#this one’s for you morph

[quitoollero]

It’s MORPH’n time! I am loving Morph in X-Men ‘97! Very much enjoying what JP Karliak is bringing to the role and read a really great theory about how Morph uses his new neutral/blank face to mask his trauma. In ep 3 you can see how he reverts to his old face when talking about Sinister, and then immediately changes back to the blank face. If that’s true it would be a deep and fascinating choice for the character and I love it. So here’s my take on Morph, and one last, not so secret sneak peek at the last member of the team illustration. I wonder who it could be…

#x men 97 #xmen #marvel #x men the animated series #fan art #morph #this one’s for you morph #artists on tumblr #jp karliak

[gros-chat-fait]

The Animorphs have made a mistake.

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I recently reread the David trilogy aka my all time favorite horror literature so I wanted to make something while my emotions are still fresh. Got some more ideas but I'll work on them another time.

Textless version:

#animorphs #i had the idea to do 3 posters for 3 books #but i'm busy at the moment so this one will have to do #it never occurred to me until i drew david with freckles #but if you can morph and you have freckles #do your freckles change or disappear whenever you demorph?? #anyway i finally drew short hair!marco! :D #art du chat

[dirchristophernolan]

Charles Leclerc for Corerriere della Sera | 2022

#sebchal #sebastian vettel #charles leclerc #sv5 #cl16 #f1edit #*g #one day i'll write my thoughts abt this kind of hero worship / power dynamic and how it goes beyond what ppl wrongly describe as a crush #it's the need to please this mentor and taking bits and pieces of him and making them your own so you slowly start morphing into him #and so when ppl tell you 'oh you remind me of xx' it's the greatest badge of honor #one day i'll talk abt it

[72crowe89]

Oh no, Rogue just dropped Bolivar Trask off a building. If only there was a mutant who could teleport, or use telekinesis, or turn into people who can fly, to save him!

#x men #x men 97 #x men 97 spoilers #rogue #bolivar trask #jean grey #nightcrawler #kurt wagner #x men morph #everyone like how could you do that Rogue #when no one else was in any real hurry to save him

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I'm currently reading book 39 and the whole buffalo issue is making me curious if you think any animals could actually use morphing technology to their advantage. The species that comes to my mind first are crows, I think they would have a very enjoyable time committing crimes with it

Hmmmm. Crows with morphing would terrorize the planet, but maybe better than ants?

#animorphs #morphing #polls #crows #ants #the hidden #whether 'buffalo' means 'buffalo in general' or 'one specific buffalo who then morphs into your vice principal' #i leave up to you dear readers

[dailypearldoodles]

Hello there can I have a Gem and Pearl red duo for my soul?

Day 554

Girls night!

#daily pearl doodles #pearlescentmoon #geminitay #shinyduo #secret life smp #traffic life smp #mod morph #again #have not watched a single episode of sl after pearls ep 3 #ive been too distracted by other stuff and kinda lost interest sorry #however i did hear of the murder spree gem went on #gems halo is entirely comprised of hearts because of how many hearts she has #SL halos have 1-3 big hearts #depending on which life theyre on #like usual life halos #but they also are comprised of smaller hearts #that are sort of representative of how many hearts they have #its not a one to one representation but yeah #when you give a heart #one of the smaller hearts fly out #from your halo #and joins the giftees halo #ALSO #gem what kind of hairstyle does your skin have #you got like space buns and then also a side braid??? #how much hair do you have??? #i couldnt really figure out how to make it look good #so i put two lilttle braids sprouting from her space buns instead

[spaciebabie]

Part 3!

Start / Part 2 / Part 3 (you're here!) / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Aftermath

Throws this at you n runs away

#fnaf sb #fnaf #five nights at freddy’s #security breach #omg its been almost 10 days since the last one sorry guys real life trauma happened and fucked my ability ta draw #sundrop #fnaf sun #sun fnaf #y/n #daycare attendant #fnaf daycare attendant #sun x reader #sun x y/n #sun x you #its giving...i would write a fic if i had more than 3 ideas bouncing around in my brain #the next comic is going ta b....heehee hee hoo haha hooh boy #ive been futzing around w/part 5 cuz i dont like the dialogue but at this point idk how to morph it into something i like #EDIT: I FUCKING DID IT. I FUTZED W/PART 5 SO MUCH IT MEGA MORPHED INTO SOMETHING I LIKE #LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO #spacie scribbles

[obianakin]

i don’t think people understand just how broadly harmful puritanical thinking is. every group i’ve ever been involved with that has been anti-kink and anti-fiction has also flat out rejected harm reduction education - including harm reduction for legal substances, like recognizing the signs of alcohol poisoning.

this kind of moralizing, self-aggrandizing mentality doesn’t help anyone. you are not the kind, compassionate person you want other people to think you are.

