#Helminth infection

[hopkinrx]

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[villainsposting]

DE emphasizing that every character in the 1999 hub, even Arthur, will be dateable suggests they can be dated regardless of the MC's gender. From this I can only surmise that the Helminth infection turns you bisexual

[technocite]

It is extremely important to me that Arthur is haunted by the Operator because they keep hopping into his head to try to gather info on Albrecht and 1999 but he doesn’t know anything about what’s going on so the entire time he’s convinced he’s losing his mind and is hallucinating this weird ghost child out the corner of his eye and knowing there’s something or someone in his head and generally being aware that there is something he doesn’t understand looking through his eyes.

Which would be bad enough on its own if it weren’t for the infested plague destroying society being infamous for assimilating people and machines into a big nasty hivemind. And he’s very clearly fighting off a similar infection with the helminth (I don’t know how much the hex knew about what they signed up for. I imagine they didn’t realize it was a fancier strain of infestation that would transform them into faceless war machines at the time.)

Basically Arthur is convinced that the techrot got into his head and is having a miserable psychological breakdown convinced he’s being infested by the hive mind (he can’t think of any other explanation why there’s thoughts in his head that aren’t his and why he’s suddenly misplacing his shit and hallucinating ghosts out of the corner of his eye and shit) and then the techrot just spits out an exact duplicate of him but just 10% less human. He’s going to be going thru it so badly. All because some psychic kid from the distant future is doing Fortnite dances in his head

[ritasanderson]

The only way to defeat the infected boysband is from the inside. We need to sell Helminth to On-lyne

"My Operator sold me to On-Lyne"

[cheesycatz]

Worm in the Apple (the Wormton AU fic) is at 120k words! Obviously the worm guy loves apples, fruit, and sugary stuff in general, though it holds no nutritional value for him. It's fitting, since most of the "worms" found in apples are actually just some form of insect, just like how Wormton himself isn't an actual worm. Being as contradicting as possible is his whole thing, I suppose.

May blithering helminth codswallop posthaste be upon thee if thoust must ruminate over thine virulent and insiduous merchant Sir Spammington G. Spammington The Deceitful:

Anyways, I've been struggling to write the depressing crap, so I often like to imagine the ending where they can all be happy together in Castle Town. I interpret Castle Town as a place where darkners are less bound to fate, since it doesn't seem to manifest from the real world, and is made of pure darkness, whatever that means. Wormton wouldn't have to hide anymore, but he would very much be, uh, neutralized if he tries to infect anything. He wouldn't get to have sixteen identical feral worm children that look like slightly smaller mirror images of him crawling all around the place, unfortunately; Castle Town could do without a highly invasive species that eats and destroys everything. I imagine that he'd keep the suit jacket so that he actually has some pockets, as well as to hide himself a little bit. Malworms naturally like to stay outside of the spotlight, so he's not very comfortable without his disguise. Not that being crammed inside his disguise was much more comfortable, but, hey, what other option did he have?

I like to imagine the addisons getting stuck with Wormton in Castle Town due to it having greater population density. I'm considering making it so that they don't even know he's there at first, like those criminal cases where some guy is living in a family's attic for months unnoticed. He'll have the opportunity to harass Swatch, interact with other characters like Lancer, and send "mild" death threats to Rouxls. I think he'd avoid Kris and the other lightners. He tries to kill Kris and absorb the SOUL from the get-go, and the two of them lack that puppet connection, since Wormton never picked up the phone. Still, he does pick up on their stilted movements that mimic his own when he's puppeteering his disguise, and does realize that the SOUL is a little more controlling than he would want, so they eventually reach a peaceful conclusion (This AU follows the pacifist normal route. This cold-blooded mf would probably just go into hibernation and do absolutely nothing if the player did a Weird Route). He's still pissed about them taking his shadow crystal, even if the starry night sky it once let him witness will never shine through its surface again. Kris is such a gremlin from what we know that I think it would he sweet if he valued the fact that, while they find his puppet-like disguise creepy, they're unfazed by his real appearance. Kris can go on his "people I don't fantasize about murdering and eating regularly" list, which might just be his "nestmates :^]" list if he'd actually admit it

