#Joules Backstory

[pioneer-10]

My main idw transformers oc, Quark.

This character has such a massive fucking backstory I haven't been able to write it all out, but the basics of it is that Quark is an outlier [who can occasionally see potential futures] worked for Shockwave before he was kidnapped and mutilated by Proteus, and they shared his fate in empurata when they tried to rescue their mentor from him. They were left to die in the streets, before they met another bot named Joules that helped get them back on their feet and into medical school. They were still training when the war broke out, forced into the position of a doctor before they were ready by necessity, and after a debilitating vision led to the death of a patient Quark ditched the Autobots and ran. They were eventually picked up by Starscream, who brought them to Megatron - he offered them a place working under Shockwave again, and Quark, not yet knowing of the Shadowplay that had permanently altered his mind, agreed. This led to them working for the Decepticons for several centuries, helping Shockwave design weapons, until they ran into Joules again by accident - they told her everything, and she agreed to help them escape, at which point they signed onto the Wreckers, believing themself unworthy of forgiveness, survival, or a shot at being a doctor again. To their own surprise though, they did survive the war, and afterwards signed onto the Lost Light to get away from Cybertron and the bad memories associated with it.

[inactive-veins]

Starlight Express au that is probably super dumb but:

I’ve been rotating a super dumb au idea in my head for a while, but it’s sorta like if Netflix adapted Starlight. (Also there’s little bits of Alita: Battle Angel and possibly a little tiny bit of Hunger Games thrown in there too)

So in this new made-up world, it kinda has the same atmosphere as the world from the olc show (think, right place right time). Most of the characters are super down on their luck. Rusty is a loner who’s lost hope in his dreams, Electra is a failing popstar with a terrible record deal, Pearl is in debt for reasons I haven’t come up with, etc etc. So they all decided to put their names in the pool to get picked for The Races.

The Races are basically roller skating or blading races, where playing dirty is absolutely allowed. All of it is televised. The races are set up and narrated like a sports game, and there’s also “behind the scenes” which is treated like a reality tv show where they cover the drama and relationships that happen, well, behind the scenes.

So all of the cast were all of the people chosen, majority of them not using real names on the show. Every year when this event happens, the training/reality TV spans for half a year, from January to the end of June, and then the races happen. (This is kinda similar to the schedule that the actual Starlight Express cast has, at least in Bochum I think.)

Every time this happens, mostly industrial sponsors jump at this opportunity. There’s often a theme, main sponsors, and then sponsors who sponsor one member of the cast. For example, the main theme would be locomotives this year, and Joule would be sponsored by an electric company as the main sponsor, and the sponsor that specifically chose her would be a dynamite company.

The reason why industrial and tech sponsors jump at this opportunity is because the cast all get cybernetics to keep up with the strain that this absolute bloodsport puts on their bodies+it works with the train theme. Also everyone who is on the show lives together in this huge complex so that there’s ✨drama✨. So getting used to all of this + living with some actually insufferable people, at least on camera (cough, Electra, Greaseball, and possibly Pearl, cough cough)

Basically that’s why all of these people had to be super desperate to actually put their names in for this. The rewards are super high, but the risk and toll are also both high, and many people have a high return rate, especially if they don’t win. Because where else would you use your new cybernetics? (This is meant to explain characters like Poppa or Mississippi Belle)

So a third of the show would be backstory/what the cameras don’t see, a third of it would be the reality tv parts of it, and a third of it would be the races.

(I hope I explained this well + I hope it doesn’t sound overly stupid)

(Also the cast for this would likely be: Rusty, (Non-revival) Greaseball, Ashely, Buffy, (Pre-2018) Dinah, (Pre-2018) Pearl, The Rockies, Dustin, (OLC) Flat-Top, (Broadway) Red Caboose, (Pre-2018) Electra, Krupp, Wrench, Purse, Joule, Volta, Momma, and Mississippi Belle (specifically OLC).

[rusty-gloinks]

I finally got to work on a height sheet for the rilans!! Not like anything’s been stopping me I just really haven’t found the time and patience to do so.

Right now I’m working on a story (to make a fan comic POSSIBLY) and names, The only one I have named is Zade (peach haired gal).

So I’m looking for names for the other 3. The lady in blue is the wife of the man with brown eyes, they had a kid which he looks like the mom and dad. Zade is NOT supposed to look like the mom or dad because she is adopted. She pretty much has the same backstory of doll and uzi, parents death by murder drones and such.

if anyone has name suggestions please do not hesitate! I will think about them over time!! :D

Name recommendations so far (to keep track of!)

Mom

Joule

Dad

Watt

Son

Button

Mouse

[sariels-world-ella]

Since It's Mermay, I guess I could draw my AU's Shyren, then I also decided to draw Napstabot as well, I don't draw these two from my AU enough, which is a shame because they are total goobers so here's some poster style thing of them, and I tried to make signatures for them

AU - Sw!Fallenswap .

Undertale by Toby Fox

Here's some info on both of them below the cut:

Napstabot

Birth name Name: Napstablook (sometimes spelled Napsta A'blook)

Alias: Blooky, Dapperbot, Napsta

Biological Sex: None

Gender: Masculine

Pronouns: He/they

Age: late 30s

Mass: 152.119 pounds / 69 kilograms (according to my calculations)

Weight (W = mg): 676.2 N

(according to my calculations)

Height: 6ft 2in

Density: ~1.477 g/cm3

(unknown what materials he is made out of)

Volume: 1.76 - 1.95 cubic feet

(according to my calculations)

Force exerted while running: 474.4 N

(according to my calculations)

Running Acceleration: 6.9

(according to my calculations)

Running speed: Estimated 15.38 MPH

(according to my calculations)

● Rocket boots calculations

(yes I did actual math equations for these)

- Mass of his feet: 2.9325kg

- Feet total volume: 39.702 cubic inches (19.851 cubic inches in each foot)

- Density: 4.51 g/cm3

(which means Napstabot's feet are made of titanium)

- Mass flow rate: 141.748 kg/s

- Estimated Work: 1087913.84 joules

- Estimated power: 302.2 Watts

- Rocket boots thrusters combined area: 5.8 square inches (2.8in for each foot)

- Single back foot thruster area: 2.0106192983 square inches, Diameter of .994 inches

- Single front foot thruster surface area: 0.776001659771 square inches with a diameter of .8

- Velocity: calculated velocities came out to a wide range of numbers from equation to equation, from 177 M/s (V = F/m*√(2d/a), 4.774 m/s (mass flow rate * velocity = m*a), 1.073 m/s (m.f.r *v = thrust) 6636.7 m/s (V = F/m*3600), and 204347.64 m/s (v = p(m*g))

- Horsepower: estimated 3991.75 hp

- Acceleration: 230.759

Romantic preference: unknown, at the very least feminine monsters judging by the fact he is with Shyren.

