#if you don't know what prion diseases are. don't look it up if you have health anxiety

[dutyworn]

when you actually read planet descriptions before scanning, the games become a lot more hilarious. depleting a colonised planet? check. carelessly mining a planet that's suspected to be the origin of a MOTHERFUCKING PRION DISEASE? chekc,

[moyazaika]

KUINA. MOTHER? IS THAT MOTHER?? Everyone else out here lookin busted af meanwhile queenie is standing there PLUCKED not a hair out of place. She graduated from the university of cuntology with a degree in servitude of motherology and minored in face card banking. I'm sorry she was letting y’all HAVE IT.

Good to have you back! Hope you are coping with the impending doom of summer, where the sun has no mercy and the shade is scarce. Recently I've discovered this fun little movie called Martin from 1977, it's a vampire movie from George A. Romero (the dude behind the og zombie movie, Night of the Living Dead) and it's super fun! I say a vampire movie, but is our boy really a vampire? It's something I like to think about just a lil 🤔 delusional characters r my thing.

OH MY GODNESS YOU UNDERSTANDDDD 1000000% there are people out there who truly believe that the best, most pure way to keep someone with them is to take all of them. Cannibalism is such an intense device in storytelling, especially as a metaphor and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. That kind of obsessive “love” is scary, not just because of the actions a person may take, but the feelings they harbor. People who are so far gone that the only world they live in is the one only they know and experience? What do you mean you think eating someone is the only way to keep them with you??? What version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar were you reading??? This entire topic reminds me of how love and consumption go hand in hand. If someone wants to go as far as to eat someone they love, do they love them? Or do they want to consume them, own them, possess every fiber of their being and become one with them so they can feel complete again? Does possessing a beating heart mean the same as possessing one torn from the chest of a loved one?

also. What does it taste like? I'm just curious. I've heard human meat tastes like chicken.

The other trope I’ve been sent tumbling back into is the classic cult story, maybe it's because I just rewatched Hereditary? I think that demons, or entities of incompressible power, are scary because they can't be emotionally swayed. There's physically nothing you can do or say to persuade an entity that has existed for far longer than you could ever hope to, so you have to shut up and take whatever kind of pain they decide to grace your senses with. How do you change a god's mind? What do you mean I can't mansplain my way out of this one? Y'all why don't valak want me 😔 can't malewife or manwhore our way outta this one fellas 😢

maybe I should stick to human men. - 🕺🕺🕺

just dug this up too cus im going thru asks tonight (i took a 5 hour nap and sleep evades me now. help it’s 3am)

she’s fucking gorgeous serving looks the entire time and i love how that,, didn’t take away from her character complexities. yes she was hot. she also had a complex backstory and emotions which were woven into her character as a woman and fighter. Love how they handled her!!!!!!

i love the way you measure time or describe seasons. it’s so oddly endearing <3

“what version of the very hungry caterpillar were you reading” dawg these bitches were eating the book not reading it 😭😭😭

did yk interestingly there’s a disease where your own proteins go ‘rogue’ (prions) when you consume human meat? i think it’s called kiru/kuru?? they eat the brains of deceased people as a funeral rite (not sure if that’s rooted in respect or love) but it’s crazy to think that this is like. Something Humans Do. yk?

i’ve heard the same!! (fbi agent please don’t hurt me) but speaking of cannibalism i feel like u would love the hannibal tv show. (symbolism is INSANE in this one. also they’re hot as fucj oh yeahh) or yellowjackets. i haven’t finished either but i’ve been told they’re VERY promising from the few eps i saw before life was like Damn Bitch get back on the grind 🤬🤬🤬🤬

I LOVE HEREDITARY the sinking feeling when it dawns on you that they’re all insane. they’re all fucking insane and they believe in their insanity to such an extent convincing them otherwise is a waste of your time. both the God and their followers—nothing you can say to weasel out of this one.

i love a good cult story i have something in my wip but it’s more of a long term project i wanna make a series of (again, once i graduate 😥😥) but oooooh boy Many Thoughts Thunk. the abuse of power… misplaced trust… the feeling of something being just. not normal. even tho it should be. even though everyone around you says it is. the paranoia. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😊😊❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[hi-im-lugh]

*Runs up to you with one of those wand cat toys held like a microphone*

Thoughts about zombie viruses in media?

