Some old narrow gauge Nia doodles I’ve done over the past month, Nia’s livery was inspired by 🌺mrterrier673🌺 on Twitter
Saw some edits of Nia with glasses and I fell in love we need more engines with accessories
Some pannier shaped siblings, they met pre-msr days (they didn’t come in the same time)but were very happy to reunite with one another in the msr then in the Skarloey Railway 😊☺️
Their sibling friendship/relationship is like alastor and Rosie or Mary and jack, Nia didn’t care about Stanley’s “jinx” and defended him whenever he got bullied, she’s one of the very few folks who can make Stanley genuinely happy and do things like singing much to his colleagues surprise (also livery inspiration for one another♥️❤️🧡💜💛🖤)
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so anyway my bff visited earlier and we watched Salvage Hunters: The Restorers and one of the items in this episode was a sofa that had been in Doctor Who so obviously this caught my attention [ETA: I realise on re-reading that THIS is the point where the story headed into Sad Nerd Territory by most people's standards, not later on] and they went to a Dr Who shop in London(?) and they were trying to build up to this obviously exciting reveal and the shop guy said it was from the 70s and I went "Oh is it from Robots of Death?" and then yes it was from Robot of Death, I had correctly guessed which 1970s Dr Who seating was remarkable enough to make it onto fucking Salvage Hunters and I am sharing this because it left me both proud and ashamed and that's quite a confusing mix of emotions to have.
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Does the infection within your NGE ripoff have stages? For example, in the beginning, if one is infected, you are just high alert before extreme paranoia rises (along with physical manifestations such as Taiyo's tentacle fingers and arms). If this is the case, what stages did Taiyo go through and what stage is he currently experiences within the timeline of this story? Or is it fast acting that it takes immediate hold on the host? Genuinely curious if you thought out anything about this.
I have thought about it quite a bit because it's been in my little noggin for like 2-3 years lmao
It all definitely depends on a) the scale/strength of a host and b) how much the parasite was able to infect. In Taiyo's case, he's pretty freaking big compared to a human (who tend to become fully infected within a day or two) and his infection point was a wound made on his side that's minor enough not to incapacitate him. Because of that, his infection is much slower and appears more in "stages" rather than rapid symptoms.
The very first stage is that even though he does clean and dress his wound, he doesn't tell anyone about the extent of his injury despite that at this stage there's a solid chance he could be treated. Something in his mind is resisting the idea of revealing his infection, which is actually just the parasite forcing its host to avoid fully getting rid of it. His senses also gradually heighten, especially hearing and smelling, to the point it can become irritable with how overstimulating it can be. He's never quite comfortable; always too hot or too cold or too stiff, but he masks it as best he can.
Eventually, the infection will spread further along his body, although most of it is hidden under his suit and because again, he hides his sickness. That's when the blackened veins start becoming more pronounced on his skin. There's this new urge to maim and bite and feed that pounds in his skull like a migraine, but he's able to keep that to himself or only give in to the more primal instincts when he can take out the aggression on another parasite he's fighting. Overtime, it becomes more and more obvious he's struggling with keeping instincts and logic separated, more so to Kumiko because now he's being extra clingy with her (due to the heightened instinct to protect).
And of course, it starts to come to a head when the infection physically manifests on him, primarily on his left side as that was where the wound originated from. That includes fully darkening the skin, external teeth, barbed tendrils, arm spikes, claws, and additional eyes. The accommodation of these new features causes the left arm of his suit to be broken off and prior to that, he had already lost his helmet in the original fight that led to him becoming infected, so it's no longer easy to hide that something clearly Is Not Right. In his defense, he didn't know it had gotten this bad until he was reaching for Kumiko to block an attack from hitting her, only for his gauntlet to practically explode with tendrils wrapping her up instead. She cut herself free of those pretty quick.
Unfortunately, he can only keep the parasitic instincts at bay for so long before he ultimately gives in. And that does include using humans to feed on. At first, he did so in secret because he knew it was wrong and would extremely upset Kumiko, and only a few humans at a time were enough to satiate him to take back control of his instincts. When Kumiko catches him doing so as the hunger becomes more intense, it's the last straw for her, because she can't stand this dude to begin with, let alone when he's literally becoming the monsters she's fighting. She's lucky enough that even in the throes of his infection, he doesn't see her as another food source or potential host to also infect. Instead, his protection is now borderline possession dialed up to a twenty-seven, because the feeling was so strong within him that the infection could only warp his perspective than get rid of it entirely.
There's some fun other factors that the infection can do with Taiyo and where it ultimately leads him at the end of their story, but that's to save when it's been written ;)
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okay i just stumbled into an accidentally perfect argument against the average Pro Constitution Anti Trans type. It's really obvious that transition is someone pursuing their own happiness and freedom. anyway arguments that the founding fathers or w/e were pro- "freedom, justice, and the pursuit of happiness" means that restricting transition care specifically is depriving people of all three, it's against the founding ethos of the united states, and the constitution itself would side with us
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Plex History thing before I go and respond to some stuff in my notifs/go help my mum solve her puzzle games:
I probably should have made this post before the last one, but Mangle is one of the oldest animatronics in the Plex. Her attraction was called "Mangle's Workshop" and was located where both Mazercise and El Chip's are now. It was based on science, engineering and - since this is Fazbear - selling toys. As such, it had a bunch of sciencey things in there like those tesla ball things where you put your hand on it and the electricity inside moves to it, and things that demonstrated concepts like gravity, such as those coin donation bins where you put a coin in the slot and it spirals into the container in the bottom.
She would host demos where you'd make slime, little robots with Fazbear toy kits, those bottle rockets, automatons, cupcakes, kites and all sorts of other stuff with her. She was supposed to help sell toys in the toy shop attached to the workshop as well, but she mostly just snuck kids freebies and stuff. It was set to be a pretty decently popular attraction, with great results from test audiences that adored her, but alas. Mangle was scrapped before the Plex officially opened for business, and the first Chica and Flower the Cupcake were substituted into the attraction instead.
It became "Chica's Workshop" and she was woefully underprepared for this. As such, a lot of the earlier demos were done whilst Chica was reading the fucking instructions and whenever she could get away with it, she changed the activity over to baking something instead. Safe to say, it wasn't nearly as popular as it could have been after the switch.
This is why Mangle was such an important animatronic in the early stages of Sewerhell. She already had the knowledge she needed in order to make it work down there with what she had and what she and the others could steal. It unfortunately set the standard for most Chica's going forward struggling with attractions not built for them though, which sucks. Not a lot Mangle could do about it though :(
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