Status: Undead

Birth year: early 1970s

Species: Monster

Type: Undead

- Variant: Modern

- Category: incorporeal

Race: Ghost (possessing a robot)

Relationship status: Dating

Occupation: Musician, DJ, Singer and songwriter

Romantic Relationships: Shyren (long time girlfriend)

Known Family: Happstablook (cousin) Maddie (cousin) unnamed abusive parents, Sans (“legal” guardian, though Sans was not legally responsible for Napstabot, Sans did fill in the role of legal guardian when Napstabot’s parents were inadequate, and Napstabot does occasionally call him "dad")

Strongest Attacks:

heat seeking explosive projectiles: extend your arm and launch your miniature missile projectiles towards your target

SoundSlice: - eject out your DJ board and send out orange or blue magic attacks out of them.

Shyren:

Full Name: Shyren

Biological Sex: None

Gender: like all sirens, she presents herself as female and is referred to femininely

Pronouns: she/her (like all sirens)

Age: most likely close or the same to Napstabot’s age

Romantic preference: unknown

Status: Alive

Birth year: Unknown, presumably near Napstabot's

Species: Monster

Type: Mythical

Race: Siren

Relationship status: Dating

Occupation: Singer

Romantic relationships: Napstabot

Known Family: Lemon bread (Sister)

Strongest Attack: Unknown

Strongest heal: healing melody - sing a song that heals everyone in the party.

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Shyren and Napstabot's Backstory:

We know very little about Shyren's background, we do know she was born in Waterfall, she met Napstabot in high school which is located in Waterfall, she was a literature minor in Snowdin college of The Fine Arts, where she got a bachelor’s degree in Music. After finishing college, Shyren went to, and graduated from, University in a Hotland Theater School, We also know Shyren had a past career in theater and opera singing before joining Napstabot.

As a child, Napstabot, then Napstablook, and Undyne knew each other as children, along with Alphys (which Undyne had a crush on since childhood).

Napstablook’s home life was notoriously bad; he did spend most of his childhood not sleeping in his own house but either in Undyne’s backyard or The Gaster Brothers’ sofa, and Sans Gaster did fulfill the role as guardian in many school activities for him as Napstablook’s actual parents as they were, to quote Sans: “probably OD-ing in a ditch somewhere because they can’t bother to put down the alcohol and be an actual parent for once so a random skeleton doesn’t have to pick up their slack, but of course they aren’t here and I am picking up the slack, so either we get on with this or we wait for eternity for some sorry excuse for parents that won’t be showing up”

Napstablook from a young age took an intense interest in music, and did wish to pursue it as he got older, though he didn't major in music as he went to college, but he did major in songwriting and has a degree in fine literature.

Undyne after graduating worked on a project to try to get the open position of head royal scientist, so she did her best using her robotics and engineering skills to try to make a robot powered by the consciousness of a soul, so she decided to get Napstablook to possess this prototype of an idea to see if the concept will work, she presented the idea and the robotic body Napstablook possessed to show it off to Toriel, Toriel who was impressed by the technical ingenuity and curious to see how this project will go if taken further, gave Undyne the spot. Napstablook was allowed to keep the body which helped him greatly with his music career.

Napstabot’s bad homelife did play a role in his high functioning depression, but he seems to be able to manage it with his support systems he does have, and he led a very successful life before the civil war, becoming a well known musician and songwriter and began dating his vocalist Shyren (who he originally met in highschool) sometime in the height his career. He maintains a very good relationship with Undyne and Alphys from childhood but he did grow distant from his cousin Happstablook.

By the time Chara falls down and reaches Hotland, Undyne is very dead set on trying to capture Chara and bring her soul to Toriel to prove she is still worthy of her position after her major failure regarding the uploading consciousness experiment going severely wrong, Napstabot on the other hand, very much disagreed with this notion believing Undyne didn’t need to prove her worth to anyone and Chara deserves a fair chance on getting home, which leads to Napstabot helping Chara get away from Undyne and other threats until they reach the end of the core.

Throughout that part plays similarly as it did with Alphys and Mettaton in Undertale, but Napstabot doesn’t try to kill nor harm Chara in any way unlike Mettaton did, Undyne is the one hostile since the beginning, interrupting Undyne from trying to kill Chara when they first meet and trying to do shows with Chara in hopes to disway Undyne from attacking and making Chara feel less scared by trying to get Chara to have fun which Undyne ends up turning it dangerous.

You do not fight Napstabot at the end of core, instead you fight Undyne, Napstabot does aid you in your battle against Undyne and it ends with Undyne storming off stage. When she leaves, he escorts Chara to the exit, this is where Napstabot parts with Chara wishing them luck and apologizing that they can’t come with because he needs to make sure “Undyne doesn't go off and electrocute herself.”

After Chara kills Toriel and absorbs her soul, the underground went into panic, but everything was still okay with Undyne and Napstabot, until Alphys got controlled by Frisk and tried to overthrow the government and establish herself as ruler with a ragtag team of prisoners and cultists. Napstabot was forced shut down and captured, but he was able to override it a few hours later and escape custody. For the next 11 years he put together a rebellion in Hotland which worked very closely with the Snowdin resistance (lead by Sans and Papyrus) in Snowdin, and helps civilians escape to Waterfall, which is a neutral territory during the civil war, and maybe find refuge in the more populated and urbanized (on the border of suburbanized) Snowdin instead of the rural Waterfall.

