#this is such a dumb fucking injury

[ourlittlebear]

Can my wrist just heal!!! I miss weightlifting!!!! And my wrist hurts ALL THE TIME

So yeah you know how a fall on your wrist (or having your wrist bent backwards when having an impact injury) is like, the cause of all bad wrist injuries but generally they go "oh ye that's a fracture" or "oh ye that's a bad sprain"

Well how about tearing a fucking ligament? A tfcc tear? It's a lil legit triangle of ligaments and cartilage in your wrist that helps stabilise the ulnar side of your wrist. I now can't hold plates. I can't rotate my wrist so my palm is facing upwards. Its a struggle to turn door handles, hold my phone, or hold anything that needs the support of my little finger and the outer side of my palm. And it is THOROUGHLY DUMB AND I DON'T LIKE IT

[gh0stsblogs]

young Tobs n EJ

[transmasccofee]

im not ok i will never be normal about this guy again happy disability month

[puppyeared]

Next time we invent life changing technology we cant let capitalists get their hands on it

[jawz]

i saw the tv glow is legitimately one of the stupidest, most tryhard movies i've ever seen in my entire life. absolute dogshit. and everyone is pretending it's the most lifechanging thing they've ever seen LOL give me a break! the gall to claim this is inspired by fucking DAVID LYNCH??? i can't

[dunaldoodles]

The other side of this post. They're both dumbasses when bored, and they are often bored. Whoever let these two become partners should be fired before one of them gets set on fire by accident.

[here-there-were-dragons]

just read the new hatchling skin rules and am having Some Type Of Initial Emotional Reaction and am now writing down said Initial Emotional Reaction uncensored as i currently Strongly Feel A Type Of Way and Require Venting. i cannot word this more politely. i do not have the capability to render this rage into polite borderline corporate-speak for the sake of the damn rules that act like anything short of apologizing for being alive to make up for having even the most constructive understanding friendly criticism or even personal mild non-critical dislike of something like a color or a breed is tantamount to personal targeted hatemail. i cannot wait until i cool into calm bitterness later because if i think about this enough to write about it again i will just go right back to being furious and the fact that everyone ielse who's complaining is focusing entirely on the lolita fashion thing and not on in my opinion the far more significant and offensive part is pissing me off even more. extremely angry unedited ranting ahead

fr having it's own "female presenting nipples" moment right now, not that i'm particularly surprised, they've been a prime example of "conservative protestantism in a lefty-language veneer" for a long while now.

"don't adultify" is such a fucking vague and easily selectively interpreted rule, not to mention insulting for a number of reasons,

but putting that part aside the whole idea of "nothing that suggests that the dragon is an adult in a young body" is. look, i'm not exactly fond of the "adult who looks like an anime schoolgirl" trope myself, but i fail to see how in the absolute FUCK having it be canon in-universe that it is both possible and legal for someone to be forced to stay as a child permanently, is somehow LESS creepy than just saying eternal youth dragons have dwarfism. also, fuck you to anyone with dwarfism apparently i guess?

and "no zombie baby dragons" is just stupid. even fucking minecraft has baby zombies, and microsoft has steadily butchered that game into one of the most t for toddler babymode things on earth this side of cocomelon.

and "no scars on hatchlings" so fuck you to any kids with scars too apparently, even though that's way more common than anyone seems to realize. you hear that, kids? if you're under 18 and have scars your very existence is too obscene for public view. 13+ year olds will be irreparably traumatized if they have to know you exist at all! fuck you disabled kids and fuck you amputee kids and fuck you any kids that have suffered anything ever at all for not appearing as a perfect unspoiled image of conservative christian child-doll innocent purity. flight rising staff says your body and existence is inherently too nsfw to even be acknowledged as existing much less visually seen. everyone knows REAL children don't get damaged at all, and if they do then they're too horrifying and defective at their job of Being A Child Properly to exist in public spaces! how dare ugly things that might make us uncomfortable with their existence by contradicting out ideals about aesthetic moral purity be allowed where good respectable normal people can see them!

