#nucleosys

[rudnitskaia]

Why are you doing this?

The question that appears so often in the game and that I also have been asking myself the whole day.

Pardon me the adaptation of Russian saying that will sound like an awful pun considering the forthcoming topic, but what started with a toast to health, ended with a prayer for repose.

The weekend has begun and I finally dedicated it to the long-awaited Asylum. I played to it… and I feel the urge to spill my raw thoughts on the topic here. As always, many words, many ramblings. You're warned.

But let's start from afar. I'll highlight the spoilers section in advance before it starts.

I got acquainted with the predecessor of Asylum, namely Scratches, somewhere back in 2008-2009. I'm around 14, I love horror point-and-click adventures, and I'm buying a CD with a gloomy house on the cover, which became a treasured memory for me later. So much so that I even still have an account somewhere with Blackwood login, and I repeatedly promoted the story itself to my acquaintances as something truly worthy of attention.

With all respect and deep love to the genre, I have to say that many point-and-click adventures (and many stories in general, I'd say nowadays) have one frequent issue – they have no problem with creating atmosphere and intrigue, but the denouement... er... more often than not feels like, pardon me, a fart in a puddle. It's as if the screenwriter is publicly admitting that he doesn't know what he wanted to say, where he was leading the story and how to end it in a beautiful, monumental way, being tired of writing it. Most of such games I remember fondly for one reason or another have that same disease. You can't imagine how much I mourned, for example, for Darkness Within series or for the first part of Black Mirror, both of which created pleasantly terrific tension but failed in the task of bringing it to its proper culmination.

Scratches didn’t suffer from this. Moreover, unlike most horror point-and-click adventures, it left a duality of interpretation: it allowed the player to decide for himself whether the cause of the events was really something supernatural or whether everything had a completely ordinary, logical explanation – a series of accidents that led to the tragedy. For me, it was (and is) a wonderful example of a good script.

So when, in those distant years, I found out about the beginning of Asylum's development, I waited for the project with burning eyes. But its release date was rescheduled from 2010 first to 2011 and then indefinitely. My focus of attention shifted to other things over time.

Sometime in 2019, I learned that the team had released another mini point-and-click adventure, Serena. I played through it and again found myself enchanted by the wonderful and in every sense chamber script. A little later I also found out that Asylum was still under development, wrote a supportive comment to the developers in Steam and started waiting for the game again.

When the notification about the release came to my e-mail inbox, my “NO WAY!” was heard, I think, throughout the whole building. :D Of course, I bought the game right away and now finally launched and played it through.

And I responsibly declare that it hurts. It. Hurts.

The game quickly draws you in with its atmosphere and captivates you with its mysteries and story in general. The controls were perplexing at first, but the retro gameplay is more of a plus for me because it evokes a sense of nostalgia. Critically disliked only the lack of inventory and, in general, the lack of puzzles. Also, the mini-map for fast teleporting could’ve been useful, but not necessarily, since it could’ve slightly ruined the atmosphere. The witty jokes and Easter eggs about Scratches added to the first positive impressions.

But, unlike Scratches, Asylum's storyline, amazing in the beginning, gradually becomes a complete mess from the second half of the game. Since both games are from the same writer, I naturally tend to compare them, and I still can't figure out what happened to Asylum's plot, considering enough time for it to be developed (15 years to be exact), that it became so badly crumpled and illogically resolved.

THE FOLLOWING TEXT WILL CONTAIN HUGE SPOILERS, I'VE WARNED YOU. IF YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED THE GAME AND PLAN TO PLAY OR WATCH A PLAYTHROUGH, I RECOMMEND YOU TO NOT READ MY RAMBLINGS UNTIL YOU DO.

The minor inconsistencies were there from the beginning. For example, the fact that neither the receptionist Julia nor the guard Bruno asks our name can be written off as a game convention, but when Bruno asks Julia through the speakerphone to “send someone to help him” because “a violent patient has escaped again”, in a place where the only people who are not locked in the “wards” are himself, the old Dr. Miller, the receptionist girl and a quiet skinny patient Lenny who has brittle bones, you involuntarily raise an eyebrow. Who, which one of them are you asking to send to help you with a dangerously strong violent man, Bruno? You've been there for days; you must know there’s no one to help in such cases!

