#impaledlotus

[angsty-prompt-hole]

i saw you mention some ocs in that tag-the-oc that’s always on your mind. i’d love to hear a little bit about them!

Oooo yes I believe I mentioned Haven in that one. She is one of my favorite OCs and she lives rent free in my head constantly.

There's an old ask where i rambled about her on my blog somewhere but I'm banished to mobile and can't search for it right now, so I'll just ramble away again lmao. One day she'll get a proper character introduction, but I'm waiting to do that for Reasons.

The short version is that she got involved in some crazy stuff when she was in her mid-20's because her dad had gone missing, and when his body was found, there was a bunch of weird stuff with him. It all ended with Haven being tormented by an eldritch monstrosity that turned her into something less than human, an immortal being with black scleras and fractured sanity.

After that, she became a bit of an interdimensional bounty hunter and started hunting down people associated with the entity. She didn't want them to continue to harm people.

Along the way, she ended up accidentally adopting two different children (moreso she tried to get them to someone who could actually take care of them but they got extremely attached to her and refused to leave) and she befriended a phoenix named Fenris. She also had a significant other named Liam at one point, but tragic circumstances left him permanently incapacitated, which really did not help her fragile mental state.

Haven isn't her real name and is just one in a long line of aliases she's used over the centuries, and by the time she started using that name she'd almost completely forgotten her real name.

She's a very grumpy and sarcastic person and tends to come off as excessively violent, aggressive, and hard to work with, but she does have a softer side. It's hard to get to, but it's there.

She appears in a lot of my WIPs (Rot and Ruin and Kiriska's Story being the main ones, but she cameos in a lot of other places) and she does have her own thing I'm planning that isn't really a writing thing so it's never really talked about here, but it goes through her backstory and what happened to her that led to her being turned.

This is what she looks like (art by @birdy-the-artist ):

Her metal hand is a prosthetic, and the heterochromia was also a physical side effect of being turned. Originally, both of her eyes were hazel. The dog tags she's wearing belonged to Liam.

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Practising the Christmas/ holiday messages. Tell me what you think of the background?

Anyway,

Happy Holidays to @impaledlotus , an amazing writer and friend who I love very much and wish them all the best

[elijahrichardwrites]

1, 6, & 22 for the writers ask? :)

Ren, hello!! How are you doing?

give short descriptions of all your current WIPs.

I'm going to go ahead and cheat by sending you over to this post here! It's a masterlist of pretty much all my WIPs and I figured I'd save us time when I already have that fancy dancy little thing haha

6. are your projects driven more by character or plot?

Oh absolutely by the characters! My plots are basic at most as I enjoy just writing the characters (which could be a good or bad thing haha)

22. how much of your own self/experiences do you believe pours into your projects? if this differs per project, which projects have the most and least of you?

So much. I've talked about it briefly before but I tend to use writing and my stories as a way to cope with my own trauma so more often than not, there are plenty of pieces of me in my projects. In fact, Nite & Daye deals with my own mommy issues, and my character Orion was a pretty idealized version of myself in some of his earlier renditions.

Thank you for the ask <33

[caracteresolaires]

i saw you mention some ocs in that tag-the-oc that’s always on your mind. i’d love to hear a little bit about them!

!!!!!!!! thank you!!!

Tiffany and Nick are the mains in my (as yet untitled) western wip — she is a former ‘holy healer’ who is pretty aimless when the story starts, and he is a very recent escapee from a cult with ever-increasing power. they’re my little guys and i love them so so much, i devote every waking thought to them

Alessia and Zoya are both guardians from destiny! alessia is a multi-talented woman (primarily a designer, researcher, artist, and museum curator) who is bright and gold and way super hot; zoya is an angry little thing who is made out of blood and fire (not literally) and she is so fun to think about — these two don’t really hang out or interact at all but i love them both very very much c:

[midnight-and-his-melodiverse]

19, 20 & 21 for the wip ask game?

Thank you for the ask Ren!! 19. What is a favorite line of dialogue so far?

From Stars, Bits, and Bytes, "Episode One: Discovery of the Titania":

Lyric jumped in excitement. “We’re getting nearer! Now all we need to do is get past the construction workers.”

