Time for a mini giant anatomy lesson featuring James! They got some wack insides and while most of it is explained in the drawing, I’ll go ahead and elaborate a bit under the cut. Uhhh, small warning for mentions of digestion I guess
So mini giants are really cool in the fact that their anatomy is pretty much made to consume and digest large creatures with relative ease. With the stomach in front of their major organs and ribcage and sternum being able to pop out of place, it’s fairly effortless for them to swallow human sized or smaller prey. Their jaw is made more for ripping and tearing than chewing, so I’d say their eating style is more similar to that of a crocodile or lion than anything. However, if it’s small enough then most food will be swallowed whole, and that’s why their digestive system is so wack.
Their heart has hole called a Foramen of Panizza that connects the left and right aorta in their heart and shunts blood straight to their stomach in order to help produce more gastric acid and speed up digestion. Realistically they could digest a human or something similar in about 1 to 1 1/2 weeks, give or take, which eliminates the risk of food going bad while still in their stomach. Their system has no problem processing whole prey items, bones at all. In fact, bones and organ meat are such an essential part of their diet to the point where most of their food is prepared with such things included! They��re also almost exclusively carnivorous so 90 percent of their meals are very meat heavy.
On top of their stomach is a small third ‘lung’, that is used to cycle oxygen in and out of their stomach, and while this lung is in use, acid production stops. Most people aren’t entirely sure why they would need this process in the first place, but the most widely accepted theory is that it used to help keep prey alive longer so it wouldn’t start to rot before they could properly begin digestion. At any rate, it’s an adaptation that has proven extremely useful in recent years because although mini giants no longer eat live prey for food in any capacity, the craving to do so is still there, so temporarily eating a human friend with the help of said adaptation is an incredibly common practice.
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trying not to sound like a transvestigator when clocking someone stealth but the crucial thing is being able to tell the difference between what those people point out (everyone hot in hollywood is trans, actually) vs the Real tells (a woman in her late 30’s with the most bizarrely specific special interests performing self taught carpentry and welding while wearing pearl necklaces and earrings)
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Pfffffffft I shouldn't be giggling about your reaction but I am
Ok wait a second I'm being attacked on my side blog aftermare fic uuuuuuuh!???? What's happeninggg
Anyway, here have the braincells I borrow back
clutching my heart you're literally the embodiment of a sweet little bean waghghggh DEAD i am on the floor deceased and it's your fault >:'((( <333333
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Top five Mother Hen!Hawkeye moments? Also, top five “The guys are absolutely done with the system” moments?
—No GFA Anon
anon I am shaking my brain around but im having trouble even thinking of 5 mother hen Hawkeye moments. he's got a couple- the entirety of Operation Friendship with BJ, and The Red/White Blues with Potter- but im having trouble thinking of more? he definitely has a lot of protective moments, but im not sure I would classify those as him being a mother hen, more just... generally protective. I feel like he gets the mother hen treatment more than he gives it
"the guys are absolutely done with the system" moments, however, I have to think very hard about because im not letting myself cheat and say "all of them"
5: BJ's rant in Bombshells when he gets the medal after he has to leave the wounded soldier behind. the defeat of it, the anger, the exhaustion... I would rank this higher but im not a fan of how he acts like Hawkeye couldnt possibly understand what he's feeling. still a great moment, and his sentiment about feeling cheated by the system cause he did everything right and still ended up here is just. BJ Hunnicutt thesis statement
4: I think this moment is in War of Nerves but Klinger telling Sidney he refuses to be told how and where to die, how and where to stand when killing someone else, and how to dress. I could honestly just say Klinger in his entirety is a favourite for this prompt, but this moment always sticks out
3: Hawkeye building the monument in Depressing News then blowing it up. its really his one last big hurrah for his anti-military antics. like, sure, he still feels that way, but we dont get a big display like that again. I really like this episode in general, and shoutout to that speech he has with BJ about how they're all expendable just like the tongue depressors
2: the entirety of The Incubator, specifically when Hawkeye and Trapper break into the conference. the entire episode is them being sick to death of the system and fight it as high up as they can get to, and its fantastic. one of my favs tbh
1: Hawkeye storming the peace talks in Peace on Us. just one of my favourite moments in the entire series. Hawkeye, ragged and exhausted, in his bloody scrubs, telling them they need to make it stop... man. such a fantastic scene
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i feel like every time ive seen a youtuber guy do a ‘girlfriend does my makeup’ video they always have an ‘allergic reaction’ to the makeup afterwards and im not saying the reaction is fake im just saying that i think maybe its an affect of having 10 pounds of paste put on their face and in their eyes for the first time in their lives. they always use foundation and concealer and highlighter and everything you would use for a full face of makeup and obviously thats the point of the video but did anyone really ever start out with doing that much makeup all at once i know nobody came out of the pussy knowing how to contour. im just saying i dont think your five billion makeup products are actually hydrating and promoting skin health i think your body has just adjusted to this foreign sludge being put on your face every single day
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SPOTIFY WRAPPED ‘22 » #95 acquainted — the weeknd
“ to say that we're in love is dangerous but , girl , i'm so glad we're acquainted . ” / @wasteslands
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watching a movie at home circa like, 2001 was like
put your TV on channel 2 so the VCR will work
open up the clamp shell case that held the VHS that has that satisfying crrlikkkkkk
put in the movie
gdi it has to be rewound
press STOP and then rewind because its so much faster that way
start the movie and it takes a few seconds for the movie to actually start cause you rewound to the VERY beginning
FBI will get you if you illegally distribute or exhibit this movie
and then. because you forgot that movies are always so much louder than TV
COMING SOON TO OWN ON VIDEO AND DVD
QUICK LOWER THE VOLUME LOWER THE VOLUME LOWER THE VOLUME OH FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay crisis averted.
although. these ads are kind of quiet. a little hard to hear.....
better turn up the volume...
THX
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Doesn't it make martial arts useless if a noob can beat a veteran? No offense
None taken, I get why someone would think that :D
But the situation where that happens is sparring. Sparring doesn't mean "I have to obliterate the other person no matter what", but "let's work on our abilities together and be fair and nice to each other". If I have a partner who is way less experienced than me, I don't spar the same way as I would with an equal. Instead I try the stuff that's too risky in those equal sparring sessions cause experienced people could easily dodge/block them. It's just not cool (and highly frowned upon) to beat up less experienced people. You hold back according to their level.
Furthermore, this happens at the dojo where the experienced people are aware what's allowed in tournaments and what isn't. In real life conflicts I'd definitely approach things differently cause there are no points, no breaks, no illegal moves etc. At the dojo, all those things exist. And maybe the beginner doesn't know that elbow strikes or gripping or certain other things aren't allowed, so they'll happily do them :D If you play by the rules and the other person doesn't, that limits you in that moment.
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