#/welcome to info dump

[imexperiencinggrowthgetoverit]

please lets start using /wtid (welcome to infodump) as a subtle, unintrusive way to encourage a safe space to happily communicate our special interests and hyperfixations

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[cupiditzy]

last doodle of 2024, and on new year’s eve at that… fitting for it to be a re-draw of a super old star-lord drawing (my husband and i watched gotg together recently and im back in my marvel era)

[diggitydoggo]

Belle x Rosanna

I call it LoveSong!

Dandy calls it a nightmare!

[zz-zz-zz-zz-zz]

speaking of raggedy ann. guys. whoever sees this and feels like it. i give u permission to reblog/comment and info dump about raggedy ann & andy etc and history and whatnot. please its soo kewl learning about these silly ragdolls

[no-name-blu]

I have a question about Wally eyes! I noticed that sometimes it changes color Is this done on purpose or is it an artistic choice to draw better?

A little bit of both actually.

He can change the colors black, red, blue, white, green. Sometimes I'm lazy to draw a good circle for the eye so I made the pupil black and the cross yellow

I gave myself two rules when it comes to his eyes tho :3

1. There should ALWAYS be the cross/window pupil on his eyes. It represents his connection to Home

2. In a high tension situation, the colors will only be red, black, and yellow (Something caught him off guard, he needs to use a lot of his strength, Literally when stressed out)

[tribbles-the-lesbian]

🌦️~Rainy Days~🌦️

🌈

Closer looks and some tidbits of info about these goobers~~

⭐️Houi loves the rain in every way!! If it’s thunderstorming, he can stay inside and hang out with his siblings and play board games with them or listen to Mitt reading a nice story. If it’s just some good ol’ rain, he’ll happily put on his gear to go splash in puddles to his heart’s content

⭐️‼️Houi is not a fan of getting wet‼️ He is much like his best friend Wally in that regard, though not for the sake of messing up his hair/fur; he just doesn’t like the feeling of wet clothes (ick!!)

⭐️Houi’s rain gear is and isn’t new!! Lemme explain, so This is actually Tibber’s “old” gear that he never wore (he’s oblivious to weather) so It was past down to Houi with the price stickers/tags still on (though they were yellowed and peeling)

⭐️Houi’s rainboots were inspired by some goofy duck boots I saw when trying to find the official WH rain stuff (like Wally’s poncho and boots and stuff??) and went down a quick rabbit hole of funky rainboots

⭐️Mitt likes rainy days as she gets an excuse to stay inside and read all day. She never goes out in the rain [willing]. E V E R.

⭐️Mitt hates getting wet, She feels gross when she is, like she’s sweating even when it’s not sweat (do puppets sweat??)

⭐️Mitt’s only rain gear are her signature red rainboots and watermelon umbrella (her favorite fruit is watermelon, so she has a good few things that are Watermelon themed hehe). She only has the bear necessities as, in her opinion, you shouldn't plan to be out in the rain for long

⭐️Houi and Tibbers have been known to occasionally drag their older sister out into the rain against her demands to not do so!... they Always regret it afterwards

⭐️Mitt's mug is from Howdy's Place! I imagine Howdy would have some brand-named mugs and whatnot, so maybe all the cupboards in the neighbor's houses have random Howdy's Place drinkware (??) 'tis a thought~

⭐️Tibbers is, as stated before, oblivious to the weather. It's almost like he doesn't understand the importance of "dressing for the weather", ya know? He doesn't know how weather works (??) exactly or how to take it into account before leaving the house

⭐️Example of his obliviousness: it's already been raining before he and Houi leave the house (Mitt is staying in due to the rain). Houi is putting on his rain gear while Tibbers just waits by the door, humming "Toyland", yet Is shocked when he gets drenched 3 seconds after leaving!

⭐️Tibbers doesn't mind getting wet, and Quite enjoys it! He loves stomping in all the muddy puddles on his own, making big splashes with each stomp. He'll always join Houi in splashing in puddles, making sure not to go too crazy so his little brother doesn't get wet

⭐️Tibbers has no rain gear (duh!), he gave it to Houi and refuses to buy more

[ionfusionpunk]

hello, what’s this about awake craniotomies and clone chip removal? (I don’t follow you, I just saw your note in the reblogs and went “oooo this seems interesting!”)