Back to writing about him hating himself so much that he can't fathom someone healing him unless it was a transactional favor, hiding in a locked closet with no stimulation because he thinks he's trying to kill Blue whenever he's in an instict-driven half-asleep state (emphasis on thinks), believing the only reason that Blue is worried about him hiding so much is because they want him to leave faster, understanding so little of his actual species that he becomes stressed when he does anything that "isn't normal," Having fits of anger and mental breakdowns and feeling bad about it afterwards, using the worst coping mechanisms known to man, and devouring an entire 16 inch regular crust meat lover's pizza in one sitting

Cover art concept as a lil treat. Probably won't actually draw it until I'm ready to start releasing chapters, but it's fun to think about for now. I'll do my best to live up to expectations as someone with zero experience writing fiction and long-form content in general o7

[silence-of-autumn42]

So, Jade Shadows. That quest was...Interesting. I've seen a lot of negativity, and I have to be honest, I disagree with a lot of the issues people have had with the quest. Maybe this is because I wasn't obsessively hanging on to every piece of promotion for this update, but I didn't find it underwhelming, or that it was poorly handled. Did we learn everything about the Stalker? No. And I don't think we were ever going to. But what we got was a key part of why he hates Warframes, specifically, and not necessarily the Tenno as a whole.

Spoilers under the cut

So, the warframe pregnancy. The implication of the quest, to me, is that Jade and Sorren were "low guardians", non-Dax guardians of the Orokin, who had a relationship, which resulted in Jade falling pregnant. This was against the Orokin laws (although it's unclear if it was the pregnancy of a Low Guardian which was illegal, or the relationship which resulted in the pregnancy) and at least Jade was turned into a Warframe, as punishment.

Despite becoming a Warframe, Jade remained pregnant, and eventually ended up taking part in the massacre of the Orokin during the Night of the Naga Drums. Sorren was, at this time, still a Low Guardian, and his life was spared by Jade. At some point, Sorren became the Stalker (I suspect after the Night of the Naga Drums, but that's not confirmed or explicitly denied anywhere, as I'm fairly sure the Hunhow narrated diorama was a figurative memory of the event, rather than literal), and discovered Jade.

Now, we don't know what condition Jade was in when he found her. It's possible she was unconscious, especially if she had an Operator controlling her, like many other warframes, but it's also possible that she became comatose at a later point in time. So, it appears that much of the Stalker's motivations around hunting down the Tenno are intended to protect Jade from being utilised as a weapon by the Tenno, out of a sense of guilt for failing to protect her from becoming a Warframe.

So, what does it mean for a Warframe to be pregnant? We have no clue. This is the first time we know of it having happened, and so there's nothing for us to base this on. That being said, the child appears to have inherited at least some of Jade's warframe abilities, as well as her physical appearance. This suggests that at some point during gestation, the baby became infected with the Helminth strain of Infestation. Will this child grow up? No idea. Will the child be able to move autonomously? Seems so, given they were moving while being held by the Stalker. This is something we'll have to wait and see about.

By the end of it, it seems like Stalker has abandoned Hunhow, and disappeared off into the system with his child. It seems like Hunhow now has no allies, but the Stalker does seem to have taken his advice from the Reapers Lament entries on the website - to cultivate something, to raise something to prosper - his child.

Now, I will admit, the labour minigame was...odd. I don't necessarily have a problem with it, it just wasn't particularly engaging? I think that's the only problem I had with the quest. I don't know what I would have preferred, but I'm sure there was something else that could have been done there.

[hippie-koldun]

Jade Shadows spoilers! And some thoughts

After completing the quest, I had several questions, because at first it seemed to me that this story breaks the plot a little

But my friends and I figured it out a little and tried to explain some of the details that confused us

First question: what is the Stalker’s motivation then?

