Ah, but you do not eat trees, which ou systems cannot handle, and so yes, there would be an additional stomach (ruminants can have as many as five!) -- and if one is digesting metals and stones and such, that's an additional one as well (Dragon Gizzards!)
Huh.
What if a large portion of a dragon's hoard is just refined processed poop?
*gets very quiet and tucks hoard under a rug*
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I'm sure there's a great urology joke I could make here.
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Very. I work at one, my job is to help train the students how to perform exams and interact with patients. Med school is very hard. That’s not to say it’s impossible, but you kinda really have to want it to make it. See, it’s not just the book learning you have to be good at, it requires emotional intelligence too, and a strong stomach. Plus a whole shed load of prerequisite education just to get in. Plus it’s hella expensive, and theirs no real guarantee of a job when you get out. And even if you do get matched somewhere, if you mess up or otherwise wash out, you’re stuck with an education you can’t use and a pile of bills you still have to pay back, so it’s not without risk. Is it worth it? That’s up to each individual to decide. Is it hard…? Yes.
Assuming you manage to survive Pre-Med (I stepped out, myself), it is exceptionally difficult with a washout rate of about 60% across the board for anyone who is not masculine, cis, het, and of marked European ancestry.
And even they have about a third of all folks drop out.
That assumes either an MD or a DO.
DNP is a little easier, but more limited in where one can practice.
Psychiatry is also a little easier, but is still extremely hard and is more difficult to get a slot in a decent school.
That said, when TGD folks are asking me what they should look towards in medical education, I usually suggest a DNP (Nurse Practitioner) or PharmD (Pharmacologist) program.
NP programs are much cheaper, and the biggest benefit to them is that you can do them step by step up a well defined ladder and that, in turn, allows you to take a longer term to get there (meaning you can work as you go, and also that you can study on your own terms and take breaks).
Pharm programs have limited value in terms of job market, but if you can manage to get deeply familiar with compounding or specialty pharma, it can be quite lucrative and offer opportunities to break into research.
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Assuming you manage to survive Pre-Med (I stepped out, myself), it is exceptionally difficult with a washout rate of about 60% across the board for anyone who is not masculine, cis, het, and of marked European ancestry.
And even they have about a third of all folks drop out.
That assumes either an MD or a DO.
DNP is a little easier, but more limited in where one can practice.
Psychiatry is also a little easier, but is still extremely hard and is more difficult to get a slot in a decent school.
That said, when TGD folks are asking me what they should look towards in medical education, I usually suggest a DNP (Nurse Practitioner) or PharmD (Pharmacologist) program.
NP programs are much cheaper, and the biggest benefit to them is that you can do them step by step up a well defined ladder and that, in turn, allows you to take a longer term to get there (meaning you can work as you go, and also that you can study on your own terms and take breaks).
Pharm programs have limited value in terms of job market, but if you can manage to get deeply familiar with compounding or specialty pharma, it can be quite lucrative and offer opportunities to break into research.
Don’t overlook PA (Physician’s Assistant) programs. They can make almost as much as doctors, with it seems like half the educational requirements, and since those programs require a couple thousand hours on the job as an EMT or nurse or something just to get in, it’s also something you can work yourself towards.
Assuming you manage to survive Pre-Med (I stepped out, myself), it is exceptionally difficult with a washout rate of about 60% across the board for anyone who is not masculine, cis, het, and of marked European ancestry.
And even they have about a third of all folks drop out.
That assumes either an MD or a DO.
DNP is a little easier, but more limited in where one can practice.
Psychiatry is also a little easier, but is still extremely hard and is more difficult to get a slot in a decent school.
That said, when TGD folks are asking me what they should look towards in medical education, I usually suggest a DNP (Nurse Practitioner) or PharmD (Pharmacologist) program.
NP programs are much cheaper, and the biggest benefit to them is that you can do them step by step up a well defined ladder and that, in turn, allows you to take a longer term to get there (meaning you can work as you go, and also that you can study on your own terms and take breaks).
Pharm programs have limited value in terms of job market, but if you can manage to get deeply familiar with compounding or specialty pharma, it can be quite lucrative and offer opportunities to break into research.
Don’t overlook PA (Physician’s Assistant) programs. They can make almost as much as doctors, with it seems like half the educational requirements, and since those programs require a couple thousand hours on the job as an EMT or nurse or something just to get in, it’s also something you can work yourself towards.
oh, crap, you are right.
I owe every PA i have worked with an apology, and that's a Looooong list.
I think I tend to gloss over them because of the independent practice issue, and since I do a lot of work around Gender health, I run into that a LOT.
best get cracking on those text message apologies...
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haven't they made, like, a half dozen TV series about them?
There's one, some guy dies in a dream or something after having sex with the lead character or something like that...
