// wip day.
tagged by; @adelaidedrubman, @katsigian and @hibernationsuit, thank you so much!!
tagging; @reaperkiller, @envergothash, @dickytwister, @shellibisshe, @secondsundering, @devilbrakers, @dekariosgale, @velocitic, @necro-hamster and YOU!
thought i'd do something different for this today :^) i'm working on a powerpoint (inspired by ezra velocitic thank u for the idea ^-^) to hopefully one day be able to explain the cyberpunk extended blorboverse that red reaperkiller and i have been working on for over a year now! it also includes my own story with vincent and his friends since the two stories eventually come together sometime in 2083 and 2084 (yeah i know the game is called 2077 i don't care leve me aloe). here's some slides to give you an idea of what kind of lore to expect :^)
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Holy Hospital Monitor!
Was anyone else besides me utterly surprised when we saw Rukia and Renji in the trauma center and then we got a shot of a very modern looking patient monitor???
It wasn’t the presence of the monitor that surprised me — more of that fact that I never considered shinigami to have biological bodies. In my mind, they are made up of reishi particles that happen to take the approximate form of a human body. Why would their vital monitoring equipment look anything like the ones for humans?? This is still utterly amazing to me. I couldn’t help but see how their bodies might work though.
Taking a closer look:
First of all, the top and bottom monitors on the left side read exactly the same, so LOL? Renji and Rukia are of one heart/mind/soul and apparently also, vital signs. Let’s just assume the bottom monitor is a duplicate of one patient for some reason. We are told that both patients are “stable” but I don’t think "stable" necessarily means “identical” LOL.
At first I thought this monitor belonged to Rukia, because we get this shot while she is talking. However, upon closer examination, it has to be Renji’s because he is the only one on a ventilator. And this monitor set up is measuring end tidal CO2 (EtCO2), which is only possible if there’s something on the face to measuring breathing. Although, I guess it is possible that Soul Society has made some medical/technological advances so that they would have a non-invasive way of measuring breathing. But Rukia is also talking during this scene, which would mess up her breathing anyway, and the monitor remains steady the entire time. So, back to Renji.
EtCO2: End tidal CO2. At 42 mmHg this falls within normal range. But, this is… not exactly a normal waveform. The breaths are a bit short with somewhat of an obstructive/bronchospasm pattern. Someone should probably take a look at him to make sure he’s breathing correctly and there’s nothing wrong with the ventilator.
BP: Blood pressure. I’d like to point out this is very close to that 120/80 number that gets cited all the time, which is at the top end of what is considered “normal.” The mean arterial pressure (MAP) is 95, which is also normal and means there’s good perfusion to the organs and extremities! Renji gets a gold star for textbook blood pressure. Considering he had some massive blood loss though, I would be very surprised if he had normal blood pressure… I suppose they could’ve given him a blood transfusion and probably got him on a really impressive fluid regimen and pressers lol. The waveform on the big monitor looks kind of weird too though? The dicrotic notch is pretty flat and the waveforms are pretty spaced out… Maybe they’re measuring from a central line that’s in a distal extremity, like a foot. As for the waveform on the small monitor… I think that’s supposed to be another arterial blood pressure but LOL it looks like it’s coming from a different person. It’s on a different scale, but the pulses look way faster regardless.
SpO2: Oxygen saturation. At 97% this is a normal reading. This measures the amount of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin, so this suggests shinigami have normal blood like humans…? I have no idea what’s going on with the waveform though, because this doesn’t look like anything I’ve seen. The waveforms are facing the wrong way….?
HR: Heart rate (and ECG/EKG). 72bpm is a normal heart rate for an average adult human. However, given that Renji is 1) unconscious and 2) in very good cardiologic shape, this seems a little high to me. I have no baseline to compare this to though. Maybe shinigami have little rabbit hearts or something and this is a low resting HR. This EKG reading though… OH BOY. People spend many years learning how to properly read EKGs, so I’m not even going to try and diagnose what’s going on here. There’s a whole lot of noise in the R-R interval (the line between the tall peaks), which could be indicative of some kind of fibrillation, except it’s also regularly irregular. Suffice to say, this is not what a normal waveform looks like. Maybe this is proof of shinigami hearts working differently?
Conclusion: Well, all the waveforms are consistent (stable), if a little wonky by human monitoring standards. The numbers (EtCO2, BP, HR, and SpO2) all read normally too! Interesting to consider that maybe no matter what, the metrics needed to sustain life are the same as they are for humans, but the internal workings of the body (the pattern waveforms) are completely different!
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Can we please stop tagging characters that are unrelated to the post/art/etc? I understand you want to cast a wide tag net to get the most engagement but around these parts we consider that spam and that’s a blockable crime.
I’m really only seeing it in the Izzy Hands tag (Yes, that’s a lovely blackbonnet/gentlebeard piece but Izzy isn’t present or implied so he really shouldn’t be tagged), since that’s where I live, but this applies to the whole fandom.
I don’t know if this is a twitter refugee issue or what but I’d really like to not have to block people for not understanding tag etiquette.
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a review about the 2009 nymf production of this show attributes a line unmistakably very close to this opening applebee's/snapple one to the role of skip, whose description (on stagerights.com) goes "Adam's Internet-obsessed younger brother. Must be charming and adorable, have a good voice, and be a great rapper." amidst song listings including "Skip Rap #1" #2, #3, & indeed "This Thing Called The Internet"
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Honestly a bit worried by how a lot of people in fandom seem incapable of acknowledging one sided romantic feelings/attraction. It always must become a ship like it’s the most natural thing in the world with no consideration for the other person clearly not being interested. Like if it’s a ship aren’t you supposed to like. you know. take both characters into account.
And of course people can ship whatever etc etc but I’m saying people systematically interpret ‘crushes -> ship’. And it becomes apparent how it’s a real mindset when i see overly online teenagers call it pedophilia when a kid/teen has a crush on an adult. Or simply the irl classic expectation/entitlement of reciprocating someone’s romantic feelings or you’re the asshole. The original ship point is just the manifestation in fandom of this mindset
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Ngl I do not trust "humans are weird" enjoyers that much. Went from the cute concept of "lol aliens wouldn't know what to do with us"
To being overrun with ridiculous amounts of dehumanizion and barely contained fetish material. Doing absolute numbers in the "i wish i was in a human petting zoo (<- has never been dehumized due to being marginalized, is unaware due to privilege that POC have been treated like animals for ages, doesn't realize how not cute and fun any of this is)" fandom.
Like it's really funny that some of y'all will make fun of cybersmith for being a creep but then will be like omg a 2nd person post about an alien illegally kidnapping an injured human and calling them its pet. This isn't weird or uncomfortable at all. Reblogged.
Like stop that maybe lmao
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selina has never known how to be herself. hobbies elude her so often — enjoyment is something so slippery for her. she’s honed herself to be a weapon and weapons don’t have interests. every single thing she does has to be blunted.
since @misereternal mentioned it — ice-skating? well, she could be incredibly dangerous. shoes with a blade attached to the foot? she already uses 7 inch steel heels with serrated knives attached to them. it’s just another method of violence to her unless she slowly detaches that. but she doesn’t ever think of it like a fun time. it takes selina a lot of time and patience to understand how to just enjoy herself without it having to be heavy or dangerous.
ice-skating doesn’t have to be about a dangerous item you can make into a weapon; it can be about actually relaxing or just fun. selina has to learn how to make something just about fun.
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