its because skeletons stick around after people die. no one saw a nervous system outside of a body until relatively recently
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Relatively meaning the classical period at the latest but yes, and also it just takes way more effort to seperate soft tissue
Doc Manhattan: “Pssh. Child's play.
Black death and associated social changes.
Can an art history major chime in here?
It's November 10th now. There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen...
To be completely fair, I don't think it matters. Skeleton, nervous system, fleshy muscle, organs; if it's coming at you without it first being inside a person, that's going to be a little bit scary.
I don't think it's less scary if it's coming at me without first being inside a person.
Y'know, fair point. Lol
You're just a skeleton, nervous system, muscles, and organs pretending to be a person by wearing a skin trench coat.
The skin trench coat by itself would also be pretty terrifying, tbh. It's an ensemble outfit.
Yes, there's a dress code for me not to be immediately spooked
let's call skeletons calm systems from now on
Twink Peaks be like
Is that some kinda remake with Finn Wolfhard or something?
Whatcha talking about? I’d fold Kyle MacLachlan in half like a cheap camping chair
Skeletons are sturdy, with no soft flesh to easily harm.
A bare walking nervous system could be debilitated with a spray bottle.
It would be in constant agony wouldn't it? I mean it is walking on raw nerve, that can't be comfortable.
Basically Carl Brutananadilewski made of eyes.
Ya kno', that kinda looks like one of them angel depictions, sorta kinda.
Another life S01E03. Alien virus causes a nervous system to crawl out of it's own body