#Brain Awareness Week

[conservethis]

In the lab today…multiples, archival folder gradients, and a reminder to use your head

[ricisidro]

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and 🧠 Brain Awareness Week is from March 10-16.

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the

Philippines, after breast and lung cancer. It's a preventable and curable disease if detected early.

#March #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth

#CCAM #colorectalcancer #colonoscopy #cancerprevention

#DressInBlue

Here are 12 actions for a healthier brain, and keep living well at any age! 💙

#Dementia #BrainAwarenessWeek #BrainHealth #LivingWellWithDementia

[lucabyte]

even dogs pass the mirror test

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

...Turns out gay sex actually was the solution.

(This is basically a redraw, come read the real deal over at Tiger Tiger)

[lovesickeros]

zhongli and neuvillette fighting over their reader 🤭🤭

scary dog privilege wherever you go, draconic courting gestures that would scare any regular person, they send each other deadly glares the moment you turn away,

stealing your clothes to just get a whiff of your scent, marking their territory all over your house - making it a battlefield basically, neuvillette (in my hc) is cooler and zhongli is warm so the cuddles are always so comfy ☺️😍,

they give you anything you want - you don't even have to lift a finger, they make you travel between the nations a lot though 😒 sooo clingyyy, extra gentle in their dragon forms as to not squish you, don't even get me started on the size difference 😍😍

just a little thought 🤭☺️

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Neuvi being colder is so real and canon. I see him as being colder + a lot more lithe, kinda lanky with smaller but sharper canines versus Zhongli who's warmer and a bit shorter then Neuvi + bulkier with bigger but not as sharp canines.

They've also got very different habits – Zhongli is very prideful not just of himself but his nation. He'll personally give your a tour and purposely drag it out as long as he can. Complimenting Liyue is basically complimenting him, checkmate Neuvi. Especially if he convinces you to try on some local Liyue fashion. Harmless and just a nice gift to anyone else but Neuvi sees it for what it is (since your wearing something from Liyue, technically wearing something of his. He loves his technicalities when it comes to staking a claim over you). Adds salt to the wound by touching you in totally innocent ways like to adjust you towards something he wants to show you or accidently brushing against you when he takes the bags of spoils he's practically drowning you in but really he's just making sure his scent sticks. He's just a sweet, nice gentleman with absolutely no ulterior motives trust.

Neuvillette does love Fontaine, but his habits are more about himself then the nation. He'll take you around if you ask or if the idea strikes him, but you'll probably stay around the making city area or the opera house specifically. He enjoys more personal time with just you and him then anything else. He values the immaterial to the material. Zhongli spoils you with gifts, but Neuvi tries to offer quality time irregardless of physical gifts (though he still gives them just not to the extent of Zhongli). He'll take you to see different operas if that's to your fancy, or leverage a bit of his authority to maybe see a few films since those seem to be hitting off in Fontaine recently. Bet that creaky old archon doesn't have those huh. He feels awkward if you want to watch a trial, but he'll reluctantly agree because. well. it's you. just don't wave or anything he's trying to work and he just Really wants to see you smile at him like that again and it makes him lose his train of thought. gets custom clothes designed by Chiori to replace your clothes from Liyue because they smell of Zhongli and it makes him sulky + he likes to match.

G-d forbid these two are in the same room as you because it's a war of attrition at that point. Constant accidental brush of the hand against your shoulder or elbow but it's just them trying to get rid of the others scent. they are side eyeing each other behind your back while being all smiles whenever your looking. If it's hot and you lean into Neuvi more he's practically GLOWING. not even smug he's just absolutely smitten and happy to be of service. immediately takes off his gloves and presses his hands to your face asking if your okay and if you want to go back with him. if it's cold out and you seek out Zhongli more hes smug as hell beneath the calm veneer. Offers you his coat and stay as physically close to you as he can under the pretense of being worried you'll catch a cold if he doesn't warm you up.

don't even get me started on your house either because you probably have tons of gifts from both of them accumulated everywhere. if Neuvi sees you use a tea set from Zhongli suddenly he had a fantastic gift idea he thought you'd like. he even got some tea included with it so why don't you let him make you some? Zhongli sees you using a goblet Neuvi gave you (totally a coincidence it's similar to his) and suddenly you have 27 square cups in your cabinets that you have no idea where they came from. if the goblet is mysteriously missing oh well. who knows :]

[vivicella]

i just found out the existence of fan disc 3 oh my god this is everything to me

[elodieunderglass]

Do you have more Moby Dick: Modern Translation chapters anywhere that certain interested parties (me and everyone with taste) could read?

In reference to this translation of Moby Dick into insufferable modern idiom, in which Ishmael is suddenly shown up in a startling light as a person we’ve actually met and knew well but didn’t really like:

I’m sorry, I haven’t written any more of that! After chapter 1’s mad rush of energy, the book tackles more tricky, boring and unfunny content, including passages that are just uncomfortably problematic in any time; and, like, entire chapters about listening to a church sermon.

