Hey guys! Just letting you all know I'm taking a hiatus on MCYT writing, I sadly just haven't been feeling in the right mood for it and I'm pretty sure you all can tell with how little I've been active here.
I well still try and finished some of my stories that I have here but I won't be making anything new for a while.
Bubblegum Buzz, The Borrowers Royal Garden, and Virtual Lies well hopefully be finished as well as I'll do my best to finish writing my parts of me and JK's shared au.
Long time listener and first-time caller, I'm a huge fan of all you have done for the DPxDC fandom!
I understand that there is a certain amount of popularity around one "sad trenchcoat man" in the prompts where Danny is mucking about in Gotham, but I was curious about a different member. Someone who, to my understanding, is living in Gotham and occasionally works with Batman. Jason Blood, the host of Etrigan the Demon, seems like he could be interesting to bring on to consult instead of Constantine.
He made an impression on me in that "The Doom That Came to Gotham" movie.
Jason Blood is a pretty good consult for magic but the whole issue is the man really wants nothing to do with it (in most interpretations I've seen of the man at least, feel free to correct me I haven't read too many comics about him), so either Jason or Etrigan has a fondness towards Danny or Danny gets Jason somehow wrapped up in his shenanigans that he has no other choice but to put an end to this issue.
also if any of y'all responding who don't write Etrigan speaking in rhyme are dead to me.
Since atla is again having an extra surge of popularity, I'm shooting my shot:
[ID: (Rest of image description in alt). At the bottom of the image sits the text: "Zuko: Okay. Well, I can't remember how it starts, but the punchline is "leaf me alone, I'm bushed."" ID end].
Did we ever find out what the setup for this joke was? I feel kinda haunted by it. If not- anyone wanna make their best or worst guesses?
edit: I now know what "I'm bushed" mean, but go ahead anyway 👍
I'm sure it's all lore that will be revealed in due time, but could you tell us about some of the side effects of consuming the celestial flesh?
I’m definitely not good at working linearly and slow at story plot reveal right now anyway, so happy to answer lol
Also, I wasn’t sure how to gage how much context this answer needed so sorry in advance for the long answer 😭. And cw for graphic descriptions of disease/body horror stuff.
Tl;dr Eating Yvishnir eventually caused evolutionary entropy that sometimes causes horrors.
It’s said that Yvishnir (the body not in the ocean) was a fallen star from long ago, before humanity and the fall of Tartarus(ocean body). The primordials, (Furies and sea dragons) were the ancient fish and birds that fed on Yvishnir in order to sustain their size and godhood and multiply on Earth as its continued keepers. They grew jealous over humanity’s progress and out of fear they buried Yvishnir so humans wouldn’t find it, and hid themselves away. That’s how part of the creation myth goes anyway. Then Tartarus fell and uncovered Yvishnir once again, drawing the primordials out and changing the sea.
So when I say ‘eating the flesh’, I mostly mean the Crux. At first, when Yvishnir was discovered and exposed to the atmosphere, it produced something called Crux which permeated the corpse and oozed from it as a liquid, thought to be a type of otherworldly bacterium or ichor to help it decompose. It caused a sort of explosion of hyper biodiversity/evolution, starting with plants. Here are some examples, mostly some fungi:
Most Humans didn’t really consider eating the Crux of course.
There were a few eccentrics and cults however that started the ball rolling. They would mostly eat it from fungi that had grown around Yvishnir, as well as cooking with it. This caused versions of human evolution, where they began to evolve into the Myce and other species to repopulate as, genetically merging with fungi in order to survive the new world. They’re under the blanket term ‘Hox Strays’, who make up most of Marrowtide and other known civilization islands to this day. There are different variations of these and their mutations have ‘stabilized’ over many generations but that’s another story.
As for Yvishnir, there was a point where the Crux changed its properties, becoming more crystalline. Entropy took over the longer the body was exposed. Even the very insects that were feeding on it began to quickly horrifically mutate and grow. People would say that demons were being birthed from its rotted juices. The Crux began to bring on less desirable effects. Humans classified it as several new forms of horrific diseases ranging from otherworldly prions to the very DNA itself denaturing and mutating.
✨Some outcomes include but are not limited to;✨
>Victims known to have fits of uncontrollable laughter while bleeding from orifices. Several cysts that had broken out on the skin were found to contain bits of teeth, hair and even eyes, like they were growing them.
>Some victims became more beast-like but at the cost of their minds and insatiable hunger for more of the celestial flesh/Crux.
>Victims first described it as a tingling sensation in their chest and extremities. Their blood began to change its molecular structure to be crystalline as well. Cells became shard-like, until their blood eventually hardened completely. It could be seen poking through skin, like they were full of glass.
