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Congrats to Stanford Pines for being the most breedable man on Tumblr this year!

And may Axolotl have mercy on his soul.

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This is actually funnier than what I imagined! Thank you so much for drawing fanart!

What I thought @giulliadella 's naked bill looked like (I don't really pay attention to what I'm reading but their fic is rlly rlly y good). It's pretty bad cause I'm rlly tired srry. Also he's transparent I just forgot to make his inside darker than the outside.

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You should put Sharkan through that dragon modifier wheel, see how much it fucks him up.

This is exactly what I'm gonna do. Behold:

Link to the picker wheel.

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@theload Told me to do this to the main villain of my webcomic and I'm dead. This is an affront to life itself, but he deserved it all:

WHEEL YOURSELF A DRAGON!

First take this classic dragon shape

Second, take this wheel and spin it 5, 7, or 10 times to modify the dragon!

Lastly, bask in your wonderful new child I ended up with a basilisk looking creature after spinning 7 times

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I wanted to go to sleep, but someone tagged me on something super interesting so fuck it.

Your headcanons are super cool and I agree especially with Scalene and Euclid ones. The idea about shape caused psychosis and how "racism" works in this society is super cool too! I also believe that Euclydeans had 1920's type technology (mostly because of Bill's obsession with The Great Gatsby, but also because it's cool).

However, I feel kinda weird for being tagged on this, since I firmly believe that Euclydia was not a two dimensional place. You've read my speculative biology series and Part 1 was all about that. So, a lot of my ideas about Euclydean biology would never work in a two dimensional space.

And, funnily enough, gravity IS possible in two dimensions, but it would only use Newton's laws, so no relativity stuff. In this instance, an object of larger surface would have a larger mass and attract other objects to itself. That's at least how I imagine that functioning. Euclydeans have arms and legs which would be kind of useless if they could just float around everywhere.

They can change colors, so I believe that their language would be a combination of color swaps accompanied by actual vocal words. Using color to write would make sense in this instance.

I really like the idea of Euclydean massacre prompting Big Bang btw. But that would also mean that Bill Cipher is the creator of our universe which is very, very unsettling. Bill once calls his home "Second Dimension", so maybe it was actually the second dimension that was created. That would neatly explain why people in it resembled mathematical concepts more than anything and also why he is older than our existing universe.

Anyways, I really enjoyed your headcanons! Thanks for tagging me :D

Screw it, Euclydia headcanons

Scalene and Euclid are flawed. Hopefully differently flawed from Stan's parents, but flawed. Scalene treats Bill the way you might treat a kid with terminal cancer, ie, spoiling him rotten, “there's nothing wrong with you!” Even when he is in the wrong, etc. Euclid thinks this is insane, Billy is sick, and babying him won't make him better. He's distant thanks to his job and the stress of having an impossible child, but when he is here, he's usually fighting with Scalene about Bill's condition.

I'm trying not to go full SCP Foundation with the Department of Vision Supervision. At most, they should be around the “Hawkins Power and Water” guys in early Stranger Things. If possible, I like to keep it ambiguous whether they actually know about the third dimension or if they just think the mutation itself is dangerous (I applaud @ckret2 for going against the grain and doing away with the conspiracy angle altogether, but I need an antagonist).

Technology in Euclydia is limited: Radios instead of television, no cameras or printers, etc. What good is a screen if you can't turn to face it?

There is an input on the website that gives you a quote by some philosopher or another (Plato?): "Before the universe, there was math." I took this to mean that Euclydians are Platonic ideals, more living concepts than proper organisms. This explains how Bill transcended physical existence entirely. How much of their insides are matter and how much is math? Who knows? (This also handwaves any questions about interspecies reproduction should you choose to go that route).

"Three sips a day" is a child's dose of the medication from when Bill was around four years old. He's supposed to be taking more by the time of the incident, but again, spoiled rotten.

Bill is one trillion years old. That is considerably older than our universe. Thus, his homeworld is from before our universe. Did Euclydia's destruction trigger our big bang? Time Baby's goons aren't keen on finding out, even if that means letting the Beast With One Eye exist unimpeded.

I agree with @giulliadella about "the fun zone" being some kind of reproductive orifice. It explains why Bill consistently reacts to questions about his side length the way we would about genitalia.

Scalene is the blue one, Euclid is the red one (This is so Bill looks like his dad when he's angry).

Because Euclydians can only move in 2D, they are completely unused to fighting gravity. IDK how it would work on a 2D plane, but Earth gravity is too much for them (maybe this had something to do with the Massacre?)

