#venous

Tavares Strachan, “Robert” (2018),

Blue neon, purple neon, Pyrex, transformers, and MDF box, variable dimensions,

Courtesy of the artist and The 58th International Art Exhibition–La Biennale di Venezia. © 2018 Tavares Strachan.

hey i made a sona i have a sona now i'm a FUCKING FURRY

they're a modular vampire bat android (chiroptoid?) and i love them so so much

their name is Venous and they're genderfluid just like meeee

Based on my different stories.

AR!Tenma: oh my god, a knife. A sharp knife, too... better be careful with ittttt- wait a minute I can show this to Shindou-senpai and freak him out!

(T: senpai look what I found!!!! 😇

S: is that- is that a knife?

T: yup!!! 😁

S: oh my god oh my god oh my god WHO GAVE YOU THAT- PUT THAT DOWN RIGHT NOW OR SO HELP  ME-

T: aw, but I like my knife… 😔)

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OoS!Tenma: why's there a knife here? It should be in the cutlery drawer, I'll put it back.

(Like a rational person because, beyond horrid self-esteem issues, he's actually pretty reasonable.)

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Warped!Tenma: ...if I could I would literally kill myself, but alas, that’s outside of the realm of possibility, so I'll keep it hidden on my person so I can defend myself against my captors.

(I'm sorry for this but he is definitely sort of suicidal...)

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OtE!Tenma: (...mental breakdown, probably. Someone should take that knife away from him.)

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RoD!Tenma: oh my gods, Kyousuke needs to stop leaving these lying around everywhere.

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Venous!Tenma: where did this knife come from? I should probably put this away before I accidentally cut myself. Oh, coach Endou is over there, I'll give it to him! He'll know what to do with it!

(Proceeds to run across the field to get to coach Endou, still holding the knife, because this Tenma has no self-preservation.)

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Stand!Tenma: I haven't written for this story in so long, I genuinely wouldn't know. He'd probably just put it down?

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Frigidity!Tenma: I'm keeping this. I can use it to threaten anyone who harms my team. Gotta give it a safe space tho, so no one can find it even if they claim I had a knife and people go looking for it.

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AwA!Tenma: (before the story) hey a knife, weird. (after the story) hey a knife, wei- wait is this another assassination attempt, or is Ozrock just leaving his stuff lying around again?

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(unpublished story in which everyone is some kind of supernatural being except Tenma, who is a regular human): I'm keeping this in case I'm attacked by vampires again. I've never managed to fight them off before but third times the charm, right? And otherwise I can just use it when the team gets into a hissy fit again. Lol they be doing their all mad alpha male posturing and I'll just pull a knife to sharpen it that'd be hilarious. They'd freak. I need to find a book on knife care. Maybe I can start collecting them?

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Picking at Scabs

Seeing blood after injury can be alarming. But bleeding is the start of a healing process that’s more than meets the eye. This blood clot, or thrombus, fills the hole left by a puncture wound. It protects against infection and grows crusty over time – maybe into a scab that looks ripe for the picking. But here scientists are looking at what’s going on underneath. A kind of 3D scanning electron microscopy reveals the thrombus builds on a foundation of blood platelets outside of a wound (highlighted in green) which climb into the vessel (blue) as tiny 'pillars'. Eventually they form a vaulted structure a bit like a gazebo, which supports a 'roof' of looser platelets (yellow) inside the vessel. These intricate structures may help to coordinate vital chemical signals during healing. While researchers investigate the effects of drugs and lifestyle on this bloody architecture – let’s leave those scabs alone!

Written by John Ankers

Video from work by Sung Rhee and Irina D. Pokrovskaya, and colleagues

Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Communications Biology, September 2021

Baby venus

@rottmntrulesall baby venus is from there au