#Learning SAS

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Happy 30th anniversary to our divorce, may we remain friends forever

[gyunikum]

Fledgling Sailor of the Channel        |       Pirate of the Great Sand Sea

Tom Glynn-Carney in Dunkirk (2017) & SAS Rogue Heroes (2022)

[markantonys]

SAS Rogue Heroes | 1x02

[cherry-blossom-qf]

Socially Awkward Magolor is just scrambling around apologizing to everyone for the babysitting trouble LOL

"I'm so sorry! I shouldn't have asked for help! I shouldn't have taken the babysitting job in the first place!"

He is PANICKING

Comfort the little panicking baby boi with the power of a monster's mercy 💙

I really hope I typed up the right words for this post. My dyslexia is real a pain in the ass, so if I made any grammatical mistakes, I apologize. ("🌸- -)>✏️

(Sidenote: I'm not good with consistent sizes. idk if UT Magolor is actually the same size as SA Magolor, but a usually picture UT Magolor being "huggable" size?? Like... the perfect size for Frisk to carry him like a teddy bear??? Idk if that made any sense)

[aiiaiiiyo]

[anachrosims]

TBH I’m really weary of this “purity culture” stuff. People have sex, get over it. Learn to curate your online experience instead of shrieking at people about daring to discuss mutually consenting adults gettin freaky or producing fan content that’s NSFW. As long as that shit is tagged as appropriate, the burden is on YOU not to go looking for it.

I completely understand the ones who are concerned about fan content that glorifies toxic/ab*sive/exceptionally triggering behavior though. I do understand that. HOWEVER, it helps absolutely NO ONE to police what fans produce--the real goal we should be having is creating fandom spaces that help provide SAFE and PROFESSIONAL resources for fans who might need help dealing with certain issues, or to help acquaint people with safe sex practices and other safe, good online resources they might not get anywhere else in their life.

EDIT: The best you can do with the above is to quietly reach out to someone about whatever it is they’ve posted or written or drawn and just fucking talk to them about it. They might flip out at you and go nuts, but that’s what block functions are for. Just say, “hey, I saw (post) and I feel it may be harmful to post that because (reasons)” and if they don’t respond well? LET IT GO. Just say “thank you, I just wanted to reach out, but I’m sorry to have bothered you.” Some people are going to be wild shitheels because they have baggage and we can’t expect to control that.

I hate toxic shippers just as much as the next person, but as someone in her mid-30s--and I hope the older folks agree with me--it serves nothing and nobody to thump folks over the head with holier-than-thou callouts. Newsflash: That shit makes you just as toxic and it only alienates people further. What you need to be doing is providing better messages that help fans, old and young alike, to come to understand what healthy communication and behavior look like--to help support fans in times of need--and to foster COMMUNITY in GOOD FAITH.

And for those who are worried about the genuine creeps hiding with us? I guarantee you, the healthier a community is, the more supportive and communicative and compassionate we are with each other? The less spaces those creeps have to hide.

Learn to curate your online experience. Treat each other with respect and dignity in good faith to the best of your ability. Help others in need. Get in the habit of reaching out to people and engaging with them when you’re able. And learn to stay in your lane, because while your experience matters, it’s not the only one that does.

[things-that-make-sa-happy]

tsitp | 1.04

[lilflowerpot]

Are the druids (especially those that are higher up and closer to haggar) allowed to have children?

And if so then does it have to be with another member of the Druidic Church?

As well as this, if the couple then went on to have a child, then would the child also have druidic capabilities and would they be accepted as part of the Church?

I’m sorry that this was a lot of questions, but i was just curious. 💜

Not only are the druids allowed to have children, they're strongly encouraged to do so!

As Lotor alluded to in chapter 17 when sneaking around the druidic lab—and as I've touched upon in my posts on both quintessence and religion, as well as my galra dictionary—the distinguishing feature of a true druid (as opposed to simply a deacon of the Church) is the ability to manipulate quintessence, and this in turn is dictated by blood: druids are born, not made.

Sa Naacht [[ s-ar / n-ar-kh-t ]] - Voidsworn; an individual whose life (and arguabley their very soul) belongs to the eternity of Sa Herself, and all the beings that may reside there. Unlike the Li Naacht of any cause, one does not swear themselves as a Sa Naacht, but rather is born into it as a person of Druidic descent, and it is beleived that the Druids’ ability to manipulate raw quintessence energy is a result of their ancestors having provided themselves to the denizens of Sa as vessels on the mortal plane.

