#Machine-like

[gothtransandroid]

Contemplating: Utility Corpses in Necromancy

An expansion on thoughts on bones by incorporating the whole body with what manages to be a series of functional ghoul, wight or mummified type undead with great capability. Lets start with what is not needed; purifying organs.

The kidneys, liver, bladders and intestine serve no quality purpose in crafting an undead for any purpose beyond anatomical model or test subject for poisons. Excluding those, you can create a lighter and more mobile construct via these means alone. Now replacing those organs with other material depend on what is being achieved, which brings us to containing/processing organs.

The lungs and stomach process basic needs for a living body, and depending on how youve constructed your creature these elements can be useful. A beast living on magic alone either in travel or combat can be taxing, even with the economic quality of necromantic spells. To give the stomach a fuel tank system, pouring whatever qualifying food stuff you choose into the throat or a carved and created intake hole, and managing its maintenance that way can be beneficial and reset the weight removed previously to maintain natural equlibrium if desired. I suggest blood or other liquefied nutrients as they port and hold better than solid food-fuels, even when spoiled.

Lungs cna become something more unique for at-home use given their proper use in living beings; gas production. By that, I mean much more complex gasses than just carbon dioxoide. With the proper understanding of chemicals and metabolization it could be possible to carry a simple spray of something inert and spray it into your constructs mouth so you can produce a gas of any need or measure. For a macabre laugh, consider a corpse clown that breathes out helium gas or laughing gas that can change pitch and bring humor to anyone close enough.

for those of the more martial mind, a strong thing to consider for scaffolding and tension is tongues. With tongues from various humanoid and non-humanoid sources one could cosider making something with an abdomen so well built and tight that it could lift, twist and even bend such large structures that siege weaponry could be managed in short order. Further muscle expansion and reinforcement over joints would definitely be benefited from tongues though the bone and tendon material would need more care as with enough force these can be damaged by the muscles themselves.

As we arent working with metals the next best thing we can do is replace the durable materials of dead beings closer to such durable materials. Dragons are an easy reflex to go to, but think carefully about how different beasts move and their resistances to not just heat but friction and elemental wear such as shock. Creatures that move between extreme heat and cold such as yeti or winter wargs may give better results than magically charge dragons.

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

[lastoneout]

"Violence only leads to more violence" TRUE! The thing is tho, a lot of people in power seem to think the start of the violence was the CEO getting shot, but they're wrong. The start of the violence was that very CEO running a company that turns immense, endless human suffering into money.

Violence did lead to more violence, decades of needless death and suffering willfully enacted by millionaires so they can make just a little bit more money, that was the start of the violence. If they didn't want it to escalate eventually, they should have maybe not made killing people the core functionality their entire company hinges on.

The people being tortured and killed by the health insurance industry are not the ones who started the violence, and tbh I don't really think it's on them to end the violence, either.

[digitalmyyth]

Shenanigans ensue

[ririarts]

something about Arcane Herald and S1 Jayce that makes me insane.

Ref: Dracula, a comedy of terrors

[jaypentaghast]

AMC's Interview with the Vampire (2022), Season 1 Episode 7 | Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt

[birdhand-art]

anotha one. yall went crazy for the last one and these are a fun quick exercise for me so get rosed on

@kazzzled credit to my beautiful wife for calling dibs on which one i should do next

dirk version

[avengerphobic]

sometimes you people will be calling things "Body Horror" when it's just how some people live

[chloesimaginationthings]

This goes out to poppy playtime pianosaurus enjoyers

[almondcroissantsandink]

they slayed at the sake of my sanity i'm afraid

[inloveanddepth]

no one talk to me NO ONE TALK TO ME

[pigswithwings]

honestly i am such a sucker for machines being cared for. like? please be gentle. i am not like you. this is my body, please be careful. i do not think like you. i do not work like you, or breathe like you. please be kind. please act kindly. you have me in your hands so please, please show mercy. i was made for a purpose, but that purpose was never intimacy. please show me what this is

[danielsarmand]

if viktor was a worm jayce would build the most beautiful enclosure for him and would spend all his free time staring at him and feeding him leaves and i think this is deeply devastating. he loves him in the purest of ways and the affection was NEVER one sided jayce and viktor always loved each other and they always will to some extent

[keferon]

Empurata!Prowl tries to actually communicate for the first time

What if he wants to say something but he can’t. What if he has no voice to speak, no face to emote, no hands to write. What if every attempt to communicate a message is essentially a puzzle of wit and creativity and yet, the first thing he goes through all these troubles for. Is to say “I love you”?

Don’t ask me how did they get in this room. I have no idea. They escaped the battlefield somehow haha

Next->

[giarossin]

mel and jayce: arguing and fighting viktor in a freaky robot:

[bellameblake]

VIKTOR, THE MACHINE HERALD in ARCANE: LEAGUE OF LEGENDS

↳ Season 2, Act III