#can you believe the nerve?

[mamawasatesttube]

i just think lois lane should put tim drake in her purse like a little dog. a scrunkly little companion who's even better at picking locks than she is, which is saying something. a nosy little freak after her own heart. the rubber duck she uses when talking her thoughts out loud to put clues together. her coffee gofer. her purse ferret.

[poorly-drawn-monhun]

and a happy holidays from the mods!

[teeny-tiny-revenge]

Ed injury headcanon time: Ed doesn't tend to complain about pains even when they're very bad, and he's so practiced at pushing through that he looks so functional that most people don't realise he's hurting.

He is however unable to deal with itching. Mosquito bites drive him mad, and healing injuries hitting the itchy stage make him grumpy and thinking he'd rather be in pain again because the itching is unbearable. He whines more about the itching than he ever does about any pain. Stede is very helpful and understanding, of course, and tries to distract Ed by doting on him as if he was still going through unimaginable agonies (he is, in Ed's opinion).

[hellsdairycow]

Finally been using my breast pump like a good little cow so have a little pumping/post pumping selfie

[whatudottu]

What better way to practice new prosthetics then to piss of the bitch that got you to need them in the first place!

In other news, my pirate ocs Gali and Ido (with a third Meridi not present) who are the two sides of the fulmini cult escapees :P

A bit of backstory under the cut since they're the only fuckers I have WITH a backstory! Which btw does detail cult shit so :P big fat warning for that-

The inciting incident on Petropia that introduced it's modern underground population to the surface named the Surface Craze was in all due part because of fulmini interference at the behest of the High Override, who saw what was initially just a planet entirely made of quartz-like crystal the Override Fleet could use as a power source. Having instead found that the planet was not only populated but by a species of the living variant of that same quartz-like material - electrical properties and all - but that additionally they can regenerate their crystalline body so long as they have the energy to pull from.

Seeing this as a solution to the fulmini's energy crisis - a perpetual machine at it's finest - the High Override sought to heh... acquire some petrosapiens for themselves. To their collective benefit, a community of petrosapiens had found their faith and world shattered, previously having been extremely devoted to the Sugi religion (derived from the ancient texts of Thuugi back when their tongues were long enough to be bitten off). Instead of needing to drag away dissenters who fought tooth and nail against the invaders, this community had already shifted their faith onto the false prophet of the High Override, which already had them fall into the Coupled Override head over heels.

The cult has now expanded it's pool of prey, and like the unwilling fulmini who gives the High Override their tithe (their minds, their central colony), the petrosapien cultists pay with their arms.

50 years (or the closest equivalent) into this arrangement, 50 years Petropia spent experiencing the surface for the first time in generations, Ido was born into the cult far away from the planet she should have known as home. Any doctor worth their salt had enough brains and stubbornness to not fall into faith-based trust of the Coupled Override, so between the lack of those and the remainder pseudoscience physicians left to echo chamber themselves, when Ido began developing Excessive Compression Disorder (ECD, a nerve-equivalent disorder that causes tension fractures throughout a petrosapien's crystalline structure) despite the rather obvious visible signed she went undiagnosed and improperly treated. At the age of 200 - a petrosapien's coming of age, and 50 years after Petropia's destruction - it was Ido's time to pay her tithe and begin her offerings to the High Override.

Gali - her sacrifricant - was to sever her arms below the elbow, as was procedure. What wasn't was the near explosive response from external pressure, or the last compressive force needed to completely shatter what had already started to break.

Cutting people's arms off is technically already a violent act however, though the lower arms survived the procedure as expected, the elbow and even upper arm had scattered shards of glass-fragile crystal in a visceral radius and physically severed through the sacrificant's central colony; then Gali was abruptly severed from the High Override after they felt as if a limb began necrotising. Sacrificants nor executioners really need an active memory to do their jobs, so Gali didn't need to have memory for however long their colony was one with the High Override's. Forcefully amputated from the larger system like an infection without any of the memories of being apart of said system however, kind of rewinds a colony back to the people they remember being long before any interference.

While Ido was caught staring wide-eyed, fearful, and newly lacking the limbs she thought she could regenerate easily - her arms try and try but they shatter like glass, crumble like sand, and she violently shudders like gravel grinding into each other - Gali regained access of their long unused senses and found a sea of hostile enemy combatants staring back. With all the training of a military general with none of the present self-awareness to realise they were the cause of the currently very panicky rock's lack of arms, Gali almost like a flick of a switch reverted to the many rules of engagement regardless of the fact that they were sporting exposed central colony that may or may not have been another's with their own collection of memories.

Seeing to rescue someone who had all their rights to fear them, Gali and Ido fled to the stars.