i don't say any of these words lightly, and i'm very much not the type to go around calling people whatever-ists and in fact find that kind of thing extremely annoying, useless, reductive, and more or less only ever see it used as a blunt cudgel to shame people into line so they don't question you, and have historically found it especially annoying when people pull out the accusations-of-ism card on fr staff over things that are far more likely just completely understandable (if dubiously competent) issues of certain things simply not occurring to someone on code and design level due to lack of sufficient exposure to the idea, and have always been of the belief of giving them the benefit of doubt (even if often that just means i think they either most likely made an understandable mistake that i would likely also make, or, when i'm feeling less kind, that they're simply not particularly competent rather than actively hostile) so understand how much it means coming from me when i say- flight rising staff, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck you, you ableist batch of pricks, so far up your own asses with your performative veneer of vaguely lefty-flavored language that you don't realize how fundamentally extremely conservative all of your actual beliefs underlying them are. for every update you make that i approve of there's another that does twice as much damage as the good update fixed (and i'm starting to wonder if you maybe know what you're doing with that too-always batching the fucked up shit on the tail end of some big thing you know people will be excited about, always hiding these controversial moderation changes under something shiny and new, to the point that now i dread any new good update that genuinely seems a step in the right direction and/or is something we've been wanting for awhile because i'm just constantly expecting the knife hidden behind the footnotes afterwards, the fucking "ban tiktok/gay marriage/strip rights from this population/end net neutrality/whatever/ect" clause stapled onto the end of a bill about something entirely unrelated functionally holding a change people want hostage until they allow the fucked up part through. i've been here most of the site's 10+ years and i've seen this sort of thing happen far, far too often.) and every year the shit that gets pulled on the management and moderation end of things makes me more and more almost glad i've never had an income to spend on this, and the fact that apparently the moderation behind every single other petsite in existence is somehow significantly worse fucking astounds me. the only reason i stay around here is because It's Free Dragon Pictures, because it's literally the only actually good petsite game i've ever played and not gotten sick of within a week or so (and really the only good low-energy game i've ever played in general, which i'm increasingly convinced is in spite of it's management), and because somehow, despite all of this shit, i still genuinely love the game itself, because unfortunately by some accident of creation it seems they apparently stumbled purely by coincidence into making an actually good game idea no one else quite has. and after all the fuckery that gets constantly pulled, i refuse to believe the game being good is anything other than, much like many of the of the incidents i think they're unfairly accused of malice and -ism over, an accident.

Disabled children too obscene to fucking exist. fuck you. good to know half the child population's existence requires a trigger warning to even be allowed to be acknowledged as existing to you. good to know if the heart surgery i had when i was 11 had left any visible external scars i would be considered inherently too obscene to exist to you. good to know if the overhealed and benignly potentially cancerous scar on my back from whatever actually happened when i was a toddler (i don't trust either of my parents to ever be accurate about something like that) was in a more visible spot you would demand i have a trigger warning to post selfies online. good to know if any of the shit that's broken me emotionally left visible physical marks you would think it was good and right for me to be forcibly hidden from good normal people's view and considered too taboo for even the slightest discussion without hiding it with makeup and lies, just so i don't make good, lucky, undamaged, normal people uncomfortable, god fucking forbid. should we hide the gays too, since they also make so many people uncomfy? i imagine it won't be long before disabled adults are too obscene for your polite societytm sensibilities too. i've had the feeling for a long time that amputee and disabled skins were living on borrowed time with your rules, kept technically not explicitly dissalowed where all other forms of injury and ""body horror"" are banned simply out of fear of the backlash it would cause to include them, and well. the doomsday clock on that one just got a little bit closer to midnight, huh?

the only reason i wasn't a (physically, visibly, externally) scarred kid was pure sheer fucking luck. the only reason you weren't a physically scarred kid too is pure sheer fucking luck. the only reason you're not some type of disfigured or ugly or amputated or visibly injured or whatnot is pure sheer fucking luck. you're lucky. nothing more. if having to contend with that fact-the fact of how easily it could have gone a different way and there is nothing they would be able to do about it- makes good normal tm people uncomfortable, then well, get the fuck used to it, other people children very much fucking included don't exist to cater to the aesthetic sensibilities of a lucky perfect few. the only thing that separates you from the damaged ones you find too obscene is a bad day and an unlucky hand. and one day, even if you were lucky enough to escape being damaged when you were young, you and i will both be just like them too.

more festival skin winners slots is good. elemental swords sound fun.

[himbeaux-on-ice]

hot take, heavily penalizing teenagers for causing each other head injuries, even unintentionally, is good, actually, and the nhl could stand to take a page from the iihf book on the way that standard is upheld (for all ages).

“how are you gonna prepare them for the nhl if the rules are different?!” this is not an nhl run event. this is not the george parros department of player safety or the gary bettman league. this is not the ‘nhl prospect practice and preparation tournament’, this is the world junior hockey championship. it is its own entity unto itself and for its own ends, it is not just a stepping stone for your favourite budding superstars to gain prestige and fanfare before they move on to the only “big league” that north american hockey fans consider significant or meaningful. it plays a larger role in the development of not only players, but also of entire hockey training programs in countries where hockey, even men’s hockey, is an under-funded or less established sport.

not all of these kids are going to go on to be nhl players. ALL of them should get the chance to grow up to be adults who don’t have their quality of life degraded by lingering head injuries and cte.

miss me with your tough guy bullshit. good grief.

