this kinda straddles the line between cursed and blessed Spoiler: large and kinda eyestrain-y A mouse hippocampus, stained with a fluorescent protein technique cutely called Brainbow. It is both lovely and useful but I can't help feeling that it looks a bit...eldritch
Definitely full of energy! Does the technique "stain" different types of cells/structures different colors, or is that just an artifact? ("Stain" in quotes because I understand it's not a dye staining technique but it's still an easy word to get across kinda what I mean.)
Not quite! Each cell has multiple copies of red, blue and green fluorescent proteins linked together, so that switching green on switches off blue and red, and so on. The switching is random and unlikely to be similar from cell to cell - one cell might be green-green-green-green, the next green-red-green-green, and the next green-red-blue-green, and so on. The coloration is therefore stochastic and arbitrary - it's mostly in use for mapping the paths of axons and dendrites in complex sections of nervous system - the big advantage is that you can take a look at the tissue living and in situ, instead of having to kill the cells like actual staining methods. I think in that picture only the neurons are switched on, so to speak, but no, the colors are just to tell cells apart! No information besides that
For me, it's cursed because: Extremely eerie energy So many paddles without glasses, can they see me or not? The intensity with which eyeless entities are regarding me Cactus is in a very nondescript place, I feel like it should not be where it is The looming feeling I get from them A visceral fear reaction when I saw the image for the first time
Spoiler: nsfw to be fair this is in fact a pocket pussy, so there is a "realistic vagina" on the underside. BUT YOU HAVE TO CLICK THROUGH TO KNOW THAT.
That managed to hit on my love of various water horses. Soggy up that horse and it's perfect. Cursed but perfect.