(No presser to answer, I just thought you might have thoughts about it. Feel free to ignore this ^^;)

HI!!! IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED

Zombie viruses are INCREDIBLY hit or miss for me. I either love them or hate them and very often hate them.

My main problem is that SO much zombie media tries to be accurate to real life or take real world inspiration, and as someone who knows a lot about diseases, that ruins it for me SO bad. No matter what you do to Rabies it will not do that. Neither will prions. Honestly prions as a zombie virus often has racist roots in misperception of the Kuru outbreak in the Fore people. (Looking at you DEAD ISLAND.)

I like zombie viruses that are removed from reality. That's honestly why I've enjoyed the MLP infection au trend so much- quite a few of 'em hit the perfect sweet zone of fantasy science and pure fantasy. The Resident Evil series is in a similar spot- the science in that series is COMPLETELY insane and means nothing and it's beautiful.

When zombie media focuses on scientific explanations that are just- not science, it leaves out the much more amazing chance for weird story telling. Give me more magic viruses! Ancient curses! Completely implausible viruses that acknowledge they're implausible and don't focus on it!

....also sometimes when people learn I like diseases they immediately ask me about zombies and it makes me want to bite someone.

[hehehoohoohole]

OKAY SO. First question: Are there other diseases that can spread despite being cooked?

The answer is no, not really. Prions are just really fucked up. But! If meat isn't cooked to the proper temperature and held there for a while, you can end up with meat that looks cooked, but still is dangerous. This is especially true with ground meats, which is why you should never order a rare ground meat burger.

The reason ground meat is a problem and not steak is because the bacteria and viruses that cause illness tend to vibe on the outside of the meat, so with steak, as long as the outside is properly cooked, you're pretty safe. With ground meats, every surface is mashed together and thus the whole product has the potential for bacteria and viruses.

As for being a carrier of disease- generally, in a slaughterhouse setting, the animal is examined before slaughter, and then after slaughter, indivual spots are examined for signs of disease to ensure bad product doesn't make it to the market. I know that at least the esophagus and the lymph nodes are checked off the top of my head (my dad has been involved in the opening of the second ever ostrich slaughterhouse and had a GREAT time trying to figure out the esophagus stuff).

Thankfully, I found these fun and cool PDFs about the pre and post mortem inspection processes! So here those are if you wanna take a peek- https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2021-11/17a_HQ_LSIT_Antemortem_07-02-2019.pdf https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2020-08/PHVt-Post_Mortem_Inspection.pdf

Doing these inspections on a Human Person would likely be sufficient for determining if they were a carrier for a disease or not. But we also have the added bonus of humans being a lot easier to tell if they're sick by virtue of. We know what sick humans look like because we are also human/human adjacent in this setting. Also because you can just ask.

Now- here's the fun part!! In a kitchen setting, meat is not your only concern! Veggies used in salads and for garnish are also a hot bed for food borne illness, since they aren't cooked and washing often isn't enough to get E. Coli off your lettuce. That's why it's important yo be aware of food recalls and ALSO have separation of raw meat, cooked meat, and veggies. You GOTTA have separate areas for preparation of each (I've heard that a lot of kitchens use color coordinated cutting boards!).

I....don't know how to apply food safety to fucking someone in a kitchen where you then do slaughter and cooking. Or actively having sex with someone during the slaughter process. Uh. I think it would break the rules. But I....don't know. Which rules. This is not something that comes up in normal food safety, I'm sure you understand. I think as long as Morell washes his hands afterwards it's- it's kinda okay?? ITS HARD TO APPLY REAL WORLD LOGIC TO THIS.

In conclusion: it would probably be fine for kiddo to eat human as long as Morell follows USDA guidelines at least a little.

As thanks for reading this ramble, please take this baby ostrich photo!

You have a lot of info, and it's nice to have someone with a clear idea about this stuff...as much as it can be applied to fucked up porn scenarios.

I'm glad that the kiddo and Piglet will probably be fine if they eat some, at least physically. I had told pin about Prion disease in an RP we did a long while back, as that was how my troll, Liva, was convincing Morell to stop feeding Piglet other humans. This updated information is nice to know so I don't further spread misinformation, even if in reality it's probably fine to use whatever to spook people off actually eating each other.

