#warring: burning people

[planariaareneat]

How The Nocturnal Bottleneck and Nipples Make Us Human

Almost every post here considers what humans do have, really. It’s a little tiring; realistically every world has its harsh environments and vicious species and a sophont to match. We probably wouldn’t be unique for our adaptability or our persistence or even adrenaline

But our evolution is fucked up as hell, to put it lightly.

Mammals went through what’s been dubbed the nocturnal bottleneck essentially since the start of the mesozoic right up until the Cretaceous ended the archosaur’s exclusive hold over the daylight. We lost a lot of things from every mammal spending most of its time in either a cramped, suffocating burrow or scrounging around in the faint hours of nighttime. Our blood cells lost their nuclei to hold more oxygen while we spent time deep underground, we lost protections against ultraviolet rays in our skin and eyes, we can’t even repair our own DNA using the light of the sun. Most aliens probably wouldn’t have such traits unless their evolution followed a very similar path to ours. They’d be able to see ultraviolet and wouldn’t have to worry about sunburn and all the wonderful privileges essentially all fish, birds, amphibians, and reptiles enjoy as we speak. 

There’s also what we gained from spending so much time in the dark.

Brown fat is only found in mammals, it’s a special type of fat which bear cells with several oil droplets and are utterly jammed with mitochondria. This lets it make heat, a lot of it, fast. We don’t even need to shiver to induce this heat generation from brown adipose tissue - factor in our downright hyperactive mitochondria, and we can warm up quickly. Sure, it doesn’t have too much use in adult humans, but it keeps our infants warm and still provides a little boost the whole run we have in this universe.

Unless aliens also went through a time where their small ancestors had to face cold nights, they’d have to produce heat the old fashioned way when chilled. Aliens might have to shiver the whole time they’re in a cold room while the human watches in confusion, quite literally unshaken, and wonders if the room is a lot colder than the thermostat set to 60 says. The aliens stare at their companion in confusion, it’s just a normal temperature to shiver at after all, how is the human sitting so still?

Our small ancestors spending all their time out foraging at night is also why we have such a good sense of touch, smell, and hearing. They were more important senses than vision (we’re lucky to have even redeveloped basic color vision, frankly) at the time and place and simply ended up continuing to serve us well. Birds and reptiles rarely have acute senses of smell and the latter especially are lucky to have acute hearing, and birds rarely have impeccable hearing themselves either. Our skin is free of scales and honed to sensitivity, and our external ears and complicated ear bones provide an immense range of hearing (from 20 all the way to 17,000 hertz!).

Aliens might not be able to pin down the chirp of a cricket or the light click of a lock being picked. The human might be the only one on board a ship that can pick out the finer sounds of the engine’s constant thrum and know the critical difference between when everything is fine and when something is wrong. The human could probably pick out the sounds of an approaching enemy’s careless footsteps - they’re only as light enough for *them* to stop hearing them, after all - and be the one to see the horrified expression (well, more on that later) on their face when we get the drop on them in spite of their perceived stealth. 

But perhaps the most versatile, convoluted, amazing, and utterly unique trait we have is right on your face this instant. Lips.

Lips in most animals are a simple seal to hold in the mouth’s moisture and protect the teeth, even if they’re supple they’re NEVER muscular except in mammals, and we have only one thing to thank for it; milk and nipples. Lips evolved exclusively to allow babies to suckle, it required a vacuum to be created in the mouth, and with no other animal having anything like a nipple it never happened in other animals. Many animals make milk, to be frank, but no other animal has nipples.

Your cheeks and lips are a marvel among tetrapods, no other animal can suck like mammals can. Aliens wouldn’t have straws or even be able to sip from the edge of a glass, they’d have to have a proboscis or simply tilt the whole thing back. Aliens likely won’t have woodwind instruments or balloons you can blow into. We take so much about our lips for granted. Hell, our muscular faces are vital for expressions, we’re probably absolute facial contortionists among a cast of creatures with mandibles and beaks and expressionless scaly maws. Aliens might find us ridiculously easy to read, if anything, compared to their own kind (all the better to deceive them) - or perhaps they’d find us hard to decipher anyways, with our lack of color-changing skin or erectable crests of bright feathers. Baring teeth might not be seen as a sign of aggression in most of the universe, smiling would be all too distinctly human. 

Perhaps with how infectious we are sometimes, that’s what we’d contribute to the universe; others might have to make do with opening their mouths just enough to show their teeth or splaying their innumerable mouthparts with just the right curve, but perhaps we’d teach the galaxy to smile, one ally at a time. 

Wouldn’t that be amazing?

[palatinewolfsblog]

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Ray Bradbury.

[mamawasatesttube]

ive decided to mentally rewrite adventure comics (2009) in my head in order to make the plot palatable. kon is still trying to be like "maybe there's good in him??" about lex luthor, but it's no longer because he sees himself as a clex venn diagram, because that retcon is stupid and means nothing to me.

why, then, is kon invested in trying to see if lex has any redeeming qualities?

simple. it's what luke skywalker would do.

