#plating gene

[dragonbleps-fr]

Scries of some of my dragons (or project dragons) as Undertides!

The last two are my progens!

[drawthething]

Share, Robert.

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

you said Adams lore has changed in the lab world…instantly curious-

okay so.

Back when the au was first made and before it went on its long hiatus, I said Adam was taken as a child and used as the first test subject for MBT, being the child of Lynn and Jude Murray, who worked at MBT.

Now, he still is. technically the child of Lynn and Jude, but. he was never born. he was grown.

Using DNA from Lynn, Jude, some from Gabriel, and whatever other DNA could fill in the gaps, Gabriel grew a human (mostly) specimen in a tube. being Adam. Took a few months for him to grow to a point where he could be let out of the tube (and sense his growing was accelerated while in the tube, he was aged to like. young toddler at this point.) However, after another few years, Lynn had grown attached to her "son", and wanted him to leave the facility, so she sabotaged the equipment, and let Adam out of the facility to flee into town. Due to this, she was killed, and Jude, who was meant to be looking after Adam, was. met with a worse fate.

So TLDR: Adam was grown in a lab tube and escaped a few years later, meaning he was never fully human in the first place and never knew he wasn't until he was recaptured in 2007.

[unhelpfulfemme]

CHECKMATE SPOILERS DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T READ CHECKMATE

Hot take: Francis’s insistence on not being able to control himself in Checkmate is a textbook example of intrusive thoughts and shouldn’t be taken at face value the way so many people do. He has OCD tendencies throughout the entire series (perfectionist neat freak, moral OCD as well), and they’re clearly coming to a head as his mental health deteriorates, so he tries to excessively police his own and others’ behaviour to alleviate the anxiety that comes with the intrusive thoughts. The way OCD sufferers do. (And I mean, you know it’s bullshit because if you actually pay attention to the last couple of pages of the book, he checks in with her or waits to be absolutely sure she won’t pull back before reciprocating or escalating every time. He’s very clearly 100% capable of controlling himself.)

I for one love the Sevigny chapters because I just love vicious cycles where people’s mental illnesses feed into each other and this section is an A+ example of that. You have a person with PTSD caused by sexual trauma and zero non-traumatic sexual experiences and then you have her partner, the only person she’s interacting with, repeatedly and obsessively emphasize how she must always be on alert and on her best behaviour because he’s a disgusting uncontrollable monster a hairbreadth away from basically raping her if she makes the wrong move. Of course she will be constantly MASSIVELY TRIGGERED by this and of course at some point her healing would plateau or even regress. She’s constantly tense, her HPA axis is in overdrive, she can’t relax because one wrong move = more sexual trauma. According to the one guy she trusts and connects with. And of course her lack of progress will feed back into his own issues, because if she's scared and repulsed by his desire that confirms that he is Bad and that he must stop desiring her and thinking about her in a sexual way, which intensifies the intrusive thoughts and his attempts to control them.

And the situation is set up the way it is because one of his fears (as stated during their afterparty fight at his place in Paris) is that they won’t be able to let go even if they become bad for each other. So now you have a situation where they are undoubtedly bad for each other and they do, actually, let go of each other and separate because they deem it best for them both. The structure of Checkmate reminds me a bit of a really nasty game of Tetris where the weird shapes are just stacking up and it seems unsalvageable but actually it was all being arranged for one piece to come in and solve 5 rows at once.

[mychlapci]

tried fresh cilantro for the first time today. guess who has a soap gene

[theangrypomeranian]

been thinking about GAC Pack pop star au again

[lixenn]

Supervisor wants to do 9 genes...

Not related, but best way go get away with homicide how?

[call-me-maggie13]

I’ll really say some shit like “the real royal family” or “the only royal family I care about” like I haven’t spent the entirety of my two off days IN THE TRENCHES of these Princess Katherine of Wales conspiracies and the overlapping symbolism between her and The True Queen Diana Spencer.

[transingthoseformers]

You know how Silverlight grows up more to look like Oppy, right? Well, I'm imagining the unnamed sister will look more like Megatron

Especially since those kids are almost inverse of each other. Silverlight is little, looks a lot like Oppy, likely will have a flier alt when they get one, and was carried by Megatron. The sister will be a rather big baby and a big adult, looks more like Megatron, likely will have a grounder alt, and will be carried by Optimus. So far what I've got is that she'll be almost entirely silver-ish, have blue highlights, and blue optics like Megatronus's! She will not have the drifty optics nor the telescopic ones like Silverlight has. I'm thinking it will be an interesting play in genetics if she has dull servos and more canine like fangs like her carrier has. Oh all of this is flexible and subject to change, naturally naturally, but I'm gonna have fun fucking around with Oppy and Meggy's genetics. I wanna think about what traits are dominant, which are recessive, which might be codominant, and which ones don't follow mendelian genetics at all!

[here-there-were-dragons]

judging by the "fixes" they've applied to fern and i'm fairly sure also to a few other genes, they likely intend to flatten and generic-ify EVERY gene that does anything interesting with especially the top feathers portion of the wings. :/

[jhsharman]

"the secret project"

The digest editor Nelson Ribiero tosses in an in-house reference to himself, and I hope that was not his personalized license plate number.

[serthis-archivist]

picked up a new g1 for release day, as is tradition! flaxen/blush/phthalo

[veggiecats]

shoutout to this freak i saw today

[mxstball]

"Arceus should create their own universes, not inherit somebody else’s."

"I lived for 16 billion years without making a world... just happy enough to live with my husband and children as we made friends and allies all throughout the multiverse. The only reason why I created my own world was because I chose to, not because I was destined to." She scoffed. "Besides, both the starchild and I are invested in this world. It would be beneficial for the both of us if she tended to this world instead of making her own, as I fear of what would happen of the alternative."

[zephyrnoodles]

New Gen1 breeding pair in the works. I just purchased the lady as a banescale with my last gems, now I have to save up for the breedchange and all the gene scrolls.

I’m very excited for their offspring!

[unopenablebox]

ah it’s the inevitable mid afternoon Suddenly Feeling Absolutely No Good At All, a daily occurrence postcovid unless i have already been no good at all for the whole day

today i am going to push thru it to get another ~3-4 hours of labwork + union meeting done but that does mean that i am going to extremely pay for it later