sherlspipinghotcupoffreedom:

makio-kuta:

I wasn’t going to draw anyone else. But then Taisa asked really politely for Sufferer. Even then I wasn’t going to do it, but then I was staring and

Couldn’t help but think that looked like a high collar. So she gets her wish.

I really want them all to have cancer symbol necklaces and wear them like friendship necklaces. Because that really perverses the whole scratched Sufferer being bonded in shackles like that. Because he led his whole life bonded by the shackles of a friendship that wasn’t really his. And I like to make up symbolism. 

andy-shunsho:

ankh-the-odd:

theamericankid:

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!

MAN IRON

LORD

vanillastarx3:

intellectualthicket:

In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.

The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat.

The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy. 

General sadness that rats can do this but a lot of people I know can’t.

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