IsaacVinterLeaf

So, I looked in the comments, expecting to see discourse or historical background etc, but I found none. Therefore, I decided to learn more and add background. Apparently this machine was used because of polio because polio paralyzes your lungs. According to the wiki article on this bad boy, patients would spend two weeks in there sometimes. They still have these machines, though much, much more modern but they’re barely used at all anymore: “In 1959, there were 1,200 people using tank respirators in the United States, but by 2004 there were only 39. By 2014, there were only 10 people left with an iron lung.” (x)

It’s amazing to me to recognize that we only defeated polio in this past century - that my mother’s father had it (he got lucky, it only deformed his feet and thereby kept him out of a couple wars); my mother got the big vaccination that left her upper arm scarred; and by the time I was vaccinated, polio basically didn’t exist. My grandfather must have been born like around 1900, so - in the space of less than 75 years, this was no longer something that parents dreaded the possibility of every summer.

In the 1950s, my mother would go to the corner shop. The owners had a daughter a few years older than my mum. She lived in an iron lung in the back of the shop. Vaccinate your fucking kids.

*chanting* Selkie! Selkie! Selkie!

no they need to kiss out behind the school!!!!

nexttttt pleaseee :D

Come on guys add on to this tumblr needs this to be a comic series

I LOVE THIS

REBLOGGED THIS TWICE

I have a need…..I must add to this…

still waiting for the smut

C’mon guys… it needs some smut

THIS NEEDS TO CONTINUE

SOMEONE PLEASE CONTINUE IT

HOLY SHIT I LOVE THIS WITH MY ENTIRE HEART

O HECk IT GOT bETtEr

OMG, THIS IS PERFECT 💖

notes/letters=the most intimate gesture!

THERES MORE

I reblogged this like a year and a half ago and IT CONTINUES!? 

ITS BACK OMG

Omg it’s here!

THIS CUTE I WANNA CONTINUE IT

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDFFDFF

IT GOT EVEN BETTER OMG

This has to be the most adorable thing I’ve seen today. 

This gave me so many happy and cute feels

every time this circles back there’s always more, I love you all 

this warms my heart on so many levels <3

ITS BACK

hey remember that time tumblr wrote an. entire. gay webcomic.

This just goes to show that we can all do great things if we collaborate and accept each other.

AAAAAAHH ITS BACK

THIS IS SOOOOO ADORABLE ♡♡♡♡♡♡

Only because it’s fucking cute!!!

This is so beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Can I request naming the big guy Damian and the little one Ollie?

Plot twist. I kinda want the big one to be Ollie and the little guy Damian.

Double plot twist: same

This is my favorite.

B E A U T I F U L

The last hand kiss got me…..oh wow.

IT’S B A C K

i love this so much

It got so much better than the last time i saw it!!❤❤❤

LAST I WAS HER ETHERE WAS A DIFFERENTS TORY ITS BRANCHING AND I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER

This fucking comic had been added to over the course of six years. That’s insane, it’s beautiful. It’s inspiring, all these people from different places at different times some have moved on other still here it’s wild.

Reblogging this because I just noticed that Ariel has robot legs and that is 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

🖤🧡