#referring to initial ask

[highmoon-deepwoods]

If you wanted me to do something, as in convert her to a werewolf, she'd need to come here. i cannot travel outside of the DeepWoods these days.

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Is the gene that makes housecats black/solid the same gene that makes panthers black?

Depends on the species! Leopards have a recessive ASIP mutation just like housecats, but jaguars have a dominant MC1R mutation, the same gene that makes yellow/red variants in a lot of animals. Gain of function MC1R mutations are (co)dominant and make the animal produce more eumelanin, loss of function mutations are recessive and result in more phaeomelanin. (For ASIP, it's the opposite.)

Both genes are responsible for melanism in several felids:

ASIP: domestic cat, leopard, asian golden cat, pampas cat, kodkod

MC1R: jaguar, jaguarundi*, geoffroy's cat

*This one is interesting, because the reddish variant seems to be the original and the more common dark is the later mutation.

And the species with still unknown genetics: serval, oncilla, marbled cat, bobcat, southern tigrina, margay, jungle cat, african golden cat, african wild cat**

**Technically i think it's possible that the melanism of domestic cats is a direct heritage of the african wildcats from before domestication OR that the melanism of african wildcats is an evidence of crossbreeding with domestic cats; either way they would have the same ASIP mutation.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

i can't stress enough how this is probably like top five interactions between scott and charles for me its so silly

[X-Men Unlimited #1: "Follow The Leader"]

[galehowl]

Please tell us more about the demon lords in Aurora? Are they all alive and/or reincarnated? Do they have scars like beelzemon? Can you rank the demon lords from 1st place to 7th in madness(whos crazier because of the dark area's influence)Are they all sealed in the dark area or did they escape/broke out? Who is the leader?(In some stories Lucemon has been neutral, or Daemon and Barbamon are fighting for the leader position so they're kinda both in charge, etc)

So in short - they're the seven fallen of the ten Celestials that Huanglongmon created - the first Digimon, meant to be guardians of the nascent Digital World, a duty they carried out faithfully for thousands of years.

Most of them had different names back then, too.

Lucemon was the first one that came across what turned out to be a tiny tear in the dimensional fabric, leading to the Dark Area. After a series of events, him and the other six eventually got affected by it and turned on their creator and remaining brethren. The conflict that ensued had them nearly destroy the Digital World, but they were stopped by Huanglongmon who seemingly sacrificed themselves to close the massive rift that was engulfing the world, and banished the traitors to the Dark Area before sealing it off.

Decades turned to centuries, the Digital World healed and moved on, still watched over by the remaining two Celestials (Seraphimon and Cherubimon ) for a while, and the order of the Royal Knights. Events of the past turned into myth and legend, but all that time the fallen were slumbering in the Dark Area. A millennium later, the Rift was opened again - by humans.

They are very powerful entities, hence why they never got fully consumed by the Dark Area - they were able to not only survive in there for so long, but also created whole separate bubble dimensions around them in their slumber that they're in full control of - what humans would of course refer to as "circles of Hell" later on. As time went by, however, it did affect their bodies as well as minds, slowly warping their forms into something completely different. They are not fully stable as a result of being affected by the Area's energies for so long, and some of them consume energy from living beings to maintain their more angelic forms and to not decay, while others show permanent damage to their bodies, like Caedemon and his further evolutions when not in "energy-conserving" Child form.

And while no Digimon could ever fully control or understand the Dark Area and its chaotic energies, the Demon Lords, in a way, became part of it. What made them so dangerous wasn't just the pure power they possess when it comes to combat or damage they can do, but their connection to the Dark Area - they could open rifts and let the other dimension spill into the world, use its energy to corrupt both Digimon and humans, as well as whole locations, to name a few. Though different in power, any of them could bring about the end of both worlds if they really wanted to by unleashing the Dark Area upon them.

When Caedemon's data was analyzed, it showed that his Digicore had pretty much the same energy readings as those from the Dark Area.

Without going into too much detail here - they are also connected to the human world via the Dark Area, as that dimension serves as a sort of ( very bad ) crossroads for various other places. That is why they are associated with the concept of the Deadly Sins and embody those.