Or, Julia lets us into the hospital on the condition that we won't go up to the top floors of the building, because there's some dangerous equipment up there. Yes, it's really there, as we’ll know further, but it already shows that Julia is definitely a character who should know more than she's saying. But for more than a half of the game, like all the other characters, she's simply absent.

These are really minor things; I can chalk them up to inattention and to game conventions. As opposed to all of the following.

The first half of the game copes with the plot – our protagonist, who remembers the period of his stay in the institution very vaguely, is sure that he belongs to a group of patients under the supervision of Dr. Ann, who applies mild methods of psychotherapy. Noticing that something terrible is happening to her patients, which they refuse to talk about, Dr. Ann discovers an unusual fungus on the clothes of one of them and, after examining it, realizes that it provokes hallucinations and brain tumors. She is sure that this is the reason for the deterioration of her patients' condition, but she can't understand where this fungus came from and why her patients are constantly receiving strange injuries.

However, as the story progresses, we realize that the protagonist was never a part of that group, but is still somehow connected to those patients.

At the same time, we discover the story of the head of the mental institute, Dr. Hanwell, who gradually delved into the occult topics. Due to a lack of funding, Hanwell enlisted patients to work on remodeling the asylum’s facility through the system of underground tunnels and accidentally discovered some sort of ancient and/or alien shrine with an entity that only a “broken mind” can embrace. With the support of two people, his pen pal Dr. Miller (coincidentally the current head of the clinic) and his coworker Dr. Hawthorne, Henwell engages the patients in further excavation of the tunnel and “contact” with the “creature” in the shrine in an attempt to find out what it is. Upon leaving the shrine, the patients cannot remember anything but feelings of fear, so Dr. Hanwell and Dr. Hawthorne torture them to recreate this feeling of fear and therefore to make them recall details about the “creature” under extreme conditions.

The game repeatedly emphasizes both the hallucinogenic qualities of the fungus in the tunnel and the strange, foul-smelling air there as well. Thus we, as in Scratches, get a fork in the road – Is there really a chthonic deity under the building, or did everyone simply inhaled poisoned air and spores of carcinogenic fungus and imagined everything, especially Dr. Hanwell and his companions, who initially fanatically believed in the supernatural and wanted to find and see it?

That's a good part of the plot. A great one. Delicious and logical. Except it deteriorates rapidly from this point.

Dr. Ann no longer appears in the story. Dr. Ann – a character who logically should’ve been the reason this asylum was shut down, because she would have grown from indifference to her patients to genuine sympathy for them. Dr. Ann, who should’ve done her own investigation into where the fungus came from, where the patients' injuries came from (by following them secretly, for example), and should’ve made the facility inspected by someone, or should’ve gotten herself into a direct confrontation with Dr. Hanwell and Dr. Hawthorne, giving up her career… does none of these things. She disappears from the storyline after we learn that she found the fungus. That's it. Zero development of such a POTENTIALLY fascinating character.

In almost all flashbacks of the protagonist, i.e. in 5 out of 8 cases, there is a schizophrenic woman Rebecca, who got pregnant as a result of being raped outside of the hospital. She is also called the most intriguing patient for the study by Dr. Ann. Rebecca also appears in the opening scene of the game, when the protagonist rides in a car to the hospital (it could have been Dr. Ann, but I still think it was Rebecca). The game screams at us from every possible corner: Rebecca is important. Rebecca is important to the protagonist and to the entire story. But no! Rebecca's story doesn't lead to any meaningful outcomes of the main storyline. Yes, the fact that her gruesome self-abortion was the final straw in the horrors of this hospital, leading to its closure, is NOT important to the plot. Narratively, it leads the protagonist NOWHERE.

Dr. Miller is a talented former chemist who bought out and decided to take over the mental institute after his pen pal Dr. Hanwell. The character who tarnished his reputation by developing and releasing a disastrous medicine… who had reliable knowledge of Dr. Hanwell's experiments and was his eager supporter and even provocateur in occult matters… and he shows up for one unimportant brief conversation and then completely disappears from the narrative. What is his motivation for reopening the clinic? Why is he there after all those years? WHAT FOR? WHY IS HE NOT REVEALED AT ALL??

