Oookay so well today I remembered that certain sea creatures have blue blood instead of red, and after doing a little research on the subject, I realized that the entire troll hemospectrum could possibly be feasibly explained with different amounts of the different proteins hemoglobin, hemocyanin and hemerythrin! Sorry if it’s a little too sciency for one’s tastes but do let me know if I’ve gotten anything wrong!
(If it’s something like ‘individual organisms can’t produce more than one oxygen-binding protein at once’ well my friend please do remember that the subject matter is a species from a different universe that breeds in a similar manner to ants, bees and termites, and we can probably find a way to work around it anyhows)
Zcience!
Xenobiological headcannon accepted
I know this may go unnoticed, but some peers and I, upon reading this explanation, have proposed something of an extension. The blood of trolls is actually much darker than the blood of humans, so it could be possible that trolls have a some sort of darker, melanin-esque pigment present in their blood as well.
If this is to be assumed, then mutants would not only have a malfunction in which pigments are produced –which in a quick side not can be from any one caste to another as all trolls would be genetically capable of producing any of the blood pigments–, but they would not produce sufficient counts of melanin, creating a case similar to albinism in humans and other known animals. This would give Karkat a similarity with Dave, as the only natural means of having red eyes is being albinistic, at least for humans anyways, meaning that in a sense they are both albinistic, red-associated knights.
On the opposite end of albinism is melanism, or the over-production of melanin. This would provide some sort of explanation for the /highly/ mutated troll, if he is one at all, known as His Honorable Tyranny, given that he bears, at least by the account that we have seen, black blood.
I hope this was not off in any way, as we tried staying as accurate as we could, and if we made a mistake somewhere, feel free to point it out. Sorry that we could not prepare a fancy chart like the original post.
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so now we’re into the stolen centuries arc I think it’s a fair assumption to say that the unaccounted for deaths Kravitz mentioned in crystal kingdom are from their deaths exploring the different planes Merle has 57 deaths total, so given everything I know about Merle Highchurch, you cannot convince me that since he knew he was gonna revive on the StarBlaster that whenever he was told “we gotta run quickly to the ship, or we’re gonna die!” that his immediate response wasn’t
one time in sixth grade i did my math homework and then because i was excited that i had grasped the lesson so well, i did the next day’s homework too
the next day in class i told my teacher, and she looked constipated for a second, and then said dismissively, “well, then you’re not very good at following directions, are you.”
Cause tags are truth. Maaan ,that one time a teacher stole my encyclopedia cause it proved her wrong.
when I was eight and in public school, we could do a report based on any historical character who had a book about them in the school library.
I picked Harriet Tubman because Harriet Tubman, and I wrote about how her master had thrown an anvil at her head, leaving her with a permanent dent in her forehead. I know that the anvil part was definitely in the school library book.
My teacher circled the word “anvil” and took off points.
“I HAVE SPELLED ANVIL CORRECTLY,” I roared in tiny confrontation.
“No,” she said, and it transpired that she didn’t know or care that “anvil” is a word or that “anvils” are a thing.
And so despite my helpful attempts to explain what anvils were, including references to blacksmiths and the Roadrunner, I had points taken off OH MY GOD.
YES, I AM STILL MAD ABOUT THIS TWENTY YEARS LATER. FUCK YOU, LADY. YOU ARE DOUBTLESSLY DEAD BY NOW AND I HOPE YOU KNOW YOUR STUDENTS STILL HATE YOU.
ANVILS ARE A THING.
From “Daring Greatly” by Brene Browne:
“…85 percent of the men and women we interviewed for the shame research could recall a school incident from their childhood that was so shaming, it changed how they thought of themselves as learners.”
I think about this quote a lot when I think of school.
Sometimes you just see a combination of posts that really crystallizes something for you. thank you spcsnaptags for putting these thoughts together this way.
In second grade I used the word “boon” in a composition and my teacher marked it wrong because, she said, it was not a word.
I brought in the Chambers English Dictionary the next day to show her.
That was the same school where even after I had demonstrated to them that I could read by READING A PAGE OF A BOOK OUT LOUD IN FRONT OF THEM, I was judged to be in the somethingth percentile for learning to read. Boy, was that a fun two years in the American public school system.
In 7th grade we had to write a term paper. I chose migraines as my subject as it was something I was experiencing at the time.
I wrote an excellent paper that utilized medical language far beyond my grade level but I understood everything I wrote.
When I got the paper back I had gotten a C because the teacher didn’t understand the science in my paper. Like what the hell?
What’s scary is that this pretty much describes American public education. Like, these stories aren’t unique. This is a universal truth in our school system. I starts in preschool and lasts through high school. I was dealing with this shit right up until college.
And then if you point out the way you’re being disrespected you have a “problem with authority” and get singled out for worse treatment and told YOU’RE the ungrateful good-for-nothing for talking back to your teachers. Yeah, I’m not grateful. They DIDN’T DO ANYTHING for me to be grateful for!! I don’t hate teachers because they’re teachers, I hate when they refuse to DO THEIR JOBS AND TEACH.
back when I was in elementary school, I loved reading. (it’s a real wonder why I don’t anymore #sarcasm) Now, one year we did pre tests to see where we were at before starting an asignment and it’s expected that everyone should get less than a C because they “shouldn’t” have read the books yet. This one was on one of the few books I owned called “maniac mcgee” and I got an A on the test that doesn’t count towards the grade because it’s designed for students to fail. My teacher accused me of cheating and I when I brought my copy of the book which was clearly old and in terrible condition because it was being kept by a poor 7 year old, she accused me of stealing it from the library. It was clearly not a library book and was one of the few books I had.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