#pro fiction #proship #anti harassment #profic #pro ship #🖋️ #like i genuinely think these ppl are so insufferable that no one ever wanted to invite them to social events #and now their jealousy has morphed into an inextricable part of their personality #like hate to break it to your weird troy bolton dichotomy brain but you can be a nerd AND go to parties

[kedreeva]

Sorry about the color mix up. I appreciate the reply and additional info! I guess bc I know nothing about peafowl (and the fact i dont breed any type of animal), I'm having a hard time understanding how being sterile would be unethical. I do somewhat get the shortened life span. I really would like to understand this, I just sometimes need stuff explained like I'm 5.

Up front, there's no "somewhat get" to a shortened lifespan being caused by a mutation in captive populations. If an animal is capable of living 20+ years (and some live 30+ or even 40+!) and some non-essential mutation is causing them to live 7-9 years, it's flat out absolutely unethical to breed that mutation, full stop, regardless of anything else going on. That's indicative of a MAJOR problem in their genetics. There's NO ethical reason to breed that because humans like how it looks. So, even without the sterility, these birds would 100% be unethical to produce.

The short answer on sterility is this: we don't know WHY they are sterile, but they shouldn't be, and that means something has gone wrong. When something goes wrong with an animal, and it's something genetic that can be passed on, the ONLY responsible and ethical thing for a breeder to do is to stop using that animal for breeding and closely monitor any already-produced offspring for signs of the problem, and likely not breed them, either.

The longer more complicated answer is this: sometimes it's possible to separate the problem from the aesthetic when it comes to morphs, like it was for cameo + blindness, but sometimes it's NOT, like it wasn't for spider + head wobble for ball pythons. In those instances, it's... difficult. Because you're LIKELY going to produce animals that suffer the same problem as their parent(s), in the attempt to separate the problem from the aesthetic, and sometimes that's ALL you're going to produce. As a breeder, it's your absolute responsibility to NOT release the offspring into the general population, where the problem may be replicated without control, and to keep or cull the affected individuals if the problem cannot be separated from the aesthetic, or AT BEST find them guaranteed pet-only homes that will NEVER breed them.

Sometimes the problem IS purely aesthetic or harmless, like it was for pied in peafowl, and sometimes it's not, like it was for vitiligo in peafowl. The problem comes when you ASSUME a mutation is the first, and treat it like the first when it's really the second. This has caused FAR reaching consequences in the peafowl community, and I'm sure in others, where now the autoimmune disease that first bronze had has been passed into genpop by folks who thought they were breeding a harmless new variation of pied. Hybrid animals are often sterile (not in peafowl though, hybrid cristatus-muticus birds are fertile) because of a mismatch in chromosome pairing numbers, and often that's harmless. So, in some cases sterility is not an issue because it's the expected result or is otherwise harmless... but in the case of peafowl, it's NOT an expected result and we don't know if it's caused by something harmless or not.

Some species, like mice and horses and cattle and dogs, genetic testing and DNA mapping done with millions of dollars has proven that while some stuff isn't purely aesthetic, it also doesn't cause harm to the animal in a way that affects quality of life or that can be adapted for in captive care. For example, in chickens, the frizzle gene causes curled feathers in single copy and an absence of feathers in double copy. This gene is considered ethical to produce IF the breeding is done responsibly by putting a single copy bird over a zero copy bird, which produces smooth coats and frizzle coats, but it is unethical to produce double frizzles (called "frazzles") because frazzles cannot thermoregulate, can easily sunburn, and easily suffer skin injury during normal chicken activity.