Ottava was confused. “How do you suppose we’re gonna do–” 

Lyric bounded ahead and stealthily slipped down the rockface. 

Ottava sighed. “...that.” She followed after him and eventually they approached the construction site where the spacecraft was. 

20. What is a favorite description so far?

Also from the same Stars, Bits, and Bytes chapter: "After sneaking by relatively unnoticed, they found the spacecraft, once a dot in the distance, but it was now fully visible from its landing platform. The Titania, which was the spacecraft’s given name, stood there boldly, like a valiant warrior posing. The sunlight reflected off the steel blue metal which acted as a barrier to gunfire and laser fire, which further presented the ship’s stature as marvelously momentous. The craft surely was a sight to behold.

The kids seemed to stare into the black abyss which was the cockpit windows spanning across from left to right, getting a slight glimpse at a rainbow of buttons inside the spacecraft. They were taunted by its height; it was like they were standing beneath a titan. Both of them being below average height for a child didn’t help matters in quelling the silent terror of laying their eyes on Titania’s seemingly massive stature as a spacecraft."

21. What is a line that makes no sense and/or is funny out of context?

“I remember you saying that you wanted to check out the Titania! But isn’t it still under construction?”

[mjjune]

Great snippet! The name Olice is really interesting, and I love the dynamics here. That dialogue at the end is really engaging and feels like real people talking. Also that last line made me lol. I also have a friend who 100% would not look up from their phone unless the car was actually hit.

Also I would loved to be on your taglist for this!! We vampire folk have to stick together.

continuation of chapter (1)—

wip: vampires don’t take roadtrips

character(s): darren de leon (mc/pov), olice prajapti-ellis (adoptive sister/it’s complicated), an angry taxi driver & a mysterious white haired stranger that’s not important no of course not 👀

warnings: almost hits a dude with a car…? swearing/kinda road rage lol

also trying out a taglist but i’m super bad at remembering? lemme know if u wanna be added/removed: @magic-is-something-we-create , @henrike-does-writing-sometimes

I was lost in thought when a person appeared in my field of vision — the middle of the road — and I slammed on the breaks in a nick of time. Barely. It jolted Olice from her haze and I laid the horn on thick. I leaned my head out of the window.

“Hey! Watch it asshole!” I shouted. The person was a man, tall, broad, nearly cleared the car on foot alone. I couldn’t see his eyes, which were obscured by a wide brimmed hat, but I could see the wavy white hair that tumbled down his back like some untamed beast. In the middle of traffic he stood still as a statue, even when I laid on the horn again, he didn’t budge. The taxi in front of us jolted forward. “Hey fuck you kid!” The taxi driver leaned out of his window. “Ain’t nowhere to fucking go!”

“Dude, I’m not honking at you! I’m honking at this fucker who—“ I cut myself off; when I went to point the man was no longer there, seeming to have vanished into thin air. “—Where the fuck…?” I whipped my head left, right. The man that I nearly crashed into was nowhere to be seen.

“If you honk at me again you’re fucking dead meat, you got that?!” The man yelled, ignoring me and my confusion. Olice caught my hand before I laid on the horn again out of spite.

“Cool it.” She gave me a look. I gnawed at my lip, giving into her unamused stare and flopped back in my seat. She leaned over me to reach the main console and rolled my window back up.

“You’re letting the heat out anyway.” Was all she said.

“Did you see that?” I asked. Ignoring her statement entirely, I rolled the window back down to lean my head out again, searching for the man we’d almost steam rolled.

“See what? I was looking at my phone.”

“Even when I slammed on the brakes??”

[magic-is-something-we-create]

i'm curious, ember for the blorbo bingo? :eyes:

HI hello i got back from my weekend break maybe 20 seconds ago and ill have u know i have filled out this bingo card for 6 characters at LEAST already. but anyway heres embers <3

at least one woman that fears ember is actaea and the fish that love them are the deepfolk. no i will not explain further

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

ID in alt text

It flew down on bird’s wings, quite like the boy in its memories, and, perhaps same as he, it thought, “So this is how flying ends. I venture it was worth it.”

The basics:

Working title: The Sun is a Coin, a fairyless tale.

