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so I wrote the thing https://archiveofourown.org/works/57928036
DUDE ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THIS ROCKS!!! U GOT EM DOWN TO A SCIENCE AND SCOUT'S SO SWEET 😭😭 I HAVENT IMAGINED ANY SMUT WITH SPMM SNIPER BUT YOU'VE OPENED MY EYES LMFAO
(For anyone who doesn't wanna copy and paste, here's a quick link!)
Is there any aspect of how magic works in Monstrous Intent that you've wanted to share, but haven't figured out the opportunity for?
Absolutely loved To The Limit, btw 😁👍❤️❤️
Ooh, yes, actually!
It should be pretty obvious that I lowkey crib a little from 2e and 3e D&D for some things, particularly spell schools. 2e in particular what with healing being classified as necromancy. (I cut my teeth on 3e but I always hated the change of healing to conjuration. It kills the theming and is just an excuse to further make necromancy the "evil" school which is such horseshit.)
But in addition to that, for people able to percieve magic more deeply, like Medic or Merasmus or Pyro, basically anyone with magic sight, each school has its own unique colour to the energies being used.
Every person has their own colour that magic tends to manifest in, to the naked eye. Scout's magic is usually white. Medic's is usually azure. Pyro's is usually orange. Spy's dark blue. Etc. Anyone can see that. Magic glows, it's what it does.
But to someone with arcane sight, they can see Scout weaving green magic into his transmutation spells. Or the red in Pyro's creation of fire. Or the yellow glow to Miss Pauling's scrying glasses. The grey magic suffusing Medic's healing spells. How Spy's "Recieve Lover" spell (btw that's what "Koibito Uketoru" translates to) weaves together orange to conjure magical lubricant, grey to force muscles to relax, and green to transmute the body's physical limits just a little.
Broken down by schools it's this: Evocation - Red Conjuration - Orange Divination - Yellow Transmutation - Green Abjuration - Blue Illusion - Purple Enchantment - Magenta Necromancy - Grey
Unlike D&D casting spells aren't confined to single schools, but I like the schools as a guideline for describing the energies at work. And of course the spellcasting is absolutely not Vancian spells per day stuff, but more an expenditure of effort. Casting a lot of magic, or using high powered magic, is exhausting. Metaphysical effort rather than physical, if that makes sense. But just like physical effort, the more you do it and practice the better one gets. Hence Scout having to practice maintaining spells, and Medic having to repeat spells before he gets more comfortable using them and eventually moving away from using a circle every time he casts a specific spell.
I hope that was interesting! :D I've made mention of the colours of magic being more all over the place to Medic or Pyro's eyes in the past, but I've never found a good spot to address the phenomenon directly in text yet. Maybe someday, but this is the gist. :D
Frank, what did you think of the Martin Scorsese movie Goncharov? Personally, I was amazed by the psychosexual relationship between the two female leads--there's something captivating about watching two people destroy each other, while still wholly convinced they're making each other better. What are your thoughts?
For those who are wondering, the movie is about a man who starts out sexually pursuing a woman at the encouragement of his boss and who, after he realizes her sexuality, falls in love with the woman, and they are together for a few years, and then she finds out about his sexual proclivities (his boss had been using him to try to blackmail her), and the man breaks up with her, and she dies.
I was not aware that the woman in this movie was supposed to be a lesbian in some sense. It felt like a pretty standard sex comedy, although the central relationship itself is pretty cool.
I was reading through the Merck vet manual page on hypothyroidism, and it mentioned that it's one of the most overdiagnosed conditions in dogs, and any other causes of the animal's symptoms need to be ruled out first before diagnosing hypothyroidism. What other sorts of conditions can lead a dog to present with the same symptoms? Aside from a thyroid serum test, are there ways a vet can rule out different conditions?
gettingvetted here.
Basically, thyroid hormone levels can be affected by a variety of things - the time of day, use of prescription drugs (especially phenobarbital, an anti-seizure drug), illnesses that don’t involve the thyroid at all (such as Cushing’s, Addison’s, diabetes, infections, kidney/liver failure), the last time the animal ate, and others.
Most of the time, our hypothyroidism screening test is a total T4 (total thyroid hormone level). This measures the overall thyroid hormone level in the blood. If the levels are normal, you can pretty much rule out hypothyroidism. If the levels are low, then ideally you would perform follow-up tests like free T4 (the amount of thyroid hormone that is not bound to cellular receptors and is just floating around in the blood) and Thyroid Stimulating Hormone levels (which tests how much the body is pushing the thyroid gland to produce hormones). The results of the follow-up tests can tell you if the animal truly has hypothyroidism or if the thyroid is actually normal and something else is likely causing suppression of thyroid hormone production. In the latter case you would have to perform follow up testing for other possibilities.
