promotional photo of a gingerbread man getting dunked in a mug; the mug is pale purple and says “hi hello I’m not a boy” in black
The Holidays Cyber Monday is coming! Get this and other pronoun designs here as mugs, posters, tote bags, shirts (adults and kids), stickers, etc. My other gay-as-hell art is here.
The image shows a section through one of the many thousands of chorionic villi in the placenta that are responsible for the exchange of gas and nutrients with the maternal blood.
The mostly white space are the maternal blood lakes which are normally filled with mom’s blood while the small vessels (like gingerbread’s eyes and mouth) within the villus are branches of the umbilical vessels that shuttle blood back and forth to and from the growing baby.
The very thin cells lining the villus (gingerbread’s skin) are syncytiotrophoblast cells which gas must diffuse across in order to move from mom to baby and vice versa.
Does anyone know the story of the gingerbreadman? I remember hearing it one time years ago but now when I tried to look it up there were a lot of different versions of it online and I couldn’t find what the real one was about. I remember it being about tea and a fox that gets it in the end, but I’m not sure about it.
![[505] ジンジャーブレッドマン | jinjābureddo man | gingerbread man](https://64.media.tumblr.com/104b5600b9f7e2f5ea130fb8bf089bc0/tumblr_p0z0i5ittK1v0vbxgo1_1280.png "[505] ジンジャーブレッドマン | jinjābureddo man | gingerbread man")
