#thinking thinking thinking.

[itsgirlcraft]

....hmmmmmmmmmmm.

That COULD be a reason, yes....maybeeee...hard to say...

It's not as bad as the pictures but it does swell I think...

[metanarrates]

this one's an interesting skill. according to a quick google search, lamarck was a naturalist in the early 1800s who proposed an early, but flawed, model of evolution. he suggested that organisms who changed their behavior would induce heritable physical changes as a result of that behavior. the example given was a giraffe reaching its neck upward to eat leaves. as the giraffe used its neck more, its neck would become longer, and the longer neck would be passed down to offspring. (obviously, this is a flawed idea of how evolution works, but he was on the right track.)

skills are often small "stories" in orv. it's quite interesting, therefore, that an outdated theory of evolution would be a skill here. I suppose the theory could be considered a story on its own. additionally, it is INTERESTING that the "evolution" the skill creates is one where someone can absorb fragments of someone else's stories. rather than "an organ developed by an ancestor's behavior being passed down to offspring" the skill reflects "a story (body part) developed by someone else's actions being absorbed into the story (body) of someone who consumes it." same transmission of organs through effort, but with an entirely different relationship between the person who developed the story and the person who inherits it.

[ranibowspinkle]

Listening to my toxicyuri OC playlist and thinking ab how Em needs more pets other than just her magic familiar (who's somewhere between toucan and secretary bird. Appropriately named Fluffbutt)

[femmesweat]

i love so many kinds of sexual domination but often i find myself wondering, where are the femme-loving butches who are /really/ domineering? /really/ cruel and demanding? Sometimes i want a fucking tyrant. I can take it, i’ll tell you if i can’t.

[megamawilite]

you know that feeling... where you want to go home, but you know very well that you're going to miss a place so much afterwards...? what's the name of that feeling, professor?

[fetabathwater]

hrm hrm hrmmmmm

[noxsylvania]

I’ve been thinking about Chaos’ prosthetics and what parts are good and what parts suck. I think the pros are great movement and reaction speed. They’re really light since they’re godforged and levitate. But the mental strain of using them probably sucks so fucking much. I wanted and excuse for them to not always be using them that was less they hurt to use and more they’re just uncomfortable. I think the implants they’re connected to are probably pretty painless despite looking a bit gnarly. Mainly I didn’t wanna use the excuse of the prosthetics being made by a god to be an excuse for them to just work perfectly. Chaos solves the strain by often only using one arm at a time because using both makes it worse.

The optics in their eyes were a request rather than a necessity. Mechanus made them so Chaos could actually see magic to somewhat match other demigods’ ability to sense it. I think it’s probably kinda like synesthesia but like if it was actually optical. I don’t think there’s any drawback for them because it’s something simple enough there wouldn’t be.