So as the druids are the only galra able to manipulate quintessence (and quintessence itself serves as the Empire's primary power-source) this particular skillset is deemed an invaluable imperial resource, which, of course, brings us back to the druids being strongly encouraged to have children,,, and as many as possible at that. Historically, records that predate Brodar indicate that, in a presumed attempt to keep their blood and abilities strong, the druids once limited themselves to reproducing only with their own; although the likelihood of the resultant children inheriting their parent's druidic abilities was extremely high (though still not guaranteed), the transgenerational impact of such a limited genepool lead to an increased likelihood of significant health issues, including:

Reduced fertility

Genetic disorders

Lower birth rate

Higher infant/child mortality

Loss of immune system function

Increased cardiovascular risks

In the modern day, therefore, the Church encourages its druids to sire several children with several different partners (both druidic and otherwise) though it has long-since been the preferred practice for the sa naacht to copulate primarily with those considered to be latent-druidic—here meaning galra who are perhaps the children / grandchildren / great-grandchildren of druids, and do tend to serve as members of the Church despite not being druids themselves—so as to preserve their genetic diversity and produce healthy offspring, even if this means that said offspring are statistically less likely to inherit druidic abilities than they would be were they born of two druidic parents.

[[ Punnett squares depicting all ten potential galra genotypes—druidic & otherwise—via the 55 parental combinations that might produce them. Those squares that are greyed-out are inverted duplicates of those in colour, with the maternal/paternal genotypes switched, a difference that has no bearing at this time. ]]

There exist ten galra genotypes—here meaning the genetic constitution of an individual organism, not to be confused with its phenotype—that are as follows: [GG] [Gg] [gg] [GD] [Gd] [gd] [Dg] [dd] [Dd] [DD]. The nine segments that these punnett squares are divided into indicate parentage: Galra/Galra (top-left), Galra/Latent (top-mid & mid-left), Galra/Druid (top-right & bottom-left), Latent/Latent (middle), Latent/Druid (mid-right & bottom-mid), Druid/Druid (bottom-right).

As illustrated above the ten galra genotypes are each comprised of one maternal allele (x-axis/top) and one paternal allele (y-axis/side); these alleles exist in both the common galra [G/g] and druidic [D/d] forms, manifesting as either dominant (uppercase) or recessive (lowercase). This leaves us with 55 unique parental combinations—each with four potential outcomes, producing one of the aforementioned genotypes—wherein, importantly, dominant alleles always take precedence over recessive alleles, after which [G] takes precedence over [D] due to druidic traits being recessive in their own right: essentially meaning that it is not possible to produce a [DG/dg] child, only ever [GD/gd].

Of the 400 potential children here represented, only 150 (37.5%) are druidic galra (marked in dark purple), with 133 of this number having been born of at least one druidic parent. The remaining 250 non-druidic galra can be further divided into latent-druidic—those 150 (37.5%) children with recessive druidic alleles who therefore have the potential to produce a druidic child despite not being druids themselves—and the 100 (25%) children without.

Galra/Galra parentage = 100% Galra kits || 0% Latent kits || 0% Druidic kits Galra/Latent parentage = 41.7% Galra kits || 50% Latent kits || 8.3% Druidic kits Galra/Druidic parentage = 12.5% Galra kits || 62.5% Latent kits || 25% Druidic kits Latent/Latent parentage = 25% Galra kits || 44.4% Latent kits || 30.6% Druidic kits Latent/Druidic parentage = 6.2% Galra kits || 39.6% Latent kits || 54.2% Druidic kits Druidic/Druidic parentage = 1.6% Galra kits || 9.4% Latent kits || 89% Druidic kits

Though the above might give the impression that the majority of the galra populace possess at least one druidic allele, this is not the case. My punnett squares only depict all possible parental combinations, not the statistical likelihood of them occurring as owed to the frequency distribution of genotypes; in truth, the overwhelming majority of galra have no druidic alleles at all (recessive or otherwise) with a whopping 98.65% of them being either [GG/Gg/gg]. The remaining minority of 1.35% comprises all 7 of the outstanding genotypes that contain druidic alleles—only some of which are dominant, and therefore actually druids.

