Mum said itâs my turn to make a ROTTMNT separated turtles AU!
I wonder where everyone ended up?âŠ
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Mikey Donnie Leo Raph
Hmmm,,,,, I wonder what I should call it⊠Feel free to comment suggestions! Also should note I donât see this becoming a long form comic and more so smaller comics and asks ;)))
Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers
Tumblr is the website where you ramble to yourself like a madman until someone decides they like you and put you into their pocket like a shiny rock. That's how you get followers
"have some idea of content you want to do", "have lots of drafts before posting" - no, silly, just post whatever comes to your mind at 2 AM. the best thing about tumblr is that you can start rambling about some obscure background character from a 3000 year old poem, and there'll always be someone equally invested
this is NOT about not being productive, i cannot believe how many people in the notes are telling me that pursuing hobbies isn't a waste of time i KNOW that. what i mean by "complete and utter inaction" is doing nothing. not only am i not being productive or pursuing any goals, i'm also not doing any of the myriad things i know would bring me joy. i'm not doing hobbies, i'm not hanging out with friends, i'm just sitting around rotting away for no discernible reason
Okay listen, literally no one cares about this AU, but I'm gonna keep posting about it and no one can stop me <3
(You can find the previous post about this here, in case someone decides they want to find out more abt this au)
Okay, so, in the Last post, I talked about how the barrier caused the magic to vanish from the Surface, but the opposite is true for the Underground.
Because of the way the Barrier was designed, it could siphon Magic from the surface to keep itself powered, but it's impossible for it to siphon magic from whatever its containing.
So any magic the Monsters naturally emit stagnates within the Underground, oversaturating the air with it, and affecting the way pokemon inside of it adapted.
The reason the pokemon had to adapt in the first place was scarcity.
When the Monsters were locked underground, there was barely enough food for the monsters to survive, to the point they had to switch to a almost exclusively Magic food based diet.
This also means that whatever pokemon were locked away alongside the Monsters (Monsters' partner pokemon, partners of deceased Monsters that were deemed too dangerous to jeep on the surface, and wild pokemon that were unlucky enough to be too close when the barrier went up/already living in the cave) didn't have enough food to survive off of, forcing them to adapt or starve.
(A 'quick' side tangent for how Magic works in this au, because Monsters living off of magic food, and using magic to create said food makes no sense, that's like a perpetual motion machine.
So, the way it works in this au, is basically that there's 2 versions of Magic, there's Magic that makes up the Monster's body & soul (phisical magic), and there's the magic used to create magic attacks and the like. (White magic)
When a Monster consumes physical food (non-magic food) they'll break it down into physical magic to use as energy. Whatever can't be turned into physical magic gets turned into white magic. A monster has a limited reserve of White magic to use in battle, and anything that would push them over capacity on that is safely expelled as the magic that used to saturate the air.
Magic food is essentially a way to reclaim White magic, and get more Physical magic out of it. (Kinda like how cooking Vegetables makes it easier for your body to break them down) it's typically, but not always, made by using a pre-existing base (like a tomato, for example) and using the ambient White magic to turn it into a dish (like a pasta sauce).
Idk if this made any sense, but it's kinda important for some lore, so back to the Pokemon.)
I have quite a few regional variants, and reasons behind these changes, I'll give the pokemon, their typing, and a bit of their lore in no particular order:
Solosilt -> Geosion -> Reunicrust. Rock/Fairy type. A convergent evolution of the Reuniclus line, found in the Ruins
As the First home the Monsters had in the underground, the Ruins are the single most magic-dense location in the Underground, aside from the CORE. That amount of magic tends to cause strange things to happen, Like causing rocks to come alive, for example.
Litwick -> Lampent -> Chandelure. Fairy/Fire type. Found lingering around Monster settlements.
Unlike its counterparts on the Surface, The Underground variant of Chandelure wasn't forced to find a new food source, since magic is abundant in the Underground. It tends to haunt magic-dense areas, which is often around Monster settlements, to feed off of the ambient magic.
Snivy -> Servine -> Serperior. Ice/ghost type. found in the forests of Snowdin, near Waterfall's border.
The Underground is perhaps the single worst habitat choice for a normal Snivy. there's no light for them to photosynthesize, Hotland will burn them, Waterfall will drown them and Snowdin will freeze them. The only place they could sort-of survive was the border between Waterfall and Snowdin, but a sudden shift in Waterfall's water flow caused their small habitat to be frozen over in an instant. Luckily for them, the ambient magic managed to revive them as a new regional variant.
Tepig -> Pignite, Dark type -> Emboar Dark/Fairy type. found near the darkening Lantern room.
in the early days of the Underground, it was far less habitable. (it's why the Monsters settled all the way in the Ruins) Hotland in particular was borderline inhospitable, even for a fire type like Tepig, although the other areas weren't much better. eventually they found these magic glowing crystals they learned to siphon magic from, a technique that turned them into Dark types. When they evolve into Emboar, they learn to take in ambient magic on their own instead of siphoning it from objects and living beings.
Oshawott -> Dewott -> Samurott, Steel type. Found in hotlands.
A later addition to the pokemon in the Underground. They're essentially just metallic versions of the original pokemon (think a Samurott line Paradox pokemon) and they're often found around large mechanic structures. It is unclear whether these pokemon actually evolved from regular Oshawott, or if someone built them in their image. No one seems tto be able to recall when they first showed up, either. SÌŽÍÍtÌ·Ì̱rÌŽÌŸÌaÌŽÍÌąnÌ”ÍÌźgÌ”ÌÍeÌ·ÍÌ.ÌžÌÌȘ They seem to be able to reproduce and evolve like regular pokemon though, so it's probably thee former option.
