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me finishing the first book of a published series: WHERE'S THE REST, OP
It's always
"When will fanfic writers update their stories?"
And never
"Does this fanfic writer have adequate enrichment to engage in writing behaviours?"
Fanfiction writers (Scriptor fictus) are intelligent animals who need plenty of enrichment as well as encouragement! If they're stuck in poor conditions (e.g. have studies, work, have to actually write to have something written) then they require the proper enrichment to engage in more healthy behaviours, like writing. Remember, due to poor breeding and socialisation, over half of all fanfic writers suffer from low self confidence and executive dysfunction so take care of them!
Give your fanfic writers proper care. Fanfiction writers are a life long commitment.
Similar Words, Very Different Meanings: Ravage vs Ravish
I see this spelling error in a lot of smut fics, so I thought I'd put out this helpful guide:
Ravaging is what a bear does to a deer.
Ravishing is what a bear does to a twink.
Hello! I heard tell you're a mod on the Wintersberg Discord, could I please get an invite link? My non-RE friends are tired of hearing me ramble about Feral Trash Magneto, lol.
Sorry for not getting back until now, I'm not overly active on this site. I've added some people recently, just confirming you're not already part of the server?
No worries! I am not (yet, hopefully). I'm Fallowsthorn on discord too, if you want to track me down first. :D
Writing Tag Game
Thank you @klarionthewizard for tagging me, I love this tag :D I'll send you an ask with a title from yours but I'm having such a hard time picking, they're all intriguing. Hmm.
Tag Game
RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPS.
Soooo I recently adopted a new system for my WIPs and finished writing where I put keywords in the title, inspired by the perfect system the person I'm tagging below had. Here is my WIP folder:
As you can see, a happy mix of general and naughty (hence the community label) as well as the usual suspects in pairings -- and some do not have titles yet.
I am very gently tagging @madelgard and anyone who'd like to do this -- also anyone is encouraged to send an ask for a WIP snippet, I love yapping about my WIPs.
(I am deeply fascinated by those Motti/Jerjerrod WIPS 👀 And thank you for the tag! 💖)
Ok so my WIPs folder is MASSIVE because I toss in all the fics I want to write, along with my notes on them. Some of these are therefore more developed than others. WIPs/planned fics that might be of interest:
Motti/Jerjerrod
(you can see that the lingerie fic is officially started so it has two files, one for the outline and one for the fic, but I can assure you all these files have a plethora of embarrassing notes):
Jerjerrod/Piett
Veers/Piett
Happy to share notes on any of these. I have a lot of writing to do, clearly. Maybe this will kick me in gear.
Tagging @betsybo83 @fallowsthorn @neumh
It's super funny looking at these names and remembering you talking about them on the server. I'm intrigued by that "instructor veers fantasies" one tho.
I have no organizational skills whatsoever so this is just every document I own in google drive in reverse order of modification (most recent at the top).
"pieder working doc" and "pieder" are the same thing, but docs had some problem where for whatever reason it won't let me edit the original anymore. Hence "working doc," i.e., the one that is working. "AO3 posting script" is of course not mine at all but the way it works makes docs think it is so here we are.
A couple of these aren't even wips anymore. Also I gotta remember to extract all my ad hoc fic from discord. OTL
uh god i haven't used tumblr in forever i honestly forget who i know on here. @chaos-monkeyy? @the many many spam bots I can no longer keep up with?
do you believe in bigfoot
I do believe and had an encounter (or someone I know has)
I do believe but have no encounter
I believe in the possibility but I'm not convinced
I've had an encounter with something weird in the woods but don't believe
I don't believe/no encounter
I think bigfoot is a mistaken identity alien encounter, not a natural animal
If you vote reblog explaining your beliefs (if you had an encounter DEFINITELY explain)
You know that famous video of Sasquatch turning to look at the camera and walking off? I've met the guy who sold them the gorilla costume.
All of you need to promise me you won’t convert to Catholicism because of reading my Catholicism themed gay porn
Trust me, no worries on that front.
Now, vampirism....
