*AAAAA inside*

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

tbh the first step of recovery is to stop feeling kind of proud about how fucked up you are. your martyr complex is not an endearing quirk it’s the fatal flaw that makes your friends feel like garbage and will sabotage your whole life.

[little-spectator-on-a-tree]

Them as children >>>

My babies, I love them so much.

[mortuary9]

gn

[escuerzoresucitado]

[thecollectibles]

Art by Kim Jaehyun

[scramratz]

I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon

[riverwindphotography]

Rocky Mountain Magic: A ruby-crowned kinglet, singing waters, a trio of Bighorn rams.

(c) riverwindphotography

[cuvpake]

Maybe we get married one day. But who knows

[bobbole]

Palestinian children were prevented from going to school by razor wire and israeli soldiers — so they sat down and studied right in front of them (via AndreyX)

[crreature]

11 year old Huda, April 26, 2026, via CNN

[butchyena]

dude.

[falseficus]

i knew a surgeon and he once told me “nobodys insides look like how the textbooks say they will. you never know what you’re going to find in there once you open them up” and that was easily the most ominous thing anyone’s ever said to me

[brownheadedcowbird]

when i was taking my first year anatomy lab, we’d occasionally find a cadaver where things would branch off or attach in the wrong order, and when we’d ask our prof about it, he’d just shrug and say “they must not have read the book”

[ryannorth]

When my friend was in med school one of the cadavers donated for them to autopsy didn't have a belly button, just smooth skin.

[dandelion-stuff-and-fluff]

In the past 10 years of teaching in an anatomy lab, I have seen:

- A donor with a scrotum the size of my head. When we opened it up, we discovered it was a MASSIVE inguinal hernia and a good 1.5 ft of intestine were trapped down there.

- A donor with situs inversus totalis, whose organs were a mirror image of what we normally see (ie their heart pointed right and their liver was on the left, just for starters)

- A donor whose right common carotid artery branched off the aorta waaay over on the left hand side of the body and crossed alllll the way back across the thorax to get where it needed to be.

- A donor with 4 lobes for their right lung (should only be 3). We named the 4th lobe the Lisa Loeb, but all of the students were too young to appreciate our sparkling wit.

- A shocking variety of penile and breast implants. Y'all would not believe the number of different ways science has come up to counteract gravity.

- A couple of cases of ectopic kidneys, where a kidney didn't rise to its typical position just deep to the lowest ribs and instead stayed in the pelvis.

There is probably some other stuff that I am forgetting. Take home point is: the human body is weird and wonderful and you should learn more about yours!

[brightlotusmoon]

....duuude.

[naamahdarling]

Spleens Georg

[stele3]

14???????

My contribution: client co pinched nerve in L side of neck. I asked about health hx; she said, “I've got some extra ribs on that side.”

me: “some?” (!!!!!??!?!??!???)

Some was 2, but that’s crazy enough.

[cactusspatz]

Yeah, I don't discover the anatomical weirdness but I've had clients come in with extra ribs, missing ribs, extra vertebra, accessory muscles (that's when you have duplicates - sometimes fine, sometimes not), bones connected where they shouldn't be (spoiler: if your lumbar spine is connected to your hip, it Causes Problems), all sorts of stuff. Bodies are weird!

[headspace-hotel]

More from the notes

This made me remember that I had a friend in high school who had one thumb that was like half an inch shorter than the other. Not sure how that happened.

[weaselle]

even the things you never think about are a spectrum

[nieilko]

[anexperimentallife]

[mortuary9]

cad :]

[pariambod]

[ratatosk777]

I miss my yuri. so it's neighbors au time

I still haven't developed this au much but here's my thoughts about the timeline: - the siblings move in in june/july of the first year. - hornet begins to get along with lace in october/november (they actually start talking woah). - a christmas comic that I never drew where they Actually Become Friends. - hornet sneaks into lace's room for the first time next summer, the beginning of hornet's second year in this neighborhood (this comic). by this point they're close friends and maybe lace is crushing on hornet

I love slowburn

[bluedelliquanti]

I'm so thrilled to share the cover of my next book, Unauthorized Bread: A Radicalized Graphic Novel.

Based on the story by Cory Doctorow, adapted by J.R. Doyle and me, Unauthorized Bread is about Salima, a young woman living on the margins in an apartment building where everything, from the elevators to the appliances, are designed to enforce inequality. Can Salima work with her neighbors to jailbreak their tech without getting caught… or evicted?

Coming out from First Second on April 20, 2027. Preorders open!

🍞🍞🍞

[tomb-of-madeline]

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