Beep Boop Beep

redraw from 2024, can’t believe it's been almost two years already. and I still haven't moved on from the cutest little duck family ever, literally who could? think it's physically impossible to ever fully move on from this show.

also shameless plug here but if you want to read a very normal and completely not sad or gut wrenching story that definitely won’t make you cry then you need to read this!! it's my first time writing a della-centric story but like I said it's TOTALLY only happy and no sadness involved at all. DONT look too close at the title—that's to throw people off.

ALSO CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW CUTE DEWEY IS HERE

also adding some other art here cus i havent posted in a while

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

The way I explain it to my patients is that our neurons don’t regenerate. They make connections with each other and that’s it. If you don’t use your brain, they make fewer connections and, if one of them dies, you’re gonna miss it, because that was the only one that knew how to do X. Now, if each one of them has many, many connections, you won’t notice the difference when one of them dies. The others pick up the slack.

As of 2024, 45% of dementia risk factors are modifiable. Relevant to this conversation, 5% for less education and 5% for social isolation.

We absolutely are going to see the reflection of this, but it’s gonna take decades and it’ll be too late. So, for the love of your brain, pretend that it’s a muscle and make it work. People complain about “when am I ever gonna use this maths formula in my life?” You’re not. You’re teaching your brain to think logically. Those sinapses will be there for when you need to figure out your week’s schedule. English classes taught me how to interpret data and how to convey it in this text so it’s clear and you understand what I’m saying, not because I needed to justify why the curtain is blue.

Make your brain know how to do different things. Logic games, puzzles, taking care of a garden even if small, planning a church’s event or birthday, learn a new instrument, learn a few words in another language, look at a calendar every day, do some manual labor if possible. Do not, I repeat, do not let your brain get rid of sinapses by letting AI do everything. Your brain uses 20% of your body’s energy — do you really think it’s going to maintain connexions that aren’t in use?

Most cases of Alzheimer’s are sporadic, meaning no family history. Family history of a first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s starting before they were 80yo increases your risk in 2-3x on average.

Meaning he was still a smeet at the time he was a scientist. 

This is no more older than this:

Zim complained about being underground for ten years. 

And Irkens are apparently in their infancy for more than ten years because he was meant to stay underground for far longer.

So Little Zim basically caused two blackouts in a span of ten years, they transferred him to military research immediately after this before he could complete his basic education infancy training. 

Miyuki even referred to Zim as A “Little Creature” and I don’t think it was necessary because he was just a small irken. (that’s part of it) but when you look at all the other scientists and engineers in the SAME department:

Mostly all Vortians and other species who are most likely adults and Irkens seem to not go into Military research all that often in general. 

 like this little child in a scientist robe just chided her best engineers and went like “okay that thing sucks, but My Tallest, look at what I’M DOING!” 

This is just the equivalent of giving an advanced child dangerous chemicals and nuclear weapons at their disposal. 

And yet everyone is surprised by how this turned out. 

I forgot where I was going with this train of thought…

Long story short: Zim was still pretty much in his infancy years when he created an energy absorption blob and that’s pretty impressive. And when his people found he could be pinned for a crime he did as a juvenile, he was pretty much given the death penalty as a sentence for things that happened many decades ago.  

Anywho! Was going through the scene in episode 7 where Jax and Caine are in the restaurant, and one particular reaction from Caine made me pause.

Most of us probably assume that since this whole episode was an adventure made by Caine that he must know that this 'date' with Jax was all part of said adventure, but here me out.