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I found this camera on the subway and look what was inside...

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Pressed flower collage of a comet moth, by Helen Ahpornsiri

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it’s not your full responsibility to control other people’s perceptions of you. people will think what they want and jump to the conclusions they want. you just be you.

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Listen to me. Men are boxes and women are circles is made up. Those how to draw anime books are made up. 99% of all style guides are made up. But color theory is very very real.

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Boromir, hearing the Balrog: What is this new devilry?

Gandalf: My cousin, unfortunately.

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one of the top 10 peter jackson's creative choices was seeing the one (1) sentence about the beacons being lit in RotK and going "I'm going to film a scene that is so absolutely iconic based on this"

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for a @lotr-sesa prompt, for @sallysavestheday , I decided to do a simple study on the seven clans of Elves. you can find the ao3 version here + some headcanons.

I had a lot of fun with these <3

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You ever have a good few months with your chronic illness and you wonder why you even thought it was a big deal before. And then you flare up and you're left bedridden

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I think people in fandom would be happier if they focused more on things they love than the things they hate

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The Pacific Ocean is huge.

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Absolutely obsessed with that exchange between Adar and Arondir in ep. 6 when the orcs break into the “keep.” Even besides the sheer BDE of Arondir’s “I will consider it” (what an icon), I can’t stop thinking about the fact that by all evidence he was fully going to let Adar kill everyone in that room, Bronwyn included, rather than give up the sword hilt. What a fascinating character beat! I mean, we see characters presented with that same choice all the time, in all kinds of stories: give the bad guy what he wants, or someone you love dies. And every. Single. Goddamn. Time. The hero picks the person they love. It drives me crazy! Because it’s always presented like that was the right thing to do, but it’s not! It’s the trolley problem, right? Do you save one person or ten? Of course you should save ten, even if the one person is the love of your life, because the grief you would feel for their loss doesn’t outweigh the moral imperative to save as many people as you possibly can. But that’s never what the hero does, and someone always suffers for it. But that’s not what happens here: Adar is about to have Bronwyn killed and Arondir doesn’t stop him. He chooses Middle Earth over the woman he loves (and those are the stakes we’re talking about here: we just saw the creation of Mordor for fucks sake. Obviously we’re all glad that Bronwyn survived, but I don’t think anyone would argue that the world wouldn’t be better off if Mount Doom never erupted). I love that that was Arondir’s choice, because it’s so heartbreakingly pragmatic and almost shockingly unselfish. If Arondir had been the only one who knew where that sword hilt was, Bronwyn would be dead and Adar’s plans would have failed because he was expecting the typical hero’s choice of love over everything and everyone else. It never even occurred to him that Arondir might save the world at the expense of someone he loved, but that’s what Arondir would have done. And I fucking love that. 

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News story on TV: This woman with symptoms uncannily similar to yours just couldn't figure out what was causing them! Her doctor sent her to a specialist who ran test after test looking for the answer and coming up with nothing, until he ran the Special Test and found that she had Cacky Bird Legs, a rare disorder that explains all of her problems! She's now receiving treatment and feels so much better!!

The specialists I get to see: I'm going to run the same routine blood test that your GP did before she sent you here and if it comes back normal again you're on your own. Get out of my office.

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I did the funniest thing

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Arondir

One of my favourite elves to date.

I’m starting to understand swords now. This is also my first real attempt at a background - nothing too fancy, just wanted to capture the gist of the scene he was in. I also was decently challenged by the lighting and shading. The shirt was probably the most fun. Expect to see more fan art of the Silvan elf.

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Program: Clip Studio Paint

Tablet: Huion Kamvas 16

Completed: November 29 2022

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Some of the health impacts of a carnivore diet:

Elevated LDL from carnivore diet, and the risk of stroke and heart disease:

Carnivore diet – a rare cause for dyslipidemia mimicking homozygous FH [link]

Behavioral Characteristics and Self-Reported Health Status among 2029 Adults Consuming a "Carnivore Diet" [link] *note, self-reported social media survey - pay attention to elevated LDL cholesterol in results

Cumulative Effects of LDL Cholesterol and CRP Levels on Recurrent Stroke and TIA [link]

LDL Cholesterol and the Development of Stroke Subtypes and Coronary Heart Disease in a General Japanese Population [link]

Low fibre intake, consequences:

Role of Dietary Habits in the Prevention of Diverticular Disease Complications: A Systematic Review [link]

Diet and risk of diverticular disease in Oxford cohort of European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC): prospective study of British vegetarians and non-vegetarians [link]

Low-Fiber Intake as an Etiologic Factor in Cancer of the Colon [link]

Fiber Intake and Survival After Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis [link]

Colorectal Cancer Risk Factors: A Case-control Study in Bangkok [link]

Scurvy:

James Blunt Ate Nothing But Meat to Prove How Manly He Was. Then He Got Scurvy. [link]

No longer a historical ailment: two cases of childhood scurvy with recommendations for bone health providers [link]

Scurvy: Rediscovering a Forgotten Disease [link]

Clinical manifestations of ascorbic acid deficiency in man [link] "[...] fatigue, hemorrhagic phenomena, swollen joints, swollen bleeding gums, follicular hyperkeratosis, muscular aches and pains, and emotional changes."

Scurvy: a disease almost forgotten [link] "A 77-year-old woman with a 10-year history of hives that she attributed to all types of fruits and vegetables presented with fatigue, bruising, gingival bleeding, and anemia. For the preceding 2 years, the patient’s diet had consisted only of bread, olive oil, and red meat because of the perceived food allergy. In the preceding 3–5 months, she had experienced increased fatigue and extensive bruising on her arms and legs. She had also noticed a grayish discoloration of her face. For weeks, she had experienced occasional nosebleeds, bleeding of the gums while brushing her teeth, and soreness of the tongue. On the day the patient presented for treatment at our tertiary-care clinic, she noticed bright red blood from the rectum during a bowel movement. […] Food faddism or avoidance of products containing vitamin C because of an alleged intolerance or allergy was present in five patients."

Red and processed meat cancer risk:

Mechanistic evidence for red meat and processed meat intake and cancer risk: A follow-up on the International Agency for Research on Cancer Evaluation of 2015 [link]

Mechanistic Hypotheses on Colorectal Cancer and Red Meat Intake: A Review [link]

Most important:

SURVIVORSHIP BIAS - that is to say, referring to less than a handful of anecdotes to say "healthy tho" is not an adequate defense of a fad diet that has serious consequences

talk to your doctor if you're hooked on this fad diet so they can run regular tests and keep an eye on you