As for Morells cleanliness, uh, he is not at least in regards to butchering and sex, he's a gross man and doesn't wash his hands for cooking after I'm pretty certain. Piglet will have to hose him for her safety, hands, mouth, dick, everything if she can manage to get him to listen to her. The good news is I think he stops fucking people after meeting her so there's at least one less thing to worry about carrying disease.

In a world with magic and Krulu hovering around making sure his employees play things don't die so they don't have man baby tantrums none of this really matters though. Even without Krulu directly getting involved though, there's Patches and or Liva's magic, which probably can't fix everything ever but can probably fix enough. Patches probably won't help out of the goodness of his heart, he'll need to be nagged by Morell but Liva will, and verbally rip into the chef the whole time for being so bad at taking care of his "wife".

Aahh hello little babies! I would give them little head kisses if they weren't still in the inside phase, they're still vulnerable when they're that little I believe. Thank you for the picture and the interaction, I find it very sweet that you wanted to info dump for me, I'm around if you'd like to again.

[beeapothecary]

Parkinson's Honey Research Update 1

Time for a (lengthy) research update!

This is a project I've been working on with a friend of mine and another neuroscience peer for a program at out university. I intend on presenting the finished proposal to a couple of institutions for an internship. We finished up the grant proposal draft and presentation, and it's about 97% complete barring some minor tweaks! So here's what we've learned doing the grant research:

To begin, here's a basic overview of Parkinson's and the neuroscience behind it

Parkinson's is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which most people know for its motor symptoms. Its onset usually begins way before the motor symptoms like the tremors even manifest. The first symptoms are typically behavioral changes

To make it easier, I'll be using some of the presentation slides. Mental health struggles include depression and anxiety.

By the time you start manifesting symptoms, you've lost around 90% of your dopamine neurons. I need to reread the study which found that to see if it's the motor neurons or behavioral symptoms that signals 90% dopaminergic neuron loss.

This cell death is caused by a combination of mitochondrial dysfunction and alpha synuclein protein fibrils building up in neurons, creating the characteristic Lewy bodies.

All this seems pretty bad, because it is, BUT the caveat is that PD (Parkinson's disease) won't kill you like Alzheimer's or a prion disease like CJD. People with Parkinson's usually die of old age and due to things like falls (because older populations). They're more likely to die due to an accident as a result of the PD (depression, dopamine seeking behaviors, impulsivity, motor symptoms leading to accidents), not neuron death.

Average age of onset is ~60, but people don't get diagnosed until ~80 on average. Usually diagnosis is due to motor symptoms, and a couple of studies found that PD sufferers tend to die ~2 years after diagnosis at 82.

Honey might have some merit to help with PD treatment for a couple of reasons!

Mitochondrial dysfunction

This article found it could help reverse the mitochondrial damage found in neurotoxicity models of Parkinson's. Basically, this model uses pesticides to induce some of the symptoms seen in PD without viral vectors, seeding of the pathogenic alpha synuclein proteins, or genetically engineering PD genes. We think PD might be triggered by oxidative stress, genetics, and mitochondrial dysfunction so it's helpful in that regard!

There's a lot of other studies looking into the mitochondria, buuuuut considering I racked up 300 articles researching all of this, I'll just use 1 for now.

Cognitive decline and oxidative stress

Honey also offers protection against cognitive decline

and it's a well known anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. PD patients have high amounts of inflammation and oxidative stress due to cell death and pathogenic alpha synuclein essentially being a giant oxidant.

(Tualang Honey Protects the Rat Midbrain and Lung against Repeated Paraquat Exposure, Suk Peng Tang et al.) The table is just showing different markers in rat midbrains. N was given water and saline (negative control), TH was given honey (negative control), PQ was given a pesticide (control), PQ + TH was pesticide and honey, PQ+QH was pesticide and ubiquinol. You don't need to know too much to see that the honey group was closer to the negative control groups than the pesticide control group, which is kind of insane.