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Napstabot Trivia:

Toriel knows Napstabot is just a ghost possessing a robot, which means Undyne got the job on the basis of her advanced engineering skills not her knowledge of souls, which means unlike UT!Alphys, Fallen!Undyne never lied to Toriel (though she didn't tell Toriel the outcome of thr experiment outside of "failure")

Napstabot did read Undyne's diary on the air to distract her during the trivia game because she kept butting in trying to attack Chara.

It’s unlikely that Napstabot knows about the failed experiment Undyne had with uploading fallen monsters’ consciousnesses to a computer and accidently corrupting their files and their uploading consciousnesses amalgamating together. Despite how much Napstabot cares about Undyne, his moral compass is stronger as he would definitely expose her even if it meant Undyne would most likely receive a death penalty for her actions or at least a life sentence for the unethical and unauthorized experiments, gross negligence, obstruction of justice, falsifying evidence, death certificate forgery and mass mutilation, with either 50 accounts of murder or 50 accounts of involuntary manslaughter. 

Napstabot goes by Dapperbot when they are wearing a suit or other formal attire.

Sans is the only character who continues to call Napstabot “Napstablook” 

Out of his friend group (Alphys, Shyren and Undyne) and his family (Hapstablook and Maddie) we know the most about his childhood and his personal life

Napstabot didn’t have the best upbringing and admits that he spent more time sleeping on the Gaster brothers’ sofa than his own bed as a kid.

Napstabot frequently calls the Gaster Brothers before and after his concerts or events, and likes keeping them updated.

The Gaster Brothers do have some childhood photos of Napstabot hanging in their house.

Napstabot likes boxing and is very skilled using Muay Thai and Muay Boran fighting styles.

Napstabot’s favorite acoustic instrument is a guitar

Napstabot’s favorite music genres are dubstep, pop and funk though he does have a soft spot for classical music

Napstabot has high functioning depression, but doesn’t like talking about and pretends he is okay, which Shyren dislikes

Napstabot protects Chara from Undyne during their time underground and tries to make it fun for them so Chara won’t be scared, and if Chara killed Undyne, Napstabot will be sad but still forgive them as Chara is just a child and it was self-defense, which shows he has a lot of empathy.

Though Undyne and Napstabot are seen to be at odds with each other when Chara falls down, they actually get along quite well normally, Napstabot just valued Chara’s life, safety and well-being more.

Napstabot won’t fight you unless you are doing a genocide route, otherwise he acts as an ally until you reach the end of core and also helps Chara fight off Undyne.

It’s unknown how long exactly Napstabot and Shyren dated, but we do know he met her when he was 14-15 in high school, meaning that Shyren was presumably 14-18 at the time, though it would be weird by human standards for Shyren to be 18 at the time, keeping in mind Monsters are neither legally nor biologically adults until they are 25 years of age means they were still both biologically and legally minors at the time.

Napstabot has a close relationship with Hapstsblook, though his relationship with Maddie is very strained as they don’t get along, but he does still love her.

Napstabot doesn’t hate their parents but he isn’t on speaking terms with them as he hasn't spoken to them since he was 25.

Napstabot has a bad habit of crushing his phone or other objects when he gets embarrassed, flustered and/or overwhelmed. 

Shyren Trivia

Shyren is known to be able to cast enchantments, blessings and even hexes using her voice.

Shyren is one of the few monsters that we see that is from a certain monster race that explicitly only presents themselves as one single gender (feminine), other being Banshees (Little red Slicing Hood)

Shyren’s last name could be “Bread” due to her Sister being named Lemon Bread.

Shyren is a very supporting girlfriend and often seen alongside with Napstabot but not all the time.

Shyren still lives in Waterfall, though might move in with Napstabot if they get married.

As Shyren swaps with Aaron, she takes on a more bold and flamboyant persona though this is really just on a public basis as she is very down-to-earth and modest on a personal basis. As Shyren is regarded as a very friendly and reserved individual when not on stage.

Shyren doesn’t speak English and only knows Monstarian (Underground/Monsterkind’s Official Language), which means any English covers she sings she has no idea what she is saying, though she does know some human languages, those being Greek, Latin and some Italian.

Shyren does deeply love Napstabot and will be absolutely devastated if anything bad happened to him

Shyren doesn’t like Napstabot’s parents

It’s unknown if Shyren knows Napstabot is a ghost possessing a robot body or she just thinks he’s an extremely advanced AI, either way, Shyren does genuinely love Napstabot.

Besides singing, Shyren also likes playing the Piano

Shyren does know Undyne and still does piano lessons with her like she does in Undertale.

Before becoming Napstabot’s bandmate, she had a career history of being an opera singer and theater actress. 

Shyren gets around by swimming through the air, scientifically it’s unknown how she does this, and even Undyne is stumped by this, but that doesn’t say too much considering the fact Undyne isn’t a teratologist (or whatever a monster version of a biologist will be called) as she only went to a vocational college to become an engineer.

Shyren doesn’t know what Undyne did to Lemon Bread and assumes Lemon just didn’t make it, thus completely oblivious to Undyne’s failure with trying to upload Lemon Bread’s consciousness onto a computer and accidentally fusing it with other uploaded consciousnesses’ files, this information would likely cause Shyren to despise Undyne for the cruel and unethical experiment.

[nika6q]

Ok, I decided on her name: Jule or Jules.

The backstory: While Tech and Phee agreed on the name, they disagreed on the spelling. Tech wanted Joule, and Phee wanted Jewel. A predicament they didn't realize until her birth, because they hadn't actually needed to write it down before that. After much discussion, they agreed to let the child decide when she was old enough. Here's how that conversation went when Jules was old enough:

Phee: You know, if you preferred his spelling, you could just say so.

Jules: I don't. This is different.

Tech: This represents no unit of measure of which I am aware.

Jules: See? Completely different.

Phee: uh huh.

*She takes after her dad a bit.

Daughter of Tech and Phee

[a-small-tired-lonely-potato]

Suzuki's coworkers from earth who traveled to the demon realm about four months after her, this is only a few members of her team as the rest are on standby.