Also, in the present timeline, there are some patients who were relocated to the hospital BEFORE the building was renovated, including patients from Dr. Ann's group. WHAT FOR WAS IT DONE? Because it can't be coincidental within the narrative! It just can't, that's all! Especially in conjunction with the Dr. Miller’s unrevealed story above! It's just a gun that didn't shoot! But, you guessed it right – the game doesn't give us an answer.

Over the course of the narrative, there’s no one who tries neither to interfere with us, nor to create any difficulty in searching the clinic or uncovering its secrets. W. H. Y?

The game, on top of that, also messes up the timelines of events. The protagonist sees visions/memories/flashbacks of a time when the hospital was not abandoned yet – which, I presume, was at least 5 years ago, and judging by the state of the hospital, at least 20. But then we see in his vision how one patient ingests a macguffin, and… the game leads us to the morgue to dissect that patient's corpse and get that macguffin out of it. HELLO! Why hasn't that patient decayed in 5-20 years??! Same situation with a corpse in a tank in the sewer system. The soft tissue would have decomposed long ago! What time are we in? What's going on?!

However, the game doesn't give us any answers.

And in the end, it turns out there really is a fetus-like chthonic deity under the building, and the protagonist is… *drum roll*… Dr. Hanwell! And that's why he is not listed as a patient. Finita la commedia.

And don't tell me the protagonist just made up all these characters like Julia, Bruno, Lenny and Dr. Miller and the hospital was empty the whole time. It's just… it's a disaster of a narrative. And you couldn't find a person more disappointed than I was at the time I finished the game.

The twist that we are Dr. Hanwell simply negates all our research. A person cannot critically forget everything. Or rather, they can, in case of total amnesia, but in such cases people around them notice it and ask for help. We are social creatures; we don't live in isolation. Even those who have no family and friends somehow communicate with colleagues, encounter neighbors, people in stores or in public transport, after all. Look at elderly people lost due to dementia – they may leave or travel to distant places, but their strange behavior often attracts the attention of store and public transport workers, so they are usually taken to the police or the nearest hospital and identified. If Dr. Hanwell has forgotten everything, why hasn't anyone helped him? And even if he had, say, some sort of dissociative fugue, he would still have made up his own identity and had to deconstruct those fiction facts about himself as the story progressed! Besides, in the case of a dissociative fugue, common memories are retained, and Dr. Hanwell had an extremely extensive scientific knowledge of medicine. Okay, fine, build the narrative around this twist that we are Dr. Hanwell, for God's sake, but then be so kind and put the focal point on these memories and strange feelings that we know too much for a mere patient! Let the character, to his own horror, recognize HIMSELF in the voice on the recordings, in the handwriting in the medical notes, in the portraits, in the video footages… if the protagonist slowly understands that he was the one who did these horrors, it also would've been a strong narrative method.

However, without that “awesome” twist, the protagonist gave the impression of a man who can't remember only a small part of his past, an important piece of the puzzle, but who has built and lived his life outside of the hospital, at least those very 5-20 years… he knows who he is. But he simply can't settle down without remembering some personally important events. I was sure that his connection to the pregnant Rebecca would lead to the fact that either he was her son (though that would leave the question of how he remembered anything from inside her womb and would’ve required significant changes in flashbacks) or that he was just another woman's 4-7 year old child who had a mutual attachment to Rebecca. Maybe in her own child Rebecca would still see a spawn of the devil, whereas in this boy (the protagonist) she would see someone she would want to care for. This would also explain why the protagonist is not listed nowhere as a patient, but was present on therapy sessions and everywhere where Rebecca was, and does not remember this period well. He was simply too young and was not mentally ill, so when the hospital closed and Rebecca apparently died or was relocated, he was finally given to some foster family, probably from among the former asylum’s employees. His connection to Rebecca could justify his stay in the hospital – the separation of the two provoked hysterics in both of them, and so the boy was made a “hospital child” and kept with Rebecca, whose condition would improve considerably in the presence of the boy. It would also explain why Lenny only vaguely remembers the main character – he saw him only as a child. And that would explain the large amount of kids' stuff all over the hospital – just make the protagonist remember them as something once his own, and that’s it!

