#herping season

[megamind0416]

Friendly reminder that herping season is right around the corner!!

So excited to go in the woods and look for critters again :)

[slicklitsilos]

“No, i wasn’t sick when Cassie Boyle was murdered. I wasn’t sick with marissa” YES YOU WERE BAE🗣️‼️ he even tells dr sutcliffe his headaches started worsening when he went back into the field which was Elise nichols

his poor brain, every rewatch I’m more and more convinced that he’s already developing encephalitis at episode 1 and every time Will saying he wasn’t sick yet at that time in the cell makes me so sad bc yes he was 😭

Like he literally already has a good sheen of sweat over his whole body by the time they’re at Hobb’s work looking thru files….and maybe just weather & stress yeah but hannibal and the lady with them don’t look flushed or hot at ALLL which just makes me think he was already getting fevers/hot flashes bc of the encephalitis

Or I guess I should say bc of whatever actually CAUSED the encephalitis

[celestialmacros]

American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus)

April 6, 2023

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[raptor-claw]

the fact that the falling angels scene is one of the most gorgeous scenes in the whole show is so goddamn poetic it’s fucking amazing. falling, a sign of free will and rebelling against destiny, shown as a breathtaking display of other-worldly, alien beauty. supernatural really is the tv show.

[natjennie]

I've been watching a lot of trixie mattel videos and I miss playing with makeupppp like I don't go anywhere or do anything so I never ever put makeup on anymore but it's funnn I miss ittttt

[plethod0ntidae]

did u know that. um. him :)

(spotted salamander a. maculatum)

[Image description: a black salamander with yellow spots resting on a bed of green moss. there are brown oak leaves on the ground in the background. /end ID]

[xtruss]

It's Fall, Which Means It's Time For Gonorrhea! The Flu Isn't Alone: All Infectious Diseases Might Be Seasonal, According To A New Report.

— By Katherine J. Wu | Published: Thursday, November 8, 2018 | NOVA—PBS

All infectious diseases may be seasonal, according to a new scientific report—which means that every season may now come with its own set of symptoms. Photo Credit: Valerii Tkachenko, Wikimedia Commons

The transition from winter to spring signals the end of months of cold snaps, sweater weather, and Flu Season. But even as the roads clear and flowers bloom anew, it may not yet be time to shelve your sick days for the year.

According to a New Article, published today in the journal PLoS Pathogens, all infectious diseases may be seasonal—and there’s at least one for every time of the year.

Study author Micaela Martinez, an infectious disease ecologist at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, presents a compendium of 69 infectious diseases that run the gamut from rare to common, neglected to notorious, innocuous to deadly. Despite their differences, all the syndromes have one thing in common: They rise and fall with changing seasons.

Martinez, a conservation ecologist by training, initially set out to track the seasonality of acute, or short-term, infections like influenza and chickenpox after noting similarities between the disease states of humans and wildlife. But as she began to compile a list of infectious diseases that tend to plague humans, Martinez found that the trend also held true for chronic, or long-term, diseases like gonorrhea and leprosy.

“There’s documented seasonality for all infectious diseases, which is not what I was expecting,” Martinez explains. “It’s an even more widespread phenomenon than we thought.”

A quick look at the infectious disease calendar paints quite the sobering picture. As autumn leaves turn from green to red, gonorrhea and yellow fever rear their ugly heads in some parts of the world. The Winds of Winter are Famous For Flu, but also bring bouts of pneumonia. Refreshing springtime blooms breathe new life into outbreaks of chickenpox and salmonella. And last but certainly not least, summer months pack the heat with spikes in Lyme disease, polio, syphilis, tetanus, tuberculosis, and more.

Female Aedes Albopictus Mosquitoes, which can carry Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever, and Chikungunya Fever, are sensitive to seasonal changes. Ebbs and flows in their population can affect disease transmission. Photo Credit: FotoshopTofs, Pixabay

Other diseases are a bit less finicky: They’ll take any period of natural warmth, spreading the joy over many months at a time—often in regions of the world that don’t experience four seasons of climactic change. For instance, Chagas disease, diphtheria, and genital herpes all flourish over both spring and summer, while their prevalence takes a welcome dip when temperatures fall. Other infectious diseases fare better during rainy seasons, or when climes are particularly dry.

