#they're just chillin its fine.

[shortkinglink]

shrine incident

[velvetvexations]

I think it's interesting that the trans women who adamantly deny male socialization mostly talk about experiencing dysphoria, or not liking male expectations. Like it's fine that the word is poisoned for them and they dont want to engage with it but they are objectively just not engaging with what it means to be socialized. For me, female socialization was growing up and seeing my female family members be expected to cook/clean at family events, seeing my male relatives get straight up drunk and watch movies that my grandma asked them not to (she doesnt like hearing violent movies), and being judged for not helping with cleanup. Now I do help, mostly because I feel bad seeing my grandma struggle with it, but there's so much dysphoria that comes with it because I know that if I was a Man Raised Man or whatever the fuck I wouldnt have this expectation and it probably wouldnt even occur to me (my little brother doesnt lol). I think trans women actually do, even pre transition, have a more complicated relationship with these sorts of things than a cis man would but like, idk, how many trans women were as children raised to believe theyre terrible and evil for not wanting to clean up after their male relatives, and told that the best outcome they can expect from life is to do this labor for many kids and grandkids and when they die, they'll be remembered as "nice" and "a good mother". Now I'll be remembered as a bad child and fundamentally unnatural. And thats not to say trans women dont face gendered abuse as kids but I think it is different and a lot are viewed as like, freaks for maybe wanting to help in the kitchen instead of chillin with the Boys™. And many also wrestle with like, wanting to be perceived as a woman but not wanting to have to be the free maid service. I have to wrestle with not wanting to abandon all the work to my female relatives but also not wanting to be the maid and also knowing that the more I help the more I'm viewed as female. I guess this got rambley but I just want it to be clear that I do think transfems have interactions with socialization that are unique to them, as do transmascs, and individual cis people, etc, but its weird to insist that the closeted transfem experience is basically the cis girl experience plus being treated as an undesirable third gender, and that transmascs have a better childhood experience than cis women.

Soul-gender. Everyone recognizes someone is really a girl from birth but says they're a boy out of sheer meanness.

And yes, they very deliberately talk past what people are actually saying about socialization to take "trans women are generally expected to grow up as boys" to mean "and that means they've programmed to be Evil" because that's how TERFs use it. Meanwhile they fully accuse transmasc and non-binary people of having one single default experience during childhood that's made them all hate trans women to the point of needing to start a brand new separatist movement over it.

[demi-rxndxm-stxff]

Some DigitalTime Incorrect Quotes

Colin: Since we're in a relationship now, your clothes are my clothes too. Don't ask me why I have your shirt on, this is our shirt. Tony: Fine, but when I come strutting in with your fuzzy socks I don't want to hear shit.

Tony: My future partner must be brave, strong, intelligent, successful and organized. Colin: steps on a caterpillar and proceeds to drop to their knees and sob while apologizing profusely Tony: That one. I want that one.

Tony: BE A BETTER PERSON! Colin: WHY?! Tony: BECAUSE SOMEONE NEEDS TO HAVE MORALS IN THIS RELATIONSHIP, AND IT SURE AS FUCK AIN'T GONNA BE ME, SWEETHEART! (Only added this one cause it was too damn funny)

Colin: We both look very handsome tonight. Tony: You know, if you'd just said that I looked handsome, I would have said, "So do you." Colin: I couldn't take that chance.

Tony: Okay, I’m going to get the wedding cake. Colin: Perfect, while you do that I’ll check on the ring bear. Tony: … Tony: You mean ring bearER, right? Colin: … Tony: Look me in the eyes and tell me you are not going to bring a dangerous wild animal to our wedding.

Colin: Two bros! Colin: Chillin' in a hot tub! Colin: Zero feet apart 'cause we're GAY AS FUCK!

Colin: Hey, about that love letter you sent me- Tony: blushes What are your thoughts? Colin: The fourth sentence- Tony: Yeah, that’s where I got really emotional and I- Colin: It’s “you’re” not “your”.

Colin: I don't need to go to bed. I'm not tired, I'll be fine. Tony: But, darling, I'll be so lonely without you. Come curl up in my arms so I can feel whole again. Colin: O-oh. Well. Are you trying to seduce me into healthy sleeping patterns?? Tony: Is it working?

Tony: Do you want to explain the text you sent me last night? Colin: It was autocorrect. Tony: Autocorrect wrote "You're so hot. Please step on me."? Colin: Yes.

Tony: I’ve been dropping them the most insanely obvious hints for like a year now. No response. Colin: Wow. They sound stupid. Tony: But they’re not. They’re really smart actually. Just dense. Colin: Maybe you need to be more obvious? Like, I don’t know… “Hey! I love you!” Tony: I guess you’re right. Hey Colin, I love you. Colin: See! Just say that! Tony: Holy fucking shit. Colin: If that flies over their head then, sorry Tony, but they're too dumb for you. Tony: Colin.

Colin: Okay, but if your not gay then why are you always holding my hand and kissing me and telling me I’m your boyfriend? Tony: Colin- Its satire! Colin: THAT'S NOT WHAT SATIRE MEANS!

Tony: I still have no idea how I’m attracted to you… Colin: Yeah, well, you’re stuck with me, and no take backs, honey.

Tony: You have to apologize to them Colin. Colin: Fine! But I must warn you that this might make me a better, nicer person and that is NOT the person you fell in love with!

Colin: Tony and I are no longer dating. Tony: Colin, that’s a horrible way of telling people we’re married.

