#inapplicable

[you-cant-fuck-megaman]

How on earth did that username come to be?

you're not gonna believe this, scully

[dawnleaf37]

my speech quirk is "talking like a 35 year old author"

[deuynndoodles]

hmm. thoughts on me switching to putting my descriptions in alt text

[businesstiramisu]

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's tags

#bedřich smetana's from my life (sungodsevenoclock)

#follow raginrayguns.tumblr.com for more two element bullet lists (raginrayguns)

#devil venerable also wants to exploit the memoir class for evil purposes (gender-trash)

#this is currently a beta edition thought and may have bugs (discoursedrome)

#put that ring back where you came from or so help me: the trilogy (zacksfairest)

[epicdogymoment]

too blinded by Ship Tropes to see that having Jealousy be a prompt for this ship sucks because they would not do that.

[flybcll]

inbox call ! let kai bother your muse ( multis specify pls ! )

[xtcz]

Comfort comes

[apocketfordragonage]

Where's that post about how absurdly dirty DA2 did Anders? The one about the writer shoehorning their ex into the character instead of studying the existing work in depth? Because I am seeing comparison between DA4 and DA2 and I need y'all to know how much character drift happened between DA Awakening's interpretation of Justice!Anders and DA2's. Because the difference in direction was wiiiild. And I'm not even talking about the end of the game. Even with the same conclusion. I mean in the details, where it matters.

No shade. I haven't gotten to DA4 yet and probably won't for a while (one of life's many horrors), but this is me recommending Awakening again because it's worth a play. Weird, but they're all weird, right? It's worth it! :D

[you-cant-fuck-megaman]

What's your opinion on Megaman?

[hearty-an0n]

posts are giving jarry more support than his teammates

[birchbow]

How does the violet mentality of eradicating weakness in the fleet affect how medicine is practiced? Can trolls could get sicknesses and if so how is that viewed on the fleet? considering they would need treatment how would the medicullers go about it or would they just let the sick patient die. Is there a threshold of severity that the medicullers follow to determine if they will treat that patient.

I was also wondering how advanced the medicine they practice is? Do they rely on tech to mainly treat their patients or just do it manually?

I remember it was mentioned that the ships themselves are kind of outdated but would that also mean that the tech within the ship is also outdated? I guess all that to ask how advanced or not advanced is the tech the trolls use.

Sorry for the loaded question

Lots of things here! To take this in order:

I do think troll medicine is likely to be much less interested in interventions than ours is, and a lot more focused on a) can this troll be fighting fit again, or do we cull them here and now? and if they're salvageable, b) how fast can we make that happen? If an arm is wounded and infected, why would you waste time figuring out how to patch it back together, if it would be much faster to chop it off and slap a prosthesis on?

(note: as i write the church fleet, their standards for "hey they could bounce back" are a lot looser than most of the empire. Maybe there's going to be a miracle! You don't know.)

Trolls definitely do get sick, but as with injuries I'd imagine that the actual interventions are pretty supportive and minimal--there's a lot of research into substances to kill things, paralyze things, cause things pain, etc, but I can't imagine trolls giving much of a shit to, say, refine antibiotics. Got a patient with an infection? Throw some fluids in them, use one of your, like, three antibiotics--if they make it, great, and if they seem to be tanking, cull them and move on.

(note: most of those advancements that have been made were most likely made because either a very important troll or the quadrant of a very important troll needed it. A lot of them are probably also small doses of things mostly used as toxins, to treat symptoms until the troll can fight it off or die--that's essentially what Untoxxic does, when they treat someone whose been poisoned)

(note: I'd imagine that there's about as much work into specifically seadweller illnesses--gills, fins, water-borne parasites and pathogens--as there is into basically all of the rest of medicine, lol. "Cull the weak" is well and good but you can't have your empress or half her court keeling over from some basic gill-pox.)

As far as an overall summary of how advanced their actual tech is; it is as advanced as I need it to be for any given story beat lol. Trolls in canon have massively powerful space travel, but also that seems to be powered by making a telekinetic just kind of yeet you through space with their brain. They seem to have tech comparable to ours, but also all their tech is made out of bugs, goo, or both. Homestuck kind of refused to be pinned down on this point and tbh for once I'm right there with it, trolls are weird little monsters that have whatever tech makes the scenario most fun lmao.

[habibisagi]

there will never be anything sexier or hotter than white blindfold gojo

[the-crystal-femmes]

Sometimes I wish positivity posts didn't have certain wordings. Certain wordings make me feel excluded.

[sukimas]

cities are a subsidy for mentally unwell twentysomethings.

[nowoyas]

Wait do yall think "masc" means any woman wearing pants 😭 what do you think a butch is.

[ereh-emanresu-tresni]

If I switch degrees should I do carpentry or music production hm