Type: short story, 6.8k words

Status: first draft finished, editing

Genres: fairytale-esque, existential, experimental, hell if I know

The pitch:

The Sun is missing, stolen by a magpie that mistook it for a coin. The Earth still makes her rotation around the dwarf star, but the Sun doesn't rise, not in the right way.

Who notices the difference, and how do they react? What happened to the Coin? How furious is the Moon, and what will he do about all this?

And what in the world happens when a girl tosses the Coin into an unmysterious wishing well?

Themes and such: a story about stories and the power in them, about the wonderous little things and the things that only try to seem big when they aren't and how silly they are, about the joys of being lost and the excitement of finding, about a little bit of everyone and a little bit of everything. Also I've been asked to tell you that an old priest from Connecticut, ex-hippie and retired drag queen, might in fact be God in some endearingly human sense of the word.

What to expect:

As I am not, in fact, drafting, but already procrastinating on editing the draft, I shall post experts of the story and make updates more regularly than I do so for other WIPs, or so I hope.

Taglist: contact me to be added!

General taglist (interact with this post to be added, contact me to be removed): @apocalypsewriters @pagesofcursive @47crayons @lady-of-himring @dandelion-tea @arbitreneart @wizardfromthesea @enchanted-lightning-aes @pixelw0rds @copper-dragon-in-disguise @sylvar-writes-fantasy @a-completely-normal-writer @wildswrites @aalinaaaaaa @ink-fireplace-coffee @dumbass-prince-of-the-skies @aeipathys @carefulpyro @sar-per @decodamalion @euphoniouspandemonium @bamboozled-boi @ashen-crest @sagasofazeria @imstillherebitch @andiwriteunderthemoon @writeouswriter @soapstrings @doeskies @spyroluva @the-amber-droid-dreams @amywrites256 @bloody-hugs @thingys-reblooged @the-orangeauthor @writing2sirvive @thearcannevoid @hungryslothwrites @impaledlotus @authorofstories55 @lockejhaven

[fearofahumanplanet]

IMPORTANT

Tagging literally everyone on all my taglists bc this is relevant to all of you: @aohendo, @athenswrites, @impaledlotus, @bardic-tales, @carefulpyro, @marinesocks, @writingpotato07, @hey-its-quill, @dogmomwrites, @andromedatalksaboutstuff, @literary-artist, @calendar-collective, @elijahrichardwrites, @painisntn33ded, @afoolandathief, @cactusmotif, @thelibraryofchaos, @tryingtimi, @spookyfurybouquet-53d553e6, @qelizhus, @athemarina, @inkspellangel, @kaylewiswrites, @pen-of-roses, @drabbleitout, @kashacreates

In Tumblr's continued war against self-advocacy and common sense, they have added "community labels" that automatically filter out mature content from you. Furthermore, even if I don't mark my posts as mature, other people can flag them to have moderators do it for me. I wouldn't have an issue with this if not for the fact that they have everyone's mature content as "invisible" for all users by default.

So, if you want to continue seeing my work, you're going to have to go in your settings and do what I've done here:

"Blur" also works. But it's on "hide" by default, which is extraordinarily absurd.

I'm going to have to start flagging my stuff as mature myself I think because I'm not eager to get banned for random nonsense, so yeah. Set it to at least "blur" or otherwise you won't be able to read my stuff.

[kudzucataclysm]

wip intro: Shattered Earth

On an alternate Earth full of strange and bizarre horrors, nothing is as it seems. An enemy might be a friend and that stranger with amnesia might be someone you knew all along...

taglist: @impaledlotus @thelittlestspider​

The current date is February 8th 2005; a not so distant past split off from our reality, where the effects of an anomalous comet, superpowered beings, a brief nuclear exchange, a supervolcano eruption, and an alien invasion have the world in a constant state of uncertainty that its only now starting to adjust to. The entire American midwest is a desolate nuclear wasteland. Europe was annihilated and is now completely abandoned. Corporations control every aspect of people’s lives. Global weather systems have been destroyed and the aftermath has left earth in a new ice age. Entire continents have been infected with invasive, man-eating alien wildlife. Humanity is still in the process of recovering from these events, with the help of some not-so-truly empathetic Martian peacekeepers.