Tony: I’m in love with you. Colin: We called off the prank war last night at midnight, dork. Tony: I know. Colin: Ah. Okay. Um. Cool. Neat. Very cool. Cool. Cool. Coolcoolcool-

Colin: I'm trash. Tony: As someone who's environmentally conscious, it's my duty to pick you up. Does 7 work for you? Colin: Colin: You smooth motherfucker. Colin: And yes it does.

Colin: Relationships should be 50/50. Tony cooks us dinner while I sit on the kitchen counter looking pretty.

Tony: Are we fighting or flirting? Colin: I'm pinning you against a wall with my hand around your neck- Tony: Your point?

Colin: So you like cats? Tony: Yeah. Colin: tries to impress them by slowly pushing a glass off the table

Colin: seductively takes off glasses Colin: Wow… Tony: blushes Haha… what? Colin: You're really fucking blurry.

Tony: I think I just figured something out. I got to go. Colin: Aren't you forgetting something? Tony: Uuh…hesitantly kisses Colin's forehead before running out. Colin: No, pay your bill! Damn, who raised you?

Colin: The stars are so beautiful… Tony: They're just giant balls of gas. Colin: You know what, if you're just going to ruin this, then- Tony: And yet none of them are as huge as my love for you. Colin: Oh…

Colin: I want to wake up with you every day for the rest of our lives. Tony: I wake up at 4:30 AM every day to train. Colin: I want to see you at some point every day for the rest of our lives.

[eliwithab]

Is Anya holding a baby basket?

tysm for the ask!! honestly i mostly just drew it bc it was in the reference LOL

BUT i started thinking about it while i was drawing, i did kind of think about it that way, yes

if she had lived, i dont think she should have raised the baby, or she should have at least gotten a choice to decide whether she did want to keep it or not somehow.

but i imagined my drawing as a sort of afterlife - both of them were dead, and maybe the baby wouldve been there with her, maybe not. i think if it was with her, she wouldve at least cared for it, both of them in that eternal state. neither of them chose to be involved with jimmy, and i dont think she'd blame the baby for jimmys actions.

basically i saw it as them magically appearing in the afterlife together, it's peaceful, and anya just makes the baby smile because she doesnt have a need or responsibility to do anything else when they're dead. shes not really its mother? if that makes sense??? they're just chillin together like homies lol

or maybe its empty, because the baby never really got to see life, and anya is fine with that. maybe she can use it to pick some flowers

tldr: i imagined it that way, but i didn't think too hard about it - it can be up to your interpretation :)

[ddarker-dreams]

Hello, rotting again too many thoughts, too little of a brain. SR is chillin with the one of the boys and its golden hour (when the sun hits just right and makes you look <33) and sun is hitting her just right making her look all pretty. And she's just talking about how a tomato is a fruit or not, and she turns to look at them, and her eyes staring at them with the sun hitting her so prettily is just so intense. That suddenly, they are unable to answer her,; just stuttering, or unable to find the the will to form words at all(seeing flustered Giorno or Bruno who always is so suave now trying to speak but their toungue feels so useless, unable to form words, and now simply opening and closing their mouths like a fish, trying to save their pride) as SR's eyes slowly go softer from her previous excitement into more of a mellow confusion, asking them if something is wrong, even putting their hand on their head to see if they are sick. And most of the boys have never had this experience before, seeing someone so pretty that they can't even speak properly (we've all had those moments irl, ik I have) and they 're all red in the face and even the ears are red. (even better if they're not dating and the boys just flounder about, Narancia genuinely thinking it's a stand attack fighting for his life just to form a sentence, while Fungo and Abbachio just can't handle and look away or even walk away 💀Mista trying so hard to make a joke out of it, while beat red in the face ) End of rot rant, sorry if i'm sending in too much stuff.

you have nothing to apologize for omg,... these are beloved asks... i am cradling them gently in my hands ....

'And she's just talking about how a tomato is a fruit or not,' LMAO i love this it captures SR reader's energy so perfectly tyhjrtkmg

giorno would be sighing, resting his chin on his palm, feeling kinda bad for zoning out because he likes you to know you have his attention but. his brain stopped working properly. he can't think of anything especially dazzling to say, just that he sometimes struggles to believe you're real. bruno would be stuck in a similarly difficult predicament. you just make him feel so warm on the inside and in moments like this, it's almost too much. you make him feel human again. his responsibilities melt away, nothing aside from you registering. he could get drunk on the feeling.

fugo hits you with the legendary line 'stop... doing that. being... pretty.' shakespeare who? he screams into his pillow that night in embarrassment. it's amazing how you can turn such an intelligent man into a blubbering fool. he doesn't mind nearly as much as he lets on. abbacchio just getting up and walking away though PFF he'd be clutching his chest the second he left the room, trying to regain himself while your footsteps pad on over. you motivate him to get a physical again to make sure everything's working right in there. he's fine, though, just lovesick to a worrying degree. he has no idea how you do it.

narancia ... he's such a sweetheart... he already feels emotions so strongly, so this is messing him up. in a good way though. you'd have to reassure him that no, this isn't a stand attack (probably?), and that he's got to calm down. take some deep breaths. you'll think it's the cutest thing ever when he explains his reasoning. mista does a somewhat better job at playing it cool, since he always wants to give off this debonair vibe. chokes on his spit a little though and ruins the atmosphere. if pistols have been filched a snack recently, the little snitches will gather around to profess mista's innermost thoughts to you. apparently he's convinced a religion could be started in your honor.