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anyways basically, you know vampires? Well I was just thinking that it would be cool if there was some sort of mechanical creature that used blood as a power source, and was like a vampire construct. And then I had this idea to make it somehow related to Greek mythology, because I mean the vampire like creatures from Greek mythology are already partially mechanical (Empusa, they’re blood drinking humanoids with flaming hair and one of their legs is made of bronze) so then I was thinking it could be like some sort of human that tried to gain immortality by replacing all of its parts with mechanical ones and powering them with other people’s blood. So then I turned Hephaestus into a former human inventor that, wanting to preserve their own life, slowly turned themself into a blood drinking, four armed winged horror made of bronze.
still working on the whole… everything but i think its kinda cool.
Omnivorous dragons means you can have them eating trees like celery. Which is fun.
It also means multiple stomachs, lol, so Mercer and CR would not approve.
I am totally broken up about it, as you can tell.
Why would it necessitate multiple stomachs? I eat celery, and I only got 1 stomach. At least, that is, I only got 1 stomach I know of.
Ah, but you do not eat trees, which ou systems cannot handle, and so yes, there would be an additional stomach (ruminants can have as many as five!) -- and if one is digesting metals and stones and such, that's an additional one as well (Dragon Gizzards!)
Pandas eat exclusively bamboo, and they only have 1 stomach. And koalas eat exclusively eucalyptus and they only have 1 stomach.
Omnivorous dragons means you can have them eating trees like celery. Which is fun.
It also means multiple stomachs, lol, so Mercer and CR would not approve.
I am totally broken up about it, as you can tell.
Why would it necessitate multiple stomachs? I eat celery, and I only got 1 stomach. At least, that is, I only got 1 stomach I know of.
Ah, but you do not eat trees, which ou systems cannot handle, and so yes, there would be an additional stomach (ruminants can have as many as five!) -- and if one is digesting metals and stones and such, that's an additional one as well (Dragon Gizzards!)
Pandas eat exclusively bamboo, and they only have 1 stomach. And koalas eat exclusively eucalyptus and they only have 1 stomach.
They also are like, the worst functioning creatures on earth. They can barely digest their food at all.
Pandas are carnivores if you look at their digestive system, and for whatever ungodly reason they refuse to eat anything but hard grass that any real herbivore would get so much more out of. There's a reason they just keep eating and eating and eating like that.
And koalas weren't built to eat eucalyptus either. While they've evolved to process it better than most creatures, they are still poisoning themselves and grinding their teeth flat. Seriously, they have so many adaptations, but they are the worst at having an ecological niche. They have devoted their entire bodies to eating that worthless plant, and they still suck at it.
If you want a good example of herbivores with a single stomach, look at horses and rabbits.
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Omnivorous dragons means you can have them eating trees like celery. Which is fun.
It also means multiple stomachs, lol, so Mercer and CR would not approve.
I am totally broken up about it, as you can tell.
Why would it necessitate multiple stomachs? I eat celery, and I only got 1 stomach. At least, that is, I only got 1 stomach I know of.
Ah, but you do not eat trees, which ou systems cannot handle, and so yes, there would be an additional stomach (ruminants can have as many as five!) -- and if one is digesting metals and stones and such, that's an additional one as well (Dragon Gizzards!)
Pandas eat exclusively bamboo, and they only have 1 stomach. And koalas eat exclusively eucalyptus and they only have 1 stomach.
They also are like, the worst functioning creatures on earth. They can barely digest their food at all.
Pandas are carnivores if you look at their digestive system, and for whatever ungodly reason they refuse to eat anything but hard grass that any real herbivore would get so much more out of. There's a reason they just keep eating and eating and eating like that.
And koalas weren't built to eat eucalyptus either. While they've evolved to process it better than most creatures, they are still poisoning themselves and grinding their teeth flat. Seriously, they have so many adaptations, but they are the worst at having an ecological niche. They have devoted their entire bodies to eating that worthless plant, and they still suck at it.
If you want a good example of herbivores with a single stomach, look at horses and rabbits.
I know all of that. I specifically mentioned those two animals as compared to dragons because dragons are also obviously carnivorous (just look at their teeth and claws, and usually binocular vision [depending on the artist]), but we were discussing their evolving to include trees as part of their diets. And any and all of those shortcomings can easily be handwaved away by the whole “dragons are magic” thing. I suppose I could have referred to other primates who are largely omnivorous and also only have 1 stomach too though.
anyways basically, you know vampires? Well I was just thinking that it would be cool if there was some sort of mechanical creature that used blood as a power source, and was like a vampire construct. And then I had this idea to make it somehow related to Greek mythology, because I mean the vampire like creatures from Greek mythology are already partially mechanical (Empusa, they’re blood drinking humanoids with flaming hair and one of their legs is made of bronze) so then I was thinking it could be like some sort of human that tried to gain immortality by replacing all of its parts with mechanical ones and powering them with other people’s blood. So then I turned Hephaestus into a former human inventor that, wanting to preserve their own life, slowly turned themself into a blood drinking, four armed winged horror made of bronze.
still working on the whole… everything but i think its kinda cool.
*gets very quiet and tucks hoard under a rug*
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How hard is med school?
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I'm sure there's a great urology joke I could make here.
