#ice trap

[vadapega]

Can we have it so that future Ocarina of Time randomizers / Archipelago have an alternative to the ice Trap that's link drinking a bottle for 30 seconds?

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

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[jay-birds-fly]

A candid image of me cleverly tricking my unsuspecting friends into sharing an interest with me so I have someone to infodump to

[majunju]

heat pack

[gottaread2]

It means so much to me that Ed Nygma once described himself like a butterfly and later on Oswald saw a butterfly encased in ice and decided that was how he was going to deal with Ed.

[alexturntable]

carlossainz55 🌴 Miami is heating up! RACE DAY!

[ranticore]

you mentioned wyrms retract the human-ish head to eat, do you have an idea of how that works, anatomically? I'm trying to imagine a cross section of those necks with separate tubes for air, food, the head and the spine. does the head get packed tight in some kind of sleeve? It would be really cool to see that cross section

(also would love to know more about the time Rev spent as a disembodied head, that must have been really weird)

well i was meaning to draw it anyway

the "human" portion (referred to as the head yes all of it) has its own heart, lungs, and accessory oesophagus, though it doesn't have its own stomach. there's a little crop which is the remains of the human stomach, kind of like an appendix now really. the accessory oesophagus (green) connects to the main crop in the chest area, running parallel to the dragon oesophagus but not attaching to it. when the head is out, the dragon mouth is occupied anyway so it doesn't need to eat and the oesophagus is a squishy tube that is collapsed when not in use (unlike the trachea) so there's no issues with space here, it's fine.

the lungs in the head area are only minorly used for gas exchange - they provide very little oxygen, really, but enough to keep that human part running in a very hypoxic state in the case of decapitation. Mostly they're just used to draw air over the vocal chords. If the lungs in the main body were compromised somehow, the wyrm would straight up cease to function (not death. but comatose), while if the head lungs broke, eh nbd it just means no voice until they heal. there is a syrinx inside the chest cavity which provides additional vocals - deep infrasound rumbles. the main lungs are gigantic and in larger wyrms will extend further into the body. in the case of multiple heads, there are multiple syrinxes where the tracheas connect to the lungs and that means they can produce polyphonic rumbles :) breathing is done through the dragon nostrils, there's a sizeable cavity there for their good sense of smell. in case you are wondering how they sync up their breaths when there's multiple heads, the lungs are birdlike in that it's a series of air sacs and a passive inhalation, and an active exhalation governed by different lobes of the lung at once (using the air sacs). each head has its own lobe. so the wyrm is in a constant state of inhaling and exhaling at different rates (if there's multiple heads)

the dragon oesophagus is the main one and it leads to a crop, which is where the wyrm denatures the powerful toxins of their prey and forms a pellet out of the inedible mandibles and spicules found within a crawling beast. this is spat up later and buried (no longer poisonous so nbd). edible portions go to the stomach. the liver is very big and very strong, it's almost impossible to poison a wyrm in any way (including drugs, alcohol, etc)

so the thing about the wyrms is that the number of legs is variable, Revelation obviously has two, Onozar has four. But the two that Revelation has are actually its forelegs! The torso extends quite a bit into what we would consider the Tail area, it's rather snakelike.

as a disembodied head, Rev had no heart, no functioning lungs, and was also completely paralysed because of the severed nerve cord in its (human) neck. literally from the jaw down it couldn't move, which is what made it such a convincing corpse. life was very underwhelming for it since it was essentially running on extreme battery saver mode, always watching and sensing the world but never truly perceiving what it saw and heard and felt. animals made nests in its chest cavity, and it was infested with scavenging worms for a while, but its own flesh is distasteful to other living beings and nothing did enough damage to actually cause decomposition. just some nasty wounds.

Rev needed Wildfire to literally rip up a crawler and put the meat in its mouth before any attempts at healing could be made. when it finally got its lungs working again it found they were full of detritus - dust, spores, roots, random stuff. growing back the lower body would have taken decades more if it continued at the same pace, so it used a little bit of magic and Wildfire's other tiercels' flesh to construct the most basic shape of its lower body, and once it had those bits intact it could start properly gaining strength and growing.

[invisible-pink-toast]

interactions / relationships that i was waaay too captivated by growing up that i honestly can't believe i ever thought i was straight

+bonus definitely not a ship thing but also i think these awakened something in me

[nelkcats]

Lover Fight (Or Not)

Danny didn't know why he was in Gotham. Honestly, Clockwork just pointed him the way to see something "interesting" that would help him to "calm down", so he had no further clues as to what was going to happen next.

He continued to fly over the city without a care, until he saw one of his biggest nightmares walking. A fucking clown. The halfa scrunched up his face before realizing that the clown had a weapon? What the fuck Clockwork? Incredulous, Danny continued to follow the clown.

A man in a red helmet and a woman with a large hammer seemed to be waiting for him in the middle of the street. The halfa raised an eyebrow doubtfully, before he could wonder what was happening, the woman tried to smash the clown with the hammer saying that her "darling" had betrayed her. Maybe it was a lovers' quarrel?