Though the diseases she linked together shared little in common, including even their seasons of prevalence, Martinez theorized there might be similar reasons driving their cyclic nature. To tease apart the connections, Martinez amassed data from 100 previously published studies, zeroing in on several factors that shape seasonality.

For instance, environmental factors obviously come into play. Climate conditions such as temperature, humidity, and rainfall impact the wellbeing of infectious microbes, as well as the humans and wildlife they plague. In diseases that are ferried to humans via an insect vector like a Mosquito or fly, the seasonal ebb and flow of these pest populations may also play a role.

The behaviors of hosts of disease, both human and wildlife, also appear to fluctuate from month to month. This has been infamously exemplified by congregations of kids in schools begetting measles outbreaks. But there’s also something to be learned, Martinez says, by studying flux in the habits of non-human animals, who go through bouts of seasonal breeding, territoriality, and migration, and how these changes affect the spread of disease. Humans may not be seasonal maters—at least, not to the same degree—but even a subtle shift, like an uptick in sex during the summer months, could spur outbreaks of Gonorrhea, Genital Herpes, or Syphilis.

“It’s not that we are vulnerable at a particular time of year and healthy at another,” Martinez explains. “We’re restructuring throughout the year. And the identity of the thing we’re vulnerable to changes with the seasons.”

The idea that some infectious diseases are seasonal isn’t new, says Shanthi Kappagoda, an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist at Stanford University who was not involved in Martinez’ work. However, Kappagoda adds, Martinez’ framework is unique in that it includes some infections that haven’t traditionally been considered seasonal—including several sexually-transmitted infections—and may change how clinicians and researchers approach future epidemics.

As climate change progresses, increasingly warmer locales may favor the transmission of infectious diseases like Cholera, or Mosquito-Borne Infections. Photo Credit: Martijn Meijerink, Pexels

According to Martinez, knowing when certain diseases are in season could help doctors quickly and effectively treat chronic infections that tend to flare up at certain times of the year, like herpes. With this sort of predictive power, patients may be able to minimize the amount of time they’re forced to deal with seasonal symptoms. The same line of thinking might even be applied to scheduling vaccines, which are ideally administered prior to the onset of an outbreak.

Understanding the drivers of infectious diseases’ seasonality may also be helpful on much broader scales, including the Forecasting of Epidemics Worldwide, adds Amy Wesolowski, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who did not participate in the new analysis.

Such global thinking is especially relevant in a rapidly changing world. As Climate Change progresses, the landscape of infectious diseases will shift, explains Kappagoda. Increasingly warmer locales may favor the transmission of summer-loving diseases like cholera. Humankind may also witness a boom in populations of insects like mosquitoes, which are likely to expand their habitats as temperatures climb, chauffeuring with them outbreaks of Malaria, West Nile Virus, and more. Additionally, human sensitivity to heat shouldn’t be underestimated in the context of infectious disease, Kappagoda points out: Climate change will continue to displace large populations of people, spurring the onset of epidemics.

Whether we like it or not, the spread and severity of infectious diseases are inextricably tied to both biology and behavior—which, in turn, cycle with the seasons. According to Martinez, the implications of this go far beyond fingering a malady for all seasons; rather, these patterns could change how we view our own bodies… and give new meaning to the phrase, “feeling under the weather.”

“This isn’t just about transmission—seasonality is also in the human body itself,” she explains. “There’s something happening in our bodies we don’t quite understand yet. Seasonality in infectious disease is just an enticing little piece of the puzzle.”

[7amonathursdayinoctober]

Seriously-

[jtthompson]

Also from a fandom POV it's such a shift! Less material from the source to work with. Fewer scenes to gif. Fewer character driven moments to use as a starting point for art/stories. Fewer minutes of dialogue to analyze.

Fewer chances for the show writers, directors, costume designers, lighting designers, actors, etc etc to play. To get weird and do something off the wall because why the hell not?

It's less for the original creators AND the fan creators!

