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The Doc - XeloX
photo by Magdalena Kozioł
Boris Karloff in a scene from The Man They Couldn’t Hang.
Doctor Radium, I presume?
One of the original mad scientists, Rotwang from Metropolis (1927), with Maria, perhaps the original woman in a glass tube.
Animated gifs by http://theowlswalkwithme.tumblr.com .
Nikola Tesla (10/07/1856 - 07/01/1943)
Scene from the Fleischer Superman cartoon Mad Scientist, 1941
The most gloriously complicated and dramatically-lit lie detector ever! (Doctor X, 1932)
(Really getting a kick out of making perfectly looped gifs here)
Carry on Screaming . ‘66 . imdb
6 ways to boost killer robot productivity
Killer robots are expensive to build and not cheap to operate. Whether you arm them with hydraulic battering rams or with zixtrix-fueled time travel temporal displacement carapaces, continual maintenance is a integral part of professional villainy.
Here are 6 ways to boost killer robot productivity:
Wash with slightly acidic water, followed by an alkaline rinse to neutralize.
Check the oil, changing every 10,000 miles or 2 years, whichever comes first.
Remove debris from feet, tractor treads, or whatever method of locomotion they employ.
Install a spare fuel tank. Ensure both it and the main tank are topped off before beginning a mission.
Defrag the hard drive every six months and report issues to your IT department immediately.
And, just like your home computer, turn it off and on once in a while to keep the systems fresh.
BONUS: Change the air freshener regularly.
With some tender loving care, your killer robots will last you a lifetime.
workshop ready! More photos 1:35 diorama found my blog http://makingscalemodels.blogspot.fi/2016/10/workshop-ready.html
A street artist named Plastic Jesus built a miniature wall around Donald Trump’s walk of fame star, complete with little signs and tiny barbed wire. Yes I give this 6 out of 5 stars Well done Source
Miniature boat model
This awesome thing is for a music video
Artist Creates Incredibly Tiny Floating Worlds Inside Glass Test Tubes
These are so small!!!
Peacock spiders celebrate Christmas. [full video]
can we take a moment to just think about how incredibly scary magical healing is in-context?
You get your insides ripped open but your friend waves his hands and your flesh just pulls back together, agony and evisceration pulling back to a ‘kinda hurts’ level of pain and you’re physically whole, with the 100% expectation that you’ll get back up and keep fighting whatever it was that struck you down the first time.
You break your arm after falling somewhere and after you’re healed instead of looking for ‘another way around’ everybody just looks at you and goes “okay try again”.
You’ve been fighting for hours, you’re hungry, thirsty, bleeding, crying from exhaustion, and a hand-wave happens and only two of those things go away. you’re still hungry, you’re still weak from thirst, but the handwave means you have ‘no excuse’ to stop.
You act out aggressively maybe punch a wall or gnash your teeth or hit your head on something and it’s hand-waved because it’s ‘such a small injury you probably can’t even feel it anymore’ but the point was that you felt it at all?
Your pain literally means nothing because as long as you’re not bleeding you’re not injured, right? Here drink this potion and who cares about the emotional exhaustion of that butchered village, why are you so reserved in camp don’t you think it’s fun retelling that time you fell through a burning building and with a hand-wave you got back up again and ran out with those two kids and their dog?
Older warriors who get a shiver around magic-users not because of the whole ‘fireball’ thing but the ‘I don’t know what a normal pain tolerance is anymore’ effect of too much healing. Permanent paralysis and loss of sensation in limbs is pretty much a given in the later years of any fighter’s life. Did I have a stroke or did the mage just heal too hard and now this side of my face doesn’t work? No i’m not dead from the dragon’s claws but I can’t even bend my torso anymore because of how the scar tissue grew out of me like a vine.
Magical healing is great and keeps casualties down.
But man.
That stuff is scary.
shit just got creepy
Fucking magical capitalists I swear
This is life with chronic pain.
I!!! AM GOING TO RESPOND TO THIS!
Some other people in the notes have started calling this post ableist because it makes “the ability to cure anything into something bad” when no no no that’s not the point. This right here, what @lunafluction said, is the point.
Like that is literally no-joke the point.
This is not a post about treating chronic pain or illness or disease or disability (but I would be SO PSYCHED to discuss that), it’s a post about perpetuating and ignoring chronic pain and the psychological effects.
Real world: think about caffeine pills. if you’re in a life-or-death situation popping a couple (more than you should) caffeine pills will save your life, but abusing and over-relying on the medication is a bad thing.
Magical world: instead of pills it’s magic, and instead of you making the choice or being compelled by your situation to make it, you have someone else doing it for you.
The original post, because I was writing a scene where magical healing was being abused, specifically treats the over-use of magic as abuse. That’s because of the headspace I was in and I got a lot of really creepy but thought-provoking vibes from it and wanted to share.
