#*depending on the breed

[coockie8]

watched Lilo and Stitch the other day and a piece of my soul died at the 2$ adoption fee. Getting an animal from the SPCA where I live costs like $500 now :/

[makiswirl]

in reference to my last reblog. what do you call this subgenre of 70s-80s manga protag

[m00neroni]

so, (says with a thousand wips and on-going fics.) currently thinking about how the narrative would change and how much it would fix the situation if sirius knocked remus up during lie low at lupin's.

clearly, remus wouldn't find out until they are already living in 12 GP (and I feel sirius would be fucking livid at the idea of his pregnant partner growing his child in that hellhouse, so would they stay 24/7 there? another question.) by then, order missions are back - e.g the stake-outs at the department of mysteries to guard the prophecy - so they would have to tell the order that remus is absolutely not participating (which remus would hate, very obviously.)

with remus and sirius together all the time (because, honestly, a pregnant werewolf can't really risk it to be seen in society, can he?), would sirius' depression and general mental state deteriorate as much or would he be more settled? more rational? maybe to the point of being able to care more about his wellbeing?

obviously sirius would (rightfully and thankfully) still want to protect harry and keep an eye on him as much as possible, but would he put his unborn child at the same level? uhm.

and then, the baby would be born before june, which meant that by the time the department of mysteries battle takes place there is also the matter of another little human being in sirius' radar to take care of? would it affect his actions? I don't think he would have stayed behind (remus either, lol), but would he taunt bellatrix to the same extent? or would he play his cards better and survive?

uhm.

[shannonsketches]

I'm sure it's been discussed at length already but I think it's easy to assume saiyans are strong so their genes are dominant but I (like to) think it's the opposite. It's interesting to think that the ecological nature of a saiyan is stealthy and invasive, and according to Jaco a saiyan invasion was going to be extra dangerous to earth because they look like earthlings (and a lot of other human-like races in the db universe) and one baby saiyan will easily go completely undetected until it starts the extermination process.

so it actually makes a lot of sense to me that a saiyan hybrid would take more physical traits from a local species, while maintaining the potential to house a saiyan's strength and inborn power over ki (which I think due to the story following a group of people who use it is a thing we often forgotten is a super rare and dangerous ability in that universe, and inborn/instinctive to a select few very powerful races). Could also be a fun way to explain why their tails can detach and grow back, since that may be the only real Tell.

because like yeah gohan and goten look like goku but they also look like chichi ykwim? trunks and bulla look like bulma. pan looks like videl. thoughts i chew on.

I also just find parasitism a real good meaty horror concept to put in my little 'this is why everyone's afraid of saiyans' headcanon file along with 'can see in the dark, biologically strategic energy consumption, can go long periods without food or rest' and of course the canonical 'surprise monkey werewolf kaiju'

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

an incan dragon!

[botanyshitposts]

Do your rules say what to do with a pea seed that first has its radicle emerge and grow downwards. And then um. Have another radicle emerge and grow upwards. (Idk if it was anatomically another radicle but it lacked cotyledons and chlorophyll.)

i hate to be a seed analyst on main but it could have been a secondary epicotyl? peas have a thing where if their terminal bud (area of the stem with the leaves) gets damaged, they can send up a second one, but in my experience it looks a bit wonky in comparison, like kind of stunted and stiff and not really as stem-like. according to the AOSA rules for peas (might be different depending on which rules youre going by), each seedling needs to have at least one strong epicotyl with good leaves to be considered normal, and a damaged primary with a good enough secondary epicotyl with those characteristics can pass as a normal seedling if they have leaves at the top and a nice root and looks...fine, but if its just a pale peg thing, it's not considered enough to make up for a missing stem. id call it abnormal (wont make it to adulthood or if it does, wont be a normal productive plant).

alternatively, if it genuinely was growing two roots, no epicotyl/damaged shoot would be my official reason for saying it's abnormal. unofficially i would say Damn Thats Crazy.

(also, a note on pea anatomy-- in the case of peas, the cotyledons are most of the seed itself that stays below the soil, and then the plant sends up a stem and just uses it as a food source. so the little guy DID have cotyledons, it just...was not putting out an actual stem + leaves. the no chlorophyll part doesnt surprise me, a lot of newly germinated seedlings take a minute to get their chlorophyll and look pale at first, then develop actual green coloration in their leaves and stems as they get to be around a few days old-- especially if theyre being grown in low/no light-- but if it stayed with no chlorophyll it would be albino, which is very possible and an abnormal condition in most rulebooks).

[sponsoredbyanxiety]

always found the allegations that Dune is sexist because the women have no power funny because it’s really that the women are extremely powerful in the most sexist way possible

[barksbog]

Is your boy a rough collie? He's so cute!

he's a smooth collie!

same breed but a different coat type

[pynkhues]

how to make that work both professionally and personally.

Can you talk more about this? I'm so curious because yeah, I don't think of how long-term a project is having an impact on what intimacy coordinators do, I'm just thinking of it scene by scene, but that makes sense. But I'd love to know more about what they said about what making it work both professionally and personally means.