Dreepy -> Drakloak -> Dragapult. Water/Dragon type. found in the glowing water room.
Back in prehistoric times, there must have been Dreepy that lived nearby, because various of their fossils were at the bottom of some of Waterfall's lakes. during an early experiment to destroy the Barrier, a violent magic surge tore through the Underground, which must have caused the fossils to be revived. they're oppurtunistic predators, eating anything they can fit into their mouths, including small Monsters foolish enough to swim in their lake.
Skrelp, Grass/water -> Dragalge, Grass/Fairy type. found near bridge flowers.
At some point a poacher lost their shipment of skrelp when the pokemon were carried away by the river's current, straight into the underground. Removed from their natural habitat, and now in fresh water, Skrelp evolved to mimic Bridge seeds instead, as it adapted to the fresh water it now lives in. Dragalge, like many pokemon in the underground, gained its fairy typing from Ambient magic.
Purrloin Electric -> Liepard, Electric/steel type. found in the Core.
A small population of Purrloin was unlucky enough to be trapped in the core when its power surged, vaporizing their bodies and turning them into beings made of electricity. these unstable kittens spend most of their life seeking out metals in the hopes of building a body for themselves before they lose their charge. If successful, they evolve into Liepard.
Joltik -> Galvantula, Electric/Fairy type. Muffet's little helpers.
a colony of lost Joltik wandered into the Underground in search of electricity to eat. They were lucky enough to find the Core. Constant feeding on the magical electricity has turned them into a fairy type.
Houndour -> Houndoom, Ghost/Fire, OR Houndall, Ghost/Ice. found in snowdin forest.
Like many species that were trapped underground with monsters, Houndour was starving to death. its dark typing allowed it to siphon small amounts of magic from the air, but it wasn't enough to save it as it was. As a ghost type however, Houndour requires much less energy to survive. When Houndour evolves, its energy needs suddenly becomes much greater, this often causes freshly evolved Houndoom and Houndall to go into a hungered frenzy, attacking anything nearby to satiate its hunger. whether it evolves into Houndoom or Houndall is dependant on its nature. (split the same way as Toxtricity, with Amped up -> Houndoom, and Low-key -> Houndall.)
Pawniard -> Bisharp, Water/Fighting. found in Waterfall.
back when the Barrier had just been put in place, there were very few consistent food sources for the Pokemon, and they were practically nonexistent for the predators. The only place that still had some access to the Surface were the rivers in Waterfall, and fish pokemon often swam through them. this created a huge territory war between the carnivorous species, with the biggest stand-off being between Bisharp and Lucario. in the end, Bisharp won, claiming Waterfall as their territory. they evolved into Water types to better hunt their new prey.
but the rivalry between Bisharp and Lucario didn't end here. When Underground Riolu are about to evolve, they travel through Waterfall to hotland, and fight any Pawniard they come across on the way. to better defend themselves against these attacks, they became fighting types. over time, Bisharp even formed a symbiotic relationship with Monsters. the Bisharp keep monsters safe from Lucario, while monsters protect the Bisharp breeding grounds.
Riolu Dark/Ice -> Lucario Dark/Steel. Riolu are only found in Snowdin forests, while Lucario can be found all over the Underground.
After losing their chance at a food source, Lucario started becoming desperate. They lost their natural aura affinity in favour of the ability to siphon magic, but it wasn't enough, Lucario couldn't properly process White ambient magic. But what they could process was the physical magic that makes up a monster, so in desperation, they started scavenging the dust from Monster funerals, and when that wasn't enough, they started hunting Monsters directly. Due to how widespread they are, it's highly inadviaeable to travel through the underground alone, it's especially dangerous to wander the Snowdin forests during Lucario breeding season, to the point travelling in Duos, both with a pokemon, is all but mandatory.
(look, I wanted a proper predator pokemon, that posed a danger to monsters, and the 180 twist from heroic to incredibly dangerous pokemon out of desperation was too enticing for me to resist.)
Terrakion Fighting/Ice, Virizion Fighting/fire, Cobalion Fighting/Electric, and Keldeo, Fighting/Fairy (Resolute form Fighting/Dark)
The swords of Justice were always closely connected and trusted pokemon of the Dreemurr family. when the war broke out, they fought by the Monsters' side, and the humans hunted them to near extinction for it. a few of them were lucky enough to survive in the underground, while a small population managed to hide on the surface, their typings changing to better hide within nature as their numbers dwindled. the Swords of Justice on the Surface are the endlings for their species.
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnât care which VPN you use, only that itâs still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows âsurveillance softwareâ.
Two things back that up:
Thereâs no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleâs advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidâs works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereâs activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: âItâs impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].â Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.
Historically the Greeks (very broad version of that term) have indeed had a lot of military victories but itâs never not funny when they go âpfft what they canât do anything theyâre just barbariansâ and then immediately get punched into next Tuesday
Personally I think that the Ancient Greeks had to invent the concept of hubris in an attempt to stop themselves from getting so full of themselves that they ran directly into a wall but it never worked
To this day a lot of Greeks are made uncomfortable by the idea that ancient Macedonia wasnât Greek until they just kind of elbowed their way in there without much permission for a variety of reasons but one of those reasons is definitely that Phil and his son Big Alex kind of werenât Greek and it was another instance of them going âbarbarians? Conquering us? Yeah rightâ and then immediately having a piano dropped on their heads.
Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:
[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?
A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies donât examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the diseaseâbut if you donât study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.
Q: Why did you need to be the victim?
A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didnât put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]
From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites
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