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I tried to write my dad a kind of eulogy, kind of bouncing off the things various of my family members said in the Zoom funeral, and looked up a bunch of quotes like it was an essay, and outlined a few ideas of what kind of thing I wanted to say, and–
Well, really what I have here is a thing I want to discuss with him and get his input on, is what it boils down to. (Your picture was not posted)
problem is disenfranchisement, and our archaic electoral system, and all that, and theoretically the uk is more functional as a democracy, is that really what y'all vote for???, wtf?, i love y'all but please i don't want to see one more us politics post from my uk peeps, i am done, thanks, fix your shit before you lecture me on mine, i don't need y'alls signal boosts, i live here
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salmonid https://salmonid.tumblr.com/post/629102171809513472/america-is-extremely-awful-and-evil-and-its-hell :
america is extremely awful and evil and its hell to live in right now and always has been but pardon me if im being rude but i don’t think anyone here needs to hear if from members of the british commonwealth
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like this, what a thing
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sirsparklepants https://sirsparklepants.tumblr.com/post/623097418768138240 :
sirsparklepants https://sirsparklepants.tumblr.com/post/623094477880492032 :
You know you’ve picked your friend group well when a bunch of them will sit
and theorize about the horrors of witcher biology with you when you yell
about how the fuck Geralt even stands up without passing out with a stupid
low heart rate. ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyalisette https://tmblr.co/mlq9we1yh1_kbuTnkLRlXkQ
and loquaciousky https://tmblr.co/m7N5ADHFbV9XdSzadx8_yGA are delightful
people who came up with most of this.
Anyway! It’s likely that he has an enlarged heart (which I love for both fantasy biology and narrative symbolism reasons), extremely overactive bone marrow, and a super efficient liver. Which means the witcher trials are basically doing an entire magical bone marrow transplant at the same time as hugely altering two major organs! No wonder so many kids die. And probably not all of them die during the trials, unless they take a month or more, because in that case you run the risk of giving the candidates every autoimmune disorder at once or aggressive leukemia, or both! And a legit reason for only men to undergo the witcher trials - testosterone mediates autoimmune functions, which is why more AFAB folks show signs of autoimmune conditions than AMAB ones. If the trials upregulate immune activity as part of supercharging the response to toxins and diseases, testosterone could be a deciding factor in survival.
Bonus fact! With a supercharged immune system, you get things like cytokine storms in response to anything that does get through the body’s defenses… which Geralt shows most of the signs of when he gets that ghoul bite.
ladyalisette https://tmblr.co/mlq9we1yh1_kbuTnkLRlXkQ coming in clutch
with some more witcher biology theorizing! If witchers have supercharged
blood, they also probably have a longer latency time between “lack of
pulse” and “irreversible brain damage”, which is, idk about y'all,
excellent whump fuel, in my mind. They also might have larger reserves of
myoglobin, a muscle protein that stores oxygen like hemoglobin (sperm
whales use it as oxygen reserves while diving, apparently, and iirc human
athletes generally have more from training), which would result in very
dark/deep red muscle tissue. This would also make witchers more naturally
suited for endurance activities, because they’d have longer aerobic
respiration periods in the muscle before anaerobic respiration kicked in.
Now, if we wanted witchers to be able to do sprint activity when needed (as they likely do), we can look at beefed up witcher livers again! Glycogen, stored in the cells, can be quickly converted to glucose for anaerobic respiration, but the liver regulates both glycogen storage and glycolyis (glycogen to glucose), so it would need to be beefed up. Naturally, this process gives you about two minutes of extra hard workload, but in a witcher, it could be upped if the storage happened in the body cells as well. At the cost of insane caloric needs, of course! I hear Geralt eats whole sticks of butter in the games and this would be why. Also, Ali says “as a result, if you were to try to eat a witcher, they’d taste weirdly sweet and caramelize like liver.” (Your picture was not posted)
oh they fuckin, but not onscreen!, hair pulling, power imbalance, understated D/s vibes
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Crowning Glory - Anoke - Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own] https://archiveofourown.org/works/28614474:
For all your power imbalance, tender-creepy needs, here is a fic by Anoke about King Foltest cutting Vernon Roche’s hair. I know, you didn’t know you needed this, but you did. Delightfully understated and yet vivid. shudder
“Sire—” Roche started.
“Really. I insist,” Foltest said, gentle but stern.
Foltest was not above admitting to himself a certain amount of personal interest in keeping Roche from shaving his head. Despite how quickly the other man’s hair grew, if he cut it all off it would be at least another couple of months before it was long enough to twirl around a finger or get a good grip in. Cutting his commander’s hair would be good for both of them—and Foltest never flinched from unusual tasks.
(For W3 fans, you know Roche as the Extremely Square-Jawed guy with the goofy hat. Well, this is him with the hat off, in the heyday of his, er, patriotism.) (Your picture was not posted)
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