Bring Dr. Ann's character to the forefront, under the main spotlight. I mean, this is a fascinating character! A career woman, a scientific progress activist who, under the influence of circumstances, becomes, literally, the only voice of reason and the protector of the weak from the truly crazy occultists in this story. Make us follow her path, investigate the story of her confrontation with the fanatics in charge of the hospital in the past. Make us find out the reason of why suddenly Dr. Ann's patients, including us in some way, were brought back to the hospital, make us discover Dr. Miller's current intentions and confront him in the present, or maybe even join him in the end, if we wish. And let there really be an ancient/alien shrine in the basement, just leave it to us, the players, to decide whether there was something inexplicably Lovecraftian about it, or whether the head doctors and a number of patients fell victims to hallucinations due to occult fictions and poisonous airs and spores… it's… it's so simple, gosh… all the musical notes were there, but how wrong they were played! And you can't even chalk it up to the rush in the game development – Asylum had 15 years, if not more… I feel deeply pity for a story that could have been really interesting and, without exaggeration, a masterpiece, but in the end became the same fart in a puddle as many stories do lately. I can't take it anymore.

If you read it to this point – first of all, wow, my respects, and secondly – I'd love to hear your impressions on the game. My impressions are very strong, as you can see, and I, as usual, tried to justify them with arguments and offer a variant of correction, but I don't claim it to be the only truth. It's simply my usual mental gymnastics, nothing more, and I believe there're plenty of other variants of how everything could be logically structured.

And now… I think I’ll go and find something to drown my grief in.

UPD from 03/30/2025: I read a few very interesting theories in Steam, one about all these events and people we see being a metaphor of struggling but failing delirious mind, and one about everything being a metaphor of lobotomy, but even if any of these (unarguably good) interpretations is true, in my point of view, it wasn't revealed enough in the game narrative to have such a conclusion without feeling that it's far-fetched. With no offense to these theories' authors, because they really did an awesome analytical job to find a meaning in the original writer's script, but so far it all looks like the deep meaning search syndrome, and for me it only highlights the lack of narrative consistency in the game.

[bunny-heels]

*i'm gripping you lovingly by the hand* hey. hey. hey. hey.

i don't shout out things a lot cause like, who cares. but this time I CARE and I WANT PEOPLE TO CARE.

so this indie game studio that i've started to become a fan of in the last year, Senscape, has a new game in the works that they're hopefully, finally, gonna be releasing soon.

Senscape, previously named Nucleosys, is responsible for two horror first person point-and-click adventure games. Scratches, released in 2006, and Serena, released in 2014. Scratches is now sadly abandonware due to legal complications, but Serena is free to play on Steam.

Scratches has you living in a house that the previous owner seemed to have just gave away freely, Serena has you exploring a cabin while you play as a man trying to remember who his wife was. they're both horrific situations that hit hard and i love them so much. they're incredible story tellers too. Serena was the first of their games that i played back when i was a teen and i never forgot about it. i later heard about Scratches early this year when a friend told me about it and showed me a video on it by civvie11, the boomer shooter lover youtuber, of all fucking people. that's when i found out they were made by the same team and how i found out they're making a new game.

the new game they're making, called ASYLUM, is a spiritual successor to Scratches. they've been developing it for 10 years and what they have so far looks terrifying and wonderful. and i don't doubt that the story is going to be amazing and it'll likely make me replay it a bunch.

my other favorite aspect of their games-they don't use any cheap jumpscares. it's all atmosphere, and the scares that do happen come at the least expected times, like a haunted house. the horror comes from the situation the game puts you in, not from something jumping out in front of your face. no random screamers, no random scary faces popping out at you. it's wonderful. it's so good and refreshing. there's not a single jumpscare in Serena, and the scares that happen in Scratches are anticipated and so well executed.

