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Andromidus


Problem solved! Verdict: utilize excessive levels of boom. If problem persists, use more boom.

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Alien biology is a fickle thing. Humans, of course, fit under this category. Turns out some parts of them are cause for concern.

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This, right here, is one of those situations where trying to explain something properly will only cause more problems. Just give everyone a concept that they can settle on comfortably, and then let the topic lie as quiet as possible.

fucking great. have a like and fave

Clearly all he needed to do was just explain to the ponies that he was Skeletonman. That would have just answered all their worries right away.

Great they bought it. The poor fools don't even know that their home is about to be ground zero for the skeleton war.

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That was a great watch.

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I do!

Crazy how nature do that.

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Indeed, though one should be careful what one says in a world of magic, something might take you seriously.

Not quite Majin Sjeekoh levels of dumb, but stiil quality never the less.

THE SKELETON AND I SHARE A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP

creppy :L

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You are my favorite person right now. Even though I still don't understand how that caught on lol.

Okay... I haven't read anything *quite* this ludicrous in a long, long time. Congratulations.

This here is quality stupid. You have a talent for taking stupid and making it dumb.

Beautiful.

Well... at least it wound up being no skin off the spine.

Rainbow flew over and patted his shoulder. “Hey, if the skeleton’s cool with you, I’m cool with him, y’know?” She made a funny face. “At least you don’t have microorganisms in your body that consume foreign intruders! Now that would actually be scary.”

You know what would be scarier? Micro-organisms in your gut that can control your behavior and eating habits.

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This gave me a severe case of the giggles, it took a bit to vacate the anomaly from my subsystems.

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"It only looks like a skeleton. It's actually just a support structure for my muscles and organs that was generated by my body as I was getting ready to be born, and then more later as I grew."

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Flattery will get'ya everywhere Mac.

100% sensible chuckle material.

Don't show them Cells at Work, they'd be even more confused, even though the anime is about 95% accurate.

More please!

hilarious! Not canon-compliant, alas (otherwise Petunia Paleo's job would be much more dangerous), but I always like a wacky alt-Equestria (which is good, since that way I can still enjoy pre-Alicornification fanfics. :twilightsmile: )

(OTOH, if we have Timber Wolves, animated bones are hardly less odd: now I wonder if the skeleton Ponies in Spike's Ogres and Oubliettes manual were based on something real...[1])

[1] WHERE IS YOUR SQUIZARD NOW

...Well, here’s hoping they never end up on Earth and discover what actually happens. That would be... Slightly horrifying to think of.

“Wait, so when humans have babies, their skeletons have babies too?”

“...Yeah, sure, let’s go with that, Pinkie.”

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To be fair, dude was about to get de-boned. He ought to be happy that the most nearly sensible thing that came out of his mouth was something that got Twillight's attention.

Also the symbiotic relationship thing isn't actually that far wrong really, the only difference being that of course the living part of the bone is made of his own DNA, but that's assuming this version of Equestria even has DNA as we know it.

Fucking hilarious!

WE NEED A SEQUEL!!!!

Do you mean to tell me that no animals in all of Equestria have bones? I find that incredibly hard to justify.

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There’s probably some creatures out there suffering from the terrible affliction of a forceful body invasion, but generally not even the animals are safe!

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yes I know it’s a smear frame let me have my giggles

Pinkie, being who she was. hollered in the back

Pinkie ain't no holla-back-girl!

You could tell them that a Human is actually a Collective of several thousand Organisms that has evolved into a mostly self contained balanced ecosystem. Each "Creature" providing/requiring maintenance of it's fellow organisms in balance to function as whole individual. That the failure of one part can lead to the collapse and death of the whole collective.

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Would make a good sequel actually

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I think it is astonishing how so many mental health issues can be explained as "the wrong chemical or bacteria." And how so much pain could be avoided with the right medication.

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Better not to risk it.

Wait wait wait....
If ponies don't have bones, and they're semi-liquid... then what are TEETH made of?

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Could you bring the human gut biota, and all the other tiny cell-sized beings keeping humans alive?

Sequel please

9757728 Plastic, obviously.

9757641 Or just a better diet and NOT taking antibiotics for every single sniffle.

9755723 I also carry every known parasite!

We have... an arrangement... :trixieshiftright: (Alondro, the Grey Pony of Pestilence...)

I could remake his skeleton into partially-differentiated preosteoblasts and chondrocytes by overexpression of SOX9, via SOX9 coding region spliced to several skeletal and chondrogenic marker genes' promoter regions; such as aggrecan, osteopontin, osteocalcin, parathyroid hormone receptor, collagen 2, and bone-gamma-carboxyglumate protein-1 (to take care of the mature osteoblasts).

Then he'll be more like a shark. All cartilaginous and stuff. If he wants to. :twistnerd:

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Yeah. Antibiotics don't even work on colds, because they are designed for bacteria.

I'm stunned it is legal to sell antibiotics as a treatment for colds.

And then Smith asks, "But what about that time Dash broke her wing and we saw the X-ray with the bones and everything..."

The ponies, sans Dash, blinked in shock... then sloooooooowwwwly turned towards Dashie.

Dash's eyes whipped back and forth, "Uh, well, you see... uhm… HA HA HA HA!! YOU'RE TOO LATE, FOALISH PONIES!! THIS MARE IS MY HOST NOW!! SOON SKELETOR WILL CONQUER YOU ALL!!!"

And then it became a He-Man crossover. Because obviously.

Rainbow flew over and patted his shoulder. “Hey, if the skeleton’s cool with you, I’m cool with him, y’know?” She made a funny face. “At least you don’t have microorganisms in your body that consume foreign intruders! Now that would actually be scary.”

“Uhh…”

That was... weirdly specific, Rainbow Dash. Have you been reading Fluttershy's Neighponese comics again? You know that one about the disease that made eyes incredibly fragile gave you nightmares.

9757897 What's worse is using them in massive amounts in farm animals to make them bulk up. It's almost certain most of the antibiotic resistance is arising due to that severe misuse. Much of that is banned now in the US, Japan, Australia, and Europe; but China, India, and a number of other countries just dump whatever into everything.

That's why the newest resistant strains are almost all emerging first in Asia.

Bizarre, but enjoyable! 💀

Entertaining bit of silly spoopery. Thank you for it.

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"So... you're made of friendship?"
"Yes, Twilight. Humans are made of friendship."
And that was how Smith got all the princess cuddles he could ever ask for.

This was not what I expected.

With the suspense built so tall, it was high time it was knocked down. “...but you have a skeleton in your body.”

... Wait, so ponies don't? :rainbowhuh:

Could have sworn that Rainbow Dash broke a wing... Oh wait, Alondro has a fitting explanation.

:pinkiegasp:

Alondro?!

Drake blanched. “Wait! Wait, let me explain first, please, before we do something rash and call in the big guns.” He shuddered to think just what Equestria’s elite looked like and could accomplish. He very much liked his skeleton inside his body and not vacated from his body, thank you very much. Pause washed over him. Just what was their elite equivalent? Did they have literal seals? Food for thought.

:rainbowlaugh:

Now that you mention it, I'm curious, too.

Rainbow flew over and patted his shoulder. “Hey, if the skeleton’s cool with you, I’m cool with him, y’know?” She made a funny face. “At least you don’t have microorganisms in your body that consume foreign intruders! Now that would actually be scary.”

Actually, they're quite useful. :moustache:

Smith, do them a favor and get Twilight several books on human anatomy and biology, please.

Also, Rainbow just said "microorganisms". That's worth investigating.

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