Heyo! Of all the things I've commented on a post, I think this is exactly the one I expected to hear about the least lolol. I'm warning you, this is... a long post. It got away from me, I'm so sorry T-T (It's heckin long. I'm really sorry. I'll summarize at the top and you can read more beneath the break if you want.)

Long story short, I hyper fixated on this tiny little detail that really doesn't actually affect anything within the SW universe lmao.

TL;DR: The clones should be awake for their chip removal procedures with the exception of extenuating circumstances. Also, disclaimer, I'm not in the medical field, I just love research. If I get anything wrong, anyone is free to correct me :)

If you have any questions, please ask, I'm not very good at explaining things in way others understand at first. So it all makes sense to me, but you might not follow my leaps in logic 😅

Longer story: I was reading a fic this morning, and the clones involved got their chip removed. The text said something about 'waiting for them to wake up from the surgery', and it just kinda... idk, hit me that I have never ever read any fic where the clone doesn't have to wake up from being completely sedated for brain surgery.

Now, look. Write what you wanna write, like I said, it's not a big thing. But one of my neurodivergent quirks is that inaccuracy/misinformation/ignorance (willful or innocent) kinda bugs me? I like knowing that other people know things - know correct things. It brings me satisfaction and helps me sleep at night. So I kinda notice trends in what people seem to not/know.

My first thought when I realized the trend of complete sedation for brain surgery/chip removal led to me to draw two conclusions: a) As happens in fandom, most everyone just writes clones completely sedated for this procedure bc everyone else does. No biggie. It's easier, and again, doesn't really matter. b) Most everyone is working off misinformation pulled from inaccurate medical dramas and the assumptions made by the average fic writer. Again, not an issue. It's fiction. I just like... accuracy. So my brain took this and went ham.

Kay. So, there's this really cool thing about the brain that I'm starting to think isn't common knowledge? I'm kinda a nerd for weird medical things, and it's been a long time since my high school biology class where I first learned about this, so maybe it's just me. The brain doesn't have any pain receptors. None. Like, if you had just a living brain in the palm of your hand and you stabbed it or punched it or whatever, it wouldn't feel pain. Pressure maybe, since it still has touch receptors, but no pain whatsoever. The only pain receptors present around the vicinity of the brain are the ones around the brain.

This little fact led to a really cool and helpful medical advancement several years ago: this thing called awake craniotomies, or brain surgery where the patient is still conscious. The benefit is that it allows the surgical team to engage the patient and actively monitor cognitive function; this is a far step from waiting for the patient to wake up in order to determine if the surgeon done effed up and turned the patient into a vegetable - if they woke up at all, that is.

Originally this was practiced on epileptic patients bc, yanno, epilepsy. It's a really finicky condition, after all. Since then however we've managed to find other treatment options for epilepsy and other related conditions, so awake craniotomies (or conscious craniotomies as I call them, since it alliterates lol), so we've moved away from brain surgery there. Instead, awake craniotomies are now most often performed when removing or recessing a brain tumor. Again, it's a really finicky process, and the surgeon and their team really like being able to check on the patient during the whole process.

Before anyone freaks out about the pain receptors around the brain, there's an answer for that, too. A local anesthetic is used to completely numb the skull and scalp. Think of an epidural; it's the same idea.

Now, you may ask, how this all relates back to SW? Well, that's a great question lmaoooo. Now, in all of canon SW, there are only... seven (maybe eight) instances of a clone getting their chip removed. Tup, Fives, Rex, Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, and Omega (and Crosshair if his chip actually was removed like he said, I haven't watched TBBS2 yet). Actually, did Kix? I don't remember. Anyway.

I'm operating off the assumption that SW medical knowledge/tech is about equal to our own - i.e. that they still use many of the same procedures/practices/techniques for most things bar canonical exceptions. My friend in the server however pointed out that they weren't sure any clone medic could perform a complex brain surgery. Now, that's a fair point. The Kaminoans wouldn't care to teach the medics how to perform those surgeries on each other; they're products, they can be replaced, so what's the point?