[cryptidsurveys]

Thursday, August 29th, 2024.

Will you answer these questions as personally as you can? Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot.

Why are you happy? I have so many reasons to be happy. All the way from the "big stuff" like having a safe place to live, enough food to eat and clean water to drink, people who love me, a job that gives me a sense of passion and purpose, etc; to things like the fact that it's cloudy today, I'm eating a yummy breakfast as I take this, I don't have a migraine, autumn is soon approaching, and so on and so forth. Sometimes I lose sight of the good because I'm too focused on things that are going wrong or stressing me out, but I try to routinely remind myself of everything that's going right or that does make me happy.

Who’s the last person you hugged? Nan. I mentioned her in a recent survey. She's a volunteer at the shelter who does heaps of our dirty laundry. I don't know where we would be without her…probably suffocating beneath a mountain of stinky blankets and towels. Anyway, I went out to greet her the other day and she was like, "You're always smiling!" and gave me a hug. :')

Would you pay someone to kill the person who hurt you a lot? I would never do something like that. I wouldn't even wish death on any of the people who have hurt me. However, if there was some magical way to guarantee that I would never encounter those people again…I might take it.

Do you like the song ‘Sick Little Games’ by All Time Low? I've never heard it before; lemme go take a listen… It's alright, but it probably wouldn't make it onto my nonexistent playlist.

Last night you felt? Grateful for the day. I went to the Mountain Park with my dad and it was such a relaxing and nostalgic time. You know when the weather has a certain quality to it and it brings up all kinds of memories? Well, it was like that. I was also relieved that I didn't have to go to the shelter the following morning. My last few "weekends" were busy and exhausting and I spent the last one with an on/off headache, so it's just been nice to have two full days of chillin' and feelin' good.

How are you feeling right now? Tired but relaxed. Introspective. Twinges of dread/nervousness about tomorrow, but for no real reason (everything should be fine). Loving this cool and cloudy weather with its promise of fall.

Are you drifting away from someone you were close with? No.

Is there someone you’d like to fix things with? Yeah.

Have you ever liked someone that treated you like crap? Ehhh.

What are you listening to? Esther purring. She's curled up behind me on the computer chair.

Have you ever stayed in a hotel? Plenty of times.

What is in your pocket? My pockets are empty.

Have a best friend? I do.

Does it bother you when your best friend does stuff without you? My best friend lives in California, so they're always doing things without me.

Do you keep any secrets from your best friend? They know most of my biggest secrets.

What were you doing 60 minutes ago? I had just arrived home from grocery shopping, made myself breakfast, and started browsing for a survey to take.

Is there a secret you’ve never told your parents? My dad knows pretty much everything. There are a lot of things I haven't told my mom and probably never will.

What’s something that can always make you feel better? Aside from partaking in my favorite hobbies and doing things I enjoy, it's usually time that does the trick.

What do you want right now? Ugh. I just realized that one of my kitties might have another UTI. She gets them occasionally, so she's going to have to go to the vet later. :'(

What would you name your future son? I don't want children.

If you had to eat 1 thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? Oatmeal.

How’s your life lately? Busy.

Last person to send you a text? My dad. I texted him on Tuesday to let him know I was on my way home from the shelter and he sent me a brief reply.

What were you doing at 8:00 this morning? Eating breakfast while taking this survey.

Did you have a good birthday this year? Yeah. It was snowy, I spent the morning at the shelter, then went out to lunch with my parents.

Have you done anything embarrassing lately? I'm embarrassed by it, but was it actually embarrassing…? Idk. When I see other people get upset or vent about Diane, I don't think, "Oh my God, how embarrassing." I'm more like, "FVCKING SAMEEE!!!" Talking to Iris (manager) about it was excruciatingly awkward, but it's probably all in my head. As a manager, she's probably used to dealing with issues like that.

Do you trust easily? No. But like I've been saying - I don't know how much of that is a "me thing" versus the fact that I spend a lot of time around people I find to be untrustworthy. Maybe I would open up a lot more in a different environment.

Do you like cookies n’ cream ice cream? Yeah.

How often do you raise your hand in class and answer a question? I'm not in school anymore, but in the past, almost never.

Ever been mistaken for someone else, and took it as an insult? No.

Would you get a mega bag of skittles, or three regular ones? I'm not a big fan of Skittles.

What color shirt are you wearing? I've got on a black t-shirt, a sort of slate gray/blue long-sleeve shirt, and a pine green sweater.

Is there a boy that would do absolutely everything for you? Not in a romantic sense, but my dad is always there for me.

Did you ever think you had the Swine flu? Possibly.

Who was the last person to smoke a cigarette in your presence? I smoke, but aside from myself, I'm not sure.

Who was the last person you talked to before you went to bed last night? My dad.

Are you a mean person? No. I can be mean (selfish, thoughtless, etc), but I don't think I exhibit those qualities to the extent that I would be considered a "mean person."

Does anyone hate you? Idk.

Do you usually tell people when you’re mad at them? I really only feel comfortable expressing anger with my dad and my therapist. When it comes to other people, I tend to stuff it down until I inevitably explode - which was what happened with the Diane situation. It probably took everyone by surprise, including me! It's not like I woke up that day planning to go all scorched earth.

This time last year, can you remember who you liked? No one.

Will this weekend be a good one? I hope so.

Have you ever liked someone older than you? Yeah.

Are you mad at someone right now? Ehhh.

