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[zorangezest]

humanformers au where these two get to bond because they’re both tech savvy programmer nerds or somethibg

more of this au!

[avastazyana]

[evil-robot-husband]

good afternoon transformers fandom

[rogdona]

at the risk of lookin like a total fool i might just bite the bullet and make a faq post to link in my pinned bc theres questions ive answered several times already and keep appearing in my inbox😔

[moghedien]

ok ok ok so in TGH, when Elayne and Nynaeve rescue Egwene, part of their plan requires them to attack a random sul'dam/damane pair to get the a'dam and sul'dam dress so they can sneak in

now that might not happen since they already have an a'dam and it looks like it might work differently here, but I want it to because they don't attack the pair so much as sneak up on them and take the collar off the damane and kidnap the sul'dam. but the damane in question here, upon realizing she's free, immediately punches out her sul'dam and fucking books it out of town

anyway I want it to happen and if it does I'm honestly betting on it being her that fucking decks her sul'dam

[glimoon]

let me just say catra having a role in bright moon postwar is so important to glimmer

[kens-puku]

Y'all are gonna think I'm so weird.

But I'm running with this idea I've had for a while for my mcl ocs. Well, other than the actual other mcl ocs I've made.

It's part lazy, part bizarre.

Clones.

Yep, clones.

My MCL NG oc is a clone of the original Puku, but different. I haven't figured out the details yet, but it's like what I did with Pukun, Puku's male clone. It has the idea of a type of clone theory idea of nature vs nurture. The DNA and nature of the puku clones is the same, but the nurture is always a bit different depending on circumstances. Puku "prime" is the parent of all the clones made, but Puku "prime" had a different parentage and upbringing than the clones. Not to mention, the events of each mcl game has different outcomes for clone Puku.

This Puku has -teal- hair and is a zoomer, I guess. Raised by Puku "prime" and has the existential grappling of dealing with being a clone in general.

There's... still a lot of ironing out to do. Like... Where does Kentin fit into all this? How should I incorporate the family given to Puku 2.0 in New Generation?

Why am I giving this plot to an MCL OC!??

lol

[lightning-chicken]

*sprints to your inbox*

I SMELL WIPS AND I WANT TO KNOW WHAT’S COOKING IN KEY'S KITCHEN

HI FINN! :D

time for a wip breakdown post:

digital reflections au - explained in this post. short version: jay is replaced by an npc clone of himself (called superstar rockin’ jay) during s12 and is abandoned in prime empire by the unaware ninja. two oneshots have been planned; one has been written and posted here, and the other’s about halfway done.

putting the puzzle pieces back together - my take on what happened to jay post-merge! written post-leaks and pre-teasers so it’s all based on the fact that jay has amnesia and he’s working for the administration (which, in my au, is an agency dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and using it to keep the other realms in line). it’s been a project of mine for a while and i cannot wait to share the rest of it (especially what i have planned for jay’s powers)!

my currently-unnamed groundhog day au is based on the concept of the film (time loops), but not strictly the plot. kai and nya get stuck in a time loop during the finale of s7, and have to work with each other, their newly-returned parents, and the ninja to restore time to its natural state. i have a couple of scenes planned for this but that’s about it; i’m trying (emphasis on the word trying) to finish my other projects before tackling this!

and finally: my other prime empire au that’s been in the works since… *checks notes* july 2022?!? it’s gone through many changes and rewrites due to the fact it’s heavily science-fiction inspired and therefore requires a lot of lore-building to make sense. it’s a prime empire au, but in the loosest sense possible: there’s a video game called prime empire, some people get trapped in it, and jay gets separated from the ninja - but that’s about all there is in common. unfortunately i can’t say too much about it, given the fact that there are certain plot twists that change the trajectory of the entire story and are therefore spoilers.

