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abby-chienhua

happy valentine’s day <333

before cuba

what do you think these gentlemen are thinking about

apfel-strudelz

getting back into xmen with some dofp cherik

hurtpeoplex2

i feel this sums up every fight between magneto and professor x fairly well.

jopzer

it's just that i fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended.

#xmen

gorlicberd

rainy day

thenoman-sland

cherik enjoyers how are we feeling.

deedzreads

abby-chienhua

some recent cherik art

abby-chienhua

it's been a while since i last posted here (still drawing cherik and xmen recently)

enchantedbook

Jean-Denis Malclès, preparatory sketch for the poster of Jean Cocteau's film "La Belle et la Bête", 1946

headspace-hotel

was browsing thru papers about animal coloration and learned that a gene that helps make the placenta in humans (the thing that keeps you alive when you're a fetus in the womb) also exists in cheetahs, but in the cheetahs, it just controls the placement of their spots

How does THAT happen?!

headspace-hotel

this is the paper

cheetahs and domestic cats, with a mutation that breaks this gene develop more chaotic and random patterns on their fur, showing that the gene is important for organizing the pattern of the markings

Noticeably, the cats and cheetahs don't die in the womb from placenta not working. Which means that either the cats turned their make-placenta-do-the-thing gene into a spots-organizing gene, or humans somehow need a spots-organizing gene to Get Born like the biological equivalent of a load-bearing jpeg of a coconut. Or at some point long ago, evolution was like "eh, put make-placenta-do-the-thing and spots-organizing on the same gene, it'll be fine." All of these options are hilarious.