#SuperScience

[vampire-jelly]

Today I offer you my very obscure and hyper-specific zombie OTP.

The brain rot of these two is REAL - thanks to that one fic of it I found that changed my brain chemistry forever.

[vampire-jelly]

SUPERSCIENCE MENTION !!! 🥹

first half of the ship requests cus feeling tad stumped drawing stuff rn so this is all i can make so far

Frenzy belongs to @chubbletea

[grinchwrapsupreme]

"God loves you so much he wont let you die horror trope" is basically the plot of the first few seasons of the venture bros from hank and deans perspective except instead of god its rusty and also they spend like 16 years not knowing this is happening

[rikusuriuri]

truly do think rusty would be a good writer if it was something he actually let himself do, just seems like something he would be naturally good at/talented at + think it would have been a fun hobby for him to have in the bg/detail in here and there

[taranchula]

venture movie was good. definitely felt like a bit of a ransom note but it got across what it needed to get across and did so with a level of panache. leaned a bit too heavy into it's ol' reliables (fake-out anticlimaxes, olive garden unlimited backstory, granular banter) but landed most of its hits and even if it didn't im gonna watch it 15 more times regardless

[zaprowsdower27]

We've known since DC reintroduced Kate Kane as Batman's Jewish maternal cousin that, by accident, DC has established that Martha Kane Wayne was Jewish, and consequentially that her son Bruce is halachically Jewish.

I hereby postulate that Bruce is in fact a transman who's using comic book superscience to hide the chest scars.

Why? Simple, because assuming his mother insisted he be raised Jewish, it would mean he'd have had a bat mitzvah rather than a bar mitzvah

[artbyblastweave]

What I really like about Creature Commandos is that stylistically it's a very Silver-Age-inflected take on the DCU as a superhero setting- EC comics Hammer-horror overtones, scientists getting blasted with radiation and turning into glowing skeletons, geneticists making Fish people, Weird War Two, Silver-Age leave-it-to-beaver Doc Magnus and his Metal Men, weird micronations with superscience, Frankenstein's monster is a real guy, and so on. This is not the kind of adaption where the writers feel a strong need try to hook every superpowered Tom, Dick and Sally back into the same particle accelerator explosion or mutagen-laced tear gas deployment. It's just that the Silver-age nonsense:

A.) is played basically 100 percent unironically as something that meaningfully affects and traumatizes the characters who have to live through it- no sly nods to the camera, no defensive irony in the presentation whatsoever and

B.) is portrayed with a level of ultraviolence that always sort of implicit in a lot of silver age concepts even if you couldn't actually depict it under CCA censorship standards. There's going to be a lot of blood when you shoot a nazi with a machine gun, it won't be pretty when the writers allow the guy whose power is "melting people" to actually make contact with a human opponent for once, you definitely don't want to see how the sausage gets made on a Frankenstein, and so on and so forth.

All of which result in the viewer nodding along, belief suspended, with a level of charity that we would absolutely not extend to a lot of the goofy silver-age fare this is pulling from. All told it comes out slightly north of The Venture Bros in terms of how it pairs these aesthetics with an intense sense of cynicism and pointlessness- even after all of the runarounds and fakeouts and pointless deaths the world is still in a better position at the end than if the team had just stayed home. But it feels like a cousin to that show, stylistically.

[vampire-jelly]

They have taken my brain hostage.

[evilminji]

Behold! o/ The Face Of Benevolent Evil!

Mr. Principle! A professional hero and educator!

Also possibly some sort of stoat hybrid! Certainly a chimera of Japanese fauna! With the Quirk High Specs, he is one of, if not THE, smartest beings on the planet of which he resides! With a background perfectly justifying a decent into hatred and villiany, he instead chose to channel his incredible world shaking intellect into the shaping of future generations!

He likes to fuck with people!

For FUNSIES~☆!

What can he say? It keeps a man young and mentally stimulated! Plus the hysterical screaming of his staff and students is HILARIOUS. He can even argue it makes for good reaction training! Unforseen situations, children! React!!! *psychotic chortling*

Mmmmm, yes. We all have our trauma responses. Ways we deal with them. He should probably find other means... but he won't! Tea and tormenting the student body make for good future heroes, you know! They adapt!