Now is a time of monsters.

So what is SE truly about? SE is, ultimately, a sci-fi fantasy, dark comedy, horror action story about killing the monsters. More importantly however, SE is a story about two teenagers having to grow up way too fast in a world that stubbornly refuses to end, in order to survive everything it throws at them.

Status: Almost entirely planned (Arc 1 is at least); Outlining, scripting

POV: OmniscientTM. we have 80+ characters in this story babaaaay

Format: I’m planning for SE to be a webcomic, so I’ll mostly be posting scripts, sketches, and from time to time some practice comic pages :3

Tropes / Vibes / Themes: friendship, love, queer youth, eugenics, found family, crime lordism/gang warfare, intersolar espionage, weird space magic, loss of innocence when forced to grow up, trauma and healing from it, the human condition, devotion that corrupts, politics and the wasteland it creates, extreme dystopian levels of capitalism, feeling valid in reasons to hate and how first impressions are often times misleading, learning to be selfish...im sure theres more haha vv’

Content Warnings: Offensive/Derogatory/Explicit Language/Slurs**, Explicit Violence/Gore/Body Horror, Nudity, Mature Sexual Themes/Discussions, Drug Use/Abuse, Emotional Mental and Physical Abuse/Manipulation, In*est Mention, Suicide Related Topics, Self Harm, Mass Death/Corpses, Genocide, etc

And now onto our two protagonists :3

NAME: Desmond Oswald Arkady

DOB: November 30th, 1991; 14 years of age

HISTORY: Son of rancher Sloane Arkady and medical nurse Ed Arkady, and unknowing grandnephew of the famous superscientist Lupe Altena. Has two older siblings and one younger sister. Throughout grade school Desmond was noted for having poor social skills and having a severe temper; he was bullied and very much alone during this time. His mother was emotionally and physically absent while his father became emotionally and verbally abusive as he grew older. Eventually his parents split, Ed taking Desmond and his brother Jerome, with Sloane (under legal definition) ‘kidnapping’ their younger sister Zuri. Oldest sibling “Happy”’s whereabouts are unknown. In 2003 abnormal brain wave activity was reported, benign; his temper somewhat subsided. The remnants of the family moved to the NEC in late 2004.

Desmond’s above-average school grades have currently led to him attending the Promethean School of Science under the tutelage of one infamous Dr. Maya Fontaine. He seems to have an interest in all things biomedical and mechanical.

OCCUPATION: Officially listed as a part-time bowling alley attendant at Crimson Head Lanes. Unofficially: errand boy and lookout for the criminal body behind the bowling alley.

ORIGIN: A small black earth town in former Kentucky known only as “Carbonville” that no longer exists.

Last Known Whereabouts: Lives in NEC, DUSA.

Identifying Characteristics: African-American, mole on left cheekbone, shaved dark brown hair, late bloomer in terms of height at just 5 feet tall, noticeably overweight and stocky. Known to almost constantly fiddle with his hands due to reported hypersensitive dermis and nerve damage stemming from contact with a wildfire some years before.

PSYCH: Annoyingly positive attitude that hides a deep, festering rage. An overbearing people pleaser almost to the point of submission. Desperate for validation and a sense of belonging. Chronically low self-esteem. Extreme levels of anxiety. Is repressing serious anger issues to the point of migraines and blackouts. Possible case of undiagnosed autism. Easy to intimidate and manipulate.

NAME: Francis T. Mueller

DOB: August 1990; 15 years of age

History: One of the many thousands of Chimera children of the Martian King Azelfafage, Francis was raised by her human mother Roxanne Mueller. Her mother being a drug addict and abusive, Francis from an early age found herself doing any odd job she could to simply feed herself, which soon escalated to working for the assassins guild, Antumbra for a short time at the young age of 10, and working as a bodyguard and gunner for various drug dealers up until the age of 12.

At 9 years old she experienced a medical “accident” that resulted in a severe case of dissociative amnesia.

Police records in 2003 indicate that after her release from brief juvenile custody, Francis worked her way up from petty thug to where she is now working for Crimson Head Lanes. Conflicting reports state that Francis was “handed over” to CHL and is working for them unwillingly by use of either force or threat.

