#its embryos. its embryos

[outragedslime]

out of all special interests god couldve bestowed unto me he rly chose like. the strangest one to bring up in conversation

[ahamkara-apologist]

Do you believe Lightbearers are changed biologically from before they became Lightbearers?

Can't believe I forgot to answer this- I genuinely thought I did until I was scrolling through my inbox and saw it pop up again. Oops.

Anyways, my headcanon is that yes, Lightbearers are biologically different than non-Lightbearers- they become so when their ghost is rezzing them for the first time. During the first rez, their bodies are essentially restructured to better suit being a vessel of Light, with far greater phsyical resiliance, capacity, and overall durability being granted as a boon from the Traveler so that they're not torn to shreds when using even the most basal abilities. Even Lightless, they're still much stronger than a baseline human, they cannot age (their telomeres simply do not degrade and their DNA repair kit becomes more accurate, so they don't incur the gradual DNA loss/nonspecific remedies that lead to the maladies of old age), and they're still paracausally sensitive, even if their conduit for channeling the Light has been cut. Outside of the never-aging and paracasal-sensitivity thing, the effect isn't drastic, but they are still noticibly hardier than a person who'd never directly touched the light of the Traveler would be. Eris, Zavala, and Osiris could be beaten by a sufficiently strong mortal in an arm wrestling contest, for example, but they're all able to learn to use Darkness/walk off injuries with an ease that a Lightless mortal cannot.

After the first rez, additional permanant change is possible, but it requires either paracausal alteration (such as wounds created by Darkness, wounds that were earned and began healing in a no-light zone, or subconcious paracausal alteration, where the Guardian's own body rejects the touch of the Light), or deliberate ghost manipulation. I like to headcanon that by using the Light in much the same way that they would heal, Ghosts can learn to tweak parts of their guardian's bodies to be altered to their liking, which is a method by which transitioning post-rez occurs, in the instance that one was not an exo or did not medically transition before death. It's extremely delicate, but all they have to do is use their bond and the Light to go 'hey, you're missing something, you need to make more of this hormone or grow more of this tissue to fully heal', and bam, gender transed :) This fully depends on the skill of the ghost, however, so its a slow process even if it can theoretically lead to a full transition over time, and certain tissues can only atrophy so far before they need to be cut off. In the case of exos, all the ghosts need to do is block the mental disconnect between the body alterations and the perception of what those should be, and that's about it

[kradogsrats]

@its-leethee I felt weird reblogging my own huge post for this lmao

I'm totally willing to accept all of that without question (Christian upbringing, I guess?) but what melts my brain out my ears is if Harrow and Viren had swapped bodies, would Viren's dark magic corruption stay with his body, or with his spirit/essence?

I mean, that and "wait why does the coin spell appear to literally draw the spirit out of the body, but then the body also disappears"

[sarayashikidays]

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime: So thou through windows of thine age shall see

[fabledteeth]

whispering i kind of preferred chaos’ old design and i don’t really Get the new one

[misssprinkles]

Ok, so weird question, but do you ship ryo x embry?

....is it bad if I do?

I dunno i worry that its bad to ship the bc they are both kids

But like they are so cute

And I can definately see it when they are older

ALSO THERE SHIP NAMES PERFECT

LIKE EMBRYO WTH THATS SUCH A COOL SHIP NAME

I actually used to ship them both in a polyship with Necrotary, but then I realized Sunny x Necrotary is apparantly a thing

[mullomohiam]

Fucks sake!!! By a gnats wing!!!

[ntls-24722]

fun drohnen fact: they love to fight. They will fight eachother for whatever reason but interestingly it actually deescalates most things 80% of the time. Disputes will generally have the two parties beat the crap out of eachother and in the winded daze afterwards they'll come to agreement and for this reason, their politics is insane and politicians oftentimes leap over their counters to beat the shit out of their opponents and nobody does anything about it because, well, it'll probably chill them out OR they'll agree on something.

This is, weirdly enough, probably because fighting is also a little romantic. Since Drohnen residents are all only One Sex and kids are expensive little tots who grow up to be the size of buildings, only one of them have the kid and that is generally decided on whoever loses/falls over (Drohnen pregnancies are WAY less scary than human ones, especially because they're used to laying eggs every 3 months - the loser generally doesn't mind it.).

Sometimes it's seen as a little suspicious when a fight lasts too short since romantic fighting is generally shorter than most fighting. much to the dismay of politicians trying to wrap up a squabble to get back to business

[ebbpettier]

shepard love probably keeps wet specimens (i just transferred a wet specimen and i said so)

[chaosstudiesmed]

ok bear with me as i work through this because we just did embryology 1 2 3 and 4 in the space of 2 days and probably like 3 hours and if we're saying that the embryo (ok. blastocyst??) implants in the endometrium but ALSO we're saying that periods are affected by stress (which then must mean that the hormones affecting growth of endometrium are affected so there's less endometrium) (if we're saying specifically that the effect is a lighter period) (and it can't be that stress affects anything else because the amount of cells dying can't change ???) then does that mean if mama is stressed pre-sex but manages to get a viable embryo in the uterine cavity does it just. not implant??? is stress killing these maybe babies?????

[kvarenje]

Learning pyrography for a retirement present for my boss

[porcelainvino]

white people need to STOP I’M GONNA 😭😭😭

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[tranakin-skywalker]

Really really really wish sites wouldn't phrase things like "your baby" or "your pregnancy" when describing fetal development. I'm just doing research for a fanfic! This made up fictional character is the pregnant one, not me!

[kahuna-burger]

I'm impressed that the pitcher can put the baby over the plate.

this post's hypothetical by itself is already ridiculous but the thing that gets me is how the wording implies two very funny things that become funnier in tandem

1. "Accidentally, the pitcher tosses a Christian baby" means this is a mistake on the pitcher's part. i imagine the pitcher is breastfeeding on the field and they pitch and they look down at their hands and they see the ball still in the glove and they go "fuck"

2. hitting the baby will still win you the game

[maplehazelnut]

Today Iearned that the Catholic church is officially against IVF. Found out bc my increasingly extremely religious brother in law wanted to talk to my husband about it. He says "people don't have a right to have children" and linked to an hour long Catholic apologist video. Like I think I'm genuinely worried about him at this point.