[bitchin-witchin]

Was recently reminded of a fatuichi wip I had from may that's like underground crime syndicate fatui modern au or something and childe is a dancer.

The tsaritsa owns a club where they launder shit and the fatui can hang, maybe the dancers there are under her protection. Childe was taken in as an agent and moved up the ranks, but before he became a harbinger he saw the good money the dancers were making and wanted to take a shot at it, since he got into the criminal scene to get money for his family anyways. Then it turns out to be kind of fun and the fatui are always respectful bc the tsaritsa has them on a short leash and disrespect isn't tolerated. He enjoys the feeling, a different thrill from battle, but similar.

The man of the night is a gunner I named dalimil. It is his birthday! And he is at the club with his homies. He thinks they're just drinking and chillin, as most fatui in the club do tbh, but his friends (a vanguard and some sort of smalll skirmisher) get him a lap dance and it is with... childe!! WHO MAYBE IS ALSO THEIR BOSS? I haven't decided.

Now Dalimil is a fat guy. He's a gunner. And he's p chill but we all have insecurities ykno. So he's not super confident. Hes kind of body shy. But childe is like very comfortable in his body (it's a weapon, a tool that he has trained hard to be at its best so ofc he is proud. It's not even a like "I'm so attractive" it's literally just from how useful he's made himself) and he's not perfect either, like yes every playable character in genshin is pretty but flaws are fun so idk attach whatever flaws u want to childe. I like to give him discolored teeth and maybe they're crooked, has a gap. Basically I give him my teeth LOL. Some other stuff. Scars, etc.

So anyways they're in their private room and childe starts dancing for him, climbs onto his lap and he really has to like CLIMB bc this man is tall and one of his thighs is like the width of childe (pretending that the big skirmisher builds are not augmented and they're just actually that big. Some eremite enemies are v big and they don't have any visual hints of being augmented so let's say the body variety in teyvat just has an insane range LOL). Dalimil is very flustered by how small he makes the harbinger look on his leg man's is discovering his size kink. Even sitting on him childe still has to look up. And childe is tall! He's not tiny. But dalimil is also very conscious of his stomach touching the harbinger bc it comes out pretty far and he's like ahh man ykno like my friends put me up to this, does childe even like this, he's probably just acting, etc.

Childe plays eith the buttons of his top and sees dalimil kind of clamming up so he's like "wanna get comfortable and lose some layers?" And dalimil is like ahh hmm noo it's okay... and childe is like catching on now so he's like "you don't have to hide from me. I want to see. I'm here to make you feel good." But he doesn't like pressure him ykno if dalimil said no he'd be like sure its fine, but if he's open to talking about it then maybe they can work something out.

So maybe childe just opens his shirt slowly. Dancing and stuff while he does it, rubbing his hands over dalimils chest and through his hair. And honestly?? Now dalimil is getting worked up feeling childes body rub over his stomach sometimes while he dances like fucckkkk, the skinnier guys don't get that privilege you know? Ethically bypassing no touching rule. LOL. Anyways they both end up super into it and dalimil comes out of that room more assured that he is desirable now that he's gotten some proof :3.

Ofc u don't need proof to feel desirable but if you're insecure about it it is definitely helpful when it feels positive for you. Also yes, not every fat person is insecure, and not every fat character has to be written that way, but it's what I want for my fic as a fat person myself.

I also I have a playlist for this fic that I occasionally still add song to

If u don't have Spotify and want to listen let me know in replies or reblogs or tags and I will post a other source.

[justfor2am]

THE NEW CAHPTER IS SO????!???$?$!$!$!-$;$+$ HOLY SHTI!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have missed this au soso much omg the entire bit at the beginning between scar n pearl :(((( plspls the way that they're both trying to get the other to accept the things that got fucked w their appearance while they cant accept their own n how their existence as androids is so similar yet so different (smt ab scar being the first of his kind w others that look like him yet nobody knows him vs pearl being the last of her kind n everyone knowing what she looks like its complete opposites but yet.... ough im losing it) AND THENNNNNN GRIANNNNNNNNNNNNN of COURSE they would send another android .man i feel bad for him but also 😭 my guy.. acting like he's human isn't going to be a great solution LMAO i feel like this will go terribly but i am SO excited to see how it goes anyways!!!!!! AND ALSO. THE LAST LINES. IM SO ...WHAT THE FUCK SHAKING YOU SO HARD my dog is staring at me she has been this whole time i both read the chapter and wrote this what the fuck frankie ANYWAYSSSSSSS its very good im totally normal about this

HELLO KING TY AS ALWAYS

i really wanna develop pearl and scar's relationship because not only do i think it's the most interesting combo between the deviants atm, it really digs into the thought of "what makes a deviant a deviant," because they both come from polar opposite living conditions.

the GT line that scar is a part of is already an exclusive model, and he was the first one in proper working order. custom made on top of that! he has all the latest tech upgrades and parts, the highest quality operating systems, but none of that prevented his deviancy.

pearl meanwhile was a run of the mill generic model, one of the first to go out to the public, and riddled with lazy errors. she's a face among a million, ancient compared to scar's model, and falling apart at the seams. (for reasons that will be revealed.)

yet here they both are, in the same predicament.

also grian simply cannot catch a break and i intend to make him suffer. :)

also also, i couldn't NOT throw impulse in there, we gotta have all of boatem chillin yanno? but i'm sure grian playing the denial route is gonna go perfectly fine, mhm, yup, zero chance for error there.

frankie has impeccable spelling then omg

sooooo glad ur normal about this chapter tho because this was pretty much just a warm up. like, the end of act one i guess :)

[the fic in question!]