Occupation: Officially listed as a bowling alley attendant at Crimson Head Lanes. Unofficially: hitman thought to be employed by CHL owner Carmine Keller, as well as gunner, enforcer, and more recently the bodyguard of fellow coworker Desmond Arkady.

Origin: NEC, DUSA.

Last Known Whereabouts: NEC, DUSA.

Identifying Characteristics: Curly red hair and freckled dark brown skin like all Chimera. Crimson red teeth. Androgynous/masculine facial and body structure, usually mistaken for a male. Magenta eyes on yellow that in a highly unusual case shift to white on black in low-light settings, a possible case of intersexism or a mutation. Identifies as a transgender female. Over 6 feet tall and malnourished for a half-alien child.

Psych: Mentally and emotionally unstable, a possible case of borderline personality disorder and even sociopathy. Possibly suffers from a panic or anxiety disorder as well. A loner, dangerous, known for violent mood swings and outbursts. Suffers from dissociative amnesia, PTSD, and alcoholism.

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**Unfortunately, in the world this comic’s set in (the world ‘ended’ in the 1960s), people aren’t very accepting or understanding of different sexual orientations. Actually, peeps aren’t very accepting in general. It’s a distrust of foreign cultures and ideas, mostly, mixed with good old fashioned repressed victorian standards and ideals.

The only worse thing worse for your career/life in this universe is to be labelled a stinkin’ commie.

[mjjune]

Last Line Tag

tagged by @isabellebissonrouthier

soft tagging / avof taglist: @aritany @bebewrites @ceph-the-writing-spook @diemohnblume @elijahrichardwrites @eventideintrigue @garthcelyn @ghafasinej @impaledlotus @jezifster @knosium @lexiklecksi @little-mouse-gardens @mr-writes @wildswrites

let me show you the last line i just edited from AVOF2 😈

Ashes shoot out into the night sky, as if only whiff of the smoke from the fire that burns within.

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@impaledlotus is the best friend I could ever ask for. their writing is phenomenal and my heart swells whenever I see them post

[elijahrichardwrites]

j, k, n, or m for the oc alphabet soup ask?

Hello! I hope you're having a great day <3

I honestly had quite a few that fit the bill but I think I'll go with Mercy!

Basically Mercy is from a cyberpunk-esque story with child/teen gangs and secret organizations. The story is pretty underdeveloped and the character himself is overly developed so I don't have much to say haha. But Mercy is one of two people who manage an area of the city that's deemed a neutral space where no fighting is allowed. Mainly because of Mercy's counterpart but even Mercy has a name for himself. There's a reason he's called Mercy (since no one knows his real name). He rarely speaks and always wears a gas mask that covers half his face. He also has a head of white hair that has been the cause of many rumors but was pretty much brought up from a Marie Antoinette Syndrome sort of deal. I'm not sure what to say other than he's a quiet kid who can be absolutely terrifying but also caring too.

Thank you for the ask!!

[theskeletonprior]

[ID: a greyscale banner of a skeleton reclining in rich silks, cropped so only the ribcage and part of the spine are visible. It reads ‘A Year in the Priory’ in white. /End ID.]

I saw a post going around by @maguayans​​ about making a year-in-review post, and it looked too fun for me to resist!

It hasn’t quite been an entire year for me. I started this account on January 18th, but the time has flown right by! I think it’s good to reflect, and this is the time of year for it, that’s for sure. I didn’t want to do it Spotify-style, so here we are. Just the bare bones.