See, what I would really like is a decidedly Un-Safe Name. Could you give me one of those please
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How do I help a friend get over internalized fatphobia? He's got it bad--thinks he's grossly obese, lazy, ugly, a pig who won't stop eating, a failure, etc. He's depressed and on the road to having an eating disorder if he doesn't have one already. Thing is, he also doesn't think fatphobia is real--calls it "tumblr bs", thinks it's just positivity for bad lazy people who have no self-control. How do I convince him A) it's real B) he's internalized a lot of it and C) to get it out of his head?
I can’t tell how old this is but I wanted to reply just the same in case anyone out there is in a similar situation.
Well if he doesn't want to listen to tumblr links then you will have to show him materials that back up our claims. It’s a round about way but if he’s really not willing to read tumblr posts so here's some places to start, its not comprehensive but lets start!:
https://everydayfeminism.com/2012/11/20-examples-of-thin-privilege/ (thin privilege)
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2014/10/21/overweight-women-labor-market/ (A facet of thin privilege in the job market)
https://www.revelist.com/wellness/plus-size-athletes/2669 (Fat people who are still fat while being athletic to counter his “lazy and no self control” claims specifically)
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/34/5/389/481217 (fat and healthy)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1038/oby.2006.208 (family based abuse because of weight, aka fatphobia)
https://frac.org/wp-content/uploads/frac_brief_understanding_the_connections.pdf (how food insecurity correlates to obesity, to show that weight is often out of our own control)
Depending on the age of your friend, he might just be dealing with being a insecure teen that blames his weight for all the problems in his life. (well tbh many adults do this too but I remember it being a bigger thing when I was a teen and watched my peers do this). It’s very sweet that you want to take up the fight. It’s really hard to watch people we care about do harmful things to themselves.
Something you can do is next time he says something negative about his weight reply with “do you think you accomplished anything good by saying that?” he might, regardless of age, be stuck in cycles of negative thinking. I hope that he can find a happy place that isn’t so destructive. Remember that you can’t change people, sometimes they will self destruct no matter what we do and you aren’t personally responsible for fixing other people.
Frank, would you like to play chess with me? We can use your inbox to do it! I'll start with the White pieces, and you respond with a move for your Black pieces. I'll open the game by moving my pawn to D4! What's your move?
Yeah, that sounds fun. (My Chess engine suggests 3. g4, but I'm still learning to read boards -- thanks for the opening move, by the way!)
I don't really know anyone else who's really into Chess, and this seems like a really fun thing to do with someone -- although my hands probably aren't quite as nimble as I'd like for this
Tbh I cannot believe I haven't followed you here on Tumblr yet, I've been reading MI for over a year now lol. 11-year-old porn fic series my beloved ❤️ this story and these characters have become near and dear to me, thank you for all your amazing work on it! I loved seeing Spy finally open his heart in the most recent installment, and am waiting for the day Scout can finally officially say he has 8 boyfriends lmao. Halfway there!
One thing I would also super love to see is more kinky stuff involving Spy, since he's expressed interest in that in the past--and especially now that he's willing to be a little more emotionally vulnerable, I could see that leading to some lovely moments with whoever he plays with. Maybe it's Engie and it leads to some inner conflict there concerning his relationship with Pyro? AUGH the possibilities glbgkesncboksbfh. This series is so much fun!
Oh man what a lovely thing to wake up to and start my day! Thank you so much for dropping me a line! :D
I'm glad you've been enjoying MI! It's definitely my passion project, and I'm always delighted when other people actually enjoy my silly self-indulgent AU, lol. You're super welcome, and thank you so much! I'm deeply flattered! <3 Spy's slow gradual coming around to his feelings has been a long time coming, and I was so excited to finally have the dam break. I love writing him, that cagey fucker, lol. At this point Scout'll claim he has eight boyfriends regardless of how accurate it is anyway because he's that guy lol, but yeah, the slow build of him collecting relationships on the team has been fun. XD
I do intend to do more kinky stuff with Spy, absolutely! Engie owes him a good consensual ass-kicking for sure. >3 (And I like the way you think owo) That fic is deffo in the pipeline to come up soon, but I have at least one other thing I wanna do that was suggested to me by the lovely @zigraves like months ago first. I've been working on that one but I might throw everything out and start again because I've gotten too bogged down in the extraneous details rather than the whole point and vibe of the story itself. I'll figure it out, though. <3
Seriously I can't thank you enough for sending me this ask and for reading my stories. I'm touched, and fighting back misty eyes, and I hope you have an amazing day, friend!
If you wanna follow my overall writing blog too (still like 99% TF2 fics) it's @typingatlightspeed, and my main blog is @markingatlightspeed which is a lot of TF2 but also just a lot of shitposting at a speed my username implies lol, so I understand it's not for everyone lol