[peepawleo]

Joking about your personal trauma is fucking hilarious. Joking about someone else's trauma is just cruel.

Its fine guys we're just chillin. Trust me, they're just as traumatized about their deaths as i am lmao

[stemfandomtrash]

motivational speaker/teacher/tv moral: You have to learn to turn the other cheek! If people are mean to you don’t continue the cycle of hate! Don’t let them change your emotions!

me: bold of you to assume i can even figure out when someone is mean to me much less get mad about it

[wqrlock]

      “ 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐈 𝐂𝐀𝐍’𝐓 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓, “  half a french fry held between two fingers like a cigarette, the other half is held between teeth— all the while the noise of the fast food restaurant around them, nothing but a mere background buzz as he focuses in on the blond before him; her back straight, unlike his own as he leans with elbows on the table top, over his food with a kind of body language that sings of 'do not disturb’ in neon signs in glaring red.    “ my mom would kill me. “

    &&.   @sheoccult  liked for a starter at the back of a mickie d’s!

[dreamsmp-au-ideas]

Eyo its glass au guy, the au where glass physics just doesnt apply to our birdbois, here to add to this literal fucking crack au because dear fuck i might run on angst alone but mAN WE ALL NEED A BREAK SOMETIMES

Anyways, have you ever noticed that technoblades windows are just trapdoors with holes? wELL--

I like to imagine that literally the only reason Technoblade found out about Philza's... condition, was wAAAAAAAAY back then, back when they were just two dudes that dont die and were just chillin. Techno was just probably out and about, hunting deer, drinking blood, staying at villages and deciding whether or not to slaughter everyone when he leaves, you know regular Technoblade stuff.

When he discovers the invention of glass. (Yes im making both of them that old and no you cannot stop me)

Techno's pretty fascinated by the art of glass making and ends up staying at the village a little longer than Philza and him expected and even ended up not slaughtering them.

He actually stayed so long in the village in fact, that Philza's wanderlust got the better of him and he kinda just-- left techno. Not without saying goodbye tho.

So now, philza's exploring the world while techno is mastering the art of glass making. The reason techno was so interested in the first place was because he saw the combat potential and the living improvement it could bring. And if the history books say something abt a pink haired pig hybrid helping a potion maker invent the splash potion well, technos not gonna say anything.

And as the years went by, techno proceeded to make hundreds, if not, thousands of glass creations from sculptures to weapons to containers and anything he could think of really. But those years of glass blowing and fire fanning really did a number on him. So much so that while taking a break in the middle of his creations, he drank a health pot to fix the itch in his lungs.

He coughs a little, waving away the smoke of the fire. Man, the wood he got today was smokier than usual huh? It never got so thick he couldn't see across the room but itll be fine, he knows where everything is anyways.

He finishes his latest project and airs out the room, to try and get rid of the smoke blocking his vision. But why is everything still so blurry? So he goes outside to get some fresh air.

And now he's fuckin worried because he pretty fuckin sure he didnt set the village on fire enough to cause such a crazy amount of smoke to block his vision. Because oh god, he cant see shit anymore.

So he panics. He pours a pot each to both his eyes and it got a little better because now he can see things a few meters away from him kind of okay but his eyes are still fucked up. Chat is still screaming and Techno, caught up in the panic and emotions of trying to deal with all this bullshit, tries to calm himself down by breaking his defective products. Now at least chat is a little satiated.

Philza, having visited his longtime and only friend, hears the sound of something shattering. It sounded like a clay pot but higher pitched for some reason. So he rushes to Techno, holding seemingly nothing but his hands covered in deep cuts.

Techno meanwhile, has finally calmed down and started to clean up and pick up all the shattered remains of his glass objects. And as he picks them up, he squints at them a little, trying in vain to see if his eyes are salvageable. But with each shard, that hope slowly dims and finally he accepts his handicap. Until the last few shards. Because one of them broke into a really large piece and for some reason, he... can kind of see through it??? Huh, maybe his defect pile wasnt as defective as he thought.

Philza comes back to him with a towel and a health pot (he puts them in clay containers shoosh he dont know glass exists okay) and asks whats wrong. Techno raises his head to reply when he realizes "oh sHIT PHILZA YOURE SITTING ON GLASS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU OKAY"

And philza, the old bird man he is just kinda goes "huh??? Wat???? Glass???????" And Techno just kinda blindly pockets the glass he was looking at and pulls out a glass health pot of his own to tend to Philza's "wounds".

Philza kinda just stares because holy SHIT IS TECHNO A FUCKING POTION BENDER WHAT THE FUCK. Philza kinda just dazedly grabs the floating health mixture and his hands just pass through the liquid and his fingers are coated in potion.

And techno also staring because holy SHIT IS PHILZA A FUCKING GLASS BENDER CMON I SPENT LIKE-- 2 CENTURIES MASTERING THIS STUPID THING AND APPARENTLY PHILZA CAN JUST DO WHATEVER WITH IT WHAT THE FUCK.

And now they're just vibin on the floor with their heads blown. Oh yeah, techno invents eye glasses. The first two he makes are for himself and phil because "phil, do you not see the glass? You are literally just sitting on a pile of shards."