For peafowl, we have NO genetic testing. We do not have the genome mapped. As far as I know there's a research group working on it (mostly for green peafowl though, in conservation efforts), but that's not remotely finished or available to the public to test anything. We don't know where any of the morph mutations sit, or what is causing them or if they do anything beyond just change the color. Sometimes color mutations are the result of malfunctions in enzymes. For charcoal specifically, we don't know what the mutation does, besides what we can observe on the outside- the birds have half or less the lifespan of normal birds, poor feather quality, and the hens are sterile. Is the sterility harmless like it is in some hybrid animals, or is it actually a major organ failing? Is it the only major organ that fails due to this mutation, or is it just the first sign of their shortened lives? Is it some deficiency in something the birds need to be healthy? Does it hurt the bird? We don't know, but we do know the mutation and the problems (multiple, please do NOT forget that this is one OF MORE THAN ONE problems) can't be separated, and so until we do know why and whether it's harmless or not, the ONLY ethical response to seeing a problem in a major organ's function linked inextricably to a mutation in color is to not propagate that mutation. If someone wanted to fork over the millions it takes to sequence and map genomes and then determine exactly what is going on with peafowl, that would be nice and good, but I don't see that happening. When I win the lottery big, I'll be doing it, but til then we can only follow normal breeding guidelines

Also, to put this into perspective... peafowl mature sexually around 3 years old. They are chicks until the turn of the new year following their hatch. They are yearlings that year, and immature 2yo next year. They aren't actually considered fully grown until 6 years old, and should live another 14+ years. Charcoal birds die a 1-3 years after full maturity. Is it a coincidence that they fail to thrive shortly after full sexual maturity, or is it linked? Again, we don't know. We don't know if the sterility is fine or if it's just a symptom of something worse.

Even without the sterility, though, charcoal has enough issues it would be unethical. If it was JUST sterility, with no other deleterious effects, then maybe it would be different. But it's not.

#peafowl #asks #anon asks #as always please bear in mind that animal breeding is NOT the same as human reproduction ethics #and I ONLY deal in animal ethics #and honestly even if it was just shit feather quality then I would personally consider it bad breeding #I asked the only person I know who still has charcoals what their issues were and lord it is worse than I thought even #she's keeping/breeding only what she can keep herself #and experimenting with feeding regimens in the hopes of correcting a nutritional deficiency #that might account for the sterility #but so far after like 10+ years she's had no luck #so it's not likely #Like there are SO MANY perfectly fine and healthy morphs out there #there's NO reason to keep making this one #it's not essential to the continuance of the species #also to anon: I'm not mad at all this is just how i sound about my special interest #I'm glad you asked questions #I appreciate you seeking info

[reduxulousoctopus]

"there didn't seem to be a wolverine/morph fandom before X-Men 97 came out, surely that means there wasn't any romantic subtext in TAS, I'm good to start writing a pre-relationship fic set during 97 before I've finished my rewatch," I said

you know, like an idiot

#I live in a post Whatever It Takes world now #these two absolutely had something going on in TAS #“or maybe it's love you're missing?” #y'all the way that one line permanently altered my brain chemistry #and I'm told I haven't even gotten to THE wolverine/morph episode #like what do you mean there's MORE??? #fuck me guess I gotta find a way to rewrite 6700 words to be established relationship instead of pre-relationship #morpherine #wolverine #morph #x men

[etirabys]

something that peeves me in fiction – in a setting where society that hasn't mostly eliminated scarcity, anyway – is when someone really kindhearted takes in a near stranger in need (e.g. orphan, ex slave) and that person is their only project to whom they can give a lot of care. irl I feel like everyone who's exceptionally nice, or at least bad at drawing a line for their own health, has a full case load and is close to burnout

I don't mind this at all when there's a good plot reason for why X should be helping Y in particular and isn't already overbooked; I feel some ugh when X is depicted as someone who'd always help people in Y's shoes but has mysteriously evaded all other supplicants.

I'm pro-fantasy but this kind of moral fantasy strikes me as a bit uglier than the others: you can be a nurturing figure who gives unconditional help without running something so unphotogenic as a vetting interview or cost/benefit analysis, but you'll never be overwhelmed, either

#rambl #also would enjoy it if X took in Y and the scene was played as a 'and now you are my only son' vibe and then. Y comes home. #and X's house is full of other orphans who are going to eat him alive #conversely i think a vetting interview could be played really well – no one WANTS to do that! (hence people's numbers for strangers #helped extensively being either 0 or 10+) but if an adopter is weird enough... like 'orphan boy. answer my riddles twenty' #and that interaction uncomfortably reverberates for years afterwards in what naturally morphs into a familial relationship? oh! #like yes. you are my dad now. and you have three other kids (your limit) who were grilled the same way. and we love each other but #we all started off on a footing that was maximally inimical to simulating unconditional parental love.

[uncanny-tranny]

It's really frustrating being trans sometimes with cis loved ones because other cis people will go, "oh but it's such a huge adjustment for them! They're grieving for your pre-transition self/they aren't used to the change yet/it's hard on them!"

