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Painting Over NES - Double Dragon II: The Revenge

Created by Andrés Moncayo

Anonymous asked:

Hey, Aunt Scripty, thank you so much for running this blog! I would like to know if doctors have some way to wake someone up from a sedation (ketamine) or if you always have to wait for the medicine to wear off. thanks so much!! hope you have a nice day, my beautiful person~! xx

scriptmedic answered:

Hey there nonny! 

So first of all, there’s no “antidote” for most forms of sedation, including ketamine. The medications are simply allowed to wear off on their own, as the kidney and/or liver break down the sedative in the bloodstream and the effects begin to wear off. 

There are two exceptions to this. Benzodiazepines can be, but are almost never, reversed with flumazenil, and opiates (which aren’t sedatives, no matter what certain misinformed doctors think) can be reversed with naloxone. 

I can think of two other drugs that are reversed simply by stopping the infusion of them. Propofol is a very common surgical anesthetic, and is literally unconsciousness in a bottle; when the infusion stops, the character wakes up (unless it’s given with other sedatives), and Precedex (dexmedetomidine to its friends) works in a similar way. Precedex is a neat drug: you can put someone under, then shake them to wake them up, have them answer, and let them go right back under. It’s expensive, so it’s less common. 

Neither of these drugs can be given by injection into the muscles. 

The reason benzos are almost never reversed, by the way, is that benzos are the number one medication family used in treatment of seizures. So if your character is given flumazenil and then has a seizure, for whatever cause, the first-line drug will be completely ineffective. Unless the medication was given in significant overdose, it’s safer to just let it wear off. 

I hope this answer helps your story!! 

xoxo, Aunt Scripty

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An illustration of two “quasi-birds”, dinosaur-like things that might have evolved if the age of reptiles was rewound and re-played.

Foreground: A climbing flagger creature that uses its legs, long beak and prehensile tail to climb trees. Its forelegs are completely useless in movement, and work as a set of semaphoric signals to members of its flock on nearby branches.

Background: A sort of eared grouse, a cat-sized digger and generalist browser. Members of this lineage have evolved fleshy, mobile face muscles and external ears that independently recall those of mammals. But there are no mammals on this world, not as we know them.

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[speculative-evolution]

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Triadobatrachus (’triple frog’) represents the first known member of the frog lineage.

Triadobatrachus lives much like our time’s modern amphibians, and could even hop like a frog. However, the distinctive fused ring of bones formed from a frog’s collarbone, sternum and ribcage that grants a frog the ability to land would come much later, making every escape attempt a clumsy crash landing.

Triadobatrachus, like most amphibians, cannot endure the presence of saltwater, and needs fresh water in order to properly respirate.

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Crow gets no respect

In years later, especially as the women’s movement took hold in the seventies, people began to ask me about my costume. Some thought it “demeaning” for a woman in the command crew to be dressed so sexily. It always surprised me because I never saw it that way. After all, the show was created in the age of the mini-skirt, and the crew women’s uniforms were very comfortable. Contrary to what many may think today, no one really saw it as demeaning back then. In fact, the miniskirt was a symbol of sexual liberation. More to the point, though, in the twenty-third century, you are respected for your abilities regardless of what you do or do not wear. I’ll tell you one thing: I would not have worn those silly high water bell-bottoms with the ruffle at the calf the guys had to wear for anything. Several times I offered Bill Theiss (Costume Designer) some unsolicited advice: “Why can’t you just cut those goddamn things longer and preshrink them?”

Nichelle Nichols on Her Costume, “Beyond Uhura”, Page 164 (via elizabuns)

cutaneousmarginalpouch asked:

Omilord I love aaaallll your merch! I have to ask, where'd you get it? Especially the Garak shirt, he's my fav. :D

I backed the DS9 documentary on kickstarter! For many reasons, but mostly for our mutual fave. <3

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2017 Summer TCA Portrait [x]

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do you ever just get mad about how well sid aged

ensignschlo asked:

I was doing some more in depth research into Cardassians and wondered if you had ever heard any ideas, or come up with your own, about why some females have the "spoon" on their chests while others don't (specifically thinking of "Profit and Loss"). I was thinking that it may have something to do with maturity since Natima was most likely older than Rekelen. But then it could also just be a physical variable?

tinsnip answered:

TBQH, I handwave it, as I know it’s make-up. That said, I’m sure somebody’s got a better explanation. 

Folks?

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What if it was an indication of being ‘in season’. Females seem to have a blue highlight on their head-spoons, so whether it’s makeup or natural, it could be a sexual advertisement like flushed lips/lipstick.

Alternatively, but in the same ‘sexual signal’ vein, it could be a scent gland or a vestigal scent gland? Either way, the blue pigmenting of it seems meant to draw attention, and in nature that’s either to redirect from a vulnerable area–which the spoons don’t seem to, being on vulnerable spots–or as a sexual display. So as a naturalist I’m pretty convinced it’s a sexual display that had some kind of fertility meaning way back in The Wild, but has since developed into a beauty standard.