From left to right we have, Emerenciana Ixzel, Joules Nicholas, Cassidy Chiara, and Qara Picel.

All very close friends with Nozumi, so much so that when she disappeared without a trace, they dropped everything to find her, and when they finally did, she was in the midst of a world of demons... This wasn't their first answer as to where she was, but it's not like they weren't expecting it.

Nozumi was ecstatic until she realized how they managed to find her and why none of the demons had found them yet.

Nozumi: Y-you kidnapped the Misfit Class?!?! That's illegal!! They're just kids!!!! What is WRONG with YOU?!?!

Em: But what's more illegal, Briefly inconveniencing some rowdy kids or Losing You?

Nozumi: KIDDNAPPING CHILDREN, EMERENCIANA!!!

Cassidy: Nozumi listen, whatever I may think of you or your choices, right now we are counting on you to lead us, you inspire us.

Nozumi: To kidnap children?

Joules: To work together.

Nozumi: TO KIDNAP CHILDREN!!?!??!

Qara: Miss Suzuki, we all agreed, a demon doesn't count as a people.

Joules: If it makes you feel any better, this ones parents don't even care! So I have a Son now!

Jazz: *Demonic confused rambling*

Iruma: Oh Hey Guys!! Sorry I couldn't come to school today- Oh Mom do you know these other guys??

Nozumi:

[akozuheiwa]

Decided to try my hand at editing by making a teenage Uhl - really he just looks like that trope of “rich kid who’s going to be a rival/enemy/obstacle for the main character”. Anyway, it was fun to do!

Original screenshot from the wiki under the cut!

[shadowfreak98]

Meet Maple the Rabbit and Joules the Fox.

Both are aspiring scientists, and children to Tails and Cream. Once again, not too much backstory for them [just assume that for all the fankids cuz I am slowly trying to work through a bunch and get everything sorted out]

Maple’s outfit is Maria inspired, and my idea for it was that Shadow had given her this outfit as a gift. As for Joules, well his outfit was the result of my scribbles in my sketchbook ad it turned out great lol.

[literallymechanical]

Well, are you going to fill us in on "why we are morally obligated as a species to some day blow up the Earth"? Sounds like a supervillain backstory

(This was originally inspired by qntm’s fantastic satirical essay, “To Destroy The Earth,” but I disagree with him on a few key points. I highly recommend checking out qntm’s fiction, particularly Ra, Fine Structure, and There Is No Antimemetics Division. Disclaimer: this is a thought experiment, I’m not actually going to destroy the Earth.)

Let us begin with this: you want to destroy the Earth.

That’s not a question or an instruction, that’s an axiom. A fundamental truth from which a logical system is built. It’s your Statement Zero, the singular concept from which the rest of these instructions are built: you want to destroy the Earth. You might not know why, and you certainly don’t know how. Trust me, you really don’t know how. Take all of your cultural knowledge of Death Stars and hyperspace construction crews and throw it out the window, because it’s not worth a clipped penny.

That being said, here are a few reasons to somebody might want to destroy the Earth:

You want to wipe out humanity

You want to wipe out some other species

General misanthropy

It’s obstructing your view of the Moon.

You want us to colonize Mars or Venus, and you figure this is the best way to get everybody on board.

These are bad reasons to destroy the Earth. If any of these sentiments resonate with you, please stop reading this essay. This isn’t for you.

Anyway, let's put a pin in the “why” for now. We'll get to it later. Let's tackle the "how" first.

To destroy the Earth, you need a Plan, with a capital P.

The shape of the Plan is extremely simple to define, much simpler than the relatively detailed (and, in my opinion, fragile) instructions others have outlined. It has just two parts.

Figure out how to destroy the Earth. This is defined as the Earth not being there when you're done—any chump with nuclear weapons can scour the Earth, you're trying to make the entire thing go away.

Destroy the Earth.

However, a lot of shapes are simple to define, but hard to draw. The Mandelbrot set can be defined by a single equation and a couple of instructions, but the result is a fractal. This Plan will be fractally intricate as well. We certainly can’t draw up the full Plan right now. We can barely even begin to draw the outline. Let’s take a quick stab at it anyway.

First of all, I don’t know how to destroy the Earth. We can speculate a bit, but we certainly can’t choose a method yet—you'll likely need multiple redundant strategies anyway. “Blow it up” is one idea, but the gravitational binding energy of the Earth is about 2*10^32 joules, and there is no conceivable technology that can handle that sort of power right now. “Launch bits of it into space one by one until there’s nothing left” sounds promising, though it will take a while. “Mess with its orbit until it’s close enough to the Sun’s Roche limit to get ripped to shreds” is a fun idea. Or maybe in the next million years, you'll come up with a better way.

The most important part of that statement is “the next million years.” It will take a very long time to figure this one out. A million years is a pretty good estimate, though if you'll proactive it might take as little as a couple hundred thousand.

That brings us to the hardest part of the Plan: making sure the Plan survives a million years.

Right now, you're in a precarious position. Climate change probably won’t entirely wipe us out, but it will likely disrupt civilization enough that the Plan will be lost. Nuclear war might actually cause us to go extinct. A killer asteroid certainly would. Therefore, the first thing the Plan needs to do is save the world. Reverse climate change, or at least halt it. Nuclear disarmament. Peace, or as close as we can get to it. Medicine, spaceflight, art, prosperity, happiness, survival—all part of the Plan.

Colonizing other planets, and eventually other solar systems, is also in the Plan. Not just for a backup in case of killer meteor, but also because when you do destroy the Earth, you’ll need somewhere to stand. Remember, you're not trying to wipe out humanity here! Just destroy a planet. This will be tricky. It’s very likely that there’s no such thing as faster-than-light travel, so it will take a while to spread across the galaxy. This might take up the bulk of the million-year timeline.

(Quick note: you may be tempted to conquer the Earth, or set yourself up as some sort of galaxy-spanning God-Ruler. In my personal opinion, this is a bad idea. Right now, empires typically last a couple hundred years before falling. Do you think it would be easier to hold on to multiple planets than just a bit of land around the Mediterranean? I believe that it’s best to have your Plan set up a system where people can survive and thrive without needing you.)

