If your partner exhibits signs of bioluminescence for more than 4 hours, please seek medical attention.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
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Bro the sun is shining out of my ass
Yeah, but has it been 4 hours?
I had to have my sun surgically removed. It was gangrenous.
I've been bioluminescent in the IR spectrum for over 3 decades. Fortunately my physician referred me to a physicist about it
Good thing mine just becomes like that for 3 hours and 59 minutes
This happens if you’re attracted to someone in almost any way but especially sexually.
So random baddies on the street brighten my world too.
Shout out to all the random street baddies.
Fuck. I was about to go to sleep and you're going to give me nightmares.
Also, humans are very slightly bioluminescent.
Wait, what?
Sure, anything that's warmer than absolute zero radiates on the electromagnetic spectrum. The hotter something is the stonger the radiation. Since most living things heat up (some through actual self-heating, others through movement and other processes), pretty much every living thing counts as bioluminescent.
Since humans have roughly 37°C core temperature, they mostly glow on the infrared spectrum.
You're a fleshy glow stick.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006256 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1978506/
You're not so bad yourself!
Holy crap! That's awesome!!
We also have stripes.
I never knew this was a normal thing! I always thought my skin was messed up lol
Awww, thanks for the uplifting post!
Mr. President, when I said make the world brighter, I DIDN'T MEAN THIS
stares into the ☢️ mushroom cloud 🌇
Until that love ends.
And then the world is permanently gray.
In case that's about yourself: It'll get better, all it needs is time. Scar tissue is the most normal thing. You've got that 🤜🤛
It generally takes about half the time you were in a relationship with someone to fully get over them after the relationship ends.
So don't end a 60 year relationship ever.
That sounds very much made up tho
People also glow, so yes, quite literally.
Perception is 9/10ths of the law.