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Anthropology major answer: “There absolutely was such a time! Modern humans and our ancestors shared territory numerous times over prehistory with cousin species like homo neanderthalensis, homo floresiensis, and many, many others!”
Folklore student answer: “Also, almost all cultures have something like djinn, faeries, hulder, fox spirits, and other similar creatures who can appear at least human and are very, very dangerous to humans!”
Both of these things are true, and may be connected both to the above and to each other. :D
Listen I hate this take on the uncanny valley so fucking much because many subpsecies of homonids lived in the same areas but some of them got along well enough to coexist and neandertals had enough desirable genetic traits to the point where human women (see here for a blanket on female vs male choosiness) would often pass up incel homosepian for the chad neandertal.
Genetics aside, various hominid species didn’t start visually looking all that different until 50,000 years ago, while under the skin changes began as early as 89,000 years ago (ie the development of the Y chromosome but I might be oversimplifying at this point) Point being, even our non-human cousins didn’t. look. that. different. from. us. Especially comparing the diversifying of humans themselves crossing trans continental as it was. And even then neandertals still had advantagious traits for living in the Eurasian hemisphere.
Also I digress, regardless of it being intentional, and with few perserved records from that chapter in our species’ history, I don’t like the implication that the uncanny valley effect stems from humans being inherently racist (for lack of a word for hatred of non-human intelligences). I know that sounds off the wall but prejudice and sense of superiority by birthright is vastly different than othering by means of the sucess of social groups and the need to compete for territory or resources. Racism is entirely a Eurpean fabrication and it’s been proven time and time again to be a cultural outlier and purposfully designed to further the agenda of corroded theocratical religious divinity (here, here, here) and the financial benifits of the exploitation of colonism that otherwise has not been replicated by other cultures to the same degree. (this is the only example off the top of my head but I’m know there’s more.)
You know what’s older than racism?
You know what’s more flesh crawling than neandertals?
fucking rabies
You know what LOOKS like a human but doesn’t ACT human ENOUGH? Do you know what might bite you and get you sick or turn you into something that also moves about in a non human way? Brain parasites that give you painful headaches and intensifies agression and confusion.
Say you’re a monkey and one member of your troop gets bitten by something. Later he starts twitching and swaying about. He keeps stumbling out of trees but barely feels anything when he hits the ground. He won’t eat sleep or drink. He makes guttural noises that keep alerting predators and he’s in obvious writhing agony. Suddenly he’s not your friend anymore. He doesn’t recognize you and he attempts to bite and claw at anything that moves.
Up until preventitive oral medications and vaccines were developed in the 1970s there was NOTHING stopping rabies and it still prevails today and kills hundreds of thousands of people in third world countries with limited medical resources a year. There’s no cure for rabies once youve got it and the only reliable diagnostic is a brain autopsy.
Rabies. TB. Leoprosy. Syphilis. Meningitis. Toxoplasmosis. Anthrax. Mercury Poisoning. Prion disease. These are all bad and in different varying degrees can cause limps, sores, agression, confusion or dazed trances, ambled pacing, convulsions or uncharacteristic behavior in humans.
Basically everything that people are terrified of when it comes to zombies. Vampires bite. Werewolves rip people apart. Demonic possesion? Easy. Changlings take the place of your loved ones.
Also I don’t think that it’s a conicidence that the things we find uncomfortable with the uncanny valley also just happen to line up with predatory behavior, smiling too wide or staring you down, blinking too slowly or moving towards you with a slow steady speed. It’s just a danger signal to keep other monkeys in a troop from getting bitten by an infected monkey. Simple as that.
After all what’s scarier? A dead body, or moving body that will MAKE you dead?
I’m not going to be a hypocrite by pointing out racism being excused as a stemmed human behavior without claiming that the deep seated primal fear of disease doesn’t make a good excuse for ableism as well. I mean we use othering to discern friend from foe, and then at some point decided that was a good enough excuse for racism. Theres legitimate proof that ancient homonids could and would be hospitible to the disabled out of compassion. The point of having these initial fears is to guage saftey measures first, but once someone or something is proven to be harmless that normally should be the end of it. I mean if an adult wild silverback gorrilla can look at a spycam and decide it’s chill after a moment of inspection then there’s really no excuse for any of us.