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I’ve heard it’s really hard.
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Very. I work at one, my job is to help train the students how to perform exams and interact with patients. Med school is very hard. That’s not to say it’s impossible, but you kinda really have to want it to make it. See, it’s not just the book learning you have to be good at, it requires emotional intelligence too, and a strong stomach. Plus a whole shed load of prerequisite education just to get in. Plus it’s hella expensive, and theirs no real guarantee of a job when you get out. And even if you do get matched somewhere, if you mess up or otherwise wash out, you’re stuck with an education you can’t use and a pile of bills you still have to pay back, so it’s not without risk. Is it worth it? That’s up to each individual to decide. Is it hard…? Yes.
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Assuming you manage to survive Pre-Med (I stepped out, myself), it is exceptionally difficult with a washout rate of about 60% across the board for anyone who is not masculine, cis, het, and of marked European ancestry.
And even they have about a third of all folks drop out.
That assumes either an MD or a DO.
DNP is a little easier, but more limited in where one can practice.
Psychiatry is also a little easier, but is still extremely hard and is more difficult to get a slot in a decent school.
That said, when TGD folks are asking me what they should look towards in medical education, I usually suggest a DNP (Nurse Practitioner) or PharmD (Pharmacologist) program.
NP programs are much cheaper, and the biggest benefit to them is that you can do them step by step up a well defined ladder and that, in turn, allows you to take a longer term to get there (meaning you can work as you go, and also that you can study on your own terms and take breaks).
Pharm programs have limited value in terms of job market, but if you can manage to get deeply familiar with compounding or specialty pharma, it can be quite lucrative and offer opportunities to break into research.
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Don’t overlook PA (Physician’s Assistant) programs. They can make almost as much as doctors, with it seems like half the educational requirements, and since those programs require a couple thousand hours on the job as an EMT or nurse or something just to get in, it’s also something you can work yourself towards.
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oh, crap, you are right.
I owe every PA i have worked with an apology, and that's a Looooong list.
I think I tend to gloss over them because of the independent practice issue, and since I do a lot of work around Gender health, I run into that a LOT.
best get cracking on those text message apologies...
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Hi, I have an idea kinda for a monster… maybe.
haven't they made, like, a half dozen TV series about them?
There's one, some guy dies in a dream or something after having sex with the lead character or something like that...
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Well, you know, um, er, ah, could share...
maybe
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…maybe.
anyways basically, you know vampires? Well I was just thinking that it would be cool if there was some sort of mechanical creature that used blood as a power source, and was like a vampire construct. And then I had this idea to make it somehow related to Greek mythology, because I mean the vampire like creatures from Greek mythology are already partially mechanical (Empusa, they’re blood drinking humanoids with flaming hair and one of their legs is made of bronze) so then I was thinking it could be like some sort of human that tried to gain immortality by replacing all of its parts with mechanical ones and powering them with other people’s blood. So then I turned Hephaestus into a former human inventor that, wanting to preserve their own life, slowly turned themself into a blood drinking, four armed winged horror made of bronze.
still working on the whole… everything but i think its kinda cool.
That certainly sounds cool.
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Random weird mechanic: after performing a kill, they have to drain the body entirely of blood, but that leaves them vulnerable to attacks. So…
Armored Wings. Basically gives a temporary bonus to AC, and tactic wise, would be used to protect when draining blood of victims.
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I like it, maybe it Has an ability similar to the Bheur hag’s maddening feast where it can frighten anyone near it while draining a body of its blood?
also, i think that it shouldn’t be able to regain hitpoints unless it spends a long time repairing itself or uses up a lot of its stored blood.
Pandas eat exclusively bamboo, and they only have 1 stomach. And koalas eat exclusively eucalyptus and they only have 1 stomach.
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They also are like, the worst functioning creatures on earth. They can barely digest their food at all.
Pandas are carnivores if you look at their digestive system, and for whatever ungodly reason they refuse to eat anything but hard grass that any real herbivore would get so much more out of. There's a reason they just keep eating and eating and eating like that.
And koalas weren't built to eat eucalyptus either. While they've evolved to process it better than most creatures, they are still poisoning themselves and grinding their teeth flat. Seriously, they have so many adaptations, but they are the worst at having an ecological niche. They have devoted their entire bodies to eating that worthless plant, and they still suck at it.
If you want a good example of herbivores with a single stomach, look at horses and rabbits.
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I know all of that. I specifically mentioned those two animals as compared to dragons because dragons are also obviously carnivorous (just look at their teeth and claws, and usually binocular vision [depending on the artist]), but we were discussing their evolving to include trees as part of their diets. And any and all of those shortcomings can easily be handwaved away by the whole “dragons are magic” thing. I suppose I could have referred to other primates who are largely omnivorous and also only have 1 stomach too though.
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Also, koalas have bacteria in their gut that breaks down the toxins before it can harm them.
On another note, koalas are literally the least intelligent mammals on the entire planet. Their brains are literally smooth.
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Nice use of mythology.