But! You may ask! Why am I introducing you to this... *polite yet somehow deeply threatening smile* c-completely sane and normal individual!? Esteemed educator that he is! Ha ha...

A good and not at a under threat question!

Villains? Are fuuuuuckin STUPID!

Doesn't matter how many PHDs you possess! In fact! That makes it WORSE! You moron! You absolute fool! No traveling circus would have you, you sub-rate CLOWN of a jingle jangle dunce jester! You have a god damn PHD! Possibly MULTIPLE PHD!

And you thought "ooooh I should go into cwiiiiime~☆"?

Do you hear yourself when you talk? DO YOU?! Ooooh boohoo. They won't let you study what you WANT to study. It's called an ETHICS BOARD. And YEAH, NO SHIT! Maybe get over it and keep you fucked up fantasies to your SELF.

Or? If you REALLY can't hold it in? Lay the ground work like EVERYONE FUCKING ELSE! You're not special! Everyone wants to play god! It's FUN! They let you have the COOL toys! But you have to EARN that shit! Not jump straight from graduation to "fucked up superscience"!

And? If it's NOT the Ethics Board? But just some bureaucrat on a power trip? You don't have to fucking STAY. This? This RIGHT HERE? Is why I-Island fucking EXSISTS.

APPLY.

They are SO MANY countries you could move too. SO MANY other labs. You actual DUMBASS.

But NO! You decided to commit to a fucked up underground Villian Lab. As though HUNTING THOSE isn't the PERSONAL fucking passion project of THE SMARTEST BEING IN JAPAN. Frankly? You deserve this. You deserve this and our school doesn't know you. Never heard of you. You whoms't?

Coulda changed the world. But instead all you did was piss of The Fuzzy White Demon Lord of UA. Rest in pieces. *click*

*sound of doors smashing open*

*violent Raid Upon Your Labs noises*

But! You may ask? What's IN the Lab?

What MAKES this a DP crossover?

I like your question asking spirit! Good one! And the answer? You know what's better then ONE(1) Nedzu? A second one that you can ACTUALLY control this time! After all! You could consider Mr. Principle a prototype. A proof of concept, if you will. If you were able to make ANOTHER.....

Well, you would set off EVERY. SINGLE. ALARM. Nedzu has set up!

All of them!

Because he don't PLAY THAT.

He has long last trauma from the labs and is the SOLE FUCKING SURVIVOR. There WERE others. They Did Not make it. And their slow agonizing deaths are carved into his brain for the rest of his life. Truely "The living shall envy the dead"; it was a place that made hell seem merciful.

When he declare Never Again?

He fucking MEANT Never Again. He will BURN your empires to ash, with you in them. No More Labs.

So :) You can IMAGINE :) HOW HAPPY HE IS :)

That someone out there is trying to RECREATE his SUPER traumatic childhood, on ANOTHER CHILD. Ha ha! Gonna be a second Nedzu huh? Planning to torture HIM like you did me, HUH? Shove him in a cage and treat him like an animal? Force him to watch as the others die? Collars and whips and cattle prods? Mazes?!

Nedzu may lose his shit.

Juuuuust a little bit.

But if anyone there knows what good for them? They saw NOTHING. What's a little PTSD flashback between friends? Now what is the baby?

Smashcut to said baby!

Because it was a TEAM effort, Danny was successful in "Nuh Uh!"ing out of Rulership. But NOT out of governance. Since he DID help. He's a Councilman now. It's? Not as bad as it could be, honestly. Since it's opened the Zone up to a more democratic system.

Still held by "kick the ass of the person you wanna replace" but still!

Babysteps.

Thing is? There was apparently this weird? Leak? Like a couple hundred years ago, in this one area, that was never addressed. Everyone just moved their doors and stuff. Treated it like the floors flooded. But now that they HAVE someone to complain too?

They all want their territories back.

"Go fix it!" What are we? Janitors?