Senscape is about to release a big announcement related to ASYLUM, and literally the only thing they ask in return is for people to wishlist the game on Steam. not for any particular reason, they just think it would be cool to reach a milestone in time for their announcement. i've fallen in love with the work this team has done and i want their good efforts to be appreciated and loved so. if you like GOOD horror games, made by INDIE devs, who make GOOD COMPLICATED STORIES, and who BARELY use jumpscares, and even when they do they're WELL-EXECUTED SCARES-PLEASE. PLEASE WISHLIST ASYLUM. I WANT THEM TO DO GOOD AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO COME OUT.

if you want to play Scratches, here's a download for it that includes instructions on how to make it work.

if you want to play Serena, here's the Steam page.

and here you can wishlist ASYLUM on Steam.

and here's two videos reviewing Scratches

[taniushka12]

watching a yt video abt some old video game and bc of my curious soul I look it up on steam and??

so of course I look up the people who made the game to confirm this and not only they're argie but they also made the fucking. afip game from 2008 viste el que venía con la genios??????

[kylewalker-peters]

Sooooo many highlights of the film but I will say potentially the best moment was when the camera panned to a bunch of guys sydney sweeney was meant to be flirting with and every girl in the screening burst out laughing #i love women

[mannytoodope]

Mr.Frond: Thank you all for coming in. I have terrible slash wonderful news, Hormone-iums.Angela has come down with mononucleosis!

Tina: Oh, no, will she be okay?

Mr.Fond: Who knows? But the real news is that to confront this urgent crisis, there will be a special assembly this Friday about the dangers of mono, and I have asked the principal to ask us to perform at it... and he said, wait for it, "Fine." So, this Friday, The Hormone-iums will present our new review, Mona Nucleosis, on the auditorium stage!

All:(gasp)

Mr.Frond: Exactly! I'll hold auditions between Tina and Candy to determine who will temporarily replace Angela as our female soloist.

Candy: Tina can have it. I'm just in this group as a punishment. Wait, what?

Tina: What?

Nothing, congrats, Tina.

Mr.Fron: Okay... congratulations to our new soloist, Tina Belcher.

Tina:(sing-songy)♪ Oh, my God. ♪ I mean, I guess that'd be okay.

[kimyoonmiauthor]

The idea of Polygamy being automatically misogynistic evil is rooted in monoamory

CW: Light mention of the existence of child marriage.

So again, Anthropology BA here.

I was listening to a video on youtube and I'm not going to give the context to make it harder to find so no one can harass them.

But it loosely went like this:

Polyamory==good

Polygamy is the practice of one man with many women.

Polygamy therefore is anti-feminist.

Therefore Polygamy==evil

Polygamy in the past always==evil

Huh???

Let's get some definitions up in here so we are on the same page.

Polyamory- the practice of loving more than one person in an ethical manner. This is under the bigger definition of Ethical non-monogamy (though I still think monoamory should be a word)

[]-gamy -marriage

poly- many

[]-gyny- women

[]-andry- men

mono-(in this case one) For example, Monorail, one rail. mono, the disease refers to Infectious mononucleosis. or infectious one nucleosis, referring to the central body in the cell.

Polygamy is the practice of having more than one spouse—they can be of ANY gender. Bisexual and Pansexual and omnisexual and polysexuals and multisexuals, knock yourself out.

Sometimes it's in harem formation:

One person of one gender

a bunch of people of the so-called opposite gender.

(Say man x women).

So the sultanate of the Mughal empire.

If it's 1 man with a bunch of women, then it's considered Polygyny.

If it's 1 woman with a bunch of men, then it's polyandry.

Notice here, that the "gamy" is dropped. Humans. amirite?

There are societies where 1 man marries a bunch of sisters.

This is in the Bible, for example with Jacob marrying Leah and then Rachel.

This in the case of sisters or brothers is called sibling marriage.

An active case of this is in the mountains of Tibet where 1 woman marries a group of brothers. This is a polyandry sibling marriage. The men rotate with their wife via signaling with their staff.

Most monogamy-centric societies in FICTION love to say, welp, it's only ONE OR THE OTHER. The entire society HAS to be polyandry or polygyny.

But this ignores the fact that there are societies where there were cases of women having a harem full of men at the same time that there were men with a harem full of women.

