#craniopagus

[trans-jon-rights]

@girlwholovesturtles IT'S DONE !!!

I'm so glad how it turned out

[girlwholovesturtles]

Summary: As if being kidnapped by the Circus or being threatened by the Distortion wasn't bad enough, now Jon had to deal with a new consciousness waking up in his head. Or perhaps it's not his head at all.

Jonny DID NOT agree to Raphaella's little experiment. So he's most certainly not happy about waking up and realizing he's sharing his body with some nerd.

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood/Jonny d'Ville, The Mechanisms Ensemble/The Mechanisms Ensemble, Basira Hussain/Alice "Daisy" Tonner, Lyfrassir Edda/Marius von Raum

Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Body Horror, i guess?, Body Sharing, i honestly don't know how to tag this, Two Minds One Body, talk of non-consentual mind/body modification, Dialogue Heavy, It/Its Pronouns for The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms), It/Its Pronouns For Michael | The Distortion (The Magnus Archives), Talk about sex but no actual sex, Existential Crisis, Asexual Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Omnisexual Jonny d'Ville, Mostly because I heard IRL Jonny say he was Omnisexual and that's been my head canon ever since, Panic Attacks, An old man gets stabbed, It was fun to write, shower scene but it's not supposed to be sexy, Just a sad wet cat of a man trying to get the blood off, Pining, Mutual Pining, Temporary Character Death, They/Them Pronouns for Lyfrassir Edda, Buried Alive

[dexterkronos]

Sorry for the delay y'all! University decided it wanted my attention more so I didn't get to finish my Eyes until today. So, introducing to everyone, EyeAvatar!Ivy Alexandra from @girlwholovesturtles's Craniopagus fic! Main thing that hurt doing this was honestly trying to figure out how to get them both mousey and Eye coded. For those unaware; Craniopagus (which you should go read) places The Mechanisms in The Magnus Archive's space, and most of the cast have some connection to an Entity. Ivy is - obviously - tied to The Eye, to the point she eventually Became an Avatar. She is also a mouse humanoid, which means I spent an insubordinate amount of time researching mice eyes, sobbing over the mouse eyes, getting sucked into several Pinterest rabbit holes for no particular, discernable reason, and then deciding to just wing it based on Craniopagus' description and that alone. It's most likely not 1:1 with Kila/CopperRose's "large, doe like, and entirely black" description thanks to the lighting tricks I had to do, but rest assured without the glows they are pure black with very, very, very dark green for the iris. I tried to do a version as well that was more mid-Becoming, but it honestly lacks compared to the final product lmao- Anyway, I gotta play catch-up now, so after my proper Ivy drop later I will either tackle more Craniopagus characters, draw candlecoo's Toy Soldier, or mess with the third, spoopy idea of that Buried rant I did last night. We'll see. The resident Eye Lady definitely makes no clear promises on swift returns, but will try!

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[sambuuck-illuminated]

did an au comic on the magma!!! so many lads 😁

[castelias-cat-queen]

//As we go into Craniopagus Arc, here is the most recent big lore drop:

https://castelias-cat-queen.tumblr.com/post/741475114357522432/well-shell-be-fighting-back-lady-letty-for-a

[riewritten]

what i thought would be a mystery/thriller liebert twins-esque novel at the book sale

turned out to be one of the most gut wrenching things ive read about babies. the way i was sobbing

[markagorman]

The Girls by Lori Lansens: Book review

Having brushed the tears from my eyes as I put this truly magnificent novel to bed I now have the task of explaining to you why it is so irridescantly beautiful, without gushing. But I’ve blown it already. A made up story about craniopagus twin sister (that’s conjoined twins joined at the head) has the potential to be exploitative (some might even go as far as to say sick). This is anything…

[thebearme]

im making a human design of funtime freddy and bonbon (i never saw bon is not a puppet but their own animatronic)

so i have the idea of them being conjoined twins with craniopagus

i just wanna ask if I drew them right and if there's anything fixes i need to do?

[cryptocism]

Oh my god this new chapter,.. gnawingbthe bars of the enclosure etc etc. what gave you the ideas for the kids being conjoined twins?

not sure how much i should be screening for spoiler-y asks n answers if anybody is still on the earlier chapters but! i wanted to answer this one so spoilers ahead for anybody who hasn't read chapter 17

i came up with it pretty early on! long enough ago that the details are fuzzy but iirc when i was making all the clone backstories, i was really invested in the idea that one of them wouldn't have powers. partially for character dynamics, also because i think having a range of abilities forces interesting workarounds (i.e. Jude and Nathaniel using Jude's speed paths to supplement Nathaniel's lack of powers)

then i was going back and forth on how to explain why Nathaniel didn't have powers, if an explanation was even necessary, etc. which coincided with me thinking a lot about the different applications of technoplasm and just how insane of a material it is to exist