This post literally paints the magical “hand-waving” healer as someone who dismisses the negative effects of their actions by pointing out the immediate positive result. Anyone with Chronic Pain SHOULD IMMEDIATELY GET THE CREEPS FROM THIS because holy shit the side effects of long-term pain medications?? But the immediate situation is horrible too?? So?? Organ damage in 3 years or inability to walk pick your poison.
Whether the author/artist/whoever who takes this idea and goes with it can decide what the moral lesson or lean will be. For myself and the project that spawned this thought-blerb it wasn’t the healer making the call but the person who was above him in rank and unwilling to listen to “this will absolutely hurt and cause the patient pain and will only MAYBE help them”. My Healer was concerned about his patient and doing what was best for the person who was injured, but what if you just have an abusive, cocky, ‘Holier (and smarter!) Than Thou’ Healer who doesn’t give a crap as long as no one is technically dead at the end of the fight?
This post was very much aimed at combat-heavy, sudden-violent-encounter video-game magic/damage/healing situations. You’re healing eviscerated torsos, sticking limbs back on people, manhandling bones back into place and then slap-dashing the spell to make the bone not-be-broken anymore. Because the trauma is so IMMEDIATE a lot of people will go ahead and take the risk because "crooked leg” is better than “no leg”.
This post is about asking who is it that a professional adventurer/fighter goes to, who they can talk to, how they can even open up about, the difficulties of having that crooked leg. The hollow feeling of being used and told to suck it up and keep doing what you do even if your body hurts even if your body is no longer “injured”.
This post is about chronic pain and how magic or no magic you can’t just ‘hand-wave’ away the trauma of physical, emotional, or psychological injury.
ahhhh wow thank you for this response!!!! Like truly your post is one of the most useful things I’ve ever encountered for verbalizing my experiences with chronic pain and I wasn’t sure where you were coming from (although I have been really wary of some of the additions on the post that seemed to increasingly lack awareness).
I definitely had an immediate, visceral reaction because what an efficient way to conceptualize not only medical abuse, but the horror that is living with chronic illnesses and how treatment can never remove the trauma of having experienced pain. I’m so so grateful for this.
Man apparently I can’t cut this post so people’re gonna have to see the whole monster thing over and over again (sorry!) but.
My mom has Chronic Pain and several other conditions that all intersect and fuck with each other like this hateful mariachi band of ‘lets make sure we all conflict with each other!’. Every pill she takes has an explicit and well understood purpose, but some treat a main issue and others a secondary issue (from the intersection) and others treat the side-effects and then the side-effects of the side-effects. And she’s been on her drug routines for so long now that she’s built up immunity to drug after drug after drug and her medications become stronger and stronger and stronger.
The warrior loses sensation in his face my mom has issues with her kidneys now like. It’s not as big a stretch as we might like to think.
Some people use fantasy as escapism and I GET THAT. THAT IS SO VALID. PLEASE DO CREATE AND USE FANTASY IN A WAY THAT HELPS YOU PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO THIS IS A CONCEPT I WROTE NOT A LAW NOT A THING ANYONE HAS TO DO.
But I’m frustrated. Me. in my life. I’m frustrated.
it’s not my pain, no, but it’s my mother. My mommy. And there just isn’t any healthy way to tell someone with suicidal depression that “seeing you suffer upsets and hurts me” because WOW. THAT’S NOT OKAY. I WOULD PUNCH MYSELF. It’s simply not a feasible discussion that we can ever have because even if *I* would feel better the nature of depression is to take small bad things and make them huge overwhelming bad things. Diseases are DISEASES for a reason.
So yeah, I’m gonna write about the Good Healer in a context where Bad Healers are a thing, because I need to know and trust that my mother’s doctors are Good Doctors because we all know there are Bad Doctors out there. I’m gonna put “chronic pain” vs. “instant death” on the page because you know what sometimes a shock perspective helps in the short term, and then I as an author get to take my injured and treated character and walk through their recovery (or adjustment phase) and get some release from that.
I don’t want to hand-wave every little bad thing away because I’m not in a situation myself where that’s possible. I want to write characters who are going through similar but worse situations so that I can shore up my own strength.
As for those other posts, I’ll admit I liked the “am I so different from this lich I’m fighting?” aspect but I think that person and I had different motivations behind our enthusiasm. For me it’s just an extension of the “Bad Healer”’s abuse and control. It becomes an institutionalized system of traumatized and desensitized “soldiers” doing blah blah blah and as a world-building feature in a story I can get in with that. But just. “Pain makes us human” like nah, man, nah, paralysis and sensation loss are scary. Why tf do you think diabetes scares people?? “Haha you had a stroke ur face is funny”????
I’m glad you liked my post and I’m glad I could clarify my point behind it. I would have answered the other ones but idk when those posts/people were online, versus you who I saw pop up and had an “AHA!” moment.
I’m cool to keep talking about this though. I’m so curious how physiotherapy and prosthetics and emotional therapy and restorative practices would work in a fantasy setting. How cultures treat healing vs. medicine or combine them or rank them or judge them and man. Like. How severe is malpractice for an apothecary who almost poisons someone if the Healer in the next cottage can purge poison with magic?
So cool. So cool.