Polyphenols

Flavonoids have a lot of benefits, especially when protecting against oxidative stress and damage. People normally mention tea, coffee, wine, and chocolate when talking about polyphenols but honey has A TON.

I love this graphic, it's from this review. It's showing which polyphenols research has found to help different disorders. Absolutely beautiful

This is the study if you want to read it

Here's some of the polyphenols found in some honey. Basically, something that isn't Manuka is pretty good here, making it less expensive.

Study the table is from

So yea! Pretty promising!

Especially when you consider a lot of people with PD don't have access to treatment, either because it's too expensive or because they live somewhere without it. Plus, if we find it to be particularly promising, we can try tweaking it so that it gives stronger protection. Since honey is really just honey, it also means caretakers will have an easier time treating patients resist treatment (either due to fear, denial, or whatever else).

I'll figure out how to link all the studies for next time. Very cool, super excited to work on this project more :)

[canned-goose-feathers]

hello! in my biology class we talked about prion diseases, and I thought of you! these are my shitty notes from class!

Prions are proteins found in the cell membranes of neural tissue (brain tissue) Prions despise is driven by the miss folded prison at the cell membrane level We don't know why The misfolded protein in the cell membrane alters its shapes This causes voids or gaps to occur in the brain tissue The brain takes on an appearance similar to swish cheese Severe neural issues and death How to treat? Idk there is no way No vac, not able to Can only avoid contact with prion Avoid contact with neural tissues from mammals White-tailed deer Cattle Wear gloves and avoid the brain The prion diseases are very slow may get in 20 and it shows in the late 40s Also debilitating In cattle, it is BSE - mad cow diseases Cw - chronic wasting - CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Kuru disease Avoid contact, and don't eat brains!! Wear big gloves, to the elbow, and change clothes

you should really look up chronic wasting disease! its a fun read and you might be able to use parts of it!

Oh I'm very familiar with prion diseases. I work in large animal vet med, though BSE and chronic wasting aren't common in this region of the country. Kuru was originally found in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, who had a tradition of funerary cannibalism, meaning they cooked and ate the dead family member to help free the spirit. Kuru was also more common in women and children as they were the ones that consumed the brain. As for chronic wasting disease, it's more commonly known when people talk about zombie deer.

What's fascinating (and horrible) are the methods which with we deal with animal prion diseases like BSE, CWD, and scrapie. Because there's so vaccination and no cure, essentially the only option is to kill every that caries it. Take sheep, for example. My family owned sheep. Sheep have scrapie tags that essentially says to the government "hey these sheep don't have scrapie and this is the information about these sheep". That includes owner information, sale information, etc. Why? Well, say you have a sheep that dies suddenly and you send the body off for a necropsy. The lab comes back and says "oh shit this bitch has scrapie." At this point the sheep's scrapie tag is tracked by the USDA all the way to your farm, to the farm you bought the sheep from, to the farm the sheep was born on, etc.

Then, generally all susceptible animals that were exposed are "removed". If the infection of scrapie is bad enough (long term over various Generations, spread through the whole flock, etc) the actual land itself can be sanctioned off as not to be used for livestock. Why? Prions are KNOWN for being both highly resistant and virtually undetectable. Prions can live in the soil for years without losing any pathogenic activity. Scrapie tags are now required for all sheep and goats not in slaughter channels or over the age of 18 months. Tldr: if your animals get scrapie, you can lose your entire flock and possibly your land.

Stuff like BSE has affected not just the farmers and livestock, but also what we eat via usda regulations. UK regulations are also pretty strict, mainly because they eat more lamb than we do.

Anyway I know a LOT about prions which heavily led into the naming of the au

[mishkakagehishka]

waitwait. zombie au mika again.

imagine if the virus is actually suuuper slow. you're never 100% sure if you have it or not (unless you get bitten, of course, but through other means? the uncertainty could kill...) until it sets in, and by then you're doomed. so. mika gets a wound. everyone brushes it off - it's just a little scratch, nothing to worry about! weeks, months go by. nothing has happened, and everyone has relaxed. mika will be fine! until he wakes up and the wound that he thought was just a scar has started to rot. and then he knows. he's doomed. he was infected from that first moment, and now that there's symptoms? there's no salvation for him. where does he go from there? does he try to live out his last few days as a human peacefully? say goodbye to his friends and loved ones? beg his friends, the producer, anyone to kill him before it spreads further? before he loses himself and his mind? does he simply disappear one day, leaving everyone panicked and worried until one day they see a familiar-looking zombie with mismatched eyes?