Irregularity is tolerated to an extent, but past a certain point it's like being born with a bum leg: people pity you and can't stop staring. "Irregular Psychosis" is also still a term people use, despite the fact that it's been proven shape /=/ mental state. "Well of course it doesn't HAVE to mean that, but people with different sides have physically different brains to work with. It's just biology!"

I'd LOVE for their language to be properly alien, but first I have to figure out how a properly alien language would work. I tried mapping each letter of the color code to a different pitched tone, but that falls apart when you remember they have music.

When Bill was alone, he would try with everything he had to force himself "up." This only resulted in him spazzing around like Emmett from the Lego Movie trying to move in the real world. He only managed to leave Euclydia when there was no more Euclydia.

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I’m following the Instagram page of my local community and people often post about how dangerous snakes are everywhere and people must never let their kids play in grass.

Wanna see those “dangerous” snakes?

They are Aesculapian snakes (Zamenis longissimus) in 99% of the cases. And they are the most harmless snakes out there. They’re just long, so people freak out when they see them. You can easily tell them apart from venomous vipers, since they’re long, slender, the head is not triangular and they lack the very characteristic pattern of a viper.

But they are super polite! On these images my colleagues and I are holding them. They are so cute. They love to curl up around your hand and flick their tongues everywhere. We once found one who enjoyed the attention and wanted to take pictures with everyone and go from hand to hand.

I told this to people a hundred times already and they still don’t believe me. I know that fear of snakes is very common (and mostly irrational), but still. If a kid picked this thing up the worst it could get is a tiny nip. I got bitten by one of these and it’s basically like a scratch. A cat could do much more harm to you, let alone a dog.

Also these snakes are so important for the environment, since they feed on mice and rats. I bet people wouldn’t like rodents to run around everywhere. A bite of a mouse can spread deadly viruses which a snake can’t do.

So please, if you ever see this snake in Europe, don’t cause panic, don’t post about how “dangerous” it is and let it be. It’s one of the nicest animals out there and will do you literally zero harm.

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Speculative Biology of Euclydeans (and Bill Cipher) part 5

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, UPDATE

I have never in my life imagined that I will continue this series, but I am doing it, thanks to some of my insane fans who asked for this. In this part I will talk about developmental biology of Euclydeans which is probably the biggest challenge so far.

As always, this analysis is based on two assumptions:

Before Bill Cipher became a demigod, he was a biological, living organism and so were the rest of his species.

Even after Bill Cipher became a demigod, he still retained some physical characteristics of his biological form.

And a fair content warning: This contains anatomy illustrations. This isn't anything gory, but there are people who are squeamish, so you've been warned.

Click on the images to get better quality!

And without further ado, let's begin.

Euclydean Body Plan

A body plan (also called Bauplan) is a morphological quality of an animal which can tell us clearly to which phylum it belongs. An arthropod will have a very distinct body plan from a vertebrate for example. Body plans are coded by Hox genes in animals and they determine the way an animal's body is going to develop from embryonic stages to adulthood. Euclydeans are aliens, so they don't have Hox genes, but they probably have something similar. Even if they don't have DNA (and they most likely don't), they still have some way of passing their traits to their offspring, which is essential for every living organism. Since I don't have any other option, I will call them genes and genomes.

The body plan of a Euclydean is relatively simple. They are bilaterally symmetrical, shelled, invertebrate organisms. The shell can take three distinct shapes: a triangle, a trapezoid and a rhombus (or a square, but remember, squares are rhombuses that have all four angles at 90 degrees). I haven't found mentions of any other polygons anywhere, but if you did, please tell me.

The shape of the shell was a status symbol within Euclydean society, with triangles being the lowest and squares the highest class. I was thinking about why that would be and after spending an insane amount of researching, I think I found a plausible (although most likely not true) answer: Polyploidy.

Polyploidy is a phenomenon in which the entire genome duplicates. It's very common and often encouraged in plants, since it makes fruits larger or fruiting period longer. Wheat, tomatoes, strawberries, corn and many more plants that we grow are polyploid. In most animals, poliploidy is lethal. It is lethal in humans. But some species or annelids, mollusks, insects, fish and amphibians can be polyploid. My favorite example of polyploidy is in green toads (Bufotes spp.) where polyploidy forms a species complex.

I won't go too far into toad genetics here, but in central Asia, there is a species of green toad that is diploid (like humans - it has one copy of its genome from the father and one from the mother) and one that is polyploid (4n - tetraploid - has two genome copies from each parent). When these two hybridize they create a third species which can be either, but it often has characteristics that place it "in between" the two other species. This hybrid species is fertile and can mate with the other two and that's how you get a species complex.

