The Q

Dusko (probably means black or dark I reckon) has his binky to conquer his bathingbfears. good for him.

What if Arthur and Merlin woke up in a forest next to each other not remembering who either them is. They don’t remember that one of them is a prince/king or that the other is a sorcerer/magic itself. They still have their skills and instincts and personas.

They warily decide to stick with each other until they figure out who they are and where they are.

They originally were hunting so Arthur doesn’t wear his flashy camelot suit of armour but has his hunting tools to get them some food. Merlin finds some herbs to season the meat.

Arthur struggles to get fire going so Merlin tells him to step aside. Then Merlin starts the fire with magic and Arthur flinches away from it.

Magnets: I want to commit diamagnetic

how did I never once think to use tape fuck

one time as a kid I forcefully shoved two magnets together, and these were the strong magnets my dad used in his shop to pick-up missing little metal bits, and I held them really tightly in the palm of my hand, went up to this one kid who legit said things like “I think black cats are bad, they should be drowned” and drew crosses on the notebooks of kids if she found out they didn’t go to church, I told her “Hey. I’m a witch. If you don’t stop trying to hurt animals and picking on kids, I’ll use my magic to throw you into the sky”, and when she dared to doubt my powers I told her that I had two “rocks” in my hand that I could send across the playground, then I opened my hand the the magnets shot off in two different directions (we were over in a spot that was empty, so no other kids were around, nobody got hurt), one of them stuck to a drainpipe and the other stuck to a fence. This kid SCREAMED, and ran to the office, and I guess had her mom pick her up from school, and then she wasn’t there for a couple of days, finally her mom called my house and claimed I had “traumatized her daughter by performing a terrifying magic trick”, and when my parents asked what I did I just said “I showed her a magnet and she flipped out. She’s not gonna be happy when she finds out about gravity, either”. eventually this kid came back to school and always made a point to come up to me and say “Hey, my mom told me not to talk to you!”, and would just be like “Good job, you already screwed that up”

Holy shit

Oh my god this is so fucking funny

ok!

doomed by the narrative but not to death. doomed to survive. doomed to stay alive inside the story. doomed to never escape the narrative, not even through death. you are allowed no exit. there is no way out for you and there never was. you couldn’t die if you wanted to. the narrative has a hold on you and it won’t let go. death is too sweet a doom for you. the story has something much worse in mind. there is no way out.

Call that a Brotagonist.

doomed by the narrative but not to death. doomed to survive. doomed to stay alive inside the story. doomed to never escape the narrative, not even through death. you are allowed no exit. there is no way out for you and there never was. you couldn’t die if you wanted to. the narrative has a hold on you and it won’t let go. death is too sweet a doom for you. the story has something much worse in mind. there is no way out.

a delicate elven prince has been thrown in irons and put to work in the dwarven mine

he has been accepted as one of their own and is currently enjoying boys’ night at Garulf Rockenstone’s Sports Bar and Grille

the dwarves have noticed his developing muscles and are now congratulating him and tussling his hair. good for him!

the dwarves have also begun to notice his freckled face and shoulders, the way his dirty blonde hair falls around his slender neck just so, his small perky breasts beneath his work tunic, complemented ever so elegantly by his slightly toned body… nay, it would be uncouth to say more

reminder that KK Slider is a good boy

archers gloves vs digital artist gloves being opposite of one another

Much like how archers and digital artists are mortal enemies

Behold, the digital artchery glove!

….but Wait…

…….!!!

FUCKA YOUUU!!!!!

Ok but wgat if we held hands…..

and we both had carpal tunnel syndrome 😳

not carpal tunnel syndrome 😫

thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived

life will persist against all odds

For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.

This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.

At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up:

It’s sad when a species is so rare we know them all individually but at the same time I love that you can point at this one bird and say oh that’s Ruapuke, his mom sat on him too hard

A blogger from China built a miniature cat house inside his wife's pet store.

The animals have their own elevator, mini-TV, forge, bedroom and even a full bathroom with running water.

The funniest part to me is the fact the cat's names are 不错 (not bad) and 挺好 (quite good) 💀

Jaskier's first summer with the Witchers at the beach.

Art claim: my contribution to @unleashed-fest

Summary: Draco runs a successful Instagram account for his pet peacock. Harry takes every opportunity to flirt.

Click for better quality or see Feathered and Fabulous on AO3!

Okay, as a nurse with an advanced cardiac life support certification for adults and a neonatal resuscitation certification, I feel like this is a question I can answer.