But as tricky as interstellar colonization may be, it’s still the easy part. The hard part is that the entire Plan has to reconstruct itself from scratch if everything goes wrong.

The Plan has to be the most massively redundant, self-repairing, and robust project humanity has ever undertaken, or will ever undertake. The Plan needs to be able to resurrect our entire species on its own, without human intervention, in case something goes wrong (e.g. nuclear war) and we all get wiped out. Here’s one idea: computerize the Humanity Reboot Protocol, stamp the code onto platinum bricks, launch a million copies into deep space and onto every rocky body in the solar system, and have it check back in every once in a while. You can have that one for free.

The Plan also needs to have a way to re-motivate humanity to destroy the Earth. Maybe that’s as simple as posting it to tumblr and having a lot of people read it, but it will probably be a bit more complicated. Crucially, the Plan does not have to be visible. Nobody actually needs to know that the Plan exists, if you’re clever enough. You might be tempted to turn it into a religion, but religions change and die. Remember: the Plan has to eventually pop off, no matter what we do to ourselves.

The Plan is now its own entity, both distinct from and deeply intertwined with humanity.

(As a side note, this begs the question: What if the Plan is already in effect? If it’s a good Plan, we wouldn’t be able to tell. What if some sufficiently motivated creature set things into motion ten thousand or a hundred thousand or a million years ago? Food for thought.)

Alright. So, enough time has passed, and you’ve figured out how to destroy the Earth. I use “you” loosely at this point. Maybe, against all odds, you’ve figured out immortality, or mind-uploading, cloning, whatever. More likely, you’ve been dust for a million years. That’s not important. Regardless, “you” are standing on Mars or wherever and your metaphorical finger is hovering a metaphorical big red button marked “DESTROY THE EARTH.” Step 2 of the Plan.

Let’s pause here and go back to that pin from before: Why? Why are you destroying the Earth?

Well, a lot of reasons. If I were doing this, my Plan would include abandoning the Earth for other star systems and setting it up as some sort of museum. I'd take all the biosphere with me, of course, and make better Earths elsewhere. Imagine a hundred Earths, each of which are perfect nature preserves, or more! Imagine finding a good silica-heavy planet, turning it into molten glass, and sculpting it into something beautiful. Imagine spelling your name in an Oort cloud. Imagine an ocean planet full of whales.

Imagine coming back to a deserted G-type solar system with a few dusty rocks, an asteroid belt, and a handful of gas giants. Imagine breaking them down to make raw materials for a Dyson sphere.

Bam! Earth destroyed! You did it!

Maybe a paleontologist somewhere will figure out that this might be the planet where we first evolved, and it would be nice to put it somewhere safe. Hey, does that count as destroying the Earth? Where the Earth once was, there is now empty space. No more Earth! That sounds pretty destroyed to me. Bam! Earth destroyed! You did it!

Maybe your Plan is different, and the Earth is still inhabited. For what it’s worth, I hope you’ve made it a paradise, one of a thousand Edens across the galaxy. It would be a shame to blow it up… but if Sol-3 is just one paradise among many, what makes it significant? “Earth” is our homeworld, but now there are a thousand homeworlds, so what is “Earth?” What makes this one rock special? Nothing! You’ve successfully destroyed the entire concept of “Earth.” That might be harder than blowing up a planet! Well done! You did it!

In conclusion, here is why I say it’s a moral imperative to destroy the Earth:

Eventually, a baby bird has to leave the nest. Somebody needs to be the mom bird who lures her chicks off the edge, and it might as well be me.

[linesonwhite]

I was reviewing earlier pages to examine the way I drew flashback scenes in the early parts of the comic, and learned two things: 1) I actually had flashbacks confined to panels originally, and did not stick them inside of nebulous panel spaces made of dark color.

2) I...already had Gunvolt summarize what happened between him, Joule, and Asimov in their backstory, making this page redundant and forcing me to rewrite some dialogue to compensate for it. :T

ANYWAY, THIS PAGE IS ON TWITTERRRRRRR

[dat-physics-gal]

I posted 925 times in 2021

37 posts created (4%)

888 posts reblogged (96%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 24.0 posts.

I added 101 tags in 2021

#physics - 16 posts

#dnd - 13 posts

#aromantic - 11 posts

#math - 11 posts

#that time i got reincarnated as a slime - 10 posts

#meme - 10 posts

#mathblr - 8 posts

#shitpost - 8 posts

#lgbtqia+ - 7 posts

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Longest Tag: 74 characters

#it's called that because of the sound of hundreds of dragon wings flapping

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Post your top 3 to 5 favorite LGBTQ+ characters from any form of media and tag up to 5 mutuals. I shall start:

Rimuru Tempest - That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime

Stevonnie - Steven Universe

Luz Noceda - The Owl House

Catra - She Ra and the Princesses of Power

@aspeedymooncollector @existstodie @the-random-phoenix @mushroom-shinobu @pan-fried-stupidity

17 notes • Posted 2021-06-21 14:08:59 GMT

#4

A connection i just made about the Owl House.

So from V’s backstory, we see that Belos studied how the magic draining of the basilisks works.

And we also know that the coven system isn’t actually that old. And it seals away all magic not from the respective coven. However, Raine Whispers said Belos wants to steal as much magic as possible before the day of unity. This is what they learned in this ceremony.

But note, they said steal, not seal away. Belos must have developed the technique of draining magic by studying how basilisks do it, and uses it to drain witches of every bit of magic which doesn’t correspond to their coven!

25 notes • Posted 2021-08-20 08:16:31 GMT

#3

Anne Boonchuy powerscaling

Spoilers below. You have been warned.

So in the latest episode, we see Anne in blue mode kicking that killer robot into orbit. The best marker for distance is when the thing breaks through the clouds in 3.83 seconds (i stopped it with a stopwatch myself) According to a quick Google search, clouds are between 10 and maximum 20 km off the surface. With this little above the surface, we can approximate a homogeneous gravitational field of 9.8 m/s^2, which would reduce the initial launch speed by 37,3761 m/s in this time, so it must have been higher than that. That launch speed, assuming the robot weighs half a ton, equates to 348.53 kJ of energy. This is however a very low estimate, since the speed at the clouds was not 0.

