youth culture killed my dog

will, 19, he/him evil side blog is @ratsoddities

[hollowboobtheory]

gonna start saying “you couldn’t make x movie today” but for reasons unrelated to political correctness

[hollowboobtheory]

you couldn’t make Home Alone 2: Lost in New York today because the strict airport regulations put into place after 9/11 make it nigh impossible for a child to simply walk onto the wrong plane

[jaoxn]

You couldn’t make American psycho today because Christian Bale would actually kill Jared Leto for real

[directdogman]

Oh, right, it's June!

My inbox is inundated with asks wondering what Gay Randy©'s been up to. I actually slept in yesterday and forgot to make my usual post. Whoops. I'm sure Gay Randy© would love to know he was missed so badly, though! Happy Pride, everyone!

[ratsobscurities]

hi. selfship slop

[irradiatedsnakes]

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

[inkatesbush]

they're saying spending 2 hours in the word doc changing words slightly to be more specific and evocative and moving endless commas around is one of the most noble and respected things that you can do

[keennachotraveler]

I like olivers norm cosplay a lot... had to draw

[cuscuzeater]

squeezes his head (im talking about the gnome, i cannot squeeze literal plastico its not soft.)

[pigswithwings]

wtf are borders anyway. like yeah u were born on this beautiful earth buuuuut 😊 u cant go here. or here either

[walk-up-songs]

A forever banger from da share zone

[courtesycalling]

[maxadieu-art]

how we feelin' chat

[hollowboobtheory]

if you are a game designer and you force me to kill wolves AND you have them make sad puppy noises I'm killing you

[choicelessflope]

see this never happens in spider solitaire for windows

[clowngirlpony]

Think again

[memories-of-ancients]

Drinking horn with gilded copper mounts, Europe, 15th century

from The Hunt Museum, Limerick

[tarvek-sturmvoraus]

[localxenospores]

i was compelled

[beastoftheblackhole]

I was also compelled

[ciicadidae]

oliverrrrrrrrrr

[directdogman]

[orteil42]

90% of google search ai summaries feel like this guy leaning uncomfortably over your shoulder and pointing at stuff on your screen reading out the exact same text you're already looking at

[biocrafthero]

The Tolling of the Bell compilation

[pinepinetree]

dialtown then:

gingi: randy can you help me lay my eggs at the funfair

randy: wonderful idea gingi!

dialtown now:

gingi: randy can you help me lay my pride flags at the pride parade

randthey: actually i prefer to be called randthey now