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Deadpool’s instructive video may save your testicles
This is both entertaining and really important.
Yo if you’ll reblog the boob campaign, you can damn well reblog Deadpool discussing bollocks.
Deadpool is canonically riddled with cancer this is actually such an appropriate campaign
I’m so mad because this worked
help me roger
yes please
so this morning i was playing with the slow-mo mode on my phone, hoping to get a majestic vid of a bumblebee taking off
but instead i found this dumbfuck
Oh my god its little flailing legs. I’m dying.
infomercial bee says that there has GOT to be a better way
A better way to bee
‘ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh’
@prologi
THEY’RE TRYING THEIR BEST
No one knows exactly why otters do this — but it’s completely mesmerizing.
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New favourite post
soo relaxing to watch
Cell By Margaret Atwood.
Now look objectively . You have to Admit the cancer cell is beautiful If it were a flower , you’d say , How pretty, With it’s mauve centre and pink petals or if a sci-fi magazine, how striking as an alien, a success, all purple eyes and jelly tentacles and spines, or are they gills, creeping around on granular Martian dirt red as the inside of the body, while its tender walls expand and burst, it’s spores scatter elsewhere,. Take root like money; drifting like a fiction or miasma in and out of peoples brains, digging in. the lab technician says, It has forgotten how to die. But why remember ? All it wants is more Amnesia . More life and more abundantly. To take more. To eat more. To replicate itself. To keep on doing those things forever. Such desires are not unknown . Look in a mirror.
Canadian author, poet and critic, Margaret Atwood seems to channeling a pathology textbook with this rather accurate portrayal of the characteristics of cancerous tissues and cells. For example the reference to the cancer cells" tentacles“. Cancer cells do in fact have a tentacle-like feature. Cancerous neoplasias, unlike the benign forms, tend to spread out and branch out, as though an octopus with tentacles or a crab with limbs. Accurate too is the comment ‘while its tender walls, Expand and burst, it’s spores, Scatter elsewhere,’ . Cells in malignant neoplasias have reduce cell-cell communication allowing them to dislocate themselves from the rest of the cells , or ‘burst’ from the collection of cells. On the other hand , the ‘burst’ here could refer to the fact that cancer cells undergo necrosis, a type of cell death in which the cell swells and bursts, freeing its cytoplasmic content. Then of course the part about ‘taking root’ and ‘drifting’ which refers to the cancer cells ability to metastasis elsewhere in the body, which could very well be the brain, as Atwood mentions two lines below. Atwood must have really paid attention to the lab technician because neoplasias do indeed ‘forget’ to undergo apoptosis, ie, cell death. ‘Forget’ is a good way of putting it, because cells in a neoplasia ‘forget’ to undergo the section of the cell cycle which brings about apoptosis. Then Atwood goes on about a very important characteristic of cancer cells, which is their ability to keep replicating without growth signals and to ‘eat’ way at the bodies supplies by angiogenesis ( forming new blood vessels which shifts blood supply away from the rest of the body). Not to mention that it does this forever, until of course its removed surgically or by geno-toxic means. The last line of course is the most accurate of all. You don’t need to know to be a doctor to figure it out.
I want to have sex to this
oh fuck
goosebumps
this-blog-of-mine we’re gonna make out to this holy shit.
Why do I do this
WHAT COLOR ARE MIRRORS
let’s reflect on this
fun fact! mirrors reflect each color equally, except for green. if you have ever seen a mirror perfectly aligned in front of another mirror, a.k.a. an infinite mirror, you can look through it and see that it becomes greener and greener. therefore, mirrors are technically green!
holy shit
The glass is greener over here. Not a typo.
If you look edgewise through a sheet of glass you see that it’s green because of iron impurities (Google for it). Reducing the iron reduces the green.
Perfectly aligning mirrors to multiply reflections also multiplies the apparent thickness of the glass, and the green tint becomes more apparent the “deeper” each reflection seems to be.
Science is like history: it was never this interesting at school. :-)
Yep! And this is because - I’m sorry to say - mirrors are not a unique or separate substance with magical properties. Mirrors are silvered glass. They have two colors: the color of the silver, and the color of the glass. The “silver” doesn’t have to be silver, though it usually is because mirrors are traditionally made with silver nitrate, because it’s a whitish metal. You can have mirrors silvered in gold or black or red. You take literally any piece of glass, pour a coating of silver on it, seal it, and call it a mirror.
You have to seal it because otherwise it tarnishes and spots. Even though the glass protects it from air, the silver oxidizes just like any other silver, which is why antique mirrors have that funky age-spotted look.
Mirrors used in science are usually pure clear glass with no impurities (so the glass has no color) and are silvered in gold or aluminum, so they are white or gold. A warm-toned mirror would have a pink glass and would make things have a rose-gold look. Phryne Fisher, in the books, has a mirror with pink glass.
(Mirrors silvered in silver - that is, most mirrors you’ve seen - are probably faintly grey from the silver and faintly green from the cheap glass, but it doesn’t need to concern you at all - even if you noticed a strong color, you’re often so used to looking in them that your brain edits out any discrepancy - like how your nose doesn’t get in the way of your vision even though it’s right in front of your eyes all of the time.)
My grandmother had a mirror that was silvered in gold. It was a little disconcerting. The silver in mirrors is why vampires don’t have reflections. (And why the cutlery at Castle Dracula was made of gold.)
IS THAT TRUE ABOUT THE REFLECTIONS BECAUSE IF SO THAT CHANGES ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING???