At first we thought he was just a character with PTSD who saw the massacre where his Overlords died. But now it seems like he doesn't give a damn about it because he has bigger problems to worry about, and that's Jade

At the beginning of the quest we were told that Jade saved him. Could she have been seriously injured by this? Could the Tenno have hurt her? This makes sense since we find her sick and almost dying

So it seems to me that the Stalker is taking revenge on the Tenno for the dying state of his wife, and this is the case

Second question: how did she give birth to the child?

Due to infection, Warframe physiology differs significantly from that of humans. The belly through which we see the baby inside Jade is more likely to be some kind of placenta. Perhaps this is one of the placenta mutations? Since we know she was pregnant before she became a Warframe. It's very strangely shown in the quest, but this temporary organ is always easy to cut, so...

The third question(s): how did the child survive after so many years? How was he not born earlier? How did he not die when infected?

The following is purely my speculation. It seems to me that infection allows to slow down absolutely everything in the physiology of Warframes, and development will be no exception. Jade could be carrying this child, and thereby he was pumping out her vitality...

Very often, the infection of the mother is transmitted to the child if she, for example, smoked, drank or took drugs. Often he mutates inside her, and sometimes dies. Helminth is a very situational thing. It drives crazy and prevents systems from working comfortably

A normal human fetus, even before its birth, became infected with a helminth, became covered with iron in the womb, and I think this is quite logical? In one of the scenarios, he would have died...

In fact, I liked the quest, it reveals the feeling even closer: fatherhood. At first I thought that this quest was about lovers, but the result just killed me (positively)

[humancelltournament]

Human Cell Tournament Round 1

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[agoddamn]

Loid's rank 5 Cavia story about Kalymos is fascinating to me because the different possible answers to what happened offer very different versions of Albrecht.

Loid's suspicion that Kalymos died and Albrecht cloned her

This is a more unsettling version of Albrecht; playing God and deluding himself that this is the same Kalymos. You can also add a dash of controlling "Father knows best" type behavior in lying to everyone else about it. Replacing someone with a copy and pretending they never left is behavior to be concerned about. Red flag semaphore essay here.

(I just wanna underline that this is what Loid suspects happened, and Loid kept fucking him. Loid, sweetie, was the dick really that bomb or have you got some self-esteem issues?)

Albrecht is just a better vet than Loid/Kalymos made a miraculous recovery

Misdirection storytelling. Would be consistent with the misdirection storytelling about Albrecht in WitW, where the final reveal was that Albrecht really did care for Loid. Most boring answer.

Albrecht did Something Bad to ensure Kalymos's survival

Even madder science? Helminth infestation? Continuity? Wally deal???

Whatever the specifics may be, I think this one is the most plausible. It would parallel Albrecht's reckless decision-making when loved ones are involved (see also: the Loid and '99 mess), Albrecht's allergy to ethics (see also: infecting people with Helminth in '99 to 'save' them), and Albrecht's martyr complex ("this is something only I can do and so I must"). It would also offer some explanation as to why Albrecht chose to bring Kalymos back in time with him, and why the whole shebang was named for her.

[innominaterifter]

Question regarding the cockroaches: are they clean? I've always understood bugs to be fairly dirty, but given how you handle them it seems that isn't the case? Are these ones different because they're handled regularly?

These cockroaches are artificially bred in closed conditions and do not come into contact with anything outside their container.

Cockroaches that live in an open environment can indeed be unsafe since they come into contact with unpredictable substances. The main danger is caused by cockroaches that feed on human waste. Cockroaches, which prefer to feed on waste, are capable of carrying pathogens such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, gastrointestinal infections, pneumonia, meningitis and others. In addition to viruses and microorganisms, cockroaches can carry the eggs of helminths (worms) and amoebas on their bodies. The reason for their unsafety is that they come into contact with and eat completely different human waste and animal carrion. You cannot know what exactly this or that cockroach came into contact with.

Unlike this situation, the living conditions of my insects are completely controlled only by me.