I believe that Euclydeans are a similar species complex. Triangles would be diploid in that case and rhombuses would be 4n tetraploid. (Because a rhombus basically is two triangles stuck to each other. Duplication of an entire genome could result in something like that easily.) Trapezoids would be a hybrid between the two.

So, triangles are 2n diploid, rhombuses are 4n polyploid and trapezoids are 3n hybrids. Each of these can mate with any other, but the offspring will be different, depending on the pairing. Two triangles will always have a triangle child. Two rhombuses will always have a rhombus child. A triangle and a rhombus will always have a hybrid trapezoid child. Two trapezoids, however, will have a trapezoid child in 50% of cases, whilst 25% will be triangles and 25% rhombuses. A trapezoid and a triangle have a 50-50% chance of having a child trapezoid or a triangle. A trapezoid and a rhombus will have 50-50% chance of their child being either a trapezoid or a rhombus. I made you a graphic, so you can understand easier:

What this essentially means, is that whenever someone mates with a triangle, their ploidy (the numbers of genome copies they have) will lessen, whilst mating with a rhombus will cause it to increase. Since Euclydean society valued more symmetrical and more polygonal rhombuses, this was probably the reason why triangles were the second class citizens. Trapezoids have only 25% chance of having a triangle child, so their marriage might be scrutinized and policed if that was the case (maybe that's what Bill's erotic novel was about?)

Embryonic Development

This was requested by one of my fans (all of them credited below) and it was honestly the biggest challenge ever put in front of me, but I don't give up easily!

One thing that we certainly know about Euclydeans is that they are bilaterally symmetrical. This means that they have a left and a right side. Since this is the case, their ancestors were probably like this as well. But, Euclydean shells also have radial symmetry (which means that you can draw symmetry lines from one tip of the angle to the other, or to the base of other side from every angle). Luckily for us, Earth has something like that too: Echinoderms (sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and some other groups).

Echinoderms are almost all radially symmetrical, but they have evolved from a bilaterally symmetrical ancestors. This is further proven by their larvae being bilaterally symmetrical too. I believe that Euclydean embryos probably look more like a bilaterally symmetrical organisms, similar to bipinnaria larvae of sea stars. But, as the embryo further develops, they become more "shaped" and gain the radial symmetry as well.

As we all know now, Euclydeans reproduce sexually. Their embryos develop inside a uterus of a parent (which could be both a male and a female, since many people pointed out to me that they are very likely hermaphrodites, which absolutely checks out). Since Bill claimed several times that both Ford and Mabel should have eaten their twins in the uterus, I proposed the idea of oophagy (or adelphophagy) as the means by which Euclydeans feed their offspring in utero. This is further proven by that silly image from thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com where Bill drew himself as a baby in uterus, but he had a bottle of milk in one hand. He obviously doesn't know much about humans and placental mammals, but since he was older than 16 when his dimension was destroyed, it's very likely that he had sex education in school, so he knows how Euclydean babies feed in uterus.

Oophagy simply means that the mother produces many yolk rich eggs that her baby will be able to consume as it grows. If some of those eggs are fertilized, besides the one that will become a baby, then we're talking about adelphophagy where one, strongest embryo hunts down other embryos as food. Sharks are probably most famous for this, but several species of wasps and marine snails also practice it. Bill might have had a slight advantage over his other siblings because his eye (and consequentially his mouth) were larger due to his unusual mutation.

Euclydeans are shelled, but their shell does not develop fully inside the mother. Similarly to some species of oysters, young that grows inside the mother begins to develop shells (in oysters, this stage is referred to as "veliger larva"), but they are expelled out before the shell fully hardens. This is in order to protect the mother's insides. Unlike oysters, Euclydeans have just one (or maybe very rarely two) children at a time, so their baby is large. Judging from the size of the vaginal slit, it's probably around a third of their parent's size. That's very big (average human baby is just about 6% of the mother's weight), but Euclydean babies are born fully developed, with the exception of the shell. The shell fully develops when they begin to molt and so it hardens, looking more triangular (or any other shape, I don't know how to say that in English).

Here's the anatomy of the embryo and fetus in various stages of development. I don't know the specifics of anatomy of any Euclydean besides Bill Cipher, so it's him depicted here. Who asked for baby Bill's organs? Nobody, but you have them now:

So, this was everything I have proof of. But, in my shitty fanfiction "Bad Triangles Go to Therapy", I proposed that Euclydeans could have periods. I did this as a joke, but they could. Probably.