>Worse still, in a sort of sped up form of the first outcome, they can become a never ending cycle of constantly evolving body parts, growing biomass like cancerous tumors of body parts forever in bloom, eg. growing several hands from your eye or numerous organs. The body can’t sustain this and it pretty much ends in death.
These modern day effects were mostly observed by The Ladder and they determined that Yvishnir was not to be consumed by organisms any longer. In the modern day it is safely contained in Hearth, which is the name of the quarantined citadel outside of The Fever, serving god knows what purpose aside from genetic experiments they’re rumored to be continuing with the remaining crystalline Crux Root.
The primordials felt that those who continued eating the Crux were forsaken, punished for eating the god. They along with others had migrated far, far away at that point, populating the mountains of Zenith and oceans that no one dared to sail through. The body of Yvishnir faded into legends. Even people living within Fever and the isles surrounding it knew less and less about the body as time went on, more focused on surviving day to day.
Their are cases where people have somehow managed to preserve the liquid form of Crux, said to still be procured and preserved when the body was first uncovered and would thus have the least amount of risk involved.
Some people hunt mermaids for the soul purpose of searching the contents of their stomach, to see if they have remnants of Tartarus in them.
With Tartarus it’s all based on theory because no one is able to get down there to see wtf is going on, they only see the results.
Parmageddon Edition
Some things, they just give you the ick:
Like chicken not cooked makes you sick,
Or protesting too much
Theories no one brought up?
And talking to fans like a dick.
soliciting your favorite recipe using dandelions! any part of the plant works for me, i'm just eyeing the new crop this spring and thinking about what i can make that isn't salad
Hey guys do you remember that sound bit of someone in Wilbur's chat saying they were in his walls and Wilbur aggressively hitting his wall in response? Can someone help me find that clip? Thx u if you can!
Vocabulary question: I mostly study Akkadian and Hittite, but I was curious if there was a Sumerogram I could use for "mushroom". The ePSD gives UZU-DIRIG; UZU "flesh" I recognize immediately, and DIRIG seems to be something like "overflowing" (used for clouds going overhead, net profits, and people being in command). I'm very curious why UZU-DIRIG would mean "mushroom"; is there some aspect of UZU or DIRIG I'm missing?
Yep, uzudiri or uzudirig is the Sumerian word for "mushroom" or "truffle", written 𒍜𒋛𒀀 in cuneiform (or sometimes with the plant determinative as 𒌑𒍜𒋛𒀀). Its literal meaning, from uzu "flesh, meat" and dirig "surpassing, to exceed", is something like "excessively fleshy", probably referring to its flesh-like texture compared to other "plants" (with which it was categorized).
Would be nice if Vader took his son for bonding time that dose not involve Luke losing a limb or get more emotional damage umu
Lol yeah right?? They will have some more bonding down the line in the comic. No more dismemberment, but when it comes to emotional damage….well I don’t know if that can be helped when there are Skywalkers involved XD
Yet another discarded gif as bonus, moar father-son “bonding”
for example this is my monstrous pothos son, potholomew, who loves earthworm castings tea and naps in the shade :3
saved this ask for today when i have time to talk about my BEAUTIFUL MONSTERA!!!
I got her as just a 2ft tall baby from home depot after i moved here in August 2020, when I was still sorting out finally getting some real furniture in my living room. i got the the week after i got my bookshelves & desks (snake tank stands), but before i got a couch or coffee table (and just after celebrating Kazul's birthday lol). Only a couple leaves had any fenestrations!
and now she dominates that half of the room lmao. she's GIANT.
her recent leaves are now as big as my entire torso
UNFORTUNATELY, the time has finally come for me to expand Kazul's living quarters and so I'm putting another 4ft section of tank onto the desk this plant currently lives on. She's too big (and the pot too heavy) to put on top of the tank, and there's nowhere else in my apartment she fits. I'd been deluding myself that she could be squeezed onto my kitchen-island-slash-tv-stand but this summer i carried her around the apartment seeing where actually she could go and she was WAY too large to fit there. so idk. I will probably end up sectioning her into a few smaller more managable plants, maybe i can leave the biggest leaf vine intact and see if it can be convinced to grow sideways across the top of her tanks or something. And I'll be able to prop a lot of cuttings to give away (already chopped some off a few months ago that are now nicely producing roots. I'll definitely post the update on what I figure out when I get to it.
She did have one more surprise for me today though was was a 6ft 4inch segment of aerial root sneaking down behind the plants and under the desk:
wild! anyway that's Her Majesty thank you for asking :)