[unnonexistence]

i am just going to have to get used to ambiguously-defined variables and bad documentation, aren't i

[fuckitfireeverything]

oh the anxiety I experience before leaving my apartment for three weeks

[akkivee]

lol i was rewatching the stage leaders talk and i really do be living my best nmcd life thru them lol like yes samatoki and kuukou do call each other when they want to play video games, yeah sasara and kuukou share one brain cell, yeah ichiro will make a mistake within view of samatoki who will then expose it in front of everyone, yeah even tho they are literally on opposite ends of the room kuukou will start making jabs and jokes at ichiro to make him laugh—

[mxliv-oftheendless]

\m/

[coetusmachina]

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[jamiethecryptid]

MHA epilogue analysis

Spoilers below

My take on the “heroes are going extinct” bit from the epilogue is that is doesn’t really work in a literal sense.

The LOV ending and all for one being gone isn’t gonna stop crime/villainy, that will always exist and as long as quirks are a thing people will use them for bad meaning heroes will always have to exist to combat that.

I choose to interpret this is a more metaphorical sense that hero work will change to be more preventative. (such as uraraka’s quirk counseling program) Meaning focusing more on establishing programs to help people and correct societal issues at there core vs stopping criminals after the crime and throwing them in jail.

Hero society as we know it may disappear but heroes as a whole not likely.

[reasonsforhope]

"Once thought to be extinct, black-footed ferrets are the only ferret native to North America, and are making a comeback, thanks to the tireless efforts of conservationists.

Captive breeding, habitat restoration, and wildlife reintegration have all played a major role in bringing populations into the hundreds after near total extinction.

But one other key development has been genetic cloning.

In April [2024], the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced the cloning of two black-footed ferrets from preserved tissue samples, the second and third ferret clones in history, following the birth of the first clone in December 2020. 

Cloning is a tactic to preserve the health of species, as all living black-footed ferrets come from just seven wild-caught descendants.  This means their genetic diversity is extremely limited and opens them up to greater risks of disease and genetic abnormalities. 

Now, a new breakthrough has been made.

Antonia, a black-footed ferret cloned from the DNA of a ferret that lived in the 1980s has successfully birthed two healthy kits of her own: Sibert and Red Cloud.

These babies mark the first successful live births from a cloned endangered species — and is a milestone for the country’s ferret recovery program.

The kits are now three months old, and mother Antonia is helping to raise them — and expand their gene pool.

In fact, Antonia’s offspring have three times the genetic diversity of any other living ferrets that have come from the original seven ancestors.

Researchers believe that expanded genetic diversity could help grow the ferrets’ population and help prime them to recover from ongoing diseases that have been massively detrimental to the species, including sylvatic plague and canine distemper. 

“The successful breeding and subsequent birth of Antonia's kits marks a major milestone in endangered species conservation,” said Paul Marinari, senior curator at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. 

“The many partners in the Black-footed Ferret Recovery Program continue their innovative and inspirational efforts to save this species and be a model for other conservation programs across the globe.”

Antonia actually gave birth to three kits, after mating with Urchin, a 3-year-old male ferret. One of the three kits passed away shortly after birth, but one male and one female are in good health and meeting developmental milestones, according to the Smithsonian.

Mom and babies will remain at the facility for further research, with no plans to release them into the wild.

According to the Colorado Sun, another cloned ferret, Noreen, is also a potential mom in the cloning-breeding program. The original cloned ferret, Elizabeth Ann, is doing well at the recovery program in Colorado, but does not have the capabilities to breed. 

Antonia, who was cloned using the DNA of a black-footed ferret named Willa, has now solidified Willa’s place as the eighth founding ancestor of all current living ferrets.

“By doing this, we’ve actually added an eighth founder,” said Tina Jackson, black-footed ferret recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in an interview with the Colorado Sun. 

“And in some ways that may not sound like a lot, but in this genetic world, that is huge.”

Along with the USFWS and Smithsonian, conservation organization Revive & Restore has also enabled the use of biotechnologies in conservation practice. Co-founder and executive director Ryan Phelan is thrilled to welcome these two new kits to the black-footed ferret family.

“For the first time, we can definitively say that cloning contributed meaningful genetic variation back into a breeding population,” he said in a statement.

“As these kits move forward in the breeding program, the impact of this work will multiply, building a more robust and resilient population over time.”"

-via GoodGoodGood, November 4, 2024