Since adelphophagy is extremely taxing for the mother, she would have a baby only every few years. But, if she somehow skipped this fertile period, she would have to expel all of the eggs that her body formed. This could be, or feel like, a menstruation, but they wouldn't shed uterine lining, just the eggs. Alternatively, a mother could simply reabsorb the eggs. This way, she would keep all of her nutrients inside her body and recover faster for the next fertile period. This is completely up to interpretation, because I have no idea.

@aroacejedi was the one who asked for embryonic development of Euclydeans, whilst @equilateralbill was the person with whom I discussed the logistics of Euclydean reproduction in more detail. They are the ones you should thank for this bullshit.

As always, anyone is free to use this for anything, just link to the post, or any other part of this series. Have fun, love ya!

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I'm currently watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (yeah I know, I'm only 16 years late) and I'm very disappointed with their treatment of Lust. Seriously, Lust was one of my favorite characters from the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime and seeing her turned into just sex object feels so ew. Her whole story in the original anime made me so emotional and in Brotherhood I watched her just jiggle her boobs a bit and then die. This hurts my feminist heart.

I was also super disappointed that she wasn't going everywhere with Gluttony. They really looked like couples I often see in Belgrade. I know that "average Balkan couple" is a meme and I don't really ship Lust and Gluttony, but they were so cute in the original anime and guess what I did?

I drew them as a Balkan couple :D

I can't believe that my first fanart for Fullmetal Alchemist is a shitpost of this level, but shitposting is important sometimes. The anime is great, both the original and Brotherhood, so I have zero excuses for making this. I hope it makes some of you smile ;3

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I can’t sleep (again) so I sketched Mabel Pines:

Please ignore my thumb. This is how I imagine her looking like as an 18 year old in my fic.

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Thank you so much for drawing fanart! I'm so glad you enjoyed the story. Also Bill in a cat bed is too cute <3

Some more fanart for the fantastic fic bad triangles go to therapy

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The winner is Furball kitties! Thank you everyone who voted!

Black cats are a spectrum!

I'm continuing my tradition of drawing black cats for Friday 13th!

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So, since the drama from two days ago cooled off, I just need to talk about something.

I have ADHD. I also have something called "rejection sensitive dysphoria" or RSD which is very common in people with ADHD. For those people who have never experienced RSD (and I genuinely wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy) it's an overwhelming feeling of physical pain over real or perceived rejection, disappointment or a similar feeling that puts you in a fight or flight mode. It's very hard to explain to people who don't experience it. Someone does something completely benign (like accidentally omitting to give you credit) and your brain suddenly feels like that person beat you up, killed your family and set your house on fire. At least I do (sometimes). I feel actual physical pain in my chest, my hands are shaking and I am so unbelievably angry even though I know that the thing I'm angry about is silly. I am aware that I'm overreacting, but I can't stop it. And that's when I do dumb shit, like going nuclear on a person that didn't deserve it.

They probably think "Wow, this person is crazy, better block them and distance myself". But I think "Well done, Giullia, you did this shit again, you really are unfit to live in a society, you miserable failure of a human being, you should just go and kill yourself already".

People with ADHD have trouble regulating strong emotions. For me, this rings especially true when I'm sad or feel hurt. I've been through a lot last week and what I've done was not okay. But I couldn't help it, because I was put in a situation that I never dealt with before, I went into fight or flight mode and ruined everything. I can control RSD when I know what I'm dealing with. But when I'm put in an unfamiliar position, the emotions just become stronger and all the practice I did to control myself goes down the drain.

This is something that I dealt with my whole life. Until I was diagnosed, I always thought that I'm insane and should be put in an asylum and left to rot. That I don't deserve to live among other people. You have no idea how hard I'm fighting the impulse to delete my entire profile, my profile on AO3, and everything I've created and just end it all.

Don't worry, I won't. I know that there isn't a way for me to fix the things that I've done, but that's the reality of living with ADHD sometimes.

@prehistoricsilverfish I'm really, really sorry.

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Hey, if you're wondering why I deleted the post about Anonymous fanfic that didn't credit me, it's because the author credited me. I was very angry that someone without a face and a name seemingly took credit for something I spent a lot of time on. I was informed that there was no malicious intent behind it and I would like to apologize to anon.

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Black cats are a spectrum!

I'm continuing my tradition of drawing black cats for Friday 13th!

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On conservation and survival

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Dad is not taking this well (what a surprise).

He came this morning to tell me “But you’re my daughter, it’s just politics!”

Yes dad, it’s just politics when you actively support people who want me dead whilst calling me a fascist.

It’s just politics to constantly discredit and mock every single opinion I have.

It’s just politics to say that your daughter is a brainwashed child rapist because she’s LGBTQ+

Just politics.

This is it, I finally went no contact with my dad.

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This is it, I finally went no contact with my dad.