#im being so brave about it though

[thesilverstreets]

Slightly annoyed by a stupid detail in Dreamling fic:

Sometimes people write fishbowl!dream as being unable to speak because the air ran out... But that's impossible! While, yes, the oxygen could technically run out, the air would stay, unless they pulled the glass orb vaccuum (which would bring whole other problems). And as far as I'm aware, one does not need oxygen specifically to speak. People can speak when inhaling Helium, they just sound different because the density of the gas is different. So yes, Dream could very much speak. He chose not to. And could potentially not be heard through the thick glass. BUT HE COULD SPEAK!

[robinson-graves]

i put myself in the isat discord for funsies

i instantly start exploding from anxiety

[deerspherestudios]

I’m super curious about Atom!!!! Firstly, they’re so cute :(((( I would be so nice to them right off the bat. I could match that energy (maybe not the…liquefying people part, but I can Definitely meet the upbeat “get to know you” energy!!!!)

But I’m also curious about their little “worm transform-y” ability. There are a TON of implications to what they said about it, and I’m very interested to know which of those implications are true

So maybe I’m taking Atom too literally, but I’m pretty sure at one point they said “I can make your air.” Which, they WOULD need to make MC air, if they were to keep you in space forever. Air is limited.

But you can’t breathe in worms. So that means Atom’s worm (body?) transformation legitimately BECOMES whatever they will it to. Not just imitates. That dog food wasn’t worms, it was dog food. And the air isn’t worms, it’s air!!

And then that stretches into other questions. Could Atom take any form they wish? What would happen if they transformed all their worms? Can they feel when their worms (body??) are being transformed?

You don’t have to answer that slew of questions at the end lmao—maybe I’m reading too much into it. But!! I LOVE Atom and all the implications that their existence holds. I had a lot of fun playing the game :DD

Aaa I'm really glad you like Atom as much as you do!! I don't know if it's just new blorbo energy but I get excited to talk about them, especially in detail like this haha! I'll try to explain below the cut about their ability to create things (tw// it's long!!) but to keep it short, you're actually correct!

TLDR: Atom reconstructs their worms into different forms of matter (whether solid/liquid/gas) to produce whatever you need to survive. Because, uh,,, science. <3

Here's the lengthy explanation of what Atom can do. I'm not smart enough to explain it but I'm stealing this from another website:

Transmutation or nuclear transmutation is a process that involves a change in the nucleus of an atom. When the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom changes, the identity of that atom changes as it is turned into another element or isotope.[1] This transmutation process can be either natural or artificial.

Simplifying it further for my character, when Atom talks about being better than a planet, they kinda are! They can make anything as long as they know what it is (I've yet to come up with 'how' they discover new elements,,, it's implied in-game but I wanna flesh it out more; ask me again later keheh), and the worms that make them up is an unlimited resource/material for those exact transmutations. And if something turns into waste, like the rejected dog food, they just crunch them up to be re-used all over again.

Remember what they said about being your 'angel'? Not to be too on the nose but in a way they turned the Bidadari into your own personal terrarium, with it being the ecosystem keeping you alive in space. Which, in my personal opinion, makes the ending much more terrifying.

Here's a lightning round to answer your questions because I don't know when I'll get these kinds of questions again!!

Could Atom take any form they wish?

Nope! They're still just worms! When they 'make' something it's no longer a part of them.

2. What would happen if they transformed all their worms?

Highly unlikely to happen, but let's say for experimentation's sake Atom is forced to use up all their worms and the end result is separated from it so they can't absorb it back into themselves like the dog food. It has to leave one single organism behind, but it can't really do anything. That single organism eventually will multiply all the way back to its former (mass wriggling) glory.

3. Can they feel when their worms (body??) are being transformed?

Nope! They don't really feel anything, at the most they feel pressure and temperature changes but that's it.

THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TEDTALK HAVE A NICE DAY! HERE'S YOUR REWARD <3

[zooophagous]

While at the vet with Aster my car tire went flat so I had to deal with a flat tire and an angry cat in the car and an antique I ordered on ebay arrived in the mail completely shattered and smashed to smithereens so today has been sort of an event.

[starryluminary]

I love this kiss. I loooooove this kiss. This is such a significant kiss in the show's history and I'm glad I could finally Noco-ify it. I hope I did it justice I really hope so

Masterlist | Bonus

DeaKids watermark and og screenshots!

[bigskydreaming]

The thing that kills me about the Star Wars prequel trilogy and why I will die on my hill that my problem is not that Star Wars is a tragedy, its that its a badly written tragedy, is that Anakin Skywalker was at his closest to being a good Jedi when he was ten years old.

[neallo]

near deathnote despite his limited mobility / physical strength is nonetheless about to carry me through this week. he's my everything

[tomaturtles]

Doomed by the narrative (keeps failing my driving test) and stuck in a time loop (has to retry the driving test over and over)

[medi-bee]

[the-pickle-jar]

weh

[saintadeline]

OCs are seriously the only thing I've been thinking about lately... Have a few again

[deus-ex-mona]

when you say you’re happy being by yourself

but maybe that’s just what you’re trying to convince yourself of…?

[maybemoss]

unpopular opinion but i lost most of my interest in wolf 359 as a whole after desperate measures. they just didn't care about the two that had the MOST character development potential. and yes there are flashbacks and i still cared about the others but it is very much Not The Same

ough understandable,,, the way they just killed off those two. especially maxwell. i wish we at least got the chance to see her in action more.

honestly though, i think hilbert’s death served the narrative well. it wasn’t necessary, but it… i dunno, really hammers home the tragedy. eiffel’s right, he could have been redeemed. he could have. (but would he have?) and the lingering uncertainty of it all makes me Feel Things. if he had made it to cutter’s appearance, would he have ended up betraying the crew? surely not—but he did it once, why couldn’t he do it again?

and the fact that we don’t know, i think, fits his narrative well. a man with many identities, his past crimes hidden under a veil of lies that goddard helped weave. with him dead, we never get to know. every time he ‘appears’ after, it’s inherently colored by the perceptions of the other characters. he becomes this sort of spectre hanging over the crew, a puzzle that can never be solved. not a person. never a person. just how goddard wanted him.

[alkemylabz]

why do my AM posts keep getting notes btw its been a while since i talked about it and i dont like to pay attn to trends. did someone make a tiktok about ihnmaims or whatever

[brionysea]

aromantic nancy wheeler could be so powerful. is the independent ambitious aro who cares about their work/passion/being right (<- one in the same when your passion is journalism) more than anything else stereotypical? maybe. i don't care. el has the "aro who loves her friends and family sooooo much" niche covered and sometimes queer people just do fit stereotypes (will byers our beloved). we can have some variety

[mechanicalbowtye]

read the scratch upd8. little too close to home