To keep insects, I use either a substrate that I buy in the store or cardboard egg cartons (cockroaches love to hide in them). For their food, I use a variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, oatmeal, and supplements from pet stores.

Cockroaches also love lichens, which can be found on tree branches (and lichens are very useful for them). But before giving them, I first freeze these branches in the freezer to destroy all possible living organisms that could be there.

Of course, I collect these twigs in the forest, and not near the city or in garden plots, because trees growing in an urban environment can be treated with chemicals against insects. And then I just risk killing my cockroaches.

I also monitor their condition and appearance so that they look healthy.

Some time ago I had a bad experience with excessively high humidity in their container and part of the colony was affected by mold, which could be visually observed on their shells. This mold is safe for humans, but insects can die from it. So I had to save the colony.

In addition to completely cleaning the container and contents, I needed to do something about the mold on the cockroaches themselves. My good friend was visiting me at the time and I asked her for help in this strange matter.

I am very glad to have such a friend to whom I can say “Code red, we urgently need to wash the cockroaches’ asses!” and hear in response “Ok, give me 5 minutes to finish my tea, and let’s go!”.

As a result, we first washed them under ordinary water in bulk, then wiped the shell of each individual cockroach with a cotton pad soaked in a disinfecting solution and the mold was defeated.

But I repeat: this mold was safe for humans. Thus, if you keep insects in closed containers and they do not come into contact with or eat anything from the outside world without undergoing treatment, then all ok.

What can create difficulties is a possible allergy to cockroach chitin. Moreover, this allergy can manifest itself only to some types of cockroaches, but not to others.

This allergy is treated with conventional remedies prescribed by a dermatologist. But of course, you should stop contact with the type of cockroaches that you have allergy (or protect the respiratory tract, mucous membranes, and not allowing contact with the skin).

In general, the rules for handling domestic insects are approximately the same as for pets. Some may be allergic to cats or dogs, others may not. It is safe from the point of view of disease to handle domestic rats or hamsters, but it is clearly not worth handling rats or hamsters that live in the wild¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[simonnebethel]

🩸Beta Reader Call for A Chant For Blood🩸

Would appreciate a boost if you can 👉👈 Huzzah!!! I have finally finished editing A Chant For Blood(for now). I am now officially looking for beta readers. I don't mind if you don't have any experience, just looking for readers and writers who enjoy fantasy and gothic horror ^^ all I ask is that you're 18+ and to read the content warnings.

Some info about the story:

🫀Title of Story: A Chant for Blood (The Helminth Mother Book 1)

🖤Word Count: 116k(will probably not send it all at once, as I know 116k can be overwhelming to some.)

🫀Genre: High Victorian Fantasy, Gothic Horror

🖤CW: Blood, violence, gore, mentions of fantasy racism, worms, body horror, disembodied voices, brief mentions of sexual content, manipulative characters, decaying corpses, mild profanity.

🫀This story also contains: Queer characters, eldritch beings, religious motives, a victorian-fantasy world, knight-lady character, blood-drinking character, magic, non-human characters, main character with mysterious heritage, ancient haunted temples, otherworldly portals, and many, many, worms 🪱

🖤Synopsis: Karliah Helisende doesn’t know how to feel about her current status in life. The highest ranking soldier in the country of Ostrein, and she can’t command a single army. On a particular rainy morning, her superiors give her a strange task; find the man who is killing citizens and leaving their bodies on the streets. She eventually finds the elusive creature, whose name she learns is Yorick Gwynplaine, but at the same time learns that he is just one of many people and monsters that spawned from mysterious portals that have been appearing all over the world. They both decide to work as a team; Karliah will find a way to take him back to his own world, and Yorick will keep his blood-thirsty hunger under control.

