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sloppy thing again
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given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
Happy BBAU Pride Month! Alex stopped by to see Joe during this very special month. 🦖💨
(I only made this artwork to celebrate Pride Month, I'm still on leave.)
design by @lesbianbladder fem principal! done as an art trade lalalalallalaaaaaa
dialtown objecthead speculative biology overview
*These diagrams don't show everything- assorted facial muscles, vessels, fat layers, and other miscellaneous bits have been omitted for clarity. There's very little by way of empty space.
1. skull The post-Dialup objecthead's skull is heavily modified from those of before the Dialup, see fig. 2 for more information. The orbits, nares, and foramen magnum serve as ports for organic nerves, inorganic wires, blends of the two, and blood vessels to enter and exit the organic brain.
2. digital brain Part of the brain has been digitized. Processing and data storage are suspended in a non-conductive, organic oil produced by the body. The surface of the drive is heavily vascularized, serving as a natural liquid coolant system.
3-5. trachea, air filter, and nasal cavity The trachea is covered by an air filter to keep particulate out of the lungs. The filter is inaccessible through normal means, and is cleaned by a set of digestive enzymes. Serious clogging may need to be rectified with surgery.
6. dermis A thin, skin-like layer houses vessels and nerves and provides feeling to the head shell, similar to feeling your fingernail being touched. Helps water resistance, but does not ensure waterproofing of the head- the shell must be waterproofed. This skin layer can regrow after being damaged- such as in the case of a head shell swap surgery. Those recovering from swapping their head shell generally have little-to-no feeling in their head for up to a year afterwards as the nerves regrow.
7-9. eating slot, liquid tube, and mouth cavity The eating slot is the opening leading to the mouth- typically has a sliding door that opens and shuts voluntarily. The slot faces either forwards or downwards, making ingestion of liquids through the slot difficult for some. To compensate, many models have a separate, nearby port to insert straws which can provide suction into the mouth. A similar attachment is used to allow newborns to nurse. The mouth cavity "chews" food into tiny sizes using grinding metal surfaces, preventing blockages and choking. These grinders are surrounded by metal to avoid flesh getting caught. Prior to the grinders, fleshy "cheeks" covered in tastebuds with connected salivary glands move food to the back of the throat, while allowing a sense of taste & saliva introduction. The complete separation of the food and air intakes make deaths by food asphyxiation essentially non-existent.
10. mechanical phone elements Machinery allows for the function of the object head (phone calls, printing, etc.), and entirely depends on the model. Many rotary phone models based on Crown Mechanics' original designs retain older-style mechanics such as metal ringers alongside newer developments.
11. optical sensors (shown in a separate illustration for clarity- they rest near the surface and would obscure the other parts) Essentially little cameras, the nerve-wires of which enter directly through the cranium's orbits. Optical sensors, like organic eyes, often have problems with focus. Like glasses, small corrective lenses can be placed over sensors, often by a dentist. Entire sensors are extremely costly & risky to replace, so it is rarely done.
12-15. vocal chamber, larynx, receiver trachea, and billows Organic vocal chords that lead to a fleshy air chamber which is precisely manipulated by a series of constrictive muscular rings and mechanical pistons, emulating the speech-making ability of a tongue and lips. In phone-heads, this is often placed in the receiver. In heads which do not have a separate receiver, the vocal apparatus is often attached to the breathing apparatus, and thus do not require the mechanical billows which bring air into the receiver to power speech.
16. aural microphones Also often placed in the receiver in phone-heads, two microphones (one on each side) which transmits sound data to the digital brain, whether wired or wirelessly.
In modern, post-Dialup objectheads, these many elements can be arranged in near infinite ways to fit into a near infinite variety of object heads. These parts were intentionally designed by Crown to be highly customizable, to allow for this variety.
The post-Dialup skull is heavily modified. The mandible is entirely absent, and the skull itself is compact & rectangular, allowing it to fit into a variety of head shapes in a variety of compositions. Being so compact & further protected by the object's outer shell, the skull is especially tough. No eyes or teeth are present.
As it is so much smaller, the size of the organic brain is heavily reduced. This is made up for with a far higher neuronal density (allowing more brain power in a smaller space), and relegating part of the brain's processing function to the digital brain. This can, however, lead to vulnerabilities inherent to digital media.