Danny looses the rock, paper, scissors competition. He's pretty sure Boxy cheated. But like? Dude has a kid to go home too, so Danny doesn't fight him to hard on this. Uuuuuugh. Just remember the Spider-Man motto. Great power~ blah blah blaaaah~

And? Wow is it fucked out there.

The whole PLANET has to be limnal as FUCK. Yikes.

Problem is? When he and his team (Because YES, he HAS learned from his mistakes, Jazz.) get close to the... frankly the Zone here looks like distorted spiderwebbing. With him leading the charge, obviously.

....something happens.

It's... it's not a portal. Wrong color. It's like someone USED the weird spiderwebbing effect to... to reach INTO the Zone? But they are severally Limnal. Clawed hands, blue tint. But that's not the problem.

No, the problem.

The Horror.

The thing that his team can only watch on in agonized terror as it plays out... is that hand? It shoots out of nowhere. Ghostlike in the Zone. Meaning it must be living. And PLUNGES directly into Danny's chest to wrap around his core.

Time seems to slow.

He can't even scream in pain. At the violation. His team, acquaintances, yes, but friendly ones. Can not even cry out in horror, as they watch their friend and team lead be butchered before them. Before that uncaring hand is ripping back. Perfect ice and starlight in its uncaring grip.

For a terrible moment... he is in two places at once.

Then he is crushed in a burning grip. Like molten bars. Watching his own body dissolve into nothing in an instant, pain and horror still etched upon his face. The beginnings of screams ripping from his team as they jerk away from the nightmarish threat.

Then he can not think at all.

He... he TRIES. Knows he has been captured. Is certainly not the sort to give up easily. But... he's so tired. His body feels? Weird. Not wrong, per say. It's HIS. But... small and weird. Like he's shape shifted into a new form and hasn't adjusted yet.

....

.......

...........

He's getting really sick of all the goop against his whiskers and in his ears. It feels WEIRD against his fu- WAIT a second... did those assholes shove him into an animal? Why?! To contain him? Ha! Jokes on them! He's DONE THIS before!

For FUN!

He once spent a whole ass summer as a tiny dragon just 'CAUSE!

Unfortunately, said assholes notice him waking up. Dump him in a glorified hamster cage. But like.... a SHITTY "I don't care about the pet I bought" hamster cage. Dude. And he's naked.

Is that Japanese? Ooooh! It IS! Thank you, Tucker's Weeb phase.

......actually, never mind. Lotta dehumanizing language there, my guys. What is this? The GIW international? You couldn't even give me PANTS? Swear to God, call me an "it" ONE more time and the next time I have to go? I am going to aim through the bars at your-! *alarms going off*

....wasn't me.

I mean, be all means, ha ha and get fucked, but? Wasn't me. Oh hey! Some one exploded the doo-

AND? In Lab 4?

Nedzu finds a child with fluffy, ungroomed black and white fur, and the curious yet cautious eyes of a survivor. They are the most magnificent green, pale and luminous they glow in the laboratories lighting. Paws too big for his small frame, delicate ears on the swivel, equally large. Yet to grow into either. Adolescent, at best.

He watches the child take him in. Note his features and the chaos behind him. The injured scientist under his feet. Come to him conclusion. Nedzu will not rush him. Now that he... he stand the chance to be the hero he himself never had. It is a strange feeling. At once cathartic and unbearably painful.

He is given the equivalent of a cheerful grin, as the lad points the the lock on the cage. Is asked if he happened to bring a spare pair of pants. He can not help his amused chortle as he makes quick work of the lock. The unbearable RELIEF he feels.

He... he was not too late.

These monsters had no chance to crush the boy's light. To make a monster of him, like they did with him. He survived his laboratory, his hell. But not all of him left that terrible place. He knows that. Some innocence, some goodness, died alone in the dark. But here? He insured there would be no chance.

With amusement, he watches the boy turn the lab upside down until he finds spare scrubs. Triumphant, he then considers his own, tiny claws. Dismisses them. Attempts to hop up on a chair to retrieve something sharp. It? Is unbearably cute. To watch him rip and shred, problem solve. His little mind churning away. Whiskers twitching as his eyes dart around, considering his options.

Nedzu offers one of his spare knives.