then Impulse issue #56 where CRAYDL downloads, copies, and replicates Tim and Kon's genetic matrices using technoplasm came to mind and it felt a lot more feasible that technoplasm could literally be programmed for a human form

i thought abt CRAYDL just building Nathaniel from scratch, but there wasnt a motivation i could think of that was strong enough for CRAYDL to do that. (like maybe they didn't want Jude to be lonely or something, which fell a little flat bc obviously they werent concerned about Thad being on his own) also i wanted Nathaniel to still have some bio-connection to Jude and the other clones. so: technoplasm integration felt like a cool direction, and meant Nathaniel needed some essential part of him be technoplasm-made. any kind of amelia condition didn't really work because there are plenty of folks without limbs that are doing just fine and dont require medical intervention, (and i really didnt think CRAYDL would try an operation so risky if there wasnt a fatal threat) so it had to be something else and conjoined twins felt like a good direction to go. there's plenty of conjoined twins who are also doing just fine and dont require intervention, but this would be a case where separation was necessary for survival.

although i wrote Jude and Nathaniel as both parapagus and craniopagus twins (the grammar there may not be right but basically: joined both at the pelvis/abdomen and the head) which i dont believe (?) is a type that's ever actually occurred. keeping with sci-fi's grand tradition i fudged the science for the sake of the story u know how it is

but yeah of course after that the possibilities of a bio-computer technoplasm-integrated character got me Extremely Excited. tons of functionally-immortal self-programming computer-hacking fun. plus i had an excuse to give Jude heterochromia and a cool birthmark :P

[ao3feed-jonmartin]

Craniopagus

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/xR9iLXM by CopperRose As if being kidnapped by the Circus or being threatened by the Distortion wasn't bad enough, now Jon had to deal with a new consciousness waking up in his head. Or perhaps it's not his head at all. Jonny DID NOT agree to Raphaella's little experiment. So he's most certainly not happy about waking and realizing he's sharing his body with some nerd. Words: 3200, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), The Mechanisms (Band) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: M/M, Multi Characters: Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Jonny d'Ville, The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms), Nikola Orsinov, More character eventually, Michael | The Distortion (The Magnus Archives) Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Eventually - Relationship, but not yet - Relationship, Maybe others? I don'tknow yet Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Body Horror, i guess?, Body Sharing, ? - Freeform, i honestly don't know how to tag this, Two Minds One Body, talk of non-consentual mind/body modification read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/xR9iLXM

[o-craven-canto]

Been reading a couple books about human embryology and development (hence my latest infograph). It's an immensely fascinating and dare I say beautiful subject, but also quite terrifying as it dawns on you the sheer number and variety of ways it can go wrong.

Ectopic pregnancy, teratomes, dysostosis, omphalocele, gastroschisis, diaphragmatic hernia, ectopia cordis, hemangiosarcoma, esophageal and rectal atresia, spina bifida, meningocele, lissencephaly, hydrocephaly, anencephaly, cyclopia, disprosopus, hypertelorism, ichthyosis, epidermolysis, phocomelia, sirenomelia, syndactyly, monodactyly, craniopagus...

Some of these conditions are less than ideal, but are not much of threat. Others are just about immediately lethal. But for the ones in the middle, sometimes, it's amazing what people can manage to live with.

[trans-jon-rights]

@girlwholovesturtles remember that comment on your fic about a guy who wanted to make fanart ? Have a preview :D

I'm absolutely not realising only now that I made a typo in the title of the fic (lie). I'll correct it later, probably.

Anyway it's 3AM I'm going to bed. You guys go read the fic bc it's GOOD

[girlwholovesturtles]

I've been considering this for like three or four chapters at this point and I'm still not sure. So I'm gonna leave this to strangers who probably haven't read my fic and probably don't care to.

Fic for context.

[dexterkronos]

The demons called me to action; we doing some more practice in @candlecoo-sideb-art's art style! I kinda felt bad lying in bed after drawing the Somewhere Else (In Space) AU dudes, and only doing a canon art style emulation for Jonny. It just felt like I was kinda cheating out on my own learning opportunities, and given I need to draw in a no-clear-line style for an assessment... Probs best to practice on the eyes. After posting my Martin versions, its more than likely I'll tackle Craniopagus characters, and leave candlecoo's Toy Soldier for another day. I may cave, we'll see. The resident Eye Lady makes no clear promises on swift returns, but will try!

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[coffincoitus]

just learned about the existence of an extremely rare condition called craniopagus parasiticus and it actually filled me with so much animal dread my god. nature is so full of bizarre mishaps

[castelias-cat-queen]

Oh don't tell me - The big bad

Cat queen

herself is feeling things :)

What a pussy

@joltik-guy

She feels. For the both of us. That was her job, until she abandoned me!

ABANDONED US!

(I'm sorry, Mx. Joltik-Guy, I'm sorry. Please forgive me, forgive her. It's not her fault. It's not her fault.)