Karliah had assumed these tasks would be easy, if not for the Sanctum haunting her every step. An ancient temple resting in the Bauknan Mountains, she has known of it’s foreboding presence ever since she arrived to the gas-lit streets of Isarnan. It whispers indecipherable and enigmatic secrets in her ear, and only grows by the day. It’s sickness infects her very being and soon, affects her decisions. The people around notice her growing darkness, but fail to stop her as she digs her own grave. As the Sanctum’s incoherent whispers become intelligent mutterings, she pushes herself to finish the task that was set before her from the very beginning, no matter how many people she has to push away.

🫀Feedback I'm looking for: Anything about the story! I've only ever shown this to a few people before, so I want to know what parts are weak and what parts are strong. If there are any major grammar problems, I would like to know, although I think I have gotten most of them by now. I would like to know how the character's relationships work, and how certain plot points left you feeling. Also, how obvious some of the plot twists are because I feel like some are sort of..in your face. I will be setting up feedback questionnaires soon, so they will be ready for when you finish!

Check the #a chant for blood tag for excerpts and info if you want to see more before signing up!

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[glaiveprime]

hmm. i dont know if anymores been confirmed yet but maybe the protoframes were originally convinced to enlist because all of them were infected by techocyte, and becoming a protoframe was a tested method to "pause" the infection, so at least they'll have more time

but now they have to pick between subcoming to technocyte, or losing their humanity entirely because of helminth, so that's good news

[redrreign]

wait what are the warframes if theyre not robots

okay so spoilers for the sacrifice quest.

technically the original warframes were people infected by the orokin with a bioengineered strain of infestation that turned their bodies into metal and shit. that's why they can be modified by the helminth i think!! it's less clear about the copies of frames considering there's no way the orokin infected Infinite amounts of people but i personally believe that all warframes you build are cloned copies of the original infected person

[technocite]

Finding a 1999 fanfiction with a fun premise but opening it and the author delegated Quincy to ‘flat aggressive asshole’ archetype is like biting into a sandwich and finding a rotten piece of cheese in it. It just clashes with my own own interpretation of him because he seems so much cooler than that and one of the reasons I like him as a character is that he very clearly has flaws but his flaws are not what is being depicted and it’s like. Ripping my hair out.

Quincy reads to me as a man who holds himself and his peers to extremely high standards (sometimes unrealistically so) because he understands that you have to be the best of the best to get into the position and skillset and situation they are in and recognizes the others in his team as extraordinarily competent and exceptional individuals and is perpetually frustrated that they don’t seem to rise to the occasion like he thinks they should (which is not as realistic as he thinks because everyone is still human and in an extremely high stress situation and dealing with the reality of effectively living in an infested war zone and being acutely aware of their body horror transformations into warframes and so on. Like he’s going through this shit too but he’s doing a better job at repressing and hiding it so they should be too and they’re not and it’s driving him up a wall.)

So like, yeah, no duh, everyone’s not going to be at their best and totally put together emotionally/psychologically and also he’s in denial that he’s also struggling himself, because that would be admitting vulnerability and that he was Wrong about his take on the situation. And I think that’s the real root of his issue with “respect” (he feels the others don’t respect him, he doesn’t respect them back, it’s a vicious cycle) and his alienation from the team and I can see how a big part of his character arc involves putting his pride to the side and allowing himself to be vulnerable with the others and being more forgiving given the circumstances because at the end of the day deep down he DOES like the rest of the Hex! He holds them to high standards because he genuinely thinks they’re capable of great things! He really wants them to like him back! But it’s all wrapped under this matryoshka doll of ego-defensive coping mechanisms and learned bravado and also made one billion times worse by the helminth infection. He could be such a cool character. I want to grab people by the shoulders and shake them because like this could be so much much much more interesting and cool than what you’re putting out why limit yourself by ingrained societal perceptions and unexamined racism and shittt. If you’re going to depict Quincy as an asshole at least have an understanding of why he is that way. At least do a little bit of character analysis and work from what we’ve got. I promise it’s really really fun. Take my hand we can do critical character analysis together

[cyborg-hydra-girl-thing]

My absolute favorite things about Warframe’s lore, in no particular order

There’s no aliens, anywhere. It’s all humans.