I miss you filler episodes i miss you 20 episode seasons i miss you monster of the week format i miss you character development i miss you self contained episodes i miss you tv that isn't a long chopped up movie

[delicate-sketch]

Things I think happened in the chb’s infirmary No Order my references are prophetic dreams and war memories from when i was a health student

- they have like this huge old whiteboard glued god knows how with a little cartoon caterpillar sticker saying “get well soon?” where they (Will and any other poor souls that are in infirmary duty) put everything they need to remember but they can’t make themselves write complete sentences so is just “JuYCE” and “neomicinabacitracinanitrofural” and “CLARISSE = OUT”

- there is this hole on the floor that they always forget to ask a Hephaestus kid to fix so its like a rite of passage to not notice it and end up falling

- They are in a camp. Sharing cabins. Bathrooms. ADHD kids who love to run and procrastinate everything including hygiene. THE INFECTIONS GET SPREAD INSANELY FAST. They have to WEEKLY go renovating the “PLEASE WASH YOUR HAIR WE NEED TO ERRATIC THE COOTIES” ads around the camp.

- we need to rip off the band aid. where there is teenagers there is sex. Michael Yew was pioneer on the sex education topic and his legacy isn’t going to die on Will Solace reign. One thing is cooties another one is herpes. There will be informative and traumatizing videos and awful teen pregnancy documentaries. They are all gonna watch.

- And since they are already here there will be having safe drug use convos too and dionysus is the one sponsoring them there is a rap battle at some point i think

- kids will be kids and most part of the time they are taking care of spread ankles, stomach aches, allergies and flu season at this point Will doesn’t even need to touch them to know when its a flu case

- since they (the infirmary squad) are spending a lot of time walking around they need to wear comfy shoes. At some point Kayla shows up wearing a neon monsters inc slippers. So Austin decides to wear his clown shoes. Now they only accept sandals and crocs. Rules are rules. The weird socks keep going tho.

- on the topic there is a lot of unspoken rules. One of them is that the communal and personal things limits are very rigid. Everyone gets to drink the coffee. No one is going to use Austin personal “Grammy Winner” mug. No one is going to use Kayla’s special glitter rainbow hairbrush. And, mostly important, no one is going to give their bureaucratic work for Nico to help. That is Will’s personal secretary.

- on the communal help tho, sometimes they will use Drew’s charmspeaker as an anesthesia. The Stolls are always there to get a couple of stuff outside their monthly rides to get things. Clarisse is amazing to held people when they need to put their bones back into place. They make it work.

- the communal work have one problem unfortunately. They are neck deep into drama. And into a complex cobweb of they likes them and they kissed them and they hate them. And. Worse of all. They cheat them. Thats when there is screaming. And chairs floating into peoples neck.

- the smaller kids don’t get the drama on its fully complexion. But they still gossip. At least five of them have called Will “Dad”, at least three of them have called Kayla “Mom” and all of them have said “Thats embarrassing, dude.” For everyone around there.

[herpsandbirds]

Thank you for sharing potential fun finds for my next herping season in Missouri. Here’s what my favorite find was last year:

I may have shared this cutie before, I don’t remember but I loved seeing it because it was a first time finding an adult. I find the juveniles with blue tails all the time but spotting an adult chilling on a tree had me all excited. Currently calling it a Broad Headed Skink but the local skinks can look pretty similar at times.

Thanks for sharing. I would also go with broad-headed.

[transthatmasc]

Even funnier take— Gabe fucking hates Sam and came out of 8 years of presumed dead hiding just to fuck Sam’s girlfriend before going out for real

I love that Sam Winchester's angel boyfriend and witch girlfriend decided to fuck each other and then said angel went and fucking died 🙃

[pheonixxfoxx]

Happy 18th Birthday My Grey Potato! 🥔

18 years ago a little grey kitten came into this world. He was a sickly thin thing; his gentle eyes crusted shut and some how miraculously found by the staff at the local dump! 🥹

Back then, I was working faithfully for the Humane Society and charged with cleaning the kennels at the local pound. The dump that happened to find Jiraiya, was right next door.

I naturally made it a daily habit of checking on the cats first and then tending to the dogs. ���� While cleaning the kennel runs, one of the wardens came in and then left abruptly. It was then time to carefully clean the cats. In the cage full of adorable kittens was an unexpected surprise.

