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Ashiness - a whitish or grayish appearance that resembles ashes

Cinereous - gray tinged with black; archaic: cineritious

Evenglow - a reddish gray that is yellower and deeper than mist and lighter, stronger, and slightly bluer than opal gray

Fuscous - of any of several colors averaging a brownish gray

Greige - a variable color that blends gray and beige

Grisaille - decoration in tones of a single color and especially gray designed to produce a three-dimensional effect

Gunmetal - a bluish-gray color

Pewter - a bluish gray

Slate - a dark purplish gray

Taupe - a brownish gray

american cowslip: you are my divinity

asphodel: my regrets follow you to the grave

bay leaf: i change but in death

bud of white rose: heart ignorant of love

carolina rose: love is dangerous

cedar leaf: i live for thee

christmas rose: transquillize my anxiety

coreopsis arkansa: love at first sight

flax: i feel your kindness

flowering reed: confidence in heaven

honey flower: love sweet and secret

honeysuckle coral: the colour of my fate

indian jasmine: i attach myself to you

jonquil: i desire a return of affection

laurestina: i die if neglected

locust tree: affection beyond the grave

milkvetch: your presence softens my pains

mulberry tree (black): i shall not survive you

orange blossoms: your purity equals your loveliness

peach: your qualities, like your charms, are unequalled

persimon: bury me amid nature's beauties

ranunculus: you are radiant with charms

syrian mallow: consumed by love

tiger flower: for once may pride befriend me

venus' car: fly with me

white clover: think of me

wild tansy: i declare war against you

I also kind of hope Maisie and Phoebe wind up kissing, but I'll be equally happy just to see their fashion venture succeed. I love that they get a subplot that had nothing to do with what Kim and Will are up to, and that their friendship (or whatever it ends up being) proceeds independent of the men who introduced them.

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid, can only infect cells expressing a certain protein called ACE2

ACE2 is expressed widely in nasal cavity epithelial cells but not in olfactory sensory neurons. 

Seo et al. (2021) studied potential nasal targets for SARS-CoV-2 using golden hamsters as a model organism (commonly used as a proxy for humans in virology studies)

They found ACE2 expression in the main olfactory bulb epithelium (MOE, your “normal” nose organ) as well as the vomeronasal organ (VNO)

Several cell types in the VNO were able to be infected and they also found significant inflammatory activity (macrophage activation, apoptotic cells, etc) 

The specifics of how covid actually causes dysosmia are not known for sure but epithelial damage by local inflammatory immune responses likely plays a role, especially because sensory neurons themselves are not affected (Bilinska, & Butowt, 2020). Therefore I would suggest a potential similar effect of VNO dysfunction as we see in the main olfactory bulb

From Seo et al.: “Considering the function of the VNO, infection and subsequent pathologic changes may affect the behavior of Syrian hamsters”

If it stands to reason that omegaverse individuals have functioning VNOs similar to members of the animal kingdom, then it is more than reasonable to conclude that covid may cause them to lose not only their main olfactory function, but also their VNO function as well

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