Another estimate using the fact that the timer on the bomb said 5 seconds when the kick started and not ignoring the changing gravity with height is more difficult. The robot never fell back down, so i’ll assume within 5 seconds the speed was reduced from the initial speed down to 0, which is still lowballing it, but there’s no other sensible estimate. Examining this further, i conclude this method and the first one are actually invalid, because of the following: Within the time it took the timer to go from 5 to 4, the killer bot had already passed the clouds, meaning it was going way faster than 10km/s, and 11km/s would already be escape velocity! So assuming an initial speed of 15km/s (a reasonable middle ground between 10 and 20, don’t you think?), the energy was actually 5.625*10^10 Joules, or the energy a nuclear reactor puts out over about one minute, combined into a single kick. (Power output nuclear reactor: 1*10^9 Watts, therefore takes 56.25 seconds to put out 5.625*10^10 Joules) At those kinds of speeds, you can disregard gravity entirely over just 5 seconds, since it slows the speed down by less than 49,05 m/s, which is about 1/3 of a percent of the initial speed. Less, because deceleration due to gravity gets weaker the higher you go, but i assumed a constant deceleration of 9.81m/s^2 like near the surface. Well holy fuck, that’s pretty damn powerful.

33 notes • Posted 2021-10-30 08:50:58 GMT

#2

This is the first time I do this, but this xkcd couldn’t just not be shared. This is so fucking funny i can’t!

36 notes • Posted 2021-12-02 20:58:43 GMT

#1

Donkey from Shrek is a Bard.

Look hear me out: -Annoying -Sings unprompted and most importantly: Seduced. A. Dragon.

i rest my case

60 notes • Posted 2021-05-09 17:50:35 GMT

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[rusty-gloinks]

I suppose I can talk about these little guys since they’re considered more than one oc! I’ve decided on names, personalities, clothing etc. I’ll go in order from left to right!

going to cut here, this will be a long post !!

Zade Rilan (Formerly Zade Osper) (she/her , 12 years old)

Personality: Timid, shy, lovable

Outfit/fashion style: Prefers torn clothing, anything to make her look cool, even though she’s not as tough as she may look.

i.e; ripped jeans, band shirts, cloaks, etc.

A bit of a backstory, however it’s not too interesting. (Also because my writing is god awful.)

One day on copper 9, The Ospers thought it would be nice to go outside of the doors, considering there hadn’t been any emergencies for days. They wanted to have a picnic. Of course, the parents didn’t know this, because they hadn’t ever been told what a “murder drone” is. The WDF had only said, "Just don’t go through the doors, you’ll be safer off that way.", and they thought, "hey! What’s the worst that could happen?". So, Murder drones were very little to their knowledge, as you’d expect, so had Zade. They waited for the right moment until the WDF had left, it was very late and dark out. They’d taken a keycard from someone named ‘Z’, they couldn’t tell because the other half was smeared off, not their fault they’d found it lying on the ground. Alas, the Ospers finally went outside of the doors and onto snowy ground. Zade loved it, The cold weather felt nice, droplets of snow melted on her because of her internal heating. The Ospers set down the picnic, there was batteries, plates, napkins, glass bowls, and wires. They were enjoying themselves. Until she saw something, A Little yellow headband, and a golden eye. Zade was curious. She asked her parents what it could’ve been. So, the parents asked her to wait here with her sister. Time passed, Zade had gotten worried. She grabbed her little sister by the arm, and walked towards the area her parents walked in. A loud cracking sound could be heard from under the snow. Zade bent down to open the snow, only to find both of her parents dead. The snow around it was dyed a black-ish grey color. There was no time for crying, as both her and her little sister scurried back inside, running while quickly picking up the keycard left on the picnic blanket. She closed the door as quick as she could, but only she was left. As her younger sister was left behind, too cowardly to open the door. And all that was heard, was a splattering sound.

That’s pretty much all I have for her backstory. To keep things short they went on a picnic, and her parents and sibling died. Now she lives in fear of murder drones. (Might make her befriend one later.)

She’s the only one I’ve written a backstory for, so the next 3 are just personality/outfit based.

2. Joule Rilan (She/her , 26 years old)

A loving, careful mother who’d originally adopted Zade when she was 11. She had buttons when she was 21.

Personality: Gentle, precautious, a bit of a ‘mama-bear’ if you will.

Occupation: Works at a nursery. Sometimes works at home taking care of her kids.

Outfit/fashion style: She prefers clothing that’s light on the eyes. 80’s mom clothes will do. Floral dresses, skirts, anything with a pattern!

3. Watt Rilan (He/him , 27 years old)

A father rough around the edges, but has a soft spot for his annoying son. Started dating Joule at 15 (he was 16, she was 15), Then got married at 20.

Personality: Prick, Dull, Giggly

(Note: he giggles at stuff that isn’t even funny. Tell him that we’re out of food and he’ll start laughing his lungs out. Oh, the car broke down? Laughter. Oh, but tell him about buttons, he will kill you.)

Occupation: Mechanic, Got fired at his previous job (writing newspapers) for spreading misinformation and hate speech.

Outfit/Fashion Style: Coats, warm clothing, sweaters, etc. Anything long sleeved and fuzzy.

4. Buttons Rilan (He/him , 5 years old)

Meet buttons, a bit of a know it all. Picture horrid Henry’s brother if you will? Annoying little guy. But a lovable one!

Personality: Self-centered, Annoying, Sponge (he will pick up anything you tell him and think it’s real.)

Occupation: Student

Outfit/fashion style: shorts and jackets. He will not wear something if it doesn’t have a pair of shorts.

That’s all i’ve got!! Tysm for letting me talk abt them, if you have anyone else I’ll be glad to tell you!! :D /vpos

May I ask more about your oc?

I would love to tell you but is there a certain one in particular? :D

I have quite a few in this tag : https://www.tumblr.com/rusty-corn/tagged/my%20ocs !!

