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What's a silly thing you believed as a child? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 11 months ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/ask@piefed.social
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It wasn't that silly because it was actually a damn good analogy, but:

When I was 4? 6? IDR, my mum taught me that there were "little dragons" in our blood, chomping on everything not belonging to the body. It was her way to explain the immune system, based on a simplified version of how macrophages work.

I'm almost 40 and the picture of little dragons running in the blood still inhabits my mind.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

From now on I'm referring to my wife's malfunctioning immune cells as her Insane Blood Dragons

[–] tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

hold on i need to form a metal band rq

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Imagine Blood Dragons!

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago

God I wish that was true! I can see them now chomping away

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Killer T cells be like: 🐲