13 Moons

Edit: For those who asked. I have a small/large foil print of this available on my store! ❤️

do it grieving

it's okay if you can't see how yet. you don't have to believe in better. for now it is enough to just keep going, and eventually the path will emerge. you are not alone. you are not lost in the woods forever. keep going. I love you.

lesbian of victory. and yea. it’s a animal

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

NEVER KILL YOURSELF

(Sources: Wall Street Journal and Hollywood Reporter)

[...] Commercial devices to occlude structural heart defects comprise woven mesh discs that expand to fill the defect. Many of our patients are indigenous Aymara people for whom weaving is an essential skill. It occurred to us that the skills of Aymara weavers visible everywhere in the textiles of our culture might be used to develop an occlusive device unique to the needs of our patient population. We formed a multidisciplinary team of weaver artisans, biomedical engineers, and physicians to pursue the idea. The artisans helped us identify a weaving pattern appropriate to the materials and bioengineering requirements of the devices: the Andean cross or chakana, a simple cross with a superimposed square. Symbolically the chakana is said to represent pure symmetry of a universe without beginning, end, center, or direction. Practically, it was an already-familiar pattern and technique that could be used to weave a device of variable size using a single strand of material without soldered or welded connections so it could not corrode or break. [...] After extensive development and testing, we now have a team of about 40 craftswomen who undergo 4 months of training to perfect their weaving skills in the laboratory so they can reliably reproduce the double-disk net design of the occluders within basic requirements of quality control, sterilization, and proper chemical and physical treatment of the devices. The Aymara weavers repeat the familiar chakana pattern up to 120 times per device. The pattern is ordered in a systematic way but with a modified technique; instead of a flat loom used for traditional textiles, a circular mold is used, with cylindrical structures arranged so that the size and design are fixed. Most smaller devices can be woven in about 3 hours, whereas larger ones can take a day and a half. Early experience with the devices suggest excellent clinical outcomes with few or no complications. The devices are easy to deploy, which minimizes procedure time and child exposure to imaging radiation, and their elasticity makes them minimally traumatic to friable vessels and structures of young children. [...] Having visited many device-manufacturing facilities, we do not know yet of a machine capable of creating these complex microstructures. Only hands trained by several generations have this special ability, so these women weavers, with their training and qualification in processes and quality management, are human looms that, for now, exceed contemporary engineering standards. The true beauty of the devices lies in the simplicity of the design and deployment and in being a precise application and effective solution to a prevalent lethal health problem in the population of children we care for. By producing handmade devices, the Aymara indigenous people also transfer their culture and skills to the production of medical devices and affirm the relevance of their cultural heritage—integrating the past with the present, culture with science, and the prospect of death with the hope of life. Together with the Aymara people, we are writing a new story inside the children who carry these woven microstructures in their hearts.

Here is some art for Vincent valentine fans, (if anyone even sees this)

Although I haven't finished the games yet, I'd like to draw some other characters from them whenever I have some time again o(╥﹏╥)

When they made that movie, they put all that they loved into all that they made.

YOU GUYS

ALSO DON’T GET ME STARTED ON FREAKING HOWARD SHORE AND HIS 100+ HEARTSHATTERINGLY BEAUTIFUL LIETMOTIFS AND BRILLIANT SUBTLE VARIATIONS IN THE FLIPPING 13 HOUR SOUNDTRACK. AND ENYA SINGING IN REAL ELVISH.

Source: My old work-mate’s fiance worked for Weta making weapons and she would occasionally ‘mess up’ one so it would go in the discard pile and she could take it home for him. He bought a sword to work to show us and none of us could figure out why that was a reject, it was beautiful.

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This game is a beautiful and brutal examination of grief and letting go....and also you can wield a baguette sword.

let's keep him