The plate in Ford's skull is powerful. Absurdly so. But that power mostly comes from how specific it is.

Every ward and symbol etched into it, every enchantment, every single aspect of its design down to the molecular structure of whatever alien metal it's made of, it's all meant to ward off Bill's influence. To disrupt a deal giving Bill full and unconditional access to Ford's mind and body.

It's powerful to the point that even though it's designed to only keep Bill out of his head, it also happens to keep out most other types of mental influence. Even the ones that can get past the plate are usually so weak from the effort that by the time they reach Ford's mind he can fight them off on his own.

And it still doesn't keep Bill out of Ford's dreams, because the world of dreams isn't a place you can reach from within the safety of your own skull.

those like white republican woman security theatre tiktoks also get me bc like you can see their houses and. lock that front door all you want but it is NOT going to keep out a determined someone with an axe or perhaps a man door hand hook.

I'll never forgive them for not letting Zuko get fat it would have fixed him..

Omg look what came!!!

i LOVE your body horror/biology jaime designs so much. question about how you think khaji's healing factor works - does it have any interesting ways of dealing with head trauma? it's never seemed to be a problem for jaime, but comics tend not to address that getting your head smacked into things is bad even with armor, so idk if you have any thoughts. is khaji doing something fucked up in there or is it just comic logic.

Hello!! Im so glad you're enjoying my art and my ideas <3.

I have a general idea about Jaime's enhanced healing which you might have already seen here, but I don't really have anything specific for head trauma.

The comics don't have much explanation in terms of healing, but there is a bit with prevention of head trauma I guess. In Rebirth (one of the few good things about it) Khaji mutates Jaime's skeleton. Not much more detail is given about it, but my personal head cannon is some kind of carbon fiber coating. Its lightweight, sturdy (5 times stronger than steel!), and isn't toxic inside the body (we already use it to make stuff like hip replacements)!

They would have to work around the release and production of new red blood cells, maybe interweaving with the network of capillaries, but it could work! Carbon fiber is already similar to a woven texture. It shouldn't be too hard to weave in a few blood vessels (<- that sounds. so much more fucked up when I put it down on paper.)

It wouldn't necessarily help with healing but hey, prevention can be better than a cure!

Books of 2024: THE DEATH I GAVE HIM by Em X. Liu.

Up next! Hamlet retelling but make it science + a locked-lab mystery (which is, of course, directly up my alley!). Horatio is the lab's resident AI, and I'm so excited to see how this goes.

SHINY NEW DISH TRAY YYYEEEEEAAAAHHHHH

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Omg this manz (Boreas) so big?? Whatchu feeding him?

i swear, u r up there with Wind hcs anon with absolutely blazin timin. i managed to finish n queue the big oc post today, this info is basically in it VJSDKLMLK it should release in like 2 mins

but TLDR- Zephyr was made beyond poorly- like she's constantly physically falling apart. she's going thru chronic pain 24/7. the Ancients didn't wanna have a repeat of that, so they went out of their way to make Boreas extra sturdy and easier to repair (the bigger the components the easier they are to work with)!

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Me at the concept of the Rise boys being extremely resilient supersoldiers when it comes to fight scenes: awesome, showstopping, extremely badass.

Me at the same concept when it means an utterly criminal lack of sickfics because we’ve all collectively agreed these boys are common cold-proof: fucking goatman, this is absolute horseshit.

Went on a trail ride with another girl I haven’t ridden with in a while l and said “hey let’s try this trail!” and then I nearly got us stuck in a fucking swamp

I literally said “haha, come on Bertie (my horse) it’s not like it’s quicksand” and then boom! it kind of WAS though and my pony is fat but she is small, so she got stuck up to her knees a few times but oh my god, poor Buster is a normal sized thick ol halter hog quarter horse boy and he almost went down. he sunk in on the left side up to his stifle. that’s like his hip man that’s like. Almost the butt. that was high-as-a-horse’s-hips mud. That was horse-thigh-gap-height mud. Oh my god.

This obviously scared the horse so then he scrambled out as best he could and he took his mom into a bank full of many sharp little trees and she almost came off and then had to get down and back him back into the mud to get him out and around the trees again

Was my horse as affected? No. Was I hit so hard in the face by tree branches that I bit my lip? No, but her horse reenacted the neverending fucking story for a minute there and she got pistol whipped by branches and I felt so bad 😭 in fairness, she never objected to exploring. not in fairness, it was absolutely my dumbass idea

This is why no one wants to ride with us, even when I try to have a chill walk-only lazy little trail ride I still manage to get us into some kind of chaos, because my riding style can only be described as Quaintly Unhinged™️

As pet tax, here’s my pony and her stupid stray dog she adopted, brave survivors of the sticky icky swamp

I literally love lifting people and am constantly wrestling impulses to pick up my friends and carry them around and yet I am 5'2'' (barely).

yeah so i dont get the "wasn't that some fucked up shit? anyway i'm Rod Sterling" mentality some people have towards different narrative reads. It's all sweet and cool to want to explore all the different variations of a fucked up scenario, but i'm gonna need the reasons for it. I need the "why"; why are we exploring this thing? Why is it important to explore this story? what am i getting out of it? and no it's not about morality.

I dont need a story to teach me "good" life lessons, though that'd be lovely. I dont need it to be an exceptional and exemplary narrative even, but i need my discoveries to be purposeful and meaningful. Sometimes the aim for an exploration of say, a very tragic story, is to simply experiences the different flavours and nuances and complexities of a deeply held personal emotion; sometimes it helps us find the mirroring and connection and relatedness that we need to feel seen and heard and understood. Sometimes it helps you parse out your own bullshit by taking it out of your head and putting it in front of you– i dont care what the reason is, but there's a reason. There's a purpose for every single endeavour you take on, even if you haven't discovered the reason yet. "i just want to experience a fucked up shit" lazy superficial thinking, dig deeper. I hate superficial and purposeless shit; and no i'm not gonna explore the 863796373th trending trauma porn piece of the day because "wouldn't that be fucked up?" nah. I dont care, it's got no use to me. I will absolutely respect the endeavour and make space for it if someone tells me something as simple as "it is relevant to me and my interests and experiences and my mental preoccupations, and helps me refine my humanity and my understanding of humanity in general", that is a lovely and true statement. But if someone keeps churning out worst possible fucked up sad scenarios one after another under the "wouldn't that be fucked up?" flag, i'm out, i dont give a fuck. take your sad shit somewhere else, i have absolutely zero space for purposeless horrible narratives that positively add nothing to my life and dont help me navigate it in any meaningful way.

what kind of superthumbs do americans have if you can just puncture a fucking eggshell with your thumb?!

american eggs just have a rlly soft, thin shell, someone explained why to me once but i still think its weirddd. its more obvious in videos but u can kinda see it here

also the kind of eggshell im used to for reference

ok but genuinely why is Literally Everyone I Know just perfectly okay with the complete degradation of quality of like basically EVERY product you can find anywhere like i literally cannot find a bookshelf at all currently because they're literally not made well enough to hold ACTUAL BOOKS