[sacko-lacko]

Im soo cooked im drawing Murout fanart

Anyways chat do we fw this?

[sobbing-quietly02]

Y’all might hate me but the way I see it in LU is that both Wars and Wild would the medics in a way.

Let me explain

Wars; was literally in a war were he most likely have to of known basic principles of medicine at the very least. Possibly was a temporary field medic during the war. And that’s just from the war itself, we don’t actually KNOW what life was like before for wars. Maybe he came from a family of nurses or apothecaries.

Now for the controversial

Wild; now at frost it wouldn’t make sense but please let me explain.

Wild would be one of the medics BECAUSE he’s had the most experience being injured. It is common belief within the fandom and comic that Wild is irrational (and Wild within battle) and gets injured a decent bit, but that is the current.

I want you to think about how Jojo has written Wilds backstory within LU. From what I understand he had to start from scratch with everything. HE HAD TO RELEARN WHAT IT MEANT TO BE HUMAN AND ALIVE.

He probably had gotten numerous injuries just from the great plateau and even then it was just a small fraction of his adventure.

One characteristic about Links in general is the ability to will themselves though tragedy and harm and Wild is no exception. Knowing that there is a high probability that Wild went though his adventure somewhat injured constantly. Most likely minor injuries and ones that wouldn’t hinder his ability to fight but enough to hurt and be painful.

Another point about the ‘starting and learning to live’ is the aspect that some common sense things for most people wild just didn’t know.

The best way to show this is an example

Say someone was set on fire by a Wizrob and now has severe burns on one of their legs?

Wild who’s experienced extreme burns during his adventure (because he didn’t actually know that Lava was the hot thing in death mountain) knows

A) what the person is going though (empathy). The way that this would be helpful is if the person is unconscious or is unable to communicate what their feelings outside a basic burn.

B) know how the treat the injury in a way that would allow the person to still be able to move/ use the injured part to a degree. And he knows how to use the stuff that they have with them the help. There’s something’s that would be helpful but are in a completely different area or region.

In this example Wild (bc he’s gotten injured so much) is able to help communicate and heal the injury. And help in a way that others might not.

And that’s not even talking about the fact about the fact that Wild seems to be the main cook of the group (given that’s his nickname) and he can cook various potions, especially for willpower/ strength (stamina/green) and health/ healing (healing/red).

Bc of these facts shown I do believe that Wild will become the main assistant to whoever’s the medic (most likely Wars due to actual medical experience).

And the question of ‘wouldn’t Hyrule be apart the medic gang?’ And my answer would be on the spectrum of ‘unlikely to unless the person is dying’ bc of his powers but that a whole other post that im too tired to make rn.( but will if y’all want)

And keep in mind that fact that every Link in the chain has been injured before, has taken care of it (probably by themselves), and has survived.

Meaning that The Med Crew tm wouldn’t immediately be needed unless the person is unconscious, struck in a Vidal area or disabled bc the injury.

Examples; extreme concussion, struck in the chest/ abdomen, broken leg, is unconscious etc which can all happen whilst fighting.

And really everything is conditional. Each Link will respond to the injuries and wounds of the others in their own ways due to many things including there experience.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk, lmao

Please note that these are not all my thoughts, I have so much more especially about dynamics within the chain. And even more with Wars and Wild, omg when that update comes out if them two. I won’t stop yapping.



[souryam]

deciding to stop lying to myself there's no way in hell the malfoys (minus draco maybe) forgave snape after the war

[iamnmbr3]

Amazing to me how many violence loving bigots are trying to act like their fetish for the brutalization of innocents is somehow progressive or in support of any cause.

Equating a brutal group of terrorists with all Palestinians is bigoted and untrue. Saying Hamas's tactics are acceptable since Palestinians just can't help committing war crimes because they are incapable of not brutalizing old women and children is bigoted and untrue. Saying it's ok to rape and torture people to death as long as they're Jews is bigoted and untrue.

Hamas stands for nothing. They are a hate group. Just like their supporters.

[chiliger]

Idk I’m a sucker for glowing eyes

Might do more

[miss-couch-potato]

HAPPY GODZILLA DAY!!!

Happy birthday Godzilla :]

[jedi-starbird]

Disaster Lineage Timeline and Ages

Here is a Disaster Lineage timeline that actually makes sense and includes all members, plus their relative ages for each event. For all my fic writers who also get a headache trying to figure them out.

I tried my best to keep the relative ages the same as what Canon or Legends gives us with 2 exceptions (Xanatos and Komari). So while the dates may not be canon accurate for becoming a padawan or Knighting, their ages are. The grey cells mark how old the person was when they died.

