On Plurality.

Digital art comic in greyscale with spots of colour.
Panel 1: Two versions of the author avatar stand next to each other. 
Avatar 1, pointing at the other: "Okay, so... I really want to explain this..."
Avatar 2, looking tired: "...But at the same time it's annoying and I don't wanna, because I've never been able to figure out the right words to describe it clearly."
Panel 2. 
Avatar 2: "So here's *a* way of putting it:"
Panel 3.
A person with two other people on either side of them in thought clouds. Text: "If you're not familiar with plurality, broadly speaking it's when one body houses multiple people." Author Avatar: "I'm not an expert on any of this, so don't quote me."
Panel 4. 3 people with similar hairstyles and very different attitudes stand in spotlights. Text: "The most common depiction in media is multiple separate, distinct personalities." Caption text: "*Not often portrayed realistically or sympathetically, but that's a different conversation."
Panel 5. Multiple faces with different expressions overlapping each other a little. Text: "It *can* work something like that, but it can also be more nebulous. Plurality, like a lot of human brain stuff, is a spectrum."
Author Avatar: "And I'm a lot more on the nebulous end."
Panel 1. Two versions of the author avatar stand beside each other.
Avatar 1: "The plurality term for this kinda thing is "median". In my case, we don't really have distinct "selves" with isolated experiences or memories."
Avatar 2, holding colourful shards: "For me, it's more like overlapping pieces of glass."
Panel 2. Colourful shards overlapping. The shape of a person is traced on them, not quite matching up. 
Text: "Everything kinda lines up to form a single image... but the pieces don't actually all fit together, they can change from moment to moment, and there's a lot of shifting around."
Panel 3. Avatar, looking a little tired: "So yeah, it's incredibly hard to describe. (As evidenced by how quickly that metaphor fell apart.) But the best words I've found for it come from Steven Universe:"
Panel 4: The avatar filled with colours and divided like stained glass, smiling and holding a heart made of multiple pieces. Text: "I am not one person. I am not two people. I am a conversation."
Panel 5: The avatar points to the side, where another man in a sleeveless black hoodie is leaning in to wave.
Avatar: "Also Cal's here."
Cal: "Hi."

on plurality.

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Maybe it’s because I’m rather slow on the uptake, but your post made me more certain on the design of sea dragons

When they were first built, they are rather barren, on their bodies are little “fins” and spaces for sea life to latch on

picture of baby leafy sea dragons

And as more life accumulates, the sea dragon becomes more elegant as opposed to the deterioration on normal robots, aging beautifully

Maybe It’s Because I’m Rather Slow On The Uptake, But Your Post Made Me More Certain On The Design
Maybe It’s Because I’m Rather Slow On The Uptake, But Your Post Made Me More Certain On The Design

There's an up-and-coming Tech Giant, called Fenton Works, and Batman is determined to prove that the company is a front for a villain.

Danny, after his parents turned from Ghost hunting to being the first official Ghost Anthropologists, decided to repurpose some of their weapons.

And, well, there was a contest being run by Wayne Enterprises; whoever can design a robot that will help the environment got prize money and a grant.

Danny, in all his mechanical engineering prowess, was bored. So he designed a thing. Repurposed the Fenton Guns into a cute robotic tortoise that would clean the beach.

It spiraled from there, and now Fenton Works is the leading name in green technology that's cleaning up the Earth bit by bit. Sea Dragon robots that clean oil and trash from the ocean; beach tortoises that clean the sand and beach and deposit their hoard of trash into designated receptacles that Danny uses as material to make more robots; Cryptid "stalker" robots with long legs that delicately patrol forests to perform "fuel management" and clear out the underbrush to help manage wildfires; moving gargoyle robots that sit on top of skyscrapers to help clean the air with huge sail-like wings, etc.

Basically, Danny pulls a Doctor Elisabet Sobeck, but with less world ending and more actually helping. (Not that the world ending was Elisabet's fault, of course, but different franchise)

And due to the number of times aliens try to attack and rogues send their own robots to attack people, naturally Danny installed self-defense protocols, along with one single golden rule written into the very OS of every single robot; Save Humans Whatever the Cost.

Problem is, Batman has never seen robots like this not be used for evil purposes, and he knows that their power source (a closely guarded Fenton Works secret) is some sort of liquid that glows green.

He really only knows of one liquid that glows green.

So he's determined to find everything he can about Fenton Works, because there's no way that Daniel Fenton isn't actually a villain in the making.

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2 months ago

not to oversimplify an extremely complex discipline but if i had to pick one tip to give people on how to have more productive interactions with children, especially in an instructive sense, its that teaching a kid well is a lot more like improv than it is like error correction and you should always work on minimizing the amount of ‘no, wrong’ and maximizing the amount of ‘yes, and?’ for example: we have a species of fish at the aquarium that looks a lot like a tiny pufferfish. children are constantly either asking us if that’s what they are, or confidently telling us that’s what they are. if you rush to correct them, you risk completely severing their interest in the situation, because 1. kids don’t like to engage with adults who make them feel bad and 2. they were excited because pufferfish are interesting, and you have not given them any reason to be invested in non-pufferfish. Instead, if you say something like “It looks a LOT like a tiny pufferfish, you’re right. But these guys are even funnier. Wanna know what they’re called?” you have primed them perfectly for the delightful truth of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker

1 year ago
A Twitter Mutual Asked People To Draw Ayin, So I Kinda Went Overboard Lol Whoops.

A twitter mutual asked people to draw Ayin, so I kinda went overboard lol whoops.

Story time with Abnormality Dad! I know Road Home and Servant aren't in LobCorp, but let him have more kids, okay? I love the relationship potential he has with all of the little critters in the facility, and I tend to write him a little like Laios Dunmeshi in that sense of fascination with them. Less 'eating' though, but more that general hyperfixated adoration and interest. Even if most of them could kill him. And some of them probably have, looking at you [CENSORED]. But in the meantime he's gonna just read stories to the little ones.

(I love Punishing Bird, so he's here too.)

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4 months ago

ANDDD you can kiss robots and should do so frequently btw

1 year ago
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Guys guys. To all you Cult of the Lamb fans who are also Project Moon fans. I have a thought experiment:

Nothing There in the lands of the old faith

Maybe it infiltrates the Lamb's cult in the guise of another creature? Maybe it buys out all of Helob's stock? Who knows? I want your ideas!


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2 months ago

You and your sibling have opposite powers. Your sibling can charge objects with potential and kinetic energy, while you can absorb potential and kinetic energy. Most of the time, people are worried about your sibling. That is until you lose control of your powers.


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6 months ago

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3 months ago

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