And yes it feels like it would be surreal to really adore someone as a close friend and then also passionately make out with them before pretending to murder them and then going to dinner and hanging out. I can also see having that kind of physical intimacy on set creating more closeness more rapidly among people who maybe naturally like each other? Jacob and Sam seem to have such physical comfort with each other, with looking at each other and being in each other's personal space and touching, and HAVING to do all that on set must sometimes speed up that comfort level in real life

(x)

Yeah! She talked quite a bit about her job as being about helping the actors to build a physical language of intimacy between characters, and how with established or long-running relationships, that becomes about creating a foundation that you build off. What that means varies depending on the cast, really, because she says there's not a one-size-fits-all approach to that, and sometimes you dig really deeply, and other times it's more just about making the mechanics of a scene work.

This particular intimacy coordinator had a process where she'd meet with everyone one-on-one first (the relevant actors, director, writer), to work out what people were and weren't comfortable with, and what everyone wanted, and then they'd jump into a space together and workshop in ways that were both broad and specific. Yes, they'd workshop the scene, but she said they also sometimes do a lot of character work to understand how the character is going to respond to intimacy.

She'd been the coordinator on Love Me (a very good Australian show!) and the example she came back to a bit was with working with Hugo Weaving and Heather Mitchell and (hilariously) Emma Freeman as director (Australia is a small industry, haha). In that, Hugo's character had been caring for his very sick wife for many years who passes away right at the start of the series. He's worn down and he's grief struck, but he also hasn't been intimate with anyone in years and years, so when he finds this connection to Heather's character, he's not really sure how to navigate it.

In that, she said a lot of the intimacy coordination became about working out the history of his relationship with his wife, just how touchstarved he was, that vulnerability with having been in a caregiver role for so long that you're no longer sure how to be cared for, and what that means with physical intimacy from gentle touches to kisses to sex.

So she said that was a lot of going back to both Hugo's and Heather's characters' previous relationships and sexual history to build up this understanding of how they might be with each other. This was particularly important with them as Hugo and Heather have worked with each other a lot and are really close in real life, and it was very easy for them to slip out of character in a way that left them feeling pretty vulnerable and exposed as performers. In that sense too, she said that building up these characters histories with one another and apart also becomes about helping the actors to separate themselves from the characters and actually is a means to protect their privacy so that they can watch themselves back and see their characters having sex and not them having sex. She said it's a pretty hard line to manage sometimes, particularly when actors know each other, are friends, or have slept together before (the latter she said can be particularly hard for actors to break out from sometimes), but it's a really important one.

But yeah, she said sometimes it also is just about mechanics too, it really depends on how much intimacy there is in a show, what the creative team wants to do and also how experienced the actors are (interestingly, she said with less experienced actors, her role is usually a lot more about the actor's comfort and helping them work with other departments such as costume with things like cock socks and modesty patches, which more experienced actors are used to, than character work).

Interestingly, a lot of intimacy coordinators in my experience have a history in sex work too (two out of the three on that panel did) and this particular one had actually been a dom / dominatrix, so she talked a lot about how she uses stuff she learnt from scene preparation in supporting actors too.

I don't know if this answers your question, haha, but yeah! It's a pretty interesting space to work in, I think.

[inksandpensblog]

How I classify stickfigure types

Created: sticks that are made by a human creator (Victim, Chosen, Dark, Orange, presumably Ballista and the cave-painting merc).

Born: sticks that come into being through the combining of samples of the base code of two parent sticks, using methods that emulate biological reproduction [usually human*] (Purple, presumably Gold).

Cloned: sticks whose code is an exact copy of a preexisting stick…after it has already “come to life,” thus excluding sticks that are copies of the nonsentient template stick. [It should be noted that a sentient stick’s code can be copied from any point in their memory, meaning that clones of “previous versions” of the sentient stick are possible.]

Generated: sticks that are programmed into being** (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, presumably Hazard, maybe the glasses merc)

Footnotes under the cut

*: Some created sticks and generated sticks are capable of emulating biological reproductive processes, while others are not. All born sticks are capable of emulating human biological reproductive processes, barring some mutation or defect in their code.

**: this doesn’t just include human programmers; sticks generated by AI also fall into this category, as do sticks that are generated by videogame mechanics (if a stick living in/playing the game does whatever needs to happen for the game to give the player a baby), as do sticks that are made for stick parents who might not be able to/want to conceive children to birth.***

***: Generated sticks whose code is a copy of one parent, rather than a combination of code from multiple donors, are not considered “clones” since the age and memory of the donor don’t transfer; the generated stick is still a baby, rather than being an exact copy of the donor at the time that their code sample was taken (or from any other time in the donor’s life other than the moment their code first began to run). Generating a baby stick for a single parent who was not, themself, ever an infant obviously means that taking a sample from way back in the beginning of their existence isn’t all their is to it.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

some Temverse dragon morphology headcanons

[karizipan]

ermm scanned some stuff... some of the orv in my sketchbook + tidbits of my silly merfolk yjh au

[iftitah]

there was a buffalo that was about to die soon but we were not allowed to tell it to the owner

[the-chattering-tower]

I promise I WIll put the accent in the shop tomorrow but until then please look at Newest Baby, hatched and touched up today, grandkiddo of my beloved's progens, future wearer of my brand new wool accent ("fiber fun")

I'm love them

Their name is Cighaya after the cigája sheep breed. I'll figure out lore for them tomorrow when I feel awake again

[midnightmah07]

Azul fans sometimes scare me

[strawberrystepmom]

Mhmmmmm gojo vs iud…he fills you up each night in hopes of winning the war

sigh don’t say this too loudly he’ll come around and start prostelyzing about how it needs to come out again 😔