A line translation (and that is mostly a very faithful line translation! The only thing I regret not doing was perfectly capturing the fart joke!) apparently has a lot of educational value, and helps to reframe the whole novel. That’s worthy work! But i simply wouldn’t want to do a line translation on the next few chapters. My brain is picking daisies instead, already. I would say: “sorry, I’m abridging this for my own mental health. You’re eligible for a free refund.” In which case the educational value is negligible (you can just read the plot summary online. There’s a really big whale in it.)

Anyone else who wants to take a stab at it (FROM HELL’S HEART) would be welcome and I’ll gladly promote your efforts. It’s just. I am going

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- come here let me measure your head

[theinkwaygame]

Happy (Late) Ace Week!!!

I know this is like 3 days late but I spent too long working on this just to not post it, I actually really liked his pose

[nite-puff]

besties i’m so sorry i couldn’t do the taka week prompt today. i tried, but things weren’t workin’ out. sighhhhh

i was gonna do m for moth because i’m nothing if not predictable. but i’ll still use the opportunity to bring it up again. hey. if you wanna check out a taka fanfic for taka week with a lot of moth imagery, is ishida focused, has survivor taka, and is a character study focused on how taka uses ishida as a form of escapism to not deal with a reality where mondo isn’t there… then i recommend this fic of mine. that i love. so so much. and is almost two years old. but i still love it.

anyways yeah. hopefully i’ll have something for tomorrow!

[daemon-in-my-head]

I was once again reminded of one of the Hunger Games core msgs; "Who do you hate more, the atrocities or the people who commit them against you" and while I don't want to derail the OPs great post it does remind me of Gortash and Durge.

Gortash doesn't hate the atrocities. He committed them himself. He hates Raphael and his parents but not what they did to him by itself, and that is precisely why he can't break the cycle and won't ever attain that true freedom he longs for. He's a self-fulfilling prophecy in that regard. His warped view allows him to continue committing these atrocities and shift the blame from himself or the atrocities themselves onto others. That whole "lesser evil" thing I've talked abt before.

And perhaps that's also what irks me so much about the Durge conclusion. Because yes, sometimes you need violence to end the violence, but usually the people who commit these acts remember how they were wronged and come to realise that the act itself is the issue and not the people behind it—but for Durge, as is presented in-game, it very much feels like a personal vendetta against Orin rather than them recognising that the acts committed against them were wrong. I mean, fuck they don't remember what happened to them, so how the hell are they meant to realise, as the blank slate they are, how vile Bhaals actions were and how wrong it is for this shit to happen to anybody. Like there's a dissonance there, and yes, I suppose the character itself seeks to answer the question of "nature vs nurture", but like they don't fucking remember the nurture or nature. It's like telling an anti-war story but not talking about the war itself. You can obv do it, but it sucks, there are loopholes everywhere, and the message is buried between fuck all and harder to recognise. You can do it, but it's a shit way of doing it.

Tldr; it's half arsed. What I am saying is the Durge story is half arsed, they should've committed to it rather than make it comedic horror relief. And I love that story, mind you. But still half arsed.

And on a more personal level, I think that may also be what contributed to me creating Fine and him being how he is. Cuz he can't remember the atrocities. He knows smth happened, but he doesn't truly remember, and instead, his hatred is directed solely towards Bhaal. And while he isn't directly inflicting those atrocities on others after some point, he still doesn't consider them wrong or worse, and instead, despite feeling utter hatred for him, he ends up sympathising with some of the shit Bhaal did. He, too, is a self-fulfilling prophecy in that regard cuz he hates Bhaal and the Gods more than what they did, so he inadvertently ends up trapped in the same cycle yet again and eventually becomes incapable of truly breaking it. Because he, too, failed to realise where the actual issue lies. Which I'll gladly dive into in a different post cuz Durges response, the lack thereof, and all that comes with would derail this too much and it's a very very personal hc aka just shit i put my oc thru. Eitherway, my point stands.

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

You can always put a traditional instrument in your modern music genre. It is always morally correct.

[clowningcrows]

trying to drown out the insanely loud and convincing intrusive thought spiral teefuckinghee

[clonerightsagenda]

Our governor is mobilizing the National Guard in advance of the planned protests this weekend. Kind of heartwarming that he is this afraid of a bunch of mainstream liberal white ladies.

[scrupulosity-comics]

I fucked my back up a couple months ago and need physical therapy for it BUT almost all the physical therapy exercises are derived from yoga, and I can’t do yoga because it gives me insane brain worms about cultural appropriation. And I can’t draw a Bart comic making fun of myself it because if I depict myself pelvic trusting I will be corrupting the innocent. So I just have to hope that ice and ibuprofen and patience will take care of it.

[crazylittlejester]

i finally finished the course i've been stuck in for what feels like forever. everything hurts and i want to sleep for a million years. please give wars an orange for me (also i am sorry i called your brain tiny and horrible that was /j your brain is big and beautiful)

YAAAAAAY GOOD JOB! I gave him an orange >:3

also i do not remember you calling my brain tiny and horrible but I probably deserved it

[biblically-accurate-dca]

KILL!!!!!!!!!