First, understand that the blood moved by cpr is much less than that moved by a normal heartbeat. Our goal with cpr is to maintain brain and critical organ perfusion until ROSC (return of spontaneous circulation) is achieved. The number of beats per minute recommended is based on what we know about about basically the maximum speed of cpr that can a) be achieved by an average person, b) be sustained by an average person, and c) (this is the most important) allow full chest recoil. Chest recoil is the chest getting back to full thickness after you release pressure on it. This is extremely important because that allows the heart to fill back up with blood so you can push it out with your next compression. Faster cpr doesn't move blood efficiently because there's not enough blood returning into the heart to push back out. We also compress in adults to a depth of 2-2.4 inches (5-6 cm) in an adult to ensure that we're emptying the heart sufficiently. This depth is smaller in children because they have a proportionately smaller chest cavity. The key is we want to compress to a depth around 1/3 the total depth of the chest.

Second thing to understand is that the movement of oxygen is via a gas gradient. Oxygen wants to move from where there's the most oxygen to the last oxygen until all fluids present have the exact same amount of oxygen. So we need to get oxygen into the blood. In one rescuer cpr this is achieved via compressions only because when you compress the chest you compress the lungs as well, which means that chest recoil also moves air into the lungs and this air allows for gas exchange which removes some CO2 and adds some oxygen. Chest recoil isn't as good at this as ventilation, which is why if there are two rescuers we prefer to have one ventilate and one compress (ideally you'll have more than 2 rescuers because best practice is to change compressors every 2 minutes). This will move more oxygen into the lungs.

Thirdly, we're trying to maintain a minimum blood pressure (we probably won't measure this during cpr until ROSC is achieved). In order to maintain brain, heart tissue, and kidney perfusion, we need enough blood pressure to move oxygenated red blood cells into the tissues and remove spent ones. Because we don't measure this, I can't remember the exact values, but I think in nursing school they said we needed a minimum of 80/40 to prevent kidney failure in sepsis, so I assume it's somewhere around there.

Fourth, every time you pause compressions to change compressors, a gap in compressions of more than roughly one second plummets that blood pressure we're trying to maintain down to zero. Your next 3 or so compressions won't move oxygen. They'll just be working to 'pump up' blood pressure to where we're properly moving oxygen again.

So now that we know what cpr does, let's talk Witcher physiology versus human physiology a little bit.

Now, in the shows, fan films, and games, witchers have roughly the same chest circumference as a human. This implies that the organs in the chest are roughly the same size as those of a human. So that means we should be keeping that compression depth of 2-2.4 inches or 1/3 the total chest depth to move blood.

We should also compare human pulse rate to Witcher, right? Well, a normal pulse rate for a human is 60-100 bpm. 1/4 that is 15-25. CPR is done at an ideal rate of around 120 bpm, meaning it's clinically tachycardic for a normal human. We also need to know that normal pulse range doesn't mean every human's resting pulse lays in that range. For very fit people, like say marathon runners and cross country skiers with excellent cardiovascular health, they often have a much lower resting pulse. I once looked after a marathon runner whose resting pulse rate was 30. What's the resting rate for a Witcher again? Up to 25? Pretty close, right?

We do not taper the rate of our cpr for marathon runners. A couch surfer like me with a resting pulse of 80 gets the same 120 bpm cpr as a marathon runner who is well oxygenated at 30 bpm.

Given this, I believe that the Witcher should receive standard human cpr.

But here's where it gets weird. Marathon runners and witchers live at a lower heartrate and (probably got witchers, definitely for marathon runners) blood pressure than your average human. Their body uses perfusion or efficiently. Which means that with good quality cpr, in marathon runners we sometimes achieve consciousness before ROSC. Which is great because it tells us we're achieving perfusion of the brain. We do not want to slow down just because they became conscious. We want that perfusion.

But most people who wake up disoriented with someone bouncing on their chest and cracking their ribs become combative. So fun fact, you're going to do cpr on your Witcher at normal human speed and then convince him to fucking stop fighting you until ROSC.

Now, we also use drugs and electricity to help restart the heart in ACLS and achieve ROSC. We probably don't have electricity, so let's consider drugs and run a 'chemical code'. Two big ones are atropine and adrenaline. If we want to be really nerdy, based on the ingredients and effects in the Witcher video games, Cat should have a decent amount of atropine. Maribor forest and Blizzard both generate adrenaline points so let's assume those are artificial adrenaline at least in part.

So depending on what you think caused your Witcher to go down, when he wakes up from your excellent human speed cpr, have him drink Blizzard, Maribor forest, or Cat and hopefully you'll achieve ROSC!

Tldr: it should be human speed.

I love it when my culture is mocked properly.

Dudes rock

I’m strangely confident in my ability to locate a cow in 2 hours or less. I’ve never tried but I could.

I know where i could find one but i'd have to ask someone to drive me