end0skeletal:

marycp2011:

end0skeletal:

A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of pigmented spots on an unpigmented (white) background of hair, feathers or scales.

(Photo sources: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)

I think I’ve heard that color pattern showing up seems to happen when animals start to become more human-friendly for some reason?

Like when they started to domesticated foxes-

That’s true! Foxes are the most recent/famous example of piebald coats showing up as animals are bred to favor more tame temperaments. As the most friendly and sociable foxes were bred with each other, other characteristics started showing up in addition to piebald coats:

Floppy ears

Curly tails

Shorter tails (loss of vertebrae)

Change in vocalizations (barking)

As far as why this happens, that’s some complex genetics I’m not qualified to explain. In fact, I’m not sure if enough research has been done to fully understand it. If anyone knows of any studies that successfully correlated all the traits that start coming out in the process of domestication, feel free to chime in!

stickyfrogs:

Wanda Is Here!

She is wearing her Spectacular Silver Eyes of Please-Just-A-Little-Treatie!

black-cherry28:

My mind is like an internet browser. 17 tabs are open, 4 of them are frozen and I don’t know where the music is coming from.

apricitic:

apricitic:

save the les🐝ans

A fun fact for the transphobes that have reblogged this post: I’m trans! 💛

Writing Traumatic Injuries References

alatar-and-pallando:

So, pretty frequently writers screw up when they write about injuries. People are clonked over the head, pass out for hours, and wake up with just a headache… Eragon breaks his wrist and it’s just fine within days… Wounds heal with nary a scar, ever…

I’m aiming to fix that.

Here are over 100 links covering just about every facet of traumatic injuries (physical, psychological, long-term), focusing mainly on burns, concussions, fractures, and lacerations. Now you can beat up your characters properly!

General resources

WebMD

Mayo Clinic first aid

Mayo Clinic diseases

First Aid

PubMed: The source for biomedical literature

Diagrams: Veins (towards heart), arteries (away from heart) bones, nervous system, brain

Burns

General overview: Includes degrees

Burn severity: Including how to estimate body area affected

Burn treatment: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degrees

Smoke inhalation

Smoke inhalation treatment

Chemical burns

Hot tar burns

Sunburns

Incisions and Lacerations

Essentials of skin laceration repair (including stitching techniques)

When to stitch (Journal article–Doctors apparently usually go by experience on this)

More about when to stitch (Simple guide for moms)

Basic wound treatment

Incision vs. laceration: Most of the time (including in medical literature) they’re used synonymously, but eh.

Types of lacerations: Page has links to some particularly graphic images–beware!

How to stop bleeding: 1, 2, 3

Puncture wounds: Including a bit about what sort of wounds are most likely to become infected

More about puncture wounds

Wound assessment: A huge amount of information, including what the color of the flesh indicates, different kinds of things that ooze from a wound, and so much more.

Home treatment of gunshot wound, also basics
More about gunshot wounds, including medical procedures

Tourniquet use: Controversy around it, latest research

Location pain chart: Originally intended for tattoo pain, but pretty accurate for cuts

General note: Deeper=more serious. Elevate wounded limb so that gravity draws blood towards heart. Scalp wounds also bleed a lot but tend to be superficial. If it’s dirty, risk infection. If it hits the digestive system and you don’t die immediately, infection’ll probably kill you. Don’t forget the possibility of tetanus! If a wound is positioned such that movement would cause the wound to gape open (i.e. horizontally across the knee) it’s harder to keep it closed and may take longer for it to heal.

Broken bones

Types of fractures

Setting a broken bone when no doctor is available

Healing time of common fractures

Broken wrists

Broken ankles/feet

Fractured vertebrae: Neck (1, 2), back

Types of casts

Splints

Fracture complications

Broken noses

Broken digits: Fingers and toes

General notes: If it’s a compound fracture (bone poking through) good luck fixing it on your own. If the bone is in multiple pieces, surgery is necessary to fix it–probably can’t reduce (“set”) it from the outside. Older people heal more slowly. It’s possible for bones to “heal” crooked and cause long-term problems and joint pain. Consider damage to nearby nerves, muscle, and blood vessels.

Concussions

General overview

Types of concussions 1, 2

Concussion complications

Mild Brain Injuries: The next step up from most severe type of concussion, Grade 3

Post-concussion syndrome

Second impact syndrome: When a second blow delivered before recovering from the initial concussion has catastrophic effects. Apparently rare.

