Portrait of The Artist in the Moment

Yáo Li-Jie & Olesya Ilyukhina

The FDA has upgraded an egg recall issued last month to “Class I,” its highest risk level, as it warns the public that consuming the products could cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

The recall of 1,589,577 dozen white-shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs was initially issued by Midwest Poultry Services in late July, which warned they might be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis.

According to the company, the eggs were produced and distributed from farms in Texas between June 6 and July 3 and have sell-by or best-by dates between July 20 and August 17. The recalled egg cartons have either the code P-1950 or 0840962 and Julian Dates between 157-184.

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A quick summary of all Hongjoong talked about in yesterday's TokToq Live:

While sitting on stage and watching Atiny have fun, he really wished he could've danced.

He truly appreciates Atiny caring about him enough to worry this much, but he's also sorry for making us feel like that.

He'll now have over a week without dance schedules and will try his best to fully recover in that time, so he can perform on stage with full energy again.

He was really worried Atiny might think KQ is forcing him to keep working despite his health, so seeing so many of us say "ah, even KQ couldn't stop him" and explaining this dynamic to newer Atiny filled him with relief.

In his eight years of doing this, he's never been in a situation where it was this physically difficult to dance, but he tried to keep doing it his own way anyway until he was recently told in the hospital his rib fracture will just take longer and longer to heal if he keeps moving so much.

Actually, at first, I felt a bit wronged and flustered that my rib is turning out like this just because I was coughing, so I tried to fight back a little. Ah, it's a bit of a shame. The atmosphere is really good since the comeback, but I feel like I keep creating things to worry about. I just wanted to do my best - I didn't want to create this kind of issue, so I tried my best not to cause any trouble, whether it was with announcements or things like that.

People around him - especially his mom - have been nagging him a lot because of this, but he knows it's from a place of love and care.

Still, it was Ateez's first time in Istanbul, so he wanted to be there and watch Atiny be happy - he hopes we have understanding for that.

He then briefly talked about the WANTEEZ episode:

Yes. I'll eat my vegetables. Okay. I'll eat them. I'm at a huge disadvantage in this situation. Since I'm at a significant disadvantage in this small argument- Well, in a situation like today, I don't think I can really argue about vegetables. [...] I will make sure to take my supplements properly. I will take a proof shot with a hamburger and show it to you.

He realized he had to manage his health better when he was gasping for breath on stage and on the brink of passing out.

Rapping does hurt a little bit, but he hopes we won't worry about it since it's so minor.

He can't be wearing a chest cast for his rib right now because he's still coughing and cough with a cast on would just make it hurt more.

As of right now, each hospital he's been to has given him a different diagnosis for the cough, so he has yet another hospital visit scheduled - hopefully that'll give him a definitive diagnosis.

Since he's been coughing for over two months now, he understands why we worry and will make sure to keep us updated!

When it comes to how well the members are listening to him these days, he said they're all adults now, so he no longer gathers them up and makes them listen to him - he just enjoys it when they're together because it makes everything fun for him.

He thinks his hair looked pretty good today despite all the wind, so it was a leading factor for him going live (lmao)

As we approach the end of the year, Ateez will be really busy again as always, so there are many things they'll be preparing for back-to-back and he hopes we're looking forward to it all.

He 100% still plans for Ateez and Atiny to still be together "forever and ever".

@vividaway​ Randall Munroe is an internet cartoonist who runs the ‘xkcd’ online comic series, which has run from 2006 up to today, with new comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Xkcd isn’t an ongoing story, just a series of funny, wholesome, depressing, or oddly scientifically informative comics.

In 2010, Randall’s fiance was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. He didn’t share too many details at first, but things tended to bleed into his comics: sometimes funny, sometimes sad.

Often in this time, other cartoonists would write in guest comics for Randall, or he’d put in short filler pieces, to try and fill space while nonstop cancer treatments took up most of his time.

In 2012, he posted a comic called ‘Two Years’, about the time since the diagnosis. It’s the one that hasn’t yet been posted here (although parts of it are included in the other comics), and it commemorates some of the things that had happened in the two years since the diagnosis.

There are representations of Randall and his fiance being together for her treatment, worrying together, traveling the world, and getting married. It’s still depressing, but it’s a lot more hopeful, showing how they’ve still managed to have happy moments together, and things will still get better.

Themes of cancer continued in xkcd, but they increasingly became less about fear and nihilism, and more about hope, or just cool facts related to cancer.

At the top of this post is the comic posted in 2017: Seven Years. In it, Randall and his wife are traveling more, trying to have fun and continue old and new hobbies, with cancer ever-present in the background of it all. At the end, the two of them observe the 2017 solar eclipse, and despite all the uncertainty that comes with the thought of another seven years, agree to watch the 2024 eclipse together too.

There are just about no cancer comics between that one and the most recent comic, the one I posted: Ten Years, written in 2020. It’s by far the most hopeful of the three in the little series: the two of them are happy, they’re playing with rabbits and riding on handcarts and going out hiking and stargazing, together. At the end, Ten Years breaks the format with a conversation in which they talk about how unbelievable it is that it’s been so long, and share their worries as well as their hopes. It even ends on a much more lighthearted joke about immortality.

It’s a good comic. Definitely in my top two comics wherein internet cartoonists express emotions about an illness suffered by their wife.

The first time I reblogged this it was three years after large bastard's heart attack and quad bypass and one year after his transplant.

Now it has been five years since his transplant, and seven years since his bypass.