With a few language barriers mixed with someones learning they haven't spoken much longer then anyone thought they did, discovering how planets that were meant to be each other's home have been destroyed and irrecoverable, and learning the before and after to the horror story that is the High Override and their cultist network of external nerves and collective colony, Gali and Ido may or may not have gotten arrested :P

And they probably would have been tried for crimes neither of them could particularly understand not having learnt any of the common universal languages, up until the point the prison ship was raided by a collective of pirates only working together for equal cuts of the profits (the Plumbers used a prison ship to transport the Annihilargh while they still thought it to be a threat, what's to say they wouldn't simultaneaously transport prisoners - aka, the fucking point - with some high sought-after McGuffin). The pair would meet Meridi, a galvan with a penchant for mechanics and especially the kind that deceives an observer like - for instance - an android suit.

Meridi isn't here but gist is, she pilots both her own ship and an android resembling a human, and spies a pretty prize of walking talking taydenite. Instead of scoring a deal, she takes into consideration (perhaps with a cold calculation rather than a warm sympathy) the condition of ECD affected crystals and how much effort it would take to actually refine it and deems turning Ido into pocket change isn't worth it. In fact, further taking note of the explosive volatile footwork of crystallokinesis with the additional muscle of a fulmini veteran, actively helping Ido (and Gali by proxy) would potentially turn out more of a profit.

Gali isn't in dire need for hiding, but Ido uses shadow and a human-mouth jaw mask as tools to conceal what price her skin costs, while Meridi attempts to make prosthetics for a species that doesn't have nerves that also takes into account the unstable electrical currents produced by the compression of crystalline motor functions.

A bit of a tangent in a very long not-even-bothering-to-summarize backstory, I want to talk about petrosapien prosthetics, at least ones that can have 'motors' like Ido's arms (not like Chio's leg). With no external muscles to help strap in and extend the remnant of tendons humans have running through limbs, petrosapien exoskeletons do not offer the same interconnectivity and do not have easy ways to extend what had been cut off. Myoelectric limbs again by human standards also do not fit petrosapien nervous systems either, especially since the only nerves they have are in their equivalent of the central nervous system which also interacts with internal organs, the peripheral nervous system of a petrosapien operates with the highly structured yet individually unique non-standardised crystalline formations and compression. What Meridi does however is take material from Ido's crystal to create the joints in a conductive copper rod prosthetic (insulated in rubber to prevent harm to others), where Ido's compression triggers electricity to run down to remotely compress the crystal joints, which compress under the pressures of electricity and send the signal to be compressed again until motility is achieved.

And that is a lot of context :P woops- I either make no backstory or I make this convoluted piece of moving puzzle pieces, the duality of man I suppose :P

[nsewell]

this is the year of applying to jobs im probably wildly under qualified for because i have the kind of confidence now that they can put me in any situation and i'll wing it effectively

[moocha-muses]

[unfortunatecookie]

im going to fucking throw up why am i not in mcr auckland show right now i should be there i should be there<-lives in another continent

[lambjock]

i think that viewing the little hope relationships as just ‘family’ ( specifically : blood family, ones with traditional roles and relationships, one bred from a nuclear familial structure ) has a habit of dismissing them entirely. it is not blood that binds them together, nor is it family structures, and throughout every iteration of their lives things change. sometimes they’re merely neighbors with a slim portion of blood relation, sometimes they’re bound by flimsy paper or war, and sometimes they’re students at a college following their professor around. the nature of their relationships change, as do their circumstances and surroundings, but they ( as a mismatched unit ) are eternally bound and divided by a child and an inherent, unescapable tragedy. the important aspect of their relationships is that they are agonized individuals who are stuck together and wouldn’t like to be. the important theme between them is that despite their determined suffering, all the bad ways they clash, and in spite of a bubbling self loathing so awful that it literally kills them, they have found love and comfort in each other anyway, or perhaps have realized a love that has always been there. there’s no ‘i love you as a daughter’ between angela and taylor, just as much as there isn’t any ‘i love you as a sibling’ between dennis and tanya. they just love each other. even the clarke family, arguably the most familial bond they have, still isn’t traditional. none of them are blood and all of them are strangers inside their own home. they don’t look alike and they don’t share dna and they typically don’t care for the facade of a family either, more content to treat each other like roommates at best, and that’s fascinating because why would they care? why would standard labels matter to souls as ancient as theirs? it’s just another flesh they adorn, it’s just another pain they’ll carry and shape and hate. idk! i just think forcing titles on it all is rather boring in nature, and actively hinders the genuine relationships there, in an attempt to have a rulebook of sorts to follow. i also just loathe how the found family trope is constantly turned into a literal family, when it was made to spit in the face of a nuclear family structure. but that’s just me <3

[dragondream-ing]

Love being told by people who’ve never been in spitting distance of Fire and Blood that the point of the story is “both sides equally bad” and “choose your fave war criminal” lmao the absolute audacity to be so vocally wrong.