They are also able to influence humans in many ways similar to how theological demons do, and all of them exhibit an ability where they're able to tell when a human has truly bad intentions and desires.

None of them were affected by the Dark Area to the point of being "crazy", they have somewhat different opinions ( though none of them are good ) on mankind and Digimon, and a complex relationship with humans. They're ancient beings, cunning, experienced and wise in their own ways, and generally selfish. What paths they chose to follow in the end was fully their choices alone.

In the past, Lucemon was the de facto leader of the Celestials, but as they are now, none of them obey anyone, willingly at least.

At the time when the story takes place, some of them are still sealed and sleeping, while others were awakened. Lucemon and Barbamon, to name a few of those that eventually break out of the Dark Area.

They're not even the worst thing that can come out of that dimension, as everyone found out later lol.

[reanimatedgh0ul]

1 thing i would so desperately want if those 10 unused scripts were to get released or if the show was ever to come back is for ilana to get her own dedicated backstory episode like lance did

[iamyounicorn]

there is a story trying to form in my head that sounds like a perfect plot for one of those yaois you read once and never find again, which sucks because I am so bad at drawing comics bigger than one silly page

[byanyan]

saw a new doctor who like. actually took it a little more seriously and asked questions when i said that i think i'm autistic (and i answered them terribly bc i wasn't prepared and am Terrible at expressing myself the way i need to). but it still boiled down to "even if you are autistic, even if you could pull up a binder of evidence for it, i'm not qualified to diagnose you" and just continuing on with my medication, counselling, and coping tools that i'm trying to develop and use.

still better than the "well you're sitting here communicating with me so even if you are autistic it's clearly not impacting you severely" but still. kinda frustrating in a "i hate the fucking medical system" sort of way lmao,,,

[aromanticasterisms]

getting to the bottom of the new area and going oh 1. ajaw was telling the truth about what (he thinks) he was 2. so that's why he looks like that 3. did kinich go to ochkanatlan to meet him or was he set up somewhere else

[badlydrawnbabydirk]

life aint all cookies n cream lil fella.

[ Lil fella..? ]

[The cadence feels familiar, like someone you should know. The feeling is fleeting though — quickly drowned out by more important thoughts. Like what you should name this tiny creature. Maplehoof feels right. ]

[protoindoeuropean]

well what can i do if after like four rounds of corrections the article still ends up published wrong

[lesbiancolumbo]

What is the brothers sisters a reference to

a film from 2018 that no one saw and no one cares about, presumably lol

[hergrandplan]

the urge. to post chapter 4 on October 18th. for reasons only known to me. is so strong but i dont think i can let y'all wait that long (i mean i dont want to make any promises on how long it will take so it might be october 18th but im not gonna specifically wait until then if I finish it earlier)

[strawbunni-shortcake]

obv this depends on personal preference but the more talking about the sport in the fic the better imo! it makes it more immersive to me like i feel like it illustrates what the characters' priorities would be/how they would think since it IS such a big part of their lives

okay! yay 💗

but actually i really appreciate the feedback!! that's how i see it too (obv different in a non-rider au etc) especially because i really like how many quotes of riders are them trying to compare what the feeling of racing is like to something more mundane (marc & love, vale & sex) and figured that it also works in reverse. that it's such a significant part of their lives that racing must also become a reference for how they explain and internalize emotional extremes like love and lust, and desire.

[b-blushes]

Okay my powers

- tidy kitchen

- cook packed lunch ingredience DONT FORGET PEPPER

- pack bag

- try and remember. If I needed to write things or take things. Where is my brain <3

- end of the day as long as I have money phone snack drink I can make it whateverrrrrrrr! No worries no prahblem 👍

[reanimatedgh0ul]

I wonder if after Ilana learned that Lance’s father is gone in ep 6, if she would reminisce on what she said to Lance in ep 2 “Don’t you miss home too ?”. And realize that Lance, unlike her, doesn't really have a home to go back to. Or would figure out that Lance was the son of the man she attended the funeral for when she was younger. 

[paintpanic]

i (and this is no joke) love it when you make a really emotional and sad piece and then just put "he's swagless" over it. it gets a chuckle out of me every time.

It's what he deserves methinks.

Godawful Taranza under the cut.

This is my son. He has every disease.