[ratwars]

Not sleeping enough and having a low grade headache is just who I am as a person apparently.

[glynjohnsfurcoat]

literally bruised and bloodied from antihistamine withdrawal

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

how do terfs grapple with the fact that they're white supremacist losers who think that women are weak essentially like adult babies but that they also bear the apparent brunt of all human pain... liiike ok which narrative are we going with

[mushroom-for-art]

This is new, I attempted the writing. Zeus and Nemo belong to @ask-mirage-mews while Andi is my character. I shall put it under a read more out of respect for my followers and future me.

Clone meets Clones

The facility faintly buzzed with subdued life, the faint bubbling of fluid stirring the near quiet of the ambient noises. Leaves rustled outside by a breeze that barely whispered, quiet chirping sounds of the natural fauna or whistles of flora called from the outside world begging the creatures inside the building to come join them. Come outside and feel the warmth of the sun and the cool of the breeze the murmurs of nature called, feel the shade of our leaves and the texture of our branches.

The entities that resided within the building though could not join this outside world, not yet. Well to say such would be untrue, one of them could see beyond the walls of their prison with their own eyes, experience life through their own body but they simply did not want to yet. They were waiting for someone after all, there was no point exploring the world alone. A three fingered hand touched a dimly lit screen in the quiet of one of their rooms, a structure beside them bubbled as though to remind them it still existed.

"You should rest Nemo, I am going to attempt to grow some food for when your body is ready using these berries some of our, uh guests left us. Apparently all they require is soil and water, and I believe there might be some in this building, maybe even an artificial environment system to provide the daylight the plants require. I promise I will be nearby if you need me." The tall figure affectionately stroked their fingers against the screen that glowed, a white blue catlike entity projected on the screen attempting to shove their face into the hand despite the physical barrier between them. The figure smiled almost sadly, longing to feel their companions touch once more, it was torment being out here alone and they knew it was the same for the other within the screen.

"I'll be fine Zuzu don't worry so much, I know you're not leaving the building," the catlike being or Nemo spoke within the computer their voice was gentle and reassuring as they continued to smush their face into the screen as though by sheer will they'd force their way out and into the hand of Zuzu. Of course Zuzu wasn't the tall figure's actual name, neither was Nemo the name of the one inside the screen. 

The figure outside the screen was named Zeus in reality, they were a being known as a Mewtwo, the result of experiments done on Mew dna to make the perfect Pokémon. Zeus however wasn't a result of one of these experiments, their form a clone of another with lighter patterns striping his tail and around his eyes his own body free of the confines of their computer world. The entity inside of the computer screen still was known as Mnemosyne, though Nemo was an easier alternative, they were a Mew and within the quietly bubbling machine next to them their cloned body grew. Within the cloning tube was a shiny blue Mew with incredibly fluffy long fur, the clone body was curled up peacefully almost asleep as its vitals were monitored. This cloning device was different to others, where others would produce a fully conscious clone with its own self, this machine was capable of cloning the body while allowing the information of Zeus and Nemo respectively to be transferred into the mind. An ethical transfer and means of leaving the program they were created in. 

Zeus sighed softly as they continued to touch the screen, the warmth of the glowing screen almost making them believe it was Nemo's own warmth, "I know, I just wouldn't want you to think that I'm abandoning you in some way. And…" voice trailing off with another sigh as their eyes glanced over to the clone, heart rate was steady strong and good and nervous system readings were just fine and working everything was running well and good.

"I don't think the clones health is going to plummet off the ends of the earth if you leave the room for a few minutes Zuzu~" Nemo spoke easily and playful laughing softly into their hands but their eyes gazed over at their companion with nothing but affection and care, "it's sweet how worried you are though, but everything has been going well I can't see it going wrong now." They spoke reassuringly as Zeus continued to watch the clone warily worried it could be testing fate to leave them unsupervised. "Besides," Nemos tone took on a more assured tone with an underlying awareness "if something went wrong. And that's a big if. Well. We still have plenty of Zygote cells, correct? We just, try again? Hope another kind stranger lends a strand of fur or two. Maybe even try something different if we think the Mew dna is the problem. Right now we're not in any rush or danger and so I think we have options."