Bodies buried long ago lie burning still beneath the snow.
What do you say you have a look at this? Tell me what you see.
A light in the darkness.
A bearded man.
A mushroom cloud.
A head on a pillow.
Installs this mod on your post
Like I’m trying to imagine that conversation.
I.d: it’s a drawing of Count Dooku and a Kaminoan scientist talking on the phone. Dooku says that he sent over a human to be cloned. The Kaminoans asks him if he wants to make some of the clones blond. Dooku stops and glares at the phone receiver then says that no, he wants exact clones of the man and that they have ten years to do it. End of I.d.
Also let me say I’m tired of ppl reblogging this and casually being pro-eugenics in the tags. Read a goddamn history book or at least a biology book for my sanity’s sake!!
In what fucking language do I have to say this for y'all ppl to understand. The second the child doesn’t look IDENTICAL to the parent whose DNA was used. It’s NOT a clone. It’s just an offspring made in vitro. If Dolly the sheep had come out pink nobody would talk about her.
Idgaf what Filoni and Lucas did in the fucking Clone Wars and TBB. I seriously don’t. Because the ppl that helped Lucas create the prequels have the Kaminoans explicitly say that they’re proud of their work. And then we see this,
I.d: it’s a picture of the scene in star wars where all the clones sit to eat and they all look exactly like jango Fett. End of I.d.
Also it’s funnier and actually gives more depth to a character if, for example, Rex takes time out of his day as a freaking captain to bleach the hell out of his scalp. There could be a really good reason for it. Maybe he’s making fun of the New Mandalorians and it’s an inside joke. Maybe there’s something in Mandolorian history where warriors would bleach part of their hair as a sign of mourning.
Why do y'all choose the weird racist route instead of building the characters I’ll never know…
Okay, let’s talk a little about how cloning actually works. Today, irl, there are two ways to clone a mammal. The first is identical (monozygotic) twins, who are clones of each other but not the parent. Obviously that’s not what the Kaminoans did. The other way is to take an egg cell, scoop out the nucleus (eta: chromosomes, not nucleus, misspoke) (which is, if you remember your seventh-grade sex ed, only half of the genetic information needed to make a baby), and swap in the nucleus of a cell from an adult, which then trundles along happily dividing and such. HOWEVER, unless Jango has ovaries (unlikely given few to no visibly female clones, cis or otherwise), he can’t supply 100% of the clones’ DNA.
Why? It’s our old pal the mitochondria! [pause for meme] The mitochondria (mitochondrium? I’m not tabbing out, tumblr keeps eating this draft) is actually outside the nucleus, and is inherited matrilineally. It can’t be taken out during the cloning process, so by necessity the mitochondria of a clone is always from the egg donor, not the gene donor. (I suppose if Jango had any handy female relatives they could’ve used theirs, but oops, they’re all dead.)
But this is Star Wars, so let’s say the Kaminoans have some way to get around this problem. We’ve only been cloning mammals for like half a century, they’re way ahead of us. Fine. All the clones of Jango are 100% genetically identical to Jango. Now let’s talk about the difference between genotype and phenotype.
Genotype is your actual genetics, y'know, those charts with the BB and Bb that teach some poor schmuck in every class that their mom cheated because otherwise their eye color is impossible. Phenotype is how those genes express themselves physically – for instance, a random mutation that inhibits pigment production in the iris, leading to a blue-eyed child of brown-eyed parents.
(Personal anecdote: my brother has a single stripe of brown in one of his otherwise blue eyes. It’s kind of cool-looking, and also completely without precedent in our family.)
Identical twins are not, in fact, identical. They have extremely similar phenotypes, but they have different fingerprints, freckle patterns, and so on. You can’t step in the same river twice; the same thing is true of our magically-mitochondria-less clones, even accounting for a lab environment. You can see this at work in a cloned cat named CC: she has a different fur pattern than her gene and egg donor, because of whatever slight environmental variations or mutations were present during gestation.
