*alarm bells go off* wake up everyone it's national kippy day!!!

[Image ID: An alcohol marker drawing of Theoto Rikka from 86: Operation High School. He is a boy with blond hair that goes to his chin. He wears a black gakuran style uniform, buttoned up all the way, with a yellow sweater peeking out from underneath. The sweater is a little long, and completely covers his right hand, which his holds up in front of his face as he laughs, as if he just heard a joke. His eyes are closed and he grins with an open mouth. Behind him is a messy dark green block background. /End ID]

@code-jolteon happy birthday :]

“spring break, i believe in you” in like. june is so funny

Barbie movie fanart dump 4/4(END)- Misc

Guys help I fucked around and made an au that only vaguely makes sense but anyway have some montlie high school host club or whatever

I did eventually fix my Mac copy of AssCreed and it was a problem of needing a file to go in a folder it wasn't in for whatever reason, and like two lines of code had to be added, and don't get me wrong I have a degree in programming so I know how to do that. HOWEVER I think it's ridiculous to charge someone 60 dollars for a completely broken copy of the game and even more ridiculous to tell someone to get fucked when they're mad their 60 dollar purchase doesn't work and when the fix took maybe 30 seconds once I figured out what was wrong.

Like. Yeah I knew how to fix it. But also you shouldn't need a literal degree in programming in order to boot up a game in this day and age. It should be as simple as clicking a button.

(Hunger au) I'm going into ecology and it's fascinating looking at your au's ecosystem, especially since this doesn't necessarily seem driven by natural selection and instead by just. The universe creating what it needs, with a purpose in mind. That's so different from our world that it's fascinating to think about the implications. Rather than existing to take advantage of and respond to resources and selective pressures, theyre basically creating said resources/pressures. The watchers are having to manually adapt to survive after a bottleneck effect, which to be fair even if there was natural selection they'd probably have to cuz adaptation takes a looong time in species with long reproductive cycles. Do they have a genome? Or are they just being arbiters of mutation themselves (by that i mean theres no genome so theyre changing their species themselves since theres nothing to mutate)? Do offspring inherit traits? What does this mean for natural selection (cuz like. If they survive differently depending on how their traits match up to the environment and selective pressures there is)? With the seekers gone are expected to have a population rebound barring any other selective pressures/fitness independent factors on their population? Their reproductive strategy seemingly aligns with the low pressure they're facing... I read a paper to understand this and it's really cool:

(From https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42562-7)

They seem to be an r-selected species and invest a lot in their offspring, but they just naturally have low infant survival rates. This is the sort of species that does not do well in the long run so that adds urgency to their efforts to edit themselves.

All this to say that I'm rotating the concept of an ecological system that has one of ecology's core tenants (evolution) heavily altered/removed. Tis fascinating.

between you and chem anon im going to have a heart attack over sciency people looking at my silly au /lh

I really did want to go like vastly different from how our world works since this is such a video game setting-- it was really fun to noodle about what a universe made out of code instead of DNA would look like!!! and having the universe be quasi-sentient, affected by a form of evolution itself as well (thank you julien gough for the universe evolution theory that i have wholeheartedly adopted into my worldview).... idk its led to some very interesting worldbuilding for sure 😂😂😂

Watchers-- or any entity in this universe, actually-- dont really have a genome like we'd understand it. Instead, theyre made up of code and code blocks, which i guess would sorta mimic that to a certain degree, but its more tipped in favour of computer programming than biology. The whole au sorta just wholesale marries the two together, along with physics and chemistry (i am currently percolating on how crafting works in this au rn and my current idea involves the concept of the crafting table acting somewhat like a catalyst, which. okay dont take that as gospel yet i havent fully cooked on that one) etc etc etc.

But the Watchers did intentionally change their coding to help defend against the Seekers when they were being hunted into extinction!!! Watchers already had a natural affinity for deep coding, so while it took a lot of effort and caused a lot of damage to themselves, they managed to rapidly change their code structure (aka this universe's version of genetic makeup) to get better at, well. Watching. Seeing the Seekers coming far enough in advance to run before they got there became their primary defense against getting voraciously hunted, and by the end of it the Seekers starved out and went extinct bc they'd gotten so adept at avoiding them.