[[ Punnett squares depicting all ten potential galra genotypes—druidic & otherwise—via the 100 parental combinations that might produce them, overlain with two colours: red, to indicate the pregnancy poses increased risk to the mother, and yellow, to indicate the pregnancy poses increased risk of miscarriage. The highlighted 3x3 box (top left corner) indicates those who are without a single druidic allele, as is the case for 98.65% of the galra population. ]]

If the above looks unnecessarily complex and much like it took days to construct,,, that's because it is, and it did. This being said, I am one stubborn bitch, and so I present to you my genotype punnet squares as cross-referenced with whether or not the pregnancy poses a notable risk to the mother (marked in pink for non-druidic foetuses, and red for druidic ones), or comes with an increased risk of miscarriage (marked in yellow for non-druidic foetuses, and mustard-brown for druidic ones). A risk of miscarriage is a direct result of the maternal genotype—as represented above each square—possessing more dominant alleles than the foetus, in which case the womb is likely to reject the pregnancy (and so the probability of miscarrying stands at a rather shockingly high 2:3), while a risk to the mother is caused by the foetal genotype possessing more dominant alleles than its host, in which case it might attempt to consume its mother from the inside, leading to severe hemorrhaging and the death of both parties (with a less frequent, but still alarming mortality rate of 1:3).

But onto the specifics.

For this next part, we're only going to be looking at the parental combinations in which at least one of the parents has a minimum of one [D/d] allele—in other words, everything outside of that highlighted 3x3 box in the top left—as we want to know the contained probability of a child being a druid, if there is a possibility of such (which, of course, there simply isn't for a couple without a single druidic allele between them).

Total number of potentially druidic children = ((total number of parental combinations) - combinations in which neither parent possesses a single druidic allele) x number of potential children per parental combination = (( 10 x 10 ) - 9 ) x 4 = 364

To simulate the mortality ratios (pink/red & yellow/brown), I assigned each colour a value correlating to the number of pregnancies likely to be a success out of a maximum 3: lilac/purple squares are worth the full amount, pink/red are worth 2, and yellow/brown a measly 1. The above total of 364 was also multiplied by three to compensate for this change, meaning that the following represents the contained probability of [insert genotype group] kits:

Galra [GG/Gg/gg] kits = (((#of healthy pregnancies x 3)+ (#of maternal risk pregnancies x 2) + (#of miscarriage risk pregnancies x 1)) ÷ Total ) x 100 = (((32x3) + (16x2) + (16x1)) ÷ 364 x 3 ) x 100 = ((96+32+16) ÷ 1092) x 100 = (144 ÷ 1092) x 100 = 13.2% Latent-Druidic [GD/Gd/gd] kits = (((#of healthy pregnancies x 3)+ (#of maternal risk pregnancies x 2) + (#of miscarriage risk pregnancies x 1)) ÷ Total ) x 100 = (((80x3) + (35x2) + (35x1)) ÷ 364 x 3 ) x 100 = ((240+70+35) ÷ 1092) x 100 = (345 ÷ 1092) x 100 = 31.6% Druidic [Dg/dd/Dd/DD] kits = (((#of healthy pregnancies x 3)+ (#of maternal risk pregnancies x 2) + (#of miscarriage risk pregnancies x 1)) ÷ Total ) x 100 = (((70x3) + (40x2) + (40x1)) ÷ 364 x 3 ) x 100 = ((210+80+40) ÷ 1092) x 100 = (330 ÷ 1092) x 100 = 30.2% Non-viable pregnancies = 25%

Of that 75% of pregnancies, wherein the foetus is successfully carried to term and safely delivered, the percentages stand at:

Galra [GG/Gg/gg] kits = ((32 + 16 + 16) ÷ 364) x 100 = (64 ÷ 364) x 100 = 17.6% Latent-Druidic [GD/Gd/gd] kits = ((80 + 35 + 35) ÷ 364) x 100 = (150 ÷ 364) x 100 = 41.2% Druidic [Dg/dd/Dd/DD] kits = ((70 + 40 + 40) ÷ 364) x 100 = (150 ÷ 364) x 100 = 41.2% Which creates a G:L:D ratio of 88:206:206 or, simplified, 44:103:103.

So, if you are (by some miracle) still with me, all that's left to do is take into account the aforementioned frequency distribution of genotypes. This means that the above percentages are, themselves, percentages of that 1.35% of the total population that I mentioned earlier, so by multiplying these two values together we can find the total population percentage for each demographic (Galra/Latent/Druidic).