I've given permission for this to be on the SW Reference wiki. Here!

Enjoy and hope you have fun with it! Detailed explanations for birth-date changes below the cut!

Buckle in Folks.

OK, so Dooku must be aged up minimum 5 years in order to train Rael before Qui-Gon and so Qui-Gon can train Feemor and Xanatos before Obi-Wan. Rael has to be at least 10 years older than Qui-Gon so that he can be knighted when Qui-Gon is padawan age. Canon has Dooku take on Rael at 22 so I kept that cause it's funny and that means Dooku has to be older than his canon birthday of 102BBY to fit both in.

Neither of Qui-Gon's birthdays work if you want to fit the other lineage members in. This is not at all annoying. 80BBY(canon) has him too young to train both Feemor and Xanatos before Obi-Wan and 92BBY(legends) has him being 17 when he becomes a padawan if Dooku trains Rael before him. 86BBY is my magical average that just barely works. I use fanon that Qui-Gon takes over Feemor's training cause it's the only way to fit him in without making Qui-Gon too old, thus domino-affecting Rael and Dooku.

Does this mean the 4 of them are all knighted between ages 21-23? Yes? Is that insane? Yes, but alas it's the only way I could make the timeline work.

Komari is the only birth-date I've moved for non-math reasons, her actual birthday is 62BBY, same as Nim, but that makes her 18 at Galidraan and I felt that was too young personally. (She kills 20 Mandos singlehandedly there. yeah. wtf)

Xanatos's birthday and death date are the same but I made him older when he fell because Legends has him as 16 and that really feels too young, especially since he was considered for the goddamn Knight Trials when he fell and we know Anakin was considered exceptionally young when he was knighted at 19. It makes for some nice parallels between them. Plus all the shit Xanatos gets up to after he runs off, he should be a little older to pull it off.

[sammywolfgirl]

I for one am okay with my pre corruption shadow milk design being probably non cannon anymore but I like to propose a compromise for those who are still attached to their own pre corruption shadow milk designs (and this might have evidence???)

The beasts style/look changed before they fell.

Ie- the closer shadow milk got to falling the more jester elements he added. Or at least changed up his look.

So the new costume? Cannon look, the design seen in the gacha? Also cannon. Shadow milk maybe was the most obvious about it since he shapeshifts and I can see even pre corruption shadow milk playing around with his look (but maybe he got way more intense about it closer to falling)

But also the evidence(??) I have is via burning spice. In the reveal trailer the silhouette of burning spice pre corruption looks different than the herald of change (I forgot the exact wording) we see in the cutscene.

Two reasons for this. 1) devs just did a soft recon of the design between the production of that reveal trailer and the cutscene

2) the beasts look changed the closer they got to falling, and as we see the moment burning spice breaks in that cutscene, I’m willing to bet on this idea.

But hey that’s just my two cents.

[fierlyamber]

oh my God … how could I not realize that Rin and Nezha kissed twice to save and kill… He kissed her to save her from DROWNING while she kissed him to BURN him...

[leftisttiktok]

“ if we let one ant stand up to us than they all might stand up”

[sk-yay-sk]

I don't like any of the maps I've seen for HTTYD so i'm playing a puzzle game w all the locations. This is the 3rd version so far

[featheryminx]

the poppy war trilogy spoilers / the burning god spoilers

the thing about the end of the burning god that is SO tragic is that it did not have to be like this.

like at the very, very end, there’s only really 3 options—Rin overpowers Kitay and goes on her war bender against the West, Rin & Kitay acquiesce to the West’s demands and are begrudgingly allowed to be rulers of Nikan, or Rin & Kitay die. There is no winning option.

But just like 2 chapters prior, there was light (in the form of the poppy fields in Tikany), light which got snuffed out by Rin’s single mindedness and her insistence on continuing the war instead of rebuilding. I am fully of the opinion that the poppy fields were burnt not by Nezha’s men, but rather by the citizens of Tikany who could not stand that Rin was going to lead them into another war. I fully believe that, and I fully believe that is what we, the readers, are supposed to understand, even as our unreliable narrator swears up and down that it had to have been Nezha’s spies.

If Rin was a little less traumatized, or had a little more ability to let go of everything she’s been made into, they could have been… happy? to some extent. They could have survived on their own terms. But the war isnt kind, and the world isn’t fair, and after all the horrors that have been inflicted on and by this woman, there was never a chance that she could make the decision that would save them.

That’s the true tragedy, to me. It’s not on Speer in those final, heartbreaking chapters—it’s the inevitability of those final chapters that was set in motion the minute Rin spoke on that stage in Tikany.

[brennustheskeleton]

Used to be beautiful, now I'm a demon. They want me to perish in flames like a heathen. But they can't destroy me, I'll rise from the ashes. I’ll take them by storm and make sure to raise havoc.

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Image flipped to have a better view of Qymaen :)