I hit 3K and I wanted to celebrate/thank you guys for deciding to stick around with this blog so I’ll be doing moodboards – and don’t worry about it being a NOTP or me not knowing it; I’ll do it for (almost) everything because it’s a thank you for you guys. :)
domino’s is offering 50% off all pizzas ordered online up until december 4th jsyk
This is legit FEED YOUR FAM PASS IT ON <3
rifa:
He described himself as a “Professional Muse,” which caused me to laugh a bit. But he wasn’t smiling: “I give people guidance,” he said, “I’m going now to meet my first client of the new year.”
I didn’t want to ask more questions, because some things are better left a mystery.
Jesus christ.
Can this man please be a character.
no omg can he be a character holy shit
There was no contract, no one ever hired him, no fees were ever discussed. He simply arrived when needed and left when he wished.
The bag was empty.
Yet when he sauntered in (never knocking, never needing anyone to unlock the door and always knowing exactly how to navigate the house he’d just entered), setting his fedora on the coat-rack that was there regardless of whether there had been one before his entrance or not and straightening his fur lined coat with a flourish of his gloved hands THEY were suddenly there.
The words, the notes, the design, whatever it was his new client needed, like a glorious flood, and all they had to do was be fast enough to catch them as they crashed about their minds.
And it was then, and only then, as his client would rush around in euphoria, CREATING.
Only then did he smile.
It was soft and easily reached his eyes as he sat sipping the tea that had not been there a moment before, watching as they worked, chuckling lightly as they frantically scrabbled to find their favorite pen or the charger or paint brush.
Then – after minutes, or hours, or days, and whether his new client was finished or not – he would quietly stand.
Cross the room to his bag.
And snap it shut.
With one final nod he would place his hat back on his head (the coat-rack vanishing if it had not been there to begin with) and calmly saunter out just the way he had come.
I’m waiting by my door.
I found this amazing shop on Etsy called IronweaverDesigns.
If I only had the money I’d buy all of this…
GAH! Me too!
aaaah! I need these!!!!! *crying because I don’t have enough money*
I love the gloves and jewellery…I don’t see myself in the bras though…lol! Scratchy.
Synopsis
“What if your planet was massacred and you were the sole survivor? What if a legendary figure out of space and time found you a place to hide? But what if the things that want to kill you have tracked you down? And worst of all, what if you haven’t studied for your A-Levels…? Coal Hill School has been a part of the Doctor Who universe since the very beginning, but that has come at a price. All the time travelling over the years has caused the very walls of space and time to become thin. There’s something pressing in on the other side, something waiting for its chance to kill everyone and everything, to bring us all into Shadow.”
External imageProduced by BBC Wales, Class features the sixth form pupils of Coal Hill School in Shoreditch and their adventures as incredible dangers break through the walls of time and space. With darkness coming, London is unprotected.
Described as having all the action, heart and adrenalin of the best YA fiction such as Buffy and The Hunger Games, this will be Coal Hill School like you’ve never seen it before.
Filming for the series commenced in April of this year and wrapped in September.
Writer Patrick Ness says:
“I can’t wait for people to meet the heroes of Class, to meet the all-new villains and aliens, to remember that the horrors of the darkest corners of existence are just about on par with having to pass your A-Levels.”
Ness also says that the best Young Adult fiction should be aimed at teenagers but also reach beyond it’s boundaries:
“That’s who it should be for first, but the best YA reaches beyond that. The best of anything reaches beyond its boundaries… The idea is to take everything that I love about YA, which is the great breadth of it and the great depth of it and its fearlessness… and the way that it takes teenage characters seriously as complex human beings, and just put that on television in the Doctor Who universe and that sounded very, very exciting to me.”
Cast and Crew
External imageGreg Austin as Charlie
Fady Elsayed
Sophie Hopkins as April
Vivian Oparah
Katherine Kelly as Miss Quill
Nigel Betts as Season 8’s Mr. Armitage
Paul Marc Davis
Anna Shaffer as Rachel
Cyril Nri as ChairWith a special guest performance by Peter Capaldi as The Doctor
“The main thing I just wanted to say, guys, is how excited I am to get started and how nervous I am to do it justice. I just really hope I can do justice to the whole ‘Doctor Who’ universe and especially to you guys.” – Gregory Austin
Written by: Patrick Ness
Produced by: Derek Ritchie
Executive Producers: Patrick Ness, Brian Minchin, Steven Moffat.
Directors: Ed Bazalgette, Philippa Lansdale, Wayne Yip, Julian Holmes (finale).“‘Class’ is dark and sexy and right now. I’ve always wondered if there could be a British ‘Buffy’ — it’s taken the brilliant Patrick Ness to figure out how to make it happen.” – Steven Moffat
Episodes
External imageThe series will consist of eight 45 minute episodes, commencing with The Prom this October.