The glasses fitting was also kind of a train wreck since techno made rimless glasses and the glass just-- went straight through philzas eyes and shattered on the floor. When philza brings it up, techno vehemently denies screaming like an 8 year old and being torn in two because he didnt know whether or not he should worry over phil first or the thing he made for him.

Damn dis long. Lol oops

Pfft. Oh my god. This is hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. Just the both of them being confused with each other and oh my god.

[radioactiveradley]

Today, we’re looking at the following questions:

What is a bone? What does it do?

Well, that’s obvious! It stops us flopping around like jelly people, right?

Indeed, your bones prevent you from resembling the noble slug. But they do so much more.

[cw: under the cut you will find an annotated image of a human femur]

As well as providing structural support, your bones…

Protect the organs

Allow movement by forming joints and acting as attachment points for muscles

Store and release minerals that maintain bone strength, such as calcium and phosphate, which can be redistributed to parts of the body where they're in short supply

Produce blood cells within the red bone marrow – a connective tissue located within the medullary cavity (the hollow internal part) of some bones. Red marrow creates red blood cells (which carry oxygen), white blood cells (which eat infections), and platelets (which enable clotting)!

Store triglycerides within the yellow bone marrow – also located inside the medullary cavity of some bones. Triglycerides are the most complex form of fat within our bodies, and provide us with an emergency supply of energy that can be burned in severe situations. Our body is determined to help us survive that hard winter!

In addition to all of this, each bone within your body is (technically) considered an individual organ, being as it’s made up of several different sorts of tissue! Every bone serves a subtly different function and has a different shape. You got…

Long bones (think the bone in your thigh, or the bones in your forearm! Big strong bones, they act as levers for movement in conjunction with the skeletal muscles)

Short bones (think the little blobby bones in your wrist! We met them in the last post! When several are articulated together, they enable small, delicate, variable ranges of motion – hence why your wrist can make very fine movements, in all manner of directions!)

Flat bones (like your skull, ribs, hips, and shoulder blades! They protect internal structures and are nice and flat, allowing for lots of muscles to attach to them.)

(……ignore the facial bones)

Irregular bones (like your spine bones and some of the weird-shaped bones of your face! They’re just weird, man. Idk.)

Sesamoids (funky little floating bones that, with the exception of the patella, aren’t considered part of your overall bone count – some folks have these accessory bones, and others don’t! They form within tendons, where they pass over joints. They protect tendons and can act as a fulcrum for the tendon to slide over.)

All bones are composed of four types of cells:

OSTEOGENIC CELLS (the only bone cells to undergo cell division! Progenitors of every other sort of bone cell, they will divide and develop until they form the more complex osteoblasts)

OSTEOBLASTS (bone producing cells! They’re found in places undergoing active bone growth – so, at the epiphyses of a child’s growing long bones, for instance, or at the site of an injury/other pathology that involves bone being remodelled)

OSTEOCYTES (just chillin’. These guys are the stable, mature bone cells, and they are the predominant cells in adult bones. They are basically osteoblasts who have settled down in middle age!)

OSTEOCLASTS (hungry hungry hippos! Big cells (up to 20 nuclei!) they are created from the bone marrow and lurk on the surface of the bone, or just within it. They strip away old and damaged bone, by literally digesting them by releasing powerful enzymes and acids and breaking the bone down so its useful components can be reabsorbed.)

Yeah. Your bones are literally eating themselves.

Structurally, you have two types of bone.

COMPACT BONE is the strongest form of bone, and accounts for 80% of what’s in your body. It serves the purposes of support and protection, as well as aiding movement by reducing stress on the other sort of bone (we’re getting to that) and soft tissues. It’s heavy and hulky, but it holds you up!

Then we got SPONGY BONE, which forms the interior tissue of all flat or irregular bones as well as the epiphyses of long bones. It can take less stress, but is way lighter in weight. This is why your skull isn’t super-heavy, despite the amount of bone it contains!

LONG bones are formed of five main parts:

The DIAPHYSIS

The strong, hollow shaft that surrounds the marrow cavity.

The EPIPHYSES 

The rounded bits at each end of a bone. They have spongy trabecular bone and red bone marrow within them, protected by a hard shell of compact bone.

The METAPHYSES (I too feel like I’m in a Greek Tragedy and all these characters are about to start slaughtering each other)

The wider, flatter area between the diaphysis and the epiphyses, where bone growth occurs. This is where you will find the ‘epiphyseal plate’ – that bridge of hyaline cartilage we mentioned earlier, which makes kids’ long bones look like they have a whole bunch of fractures (they don’t, don’t worry!)

[Paediatric normal whole leg radiograph, showing epiphyseal plates around the head of the femur, the femoral condyles, the proximal tibia, the distal tibia and the lateral malleoli that can mimic fractures. Courtesy of radiopaedia https://radiopaedia.org/cases/normal-femur-tibia-and-fibula-x-rays-1-year-old?lang=gb ]

The PERIOSTEUM

Covers the OUTSIDE of the bone (except where the bone is capped with cartilage). Contains lots of nerve fibre as well as blood & lymph vessels that enter into the bone.

The ENDOSTEUM

Covers the INSIDE of the diaphysis, facing the marrow cavity. A thin layer of cells and connective tissue, this layer also contains a whole buncha nerves, as well as osteoblasts and osteoclasts for that sweet, sweet bone eating/regurgitation process!

FLAT bones are formed of four main parts

Two thin plates of COMPACT BONE

Covered in PERIOSTEUM

Which sandwich a layer of SPONGY BONE

That is covered in ENDOSTEUM!