[Inhales] ... like rabies... by the time you see the symptoms it's too late. First of all, I thought about zombie virus biology soooooo much in all the years I've lived knowing ab zombies as someone prone to overthinking so let me give you a few ideas. Cut because I realised this got too long BDBDBSBS

Personally, I love TWD's idea of "everyone's infected, if you die and the brain isn't destroyed - you're becoming a zombie" aka the "the bite is really just highly effective venom that does you in, but your fate is sealed either way" theory. Although what enstars is doing fits Dead Rising a bit better, I think. Or actually Project Zomboid where if you got bitten by one while playing, you'd basically have a timer... like you could continue playing, but you were scheduled to die because of that bite. I thought that was a cool concept. But also because of Mitsuru's line especially I think the epilogue will be "lol get prank'd Producer" so who cares + it's an AU + ratio. But to the TWD theory .... if I may build upon it (this is all for this specific ask btw i prommy i'm not just saying this for no reason), if the bite is just powerful venom transferred by bodily fluids like saliva and blood (and this is what bothered me about zombie media that implied this - nobody ever cares ab zombie-bloodied weapons coming into contact with their open wounds!! You can get hepatitis like that, nevermind zombified!!) then we can assume that any mixing of a zombie's bodily fluids with your own could cause you to contract the virus. So, for example, if you grow desperate enough to eat a zombie? Prion disease is the least of your worries. Or - in Mika's case?

I think. I'm sorry I love making him cry. I think Mika is a very emotional person. He's a slave to his emotions, he's impulsive, he's prone to panicking. In a zombie apocalypse, you'll have plenty opportunity to get cuts, whether you don't know how to properly wield some tools or weapons, or you're trying to traverse terrain/climb objects or, fuck it, you just accidentally cut yourself on a thorn or whatever. Mika is clumsy. Mika cannot see in the dark. Mika absolutely slashes open his arm on a fence trying to climb it while running away. He returns from the supply run covered in tears and snot because he's hurt badly. Faints from bloodloss badly. But they question him (you didn't get bitten or torn by a zombie, did you?) and he swears he didn't, the reason his arm is fucked is because he didn't let himself get bit. So they wait it out. Let me be cruel. They don't give him painkillers or patch him up until they're certain he's not infected - because why waste supplies on a dead man?

But what Mika didn't know is that zombies got cut up on that fence, too. It was a dangerous fence. When he slashed his arm open, all the bacteria got in. The dormant virus got in. First he becomes delirious when his arm gets infected, just, in general. Because they didn't treat it. He's begging and pleading to just give him an antibiotic or at least cut his arm off because he can't take the burning pain anymore. And the Producer probably takes pity and sneaks him antibiotics and treats him as well as they can. He's thanking them, still feverish, still delirious, straight up crying of relief. He promises them he's not infected, that they didn't waste the supplies and that he's so thankful.

He recovers - somewhat. Idk how long someone would take to recover, but they'd have a (flawed) understanding of the virus and have an approx. timespan when they'd think they're safe (FAVE part ab zombie media - when they think they know but they don't) so Mika gets released from quarantine, properly treated (and Producer gets side-eyed) and apologised to. And they think they're fine! He's recovering! They thought he was going to lose that arm, but he's actually doing okay, he can't use it well, the nerves and tendons are damaged, but he's getting by with help.

Maybe even months pass. He's smiling and laughing, he's bonding. Producer has become his best friend. They're having fun! And then one night when he's checking over his arm (he's mourning it, really, he's noticing he's losing feeling in it bit by bit, he knows he'll have to lose the arm even if he hasn't told anyone), he sees... skin chipping off. Rotting off. His heart drops into his stomach. How could this have happened? Since it was his dominant arm, they didn't even let him do supply runs again unaccompanied, there was no way he got bit?!