Healthy othering =/= newly invented racism.
healthy fear of infectious diseases =/= excuse to hate disabled people.
But yeah rabies is more likely the reason for the uncanny valley effect thanks for coming to my goddamn ted talk.
Reblogging this version bc of sources and I personally think this makes for much more interesting (and terrifying) lore than any other post in this thread.
unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going
Ravings and urges get miscoded over time. Let’s say you’re thirsty, and you live in a strawberry field. Strawberries contain some water and a bunch of sugar so, over time, you may start to crave strawberries when you are thirsty because you get a reward and some relief in shorter time from the need starting than the trek to the stream. This can happen for every need: sleep, food, whatever.
Trevor Noah has a great tip, that when he craves ice cream at night he breaks it down into parts: I want something cold, I want something sweet. He drinks a glass of cold water then waits to see if he still has the ice cream craving. Usually he doesn’t.
So listening to your body isn’t “follow every urge” but “decompose the urge to discover the underlying need.”
If you always feel like getting cozy in bed you may be: cold, dehydrated, and/or malnourished (maybe a need for high calories that are bioaccessible…not processed).
If you do not feel tired at bedtime you may: need to eat dinner earlier because your body is still digesting, need to exercise or go outside more during the day, get the fuck off your screen for an hour so your brain can enter sleep mode.
Hope this helps someone.
P.S. notice i said nothing about neurodivergence. Not that it’s not a likelihood but the over-pathologization of behaviors prevents us from taking simple actions to improve our wellbeing. Also, these tips are pretty accessible and applicable to most brain variations.
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Hello Dr. Crane!
Have you ever (whether by accident or not) used fear toxin on the other rogues?
Hell, That's brilliant! I can just test ROGUES. I already have all their medical records, I know their pre-existing issues, I got my baselines years ago, that's much more reliable than looking for volunteers all the damn time! How come I ain't ever thought of that? I could save so much time advertising if I just refocused my work on -
...On... Hm.
Sorry 'bout that, folks, Doc Jonny ain't feelin' tip top so I gotta keep an eye on 'im or he's likely to just stay awake. To answer ya question - most've us opted to allow a test under lab conditions an' our terms to sate his curiosity so he don't go eyeballin' nobody lookin' for 'free subjects', but fever's gonna fever anybody, hey?
Hey Scarecrow, you play video games? If so, I have Resident Evil for you *holds up the PS1 copy* You can make fun of the hilarious voice acting.
I appreciate the recommendation. I don't play myself, no, but I've bought some game machines for the boys, and I watch 'em play in the sitting room from time to time.
I think we got that one already.
(Also, pardon my appearance and relative silence these past couple days, I been a bit under the weather.)
HEY SCARY MOD! Idk if it’s too late (in my time zone it’s still November 9th), but I have a question! Relating to another anon’s question about Jon studying us, could we sneak a peek at his notes…? Also, congrats on your wedding!
Thank you!
I do not have his notes, sorry loves. :P It's not the kind of thing I take notes about, that's getting a little bit too deep - I have other stuff to do, y'know?
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Hey scary mod! First of all, I hope you’re having a good day, or night. Also, I wanted to ask what exactly you mean when you say that Jon is studying us? What exactly does he hope to get out of this? Not that I’m opposed to Jon studying me, he can do that all he wants 😈
Well that's good, because you'd be hard pressed to stop him.
I'm having a great day, thanks Anon. And yeah, Jonny boy's studying you - all of you, think about it.
This man here is a psychiatrist. And you're several hundred people who, despite knowing about his criminal background, despite knowing his bad press and worse reputation, actively seek him out regularly. Humanize him, some of you even make passes at him.
It's fascinating, how much showing his face on the internet and giving people a filter through which they can speak their mind at a distance puts people at ease, makes them sympathize with him - not just him, but many of his other colleagues, equally criminal, equally capable of violence.
