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Much like Maylis, Rusty Gilford is a dirty ass fighter, wasting his own aura just to take someone else’s out. So that he can stab them in the gut. The funny thing is he’s bargain bin Sterling, but Sterling hated his guts.
That’s 2 of the Crazy Bunch out of the fight (and also dead), but Isambard is also in trouble - y’know, being stabbed in the lower right quadrant and all. Also Petra literally killed a guy.
#rwby#rwby art#rwby fanart#rwbyoc#rwby oc#rwby fan art#team rain#rwby comic#web comic#webcomic#petra redwood#isambard nihtholt#rusty gilford#sterling braith
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Season 2 Reimagined Oreo!Verse Style 2.10
2.10 Love, Rose
After their kiss at the banquet, Dorothy and Blanche decide that neither of them is ready for a serious relationship with another woman (especially Blanche, who hasn’t really had any serious relationship since George died) but that they do want to be together. They decide to start dating with a few ground rules: no hand-holding, kissing, or overtly flirtatious behavior where anyone can see them, and absolutely no telling anyone they’re together, not even Rose. From there on out, they go out together for several nights a week and tell Rose and Sophia that they’re going dancing at the Rusty Anchor with some naval officers. They each borrow some of Rose’s jewelry, and Rose becomes sad because she thinks her friends are suddenly enormously popular with men and she doesn’t have any dates at all. She asks to come with them, but Blanche tells Rose that she doesn’t think the rusty anchor would really be her scene and instead helps her write a personals ad. Rose becomes even sadder when no one answers the ad, so naturally Blanche invents a fake boyfriend to cheer her up and eventually involves Dorothy in her ruse (same as canon). Meanwhile, Dorothy and Blanche dance and dine at quiet places forty-five minutes away, learn more about each other, daydream about each other at work, and steal kisses whenever they can.
When Rose, Blanche, Sophia, and Dorothy are all invited to a reception, Dorothy assumes that she and Blanche will be going “as friends,” but Blanche decides to invite a man. This upsets Dorothy even though Blanche insists it’s only for appearance’s sake and that she’s just going to “flirt and tease him a little, not actually do anything with him.” Upon learning that Blanche is going with Bob, one of the five men she slept with the week the baby was conceived. Dorothy decides that she, too, is going to bring a date to the reception. She asks one of her coworkers, a very annoying math teacher who has had his eye on her for months. Rose, unbeknownst to anyone, finds “Isaac Newton” (the man Dorothy and Blanche made up) in the phone book and asks him.
The entire evening goes horribly wrong. Bob is a perfect gentleman for twenty minutes, upon which he learns of Blanche’s pregnancy and is disgusted. Then he ditches Blanche and starts dancing with other women. Dorothy’s beau talks her through the medical and psychiatric history of his entire family in graphic detail. And Rose’s date is so dumb he makes her look like the original Isaac Newton by comparison. When Dorothy’s date tells her that he thinks she should get a boob job before their wedding, she finally ditches him and finds Blanche crying in the bathroom. Dorothy and Blanche comfort each other, Blanche apologizes for insisting on bringing a date, and Dorothy tells Blanche that anyone would be an idiot not to go out with her, pregnant or not. They kiss and decide to go confess to Rose about the letters. The evening ends with a group hug, and the girls decide to spend the rest of the reception hanging out with each other. All three of them dance together.
Bonus Blanche: Dorothy, I can’t go without a man! This is me we’re talking about! Who on earth would believe that I couldn’t get a date?
Dorothy’s date: And then, after my Uncle Charlie got out of rehab for the third time, that’s when he started having bladder control issues. No wait, that was Cousin Gilford. Uncle Charlie was the one with the colostomy bag. Dorothy: *clears throat* So, Isaac, tell us...where do you live? Isaac: In a house. Rose: ... Sophia: *glaring at her date who is serenading her badly in French* Bob: *holds out his hand for Blanche* care to join me...in any other area of this room but here? Blanche: Gladly.
A few minutes later...
Bob: Blanche, how could you not tell me this? I would never knowingly go out on a date with a woman who’s carrying some other man’s baby! Blanche: Well, now, wait a minute? How do you know it’s not yours? Bob: Let’s see. You found out you were pregnant about three months ago, right? Blanche: Yes! Bob: Six weeks after we slept together? Blanche: Yes! Bob: Twenty-one years after my double vasectomy? Blanche: Ye- Blanche: ... Bob: Good luck, Blanche. But don’t call me again. Ever.
#dorothy and blanche#dorothy x blanche#the golden gays#someone write dialogue for the fluffy parts#I can't fluff#I can only do comedy and angst
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Method to derive blood vessel cells from skin cells suggests ways to slow aging
Salk scientists have used skin cells called fibroblasts from young and old patients to successfully create blood vessels cells that retain their molecular markers of age. The team’s approach, described in the journal eLife on September 8, 2020, revealed clues as to why blood vessels tend to become leaky and hardened with aging, and lets researchers identify new molecular targets to potentially slow aging in vascular cells.