Galra [GG/Gg/gg] = (percentage of Galra genotype born of Druidic or Latent-Druidic parentage x 1.35%) + percentage of Galra genotype born of Galra parentage = (17.6% x 1.35%) + 98.65 = 98.652376% Latent-Druidic [GD/Gd/gd] = percentage of Latent-Druidic genotype born of Druidic or Latent-Druidic parentage x 1.35% = 41.2% x 1.35% = 0.005562% Druidic [Dg/dd/Dd/DD] = percentage of Druidic genotype born of Druidic or Latent-Druidic parentage x 1.35% = 41.2% x 1.35% = 0.005562%

So, for argument's sake, in a sample size of 100billion (which is my very conservative estimate for the total galra population) this would look like:

Galra [GG/Gg/gg] = 100,000,000,000 x 98.2376% = 98billion, 237million, 600thousand people without a single druidic allele Latent-Druidic [GD/Gd/gd] = 100,000,000,000 x 0.005562% = 5million, 562thousand people with the potential to have a druidic child, but no druidic abilities themselves Druidic [Dg/dd/Dd/DD] = 100,000,000,000 x 0.005562% = 5million, 562thousand people who are, themselves, druids

As a final note, you might be interested to know the mortality rates per genotypal grouping (ie. how likely the pregnancy is to succeed depending on the foetus' genotype) because this does differ ever-so-slightly.

Galra kits [GG/Gg/gg] = (successful pregnancies ÷ total potential pregnancies) x 100 = (144 ÷ 192) x 100 = 75% success rate Latent-Druidic kits [GD/Gd/gd] = (successful pregnancies ÷ total potential pregnancies) x 100 = (345 ÷ 450) x 100 = 77% success rate Druidic kits [Dg/dd/Dd/DD] = (successful pregnancies ÷ total potential pregnancies) x 100 = (330 ÷ 450) x 100 = 73% success rate

[feral-trans-faerieboy]

y'know it's not like I wanted to grow into a bitter adult over topics like church but, growing up queer, and autistic, and not knowing either, wasn't a shield from trauma and abuse and seeing people act like the churches i went to as a kid/adult are better now actually isn't even the work of a single band aid on a hangnail on my pinky.

I was abused by these people (no but like physically at one of them!) and no one wants to simply admit that some christians are in fact evil. it's the lack of accountability, it's the denial, it's the lies they assume will be forgiven, it's the way they'll scroll on by posts by survivors forever

[gyunikum]

Never let me down (again) // Paddy x Eoin

SAS Rogue Heroes

[nebuvoid]

the pain i go through to q some narto food for you guys... sometimes its some wretched ss blog, right now its some wretched sas hater blog from 2014... sometimes its the only way to dig for some old posts...

[lesbianlorkhan]

what happened to her she went into the vivec tag….

[designerripon]

Arabic Alphabet Cycle | Arbi Bornomala | Alphabet Train | আলিফ বা তা ছা ...

[lilflowerpot]

Ok but what IF we belived that hc/Theory about Kolivan as true? Could it be possible?

Mayby baby Kolivan was born some time before Daizabaal was destroyed, was put in a capsule like Allura was but was later found by galrans and hey, a free galra baby! No parents around so it was probably abadonded or the parents died

Or mayby he was like Lotor?

The possibilities!

[original Blaytz ask]

I mean, considering the fact that the vld writers did kind of explicitly state that galra other than Zarkon & Lotor have -somehow- existed since Alfor's time, by introducing Dayak in the modern day,,,, I'd have to assume that Kolivan being their kid is possible in canon (even without the potential use of pods).

Visually, there are some similarities what with the galra servant's head-bumps, Blaytz ear-fins, & jaw, and Kolivan's head-bumps, ear shape, and jawline respectively... and //technically// all we know for certain about Kolivan's biology is that he's galra. So like I said before, it's quite an amusing (and, admittedly, not entirely baseless) theory!

B u t not one I personally subscribe to lmao; in Little Blade, at least, I'm sticking with my average galra lifespan of 280idp, and so our beloved Koliflower has only been around for the last couple of centuries:

Two-dozen. Keith doesn’t know the precise equivalent of galra decaphoebs as opposed to altean ones, or how much either of those equate to in Earth years, but he does recall Kolivan’s begrudging acceptance of the Blade’s collective determination to celebrate his two-hundredth cycle; in comparison to that, twenty-four decaphoebs is a mere fraction of a life.

- Little Blade, chapter 12

[iwatcheditbegin]

That video is so gross.

I don’t care if it was a planned bit, it’s still making light of SA. That shit isn’t a joke or entertainment.

[fixing-bad-comic-art]

hey, so im going on 36 hours without sleep and have the Sneaking suspicion im going to regret this question, But. Is poison ivy a human? like, i know that comics play it fast and loose with this sorta thing, but taxonomy speaking, is the green plant lady a homo sapien? human parents? or did she rise fully formed out of some sea foam from a pair of severed nuts? baby in a space ship?