Those who had their heads surgically replaced prior to the Dialup, of course, do not have the modified skull shape. instead, their original skull still resides in their head, with the lower jaw and assorted extremities removed and replaced with mechanical versions, such as the eyes. This means that pre-Dialup objectheads are necessarily large in order to accommodate the skull's size. Modern objectheads allow for far smaller and narrower heads.
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i've been working on this. for AGES. i've had this in the works for so long and it's gone through SO many iterations (some of which you may have seen) and it's finally done and i'm very very proud of how that first illustration came out in particular. i have other assorted bits and bobs to say about the subject but this is the vast majority, and i think the most interesting parts. i hope you enjoy my scary headcanons
theoryslop. you only believe in it because it has evidence supported by and relating to the narrative and themes of the work
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old little doodles of baldi characters i did a while back for a "which baldis character would i pair you up with" for friends
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grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)
rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it
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hey dogman, im a huge fan of dialtown and i’ve been thinking about callum and the whole answering machine head wipe thing. since his memory is presumably mechanical then is it possible its using magnetic tape like real life old telephones, and that frequently accessed/rewound memories get imprinted deeper over time, wouldn’t a single accidental button press probably not fully erase everything? and even with the technology of that era (presumably late 60s-70s if my memory is right) you could theoretically recover residual magnetic signals by running the tape back at really high amplification so is there any chance his oldest/most important memories are still in there, faint and recoverable as more than pseudo-dementia?
You're thinking along the right lines. The problem is Crown's situation isn't quite like Norm's wording would have you believe. The only person in-universe who could summarize the exact issue is Mingus - or anyone who's aware of what the experts she hired in a bid to fix his memory realized.
Basically, Norm got the gist of it, but like everything else he said, he's missing tons of vital information.
Crown was fascinated with cryptography. He loved mechanical puzzles, language and was predisposed to 'us against the whole world' paranoia, so naturally, ciphers appealed massively to him. While he worked with Milt, he often wrote memos in code to him. They became increasingly elaborate and Crown began to depend on them more as a way to feel safe... To the point where he began having important conversations with Milt entirely through ciphered text.
But, he was always concerned about having vital information tortured out of him by his enemies, especially since he was keenly aware of project MK-Ultra. Even if he resisted torture, scopolamine might've done the trick. I could go into a whole tangent about that drug and what it's used for today, but the long and short of it was - Crown was terrified of losing his mind or becoming delirious and cracking under pressure.
A common problem with designing an impenetrable lock that one (and only one person) can easily open is that inevitably - if someone wants to open it badly enough, they can simply pull a gun on the person who knows how to open it.
Crown couldn't stand the thought of his wife being targeted and possibly tortured - so he told her gradually less and less about his overall plans with time, which naturally degraded their relationship and made her feel as though Milt was supplanting her role in Crown's life. Deep down, he feared that he couldn't stand up to torture, given that he was not tested by war - unlike Milt. Milt, he thought, was the strongest and most trustworthy person he knew.
So, instead, he built a complex, incomprehensible memory storage mechanism within his own head, one that involved complex spinning belts spinning in different directions.
To summarize it briefly, data is stored in a basically unreadable format. You could imagine it like each 'memory belt' is encrypted with multiple complex overlapping ciphers, which can only be decrypted on the fly by the belts hitting different sensors in a specific order. Data is fragmented. When Crown's memory erasure button is pressed, the belts begin spinning quickly in the wrong order - this prevents memory from being read correctly.
The memory on the belts wasn't erased at all. The mechanism that reads the data was simply miscalibrated. Of course, the challenge to 'fixing' Crown's memory is basically that you'd have to deconstruct his head to figure out how he built it - which Crown would not survive. With Milt (secretly) being the only person to have the code, the idea was that if Crown felt threatened, he could press the button and Milt could use the recovery code to restore his memory - assuming Crown was still alive.
So, it's not that his memory was wiped per se, it's that he locked himself inside a safe and the only person he gave the key to is now gone.
Fun fact: this mechanism also explains why Crown occasionally becomes lucid. It's why he spends most of the day catatonic, have fleeting access to long term/important memories and then very occasionally becomes semi lucid/aware. This represents when the spinning belts become briefly aligned enough that a memory is read - but it doesn't stick, of course, as it gets recycled back into the spinning system.
There is one notable detail about the system that I've been sitting on for about 6 years. But, that's a story for another day.
I wrote a short story years ago about one of Mingus' attempts to get the mechanism fixed, this time using God. It's old and somewhat clunkily worded, but if you're curious to see some in-universe discussion of the system, this may do the trick.