A quick call was placed to my boss as this sickly grey little fur-ball gravely needed a foster home ASAP. Woefully, it was kitten season and everyone had their paws full. Someone needed to take him and that person ended up being me, but his odds of survival were rather slim.

A name wasn't given to him right away, as a just incase. To prevent my other cat, Jaden Yuki from contracting the feline herpes Jiraiya had, he was kept isolated in the bathroom. Like clock work, I would give Jiraiya his medication and spend sometime with him. 💙

It's evident how this story ends. A sickly little furball doomed to die, undoubtedly possessed a very determined will to live! Here he is 18 years later…😺

There was a recent scare with him, Jiraiya vomited and began to choke. At one point, I truly thought he was gone, his breathing became so shallow. 😭 I hastily laid Jiraiya on his right side, where he extended his little neck out and placed his head on my hand. This thankfully opened up his airway.

Just like Buggy, Jiraiya is my rock who keeps me sane and going with all that has been happening in real life. 💙 If I had lost him that night, honestly best to not think about it. Alternatively, I'll be thankful for and plan to joyfully celebrate the long life of my son, Jiraiya, the bacon loving grey potato! He also can't get enough of whipped cream. Not going to lie, someone is rather spoiled, LOL!! 😹

Happy Birthday Jiraiya, here is to many more!!! 🎉🎂

[dusty-siltstrider]

(copied from my heads-up over in Viktor Nation)

yes it's not a drill this time shut up

Hi! Netflix is braindead and apparently gave some guy (claims to work in entertainment) full access to fully rendered season 2 episodes. To which he watched them all and proceeded to take a bunch of screenshots and yap endlessly on Twitter.

I am NOT on twitter and don't know how much this shit is currently circulating or how properly fast things are being deleted, but PLEASE **if you're on arcanetwt lay low and be careful** because dude apparently revealed a lot and that kinda thing spreads like herpes on Shitter. All I know is that there's a whole lotta screenshots he took that are going around.

Also don't know how much the guy might have grabbed about Viktor specifically (the screenshots I saw were of Vi) but I doubt he completely left that out. **These screenshots do NOT have the classic warning signs of hallmarks and timers**, they're fully rendered and shit. So you're gonna have to be paranoid. Thanks, Netflix. Thanks asshole guy.

As always I will NOT be posting s2 content related to leaks here. And thank you to Ignimbrite over in Viknat for the initial warning. Marcus voice "The situation is still developing" so pls just be careful! With 20 days left.... smh...

[zushigirl]

Kastle fam! I’ve been out to sea without reception and owe you all a wrap up of our #kastlechristmas24 💀❄️ ☕️Thank you to everyone who shared fics and gifs!!! Hope this list is like a New Year’s present amid all the crazy going’s on. Sending lots of love to you all.

1. Was Too Afraid to Love You by @oh-no-thank-u

2. The Herpes of Makeup and Crafting by @fortysevenswrites

3. so flawed, so free by @ninzied

4. Reconnaissance by @elen-tari2

5. State of Fire by @oh-no-thank-u

6. Seasons Greetings - Which due to underway time will end like a Valentine Day gift for you lovelies 💌 😆

7. What Good is the Warmth of Summer @kastlenetwork

[hexedwinchester]

Supernatural S05E08 Changing Channels

I've said it before but really Jensen is good at comedy. He should consider one of the comedy roles. Anyone remember Priestly? He played that well

I'd watch Dr. Sexy M.D. too if Dr. Sexy was Sam Winchester 😍😍

dr. Piccolo is a Sam girl

Sam asking important questions in Season 5: why does this show (Dr. Sexy M.D.) have ghosts? Did you kiss him?

i wonder how Sam felt when he saw Dean getting shot at the hospital. It must have brought back the trauma of seeing Dean die over and over again from Mystery Spot 😭😭

Poor Sam... 🥜🍘

Sam: I've got gential herpes 😂😂😂 so ironic the trickster made him play that role

i love Sam's Neo Anderson sunglasses 🕶️

so Dean hates procedural cop shows but anyone who is looking at Sam can tell he swallows them up like candy 🤣🤣🤣 he is too invested

Sam: should I honk? 🤣🤣🤣

Supernatural: it's about two brothers who loved each other and betrayed each other. Meanwhile, that one group of fans: it's about our ship