#different important items

[torturingpeople]

i've been thinking about how irrigo and violant work recently. so of course i had to make diagrams about it

i don't think the plaque is like a literal tangible thing like it is on your tooth or in your blood vessels, but it's more of a residue that either snaps the synapses immediately and makes it impossible to reconnect the memory or builds up over time on the synapse and makes it harder to access a memory

"with resistance" in this case refers to someone who uses or has been exposed to irrigo frequently over an extended period of time. it works in the same way as drug/antibiotic resistance does in the sense that your synapses grow more resilient to the effects of the plaque and don't just immediately break. think of it like going from dental floss to rope

i also think violant can provide resistance too - in this way it would more likely cancel out the effects of the plaque and it's like placing a casing over your synapse, but at the same time now you have both a violant casing (with violant being impossible to erase so the casing is there basically forever whether it's effective or not) and irrigo plaque on your synapses so it's not something you can do repeatedly without eventually damaging the synapse and doing something fucked up to your memory

there's also potential for the buildup of irrigo and violant causing toxic shock in the brain in the same way foreign objects do - it's only in a long-term sense and if left unchecked the body will start attacking itself and engaging an immune response to remove the buildup, which will in turn inevitably damage, weaken or break the synapse entirely

the way to treat violant+irrigo buildup is with exposure to apocyan. in essence this has the ability to remove the plaque buildup and the casing, essentially breaking it off your synapses, and can help to heal any damage caused by an immune response or the synapse being freed from the casing and plaque. in this it would return the neuron to its natural, unaffected state, and the pathway would neither have the benefits or drawbacks of using violant or irrigo

[starflungwaddledee]

it's the day before my birthday, and my girlfriend surprised me with an outing to a local bird aviary/botanic gardens in the mountains!!!

this was an absolute delight for me, known bird enjoyer, and i got to have many cute and phenomenal birds perched on my head (which i loved and plushie magolor 'tolerated', on account of it being my birthday). i even got to see a nicobar pigeon, which i had never seen in person before!

they also surprised me with an early birthday present to use at the incredible mountain-top picnic spread my gf planned (😭😭) of this extraordinarily cute kirby themed liquid-glitter cup!!

and of course, in true starflung fashion i injured myself twice

once, not three minutes into the outing when my umbrella (which i only require because i'm allergic to both the sun and sunscreen) bit me, and my gf had to run to reception to get me a bandaid. later, when i just totally fkn stacked it on some loose gravel on a slope and i got the umbrella back by slamming it into the ground, along with my knees and one palm. but not the other palm, which was holding plushie magolor, who touched neither gravel nor dirt and never will while i still breathe!

[moeblob]

What Deacon thinks: what did that mean? did he want me to wear a collar too? why else would he mention my neck? i mean, if he /asked/ me i would wear one but he didn't so would wearing one be weird?

What Ymber meant: It's nice to be near someone who isn't tethered to this world to serve it with a physical reminder for all to see.

[blujayonthewing]

SUPREMELY frustrating that we found something actually really cool and intriguing and plot relevant in tonight's session but I'm still so constantly preoccupied with whether the DM is going to 100% kill us with sheer poor game design that I barely have enough brainspace left over to even enjoy it

[kavennnn]

wtf my son is dead

[everysongineverykey]

begging people to realize that the back warehouse of a grocery store is not a second, secret grocery store that has everything you need plus some extra secret items the first grocery store does not have

[sysig]

*chanting* Second pet, second pet, second pet! (Patreon)

[venomgaia]

long time no figure study

[nickbutnodick]

watching a super hero movie. incredibly disappointed by the action scenes 2/10

[thawthebeez]

university application site asking me my sexuality. what the fuck do i say

[chronicparagon]

Does Harmony wear any headwear with her regalia?

[Not really. Though I don’t know if this counts, but she may choose to wear hair accessories. Some types of regalia have specific headwear but for her, there is no specific kind.

A lot of people wouldn’t not have headwear but some may choose to wear hats, ribbons, or other ornaments. Some women wear a turkey feather or red tailed Hawk feather as an ornament that are attached to a barrette or clip. Some can be more intricate with beadwork.

There are other barrettes, combs, and pony tail holders that have beadwork like the ones below. The beaded barrettes and ponytail holders are not necessarily specific to nation or tribe. It depends on the style of designs and symbols.

There are many, many different kinds of hair accessories that people can wear with their regalia.

Harmony usually has her hair down and not wear hair accessories since the earrings would be pretty extravagant.

Hats can be worn and for the southeastern nations, the Medicine Hat or turban is often worn by men like in the Cherokee Nation.

Other kinds of hats can be part of regalia with design of it and adornments being ubiquitous or specific to the nation or tribe. Cowboy hats or sun hats are some of the more common kind of headwear some people choose to include in their regalia. I have a few examples of that. They can be plain, or have beadwork, hat band, or certain feathers. Some hats can also have embroidery on the brim too.

There are other kind of headwear like feather headdresses but those are reserved for ceremonies and only to people who earned to have them. They are symbols of great leaders and warriors so not everyone can wear them. The one below is the kind that is typically seen in the Great Plains and further north. However, headdresses are present in other nations but will look different which includes what feathers are used and what it represents.

One thing to note: I ask people to be careful with headdresses like that because they are sacred and used to represent the wearer’s status and the deeds they did for their people. Not just anyone should wear them and Harmony never would. She doesn’t own one either.

This is just a very basic overview of headwear for regalia. They are going to vary by the person wearing them and can also depend on the national or tribe they are from.

Harmony would balance the accessories she wears with her regalia because she worries about being too distracting by wearing too many accessories.

[silverserpent]

I

I losted my fidget snake :(

[coolxatu]

man i just realized how much translating in my head is hurting my japanese rn

ive been getting really frustrated lately with how i cant make sense of full sentences despite knowing most of the words in them and i think its cause the words turn straight to english in my head so i just end up with a bunch of words out of proper english order and the meaning gets lost along the way

[darcyolsson]

i think what upsets me most about the sims franchise is that it was at first very clearly something the creators were (allowed to be) incredibly passionate about and then, after ts2, that feeling faded ever so slowly over the years until the sims 4 came around and it was immediately clear that any love there had ever been had now been replaced by greed. this post is about spiral staircases

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

it's the night before payday, otherwise known as The Evening Of Spending-Related Soul Searching, where I spend at least an hour contemplating how much needs to go into my college savings fund and how much I can allow myself for spending money and what in particular to spend money on during this payperiod and what things I'm going to have to give up/wait till next payperiod to buy bc I want other things more.

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

also ngl but I HATE the suggestion that if an historical object is not just of local importance but of national importance, it therefore by definition has to go to a big museum like the rijksmuseum in amsterdam. like why shouldn't local museums hold important objects if they can. it belongs to the local people, it's their stuff, let them keep it. rural people already have to travel across the country for everything deemed Cultural, why do the big cities get to hog everything, are city people more important than rural people?