Recovering from a concussion

Symptoms: Scroll about halfway down the page for the most severe symptoms

Whiplash

General notes: If you pass out, even for a few seconds, it’s serious. If you have multiple concussions over a lifetime, they will be progressively more serious. Symptoms can linger for a long time.

Character reaction:

Shock (general)

Physical shock: 1, 2

Fight-or-flight response: 1, 2

Long-term emotional trauma: 1 (Includes symptoms), 2

First aid for emotional trauma

Treatment (drugs)

WebMD painkiller guide

Treatment (herbs)

1, 2, 3, 4

Miscellany

Snake bites: No, you don’t suck the venom out or apply tourniquettes

Frostbite

Frostbite treatment

Severe frostbite treatment

When frostbite sets in: A handy chart for how long your characters have outside at various temperatures and wind speeds before they get frostbitten

First aid myths: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Includes the ones about buttering burns and putting snow on frostbite.

Poisons: Why inducing vomiting is a bad idea

Poisonous plants

Dislocations: Symptoms 1, 2; treatment. General notes: Repeated dislocations of same joint may lead to permanent tissue damage and may cause or be symptomatic of weakened ligaments. Docs recommend against trying to reduce (put back) dislocated joint on your own, though information about how to do it is easily found online.

Muscular strains

Joint sprain

Resuscitation after near-drowning: 1, 2

Current CPR practices: We don’t do mouth-to-mouth anymore.

The DSM IV, for all your mental illness needs.

Electrical shock

Human response to electrical shock: Includes handy-dandy voltage chart

Length of contact needed at different voltages to cause injury

Evaluation protocol for electric shock injury

Neurological complications

Electrical and lightning injury

Cardiac complications

Delayed effects and a good general summary

Acquired savant syndrome: Brain injuries (including a lightning strike) triggering development of amazing artistic and other abilities

Please don’t repost! You can find the original document (also created by me) here.

sewingfrommagic:

jhenne-bean:

catchymemes:

Free printer. May need some tuning.

better than banksy’s shredder art

OH MY GOD

You do a lot of lore stuff, so I was wondering, how do you think Trans stuff would work in the WoW-verse with such huge instances of sexual dimorphism in the races?

isei-silva:

It would definitely work! There are already so many transmutation potions and shapeshifting trinkets that allow individuals to change their appearance and physical form, momentarily or permanently, that alternating gender would be a small effort.

Relating more to the sexual dimorphism found between the races (such as draenei), keep in mind that our in-game avatars are only a placeholder limited by mechanics. A ‘real life’ version of Azeroth would have a wide variety of different heights and body types for every race and their genders! There would be females that are very beefy, males that are very petite, and everything in between!

Thnx, but Another one xD But one barely gets to see their arcane orders; like I saw many Vindicators and Anchorites, WoD introduced us to the Rangari, Nobundo brought them shamanism so even that is (somewhat) represented, but where are the Augari? Did they all Go with Archimonde & Kil’jaeden? did the entire society turn to the light whole-heartedly xD They give similar Night Elf vibes of how great they WERE. What do you think about them Now. did the Augari get disbanded? Replaced? Any ideas xD

isei-silva:

Oh! Gotcha!

Here’s what we have on the Conservatory of the Arcane, the greatest school of magic on Argus:

The Conservatory of the Arcane is a location in Mac’Aree. It was the greatest school of magic on Argus. The three Augari schools were based here and led by Archimonde, who was himself an alumnus.

The eredar once stored great quantities of energy throughout power conduits here. Several native species were drawn to the area because of its latent energies, including panthara and marsuul.

Quoram was once the keeper of the Conservatory’s keys, custodian to all of its locks and gates.

It is divided into the Hall of Enlightenment, the Praetorium and the Wakener’s Enclave.

The Augari:

The Augari, also known as the Triad, was formed of three eredar orders: the Wakeners, the Consulate, and the Scholars. Archimonde, Master of the Augari, instaured three trials. Their seat was the Conservatory of the Arcane, the greatest school of arcane magic on Argus.

The Arc-Consul, Velara, answered only to Archimonde himself.

Looks like the majority of the Augari sided with Archimonde on this one! Not to say there weren’t others that decided to escape with the other refugees, but if a student didn’t know better there would be no reason to distrust Archimonde at the time which ultimately lead to their corruption.

The Augari as the eredar knew them seem to be no more past their exodus from Argus. The draenei certainly continued their practice of magic and the arcane throughout their travels, but there never was a collective of Augari again.