But. Here are my counterpoints to that.

First. In the event of an emergency, it would only make sense that a clone medic be prepared to perform any sort of necessary procedure on a natborn officer or even their Jedi general/commander in the event they could not make it to a medical station or a proper surgeon in time. If there were natborn medics trained in complicated procedures and stationed on the ships, then there's always the chance there would be far more clone medics than them, and thus if they die, the clone medics would need to be able to step up in their place. So. Clone medics can probably perform brain surgery.

Second. With Fives, Rex, and CF99 (minus Crosshair), they remove their chips via surgical droid/machine. In fact, both Rex and CF99 do so on a GAR class ship. This shows that not only did the clones have access to the necessary technology, but it could also be easily operated. And not only that, but the only thing they needed was a program to locate and remove the chip. I think the importance of the program is that the machine itself can't perform a Level 5 Atomic Scan, so the program is needed to triangulate the position of the chip for the surgical machine itself.

Now. As to why an awake craniotomy is the way to go. Again, it allows the team to actively monitor cognitive function. Only in extenuating circumstances will the patient be completely sedated. This could be preference on the patient's part or due to certain circumstances.

Look at Tup, for example. His chip was rotting in his skull, and it's treated like a tumor (technically it is). Keeping him awake risked damage to himself and others. In light of this, it was safer for him to remain fully sedated. Additionally, he probably couldn't be revived completely either due to the already existent brain damage. This is an extenuating circumstance. Note however that there was still a qualified individual present for the surgery: the AZI droid maybe Nale Se, maybe Fives, I legit don't remember I'm so sorry). Now, there is another side to Tup's case: the Kaminoans. Nale Se wouldn't have cared for Tup's continued functionality; she only wanted his chip. She would have kept him sedated out of convenience, because the intent was always to have him decommissioned anyway.

Now for Fives. Fives learned about the chips. He had his removed. Who helped him? AZI. However, my theory here is that it isn't actually AZI performing the surgeries. I think he just... holds the programs for various surgeries and programs the surgical machine. We don't see anything of Fives' actual chip removal procedure, only the aftermath. I hypothesize that Fives was awake in the machine however, just properly anesthetized by AZI - who, as a medical assistant droid, would most likely be programmed as an anesthesiologist - and also observed by AZI. What I'm saying is that AZI probably was monitoring Fives' cognitive functions while he underwent an awake craniotomy to remove the chip in his head.

Rex. We know nothing about that procedure, just that it happened (unless we do, idk). Either another clone medic helped him and was there to monitor cognitive function, or Rex involved the help of another droid in order to be properly anesthetized for the process. Given the intense nature of the circumstances, he wouldn't have wanted to be fully sedated for the process in case he had to respond quickly to the chaos - which he did, leading ultimately to him and Ahsoka escaping with their lives. So, he wouldn't have been monitored (except maybe by a droid), but he definitely wouldn't have been fully sedated, either.

Then for CF99. For these procedures, we see Tech program the machine and then stand watch as they go in. They aren't sedated, with the technical exception of Wrecker (iirc, he was stunned unconscious). It's not just caution or paranoia that makes him observe, and not even just his knowledge of what's happening: it's procedure. He's there, as the only one who would know how to check, monitoring the cognitive function of his family.

Now, the conclusion, lol.

I mentioned my two hypotheses earlier about why fandom as a whole writes the clones being completely sedated. After going through all of this, I'm leaning more towards a simple abundance of misinformation. It's technically and tactically safer and more correct for the clones to be awake for their chip removals, and in fact seems to be subtly portrayed in canon (though it's really written in a way that can be interpreted either way).

The moral of this story is that TV medical dramas are shit and should never be taken at face value. Honestly. No one wakes up after CPR. They remain unconscious for a while. Defibrillation doesn't wake a person up, either. If you're hit hard enough to be knocked unconscious, you have a concussion. It takes seven minutes to kill a person by choking them, not seven seconds, but you can make them pass out in seven seconds if you apply pressure to the write spots on their neck in order to cut blood flow to the brain. Stuff like that. Oh, and yeah: awake craniotomies are a thing and are the safe way to remove a clone's chip.