They contain no marrow cavity or epiphyses, and are wide and flat – meaning they can have lotsa muscles attached to them, such as the bones of the hip and shoulder blade!

IRREGULAR, SHORT, and SESAMOID bones just do whatever the heck they want, but tend to feature a sturdy outer layer of compact bone, with spongy bone inside.

That's all for now, folks! Next time, I'll take you on a tour of cool bone pathologies~ You are now a Radley Certified Bone Boss. Have a sticker.

[All pictures courtesy of wikimedia commons, unless stated otherwise]

It’s SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS MONTH

So let’s talk about yer bones! Yeah, that’s right, Captian Holt. I said –

An adult has (roughly) 206 bones (I say ‘roughly’! You can have non-pathological anatomical variation, such as lumbarised sacral vertebrae (an extra bone in your back) or accessory sesamoids like the flabella (a little bone at the back of the knee!))

A newborn has (roughly) 300 bones

That's a big difference! Almost 100 bones of difference! Where do they go?

Well, you see - as you get older, every time you come into the hospital we steal more of your bones...

Just kidding.

...Or am I

As an embryo, your skeleton is completely composed of cartilage. This gradually ossifies as you age, until, as an adult, you have a full skeleton, with only the interactive portions of joints being capped with hyaline cartilage.

[Paediatric normal whole leg radiograph, showing epiphyseal plates around the head of the femur, the femoral condyles, the proximal tibia, the distal tibia and the lateral malleoli that can mimic fractures. Courtesy of radiopaedia]

See all those weird blobs? Those are bones in the process of fusing together! The transverse lines that could be mistaken for fractures are actually epiphyseal plates – hyaline cartilage bridges between the shaft of a bone and what will become its tip, which don't attenuate x-rays, and thus appear black on our radiographs! This is where bone growth occurs - the cartilage forms a sort of template matrix that then ossifies into bone.

Compare our paediatric radiograph to the AP knee radiographs of an adult with no visible pathology:

[Adult normal AP knee radiographs, showing fully fused bones. Courtesy of radiopaedia]

See how all those ragged pieces have joined up? That’s endochondral ossification, BABY!

This is how we can figure out the age of a paediatric service user from their bones! Certain bones form at different times.

Let’s check out the carpal bones – all those fiddly little bones in your wrist! Anyone who’s binged Hatecrimes MD – sorry, House MD as often as I have will know the classic acronym for remembering the names of these bones. Moving thumb side to pinkie side, we have…

Scared (Scaphoid - red)

Lovers (Lunate - dark blue)

Hate (Hamate - green)

To (Triquetrum - yellow)

Try (Trapezium - orange)

The (Trapezoid - light blue)

Coolest (Capitate - purple)

Positions (Pisiform - pink)

[Normal adult wrist radiograph, shown with and without coloured carpal bones. Courtesy of radiopaedia.]

But did you know that these bones form at different times?

The Capitate ossifies at 1-3 months

The Hamate ossifies at 2-4 months

The Triquetrum ossifies at 2-3 years

The Lunate ossifies at 2-4 years

The Scaphoid, Trapezium and Trapezoid ossify at 4-6 years

And the Pisiform ossifies at 8-12 years

So, I can look at this picture, and tell you that this child is approximately 3 years old, because their Capitate and Hamate have ossified, and their Triquetrum is just visible, starting to ossify below the thumb (circled!)

[Normal wrist radiograph of a paediatric patient, triquetral ossification centre circled. Courtesy of Radiopaedia.]

Your bones continue to form and fuse until you reach about 25! Your olecranon (the bump of your elbow) starts to ossify at 6-11 years, and fuses at 13-16 years! We can look at the base of your fifth metatarsal to age afab folks who are approx. 10 and amab folks who are approx. 12, as this bone fuses in the 2-4 years following these ages! The medial end of the clavicle can be used to assess your age from approximately 18-22, and your facial bones continue to ossify into adulthood! How cool is that?

If you’re over 25, fret not – there’s still plenty of funky stuff happening to your bones. But we’ll get into all of that next time, when we take a look at the function of osteoblasts and osteoclasts and explore all the cool little jobs that your bones perform within your body - it's more than you might think! So, tune in next time for more Bone facts...

And thank you for reading!

[d4rk-x-w0lf-17]

Coincidentally Chaos is also a god in my master au! Solaris, Gaia, Fleets, they're all a pantheon of sorts

You didn't ask I'm sorry but I jump at the chance to explore my own lore (I loved yours btw!!! Blur and his water god of destruction and doom)

Fleetway came from a temple on Angel Island (where the supposed mural of Chaos vs Super Sonic is! Except it's Fleetway here)

Sonic and Tails were exploring and Fleetway (who's used Sonic's ancestors as vessels for centuries) was just like 'its free real estate' but like....nobody noticed for a bit cuz he was kinda chillin

He was just a mildly unsettling nuisance at first and then he started killing, was forcibly removed from Sonic, and then thrown into Zone Jail

He's since gotten out and lives with Amy, very fun stuff

👀

it's fine, i don't mind when people come rambling about their AUs. i like seeing what kind of ideas others can come up with

as for my version, this design isn't set in stone as i'm debating on whether to make him look MORE blinged out in jewelry or to just leave it as is. might add a cape/tassel somewhere, give him that royal flair to make chaos look even more like a pretentious asshole

[freetheworms]

3 and 9 for the writer asks! ~d-andilion

thanks so much lexi !!!