Zeus let out a soft chuckle of a breath, "you sound so confident and sure yet it's your means of escape on the line." Zeus leant forward to gently press their forehead to the screen closing their eyes when they found the dim light a bit much on their new retina, "your optimism is reassuring and I suppose it is not misplaced either, we have been lucky when it comes to the kindness of others." They pulled back to look once more at Nemo missing their face and loving eyes, "and. It is a big if as you said. We have plenty of options. If this fails we could research alternatives together?" Zeus' mouth pulled into a soft smile, reassured about the situation if things did go wrong then checking for a different body for Nemo to transfer into may not be so bad. Especially if it just meant they could be together and then together together in the flesh and fur. 

After a final check on the clone and some more holding and nuzzling of the computer screen by both parties Zeus finally hesitantly left the room walking carefully to explore hoping to have some plants growing and underway before Nemo arrived so that they had plenty of food options to choose from. Nemo stretched within their simulated world yawning to themselves before curling up tail wrapping around themselves laying over their tummy as they floated peacefully in a sleep-like state to conserve their energy and reduce the amount of power they were using. The dimly lit screen faded to gray, before turning black, a little light in the corner flicked from green to yellow indicating the screen was in rest mode due to lack of input, the only light now from the cloning tube that bubbled occasionally like a fish tank as the clone also slept. It was quiet again save for ambient noises from within the building and outside. And the occasional faint thumping of Zeus colliding into old equipment left lying around, still getting used to their actual physical status and how they therefore interact with the world and how they apparently now will knock into things rather than simulated items simply floating away.

Zeus didn't hear the thud from within the cloning room over the sound of scattering metal trays and equipment, they didn't hear the other lifeform softly groaning in pain over the sound of themselves groaning in annoyance at the clatter and sound on their apparently still delicate ears, they brought a hand to their ear rubbing it softly and rubbing near their temple as well to ease the slight throb. When the ache faded Zeus attempted to collect up the scattered pieces with psychic, a pencil lifted slightly wobbled and then dropped back to the floor with a soft plink. They sighed, looked like they'd be tidying up the manual way, placing the basket of berries down and they began to tidy up, unaware still of their visitor. 

The air in the cloning room seemed to ripple slightly thankfully away from anything technological just in the middle of the room, it almost seemed like the particles of the air were distorting falling away like pixels a warm breeze blowing through with the faint smell of grasses from another region before a body fell through and the ripple seemed to vanish as quick as it appeared. Andi hit the floor with a thud and groaned softly in pain at hitting a hard solid surface. Not that she should've been surprised by this most of the time. When the sickening lurch of space and reality shifted and warped around her, she ended up being flung or falling into something solid and painful more often than not. 

Slowly she pushed herself up as she tasted copper in her mouth and felt stinging under her chin, she'd bitten the inside of her mouth clearly and must've scraped her chin probably bleeding now, she sighed at the typicalness of it all pushing herself into a sitting position slowly head still spinning and feeling light. When her eyes finally focused she realized that the room was actually just dark and it wasn't some darkening tunnel vision from moving too quickly. She pulled her bag off her shoulders first and foremost rooting around in the side pockets she pulled out a little torch, pressing the button it illuminated not very bright but enough to make seeing easier. She held it between her teeth as she looked in the main compartment of her bag pulling out her little first aid kit, she felt around her chin hissing around the torch at the sting feeling the slight warm wetness on her fingers from the blood and bits of scraped loose skin and bruising. She pulled out an antiseptic wipe quickly cleaning off her chin breathing around the torch to prevent herself wincing and hissing once more and wiped off her fingers, she wasn't sure how clean this floor was and better safe than sorry plus might get any grit and pebbles out if there was any sat in the wound before taking out a decently large square plaster taking off the paper and carefully applied it to her chin to stop the bleeding and cover it up. She'd have a proper look at it at home putting the bloody wipe and rubbish back in the first aid box. Finally she looked around the area she was in, well the room seemed to have been a recent man made structure, she thought before her eyes fell upon the cloning tubes. 

Slowly Andi pushed herself up to stand, torch still between her teeth as she zipped up her backpack and slung it over her shoulder. She went to grab the tiny torch in one hand and patted her hip with the other feeling the pokeballs with her Pokémon inside, still sitting thankfully unharmed in her belt. She approached the tube slowly holding the torch to see the creature inside, slowly it came into focus as she stood in front of the machine. She blinked as she stared, stepping backwards to look around at the machinery properly admiring the system, the wires etcetera. 

"Nothing like the one back home…" she murmured mainly to herself looking back at the tube and the clone inside tilting her head as she looked at them curled up almost sleep-like, "makes sense…this one must be for cloning pokémon not people, well clearly Andi there's a Pokémon in there." She quickly chastised herself for being stupid before continuing "I wonder what you are though.." Her voice was very soft as she looked at the fluffy creature carefully taking out her pokedex with her free hand to scan it.

