looked like he lost all emotions. He probably just accepted his fate and didn’t try to fight it.

Extra note: kidney failure can also cause coma! So even if Junho didn’t hit his head nor drown, it could be because of his kidney. Note that all patients who had kidney transplant must take maintenance medications their entire life. I repeat, entire life. I’ve seen a lot of people point this out: we never saw Junho take any medicine in s1 when he is supposed to. That is actually very dangerous since his kidney could—would— fail again. Our kidneys are responsible of eliminating wastes or toxins in our body. Too much accumulated toxins (due to kidney failure) is very harmful to the brain and therefore, stop functioning properly altogether, which will result in a coma.

I didn’t mean for this post to be so long but the medical student in me just acted out again.

[potato-lord-but-not]

I was drawing my oc - a pathetic middle aged man who has a mustache and occasionally serves cunt - and I was just staring at the sketch and i just wasn't sure why it felt off until it hit me that hE LOOKED LIKE YOUR ARTHUR. LIKE. ALMOST EXACTLY. IVE HAD THIS GUY FOR YEARS AND NONE OF MY OLD ART LOOKS LIKE YOUR ARTHUR. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME.

Youve ruined me /pos

AHAHAHAHH YESSSSS more unintentional propaganda THE DISEASE WILL SPREAD

[bonkalore]

Feels fitting that I've been wanting to get more out of Cyprus drawn and laid out lately and it also happens to be the start of Mer May! He's a character that I had around since around the beginning, but didn't really start getting to incorporate him much more till more recently and I'm glad for it.

Ended up with a polycule I guess (don't worry Jayce, you will eventually be included too). I kept shying away from it officially bc for some reason that's a thing that people still get worked up over still, but that's what it is! Jayce and Lucy get together and also their boyfriend Cyprus lol Anyway, this is some stuff of how he and Lucy first met that I was trying to get out. He has some interaction with the Bureau as an ambassador and has to sit in meetings. With recent events and the former Primus gone suddenly, Lucy moved up in position suddenly and also had to sit in on said meeting. Things have been chaos. He ends up joining in the Primus tournament and was also sick of the way they handled things. He and Lucy have some of that in common to start~

Bonus Jayce faces lol:

[legionofpotatoes]

*veilguard spoilers*

solas dragonage's life is nothing but a series of unwanted friends moving into his various homes unprompted. can't pin a single pad down without deadbeat freeloaders stinking it up immediately. he keeps fixating on corrupt elvhenan but his real curse is being Too Popular

[pushing500]

Awww poor Mechi. I feel bad for him, but I do think, out of all the horrible diseases he could have gotten, sensory mechanites are the most mechanitor-appropriate.

Grouchy showers make me feel better when I'm sick, too.

does it count as a fanservice drawing if I'm mostly drawing it for myself?

I know what will make Mechi feel better- more entities to study! Provoking The Void sounds like a great plan with absolutely no repercussions! 👍

Eugenia is a wild woman who likes to lie on our very, very spooky psychic ritual spot sometimes. I don't know why she chose the hot paving stones instead of the cool grass, but whatever. If she gets consumed by The Void, she gets consumed by The Void.

2897 hours in RimWorld, and this is my very first Man in Black event... How exciting!

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[tubbytarchia]

You know I'm well and truly diseased from the Jimmy brainworms because now whenever I see any male character drawn in a maid dress whilst also depicted as discontent about it (or who I think would be discontent in character) I get a visceral fight or flight response and it is not fun