But it was undeniable. His hand was rotting. He checks himself over for other symptoms they were aware of. Rot. Weakness. Fatigue. Losing feeling of limbs. Slow healing. Sensitivity to the cold. Mika freaks the fuck out. He can't live out his last few days peacefully because he's hyperaware of the fact that they're his last days. There's so much he hasn't done yet! Saying goodbye to his loved ones? No way, no way. He can't burden them like that. He cries a lot. He cries so much. But he knows his days are numbered and he knows he's a danger to his friends if he stays in the camp. But he trusts the Producer. His best friend. He asks them to go on a supply run with him.

He's keeping his arm gauzed up as he leads them into the woods - he saw some abandoned camp there, he says. Deep into the woods. He asks them if they could go back to the camp on their own, without his help. They say they remembered the route - he was going straight and was marking trees with his own blood anyway. (They thought it was morbid, Mika thought "Hey, I'm not gonna need it, might as well".) He asks them if they have a weapon on them, one preferably silent that won't attract zombies. They have an axe. His breath hitches. He'd hoped for a knife, but alright.

He shows them his rotting arm. "Ya hafta do me in."

The Producer might take mercy on him and (try to) land a clean cut. (That's not happening. The axe is rusty, beheading him would take two-three swings, but they could just split his head in half.) But do they have the stomach for it? To kill their best friend so violently? But he's begging so desperately. Do they have the stomach to deny him, to leave him crying, scared, alone until he succumbs to the virus on his own in those woods? Do they... tie him up to a tree? Sit next to him? Hold his hand as he takes his final breaths? Hear him pleading with nobody, begging for it all to be a nightmare, that he'll wake up tomorrow, by Oshi-san calling him because he's late to rehearsal, that he'll see all his friends who've passed on... that he's scared of dying? Hear him chanting "I'm scared, please, I don't wanna die"? Would they squeeze his hand, trying to comfort him however futile it might be? Would "I'm right here with you" even comfort him?

When he passes, they could destroy his brain to make sure he doesn't come back. Or they could leave him be. They could honour his wish, or they could seek their own comfort in a foolish belief that a zombified Mika would mean there was still a little bit of Mika left in the world. Maybe one day, they'll find a cure. If not to return him to his human state, then at least to let him pass on. They'll give him a proper funeral then.

[anti-rq-enot]

What in god's name is this. That is literally all I can say. All of this is so wrong on so many levels-- not only in ways that will greatly hurt themselves and pose a risk of (in some of these, 100% fatal) diseases, but everyone around them as well, ruining the lives of what would otherwise be healthy and successful people. Part of me believes that might be intentional-- I'd imagine if it's hard to find people just as fucked up as you, you might turn to fucking them up yourselves.

First of all, to start off with the less concerning aspects, do you know what "mad cow disease" is? Creudzfelt-Jakob disease, otherwise known as "mad cow disease," is a degenerative brain disease with no cure which causes dementia and death with no cure. CJD progresses rapidly, eating holes in the brain, and mercifully, kills patients within a year. That is still a year of frustration, confusion, terror, muscle spasms, loss of motor control and memory, blindness, and of course, chronic pain. It's not unlike chronic wasting disease found in deer, in that it shares a cause: prions. Misfolded proteins found in meat. You can't get it from being sneezed on or anything like that, and you can't tell if someone has it and isn't affected just by looking at them, since in hereditary cases, it doesn't affect people until they are much older. As long as you don't eat them, you should be fine.

Don't eat people.

[source]

Now the part that got me riled up in the first place.

"Biting those who say that they are getting groomed by radqueers."

They know what they're fucking doing here. They are trying to intimidate their victims into staying quiet. They know what effect they're having on the children they interact with; don't bother trying to argue with them about how wrong it is, they already know and they do not care. Contact their victims if possible. Tell them how much danger they are in. Help them escape the situation to the best of your ability. Don't even bother trying to reason with the abuser, they are already too far gone. If they wanted to get help and be better they already would have a long time ago. Which brings me to my next point: being "anti-recovery."

I am only going to say this once.

Wanting to fuck animals is not a good thing.

Wanting to fuck corpses is not a good thing.

Wanting to fuck kids is not a good thing.

You should not be proud of wanting to fuck things that cannot consent.