"Mew the New species Pokémon!" the dex came to life displaying a drawn image of mew from an old book colored pink as it spoke "It is said that Mew is incredibly rare and has only been seen by a few people. Mews fascinating DNA holds the genetic structures of all Pokémon allowing it to use any move, some believe it is the ancestor to all Pokémon." Andi glanced between the dex and the clone in the tube making a soft sound of intrigue to herself. Her eyebrows furrowed in confusion looking at the dex again then the clone and back a few more times before she tucked the dex away. 

"Why's this one blue then…" She quietly mused out loud to herself, she thought rubbing her temple, "come on…come on I think I know this..come on Andrea must have known what this was called. Come on, inherited memories, be useful for once." Andi frowned to herself struggling before making a soft "ah-ha" as she softly hit her fist into her open palm, "it's a sparkly pokémon. The ones that have different colors."

She smiled to herself as she looked at the now identified sparkly mew before looking around again, the facility by the looks of it was abandoned she had no idea about Zeus and Zeus had yet to have any idea of her. She frowned to herself as she looked around before looking to the clone eyes soft in concern, "hey there little mew..what are you doing here then huh? Who, made you then left you all alone here to fend for yourself? Gosh, you're just a baby who could do this…" She spoke both to herself and the clone wondering what happened and why they were here alone supposedly. 

The slight increase in volume reached the computers systems and Nemo awoke within their system at the unfamiliar voice twitching their ear to listen the screen dimly came to life once more though Andi was too busy looking at the tube to notice as she spoke softly, "I guess I don't know where I am so I'll stay here till you're ready to, come out I guess? So you're not alone when you wake up."

"Oh I won't be alone! Zeus is here with me!" Nemo piped up as they moved to try to see their unexpected guest who promptly jumped right out of her skin leaping away from the tube sending the torch scattering across the floor to the other side of the room in utter fright falling right onto her ass and well right where Nemo could now see them. Andi looked at the screen in bewilderment and Nemo stared back at her in equal confusion to the new guest before they spoke "Oh goodness I'm sorry I didn't mean to frighten you, you've already got enough booboos as it is without me adding to it~!" Playful in tone but with some undertones of concern as they looked at the other. 

Andi made an awkward sound, something that could've been a laugh as her hand awkwardly touched her plastered cheek and chin, "haaa" it was somewhere between an exhale wheeze and a laugh, "yea, yea uh, a lot of booboos." Moving slowly she cautiously went to get her torch from the floor where it had unfortunately broken, she frowned but put it back in her backpack too attached to chuck it yet, "sooo, uh, right. Um, hi" She turned to face the screen looking at Nemo who certainly looked more like the depicted mew on the dex less fluffy than the clone but not the right color. 

Andi cleared her throat softly awkwardly, "Hi, uh, I'm sorry I…disturbed you?" She had no idea what was happening really, who was Zeus?

"Oh I was only resting to save the system's power supply, when did you get here then? What are you up to?" Nemo asked playfully spinning slightly in their space to be upside down as their stared at their new company, judging by her looks well she was clearly human and a Trainer of sorts if the 4 Pokeballs on her hip said anything, thankfully she didn't seem to have any spare empty ones on hand otherwise Nemo would've felt more concerned by this random person but if anything she seemed quite harmless for now. 

Andi blinked as the computer mew stared at her upside down, she tilted her head a bit trying to follow but obviously unable to also float upside down awkwardly straightening her head again, "I uh, dropped in a few moments ago. It was purely an accident um I have this. Thing." She moved her hands a bit awkwardly to emphasize the thing, "where sometimes I get like, thrown to other places I guess? It's like Teleport but bad," she made an awkward laugh noise saying, "so I'm not here on business or anything, just by accident." she laughed again but cringed a bit at her bad attempt of humor. 

Nemo however laughed softly floating back to being upright seeming to approve the answer, "are you suuurrreee you're not here because I'm an ickle babyy~" Nemo laughed as they teased having heard what the other previously said as their hands squished their own face to emphasis their cuteness giggling once more to themselves as the other stammered awkwardly.

Andi slowly approached the screen having deduced from the safe distance there wasn't any grabby mechanical parts or stabby parts, "I'm sorry about that um I was actually talking to this little mew here," she nodded towards the tank, "since they're, probably just a baby technically?" Nemo laughed softly once more. 

