I love that the internet saw people comparing women and other alienated groups of people and went, “they’re dating,” and, “they support each other.” We’re improving as a society.
Does anyone know who these artists are?? They’re brilliant and I’d like to credit them!!
Original Art Credits:
1: Malcom Evans, political cartoonist
7: sortimid on deviant art
9: gigis_lab on Instagram
16: @victoriaskeller (site unknown)
Redraw Credits:
8: sortimid on deviantart
9 & 15: destineytomoon on tumblr
10: tokimekiwaku
14: u/peachy-milk-tea on reddit
Can this be the new trend this year? I really love it, making non-positive art into beautiful accepting positivity. And also very gay. Love the gay.
Characters: Dr Helen Cho; Secretary of State, General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross; Dr Michael Morbius, AKA Morbius the Living Vampire; Colonel Helmut Zemo; Pietro Maximoff
Word Count: 3649
Location: Seoul, Korea - U-Gin Genetics Research Labs
Time Reference: Events here at U-Gin begin around the same time as the dinner date with Tony and Malaki in Chapter 6(T5). Seoul, Korea is 13 hours ahead of New York, US. UTC +9 hours.
Out on the floor of the lab, Helen has dismissed the Secretary from her mind so she can focus on the work in front of her. The first order of business is the defrosting of the soldier so they can determine if his body’s ability to survive has remained intact. She also needs to know if Michael - Dr Morbius, she reminds herself to keep it professional out here - will be able to keep up with her team speaking Korean or will she need to interpret for him. The techs, under her watchful eye, get started on cycling the cryogenics in the unit. She has another tech start rigging something that will allow them to transfer the soldier to one of their own units for the rest of the treatment.
Not until after that does she makes her way over to where Michael is in a serious discussion with one of the phlebotomists on the team. He turns to her as she approaches, a look of frustration on his face.
“Ah Dr Cho. Could you please explain to your assistant here that it is necessary to draw my blood for our work today. She seems to think I’m being irrational.”
Helen suppresses a smile. She is pretty sure that Ms Hyung, her top assistant when it comes to handling and processing blood and blood products, hadn’t said Michael was irrational. The woman is too professional for that. Still, this request is out of the ordinary, which even for someone used to working with superheroes can be hard to accept. Watching Michael, she asks him something that has been on her mind for a little while now.
“Are you comfortable with us using your blood as part of the experiment, Dr Morbius? I know it was part of the initial plan, but things have changed since then.” Helen is certain that his blood is indeed necessary for the operations to succeed, but she doesn’t want to coerce him like Ross had intended.
He seems suddenly, inordinately pleased as he pulls a stool over to the counter where the smaller of the two centrifuges sits. “Yes, I am, Dr Cho, thank you for asking. I’ve come to accept the -” he pauses as though to taste the word before he says it, “uniqueness of my blood as well as the many useful properties it contains. I assure you, having my blood drawn is not a new experience for me. I’m just not sure how to convey that to Ms Hyung. Please speak to her for me.”
I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism
It is.
i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults
ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation
but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep
i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love sleep, i just love overwatch more
this this this this this
our society places almost zero value on sleep
on enough sleep
on uninterrupted sleep
on regular, predictable, cycling sleep
all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
Reminder that
- Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep.
By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.
- Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.
If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.
- According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)
- Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.
After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.
- Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.
Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.
Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.
Denver Zoo and its gay lorikeets said fuck homophobes happy Pride
In case anyone was curious, Denver Zoo is literally hosting a Pride event this year called “True Colors Safari”:
“Celebrate Your YOUness with an adventure-packed evening at Denver Zoo! Whether it’s in the animal kingdom or your own community, we all thrive when our unique selves come together in beautiful harmony. After all, we’re each perfect exactly the way we are. So come join this celebration where birds of every feather can flock together and show off their true colors in wild and amazing ways. Explore a festive world of music, entertainment, food and drinks, community conversations and fascinating animal experiences all highlighting the LGBTQIA+ community and organizations.”
So yeah. These homophobes are REALLY barking up the wrong tree.
