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[souperluminal]

05.14 - Spire

[0xc34a]

i see a lot of fanart etc of gideon where she is drawn as a very big and tall person and like yeah, valid and cool interpretation but like. consider. perhaps gideon is mostly perceived as so big because harrow is really tiny. like these ppl have been living in basically caves for thousands of years. maybe gideon is like 5’7 but harrow is only like 4’10. maybe gideon is 5’4 and harrow is 5’2 and gideon only rlly appears huge because she swings swords and harrow is a twig. yk?

[elevenbenevolentmammoths]

ah, but see, Gideon is an inch taller than Babs, who is "not a short young man". If Babs is of average height for a man (and all we know is he isn't shorter than average, he could very well be a bit taller), Gideon would have to be significantly taller than the average woman. #babsforscale

(we can assume that Gideon is under 6' though, through doing some math around the Tridentarii)

[itsrenactually]

I would be so fucking happy if we started using Babs as a scale for everything else in the TLT universe. The size of the cavaliers? Use #babsforscale. The size of the Erebos? #babsforscale. The depth of Drearburgh? #babsforscale. How big is Varun? Well, here's #babsforscale.

[oh-jod-dammit]

#BABSFORSCALE

xD But genuinely, yeah a few things I use in addition to that bit about Babs vs Gideon and Babs vs the Tridentarii:

Colum has a whole fucking head on Ianthe (possibly give or take, this is said while they're mid combat so it could be a rough thing)

Pro is the tallest at Canaan House by a noticeable margin

Harrow struggles to touch the bottom of the pool, slipping fully under at first. Joli struggles to believe Nona is more than 14 at most, Hot Sauce (who is 14) has an easier time passing for an adult than Nona, and Harrow's compared to Jeannemary multiple times. When they dress Nona as Harrow they have to borrow clothes from "the smallest Blood of Eden member they could find" and then cinch those tight to keep them from falling off.

Muir in the tumblr post describes the twins as taller than even Palamedes, who Gideon describes as tall, though Corona has half a head on Babs "and a full head if you counted her hair" while having half a head counting her hair on Palamedes, which to me implies "half" is rough and she's only a tiny bit taller.

Ianthe has well over a head on Harrow.

Among some other bits. So absolutely these are all loose ideas for scale and you could scale them up or down, make some closer or farther apart, etc; this isn't definitive by any means. But some personal headcanons based on that info and on "hehe numbers are fun" for the fine-tuning are:

Babs - 5'8" (roughly average amab height)

Gideon - 5'9" (inch taller than Babs; hehe 9)

Harrow - 4'9" (TINY but not quite SO tiny you'd expect it to be way more emphasized; hehe 9)

Twins - 6'1" (plus ~3-4 inches of volume for Corona's hair)

Palamedes - 6'0" (so 4-5 inches "shorter" than Corona counting her hair; hehe 6)

Colum - 6'8" (7 inches taller than Ianthe; an average 'head' is 8-9 inches so still very close; hehe 8)

Pro - 7'0" (hehe 7; I also think 7'7" and built like that would be hilarious but probably pushing believability atp. xD Also Gideon describes him as "6 feet of sinew" at one point so I choose to believe that's roughly his height to the shoulder, not counting neck and head)

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The other #forscale character we have is Augustine, who's canonically 6'0" even and the only character we've directly met with a specific canon height. The fact that he's very tall is the second thing Harrow notices about him so that gives us an idea that averages haven't changed much if any over time in this universe. So just to rapidfire some more thoughts, John is noticeably shorter than Augustine even while kneeling; G1deon is described as very imposing but only via his bulk, never described as super tall; Mercy is short enough to press her face into John's chest at the end seemingly easy enough. So for the rest of the Mithraem, I like to imagine:

John - 5'8½" (still within Average; 5/8/1/2 for him and his three closest people hehe; also half an inch shorter than Gideon as a treat)

G1deon - 5'10" (barely above/upper end of average, shorter than Augustine

Mercy - 5'3" (which is dead average for afabs yet frequently perceived as "short" and I feel like it'd be fitting for her to be so eternally fucking exhausted by this)

Bonus points: Ianthe being the tallest person on the Mithraem, if only barely. Mercy having dealt with people "looking down on her" (literally) for so long and then Harrow's tiny ass comes along and rather than defend her she's like finally lmao.