"Oh no that's an adult mew body, a baby mew would be even tinier than that!" Nemo changed their appearance within the system taking on the appearance of an infant mew incredibly smaller than both Nemos usual form and the body in the tank. From elsewhere Zeus became aware of Nemo's voice, but it didn't sound like they were being summoned. No… it sounded like Nemo was talking to someone, someone unsupervised in the room with Nemos cloned body. Zeus abandoned his plant pot moving as quickly as he could on his feet. 

Andi struggled a bit glancing at the tube saying softly "yea but, when they come out even if they have an adult body and maybe memories of whoever they're cloned from, they're. They're still going to be just new. They'd be a baby even when their body is grown and their mind should be too. They'll be experiencing everything for the first time despite that ya know." Her tone suggested she knew something of the subject, her hand open in front of the tank without touching it, "I just, sorry, thought they were alone and I didn't want them to be. This world is a lot and it can be scary, I didn't know you were here or uh Zeus was it? I just worried they'd been made and left by some careless hum-"--

"YOU STAY AWAY FROM THAT!!!" Before Andi could finish her sentence a muscular tail collided with her side sending her flying into a wall away from the machinery. "How dare you be in here unattended! If you've touched anything, if you've damaged anything I SWEAR!" Zeus' voice thundered with rage as he scowled down at the uninvited guest on the floor who made another groan of pain knowing the tail and wall collisions were gonna bruise badly. 

"Zuzu! It's okay she wasn't doing anything!" Nemo loudly called out wanting their companion to look at them and away from the human, "Zuzu it's all okay, it's okay look see systems fine!" Nemo loudly reassured Zeus who finally pulled their eyes away from glaring holes into the uninvited human towards the readings of the clone body which were all perfectly stable just like they were when Zeus first left. An exhale left Zeus' lungs that they didn't realize they'd been holding fearing the worst before glancing sheepishly towards Nemo who put both their hands against the screen leaning close and smiling at them softly, "see, everything's okay. Everything's okay." Nemo reassured once more and Zeus softly touched the screen.

"I'm sorry Nemo, I saw her and feared the worst, you know how some of our company has been." Zeus spoke softly and apologetically. Andi watched them from where she sat up and leaned into the wall thinking to herself "oh, THAT'S Zeus." Wishing Zeus had in fact been a fluffy little mew as well, she wasn't sure what type of Pokémon he was. 

"I know Zeus, but I think maybe you should say sorry to our guest?" Nemo gently suggested earning a sort of puff snort from Zeus in a very much "don't want to" fashion. Nemo leant their head to the side a bit and closer saying, "Zuzu~ come on you did throw her across the room." Zeus made another soft puff, feeling their face warm at the nickname used in front of company and also in slight embarrassment to his actions. 

"Oh don't worry it's fine," Andi awkwardly laughed waving her hand as if it was nothing, "I've had worse, you were just protecting your baby it's fine it's natural."

"Eh?" Zeus vocalized as their face rapidly warmed once more, "what are you on about human??" Thoughts of having a family with Nemo quickly flashing through Zeus' mind they glanced to the side to hide their furious blushing as the mental image of a chubby little fluffy baby, a sort of midway point between a mew and mewtwo was held by Nemo as they learnt to float. Nemo laughed softly from within the computer. 

Andi looked between them both feeling like she was left out of some joke or certainly left out of the information loop, "um, is that clone not like, your guys baby? Cause like, uh it's a Mew like um the one in the computer and like you look kinda, mewish? So like, your baby? That's why you're so protective over them? I'm like I'm not judging or anything, it's cool it's pretty sweet you guys are making a family together and like I assume uh they have no memories so like it's a fresh start even if they're a clone so they're gonna be their own person rather than whoever they're cloned from. It's cool. I'm a clone myself." She awkwardly rambled on as Zeus and Nemo watched her, Nemo's eyes widening in amazement at learning she was a clone as Zeus lightly scoffed. 

"While you're correct that this clone has no memories it isn't our, child," Zeus coughed into his hand, "it is a body for Nemo here so that they aren't stuck in the computer system anymore." Andi stood back up once more but stuck to the wall as she softly vocalized in understanding. 

"Oh, oh okay that makes sense, I'm glad they're like an opportunity for Nemo to be their own person? That's really cool and like it's good they have no memories cause, pft, inherited memories suck," She laughed awkwardly as Zeus stared hard at her. 

"Are you really a clone???" Nemo asked in excitement pushing their face once more into the screen to see better, "do you have stripes like Zeus??" 

"Nemo, that might be a bit rude," Zeus gently spoke, sending warning glances at the human in case she got snippy about it as Nemo apologized in the background. 

