#stupid sci…

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some stanley doodles because he's having a great time so far

[chiyana]

Tim: lol you wanna wife me so bad it makes you look stupid

Kon: I do!

Kon: and it does!

Kon: C O N S T A N T L Y

[sciderman]

astonishing spider-man & wolverine #5

[scimagic]

HUZZA!!! Richard and JustSomeDrone recently updated the Mr. Puzzles face addon and you can FINALLY USE MY FACES!! YIPPEEE!!!

It feels so weird seeing my art style on the actual model but it's so funny at the same time!! NOW you guys can tag me if you use these particular faces and I will give you a big kiss on the cheek!! FHDSJKA

[violent138]

Of the Batfamily, Jason and Cass are the ones that perpetually forget their IDs and it's gotten to the point that the other siblings will usually carry some excellent fakes if they're going places together, but this once got them into massive trouble when five separate people produced Cass's "real" ID.

[bucketofgarides]

3 idiots here to remind you to eat today!! Take it from the computer, the evil raw meat loving fish and the guy who only ate dirt and silverfish for 3 months in a basement Waaah I’m so tired this week 🔪💔 (I literally fell asleep 4+ times while drawing this and I don’t remember coloring like half of it lmao)

I hate Arsonist (the bg dude) but I love drawing delusional people UGH meow meow meow meow meow

Waaah I kinda fucked up with a thing in this drawing and it’s not noticeable at all unless I tell you but in my head I know it’s not REAL LIFE ACCURATE and I think I’ll cry for 27 hours now

but EASTER BREAK EASTER BREAK EASTER BREAK EASTER BREAK ESTARE BREKA EASTE R BREAK KESTER BREAK EASTERL BERAK !!!! YAYYYYYY

[ranticore]

this may be too big a question to easily answer, but how does the internal experience of a kattakati.... work? what does it feel like to claim something out of your control as a part of yourself? or to loosen up your grip on "identity" enough to allow an independent entity to fit within it without contradiction? do they perceive each other as independent, even? or is it a given that a part of yourself will retain autonomy and it just doesn't bother them much?

so zeta developed extremely differently to the other sirenians and are more influenced behaviourally and psychologically by their genetic engineering, so their points of view are slightly different on a population-wide level. for zeta, the formation of a kattakati bond is a distant extension of their genetic engineering. the engineers basically went into their brains with a hammer, like a bull in a china shop, to smash away any POSSIBILITY of their engineered slaves forming community, viewing one another as allies, social function, language, some areas of memory etc. the zeta generation sirenians were supposed to be workers who would never organise, never wish for more, and were cheaper than robots to maintain (self-sustaining!!!)

it's this specific goal of the genetic engineers that caused the uprising in the first settlement on Siren; when Ishmael et al learned what the engineers were doing, and realised that it would be morally unconscionable to allow it to occur. they made the choice - FOR the zeta, who were not given any representation in this rebellion - that the genetic code could never make it off the planet, to be used elsewhere. and that meant a (ultimately failed) attempt to hunt the first generations of zeta to extinction.

in any case the zeta population had to live with these effects and re-develop social functioning, p.much from scratch. this is why they're the only sirenian group i generalise in my posts; they were insular, apart from everyone else, and had very little input from other populations for almost the entirety of siren's history. when redeveloping their social functioning, they developed the early form of kattakati to kind of... reverse-engineer family groups. if you are engineered to be hyper individualistic, the world is not "us" but "me vs everything else". but community is good for survival. if you expand "me" to include other people, who are also "me", then they can perform this sleight of hand that enfolds others into your individualistic sense of Me Vs The World. the first kattakati were comprised of many bodies, forming large, complex structures, and in these I/Me/We/Us ceased to have independent meaning.

over time the broken social function became functional, but not repaired or regenerated or whatever, they still experience a different internal state than most other sirenians, but it works, and they don't need to encompass ALL of their community into their 'Me' in order to care for them or cooperate with them. i touched on it in this post but friendships require some care and effort to maintain still, and there can be an element of play-acting kattakati with others as a way to teach oneself how to form other bonds, like training wheels. but the concept of kattakati has become largely ritualised rather than strictly functional, this is where all the stuff about balance and various taboos come from. most zeta don't participate and they do fine Living In A Society.

so to answer your actual questions:

what does it feel like to claim something out of your control as a part of yourself? - so is your digestive system, your hair colour, your health. it requires trust, of course, but you aren't supposed to want to control all aspects of yourself. attaining this state of balance between red and blue within a single kattakati involves accepting a loss of control.

or to loosen up your grip on "identity" enough to allow an independent entity to fit within it without contradiction? - i feel this way about marriage, which is, intrinsically, kind of a horrifying concept! but you have to trust. contradiction is natural (if two bodies of a kattakati agree on everything all the time, it's actually deemed suspicious! they're trying too hard to make it fit, and therefore aren't compatible). now to be able to loosen that grip, first you need to have been raised in a culture where developing that grip does not feature. although they were made to be hyper-individualistic, what actually resulted was almost a hive mind in the strictest sense, not the pop-science imagining of it. that 'Me', when encompassing so many people, can very easily become a completely interchangeable, functionally identical Us/Me. but if you are one of the many zeta raised somewhere else, with a mixed community of zeta and others, you might hang onto a concept of identity that could make forming a kattakati bond an uncomfortable idea. some still do it, others reject it entirely. most kattakati feel pretty neutral about it though... it's just how they are.

do they perceive each other as independent, even? or is it a given that a part of yourself will retain autonomy and it just doesn't bother them much? - it's the second thing. it shouldn't bother you (within reason). sometimes the component bodies will workshop what kind of person they are - are they patient, aggressive, argumentative, kind, easygoing? it's possible for a kattakati's personality to be different to what the component bodies' would be if they were unbonded.