[mister-beetlejuice]

Oh look,,, three in one. Here's days 8, 9, and 10 for stex appreciation month! I had the idea of Joule kinda getting on Volta's nerves while Wrench watched on, amused 😂 as usual, questions answered below!

Favorite song they're in: Okay ngl AC/DC is my absolute favorite stex song so. That one. It's just such a bop and I looove the choreography.

Favorite actors/actresses: I'm v sorry but I don't pay too much attention to the actors/actresses for these three. :/

Favorite ships with them: I tend to think of the components and Electra as a polycule! So basically, I ship them with each other and the rest of the components + Electra! (Altho,,, I kinda dig Joule/Greaseball too 👀)

Favorite things about them: Joule: I love her fiery personality!! You can hear it in her voice and see it in her movements and I love it! Volta: I know everyone's been saying this but god,,, her wig. Her entire design. It's just. *chef's kiss* Wrench: She's a classic female medic-type character but she's not overly feminized or sexualized!!! And her costume is AWESOME.

Random headcanons: Joule: Despite her explosive energy, she's not really destructive at all. She just likes to have fun and she gets excited easily! Volta: Sooo you know how Volta's played by a guy in the newest version of the show? Trans Volta. 👀 Wrench: She may be a rather stoic repair truck but she actually has a big fun side to her. She loves going out with the rest of the components whenever she has a night off.

Unpopular opinions: Going back to what I've said the past couple times ahaha, I wish there was more backstory to them!! Like! Were they always with Electra? How did they respond to the outcome of the race? What made Joule switch from being an animal car to a dynamite truck???

[frocio]

can't wait for joules to learn about wolf's backstory

[dailyashleighraichu]

Referring to this blog’s story - do you have everything written down and planned in advance, or is it more so a basic outline in your head and you improvise along the way?

I never considered this blog to have a “story” story. I mean, everyone has a backstory, but as far as this blog goes, the story isn’t really there.

As for little quick plot lines, like the one with Joule right now, it’s a mix of I do plan and I don’t plan. A lot of the stuff I do story-wise is mashed together and kinda halfassed in my opinion.

A “basic outline” isn’t really used, per se, but it’s sort of tacked on last minute in a way.

I dunno, I’m never the best with advice for running ask blogs. Don’t like my “veteran” status fool you, I never know what the fuck I’m doing.

[sarcasticbabywhispererjess]

The movie “Secret Obsession” opens with the main character Jennifer being chased through a rest stop bathroom by a knife wielding maniac. She escapes out into the rain (very dramatic), gets hit by a car and is subsequently brought to the hospital. 

The following happens in the hallway of the hospital and OR...

Bagging patient randomly off and on.

“She’s going into v-fib.” (closed captioning says v-tach)

No compressions are started.

“She’s unstable.” (no shit)

No one starts compressions… way to fail ACLS step 1. Get on the chest!

“We need to start compressions.” Yes, please!

No one actually starts compressions, but someone does listen to her with a stethoscope.

“Miss can you hear me?” She’s in v-fib and you’re not doing compressions, her brain isn’t being perfused… she ain’t gonna answer you, doc.

“She’s unresponsive.” Ya think?

“I’m losing a pulse.” She’s been in v-fib, but had a pulse this whole time? I think your monitor is faulty. Also, why start compressions if there’s a pulse… not that they have done any compressions so far.

Still no compressions.

Shocks with 300 joules… with paddles that we don’t ever use anymore. (You don’t shock with 300 joules on any defibrillators, 120-200 on biphasic, or 360 on monophasic… yes I looked this up.)

“Bradycardia. 30… 90/50.”

Patient is in an organized rhythm and has a pretty good BP.

“Charge to 360”  What?! Why?! Shocks her again. 

WTF?! Why did you shock her? You don’t shock bradycardia.

“Get another amp of epi”… shocks again. 

That was three shocks in like a minute… never any compressions.

Pulse is now 75… they call it a success and say they can start surgery.

That was a DISASTER of a code. I get that it’s a movie, but codes are exciting when you follow actual ACLS guidelines (less defibrillating though), they didn’t need to do this. Plus, just edit and reorder some of those lines and it would have made more sense. Also... 

DO SOME FUCKING COMPRESSIONS!

Ok, below I continue with a play by play and commentary on the rest of the movie... warning, spoilers ahead.

Jennifer is in a hospital bed, extubated after surgery, but hadn’t regained consciousness after surgery. No, we don’t do that. 

Leg is in a brace and sling. Huh? Why?

Has Coban, but no gauze wrapped around her head like a headband (not sure where her injury is… somewhere near her hippocampus since that is where her brain injury is according to the doctor when he is explaining about how her memory is going to be affected by her brain injury) and random pieces of white tape on her nose and fingers. ???

Jennifer is in the hospital for several weeks it seems after the montage of memory card games and learning to push her own wheelchair. All of her facial abrasions are healed as she’s being discharged which also denotes the passing of time. I’m not quite sure why they kept her so long. 

She is standing at the counter and is told by the nurse discharging her (who also was there the night she was admitted) that her CT results came back and is given a vague update. Nurse gives her prescription bags… I mean, I guess it’s a nurse, she’s not wearing a badge but is wearing a stethoscope around her neck  (confirmed later, she’s a nurse). She gives Jenn a cane to walk with when she gets home… 2-3mins a day (That’s like no time at all). Jenn is given no instruction of how to use it, I’ve only ever seen her use a wheelchair.

Jennifer is sent home with a wheelchair. Her leg brace is gone. So can she not walk because of her brain injury, not her leg injury?

Man, this nurse works a lot… she seems to be there every day/night. And she’s in charge of follow-up calls/appointments. They’re in California, so at least she probably makes pretty good money since she runs the whole damn hospital.

OK, cane/wheelchair is because of her leg. Why the fuck doesn’t she just have crutches? That’s dumb. I guess it’s to make her more helpless.

God damn, her skin is so nice. 

Russell and Jenn start to get intimate, Jenn has a scary memory flash and rebukes his advances. Russell doesn’t take it well. He roughly grabs her arm. He starts talking about how much he has done for her and how he’s her husband (is he though?), so he deserves better. Twat. Jenn is freaked out both by her memory and Russell’s behavior, but just turns off the light, rolls over away from him, and goes to bed. I would have left. 