[buckleydiaz]

love the new icon with his perfect face and his perfect mustache 💕🫶

hehehehe thank youuu 💕💕

[rad-roche]

chit-chattin about voiced protagonist and pre-war stuff

i'm not big on the whole voiced fallout protagonist thing, don't get me wrong, it was an attempt to ape mass effect and that format had its problems anyway, but i think the actors are charismatic enough that i don't hate it on principle. the biggest problem arises in the 'four buttons for all options' speech system. to account for your psuedo-shep, npc and companion dialogue has to be scaled way, way back and be more expository and functional. there are a reason companions are far and away the most popular aspect of the game, and i'm saying that as somebody big in on a particular one because they conjured an interesting guy by what may be total accident. they get to be characters and have a distinct voice. everybody else either has to tell you, upfront, what their deal is or hide it behind a speech check so obvious that you can infer it yourself. the game isn't devoid of them, cricket for example, but there aren't too many

but i think the biggest missed opportunity, more than the valentine kellogg brain thing, is that the game picks up a person mired in a regressive, stagnant system, somebody who would know it intimately (lawyer) or enforce it through violence (soldier), dumps them in a future where these fixed points of their reality no longer exist, everybody dead, and forgets that this may in fact be an interesting vein to dig out. you're a soldier and the war you fought in killed BILLIONS of people and warped the face of the earth forever and, unlike the ghouls, it's totally fresh for you! and it sort of doesn't come up? you get a couple of offhand reactions but that's about it. your character isn't a fish out of water, they're somebody who got off at the wrong bus stop and has to stop a passing stranger for directions. oh wow, only center for learning left in the city is a ten foot cube in the baseball stadium teaching basic literacy, huh? I saw MIT at its peak two days ago! bye! you could blindfold anybody, tape them to a chair, spin them at centrifuge speed and make them throw darts with their mouth and i bet you nine out of ten times they'd hit something fascinating with that basic premise. let's try it with this guy. let's see here. 'find missing baby'. oh god oh shit it's john bethesda oh f

[1punch]

Saitama is not untalented is unmotivated. He's literally limitless but he's also depressed.

[fereldenshero]

spreading jay merrick little baby mullet propaganda via the power of art

[prince--kiriona]

sending on anon because i'm not 100% ready to be out as plural on main, but i just wanted to say that i really appreciate your pinned post because like,,,, despite showing Very Clear Signs of plurality (and being aware of said signs) i still spend way too much time second guessing myself, and that post was just the callout i needed

so thanks for that. it really means a lot

this is so so sweet and also. the EXACT reason i made that post in the first place. i'm not joking when i say messages like these are the reason i'm even out as plural

[airanke]

I had this weird dream last night that abiteth was in a love triangle with dabi and… fuckin angel dust from hazbin hotel??? Anyways abi chose angel (despite the fact that he’s a canonically gay demon) and dabi was chasing after them on a highway, demanding abi get back together with him, while abi was busy making out with angel aksjksjsj

ANON, HOLD ON, WAIT, HEAR ME OUT--

I DO have some Abiteth/Dabi Hazbin Hotel AU thoughts, and OMFG, I 100% saw her as someone that not only was also a spider demon, but WORKED WITH ANGEL DUST???? On top of being very sought out by (and consistently tempted to make a deal with) Valentino, she always always ALWAYS flocked to Angel Dust when they were on set together and he feels safe with her (like he does with Cheri!!!).

It was stated by Viv that Angel Dust will have sex with women, but naturally charges more for his efforts in that case, though not currently confirmed that he'll do this in the series itself yet, so BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I CAN 100% SEE WHERE YOU ARE COMING FROM AND ABITETH WOULD DO ANYTHING TO PROTECT ANGEL (except make a deal with Valentino because Angel would so so SO not want her to do that, but watch her go make a deal with Alastor Just Because TM. Also realistically, Valentino could force him to do whatever he wants because... Valentino ._. ).

I'm not super sold on Abiteth being a porn star in the way Angel Dust is, BUT she would definitely make appearances as like, a back up dancer or as a body in shots (and I mean also feature in her own solo videos or whatever, she has major femme fatale / dominatrix vibes) if they happened to be in the same video together.

She'd be a HUGE thorn in Valentino's side either way, and I don't know yet if she's actually Hellborn or a Sinner (which I think can affect how powerful she is 🤔🤔I should probably watch Hazbin again just to brush up on my lore in that regard, or actually watch Helluva Boss LOL).

BUT POOR DABI IN UTTER DISBELIEF THAT ABITETH WOULD CHOOSE ANGEL DUST OVER HIM!!!! I see him totally as some kind of Hellhound, but not necessarily a Hellborn hellhound BUT UM!!! We'll see 🤗🤗 I'm just imagining Dabi on a motorcycle barking and carrying on that Abiteth COME THE FUCK BACK RIGHT NOW, and she and Angel are just zooming on down the road in a hearse with someone??? Else driving so they can make out in the backseat HAHAODFSADFSUHO omg love you for telling me this <3333

Totally alternatively, Abiteth would be a fallen angel with spider thematics, and may or may not have been an Exterminator BUT IT'S ALL UP IN THE AIR RIGHT NOW!!! Either way, very protective of Angel Dust, will and definitely has attacked Valentino (when Angel isn't around, which may also unfortunately contribute to how Val treats Angel at times given how he acted when Charlie tried to help... only unlike Charlie, Abiteth is more aggressive/volatile HAHA)

I'M ALSO SORRY MY ANSWER TO THIS IS ALL OVER THE PLACE //WHEEZE