Frankly I don’t care whether you think Rex dyes his hair or not. I think he doesn’t, just because it’s so short that unless he bleached it every day his roots would be showing, and every time I see his character model I have to remind myself he’s not bald (and where tf is anyone getting hair dye in a war zone), but you can think he does or he doesn’t or he’s secretly a shapeshifter or whatever the hell you want, no skin off my nose.
But for heaven’s sake, it’s not racist to understand science. I literally learned all of this in half an hour by Googling “are clones identical” and clicking the first reputable-looking link. By all means, there’s a fuck of a lot of racism in fandom and in Star Wars fandom in particular, and it should absolutely be called out and remedied. Phenotypical variation among literally millions of clones isn’t it.
Sources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223960/ - basic explanation of cloning from the National Institute of Health
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotype%E2%80%93phenotype_distinction - Wikipedia article on the difference between genotype and phenotype - not a source in itself but a good plain-language explanation
https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-cloning/myths-about-cloning#Myth4 - direct link to “no, clones are not identical” from the FDA
https://www.britannica.com/list/cc-the-first-cloned-cat - pictures of CC and CC Prime, also brief explanation. would’ve embedded pics but i hate mobile and i have a headache now so find em yourself
I’ll just say that googling something like you said isn’t the same as studying it.
I studied marine biology for some time. And my cousin who is actually a marine biologist specialized in cloning fish and wrote a thesis on genetic mutations.
What you said isn’t technically wrong. But there’s many different ways to clone organisms. One of them is using a person’s stem cells. Which is the method I assume the Kaminoans used.
I asked my cousin and I also asked my uncle who’s an oncology doctor but took extra course in biochemistry and microbiology (bc he deals with cells and their cancerous properties), cause I wanted to be 1000% sure. And both of them agreed that it is virtually impossible to get a blonde clone out of Jango unless it’s a case of albinism. And if it was, the Kaminoans probably wouldn’t present that person because of how proud they are of their work.
And all of that is without considering that technologies like CRISPR or mosaicism haven’t been used. But again I doubt the Kaminoans would do all that just to get different looking clones when that’s not the point of their project and would also cost them more.
It’s racism plain and simple on the side of the writers and the logic just ain’t there from the side of science.
Sorry for the delay in responding here; I’d meant to get on the desktop PC so I could paste links in without randomly losing the entire post, but then I remembered I am a disaster human and I will never get around to it, so I better just write the thing and trust y'all know how to use Google and find .edu and .gov sites and such.
(My point in mentioning Google isn’t that I am a gullible fool; it’s that it really doesn’t take much effort to understand how this works. It’s been a while since 9th grade biology, but this isn’t exactly astrophysics.)
So, I’m not 100% sure what you meant by “stem cells,” but my guess is you’re referencing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which are generally used for cloning organs, not for cloning animals/people. For reproductive cloning it still needs to be implanted in an egg cell. I admit I got a little lost in the jargon trying to figure out if it was possibly to turn an iPSC into an oocyte (egg cell) but I think the upshot is they kinda sorta got it to work but not for very long.
But again, that doesn’t matter. We’ve handwaved the Kaminoan cloning process so it’s 100% Jango’s DNA (and, presumably, a much higher success rate than we get irl, because it turns out cloning is hard and super inefficient). Your claim here is, as far as I can tell, that if a clone looks at all different to their gene donor, they don’t “count” as a clone, even if they share 100% of their genome. This is wrong even if the cloners are super-efficient eugenicists. It’s just impossible to control for every single variable in a sample size of five million.
No I am saying it is impossible to get a blond clone out of Jango. That’s been my point since day 1 of drawing that silly comic. (Unless we are talking albinism)
The clones could potentially have different types of curly hair, different colored brown eyes, different nose shapes etc etc. But to get a blond clone out of Jango you’d need genetic material from another source, therefore: blond = not a clone, but an offspring grown in vitro. Why would the Kaminoans even be interested in that.
And yeah we just call them stem cells, or cellula praecursoria. Cause you can grow anything out of them. One day perhaps even a full stable embryo. But again, Star Wars science.