Acting on these urges is objectively wrong, and if you have them, a large priority for you should be correcting these patterns of thoughts and behavior to ensure that you are not a danger to those around you. To actively discourage others from seeking help is knowingly continuing this cycle of abuse. Once again, they know what they're doing is wrong and do not care, as long as it gets them a group of people just as messed up as they are to surround themself with and sic on anyone that disagrees with them, keeping them loyal by telling them no one else will take them. Continuing to damage them so that they have no other options.

I'm awful at writing conclusions so there, I said everything I need to.

Prats made a borderline ripoff of kandiqueer (awooqueer) and,, it is vile and horrible, I cant even type it all out because it's disgusting, it supports "minors in kink" and fucking abolishing the age of consent

[pt: vile, abolishing the age of consent /end pt]

it is just a ripoff really, not even borderline, i only saw it today doing the carrd stuff

heres what i wrote for the carrd, its kinda a TL;DR on the label

Awooqueer, code : 🌈🐺🍼

"Biting those who say that they are getting groomed by radqueers"

RQ "Youth lib" centered, ProPara, Pro TransIDs, Pro Transramcoa or Transnazi.

Pro Incest, Pro MIK, Pro the abolition of the age of consent and age of majority, Pro MSM/MMP/CP, Pro "sexual education to being of any age.", Supports relationships between adults and minors, Pro conatct necro and zoo, Proship/Darkship, Pro cannibalism, "Intrage over chronoage", Pro "assisted suicide" and s/h, Anti Recovery, "Anti puritan"

and its very similar counterpart

Werequeer, code : 🌕🐺 / 🌌🐺

RQ "Youth lib", ProPara, Pro TransIDs, Pro Incest, Pro MIK, Pro the abolition of the age of consent and age of majority, Pro MSM/MMP/CP, Pro "sexual education to being of any age.", Pro Incest, Pro conatct necro and zoo, Proship, Pro cannibalism, "Intrage over chronoage", Pro "assisted suicide" and s/h, Anti Recovery, "Anti puritan"

[diavolaangelica]

This deer looks neurologic. It's bad news if it is chronic wasting disease (CWD). If you ever see a deer like this while out hunting, don't eat it. There are places known to have cervids affected with CWD, it's best to destroy the animal, and turn in the head at the designated drop boxes. So far, CWD is not known to jump from cervids to humans, but you have to consider that little is know about prion diseases in humans. We still don't know what the true ramifications of the bovine spongiform encephalitis (mad cow) exposure from the 80's and 90's will be, because it can have an incubation period spanning decades. We still don't know why some people become symptomatic, while others who were exposed did not become ill. The theory is that some people are genetically predisposed. I'm going to shut up now. I'm always studying uncommon diseases and pathogens. I guess if I had a hobby, that would be it. The point of this is.. we don't know if chronic wasting disease can pass from cervids to humans, so don't eat it.

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[newdougsblog]

YOU EXPECT TO SEE A POST ABOUT PRIONS ON MY DASH AND NOT REPLY????

I was really excited when I saw this!!! Prion diseases are so cool.

While most of the OP's information is correct, I'd like to expand upon it and make some corrections. OP, I know your main goal was to educate people regarding the funerary practices of the Fore people, but I couldn't pass up an opportunity to ramble about prions. I hope you don't take this the wrong way—I'm not trying to start a fight, but add on to your effort to properly educate people about prion diseases!!

I want to preface this by clarifying that I am by no means an expert on prions, but I do work in a prion lab, so I'd like to think that I kind of know my stuff!

I'm going to get into the nitty-gritty under the cut. This will include a detailed discussion of prion diseases (nothing too bad, I think).

OP provided a great explanation as to what prion diseases actually are, and I wanted to add on!

Plain old prion proteins are not infectious. Actually, we all have prion proteins, or PrP proteins, in our bodies! While their exact purpose is unclear, they are mainly expressed in the central nervous system but can be found throughout the body.

It might help to think of prion diseases like cancer but for proteins: While cancer is the result of mutated cells (well, mutated DNA), prion diseases are caused by misfolded (mutated) proteins (which can be caused by genetic mutations, but are largely sporadic or contracted via infectious material).