Offspring is interesting because in my mind at their base level (so genetically/code structurally speaking), Watchers are identical clones of each other. They reproduce asexually-- think uhhh mourning geckos and some species of aphids, which reproduce via parthenogenesis. So yes, in a sense they do inherit traits, but its in a direct line from the parent as a genetic copy. Their memory codes and surface code layers are what differentiate themselves from each other

Reading this chart is so interesting.... i'd say you're right in that Watchers would be considered an r-selected species!! I think if they werent like. Essentially made out of tissue paper thats constantly getting damaged and having to be repaired, they would be able to bounce back to the point of population rebound for sure. The problem with that though is there are only about 40 Watchers left-- thats how bad and out of control the situation got. And since they have such a long reproductive cycle, and such a high infant mortality rate, and their experiment with Grian went so wrong, AND the universe formed Listeners to replace them via direct competition (Watchers cant feed from Listener-infected Players!!), they are unfortunately headed right for extinction too.

Hopefully this makes a modicum of sense and isnt just me totally talking out of my ass wkdnjedjkejdke but i hope this answered most of your questions!!! Im really glad you like the direction ive taken this, its a lot of fun to conceptualize a world that works on different rules than our own :]

OG Levi Squad with Thunder Spears

Dream Come True!!

They should of survived to the end!!

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[Image ID: A screenshot of the 86: Operation High School manga. It depicts Haruto Keats and Theoto Rikka in a chibi style. Haru stands on the left, smiling with his eyes closed. A box with an arrow points to him, reading "Didn't put his shirt on" in all caps. Theo stands on the right, staring at Haru's hoodie. Theo wears a buttoned up school gakuran, while Haru wears his gakuran unbuttoned, with a hoodie underneath. /End ID]

If you even care

Haruto Keats in 86 -Eighty Six- Operation High-School

in my head i put my art from when i was super active on here on a really high pedestal because the thing in my memory that stands out to me about that period was how easily everything came to me and flowed from like start to finish. it was something i kind of treasured before it escaped me (obviously). but i've almost come to a place that feels similar (if only because i keep myself so heinously busy i don't have time to agonize like #that) but it's still so cool to come back and look at it

reading the name of this book is secret and I love how cass and max-ernest interacting is just Oh That's Clashing Autism

I fucking love the dumpster fire that’s the Nemesis crew <3

how you define your relationship does not have to match how others define theirs

The best thing since sliced bread

I wonder what superlative people uttered before July 7, 1928, the day the bread slicer was invented in Chillicothe, Missouri.

This weekend I find myself in Chillicothe. My dad and I are here for a wedding. My sisters and brother, their significant others, and even some of the kids are here too.

Last night we had a bit of a family reunion dinner which I enjoyed. This branch of my family shares my enthusiasm for Australian Shepherds. My aunt even brought her young pup to dinner. One cousin and another cousin’s daughter (the one getting married) have more Aussies.

This morning I visited the Chillicothe Banking Co. The scent of freshly baked (and sliced!) bread is long gone. The building is now a museum and visitors center. It’s called the Sliced Bread Innovation Center. There’s also an Escape Room attached to the building. But why would anyone want to leave?

A big old bread slicer (I don’t think the original) is on display. Another visitor I saw mentioned the enormous loaf of slice bread on the roof. I’m glad she did, as I had overlooked it. I rushed out for a picture.

Afterwards I walked around the downtown square area. I got my picture in front of the big “Home of Sliced Bread” mural. The Donut Palace is misleadingly named. Oh they have donuts, but in a one story red brick building. Then I met some of our group at Shooter’s Taproom and Kitchen for a snack and cocktail.

Now it’s time to get dressed for the wedding. The dress code pleases me greatly: jeans. The venue is a farm that’s been converted into an event center. I saw it last night and it’s neat.

A king (Eunhyeok) recognizing fellow king (Dohwa) ✨👑