Still curious, Danny approached the man in the red helmet and after becoming visible he asked him if he was dating the clown too. The man had an extreme reaction and yelled something similar to "What the fuck? He killed me!"

That didn't answer Danny's question, of course, both his parents and most of his ex's had wanted to kill him. But maybe his scale was just broken. He asked the boy in the red helmet if he needed help.

Jason, still confused by the situation, agreed. A few seconds later (after Harley managed to hit him with her hammer, apparently) the Joker had turned into a block of ice. Jason stared in disbelief at the boy next to him, who had a mischievous smile on his face.

Danny really hated clowns.

[crumbsispoggers]

oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh secret kingdom under the whirlpool!

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Satan trapped in ice at the bottom of Hell

[lanabenikosdoormat]

soloing azteca and khrysalis as an ice type beat

[lover-of-mine]

We have time. We're all gonna die alone. Possible Eddie whump. Eddie feeling isolated. Eddie imploding his personal life. I HAVE DOTS AND I DON'T LIKE HOW THEY CONNECT.

[possible-streetwear]

ICE SPICE

[hufflepuffwritingstuff2]

Whumptober 2024 No. 5- Heatstroke

“Villain.” Superhero landed with a thud, “where is-”

“Hero?” Villain asked, “ugh, Superhero, so boring, so predictable! ‘Villain, where is Hero?’ Couldn’t you at least say ‘howdy do, lovely lair you’ve got here’? You disappoint me.”

Technically, Villain’s lair was really an abandoned shopping mall, but the criminal had the means to keep it running for their convenience. Superhero now stood opposite Villain in the food court. Hero had been taken some time ago, and it was anyone’s guess what Villain had done with them. Superhero stepped forward.

“No more games,” Superhero said, “tell me where Hero is, and I won’t kill you.”

“Kill me?” Villain asked, hand over their chest, “kill me? That’s a little dark for you, isn’t it? I thought you were above murder.”

Superhero sped forward, slamming Villain into the wall by their throat.

“Not when it comes to Hero. Now where?”

“I think,” Villain choked out, “they wanted a little spa time. You know the little ice cube needs to chill.”

“Not specific enough,” Superhero growled, squeezing.

“Oh, but if you kill me now, you won’t get any details about their location at all,” Villain wheezed, “you wouldn’t want a melted ice cube, would you?”

“Talk, Villain! Maybe I can’t kill you, but I can make you just barely alive.”

As Superhero spoke, they landed a punch to their gut. Villain wheezed with what little air they had left.

“Alright Alright,” Villain spoke, “they’re in the sauna!”

Superhero was gone in an instant. Villain slumped to the ground, clutching their throat.

…

Superhero threw the sauna door open. The temperature was set to as high as it would go, and Hero was chained to a handle. Their breathing was labored, and their skin red. Superhero rushed inside. Hero was dangerously warm to the touch. They checked their pulse. Strong, but rapid. Superhero broke the chains to bits and pulled Hero out into the cool air.

“Hero, can you hear me?” Superhero asked.

Hero looked up at them with dazed, glassy eyes.

“Hot, tired…”

“I know, I’m gonna get you help. Just hold on.”

Superhero lifted Hero into their arms and flew out of the mall.

“Where’re we going?”

“The hospital. You’re showing all the signs of heatstroke.”

Hero squirmed in Superhero’s hold.

“N-no- hospital, no-”

“I don’t like it either but you need help. I promise I won’t let anything happen.”

I won’t let anything else happen, more like, Superhero thought bitterly.

…

Superhero paced outside the room. Hero had passed out on the way to the hospital. That had truly sent them into a panic. The staff were all certainly surprised to see Superhero crashing into the lobby with their unconscious protégé, but they sprung into action all the same. Now it was a matter of hoping and waiting.

“Superhero?”

A doctor had opened the door, peeking outside.

“Are they okay?” Superhero asked instantly, “can I see them now?”

“We’ve got them stabilized,” the doctor said, “but we’ll need to monitor them for the next few hours.”

The doctor stepped aside to let Superhero in. They rushed inside and saw Hero almost completely submerged in an ice bath. Hero waved weakly.

“Hey,” they said, the brightness back in their eyes.

“Thank goodness,” Superhero said, fighting the urge to jump in the tub and hug them.

“Am I in trouble?” Hero asked, a nervousness in their voice.

Superhero blinked, taken aback.

“For what?”

“For getting kidnapped,” Hero said.

“Hero, something like that is never your fault,” Superhero said, “you’re not in trouble. I’m just happy you’re alive.”

“What about Villain?” Hero asked, “did you get them?”

Superhero looked down for a moment, then met Hero’s eyes.

“Villain got away,” they admitted, “but I promise, it won’t be long before I put them behind bars.”

“Before we put them behind bars,” Hero corrected.

“Hero-”

“You’re not benching me. I was doing this before you found me and I’ll keep doing it even if you won’t do it with me. So, what’s the plan?”

Superhero’s lips pulled up into a hint of a smile.

“Just rest, Hero, we’ll talk work later,” they said.

Hero nodded, settling back into the ice. Superhero waited until they had fallen asleep, before quietly leaving the hospital to find Villain and keep their promise to Hero.

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