Mutated prion proteins, PrPˢᶜ, are resistant to normal methods of protein degradation, such as proteases, and can actively spread their misfolded conformation to other, normally-folded proteins. This results in an accumulation of PrPˢᶜ proteins.

Prions also have a very long incubation period in humans; it can take anywhere between 5 to 20 years for symptoms to develop after PrPˢᶜ proteins are first introduced to the body. It all kind of snowballs after the first symptoms appear, though. Prion diseases are also invariably fatal, so... if you get one, you're dead. I find it kind of cool that if you look up fatal diseases on Wikipedia, prion diseases are right there at the top.

OP is absolutely right in their statements regarding the origin of kuru. However, while the brain and spinal tissue are places with the highest concentration of prions, infectious tissues can be found anywhere in the body, as well as in bodily fluids, albeit to a lesser degree. That's why individuals who lived in the UK from 1980-1996 for 3+ months are unable to donate blood (if you want to know more about this, look into Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, AKA Mad Cow Disease). Research done in 2015 has also indicated that they can be transmitted via plants.

None of this information is meant to scare anyone—as OP said, the chances of you developing a prion disease are extremely rare.

stop saying "cannibalism causes prion diseases" this is a common misconception

gonna preface this by saying I'm not trying to be weird or edgy here I just have an interest in diseases and find it frustrating to constantly see people spreading misinformation abt how they originate and spread

this misconception comes from an epidemic of kuru, a type of prion disease (you might also seem em referred to as TSEs) that broke out among the Fore people of Papau New Guinea in the 1950s. until colonial rule, the Fore people practiced a form of funerary cannibalism in which a loved one's flesh, including organs, would be consumed after they died. this practice isn't exclusive to the Fore, and has no profound inherent dangers; cooking and eating human flesh doesn't have any more health risks associated with it than eating the flesh of an animal. what started the epidemic wasn't the practice of cannibalism, but rather a stroke of incredibly, incredibly bad luck.

(more under the cut; there's cannibalism and disease talk, but nothing graphic.)

a prion disease is caused by infectious prions in the brain. this is a type of misfolded protein that can cause other proteins to become misfolded as well. the misfolding of these proteins results in a deadly neurodegenerative disease. CJD (creutzfeldt-jakob disease), one type of prion disease, is capable of spontaneously occuring in otherwise healthy individuals with no family history of the disease; this is likely what happened to one unfortunate member of the Fore community. most of the time, only contact with brain and spinal tissue transmit this prion disease, so the women and children who traditionally ate these tissues soon began to present symptoms of the disease. the rest is fairly self explanatory; the community has no experience whatsoever with the disease, so doesn't know how to stop the spread; the afflicted die, and when they are eaten, the disease spreads to a new set of people, they die, the disease spreads more, et cetera. this continues until the practice of funerary cannibalism is brought to an end, and the last known sufferer of the disease dies in 2009.

so there's a couple things to note here. firstly, CJD, the disease that likely struck the initial sufferer, is incredibly rare. it affects roughly one in a million people, and only 85% of these cases are the result of spontaneous generation. secondly, the only reason that it was able to spread to such a degree is because cannibalism was practiced regularly in this culture. to act as though any cannibalism (ESPECIALLY in a culture where cannibalism is not normal) will lead to prion disease is absolutely absurd. the likelihood of even encountering someone with a prion disease is wildly low, and even then, if the brain and spinal tissue are avoided, the disease most likely won't transmit between the consumer and the person being eaten.

ultimately, saying that cannibalism will give you a prion disease is as absurd as saying that going to the doctor for a blood transfusion is going to give you HIV. blood transfusion might be capable of spreading HIV, but in normal circumstances, this will not happen. there is nothing inherent to blood transfusion that causes HIV, just as there's nothing inherent to cannibalism that causes prion diseases. yes, cannibalism would most likely give you a prion disease; if you happened to live in a community that already regularly practiced cannibalism, where a prion disease was already running rampant. yes, cannibalism will give you a prion disease; if you happen to stumble into one of the one people per million who has one, fail to recognize a single symptom that might deter you, and then choose to eat brain or spinal tissue rather than meat.

once again, this isn't trying to be some weird edgy cannibalism joke, i just think it's important that people have an understanding of where diseases come from and how they spread. kudos if you read this whole tangent