[musdswo]

Just throwing out there that according to Doctor Sex, one body (the sci-fi unit of length they use sometimes) is 1.87m, which seems like a lot for an average person size. Maybe people in The Future are taller.

[ardraws]

heck, if he needed to wanted to do open heart surgery on me, I'd probably let him.

ok, Dr. Grace. heart surgery enrichment for Rocky.

[okikaguloveforever]

I'll have your signature, please.

[fabulous-gabulous-theartist]

Which twin would most likely kill a man?

Stan Pines

Ford Pines

Voting ended onJul 16

[f0xseven]

i mean. even in this gif, stan is threatening to punch the guy and ford is threatening to SHOOT HIM

[musdswo]

this is about how it's sort of implied that they wash clothes entirely by hand on the houses (using constructs) which means camilla saw a washing machine for the first time ever on new rho

[bigskycastle]

the old cistern beneath the flood control system

[milsae]

Here’s my piece for the Farewell To The Falls at Gallery Nucleus tomorrow! Hope you guys enjoy there X)

[greatsilverini]

cam :]

[eka-mark]

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for produ

Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste. As a result, males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago. The evolutionary history of this system appears as sexual parasitism that evolved into a natural case of cross-species cloning, resulting in the maintenance of a male-only lineage cloned through distinct species’ ova. We term females exhibiting this reproductive mode as xenoparous, meaning they give birth to other species as part of their life cycle.

[curlicuecal]

may I add into the fray:

Little fire ants (Wasmannia) doing something similar where the males and females are different species and there is so much sexual conflict that The females have evolved to make reproductive clone babies.  The males have evolved to wipe the female dna from eggs and make reproductive clone babies.  Basically, the male and female reproductive lines are operating in an entirely different evolutionary pool than the sterile workers, who are still made by mixing genes from both sexes.

Clonal reproduction by males and females in the little fire ant - Nature

An extreme case of sexual conflict has been unearthed in the little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata. Queens produce sterile workers by sexua

And then we have a harvester ant with Genetics that are functioning as if they have at least 3 different sexes, divided amongst colonies.

Basically, we have two variants of ants and a queen needs needs to mate with the same variant as herself to produce queens and the opposite variant to produce workers. So a queen needs to have mated with both if she wants to have a healthy colony and be able to pass on her genes to future queens. And all types of colonies need to be present in a population to keep it stable.

Functionally, it can be argued to be more like FOUR operational sexes. IT IS VERY NEAT.

The Ants with Three Sexes

While making the recent BBC Radio 4 series, Sexual Nature: A Brief Natural History of Sex , I came across some research on North Ameri

[curlicuecal]

Actually also also I feel like it's worth how ants (and bees and wasps) normally do genetics because it's also interesting

You know how humans and most sexually reproducing animals get half their genes from one parent and half from the other, resulting in two every gene? This is called diploid. (Diplo=2). The eggs and sperm have a half set of genes (one of each) and are called haploid.

But Ants-Bees-Wasps use a haplo-diploid system.

The females (queens and sterile workers) have two of every gene, 1 from each parent, and are diploid. But the males are born from underutilized eggs. They have 1 of every gene from their mom only, and are haploid.

This results in some complicated math about what percentage of genes each parent gets to pass on, but the net result is that females are more related to their own sisters (75%) than to their own offspring (50%). And thus, it is evolutionarily beneficial to remain in a large social group and raise sister-queens rather than go off and have your own daughters.