It's just so frustrating that people forget that trans people's feelings on this matter, too. Cis people aren't the only ones who have adjustments to make. Frankly, as much as I sympathize with cis people in this position, I can't help but be really jaded about it because so often, cis people jump to the defense of other cis people and they will seemingly forget to or refuse to give the same grace to trans people.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #like at what point is it 'they aren't used to it yet!' and it morphs into 'that person is actively refusing to acknowledge you' #i'm at a point now where i have been out as trans for half my life. at what point is this willfully refusing to see *me* #it's just amazing that it doesn't matter what the trans person could do because it's their fault for bringing 'burden' onto cis people #i UNDERSTAND that it can be hard for family for instance to flip a switch with their trans loved one... #...but i can't help but notice that so often it's because they *refuse to try* #why is it that cis people can do almost anything to trans people but trans people must be perfectly understanding and perfectly... #...content with whatever cis people in our lives have to say about how hard it is on THEM... #...like that's insulting to me. imagine being so willfully incompassionate... #...i'm worried about if i'm safe in my own workplace or in my gym or in a medical setting... #...i feel like we need a sense of scale about who is most affected by transness in this scenario... #...because i would RATHER be grieving over somebody's transness than worrying if i'll be hatecrimed... #...there's a difference in the experience between a trans person and the cis people in that trans person's life learning to adjust to... #...that person's transness. which is why i don't think it's comparable to say that cis people have it just as hard in this case #transphobia #transphobia tw

[incorrect-immunology-facts]

#shitpost #immunology #immunology shitposting #meme #mhc #b cell receptor #bcr crosslinking #this meme brought to you by my mom and I making fun of a question on a quiz I had for literature class #where one of the questions was ‘which of these is NOT a feature of the Greek underworld’ #and I guess the professor just picked a random Greek sounding word but the specific word they picked was leukocyte #so we were pretending that leukocytes were in different literary traditions #and that morphed into talking about ‘immuno-christian values’ and I got inspired to throw this nonsense together

[nichiperi]

happy birthday to meeee~ ヘ⁠(⁠￣⁠ω⁠￣⁠ヘ⁠)

#i have a lot of schmoopy feelings about this year #it started off as one the worst times of my life #but then somehow it morphed into the absolute best #i have a lot of appreciation and joy that i feel for a lot of people now that i feel like i can't adequately express #but i guess the point is i'm actually excited for the future for the first time in years #and i feel like i wouldn't have stumbled down this path if it hadn't been for the encouragement i got from people when i really needed it #i've been really inspired to work at improving my art and to be more open about it #i tried a lot of new things #not just artistically but in general #i'm happy i'm here! and i intend to keep being here and to keep making things that bring me joy. #weird weird things. i intend to get weirder and weirder hehehe. hope y'all are prepared! >:D #so to anyone who said anything nice about my art and writing since i've been here #i know it sounds schmaltzy but the stuff you said meant more than you know. thank you for letting me know you saw me.

[shilo-bathory]

no offense to anyone who headcanons or theorizes otherwise but i personally really like chip kind of being… a nobody. like yeah he was on the midnight rose but he’s not really known for that because he was a kid. i feel like him being some born prince or destined to be something deity like just dosent play well into his character. he’s a bastard who cares for his crew and is making a name for himself on his own terms, sailing the seas with his crew and co captains becoming really well known pirates. just because his two besties are the chosen one son of a sea god and another person with rare possible deity blood dosent mean he has to be born cool as well. sometimes we start as nobodies and we make ourselves somebodies and i really like that about chip.

#ros talks #jrwi riptide #jrwi #jrwi chip #i could also go on about how i don’t wanna meet his birth parents but i also don’t think thts like. an idea lol #i haven’t listened to the newest ep!!!!! don’t crucify me please!!!!! #anyway #i could talk about the themes of riptides for forever #how they started out as what one desires and slowly morphed into finding your own family and making your own destiny #despite what you think fate may be telling you #and making your legacy how you want #anyway.

[dailypearldoodles]

Day 271

Limited Life lets go!!!

#daily pearl doodles #pearlescentmoon #bigbstatz #bigbst4tz2 #limited life smp #mod morph #gosh im so excited for this series #i cant wait for the next one #also to the anon who sent in the human froggy ask #i have designed her #i think shes adorable #you will be seeing her tomorrow if all goes to plan :D #traffic life smp