“The vasculature is extremely important for aging but its impact has been underestimated because it has been difficult to study how these cells age,” says Martin Hetzer, the paper’s senior author and Salk’s vice president and chief science officer.
Research into aging vasculature has been hampered by the fact that collecting blood vessel cells from patients is invasive, but when blood vessel cells are created from special stem cells called induced pluripotent stem cells, age-related molecular changes are wiped clean. So, most knowledge about how blood vessel cells age comes from observations of how the blood vessels themselves change over time: veins and arteries become less elastic, thickening and stiffening. These changes can contribute to blood pressure increases and a heightened risk of heart disease with age.
In 2015, Hetzer was part of the team led by Salk President Rusty Gage to show that fibroblasts could be directly reprogrammed into neurons, skipping the induced pluripotent stem cell stage that erased the cells’ aging signatures. The resulting brain cells retained their markers of age, letting researchers study how neurons change with age.
In the new work, Hetzer and his colleagues applied the same direct-conversion approach to create two types of vasculature cells: vascular endothelial cells, which make up the inner lining of blood vessels, and the smooth muscle cells that surround these endothelial cells.
“We are among the first to use this technique to study the aging of the vascular system,” says Roberta Schulte, the Hetzer lab coordinator and co-first author of the paper. “The idea of developing both of these cell types from fibroblasts was out there, but we tweaked the techniques to suit our needs.”
The researchers used skin cells collected from three young donors, aged 19 to 30 years old, three older donors, 62 to 87 years old, and 8 patients with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), a disorder of accelerated, premature aging often used to study aging.
The resulting induced vascular endothelial cells (iVECs) and induced smooth muscle cells (iSMCs) showed clear signatures of age. 21 genes were expressed at different levels in the iSMCs from old and young people, including genes related to the calcification of blood vessels. 9 genes were expressed differently according to age in the iVECs, including genes related to inflammation. In patients with HGPS, some genes reflected the same expression patterns usually seen in older people, while other patterns were unique. In particular, levels of BMP-4 protein, which is known to play a role in the calcification of blood vessel, were slightly higher in aged cells compared to younger cells, but more significantly higher in smooth muscle cells from progeria patients. This suggests that the protein is particularly important in accelerated aging.
The results not only hinted at how and why blood vessels change with age, but confirmed that the direct-conversion method of creating vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells from patient fibroblasts allowed the cells to retain any age-related changes.
“One of the biggest theoretical implications of this study is that we now know we can longitudinally study a single patient during aging or during the course of a treatment and study how their vasculature is changing and how we might be able to target that,” says Simone Bersini, a Salk postdoctoral fellow and co-first author of the paper.
To test the utility of the new observations, the researchers tested whether blocking BMP4–which had been present at higher levels in smooth muscle cells developed from people with HGPS–could help treat aging blood vessels. In smooth muscle cells from donors with vascular disease, antibodies blocking BMP4 lowered levels of vascular leakiness–one of the changes that occurs in vessels with aging.
The findings point toward new therapeutic targets for treating both progeria and the normal age-related changes that can occur in the human vascular system. They also illustrate that the direct conversion of fibroblasts to other mature cell types–previously successful in neurons and, now, in vascular cells–is likely useful for studying a wide range of aging processes in the body.
“By repeating what was done with neurons, we’ve demonstrated that this direct reprogramming is a powerful tool that can likely be applied to many cell types to study aging mechanisms in all sorts of other human tissues,” says Hetzer, holder of the Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation Chair.
The team is planning future studies to probe the exact molecular mechanisms by which some of the genes they found to change with age control the changes seen in the vasculature.
source https://scienceblog.com/518387/method-to-derive-blood-vessel-cells-from-skin-cells-suggests-ways-to-slow-aging/
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Team RAIN - Pages 733-735 Links: First Page · Previous · Next · All Pages · Wikia · Send me a message/question!
See, this is why you don’t run off without making sure your mark is fully restrained, Irving. Wil really caught a bad time to catch feels.
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Team RAIN - Pages 731-732 Links: First Page · Previous · Next · All Pages · Wikia · Send me a message/question!
And lo, did the angry five-year-old get out her green felt tip and leave Robin a note as she went on a quest for blood. She may be emotionally immature as all five year olds are, but damn if that’s not one intelligent and resourceful little kid.
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Some of the classic ol’ battle royale matchups incoming!
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Team RAIN - Pages 600-604 Links: First Page · Previous · Next · All Pages · Wikia · Patreon· Send me a message/question!
The Crazy Bunch show up to help, but Sterling didn’t really want them to.
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With Kamala swiftly establishing her dominance over the Crazy Bunch, Arc 3 Chapter 1 draws to a close. Hopefully I’ll soon be able to let you guys know when Chapter 2 is coming!
#rwby art#rwby fanart#rwbyoc#rwby oc#rwby fan art#rwby#team rain#rwby comic#web comic#webcomic#gilroy flanagan#donovan lundie#rusty gilford#mason harlow#rouge carmine#kamala braith#finn dewitt#bianca alpin#zelena braith#gardner braith#tahlia braith#viola braith
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Team RAIN - Pages 476-479 Links: First Page · Previous · Next · All Pages · Wikia · Donate
Introducing Gilroy Flanagan and his Crazy Bunch of Vacuan Cowboys!
