
| AdrianBrony #181991 1 year ago |
Took some advice and revised this page. I ordered the topics better, expaned on some things, cut unnecessary information, and generally organized it better this time. |
| AdrianBrony #182000 1 year ago |
and no, MetalHooves, I haven't been in a biology class since A&P in high school... though it was the advanced A&P class that got to see actual human cadavers, |
| AdrianBrony #182008 1 year ago |
also hypothesis: Twilight Sparkle suffers from some form of Epilepsy, and the magic incident in the flashback was her having a unicorn's version of an epileptic seizure augmented by her natural power. |
| Anonymous #182014 1 year ago |
i like this |
| Kawa #182037 1 year ago |
Typo right there in the header. Chemial? |
| Kawa #182041 1 year ago |
Or no, wait, not a typo. Too consistant. |
| Anonymous #182062 1 year ago |
fuckin' nerds |
| Anonymous #182065 1 year ago |
Okay, magic, got it! |
| Anonymous #182157 1 year ago |
Will Pegasi and Earth ponies be covered?
Expecially Earth Ponies I would love to know how their magic exactly work(I already know that they are WAY more physicallly powerfull than Pegasi and Unicorns...WAY MUCH more...possibly some of them had other abilities...) |
| Dark_Horst #182457 1 year ago |
holy fucking science. WHERE CAN I FIND THE REST OF THESE? |
| AdrianBrony #182523 1 year ago |
#182457
well, this is a revision of >>24038 which had some details problems and organization issues. the rest don't exist yet, but my next planned one is the earth pony hooves. |
| Anonymous #182557 1 year ago |
Fuck yeah nerds!
FINISH THE SET PLEASE. |
| Anonymous #182670 1 year ago |
This is WAY too awesome to not have a Earth and Pegasus version too.
*internet brohoof* |
| Anonymous #182724 1 year ago |
I like it. Thanks! I'm going to use this as my touchstone for future fics.
Where did you come up with the word "chemial"? |
| AdrianBrony #182776 1 year ago |
#182724
Relating to the origins of the word chemical, it's based from either a greek or latin word meaning "black." see, back ion the day, a "chemist" meant one who dealt in the black, as in a witch or sorcerer. they were commonly confused in scientists we would recognize as chemists. The original connotations were used to come up with the word Chemial, to describe magic in the case of this image. |
| MetalHooves #182993 1 year ago |
Pre-emptin' me like a boss, Adrian. :P |
| Anonymous #183085 1 year ago |
^^Ah! Cool. I like it, especially since "magic" basically translates as "wisdom", which doesn't exactly apply to an inborn thing like this. Out of curiosity, was this based in any way on Horn Rot as presented in Dangerous Business?
Y'know, if it burns off the keratin layer when they use magic, then magic probably smells like burnt hair. :p |
| AdrianBrony #183496 1 year ago |
#183085
it doesn't literally "burn" off, it just dissolves odorlessly. "burn" is the closest description but isn't accurate, thus it is in quotationations "magic" has been demonstrated to be very separate frm experience and wisdom, the control of it is, however. Twilight at first had far more magic capabilities than she could control. though the control; of magic definitely requires experience. have no clue of this horn rot thing. |
| Anonymous #183545 1 year ago |
Never mind, then. It was basically described as a degenerative frostbite or burn-like effect to the magic-conducting cells.
I just had a thought regarding the horn tactile sense -- what if it detects life force/soul/vital magic/whatever rather than physical pressure and texture? It explains why a unicorn can enjoy a horn-job but also trim the horn down with a metal file! |
| AdrianBrony #184002 1 year ago |
#183545
it detects both (arcane feedback) but since, as described, ONC tissue is just like dead tissue when inactive, filing the horn produces no feeling-- so long as the unicorn doesn't activate its horn when it is being filed. the uhh... "hornjob" can be justified as the unicorn sending a light trickle through the horn to expose the outer ONC layer and make it able to provide feedback. |
| Anonymous #184046 1 year ago |
Gloriously nerdy! I'm looking forward to more pony anatomy texts from you. |
| Anonymous #475841 10 months ago |
On horn rot:
The separation of the ignis majorum and ignis minorum in this model (something like a magical isolation transformer) should protect against horn-rot necrosis reaching the brain unless tissue inside the skull were killed in the initial accident, something inconsistent with the order in which symptoms progress. If we're going to reconcile both fannons, we need to propose some mechanism for horn rot to spread across the barrier. I don't think the initial damage affects the ignis majorum, since tissue death starts at the tip of the horn, but if the magical seizures it causes eventually damage the ignis majorum, that might be a way by which necrosis could spread to the brain. Tissue death spreading into the horn's blood supply and its connection with the skull would likely result in visible damage to the area around the horn long before it managed to reach the brain. On the other hand, perhaps brain tissue doesn't actually die. It could be that the increasing intensity of the seizures transmitted from the horn into the brain eventually causes failure of autonomous systems. If this is the case, it might be possible to relieve symptoms and buy a patient time with a medically-induced coma (which, in the fic that gives us horn rot, is what Celestia would have done (had anyone bothered to tell her) to buy Twilight enough time for the standard drug to be prepared, sparing her a week of pain, avoiding the need for her friends to risk life and limb obtaining rare plants from distant parts of the continent, and preventing a huge area of land from being devastated in the process) or by blocking communication between the ignis minorum and ignis majorum. The latter could be achieved by siphoning off magical energy or by sedating the ignis minorum. Combined with artificial respiration, this could increase the window of time to administer the standard cure before amputation is necessary to save a patient's life (although it might not be as effective as an induced coma - further study is required). Even in cases that aren't life-threatening (where the standard drug is already on hand or can be prepared in time), this might point to more effective pain-management strategies. I can't believe I just wrote all that speculation about the pathology of a magical disease in brightly-colored cartoon ponies. |