On Writing

This year really marks the start of my taking my work as a writer much more seriously. It was also the first time I was paid for my writing (!!!). I opened commissions, although I only sold any to people I knew. I only published one piece of fanfiction this year, in January--just a little study of Silco and Jinx from Arcane. But I have a couple others that I’ve been fiddling with to keep me loose that I might even finish one day. In April, my husband and I launched our Patreon, and as of this month, we’ve released nine volumes of The Bishop of Black with a 10th on the way! We managed to put out a new volume every month, along with bonus side-stories. I’m very proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish together. In the summer, I came down with some terrible Gorr the Butcher brainrot, but the fic isn’t finished. It is, if I do say so myself, rather good, though. I also immediately became obsessed with Alchemy of Souls, but that fic isn’t finished either. I haven’t had an awful lot of free time, just in general, this year. I’ve struggled to make dedicated time for my projects. This blog has also begun to grow quite well! I reached my first major milestone in October, did a very fun giveaway, and then smashed that milestone to absolute bits. This, I attribute chiefly to the miraculous accident of a post that I made at 2am escaping containment. I did make an attempt at pushing out a few more words in November, but came away with a little more than 5 000 on RAVENOT, which is more progress than I’ve made in some time. I also released a polished first chapter, which stands as a sort of pilot for the project. Some folx were even kind enough to drop a little tip in my jar for it, which was lovely. I did get some little drabbles out, too. So I think I’ve been sneaking out the words fairly well this year. And that’s about it for 2022, as far as my writing goes. I wasn’t able to really get back to my bookmaking, but I’m getting pretty handy with Affinity Publisher and that’s got to count for something.

On the Future

I’d like to try to commit to a few things for 2023. Here’s the list: + complete a draft of one WIP for 2023 (spoiler alert: it’s going to be RAVENOT) + read every day + dedicate time to writing every week (collaboratively, and solo) + consistently include IDs for images in original posts + get back to bookmaking! I’ve been making nothing but x-folds and pamphlet stitches and it’s making me wilt

On Meetings

And I do want to shout out some of the wonderful members of this here writeblr community that I’ve had the pleasure of meeting this year. Warmest regards to: @flowerprose @muddshadow @pinespittinink @impaledlotus @inkspellangel and @calicojackofficial for being some of the highlights of my dash! And of course, I must give mention to those I know and love already: @rosieartsie and @magefaery​ <3

On Reading

I did manage to get a fair bit of reading in this year, all things considered. I would’ve liked to read more, but there’s been a lot for me to adapt to this year. Here’s the list (the ones I especially liked get an asterisk*):

Dune, Frank Herbert They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera When No One is Watching, Alyssa Cole Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin* Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Xiran Jay Zhao* Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake* The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger* A Dowry of Blood, S. T. Gibson* Nothing but Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw Blood Scion, Deborah Falaye Terciel and Elinor, Garth Nix Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth*, Tamsyn Muir Woom, Duncan Ralston Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Eric Larocca manga Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost (1-5), Kaori Yuki* Jujutsu Kaisen (up-to-date), Gege Akutami* Boku no Hero Academia (up-to-date), Kohei Horikoshi Kimetsu no Yaiba (1-23), Koyoharu Gotouge Kaiju No. 8 (up-to-date), Naoya Matsumoto* Chainsaw Man (up-to-date), Tatsuki Fujimoto* Utena: After the Revolution, Chiho Saito JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (part 1), Hirohiko Araki

And that’s all, really. I wonder where we’ll be this time next year.

[midnight-and-his-melodiverse]

🖊 for midnight’s girlfriend? i don’t remember her name i’m so sorry,,

It's alright!! For future reference, her name is Ambrosia hehe

Because Ambrosia's a jewel bee human hybrid, and as a result of the magic in the Melodiverse, her wings "sing" very melodically as she buzzes around!

[elijahrichardwrites]

Okay but these lore bits are super cool??? Thanks for sharing >:)

🤫 & 👀 for the get to know the WIP ask (any WIP of your choosing!!)

mooooore vdtrt :) this is all just surrounding the weird ass fucking vampires i got going on here lol

🤫 - A big spoiler/piece of lore out of context

celestial vampires are hard to kill simply because they are beings of space and the cosmos. like stars, it is possible for them to go supernova however this is not a death for them; its simply the dispersing of their particles, but they can reform. how long they take to do so is a mystery because no one has ever seen a celestial go supernova before, not even estel in all his years of being alive.

that'll change tho :)

👀 - A piece of lore you’ve been waiting for an excuse to share

i think i may have mentioned it offhandedly but bloodlings have the ability to take on the attributes of other creatures that they drink the blood of and those attributes subsist for as long as it takes their body to digest the blood of that creature.

for example, if a bloodling were to drink the blood of a bird, they could develop wings, feathers, even temporary flight depending on how much they drank and how their body adapts to it. but once the blood was digested those effects would wear off