The grineer? Clones who, due to (unspecified amount of time) reusing the same genetic material have developed clone rot, and are getting weaker each generation of clones.

The Corpus are just Space Amazon with the Prophet of Profit leading the indebted and often indentured masses.

The Infested are a twisted hive mind made of this virus the ancient orokin used to make the Warframe’s, except this strain is uncontrollable and actively seeks to assimilate new flesh

The Sentients, the closest thing to aliens we have, are just really old Orokin robots, and are an inorganic life form, but we’re made by humans to travel to the Tau system to colonize it ahead of the orokin arrival

And the Orokin themselves, an ancient civilization that was at such a pinnacle of technology and civilization that even now, an unnamed period of time later, hundreds of thousands of years later the grineer and corpus still seek to emulate them. They’re a fascinating culture, objectively awful, but fascinating.

The Warframes themselves? Humans infected with a strain of the Helminth virus that mutates them and turns their flesh and bones as hard as steel

And the Tenno, traumatized children, able to bond with, and tame, and control the vicious, violent, and dangerous warframe’s, you know, cuz they have empathy, something entirely foreign to the orokin as a whole

The Tenno got their powers from The Man In The Wall. Which is some kind of magical eldritch entity that resides in this alternate dimension called the Void. The Orokin had sent the Sentients to Tau ahead of the colony ship, through the void (which sterilized them, rendering them unable to procreate, an unforeseen side effect of the Sentients traveling through the void) and when the colony ship started to launch into the void to get to Tau, something went wrong, and the ship fell into the void instead of cruising along the solar rails. And inside the void the ship, and the adults began to change due to the alien nature of the Void. The adults who listened to the song became twisted nightmares, almost like twisted metal angels, stalking the ship and killing anyone they find. The children, huddled together in their classrooms try to hide to stay safe. And then, suddenly you’re looking at a mirror image of yourself, but not quite right, and your hand is outstretched towards you, ready to shake. And then you make a choice to take what this unknown entity is offering and the ship falls out of the void back into real space and the children are forever changed by the deal made with TMITW.

Bright side is, due to our deal we can control the warframe’s, which were made to fight the Sentients, who had come back to the Sol system to fight the orokin for using them as slaves and sterilizing them in the process. And the orokin were losing, badly. They had Necramechs (which have some kind of corpse in them to make transference possible, even their mecha are made of people) but the Sentients were very adaptable. And with the Tenno and Warframe’s working together we won the war for the orokin. Then, at the celebration ceremony, the orokin had Octavia play her anthem, and she killed them all, effectively destroying the entire Orokin civilizations leadership in one fell swoop, eventually leading to the collapse and fracturing of the society as the grineer slave caste and the corpus remnants of the orokin fill in the power vacuum in coming centuries

And the Tenno, thanks to our space mom (which needs like a whole other post) get put into a permanent sleep in the moon and then she hides the moon in the void, so we’ll be safely in another dimension, away from harm, while able to continue piloting our warframe’s, fighting the fight, soldiers of a long forgotten era doing the tiny bit they can to make life harder for the oppressors in the solar system

[science-bastard]

Hi so the post was in like march but you said something about wanting more "mad parasitologists" and I feel like you should know that that's just a regular parasitologist (who's being held to society's standards). A non-insignifciant chunk of the field rn is dedicated to using various worms and their derived products therapeutically. A parasitologist smuggled American hookworms into Australia during the pandemic by just... becoming infected. Most of the parasitologists I know are eagerly anticipating my venture to make "giant microbes" but for helminths. I know a tick researcher who calls them "the forbidden popping boba". All of this is normal to us.

i assume you’re referring to this post

oh i’m aware of scientists being considered “mad” by the public for doing things that are considered normal in their field, and i’m sure parasitologists are no different. by “mad parasitologist,” i was thinking more along the lines of creating a parasite to puppet people around like meat suits for the express purpose making the taco bell employees go on strike in pursuit of better pay and benefits.