#weasterberry

[probablybadrpgideas]

A magical effect that grants the character self awareness. Not like, awareness that they're a character, just in general. Like, considering how their actions effect people and when they're hypocrites and stuff.

“Abracastopbeingadouchebag!”-Mod Pencil

[shitpostsampler]

I sent the act one to my cross stiching friend and her immediate response was "gnests?" and looking at it now... yeah, it might benefit from a stronger bottom on that u or a slight space between the two sides of it

An alternative u for your enjoyment.

[snakewife]

the snake woman post is so much funnier coming from your blog URL

let there be no doubt that snakewife dot tumblr dot com supports ladies feeling their best

[biologyweeps]

weasterberry replied to your link : "Homunculus" video, if you're interested

“my campbell”? Is that like… just a can of soup you’re going to brain someone with?

Nope, it’s this monster. it weights about 4,5kg and is a feared melee weapons among biology students, doubling as a shield if need be. If you need to brain someone with a book, use this. Let them know the heavy burden of knowledge. 

[biologyweeps]

Sure but there are also XXY conditions and other variants. Ultimately the mutation needed to lizard regenerate is more extreme than what's required for a person to have the genetic material for 2 comotential phenotype sets. What about something more like how butterflies work? A chrysalis that breaks most of the body down and rebuilds it entirely. Still slow but if it left the nervous system/brain intact personality and memory could persist. Unless there's a scale issue at a human sizedplete p

Yeah and most of those are infertile, unless mosaic conditions in the testes happen. Gonosomal aberrations in humans got a descent chance of survival but shit chances of procreation, all in all. 

And I think that once we’ve gone all the way to ‘chrysalis’ we’ve solidly left the realm of human all together and entered the world of ‘humanoid looking but absolutely not human’ at which point we’ve got the whole issue blown wide open again, but we’re not really talking variants of homo sapiens anymore. 

[biologyweeps]

Due to Turner syndrome presenting as female with only 1 X and no Y a strong case could be made for males typically having a functional female blueprint since they have a single X. Combined with the limb/organ regrowth mechanic and some internal function that let you activate/deactivate genes an XY could regeneratively develop both male and female traits in a pretty believeable scifi way either by having a way to naturally kill off certain tissues or by intentionally damaging them couldn't it?

Yeah if you wanted to angle for that you’d have to take the tissue out and kind start over from stem cells to get the gonad tissue you aim for. though that would of course upset the hormone system something pretty heavy. There’s a reason why HRT is dosed the way it is, and I’m not sure a ‘hard reset’ via tissue damage and regrowth as something else wouldn’t fuck you over pretty hard in some essential body functions, like bone density, since in the meantime you’d be stuck without a functional supply of sex hormones and those are actually pretty damn important. See also: health risks after excision of the gonads in your standard human, say due to cancer. So I’m not sure how good an idea it would be without having some backup system in place. 

With a backup system (internal or external) it could work, though of course the switch in hormones would likely create changes like HRT with similar drawbacks re:reversability, though I suppose if you extend the regenerative abilities they’re fixable easier since you can always go full ‘remove everything’. 

And of course it’d still be slow. 

Edit: i just checked back on Turner syndrome again and apparently the gonads there end up non-functional wrt both procreation and basic hormone production so even a XY base with switching ability wouldn’t result in a ‘functional’ female phenotype. 

[abernathycomic]

I have thought BB was a man with shaggy hair up until this comic and had to reread this and the previous page several times before I realized that they were NOT talking about Pearl and that the female pronouns were aimed at BB and therefore BB was a woman.

Yeah, B.B. is a tall lady with shaggy hair, an angular face with thin lips, and no regard for makeup or wearing anything other than baggy shirts and jeans. She gets “sir”d a lot.