You all are an anthill under glass. His favorite little side project. A beautiful, carefully curated specimen, and he takes notes every single time one of you decides to say hello.
He'd have closed the blog a long time ago, if you weren't such a compelling experiment.
Hey scary mod does, uh, does Jonathan crane, you know, like, horizontal tango ,
...How to put this.
Jonathan is a very handsome forever-47-year-old-man (We decided that while time passes, characters don't age, on cartoon logic, too much work to keep track of how old everyone is now otherwise,) with seven romantic partners.
He indulges them frequently, generously, creatively,
And exceedingly well.
Yes. Yes he does. The man has game, or whatever the current slang for that is. Jonathan crane fucks.
Hey scary mod! Will Jon be aware of all the things you’ve answered so far? Or will it be like it never happened?
He has absolutely no idea, these are all out of character posts. The stuff I say are true *about* blog canon, but they themselves are not blog canon, kinds like the rest of the off screen or behind the curtain things.
Like narration in a novel! You the readers know about it, but the characters don't. For that matter, none of this stuff is canonically up on the blog for OTHER characters to read either; IE, anyone who really wants to hurt Jonny wouldn't be able to find out about his lovers from me, I don't exist in blog canon.
hey scary mod! hope i'm not sending too many asks lol, but i have more things to ask about :3 such as: can we learn more about jon's girlfriends (and maybe the pharmacist)? things he didn't cover in his "non-identifiable information" :3
First: You cannot send me too many asks. This is an askblog.
Asks are necessary for an askblog to function - no asks means I have nothing to post. This is an interactive medium. Therefore, I love you.
Second:
So now that I've gone and dug up all the old pre-pandemic artwork, yes. Yes you can.
Without further Ado, Jonny's girls are under the cut:
Warning: Very old art ahead.
Kathleen is an Aerobics instructor that Jonathan met at the indoor court where he goes to play tennis a couple days a week. She's got a lot of energy and is very health-conscious in a way that he finds really charming, especially as he's getting on in years, and anyone with a positive, sunny attitude just kind of makes him smile.
She's never been married, but she's pretty close to her younger sister and all her sister's kids - and they're from out of state, and have no idea who Jonathan is, criminally speaking, so he likes getting invited over for family get-togethers when they come visit Gotham as 'Aunt Kathy's Boyfriend' to just hang out and have Normal Family Moments now and then.
Beth was devised by Quiz for flavor, and is a lovely, heavy-set woman of indeterminate background who works as a waitress at Jonathan's favorite dive bar. She's a lifelong smoker with adult children and a deadbeat ex-husband and a kind of frank, rough way of speaking that old waitresses often have, calls Jon 'slim', and he absolutely ADORES her.
Since she's in the service industry and always has been, he always goes out of his way to make sure he cooks for *her* and makes sure she doesn't have to lift a finger when she drops by; but he still makes a point to sit at her table, to tip well, and to joke around and give her an easy night at work when he drops in with friends if she's at work. She knows his drink preferences by heart, now, and have a rapport of friendly ribbing at one another back and forth. (He keeps asking for pumpkin ale out of season.)
Cheryl is a free spirit of a woman who has two teenage children around Ghoul's age out of wedlock, who teaches art to high school kids, makes her own super chunky jewelry and sells what no longer fits in her jewelry box, goes on spiritual retreats and who Jon started talking to because she was actually Lonnie's teacher when Jon started putting Lonnie back in school again.
He values her creative way of looking at things, and he's teaching her to make candles on the grounds that she teach him a bit more about metalworking; he likes having practical hobbies, so despite his bend toward the academic, they actually have quite a lot in common.
Jodi-Ann is Jonathan's favorite librarian, and they got talking because he is a frequent patron at Gotham's library when he's on parole - and he's been on parole for quite a few years, now. She's a widow with one son, a boy in his early twenties, though her late husband died long before she and Jonathan ever met, and he was never part of the grieving process.
They started talking because he kept asking for her help in finding books she was either in the middle of reading herself or had a longstanding fondness for by pure chance, and while initially suspicious of this behavior as intentional, her colleagues were able to corroborate his taste in literature matches hers and that prompted a friendship that grew the more they talked over time. Doesn't hurt that Jon's good with kids.
