#huh I actually got it close

[panstarry]

my final from last semester that i made into a zine. cooked this one up in a couple hours before the critique (the ink was still wet!), so it's very raw and kind of sloppy but the sentiment is there. i love you trans people of color. we are the backbone of this community 🌟

[svampira]

you could never hurt me

[mocha-tapioca]

im going to go insane on september 6th 2024 send tweet

[knightofspades]

Happy Birthday, Kyou

he is such a character

[deviousdiesel]

family outing masterpost so i can be happy forever and ever

[hiroshotreplica]

actually my favorite number being 27 is some cruel irony that an author would force onto their character. i considered my unlucky number to be 3 for the longest time because of some Shit that happened in 3rd grade and other unfortunate developments that happened because of something happening 3 times

anyway, 27 is:

the product of 3^3 (3 to the power of 3)

the product of 9 x 3, which, again, is 3 x 3 x 3

3 away from 30

and, slightly unrelated: it was how old my mom was (in years, of course) when she had me (i did not know this until last year. im a little stupid)

i literally despised the number 3 as a child. like, beyond petty hatred- i genuinely thought if something came in 3s it had the ability to kill me. yet, my favorite number shares so many roots to it. was i stupid? yeah i think so

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

okay weird q incoming but what ways do you think speedsters can get sick? Like to my understanding, they can’t really come down with normal virus’ like the flu, right? But they could get things like chronic migraines?

NANOBOTS!!! This is one of the best pieces of canon lore ever. I did a whole post on it but TLDR: normal human metabolisms have so much shit going on that they don't even notice nanobots in their body BUT speedsters have hyper accelerated metabolisms that are the equivalent of the straight A's overachiever in school on meth. So speedster metabolisms do notice nanobots and they attack full force, triggering all of the body's defenses and responses.

But the nanobots are metal so it obviously doesn't do anything. It just leaves the speedster lethargic, feverish, vomiting, dizzy, with a headache, sore muscles and a runny nose, ect. It's basically an allergic reaction.

Now, poisoning them can work depending on what the poison is/what the dosage is. You would need a 100% fatal poison and you would need a fairly high dose. Because speedsters heal fast and they have a hyper accelerated metabolism, so any poison that is based on toxicity (alcohol poisoning for example) would be out of their system faster than it could even take effect.

But poisons that can't be cleared out/processed by the body (take cyanide for example, it binds with the chemical receptors in your body making it physically impossible to use oxygen) wouldn't really be affected by their metabolism at all. So while the speedsters could heal the damaged tissues from these poisons fairly quickly (making it seem as though they were only slightly affected) they would ultimately need time to do so, time they would not have if it kills them first. This isn't technically what you are asking because there would be no substance that 'makes them sick', there would only be 'fine', 'not fine for like a minute and then fine again' and 'dead'. (... unless they were hooked up to a steady supply of the toxin)

Likewise, (this is getting more into theoretical territory, less canon) there might be some illnesses that would affect them? Not for long but if you got something super fucking fatal like Rabies, it might make them display mild cold symptoms for a day or something.

I don't know though. They have really fucking good immune systems. And even super fatal diseases can be fought. Take my example of Rabies, while it is commonly thought to be 100% fatal once symptoms show up there actually have been cases of people surviving it. Rabies is a very stealthy and fast disease, so the main problem with treating it is that your body's immune system isn't fast enough to stop it. People have survived by being placed in medically induced comas (slowing their bodily functions and thus the disease) for long enough that the medication can eradicate it. So for a speedster? That's gone in a minute tops. You would need an insane disease that I'm not sure even exists.

There's also like... pregnancy and menstruation. Growing pains, muscle pain from running is a BIG ONE, being dehydrated/starvation, blood loss, ect. Lots of ways to fuck with a speedster in a way they can't immediately fix.

There are also speedster specific ailments. It's basically 50/50 if a natural born speedster gets a weird highly fatal aging disease. Sometimes speedsters can be born without a kinetic energy shield which makes using their powers at all incredibly fatal to them. All speedsters will have connectivity issues at some point that can be fatal. Sometimes Time Gets Bad™ (shout out to when Barry kept chronically stealing time from people/things every time he used his powers). Sometimes they have too much energy and can't maintain human form (shout out to when Wally didn't know what the speedforce was and was accidentally cosplaying Ghost Rider). Velocity 9 is a highly addictive drug that works on speedsters and makes them display typical addiction behavior (and withdrawal). V9 can also cause a speedster to 'overdose' (burst into flames/lightning/energy). They all have the constant urge to yeet themselves into the speedforce. Ect.

[ask-the-bone-boys]

I don’t know if I have a specific favorite moment but I’ve spent a LOT of time thinking about atbb lore and it’s my favorite askblog pretty much ever so I just want to say thank you for running it all those years!!!!

this is genuinely one of the nicest things anybody's said to me, it's really hard for me to imagine anyone else but me being so invested in the story when i'm not actively updating it so this is really really nice to hear actually :') thank you!!!!!!!!

[killerchickadee]

We have a kitty at the adoption center who I posted about last week I think. Very very shy. Spends literally her entire day hiding in her little house. Except.

Oh no

She loooooves me.

[exopelagic]

okay I severely misjudged spaghetti guy he’s actually just really cool

[camellia-thea]

initially this post had some commentary about interests right now. and then it turned into a ramble about personal healing in the tags. so the interest post is going separately.

[qqqqqqqqqqq0]

i've been having some trouble falling asleep lately

[r0bee]

The more I think about it the funnier it is that Mark was surprised that William is gay. Not bc of all the times they call each other gay (I don't think Mark would've done that if he knew) but bc William asked him to help him move.

William asked Mark to help him move into an apartment with one bed that he'd be sharing with his 'friend' and Mark didn't think about/question it at all.

Truly a terrible detective no wonder William had to plan the Reanimen finding plan all by himself.

[fruutbaag]

nooooo dont have another minor gender crisis your so sexy ahaha

[sysig]

It’s enjoyable just to be around you 👑 👓 (Patreon)

[bitegore]

when i based Rex's features (loosely) off old pictures of my grandpa i played a really strange trick on myself because then I grew up and started looking like my one oc who i kept doing awful things to. except like, I may have kind of wanted to look like him but I've never wanted to be him so for a good like year and a half running it freaked me the fuck out to look in the mirror and see a traumatized lizardman looking back at me