Watches him light up.

Adorable~

@legitimatesatanspawn @hdgnj @nerdpoe @babbling-babull @lolottes

[katie-wants-donut]

Just realised this but Rusty and Debbie's lives draw these opppsite paralells

Debbie supposedly (this show loves to fuck w/ me) is Hank and Dean's 'biological mother' (egg donor, technically) and I realised and it's kinda funny to me that she and Rusty draw these interesting opposing paralells to each other's lives

Firstly, Bobbi clearly cares for Debbie and cared for her safety enpugh to run away after the sovreign's takeover of the guild, Jonas did not care about Rusty as much in comparison

(Connected to 1) Bobbi got herself and her daughter out of that supervillian/superscience world when she knew she and her child would be in danger. Jonas knew this type of lifestyle would put Rusty in danger but pushed him to keep doing it.

Both people would rather want the opposite's lives: Debbie to be a supervillain and Rusty (as much as he now shows a love for science) did not want that (I refer to the therapy scene in self medication)

[onion-souls]

Spoilers for Doctor Who's recent series finale, "the Reality War"

Doctor Who has struggled with the issue of rematerializing up its own ass as a franchise since the JNT-era, but this might have been the self-destructive peak. Not only don't we get two long-absent return villains who don't give each other time to breathe, we also get another re-regeneration. And Susan popped up again, remember Susan from 1964? The Doctor's true name has finally been revealed, and it's Glup Shitto.

I don't know, but there might be too many mythological layers and storytelling mechanics, especially with the inflation of regeneration's abilities and variants and now magic is just a thing all the time rather than an ominous intrusion into an ostensibly soft sci-fi universe. It was cool when it cropped up every few years or so, but now we're in that 2010-era when fucking Cthulhu was just a dude that cropped up in things. The trappings of the mysterious and ineffable rendered ordinary by repetition.

Maybe it's also because this Doctor only got, what, two relatively truncated series? What was that, 16 stories, and he wasn't really in three of them? It feels like the 9th Doctor's brief tenure, but with worse characterization, because they kept having him do allegedly out of character shit but due to the story count, it was actually his standard behavior.

This era just feels off for those reasons.

Also, just pull back on the regeneration thing. It's nice as a plot device to re-cast and keep the show going, but now we're in this weird universe with time-travel and superscience and regeneration and magic so you're often not really sure what the stakes and scale are, ever. And that's just within the individual stories. Like, DW continuity has always been a rubbish fire but usually the interior mechanics of a story's plot would be consistent. You know, the "here's the setting, here are the factions, here's the problem, here's the solution, but this is the dilemma caused by that solution" was usually decent at worst.

Stop playing with the Shittos and hash out the plot

[tobiasdrake]

Hello there! Have really been enjoying your DB insights, and your recent ones about Yajirobe and Namekian regen made me realize something. I'm admittedly not experienced enough to talk about all fiction, but the Senzu feel bizarrely unique to the Dragonball series. You'd think more series focused around magic or superscience could find a way to work HP restoration items inside their setting (especially the myriad of tabletop or video game inspired ones) yet most of the time they rely on White Mages and the like. I think I can count on one hand the series I've seen using health potions or something like them. It's not like it fully removes drama, Toriyama shows it can even induce it if the hero's suitably... "Strategic". (Okay I'll buy the Cell case but the Super one was plain idiocy)

All that aside it's funny how far the Senzus have gone. From mere stamina restoration to full limb regeneration(maybe) for everyone. Poor Future Gohan!

A single Senzu will also keep you from getting hungry for ten straight days! Even on a Saiyan appetite.

Just. Y'know. Eat them in moderation.

Unless you want to get Wonka'd.

This, incidentally, is another inconsistency in the anime. Toei really liked the "Goku eating absolutely ludicrous amounts of food" gag. Adding scenes of Goku eating was one of their favorite ways to fill space during non-combat scenes, and they weren't about to let this plot point get in the way of that.

Toei. Toei, what are you doing.

Toei.

Goku ate a Senzu this morning. That's why he's in condition to go to Namek now. He won't be hungry again until 4 days after Namek explodes.