Pandora has never been married and never wants to be either - she's Jonathan's stylist, but she's also traveled quite a lot of the world and wants to experience as much of it as she's able while she's still alive. Jonathan has a hard time with international travel due to his criminal record, but loves talking about foreign films and music with this woman, is a rapt audience whenever she comes back from her latest venture Somewhere Else, has his own stories about the places his medical conferences have taken him, and likes how much he has to work to keep up.
He's learned a lot of new ways to dance in order to match her energy and elegance, and intends to continue to do so as long as he's able, there's something very important about striving to be worth someone's time, and he's thrilled to have the attention of someone more worldly than he is.
Cecelia is another of Quiz's brain-children, albeit one with significantly more history to her, and I encourage you go pester my lovely spouse over at Cecelia's own blog if you want the full details regarding the particulars of her personality and quirks; however, Cecelia's blog-canon is not askverse-blog-canon; this specific Cecelia is a human being and also Jonathan's colleague, and yet another lovely woman he's positively enamored with.
They actually have a LOT of subculture tastes and tendencies in common, even more than their chosen professions and the particulars thereof; Cecelia is his squeeze of choice whenever Jonny's going to hit up a goth rock concert.
Kirk Langstrom is... well, Man-Bat? You know who this is, right? I don't have to explain that one too much?
He's a disgraced researcher with whom Jonathan has so much in common he felt an instant kinship, decided to hit on him for like a year and a half, and they finally started dating a bit after the Halloween with the corn field. Now they go camping, hiking, and et cetera a lot. It's cute. Jon's not especially freaked out by man-bat, which Kirk finds kinda comforting, because Jon is infinitely less flappable than your average man.
Lastly, Anton is not someone Jonathan ever dated, though he still has a pretty big crush on the guy. He just likes talking shop with people who know what they're talking about, and Anton can keep up with Jon's ramblings about Chemical interactions. Jon thinks he's cute.
Anton, however, is looking for like, marriage - and Jon is not in a position where he could do that again. First of all he'd have to break up with like seven other people he really genuinely loves and which bring a lot of good to his life, and second it ended really, really badly last time. He's also sort of grown comfortable with being able to have his own space, separate from a live-in partner, where he can opt into and out of company when he does or doesn't want it.
Still, he has the hots for this nice Jewish boy, if Anton ever changes his mind. (He won't.)
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Scary Mod, do you have a link to Blog-Verse’s Batman/Bruce and Condiment King’s blogs? I’m having difficulty finding them 😅
Know what, the other Scary Mod asks are gonna need a bit more art than this, so let's knock this out really quick.
Jonny's personal canon Ask'o'Verse has like three and a half main authors these days, some more active than others but all in touch regularly. I'll list their blogs here, along with a few tertiary ones that don't really update anymore.
First and foremost, I'll be starting with the three people I know you will get answers from if you ask them something:
(Eventually.)
This is another REALLY LONG POST, so under a cut we go!
MY BLOGS:
First and foremost send all of my blogs more questions I do not get enough questions you are not annoying me if you send me a question I have a grand total of like 20 across all three of these blogs, most of them are in Jonny's inbox and six of those questions are to me, the blog writer, instead of the characters. Feed my askboxes.
AlchemicalTerror: Jonathan Crane AKA The Scarecrow.
Life-After-Laughter: A Post-Joker Harleen Quinzel AKA Harley Quinn Blog.
FelineInquiries: A Selina Kyle AKA Catwoman Blog (Largely inactive due to lack of interaction. Happy to dust it off again though.)
QUIZ'S BLOGS:
My dear and beloved real life spouse who is a wonderful writer and with whom we plot and scheme while giggling into the night. A lot of events that happen on these blogs are just us being up at eleven at night going 'you know it would be really cool if this happened' and then we make it happen. This is why the events wind up super coordinated, we live together.
RiddlesAndQueries: Edward Nygma AKA The Riddler.