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

oh boy. well, i guess if i had to call something a "writing ritual" it would be making myself insane amounts of coffee, and then putting on a show to watch while i write, which. you guessed it, doesn't work at all, so i end up intermittently pausing the show AND my writing every 5 minutes. do i even need to explain why this is cursed?

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

OKAY LISTEN. i didn't used to, okay? like, i wanted to but i was like hmmm probably not. and then. and THEN. let me paint you a picture of the events of 6 years ago, and apologies because this is going to get a bit long:

i was staying at my friend's house, which was built by her dead dad, right? right. so, there's 5 of us there, having a campfire out back: me, my friend, our two other guy friends, and my friend's ex boyfriend from before her dad died. i need you to know that he's a funny guy, but he was NOT a good boyfriend back in high school, and her dad knew this. he was not a fan of ex-bf.

anyway, so it's late, and it's time to come inside from the campfire. i come in first because i'm cold and they're taking forever and i don't want to help them fold up all the chairs. i was an asshole like that i guess, what can i say?

right, okay, so i'm sitting on the couch that lives in her kitchen for reasons i still don't quite understand. the couch has a clear view of the kitchen island AND the back door area though, which is blocked off from the kitchen on the right by a wall that creates a little open mudroom type situation. this is important because you have to understand that the setup means that my friends, who are filing in the back door, can't see the kitchen island past the wall. it also means that wind does not make it around the corner of the mudroom wall and into the kitchen.

well. all my friends make it inside, except ex bf. they're chatting amongst themselves in the mudroom area or whatever, when ex bf finally opens the door. AS he steps inside and before he closes the door, i watch a large pile of mail FLY off the end of the kitchen island furthest from the mudroom, and slam against the cupboards in front of it with an audible "thunk," before falling to the floor.

i'm the only one who's seen this though right, because my friends are useless and are still dilly-dallying in the mudroom. and so i'm just sat there like. okay. OKAY??? but i don't believe in ghosts at this point so i'm thinking naaaaah, nah. physics just broke for a sec and the non-existent wind did a thing. it's so fine. i forget about it.

cut to later, ex-bf is getting picked up by his older sister to go home. she takes a pic of the house to send to him to say "i'm here!"

he looks at the pic. "hahaha wow, there's a weird orb going on outside the house that my sister's freaking out about," he says, jokingly. i'm fine. i'm chillin. orbs happen, its cool. coincidence is super real and is what's happening here.

ex-bf leaves.

eventually, it's time for bed. friend and i are sharing her double bed, guy friends are sleeping haphazardly on her floor, no one is dead, it's fine. we sleep.

then 3:30 am comes around. i wake up for literally no discernible reason, which, whatever. that happens sometimes. i'm about to roll over and go back to sleep when my friend whispers something to me. oh, weird, okay. she's awake too. funny coincidence.

and then guy friends say something from down on the floor. okay.... so we're all awake at the same time for no reason. less normal, but fine. whatever. that could happen.

and then friend's bedroom door, previously all-the-way closed, creaks open. we have no windows open in the house, her cat isn't anywhere to be seen, and y'know. the door had been FULLY CLOSED???

we all look over. no one says anything.

then, just as quickly as it had opened, the door SLAMS itself shut, as if someone had opened it to check on us, seen who was in the room, and then closed it in a huff.

we did not sleep much the rest of the night.

anyway, i'm not saying my friend's ghost dad threw a little tantrum about her shitty ex-bf coming over to the house that he built, but i'm not NOT saying that.

so yeah, i guess i believe in ghosts now.

[from-mister-madness]

wow im glad i can make you GIGGLE before you choose someone to literally murder thats amazing anyways

haha hey bestieboo just so you know if your definition of "toy" is apparently HUMAN BODIES i dont really think your definition of "dolls" is very different unless its a plastic barbie or bratz doll or something which by the way have you seen the bratz show?? surprisingly good comedy. hey you should maybe go home and like- watch the bratz show instead of murder just a suggestion hahahahahhahahah itd be cool

you arent killing chase?? AYYYEEE THANK GOSH!! as threatening as you made it sound i dont reallyy care as long as chase is gonna be chillin. which by the way does chase wanna see you murder people?? whats his take on it? is this involuntary on chases end cause if so then aha ahahhahahah i dont think this is a suuupperrr good ideaaaa??? on a serious note though, i barely know sh-t about you. if you say that you cant really control these urges to kill people, then theres not much i can do on my end other than try and persuade you otherwise. i cant tell you what to do cause i dont own you and its just not my place to order you around. as much as i disagree with this though, i think youre a cool fella outside of murder! good gosh this is a very conflicting situation- oh well

~krabs :]

no͏t̡ j͏ust͠ human bodi̡e͘s.

you watch him order another drink. he doesn't seem to be affected much by the first.

they're no fun͘ witho͜ųţ their souls͝.

the lights flicker again, and so does your vision. the staff keep talking, unbothered, obviously used to the effects of anti's presence.

but tr͘ust me̢,͏ play̵ing d̶oĺl͠s is ́diff̵ere̡nt̡. mùch̢ ͏m͟ore͢ lite̴ral.

the security camera flickers back over to the angry man drinking in the shadows, but for a few seconds, you swear you can see the faint shape of anti's eyes overlaid in the static.

c͘h̀ase wįll b̕e fine. he'͞s̢ be͟en thr͡o͘u̴gh wo͢rse͞. :)