y’all better hype this up because this is BIG and is evidence that the berlin patient wasn’t a fluke, and this could revolutionize medicine (there’s already cases of cancers where methods similar to these have worked), and while you’re at it, please join a bone marrow registry!! (especially poc bc these therapies usually only have been done on white patients due to genetic similarities, and the more poc we get in registries the more access poc patients can have to this for cancers, SSS, etc)
The funniest homophobic notion out there is the whole, “you’re just a lesbian because you can’t get a man” thing. Like, do you have any idea how easy it is to get a man? It takes a smartphone and ten minutes of time while trying to get a girlfriend is like trying to win the lottery with a single ticket you found on the sidewalk.
I’m not perfect by any stretch of the imagination.
I lack good social skills. I don’t look people in the eye when I’m talking to them. I’m kind of an a-hole. I’m afraid of the dark.
On the outside I seem unable to convey full thoughts and ideas and I struggle with reading aloud.
On the inside I have a library of horror stories tucked away on a dusty bookshelf, a million useless facts nobody knows on the forefront, a million more useful facts that I’ll never need, lyrics to thousands of songs on the tip of my tongue, and the affection of a small puppy in my heart.
It’s hard for me to say exactly how I feel and it makes me uncomfortable to look you in the eyes and tell you you’re my entire world. It’s easier for me to show you.
It’s easy for me to ask how you’re feeling and if you’re okay, to get up before you so I can cook you breakfast before you go to work. It’s easy for me to see and feel how upset you are and wrap my arms around you and tell you with confidence that everything will be fine. Don’t worry. It’s easy for me to be proud of you when you accomplish a goal, easy for me to make you laugh, easy for me to hold your hand in public and kiss you in full view of everyone.
I know you’ve sworn off love and it scares you that somehow I slipped through the chinks in your armor the way water slips through cracks in a stone.
It makes you nervous that I am settling comfortably into that space in your heart that you put red tape over to keep people out; you’re afraid because I fit so well in that space that it feels like I belong there.
You fear pain and you’re tensing up to prepare for the sudden knife in the back.
I’m sorry for the pain you’ve had to endure before we met.
Now I get to wake up next to you and kiss you until the corner of your mouth turns up in that familiar grin and you wake up happy.
Your happiness is my purpose and my purpose makes me happy.
I’m your shield and sword when you feel attacked. I’m your pillow and blanket when you need a soft embrace.
I love you. You’re my entire world.
Online 3D experiment by Ikaros Kappler which is described as a “Extrusion/Revolution Generator” ….
Created with three.js, you can alter the bezier curves and angle of the form, and is designed with 3D printing in mind (models can be exported and saved, as well as calculated weight in silicone).