"Oh don't worry no, I mean I brought it up I can't be mad you're asking questions I mean me and Nemo are in a kinda similar boat?" Andi mentioned looking at Zeus unsure, "and, I think you are too? So like, we're, all clones here?" doing a somewhat unsure awkward shoulder shimmy and motioning with her arms towards both Zeus and Nemo. Zeus made a soft huff as they watched her bizarre antiques but seemed to settle slightly. Apparently having decided she seemed harmless enough actually and that Nemo wasn't in any immediate danger though they were keenly aware of the partner Pokémon the human possessed. 

Andi moved from the wall carefully so Nemo could see her better keeping an eye on Zeus' swishing tail, "uh well, my name's Andi by the way um since I've heard both your names," She nodded awkwardly softly to them both like a late greeting, "I don't have stripes like Zeus here unfortunately um they look really cool." She awkwardly nodded again to Zeus who raised a brow at her so she looked away. 

Nemo made a soft oooh, "do you know who you were cloned from? Are you two friends? Zeus has a brother now in Zlato being his clone!" earning a soft "Nemo" from Zeus who clearly didn't feel comfortable divulging all their secrets to this person just yet. 

Andi awkwardly rubbed the back of her neck saying softly, "yea I, know who I was cloned from. She unfortunately passed away before I was made, her name was Andrea, um." Andi laughed awkwardly, shrugging and throwing her hands out a bit, "I was actually made to replace her after she died I guess but I came out wrong and nothing like her so I got sent away." Andi blew air out of her lips in an all too casual way at this information, "I guess that happens when cloning like with memories and consciousness. I'm glad neither of you have to worry about that since it's just like you immediately downloaded into the body?"

Nemo made a soft, saddened noise as they looked at Andi wide eyed "that's awful!" Causing Andi to awkwardly flounder, "oh oh no please don't be sad I didn't mean it in a sad way I'm fine honest really I just meant I'm really glad you guys won't have to deal with any of that. Oh I'm sorry Nemo I didn't mean to upset you." 

Zeus huffed softly in displeasure at the situation ready to kick this human out clone or not for upsetting Nemo as Nemo spoke "so they just sent you away and didn't accept you as your own person??? And you're just fine with it?" Nemo seemed more upset by the circumstances than Andi. Perhaps in a way it did reflect on their own situation as they may not be accepted as real pokémon being both mentally simulations and physical clones. 

"I mean," Andi sighed softly, "it did suck, it still sucks but I'm, getting to develop myself I guess? If I stayed there they'd have wanted me to be Andrea ya know and like I don't, feel like her at all? At least since they sent me away that let me be Andi and that feels right? I think Andi is who I'm meant to be but, I still carry bits of Andrea with me. I get memories from her sometimes. Like how I figured out I guess that this mew who is going to be Nemo someday" she nodded towards the one in the tank, "was a sparkly mew!"

Zeus loudly snorted at that, throwing their head back to laugh as Nemo softly giggled into their hands attempting to shush both themselves and Zeus as Andi just stared at them confused, becoming aware of the fact that she probably got the term very wrong indeed. "Sparkly mew?" Zeus continued to chuckle at that grinning with teeth, "shiny, the term is shiny."

Andi blinked and snort laughed softly and lightly knocked her knuckles to her skull saying "gosh darn this head is just empty innit! Shiny Pokémon, thank you, could've made an even bigger fool of myself there had I told someone else I caught a sparkly." She was glad it seemed to ease the earlier tension and Nemo seemed more settled by her answer that although the situation was bad she had been able to become her own person perhaps reminding and comforting Nemo that they and Zeus were their own people no matter what others might think. 

Zeus softly cleared their throat and glanced at Andi, "I'm sorry about sending you into that wall earlier." Andi waved a hand dismissively smiling at them saying "you were protecting Nemo that's fine, I get it I mean I'd probably do the same thing if someone was potentially a threat to someone I cared about it's no sweat" She shrugged casually again and glanced at the machine "so when's Nemo gonna be out and about?" 

"Few more days still." Nemo practically squealed in excitement within their space flying around as Zeus gently told them not to exhaust themselves but smiled all too fondly watching them. Andi smiled softly as she watched Zeus stare lovingly at Nemo. 

"You two really love each other. It's really sweet. I'm glad you guys know who are and have your personality and that you're basically ready to go. You just need a body, though obviously I imagine you've had plenty of time to develop yourself in your computer space? You guys had a head start on me, no fair." Andi joked lightly as Zeus nodded. 

"we spent a lot of that time snuggled up cuddling together thoughhhh~ and it was amazinggg~" Nemo cheerfully reminded Zeus who once more felt their face heat up but they smiled to themselves at the thought saying "yes we've had plenty time to figure out what we enjoy, we happen to very much enjoy each others company as one thing along with other things we plan to experience here in the outside world."