[secondary-colorentimy]

Love your art btw, what are your commission prices? Didn't find any sorry if I'm blind or something.

hiii tyyy! and i used to have my commission info pinned (definitely lost somewhere in my posts on here ORZ) , it is fully available here on my insta, but i can transfer the images here too ^w^

note for those who check out my insta post about commission prices: since i havent updated my commission prices in about 3 years ORZ, it says that i only take us paypal as payment, since then venmo has also been added as a form of payment. i take payment upfront as well. :p

my turn around time is typically a week after receiving payment, or more depending on the type of commission, again, please ask if you would like progress images of your work :] i don’t usually provide them so just lmk if you want that >0<

[aster-saturn]

Don't mind me just ranting about hyperfixations.

Okay, I don't like how alot of my hyperfixations have joined forces to bash my head in nowadays. Like since late 2022 to the start of 2023 I went from Sonic Prime to Generation loss to ROTTMNT, FNAF, Welcome Home, Amanda the adventurer, and so much more that I can remember and right now the exact same thing is happening.

It's like a hyperfixation overload. I'm in the middle of RC9GN while still hanging onto TMNT and checking in every now and then to Mortal Kombat (11 and 1) and finally topping it off with Sonic the hedgehog and Poppy Playtime again.

I can multi-task yeah, but my brain can only handle so much silly fun times and bright colour's with a dash of angst :(

[dxkjf]

Little joey sketch cause im currently finishing up the redesigns for her buddy and terry ❤️ my silly welcome home guys i love them so dearly

[dailymothanon]

Sitka… Alaska’s first capital, formerly known as Novo Arkhangelsk (or new archangel); also the biggest city in the U.S by area, four times the size of Rhode Island… I did try to implant tlingit physical features but I swear I’ll get better at it 😼 I also read the tlingit did trade before European contact as far south as Northern California, so I think that’s pretty cool; Also Alaska is home to 90% of the worlds sea otter population, I think that’s pretty cool as well (I imagine Sitka has hazel eyes) Sitka’s design is probably gonna change a few times idk yet but I’m content with this so far, I’d like to hear more ideas if y’all got some

I like to imagine that since Sitka has a tree named after them Sitka can stand perfectly still for hours on end. Also I read in Sitka it rains 2/3 days throughout the average year that’s why I drew that 🤷

some random other things, I imagine it’s terribly tough to tell what Sitka is thinking almost all the time, again cuz of Sitka spruce trees, although there’s a handful of things named after Sitka I like the idea of her being the equivalent of a plant/tree, and you don’t know what a plant is thinking even if they don’t; cuz it’s generally a thing in Alaskan culture to be able to talk without talking— not sign language, but simple gestures, I’ve read about it and it varies per Alaska region but not having to be vocal seems to be a common thing, and also cuz it’s a widespread belief in all alaska native cultures that everything and everyone has a spirit/soul so they are taught to treat everything with respect

I also like to think Sitka is like an older sibling to Alaska, not literally, just like

[chimerickat]

Currently soliciting thoughts for the kind of deck the reader should have in You Can’t Go Back…

[greensapphic]

*jingling keys* hey-

you behind the other guy

Yeah hey

Ahem

what the hell is the Mauraders fandom and how do I understand the lore when there’s .0003% canon available

[diggitydoggo]

Any more VRCHAT moments that occurred recently?? :0

Wally and Dandy playing Uno together:

Wally can totally beat either of the twins in a fight if he's mad enough. Otherwise he's getting punted like a football.

Daisy and Eddie moment:

I love the smell of angst.

[idkwhydoah]

Just realized my favorite trope in media!

Kinda sad that I'm only realizing this now, its been evident for years. LOL. I love psychological web horror disguised as kids media. Like I love Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, 3na, Welcome Home, and The Amazing Digital Circus, but when I was younger I loved Baldi's Basics (My first ever cosplay was Baldi XP), and Bendy and the Ink Machine. I loved creepypastas like Ben Drowned and Sonic.exe, really anything that would take the obvious route of media and turn it on it's head. I guess I've always liked this stuff.