#Experimental Procedure

[marshmallowloves]

Hey softie i dare you to give crash a sweet hug or capture him which one on @crazycratebreaker >:3

"Were you just...HUGGING that Crash doll?!" "What?! No, of course not!! H-Hey, see?! Look!! You wanted me to dissect him, right?! I'm just getting some practice in!! Haha!! Ha! Ha…!"

…I'm so fired.

(@crazycratebreaker Thank you so much for the ask!! I'm surprised people like my Crash stuff, honestly. I'm not confident in my ability to draw Crash correctly though, so I made him into a plushie for this kdjfhg)

(on the plus side, this was decent practice for drawing Cortex fjsdfsh)

[hajihiko]

What do you think about the whole “Hajime’s parents have their permission for the Project” thing? Because of course it’s possible they were lied to about what it involved or even that their signatures were forged

Í think I support the idea that they knew at least somewhat. a) Hajime got his obsession with talent from somewhere and it makes sense that the root might be at home, b) it's a good commentary on how much talent and profession matters in this world and how far people are willing to go for the chance to be an Ultimate. It matters THAT much, that kids are forced into a career at an early age and parents are willing to let their kids go through medical procedures.

Probably they didn't know details, and by the time they started wondering where their boy was, HPA just shut them down and made investigation impossible because they're THAT powerful. But they should have read the fine print / between the lines, when it comes to surrendering their kid to an institution.

[fagbearentertainment]

I especially need a doc for Trevor (tv head) and Weston Briar (alastor rip off) bc I have so much intricate lore for them that is important for their story but will never reasonably come up in the mediums I tell thru

[saturnshari-art]

hc for vincent's surgery scars

cw: heavy scarring , post op scars

[geralehane]

wednesday!aemond and dark!alicent | a snippet

When it happens for the first time, the only thing Alicent thinks is we should have used a donor. 

Aemond, her son, watches her with Rhaenyra’s careful blue eyes, his hair Rhaenyra’s specific shade of blonde - almost white, practically white. In the dim light of their basement, he almost looks like a ghost. In front of him is a bloodied corpse of a squirrel and a scalpel. Alicent wonders, briefly, just how exactly he got his hands on one. 

“Don’t worry, mother,” Aemond says, quiet and cool and collected. His voice is Rhaenyra’s, too; but the glint in his eyes is not. 

That’s all her.

“Don’t worry,” he repeats. “It’s roadkill. I am above killing my cadavers myself.”

For now, Alicent thinks.

The first time it happens, all she can think is it’s my fault.

But it’s also not the first time at all, is it?

[paradife-loft]

it occurs to me that part of this "chatgpt will make up nonexistent articles and quotes and whatnot and then attribute them to real people" issue - I suspect it has something to do with "referencing and citing Actual Things In the World where appropriate" and "not plagiarizing existing writing" being two goals at cross-purposes for training a program on like, general writing I guess? - when it doesn't already have a background of understanding the difference between "real" and "fake".

like, you have something that understands "here are strings of text! I know a lot about how parts of these strings tend to get put together to form larger blocks of text. I also know that it's important to make sure I don't arrange those blocks or strings of text in ways that directly match existing blocks of highly unique text in my dataset."

so like... it completely makes sense why it'd have trouble contextually with stuff like "citing real scientific article titles"? unless you put it through a much more rigorous training designed specifically to learn what (contextually) makes something an "article title" as opposed to other text, and what distinguishes "citing something [e.g. putting an exact copy of existing unique text into what it generates]" from "plagiarizing".... that's probably not a task the computer is equipped to handle.

[vaultsixtynine]

i literally have no idea what her name is so we'll go with the government-assigned option. also i styled her after a dragonfruit so there wasn't a ton of thought put into the Meaning of it all.

[modern-day-kleavor]

Selfie with my latest work!! :333 I can't actually show my work because I'll get flagged, so you just get the legs haha

[xhuth]

i feel the need to vent or complain or something but it’s so pointless. i’ve already beat this dead horse to a fine pulp. i need to stop this whole mental illness shit

[apehardware]

DETUNED demo released!

DETUNED is a bizarre game based on personal experiences with sensitivity to noise. It turns classic rhythm gameplay on its head: rather than hitting the notes of a song according to its beat, you need to avoid a randomly generated series of notes.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2325040/DETUNED/

Itch: https://apehardware.itch.io/detuned

Gamejolt: https://gamejolt.com/games/ITriedTurningMyNoiseSensitivityIntoAHorrorGame/788909

[schattenmacher]

warnings for experimentation, animal abuse, animal death, and medical procedures

when lovrina took over as the head of the shadow program, she spent the five years refining and ‘improving’ the process. that improvement eventually culminated in the xd process, which will be discussed under the cut.

please refer to above warnings before hitting the button. it isn’t extremely graphic, but it goes into detail of the process

there is absolutely no aspect of the process that is remotely, plausibly ethical.

a healing machine is never used, only revives or waiting until they recover on their own.

the first stages include repeatedly subjecting the pokemon to supereffective attacks of stronger pokemon until they faint. this is done until their immediate reaction to seeing another pokemon is attack - not with an actual move but just the equivalent of struggle. only 90% survive this.

from there, they’re handed over to the scientists. usually sedated, they’re injected with courses of steroids and drugs while being subjected to retraining - learning (usually through punishment) to take commands again not out of loyalty, but as a way to avoid further pain and as an outlet for anger. the steroids and drugs are the prep work for the real ‘shadow’ process.

once they are as broken and retrained as they possibly could be, they’re returned to pokeballs and put through a machine that rewrites their biology with the help of the drugs and steroids, essentially retyping them to this new artificial type of shadow - which is strong against any type, except other shadow pokemon.

only 50% that make it to this stage survive.

from there, they are shadow pokemon, however they are put through the initial stage of being attacked constantly by their weakness until they manifest their shadow moves. there is never a guarantee what will manifest.

lovrina developed the xd process.

what makes the xd process different? the xd process doesn’t just recode the typing (adjusting the way the pokemon translates energy in the world around it), it entirely rewrites the genetic code of the pokemon.

were a pokemon’s typing an organ, the standard process would look as though there had been a transplant of a part, adding it on in a way that’s identifiable. xd would make it so the organ is just as much ‘naturally’ the shadow type as well as whatever else the pokemon should be. there is also a shift in the brain’s coding to accept commands transmitted in ways only cipher would be able to give.

her earliest attempts involved actual implanted devices to lower cost, but nothing came out of that alive.

[marshmallowloves]

I haven't tried to draw Cortex in a good minute so here he is being a flirty asshole to Synes

bonus:

[marketxcel]

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[doyeons]

save me from this lab report… please…

[hevendor]

i did so bad in lab today... *googles theoretical biology*

[epitomees]

((...an underground military facility you say? That can only mean GOOD THINGS FOR US!!))