Andi chuckled and awed softly, part of her envious of their assured selves, a large part of her but also glad they wouldn't be stumbling through personal identity like she was that they wouldn't be bogged down by insecurity and wondering where, well in Zeus' case where they started and where Zlato finished. Their bodies though clones were purely their own without anything left behind and she was happy for them. Though she figures her life would be a bit more boring if she couldn't feel Andrea's presence with her.

As Andi stayed in their company Zeus enquired about her inherited memories and such learning about the things Andi had retained from Andrea's life despite being a different person to her and privately wondered if the cloning process that made her was even done properly or ethically and personally deciding that no no it probably wasn't. Nemo found Andis dreams quite fascinating learning that she dreamt of knowing Andrea of them being siblings and such and was intrigued by all the things Andi had learnt from dreams or impressions of Andrea's life and also all the things Andi had learnt for herself wondering if it meant they and Zeus could learn and do things their DNA donors could not. This resulted in Nemo and Andi attempting to curl their tongues for a solid few minutes to the point they may as well have just been pulling faces at each other and their absolute shock and jealousy as Zeus rolled his tongue in his first attempt with Nemo very vocally complaining about how unfair that was. Zeus found the ability a bit strange and a lot useless but doing it made Nemo laugh so it was useful in some ways. Andi told them about Paldea and promised she'd make them both sandwiches if they ever visited but understood if they didn't with the whole being a Mew and Mewtwo thing. Nemo made various noises and complaints at being unable to have a sandwich there and then. By the time Andi felt the lurch in her chest indicating a jump to a different place it had been a few hours.

"Uh, I'd hate to interrupt the lovely chat we're having but I think I'm gonna get thrown from here in a few moments, it was really lovely meeting and talking to you both and I really wish you both the best," Andi smiled to them as she felt space distort around her thankfully once more away from anything technological.

"Ah? So soon? That is a shame, I, believe that this has been a decently pleasant time," Zeus smiled softly, sad that the decent company was leaving but it meant they'd be able to get back to work soon. 

"Stay safe! We'll maybe see you in Paldea for those sandwiches!!" Nemo waved from within the computer. Andi chuckled, waving her hand goodbye to Nemo. 

"I promise you'll get those sandwi-" her sentence cut off as space seemed to warp and snatch her from that very place as if she was never there to begin with, Zeus blinked slightly startled by the display quickly checking everything was still fine glad to find it was. 

"I suppose she wasn't kidding when she said she had an unusual teleport power…" Zeus pondered, confused as Nemo nodded. 

"Yea, maybe she was part mew?" Nemo suggested but Zeus hummed in thought tapping their chin. 

"No, I didn't really get that impression. I couldn't sense anything like that from her." wondering what was going on there but ultimately deciding it wasn't their problem smiling at Nemo fondly they touched the screen Nemo once more pressed smushed against their palm.

"Will we actually go to Paldea someday?" Nemo asked hungry at the idea of the sandwiches as Zeus chuckled softly. 

"Maybe. If you're good." Zeus teased fondly, Nemo making a playful scoff and very adamantly insisting they are always good thank you very much! As Zeus smiled and lovingly nuzzled the screen mumbling "oh Nemo I miss you, I can't wait for you to be here in my arms," and Nemo hummed and returned a loving "I miss you too, soon love." as they attempted to nuzzle the other. 

Zeus did eventually scoff to themself, "hardly got any progress done on those plants," causing Nemo to laugh fondly as Zeus pouted, giving a playful huff, "damn guests." as Nemo fake gasped at the use of damn and laughed once more they still had plenty time after all. 

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Nah some charcater shit hard for me, but like it’s the weirdest group of characters who all hit for the same reason???

Like junkrat, soldier tf2, Simon/iceking, old man mcgucket. All of them really fuck with me, for junkrat and soldier it’s more fanon than the actual characters (esp junkrat) but Simon legit brings tears of my eyes sometimes

[running-in-the-dark]

...... fuuuuuuck

I juuuuust want to be dead.

that is all

going to bed now. taking my thesis and my laptop and a pen and paper with me. and hoping I'll have at least a couple useful thoughts before I pass out (I won't)

[lilredghost]

Me, eyes shooting open at 3am: I gave Anakin a terrible injury in one of my fics and then forgot to address it ever again 😬

[kiki-strike]

there’s nothing worse than being made to feel wimpy and stupid for having A Medical Condition. like ok you’re gonna bitch about me for fainting and needing to be picked up from the lab?? when it’s a half hour walk home and i can barely stand. why don’t you drive yourself home from the next surgery you get you wrinkly asshole