Damn, nurse Masters is still at work? She literally works 24/7 in this ED. Jenn still has an active chart? There are doctor’s notes in it? This place hasn’t switched to EMR yet? But they have high res security cameras that hospital security can pull up and email files within minutes? Impressive. Do a lot of crimes happen in this hospital? So those are their priorities? Weird.

Wtf is a heritage tattoo? That’s how the detective figured out her maiden name? Seems far fetched, but I’m not looking it up.

The detective enters Jennifer’s home that she shared with her parents according to records… and he keeps touching things without gloves on. You’re a shit detective, dude. How have her parents been dead this whole time and no one has looked for them? They didn’t have jobs? Were they hermits?

Russell leaves and Jenn hears a lock sound from the bedroom door. She jiggles the door handle and can’t get it open, “Did he just lock it?” Well he didn’t unlock it ya dumb bitch.  Well apparently she was some kind of criminal in her past life, so she can open locks with a bobby pin. Really? The password on Russell’s computer is Jennifer’s maiden name. FFS. This is the most unrealistic thing in the movie. 

Why would he cut the cord for the internet? Just to be dramatic. He could just as easily have just unplugged the cord and taken it with him. Did he not want to use the internet anymore either? Anyway, he planned far ahead enough to disable the internet just in case she got into the computer, but didn’t delete all the pictures pre-photoshopping off his computer? Idiot.

Who just swallows a pill that someone puts in their mouth just because they also forced water into your mouth? You’re not a dog, Jennifer. 

Russell uses a chain and lock that he happens to have in his pocket to chain her to the bed. Pretty sure she can get that chain off of her ankle if she wanted to. It’s not that tight.

Oh my goodness, nurse Masters isn’t at work! Russell is super weird to her and then speeds away from the store where he bought lye.

The chain is much tighter suddenly… but loose enough that Jenn could get it off. Ok, wtf is wrong with her leg… she can’t seem to straighten it from like 30 degrees… they should’ve kept that brace on her from the beginning of the movie and also done more ROM exercises with her while she was in the hospital for all those weeks. She apparently used to be some kind of medic? Duct tape as an ace bandage ankle wrap? Probably not the most effective, but could be worse. Though I imagine she’d only have some soft tissue injury from that chain, I don’t know if she needs to wrap her ankle.

Jenn gets into the garage where she acts like it smells bad.. like a dead body, maybe? She hides in her car that is in the garage when fake Russell gets home. He also acts like the garage reeks. Why does he open the trunk to see the real Russell’s dead body? Like, he knows that it’s in there and he could already smell the decomposing body… he just wanted a better whiff? Also, why hasn’t he buried the body yet? He buried that witness the day he killed him. Well, semi-buried… it was a really shallow grave that Jenn tripped onto and touched the dude’s hand.  Honestly, he did a piss-poor job at hiding the body. Also, now that I’m thinking about it, real Russell’s body isn’t very decomposed for having been in the trunk of a car in a hot garage for several weeks (unless the garage has A/C, but there would still be a lot more rotting of the flesh after such a long time). Jennifer’s parents bodies decomp was much more progressed even though it seems they’ve all been dead the same amount of times.

The detective is at “their” house, he knows Russell isn’t Russell and there’s something nefarious afoot. This detective needs to go back to detective school. Stop touching potential evidence without gloves on. Why would fake Russell just cover up an old sign that has his actual last name on it? Just get a new sign, you nut job. Well, the shitty detective isn’t aware of his surroundings and doesn’t have his gun drawn, so of course fake Russell/Ryan is able to sneak up behind him and hit him over the head. He’s dead… actually probably just unconscious in an ice chest since fake Russell is only good at killing people most of the time. Also, I have a feeling we’re going to need the detective later to help save Jenn.

Uh oh, glasses are off… I guess he’s not Russell anymore. He’s crazy, obsessive Ryan.

Yes, take time to watch that video on your phone, Jenn… get sentimental while you’re trying to run for your life. 

Why is this dude so hyper focused on this chick? He’s hot. He could have his pick of plenty of girls. I suppose it’s hard to think in rational/logical terms with a sociopath no matter what he looks like. 

Oh good… he’s doing the villain speech where he explains his backstory. Apparently he had to light a single taper for it. I have a feeling the candlestick holder might come into play later… in Jennifer’s benefit. No, wait... he left the lighter and tied her up with flammable rope.  But she knocked it on the floor… moron.

Oh good, the detective is alive. He’ll save them both even if he’s also an idiot. Since all women need saving. 

Wait, she got herself out. Why hit him with the vase? The solid metal candle holder would’ve been a better choice. Solid work falling down the stairs, Jenn

The detective is out of the ice chest. And he’s using the Babe from Kill Bill incentive… yelling at himself to make his brain/muscles work. He at the very least has a concussion/TBI from being knocked unconscious, yelling at yourself doesn’t fix that.

Jennifer! Why are you going into the woods? You have his keys and there are so many cars on the property, you probably have a key that will work on at least one of them. Even if you didn’t have the keys, if you can pick a lock, can’t you hotwire a car too?  Why do you think you’d get better signal in the mother fucking woods? Yes, try to hit him with a heavy log that you can barely lift. You’ll get good momentum and swing. Just use one of those rocks you just threw to distract him. Idiot.

Ok, she shot fake Russell/Ryan in the back while he was wrestling with the detective. The first shot was fairly high in the chest and had a pretty good chance of hitting his lung or something important, but he’s still able to come at her. Her second shot got him in the upper right abdomen, so probably the liver and he just goes down... dead. FFS. At least have shot him in the heart area, that would’ve been slightly more believable. Oh well, I guess that’s that. A little follow up with the detective and Jenn. She’s moving back to San Jose (hopefully she’s getting a new place since her parents were murdered in her old house) and the detective is moving to AZ even though he never found his daughter that had gone missing as a child many years ago (a part of his backstory that brought nothing to the story and was never resolved).

Guys, this was not a great movie. I did kind of enjoy tearing it apart though.