Also is that a fucking pack of cigarettes?

Toei.

[greatwyrmgold]

There had better be more to Sanji than this.

Okay, summary. Reiju (Sanji's sister) is expositing backstory stuff at him. According to her, Papa Vinsmoke* did genetic engineering on his sons to make them into emotionless superhumans, but Mama Vinsmoke* tried to stop them, and for whatever reason it only stopped the "bloodline element" engineering for Sanji. That's why he has emotions.

*Not their actual names

I see what Oda was going for here. Papa Vinsmoke is deliberately shaping his children to be be the same kind of dick he is, Mama Vinsmoke is trying to undo that damage. This would work in isolation without any superscience, but the superscience was added to make it less bleak and also justify the Vinsmoke siblings' superpowers (and why Sanji didn't have them).

The problem is that you can write things you didn't intend to, and in this case, Oda wrote bioessentialism. Sanji didn't get the evil genes, so he has empathy and his brothers don't. As an aside, I do mean genes. I think this argument would still be valid if the "bloodline elements" were just a fantasy heritability mechanism, but they are explicitly DNA.

I'm not sure how you can get more explicit in a setting where "deoxyribonucleic" is not a word. Anyways, Sanji's brothers are genetically emotionless and incapable of empathy, but he's not.

Part of why I dislike that is the vaguely political implications. On one hand, it has been (and still is) common to assume certain kinds of person are biologically predisposed to certain psychological traits; women are emotional and weak-willed, black people are violent and dumb, etc. On the other hand, some groups (e.g. autistic people) have been stereotyped as being specifically emotionless and incapable of empathy as a result of immutable biological characteristics.

And part of it is that I just find bioessentialism boring. Various forms of bioessentialism are extremely common lore points, and all it ever does is reduce ambiguity. Sanji's brothers have the evil genes, so they're going to be evil and that's that. Sanji doesn't have the evil genes, so he doesn't have to worry about ending up like his brothers. They're bad and he's good, if we overlook the sexual harrassment. It's only interesting if it's subverted, and it only makes sense to subvert it because almost everyone plays it straight.

I hope that Oda has a subversion planned. That Sanji had the special bloodline elements all along, he learned to be nice (mostly) because he was exposed to less indoctrination and more cooking or something. Maybe that could be his big shonen power-up. But that's not usually what happens with this kind of plot point.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

For día de muertos 2: "Know Thyself". The ancient Greek maxim "know thyself" or "gnothi seauton" (Greek: γνῶθι σεαυτόν), is one of the Delphic maxims and was inscribed in the pronaos (forecourt) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi according to the Greek writer Pausanias (10.24.1). The aphorism came from Luxor in Ancient Egypt.

[Robert Scott Horton]

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You've heard that message from the source of whatever path you follow, very likely. This too shall pass. Even if it's hot in your heart at the moment, or gnawing at your brain like a fiery little animal. [candace] _____

It Passes Away What is the purpose of reacting to something when it is changing so quickly? What is the purpose of reacting with craving or clinging? It passes away. Or hatred: it passes away. —S.N. Goenka, "Superscience"

[alive on all channels]

[the-faultofdaedalus]

not to ocpost on main but still funniest thing to me is that lily solved the (already solved!) mech suit problem of How Do You Power It in the least practical and efficient way possible. by just loading that shit up with batteries. not even good batteries. not even superscience whatever batteries. she gets them at the fucking hardware store. and then just has to constantly hotswap hundreds of batteries throughout her suit constantly. absolutely unhinged 10/10 surely there would have been easier ways of doing this

[alexanderwales]

My wife asked me how it is that there hasn't just randomly been a super strong enough to kill Homelander, and I guess it comes down to 1) actually, Soldier Boy was strong enough to kill Homelander and 2) Vought was doing some superscience or something and 3) maybe there was a super strong enough to kill Homelander, and he's just not invested in doing that.

I do think it would be hilarious to be a teenager, wake up one day, and realize that you have powers, then realize that you don't just have powers, you have the most powers, an ability that rivals the world's greatest hero, maybe someone you've idolized your whole life.

And he is not happy about it.