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Longboye
🧭ARIOCH LUNDIE of TEAM BASL🧭
RWBY OC Redo Project: [8/20]
#neopoliitan#rwby#rwby oc#team basl#arioch lundie#gilroy flanagan#bianca alpin#rusty gilford#rufus bayardo#champagne lundie#donovan lundie
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Crazy Bunch’s weapon names.
Bianca Alpin’s rapier - “Moon Sliver”. Not sure this one actually had a meaning as much as it sounded cool.
Rusty Gilford’s knife-guns - “Eatin’ Irons”, wild west slang for silverware/cutlery.
Donovan Lundie’s explosive dust slugger - “Big Augur”, wild west slang for a ranch owner. An augur is also another word for foretelling/promising, usually in reference to disaster.
Mason Harlow’s musket - “Bangtail”, a wild horse/mustang.
Rufus Bayardo’s rifle - “Guttersnipe”, a term for a homeless child. The weapon also physically ‘snipes’. The name coincidentally parallels Tawny Bayardo, who is effectively homeless (and also Rufus’ estranged great-niece).
Rouge Carmine’s knife-pistol - “Painted Lady”, just a wild west term for a prostitute. Sounds a lot more classy, though.
Finn DeWitt’s revolver - “Crowbait”, derogatory term for a poor-quality horse. Can also reference dead meat left out for the crows.
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Oh ho ho, Sterling’s back - with a Warriors reference, no less!
Looks like the Crazy Bunch armed themselves with some new weapons (and some familiar ones, poor Kelvin.)
Now that the good guys’ plan’s been disrupted, and they’re facing a larger fighting force than expected, how are things gonna play out at the Battle of Unsei Ridge...?
Team RAIN - Pages 701-707 Links: First Page · Previous · Next · All Pages · Wikia · Send me a message/question!
It’s finally back, for the first part of Arc 3′s 3-chapter finale! I really wanted to get stuck in right away, throw everyone in at the deep end. I find it gives a sense of urgency.
#neopoliitan#team rain#team rain comic#rwby#rwby oc#akane amaranth#irving hawthorne#nyssa noirette#team npir#nanako amaranth#jin shi pan#isambard nihtholt#petra redwood#william lincoln#lilliana lincoln#tobin lincoln#marron armona#sterling braith#zelena braith#sirius pitch#mason harlow#rufus bayardo#donovan lundie#bianca alpin#rusty gilford#rouge carmine#finn dewitt
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Donovan in the first panel:
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Some of the classic ol’ battle royale matchups incoming!
#neopoliitan#team rain#team rain comic#rwby#rwby oc#william lincoln#team npir#jin shi pan#isambard nihtholt#donovan lundie#irving hawthorne#nyssa noirette#petra redwood#rusty gilford#lilliana lincoln#marron armona#tobin lincoln#rufus bayardo#rouge carmine
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Knew this was coming, super sweet to see it drawn out. That’s 2-nothing in this fight so far, Crazy Bunch - your move.
Also I was wondering where that yellow bastard would pop up next in Unseibowl. This doesn’t look good for Isambard, or for Petra.
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Much like Maylis, Rusty Gilford is a dirty ass fighter, wasting his own aura just to take someone else’s out. So that he can stab them in the gut. The funny thing is he’s bargain bin Sterling, but Sterling hated his guts.
That’s 2 of the Crazy Bunch out of the fight (and also dead), but Isambard is also in trouble - y’know, being stabbed in the lower right quadrant and all. Also Petra literally killed a guy.
#neopoliitan#team rain#team rain comic#rwby#rwby oc#team npir#petra redwood#rusty gilford#isambard nihtholt#sterling braith
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rip diamondhead boi 2019-2019
Also damn, Sterling is really hitting that Dennis Reynolds vibe isn’t he?
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The Crazy Bunch show up to help, but Sterling didn’t really want them to.
#neopoliitan#team rain#team rain comic#rwby#rwby oc#kelvin laukkanen#sterling braith#donovan lundie#rusty gilford#mason harlow#bianca alpin#zelena braith#rufus bayardo
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I guess Gilroy was a Red Hair-ring, eh? Ehhhhh?
Jokes aside though, that’s certainly not a pleasant way to go.
And now they’re out in force against RAIN and their allies... things are gonna get even bloodier, aren’t they?
Chapter 1 was great, dude! Looking forwards to what comes next!
Team RAIN - Pages 480-484 Links: First Page · Previous · Next · All Pages · Wikia · Donate
With Kamala swiftly establishing her dominance over the Crazy Bunch, Arc 3 Chapter 1 draws to a close. Hopefully I’ll soon be able to let you guys know when Chapter 2 is coming!
#neopoliitan#team rain#team rain comic#rwby#rwby oc#gilroy flanagan#kamala braith#donovan lundie#rusty gilford#finn dewitt#mason harlow#bianca alpin#rouge carmine#zelena braith#sterling braith#gardner braith#tahlia braith#viola braith
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