*watching Cells At Work*

*watching cells at work*

episode 4: *opens on red blood cell n white blood cell hanging out by the stomach for seemingly no reason in particular* 

me: =.= ….. 

me: are y’all on a date?

My grandma asked me to draw fanart of Teacher and Shiva from "The Girl from the Other Side" manga. She saw me watching the OVA movie and said "Aww what a cute little girl!" so we watched together and she loved it and wanted fanart, so here it is!

I really loved the manga and beautiful relationships between these two, but the ending honestly SUCKS DONKEY BALLS. It had the same feeling as the ending of Game of Thrones to me, it left me completely empty and I felt like I wasted time on this story for no reason. At least, the anime version had a better ending. And the animation was stunning!

Teacher and Shiva are still very dear characters to me and I still adore the relationship they had up until the last volume. I hope we get a full length anime series with them, just with a different ending lmao.

The art was made with pastels, charcoal and colored chalks on paper.

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Honestly, you might be onto something here. Myeloperoxidase is one of the first enzymes that to-be-neutrophils promyelocytes produce. It’s one of the components of azure granules, which are first granules that neutrophils get. Monocytes, and consequentially, macrophages also have this enzyme, but in far lower concentration than neutrophils. This could explain why macrophages are white, but not AS pale as neutrophils. Also, no other granulocyte has this enzyme which could be the reason why basophils , eosinophils and mast cells don’t have super pale complexion.

However, IRL, this enzyme is green. It has heme ion and it’s the reason why your snot is greenish in color during infections. So, maybe it’s not that. But it’s a cool theory!

I GOT IT. I KNOW WHY THE WHITE BLOOD CELLS ARE PASTY WHITE BOYS.

It was right in front of us all along.

They contain a chemical that’s also in bleach. Bleach makes things white…

They literally are bleached.

Heyyy, sorry for not being active like, at all this month. I was very sick and was also preparing for some final exams (and I was not as successful as I hoped to be).

Anyways, I drew this last night out of boredom and I love it a lot. 

No, I absolutely did not get the concept wrong. In fact, I know exactly what you mean: in Russia traditionally Slavic dragon is called “zmey,” whilst more traditionally western dragon is called “drakon”. and they are two distinct beings. However, Tugarin is 100% a zmey, because:

a. That how he’s called in every possible reiteration of the story including the poem from which the fairytale originated in which you can totally see that the princess simps for Tugarin:  https://lukoshko.net/story/alesha-popovich-i-tugarin-zmeevich.htm

b. He is never described as a “drakon”, he is described as a large, imposing man riding a black horse which spits fire. He is also associated with bad weather which makes him a zmey since zmeys are said to be able to control weather throughout the entire Slavic mythos.

And you completely missed the point of my post. I just wanted to call out the creators of the cartoon for racism. Because they COULD have made him fearsome AND not racist you know? I mean that was already done with Shan Yu from Mulan.

 And also what made you believe that fearsome =/= hot? Cuz, I have bad news for you, since there are lots of outright monstrously terrifying characters that people simp for because they are hot (Alucard from Hellsing Ultimate immediately comes to mind).

I am unhealthily obsessed with Slavic dragons in particular, since I’m making a webcomic in which the main character is a Slavic dragoness, so like... I do know what I’m talking about.

Racist Russian BS

So, for some reason I found out that my favorite Russian fairytale had an animated version. I’m talking about “Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin zmey” which is a story about how Russian princess had an affair with Mongolian dragon and then Alyosha killed the dragon because HoW dArE hE fUcK tHe PrInCeSs.. This is standard Slavic shit because in our mythology dragons have a human form which is irresistibly hot and they are also so amazing at sex that people who spent the night with a dragon lose interest in having sex with humans completely. 

Anyways, how do you think Russians depicted a Mongolian dragon who is supposed to be Adonis level of hot and superhuman sex machine in the unholy year of 2004?

Like this.

I honestly wish I was joking. For comparison, here’s an illustration of the fairytale from NINETEENTH CENTURY (1868 to be more precise):

Tugarin is the one on winged horse. So i’m asking: WTF Russia? If your art from 21st century is more racist than art from 19th century, you’re definitely doing something wrong. I would like to ask Russians on Tumblr if they have an answer, but I think the answer is Putin, am I right?

Anyways, I wanted to draw Tugarin in my own way, just to cleanse my mind from this racist BS and I ended up with this:

I think he’s hot enough. Also, I mixed Asian and Slavic dragon designs because he is in a Slavic story, but he also is Asian, so I kinda wanted his design to reflect this. Would you watch this fairytale as an anime with cool fights? I know I would lol. It’s much better than alll the racism that’s happening in the cartoon. Which is a shame, because the story is good and the characters are fine. The only problem that the cartoon has is racism (and some misogyny, but that’s normal for Russian cinema in general, so I didn’t touch on that).