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A nerd with dreams of a chemical engineering degree, shitposts of a concerning amount of fandoms, and reams of ink-stained paper

INTRO POST!

| they/them | INTP | Vietnamese | Australian | ADHD |

Hi, I'm Koi!

I like to read read and write and make art! I'm enby and multifandom, and I with a special interest in science, specifically speculative biology and genetic engineering!

I will block anyone who is hateful or discriminative, especially towards my moots.

Right now, if anyone wants, I am free to beta read fics or original writing!

Pronouns (in order of preference): They/she/it

My Fandoms! (There’s a lot.)

My Writing! (Epimetheus) (Part 1) ( I love Epimetheus so much like please ask about my blorbos)

My labels and other info under the cut!

dude.

i knew a surgeon and he once told me “nobodys insides look like how the textbooks say they will. you never know what you’re going to find in there once you open them up” and that was easily the most ominous thing anyone’s ever said to me

when i was taking my first year anatomy lab, we’d occasionally find a cadaver where things would branch off or attach in the wrong order, and when we’d ask our prof about it, he’d just shrug and say “they must not have read the book”

When my friend was in med school one of the cadavers donated for them to autopsy didn't have a belly button, just smooth skin.

In the past 10 years of teaching in an anatomy lab, I have seen:

- A donor with a scrotum the size of my head. When we opened it up, we discovered it was a MASSIVE inguinal hernia and a good 1.5 ft of intestine were trapped down there.

- A donor with situs inversus totalis, whose organs were a mirror image of what we normally see (ie their heart pointed right and their liver was on the left, just for starters)

- A donor whose right common carotid artery branched off the aorta waaay over on the left hand side of the body and crossed alllll the way back across the thorax to get where it needed to be.

- A donor with 4 lobes for their right lung (should only be 3). We named the 4th lobe the Lisa Loeb, but all of the students were too young to appreciate our sparkling wit.

- A shocking variety of penile and breast implants. Y'all would not believe the number of different ways science has come up to counteract gravity.

- A couple of cases of ectopic kidneys, where a kidney didn't rise to its typical position just deep to the lowest ribs and instead stayed in the pelvis.

There is probably some other stuff that I am forgetting. Take home point is: the human body is weird and wonderful and you should learn more about yours!

....duuude.

Spleens Georg

14???????

My contribution: client co pinched nerve in L side of neck. I asked about health hx; she said, “I've got some extra ribs on that side.”

me: “some?” (!!!!!??!?!??!???)

Some was 2, but that’s crazy enough.

Yeah, I don't discover the anatomical weirdness but I've had clients come in with extra ribs, missing ribs, extra vertebra, accessory muscles (that's when you have duplicates - sometimes fine, sometimes not), bones connected where they shouldn't be (spoiler: if your lumbar spine is connected to your hip, it Causes Problems), all sorts of stuff. Bodies are weird!

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This made me remember that I had a friend in high school who had one thumb that was like half an inch shorter than the other. Not sure how that happened.

even the things you never think about are a spectrum

why did i read these in BRITISH 😭

(uwu a great find)

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….gl-n-h-hd.

thats literally it..

doing this with my username

ha-n-d

yeah

Um

Ddcvlgc-ffcal

Dang that is straight nonsense

Chll-lsban2013

anasalan-ffcal

shit it’s just “mc42”

ball-f-nscs

NSYNC?

ok now is NOT the time but I was watching Oh My God is This a Joke and the way the rifle that looks normal when Luke holds it looks tiny compared to Tom because of his height and those fucking hands /pos (so pos) has me frothing at the mouth

Oh, this size difference? 😇

I never noticed

sir- SIR- DO NOT DO THIS TO ME

But
I have more

*dies of rabies*

you know that post about nice hands? you don't? I don't care. Tom's got NICE FUCKING HANDS OKAY

I’m really fond of this one hehe :) it was posted on my Patreon @/magpiecrown a month ago, so if you wish to see these comics ahead of time feel free to check it out!

original gorgeous text written by @wizardlyghost can be found here, inspired by the conversation between @radishnt, @mothman-misato, @boimgfrog, @catsnraincoats, @pidoop, and @silverjirachi

the kettle talk!

ok now is NOT the time but I was watching Oh My God is This a Joke and the way the rifle that looks normal when Luke holds it looks tiny compared to Tom because of his height and those fucking hands /pos (so pos) has me frothing at the mouth

Oh, this size difference? 😇

I never noticed

sir- SIR- DO NOT DO THIS TO ME

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