Also if you run out of sperm for some reason you can just start spamming out males

[ospreyonthemoon]

Bugs really can just do whatever

[mankillercalledbunny]

The answer to "How did these Ancient People do this????" is basically always

1. A lot of dudes. Just a ton of fucking people from beginning to end of the process.

2. Ancient people weren't stupid, they just figured shit out the same way we do: fuck around until you find out.

3. We're gonna plan this out and it's gonna take ten fucking years, and you will cope.

4. Sticks and string are surprisingly versatile and can be used for a variety of purposes, like moving stuff and making sure things are even and go in the spot you wanted to put them in!

5. I want to make this easier and more efficient to move. If I put this on the round thing and push, it will move. If I put this in water, it will move. If I get some animals and rope and have a whole bunch of them drag it, it will move. All of these things are a better option than one guy trying to pick the whole fucking thing up.

[ralfmaximus]

No safety regulations

No weekends

Child labor

Slave labor

"The king said to do it"

History does not record the stupid megaprojects that failed

[ariaste]

History absolutely does record the stupid megaprojects that failed. Here are just a few of them:

Fidenae Stadium Disaster of 27AD. A huge gladitorial stadium, built fast and cheap, collapsed and killed 20,000 people, as well as injuring many more out of the total audience of 50,000.

The Sagrada Familia was started in 1882. It is still not finished.

Mingun Pahtodawgyi was started in 1790 but a prophecy said the king who commissioned it would die when it was finished, so he stopped building it.

The Pyramid of Neferefre was never finished because Neferefre died early and his successor didn't bother.

Alai Minar was supposed to be twice the diameter and twice the height of Qutb Minar. Didn't get past the first storey, abandoned in 1316.

Bara Kaman, abandoned in 1672.

The Basilica of San Petronio was started in 1390. The main facade was never finished. In 1514, they hired a guy to construct the dome, but the pope ordered the "megalomaniac dream" halted.

Arguably every empire that has ever fallen counts as a stupid megaproject that failed.

[subversivegrrl]

@ariaste Sagrada Familia is done, as of a couple of weeks ago. At least as "done" as any building of that complexity could ever be. Maintenance must be daunting.

[ariaste]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN A COUPLE WEEKS AGO

oh my god lmao Sagrada Familia was the only one I didn't double check my info on to make sure it was accurate LMAOOOOOO oh god that's fucking hilarious. INCREDIBLE. good for her

[ariaste]

#apparently it's not like DONE done #but it's structurally done with a pseudo grand opening (via @padawanduck)

so what i'm hearing is that it's not done but they wanted the tourism of it being done, so they said "great news everybody it's done"

[musdswo]

The situation is that the building itself is done. In the plans, there was supposed to be a huge walkway with stairs leading up to it spanning several blocks.

Construction took so long that they built houses where people have been living in for at this point decades. These people would need to be evicted and the houses torn down, which is not great given the housing crisis, so the city has been in talks with the people responsible for building it. So depending on how it goes this might be as done as it gets (or they might take another decade if they do build the stairs).

tbh they don't really need the extra tourism.

[honeybee-arts]

The Apostle

[ffunny-boness]

Katara, I love her water tribe jacket

[distorted-prince]

MAG 139 - Chosen (aka the cult of the lightless flame plans a ritual)

[cbrcbbr]

gatitos…….

[kallistoi]

[image description: fanart for the locked tomb series of various characters as slightly anthropomorphized felines. in the first image, gideon, a huge muscular tiger, stands behind harrow, a black sphinx cat. both wear skull paint and look intimidating.

in the next image, jeannemary, a little tortoiseshell cat and isaac, a little tabby, climb on gideon's robe and pull off her sunglasses while she dozes.

in the last image, gideon and harrow look at something in a book that palamedes shows them, while camilla stands alongside him, sizing up gideon. palamedes and camilla are almost identical looking dark grey siamese cats. end description.]

[musdswo]

au where the third and ninth houses trade cavs for a little bit

I'm picturing a scenario where harrow loses some sort of bet with ianthe and everyone except for the tridentari twins hates it

[n00talie]

good old fashioned Locked Tomb sketch dump