It’s true! (Source is The Journal Of I Read It Somewhere One Time, so take it with a truckload of salt, but I’m pretty sure it was a published book and not the internet, so like, only a pickup truck, not a dump truck.)
Watsonian explanation: Silver as an entity and/or concept was upset about being used to pay Judas, so as some kind of compensation God gave it evil-fighting powers, and this is why vampires don’t have reflections in silvered mirrors as well as why werewolves are killed by silver bullets. (Also works for vampires not showing up on film, because silver nitrate, although obviously that isn’t part of the ~*~original folklore~*~ and also doesn’t explain digital cameras.)
Doylist explanation: A lot of things that are traditionally anti-vampire turn out to have antibacterial properties- the only ones I remember are garlic and silver, but I think there were others- so supposedly when anti-vampire treatments helped somebody out of a decline or whatever they were actually helping fight off an infection.
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Ahahaha I love the conversations we have
A lot of things that are traditionally anti-vampire turn out to have antibacterial properties
So would that mean vampires are weak to antibacterial soap?
The power of hand sanitizer compels you!
antimicrobial soaps were just banned by THE VAMPIRE CABAL
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Does that mean that a vampire would see themselves in a gold mirror but not a silver one?
What about a gold mirror with antibacterial soap or something sprayed on it?
And if it’s the silver in the cameras that made them not show up on film, that means that digital is entirely different (unless they use silver in the manufacturing - which i’m pretty sure they don’t - or if some rich person has a silver encased camera - but that still probably wouldn’t work because the lense couldn’t be encased in silver otherwise it wouldn’t work) so basically we need a modern story where the Vampires are having to come up with clever things to stay out of photos where possible because DIGITAL, but there’s that one vampire who photobombs everything and is famous on the internet for it because he’s literally everywhere.
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Some good scientific discussion in this thread
I’m 100% here for vampire hunters ferociously wielding hand sanitizer and cheap plastic spray bottles full of cleaning fluid.
“THE POWER OF WINDEX COMPELS YOU!” *spritz spritz* *vampire hisses like a wet cat*
{(Side note: I left this tab open, scrolled to the bottom, and completely forgot how we got here from the color of mirrors. Tumblr science is fun.)}
So mesmerizing, I just couldn't avert my eyes. Maybe it's also time for some coffee.
yes, please! 😂
You’re in charge of assigning every child on Earth the monster under their bed. One child in particular has caused every monster assigned to him/her to quit. You decide to assign yourself.
Case: #273402 Status: Disastrous.
I stare at the file and realize I have no options, over the last 2 years every monster assigned to Charlotte Dower has quit, every last one. Her first monster; a giant goldfish-faced humanoid named Bubba, had been with her for four years, and then she wasn’t scared of him anymore. After that it was a string of different common, uncommon, and rare monsters… I even assigned a sentient sock monster to her. He came back crying! I look on my tablet, only one assignable monster left; myself. Field work has never been my cup of tea, but desperate times call for desperate measures. So at 8:03 pm, after Mrs. Gideon tucks in Charlotte and her little brother Daniel; I slither into the space beneath Charlotte’s bed. Across the room underneath Daniel’s crib is a rookie, Chico, a standard Creep kind of monster. I turn my attention to the bed above me, Charlotte is still awake but barely, I reach up over the bed and run an ice cold finger over her cheek, silence, so I do it again. “I’m not afraid of you monster!” She whispers, but her voice is shaking. I can see a small clock on the wall 8:14, a door somewhere in the house slams and there is an audible hitch of breath from above me. A few minutes go by I can hear Francis Gideon yelling at his wife. There are heavy footsteps on the stairs, and loud panting breaths, Charlotte scrambles off the bed and… She. CRAWLS. Under. The. Bed. With. Me. “Move. Over!” Charlotte hisses at me. I do. The door to the bedroom slams open and I smell the stench of human intoxicants before the man even steps inside. I know why Charlotte isn’t afraid of any of my monsters; she’s afraid of her own. Francis reaches a hand under the bed and I thrust my wrist into it, he starts to pull, I slither out. “What the…” I cut Francis’s next words off by unfolding to my full 12 foot height. Looming over the drunken man I caress my cold fingers down his face. “If you ever touch, scare, or harm my child again, I will find you, and I will do the same to you, for all eternity.” I promise to him. As Francis runs from the room he soils himself. I pull Charlotte from under the bed, tuck her back under her covers and kiss her forehead goodnight. “I’ll be back tomorrow night, sleep well darling.” Charlotte Dower is my child, I am the monster under her bed.
WELL GODAMN, WE HAVE OURSELVES A WINNER
Holy shit I’m gonna cry that’s beautiful.
This took the best turn
I didnt see that coming AT ALL.
MAKE THIS A THING
So vampires don’t show up in film or mirrors, right? What if that applies to literally any kind of sensor. You got some 2000-year-old emissary of the night cussing out an automatic soap dispenser.
automatic doors. AUTOMATIC DOORS
Those light switches that shuts down when they sense lack of activity.
#my favorite kind of vampire#the shitty and inconvenienced one
Walking into turnstiles groin-first for the rest of eternity
Okay, if Gryffindor is the house of doing stupid, maybe dangerous things because it’s fun, Slytherin is the house of doing the same things because fuck you, Sarah, don’t tell me what not to do
And Ravenclaws do stupid, dangerous things sometimes because SCIENCE!!
Hufflepuffs do stupid, dangerous things because our friends are doing it and SOMEONE responsible better be involved
You know, this description actually makes sorting a hell of a lot easier.
and again proven to be a hufflepuff right here
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