The whole point of having identical looking humans in the films is to draw a parallel between the clone army and the droid army. Blond clones are the silliest thing I’ve ever seen used in a Star Wars story, and that’s compared to characters who have names worse than Biggus Dickus.
The "point" of having Jango's clones look exactly like him is that the average moviegoer doesn't understand how cloning works and thinks it's some kind of biological photocopier. As you have thoughtfully demonstrated here.
(The other "point" is probably that the writers didn't understand how cloning works, but that's a problem with most of Star Wars.)
(The other other point is that it's simpler and cheaper to digitally copy and paste Temuera Morrison fifty times over than to spend dozens of hours animating tiny differences in facial features that most people won't pick up on anyway because it's a crowd scene or the shot isn't very long or they're just bad at telling faces apart (hi).)
You seem to be under the impression that the Kaminoans would have had to deliberately induce changes to Jango's DNA. In real life the reverse is true--they would have had to monitor each embryo constantly and cull the ones with any sort of mutation at any stage of development, which would be hideously expensive and a waste of resources at the very least. (Granted, some mutations are things like "organs grow on wrong side of chest cavity" or "skull too small for brain." Those are usually incompatible with life regardless. Do not google "parasitic twin" either.) At that point caring about a purely cosmetic mutation is just silly.
What's ironic is I can think of a reason Sidious (who was ultimately the one who ordered the clones, using Dooku as a proxy) would want them to be as identical as possible: to dehumanize them. Or de...sapient...ize... them, I guess. Same reason stormtrooper helmets cover their faces. Sith thrive on misery; making the clones the face of the war connects the two indelibly in the minds of the general public. By promoting uniformity, Sidious all but guarantees that the clones will never be mistaken for anyone, or anything, else, especially once Jango is dead. They have no chance to escape the role they've been forced into because no matter what they wear or do, unless they cover or dramatically alter their faces, everyone will look at them and immediately think, "oh, a clone."
Arla looking white is fucking stupid though. Smh, comics coloring person. Creative license revoked.
You guys I just found out about this guy who made 3D printable files for adapters for game controllers to allow them to be used one handed! It’s so clever and easy and accessible, unlike other adaptive controllers. It just snaps onto a regular controller. The way the stick is controlled is damn genius. So much easier than trying to use your feet like other systems.
A friend is using one due to a stroke and as someone with problems from arthritis, this is so great to see, in case I get to the point I really can’t use my right hand.
Please share and give this guy some love, cause this is awesome.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tiaan Jerjerrod/Conan Antonio Motti Characters: Tiaan Jerjerrod, Conan Antonio Motti Additional Tags: Wingfic, Light Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Unreliable Narrator, mild body dysphoria, Dom/sub Undertones, Mild Internalized Homophobia and/or Obliviousness it's not totally clear, Idiots in Love, Internalized Speciesism, amateur physiotherapy as inept flirting, simultaneously less porn and more kink than I originally intended, Alien Biology, Subspace, Self-Esteem Issues Summary:
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noun:
the outer part of a bird's wing including the flight feathers.
verb:
to tie or hold down the limbs of a person.
to cut off the wing of a bird to prevent flight.
The Jerjerrods are proud of their human ancestry.
fun prank idea: wish people a "happy new year, if you celebrate it"
if cats aren't meant to be kissed on their heads then what's that little space between their ears for
my last game is actually overwatch haha… wbu?
Autonauts, so... no physical needs, no time limit, and endless robots to program to do my bidding. Hell, screw the million dollars, I'd just stay there.
I've had the dreadful realisation that Bofa Deeznuts is actually a *fantastic* Star Wars name.
OH NO. Of course. He's a Jizz musician.
Gomez Addams, businessman
Does anyone else think about how Gomez Addams told Tully Alford (The Addams Family 1991) --
"Old business is old business, and new business is new business, and we do not discuss new business until... [page flip on calendar] next quarter."
Gomez demands business boundaries.
“Too late, that’s old business already.”
Gomez Addams as Groucho Marx's [characters'] nephew-or-other-extended-relative is simultaneously complete nonsense and 100% accurate. Headcanon accepted.