“I want to show the world new stuff. I want to have new things that maybe we haven’t seen before. That’s my goal. That’s what I’m aiming for — shock you with something new. Something like the Weeping Angels, which I think are great, are brand new. Steven Moffat invented them a couple seasons ago. There’s not going to be any weeping angels on ‘Class,’ but I’m just saying that they’re something new to the ‘Doctor Who’ universe that are just awesome, and I would like to do that.” – Patrick Ness
External imageMerchandise
Three tie-in novels will be published on October 27,
- The Stone House by A.K. Benedict
- Joyride by Guy Adams
- What She Does Next Will Astound You by James Goss
External imageExternal imageExternal imageAlbert DePetrillo, Senior Editorial Director at BBC Books says:
“Patrick Ness is simply one of the finest writers working today – in any genre – and his new television series has all the hallmarks of his dazzling fiction. Class is a hugely exciting new brand for the BBC list, and we’re delighted to be working with Patrick and the production team at BBC Wales on these official tie-ins.”
Airdates
https://twitter.com/Patrick_Ness/status/649838025648771073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Class will air first on BBC3 before airing on BBC1, the series debuting this October. BBC America will also air the series, with no confirmation on a timeframe.
Everything We Know About New Doctor Who Spin-Off Class
Synopsis “What if your planet was massacred and you were the sole survivor? What if a legendary figure out of space and time found you a place to hide?
Relief As Doctors Now Have Permanent Cure for Sickle Cell Anaemia – The Herald
coffee-sweaters-tea-nursingmajor:
Y E S ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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YOOOOOOO!!!! THIS IS A MASSIVE FUCKING BREAKTHROUGH!!! BIG UPS TO SCIENCE YO!
GOOD LOOKING OUT CHEMIST!
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From the University of Illinois-Chicago press release:
In the new procedure, patients receive immunosuppressive drugs just before the transplant, along with a very low dose of total body irradiation — a treatment much less harsh and with fewer potentially serious side effects than chemotherapy.
Next, donor cells from a healthy and tissue-matched sibling are transfused into the patient. Stem cells from the donor produce healthy new blood cells in the patient, eventually in sufficient quantity to eliminate symptoms. In many cases, sickle cells can no longer be detected. Patients must continue to take immunosuppressant drugs for at least a year.
Julius and Desmond Means were cured of sickle cell disease at UI Health through a chemotherapy-free stem cell transplant in 2013. Their older brother, Clifford (center), was the donor.
In the reported trial, the researchers transplanted 13 patients, 17 to 40 years of age, with a stem cell preparation from the blood of a tissue-matched sibling. Healthy sibling donor-candidates and patients were tested for human leukocyte antigen, a set of markers found on cells in the body. Ten of these HLA markers must match between the donor and the recipient for the transplant to have the best chance of evading rejection.
In a further advance of the NIH procedure, physicians at UI Health successfully transplanted two patients with cells from siblings who matched for HLA but had a different blood type.
In all 13 patients, the transplanted cells successfully took up residence in the marrow and produced healthy red blood cells. One patient who failed to follow the post-transplant therapy regimen reverted to the original sickle cell condition.
None of the patients experienced graft-versus-host disease, a condition where immune cells originating from the donor attack the recipient’s body.
One year after transplantation, the 12 successfully transplanted patients had normal hemoglobin concentrations in their blood and better cardiopulmonary function. They reported less pain and improved health and vitality.
Four of the patients were able to stop post-transplantation immunotherapy without transplant rejection or other complications.
“Adults with sickle cell disease can be cured without chemotherapy – the main barrier that has stood in the way for them for so long,” Rondelli said. “Our data provide more support that this therapy is safe and effective and prevents patients from living shortened lives, condemned to pain and progressive complications.”
I decided to make a list of meta posts I’ve written so far. This is something I made for my navigation page you can visit here —>
Important meta:
The Institute, and what FEV has to do with synths
GHOUL PHYSIOLOGY (The Trilogy)
- 1. Can intelligent ghouls turn into feral ones? What are the possible causes? Is there something behind the sad Hancock headcanons?
- 2. Can ghouls live off of radiation alone? Some things to consider about Glowing Ones.
- 3. Do feral ghouls get flashes of memories? Do they remember who and what they used to be?
- The link between mental illness and ghouls going feral.
- Main post: How the oxygen level might be responsible for the size of Fallout’s insects + the future and past of South America: what destroyed the population and why a coalition with pre-war China seems reasonable
- Consequences, criticism, speculation on diseases
- Discussion
Birth control/sterility + some speculation on Duncan’s illness and the New Plague
For those of you who are ready to read through something about 25 000 words written by two fallout nerds, there’s also this:
Other meta posts (answers to questions, mostly):
1. Vegans and vegetarians in the wasteland?
3. The difference between the Institute and the Think Tank. Who is worse?
4. Where do the ghouls in the southern Mojave regions come from?
6. Boon and Carla’s relationship
7. Is there a reason why so many Fallout 4 characters have an accent?
Other discussions that got out of hand:
1. The dog debacle
- Can tiny dogs exist in Fallout’s world? (main post) (all posts)
- What is wrong with Fallout 4′s dogmeat?
2. Rivet city full of synths? And James – possibly a former Institute researcher?
Ark. Written by Ehud Lavski. Art by Yael Nathan. If you like it, please share.
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