ChemiGhoul: Ghoul, Legal Name Not Acknowledged, Jonathan's Unwillingly Isekai'd Lab Assistant and Ward from the future, a Batman Beyond Character. (And my favorite little ingrate)
INK'S BLOGS:
Ink isn't a graphical artist, so be aware these are a lot more text heavy. He is, however, one of the best character writers I've ever known in my life. Ink's blogs are less active than Quiz's or mine because people send him less questions than Quiz or me, which is honestly a crying shame because this man can flex.
TheMarmaladeBlog: Bruce Wayne's personal blog. Where he answers questions without corporate oversight. Important: While Bruce Wayne is Batman, he does not publicly acknowledge it, you're talking to Mr. Wayne.
Waynecorp-Incorporated: Bruce Wayne's Corporate Blog, where he acts as WayneCorp Inc.'s public face and CEO. Lotta plot backstory here, though, still worth a read.
AskMMayo: The blog of Mitch Mayo, the Condiment King, one-time brainwashed Joker Lackey, now the man who murdered the joker, who works as a high-end food scientist at a schwanky hotel and is kind of flirting with Harley these days. Also lotta really cool recipes on his blog. In my honest opinion it is a CRIME no one interacts with this guy more.
GalacticMotive: Not an Askblog, but Ink's private writing and aesthetics and inspiration blog. This man is my best friend and I think he deserves more love, plus his OC is probably one of the coolest concepts I've ever had the pleasure of interacting with, and he makes occasional cameos over on Jonny's blog. This guy's the reason Ghoul's here! Fair warning, the man's a horror writer by trade, but I think it'd be really cool if he dusted off this project publicly again instead of it being purely a private affair. I'm just showing a dear friend some love and support with this one, interact if you're curious.
Next, The 'And A Half' part of the 'three and a half authors' comes from BARDOCK ARTS, who still weighs in from time to time in the wings over in the discord server where we coordinate stuff, but whose DC blogs are VERY INACTIVE. But they are:
Kirk Langstrom AKA Manbat, The Gentleman Ghost, and Jack Nimball AKA Toyman. I'm not sure if you'll get an answer if you ask a question, but they're worth a read and sometimes they pipe up during cameos or plot events. (I mean, Jon's still dating Kirk, for one, and Edward's dating the Ghost.)
Lastly, these blogs are from the early days of the Ask'o'Verse, (some, even before I picked up Jonathan,) definitely do not update anymore, and whose authors pop in more to say hi than to participate or keep up, but we loved them while they lasted and you might have some fun reading what's there.
Ask the Mad Hatter - Jervis Tetch, and Selina's Bestie, Companion blog to:
Ask the Scarecrow - the Jonathan Crane before mine, and if you're looking for Hattercrow content, this is where you'll find it.
Peter Merkel AKA Rag Doll - Selina's Rival and situationship, her significant bother. He was just kinda fun.
Alice Reynolds - One of the best artists on here, even if she hasn't posted in 6 years. Alice, THE Alice in Jervis' story, and her finding peace after the fact. Again, Selina liked her.
The Music Meister - Dennis, Selina's housemate, Edward's friend, someone Harley Vaguely Remembers. One of many blogs written by the incredible Wowwy. Sadly, the rest seem to have been deleted.
Wonder Woman - This one's one of mine, but she only really showed up to cover for Bruce for a little bit. if there's SIGNIFICANT interest I'll consider dusting her off again but....
OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD ASK THIS ONE.
SO I HAVE THIS BUDDY NAMED INK.
AND WHEN INK WAS A WEE TEENAGE LAD, HIS FIRST EVER CRUSH WAS THE SCARECROW.
AND SO I HAVE MADE IT MY LIFE MISSION TO DRAW OL' JONNY BOY AS HOT AS POSSIBLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT FLAME NEVER, EVER, EVER GOES OUT. JON'S ENTIRE DESIGN IS AN ATTACK ON MY BEST FRIEND SPECIFICALLY.
EVERYONE SAY 'THANK YOU INK'.
(He writes Blog-verse's Bruce/Batman as well as Condiment King, btw!)