[neuroncryptid]

Magnus's fall was inevitable. Of that, I can be certain. The deck was stacked. The dice rolled snake eyes. There was no other way it could have ended.

Ask someone why it happened, and the answer you receive is as predictable as the sunrise. He was arrogant. He thought he knew better. He was gullible. And while yes, these did play a role, they do not explain how that would allow for the gods to play him like a fiddle. No, it quite simply was love.

He loved deeply. He loved his sons with all that he was. When he found them, they were ripe with corruption. Their gifts were ripping them apart. There was nothing to be done. And yet Magnus, without a second thought, gave his eye to save them. Metaphor aside, he gave a piece of himself to save those who were in reality simply tools of empire. Barely people, a resource. But to him, they were more. His legion were scholars. They were mages. They were artists and poets and astronomers. They were his children; children that he loved nearly unconditionally. Where many of the other legions were facsimile of their fathers or bear no resemblance in character, the Thousand Sons were merely related. Each one was shaped by the bond they had with their father and the lessons he taught.

So when facing oblivion of his children and the home they shared, one he brought upon himself admittedly, is it any surprise that he shattered himself to save them?

[scister]

EVIL and GAY

(Sci is on a stool because he short and pathetic)

[uisceb]

That’s the problem with memory bound by emotion. Love is diffuse. It so easily becomes entangled in every aspect of the human experience. Extracting it with any amount of elegance can get…dicey.

(or: the one where Glinda erases Elphaba from her memory. Brighter Days Inc. can be read here)

[thebiggestfuckgiven]

now that i think about ive never seen danny, sam and tucker at comic con. is there even fanart of that? i think it’d be funny to put a bunch of teens from a small town in a country-wide event

i think it’d be even funnier if they encounter at least ONE Danny Phantom cosplayer and if Sam and Tucker confuse them for the real Danny more than once

[catenary-chad]

I think Electra and the coaches would go nuts in a nicer thrift or vintage shop. Descending on an estate sale like vultures. I think they like to do #justgirlythings together in general but ESPECIALLY shopping for used things. Wearing/using something that was luxurious decades ago when you are very much not now just parallels how pedestrian passenger trains in the US and Europe (and other places) often use grandiose old stations. Inheriting/reusing stuff is just such a train thing in general,

Pearl probably has an eye for jewelry and general sparkly things. I feel like she has a weird eye for old furs too. Unsurprisingly the hardest one to drag out of the store because she can’t MAKE UP HER HEART (fortunately the unexpected 50% sale solves that. She can have both.)

Dinah goes for the nice cookware that the store way undervalued and constantly points out what to look for to Buffy… who only knows which old appliance models are the most durable/will nuke your leftovers the fastest.

Ashley collects novelty ashtrays and painfully 70s decor. Buffy found her an unkillable old microwave in harvest gold once and she cried tears of joy. Belle the Bar Car is similar to Ashley but collects nice old glassware instead.

To no surprise, Carrie is the arbiter of handbag and luggage quality. She can smell a dupe a mile away. She also always insists that people check the pockets and compartments on things for extras.

OLC Belle sighs in disappointment and grits her teeth at questionable modern replicas of the styles she loves. She’ll occasionally spot really good fixer upper items and point them out for others.

Outside of Pearl, they’re all pretty good at picking up on furniture quality as a team. They value and look for different things but if the council of coaches tells you it’s good, it probably is. Their replica designs are based on a style/era of coach design that was infamously physically durable and well-built, they just gravitate towards nearly indestructible things.

It’s really hard to give a niche to the other sleeping cars because most things they’re associated with aren’t really bought used. I could see them being drawn to night lights and lamps. Tassita knows headphones really well, especially in terms of noise cancellation.

Electra is a heat-seeking designer piece missile. They will find it no matter how obscure the brand, especially if it’s really edgy. They also have a surprisingly good eye for quality and can rant at you for hours on which designers are actually good and which ones are just overpriced for the name. To impress someone they will bring them things in their size, too. Electra is one of the few people who will listen to Buffy go on about how great specific microwave and toaster models are and introduce her to the wider world of weird vintage electronics.

[kaleidoscopic-characters]

“oh… well i had been living on the outskirts of that faction for a bit because of… personal reasons”

personal reasons? really? great excuse, Sci.

“happy to finally be out!”

they grinned, placing a hand to their hip

[TO MACHETE]

a demon… or well… what seemed like one! was walking around the faction, seemingly a little lost

-> @kaleidoscopic-characters [SCI BLASTER]

-> The samurai took notice of the new figure and stopped in his tracks, squinting slightly from behind his oni mask. Only the gods knew why he decided to wear this thing. -> But it did admittedly make him look more intimidating to outsiders...

[sciderman]

photographs that are permanently grafted to the inside of my eyeballs

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[scimagic]

FOUR DAYS EVERYONE FOUR DAYS!!!!

[krumpkin]

For All You Star Wars Fans Out There - This Is Ham Solo 🙄