#i shouldn't think about things this late

[your-god-empress-lavender]

Okay, it's kinda late for me to be awake and mentally functioning, but i just got a 10/10 best good idea. So, with my teeth project going so well and making the teeth bigger (and hopefully at least a bit stronger), i just got thinking about the effect of using an excess of calcium or an excess of phosphorus. I'm actually still not sure what effect those changes would have at all except maybe promoting different calcium phosphates (eg. Ca3(PO4)2 vs Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2) though those phases are mostly controlled by pH (i think, but i'm not really thinking well right now). But anyway, so, if you remember superfest glass as was made in east germany (the glass that was so hard that it broke your floor before it broke), you should know that the way it achieved that very high hardness was through ion exchange. They formed the glass into shape as pretty normal glass with a fair amount of sodium in it (as is normal) but then they sprayed the glass with a fair amount of molten potassium chloride (iirc) which can allow a potassium ion to swap in for a sodium ion which ends up putting a ton of stress on the outside of the glass in such a way that it makes the material very resistant to breaking. That was probably explained very badly. Anyway, so, what if you did a similar thing with the teeth? Like, i know that amorphous silica with alkali ions isn't exactly the same as teeth which are formed of a ton of perfectly askew very tiny crystals of calcium phosphate, but still. While it may not actually be the same principle in this case, bones with a higher amount of strontium replacing calcium have been noted to have significantly higher strength, which at least to me indicates that it may be due to causing these beneficial internal stresses. All this to say that while i think it may be a decent idea, strontium is expensive, there's very very few ions that i could replace the phosphate with (maybe sulphate? i can't find good info on the ionic radii of either PO4 or SO4) so unless i swap a calcium with 2 Na+ or K+, all my remaining options are either organic nightmares or extraordinarily toxic (and probably radioactive too!). Right before i went to post this i thought maybe swapping out the calcium for a smaller ion might also do the trick? IDK if that's true. Probably not, there's probably something about how it impacts the forces or something, but maybe. And if replacing the ions with smaller ones helps, then i vote for iron because it's super cheap and small and pretty safe

[druid-for-hire]

[images ID: three images of a comic titled "one must imagine sisyphus happy" by druid-for-hire. it is a visual narrative beginning with someone with wrist pain (depicted by bright orange nerves) working at a drafting table. the reader is shown the same wrist as the person uses it for many everyday tasks such as carrying a grocery basket, pushing elevator buttons, typing, and doing dishes, until the pain dissolves all the panels into chaos. the person then performs several physical therapy exercises until the pain subsides. they sit back down at a desk with their laptop, sigh, and begin typing. a small spark of pain reappears. end id]

a fun little piece i made during the semester and submitted into our school comic anthology! (which you can buy at the Static Fish table at MoCCAFest in NYC ;] ). it's about artists and injury

[swiftfootedachilles]

im just gonna be honest gang obviously its gonna be easy for you to say youre in love with a character and theyre an angel when anytime they do something you don't like you brush it off as out of character

[seven-tastic]

planets

[infiniteseriesofhalfways]

sitting in the parking lot thinking i might vom

[bonebabbles]

wait im sorry. ive never read past the first book of dotc and all my knowledge of it really just comes from your blogs. wh. why did the erins decide to include sexual violence in warriors? like. that seems a little. too much? like all im hearing of dotc is just. terrible shit. i like reading more angst/serious stuff (i wanna say darker but not in the way "dark media" usually means on this site) but this feels like WAYYY to much for a book series meant for kids....... what were they thinking??

I legitimately do not understand what people like about DOTC. You can go back to where I started this re-read, and you can visibly watch my charitability drain as the project goes on.

It feels like literally everything that people say they like about this arc is not there, while they've completely forgotten or misremembered SERIOUSLY awful shit

And now, listen. I'm a huge fan of xenofiction, which is a genre that is full of kid's and teen's media, but I do love more adult fiction. I love nuanced themes, dark subjects, and complicated plots.

DOTC's message is just plain odious. None of what it sets out to say is worth saying, and it's borderline incompetent at even saying it to begin with.

What they want to say with Clear Sky and Slash is that Clear Sky isn't "evil." He's a "fundamentally good person," and all of his intentions were good, so he learned a valuable lesson from all the abuse and murder. To say this, they CONTRAST him to Slash, a REAL evil person, who just loves hurting kids and harassing women. Clear Sky is good because he is not "real evil" like this fake, cartoon caricature we just made up.

There was absolutely zero need for them to write Slash the way they did. They really want you to be distressed for Clear Sky as his wife is assaulted in front of him and hauled off while kicking and screaming, and they decided the best way to do that was pregnant woman pinning face licking. Sexual violence is an easy way to disgust and anger an audience, simple as that.

As a kid you may not realize how messed up it is (though the asks I get on this blog are a testament to how many kids did, but didn't have the words to express their discomfort) but as an adult with your critical thinking on? It hits different.

[solradguy]

The hell's up with all these anti-trans men/masc memes lately because I'm getting real sick of it real quick. It's not cute and it was never funny.

[mekanikaltrifle]

the mortifying ordeal of trying to talk to people and absolutely whiffing it

[ask-the-bone-boys]

[[ok gang i am genuinely so sorry to be doing this literally RIGHT before the end of the event but i've got a whole buncha stuff lining up irl that i am starting to reeeaaally need to address/prioritize and there are a couple things that i still want to do for the "finale" here that i haven't had the time to set up, so all of this is to say iiii need to take at least a day or two to Slow Down And Chill for a bit

I haven't entirely decided if this means I'll take a full break like i have been for the weekends or if I'll just post a little less than I have been, it depends on how I end up feeling really. I will absolutely try my best to make up for the days I've missed tho! I have something pretty cool planned that I think has the potential to be pretty fun, just like i said I gotta set things in place first haha]]

[prothos]

Ok, but Shepard in a Fallout AU where, as a soldier before the bombs fell, she dies and is brought back to life by an Institute-like org -coughcerberuscough- but she's a synth and doesn't even know it.

[wandapinkay]

"Criticizing problematic aspects of a show is a healthy way to express media literacy and they should be brought up to attention no matter what" and "we shouldn't just consider the bad things a show has and should enjoy media while still being aware of such bad things" are statements that can and should coexist.

[snonkerdoodlefizzy221b]

just watched season 1 of good omens. i have ideas brewing

[cosmicsnufkin]

so a while ago i made my alarm clock a news reader and today i woke up to a man saying ''news has just broken that liam payne aged 31 has died, falling from a balcony in buenos aires'' right next to my ear

fucking horrifying, i've never woken up that fast

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Man it'd be horrible if I had superspeed. I procrastinate everything to the last minute and it's only in the final hour that my panic levels are high enough to make enough adrenaline in my ADHD riddled brain to counteract the Nothing Response™ and actually kickstart The Task™.

It's bad enough that I literally wait until the last possible second to do anything ever but if I had superspeed?!?! BRUH. I would be waiting until the last second. Because I would have so much time!

And you know the time blindness would be infinitely worse with relative time. Like goddamn, I barely understand the flow of time as it is and it's been consistent my entire life! I can't imagine navigating that when it isn't consistent.

[ratcandy]

i keep forgetting what's considered like... Common knowledge of bugs. Frequently I am shocked by someone not knowing what a larval ladybug looks like because I grew up with those so clearly everyone should know what a larval ladybug looks like. But people Don't. and that's crazy. what does the general public know about bugs. idk anymore

[quasieli]

I'm on day 5 of migraine hell and I've just been in bed all day while it's been storming outside, and just when I start to feel (physically) okay, I get hit by Big Sad.