China, dudes, China. Yeah, yeah, China gets complicated once you get into how the marriages worked and all of that and if you could call it really a marriage. (Japan somewhat too, though narrower cases). And so on.

I suspect that if Europe had allowed multiple marriages after Christianity, people like Catherine the Great might have amassed a harem. She was rumored to have several lovers.

The main problem with polygamy societies are a few things (and not, not inherent anti-feminism):

The person amassing the spouses has to have a fair amount of wealth and/or status because of this the age gap might rise as the person amassing the wealth will take a long time to gain that wealth-prestige, especially in polygyny societies.

If the marriages are limited to only polygyny or polyandry, usually someone is left out. (even if you went polyenby) The women might not have enough men, or the men might not have enough women. It's usually the gender that is expected to gather the spouses in question. So Polygyny—who gets left out—the men. In Polyandry--who gets left out? the women.

Lack of consent isn't always an issue. In some systems the existing wives have to give permission in order for a new wife to be added.

In Monogamous societies, they often assume that the women are suffering the most in the system. It's true there are arranged marriages, but one could also be in a loose pluralistic system as well. But the truth is that in polygyny, often the people that suffer the most are the single men who cannot amass a fortune enough to get a wife because in that system the men are expected to provide a bride price.

Bride Price is where the husband, usually, is paying the family compensation for the loss of their daughter.

Dowry is where the family she comes from is paying the family for her upkeep in her husband's family.

BTW, this can be bilateral as a system so you get both. Where? China, Korea and Japan. (slightly different as systems). The emphasis here, is on the exchange of gifts. (AKA reciprocity)

Because humans are complicated creatures, none of this inherently means there is absolutely no consent. Sometimes there is an sometimes there isn't.

But the same is true of monogamy as well. There are child marriages still within the US, which does not pass the basic part of informed consent. A child cannot consent to being married.

And inherently monogamy had a lot of the same issues within Europe: of a lack of consent.

Because monogamy in the past had no consent among the ruling class, does that mean that therefore monogamy is also broken?

I mean, look at King Henry the VIII. Maybe if he could have done polygyny he could have just ignored some of his wives for a while instead of deposing them, chopping off their heads and declaring them his sister. He could have gotten an heir by raising his mistresses with sons up the ranks in the Korean/Japanese/Chinese system.

It wouldn't have helped with his anger, or his gangrene leg, but dude needed medical intervention, surgery and some serious therapy.

Would you hold up King Henry VIII as a typical example of how monogamy is supposed to go?

Usually when people talk about how "evil" polygamy is they go straight to "Mormons" "Cults" and "The violent sultanate"

They aren't thinking about how much fun the Masai women are having marrying their crusty old husband and then going off to have trysts with those sexy-same-age group warriors.

They aren't thinking of the implicit open marriages before the 19th century.

No. It has to be this uncharacterized "evil" anti-women version with all this conflict. Because you know what colonizing countries like to say about conflict. We won, you didn't therefore something is wrong with your culture.

Which is why Spanish lost their crap when they found out indigenous women in North America upon first contact could have multiple men in a consensual marriage. I mean, how dare they overturn the social order of one man. one woman. with the man running everything in the household. She's having too much fun.

What I'm pointing out without all of the he said she said they said, and the back and forth propaganda, is that inherently both monogamy (as in the marriage, not the monoamory) and polygamy aren't inherently "good" or "evil". You can lose your shit on both. Like you can be a screw up at both monoamory and polyamory if you're an asshole who doesn't listen or is going around trying to hunt for people more than half your age... in your 40's. 60 year old man hunting on a 20 year old woman. Elew. Just elew.

It's not the invention (in the anthropological sense it is a kind of technology, but getting into this part is a chore) of marriage as either plural or to one person as inherently superior or inferior. There is no such thing. Both are equally disgustingly abused, but sometimes people use this system for the better and end up unbelievably happy despite it.

If there's one huge take away from all of this: Consent and communication is key to any good relationship. And often fiction does a crap job of communicating these key points to a good relationship. If they are screaming at each other at the end of Act 2 over stupid crap, I am cheering for their break up, no matter their poly-mono-gamy-amory-platonic situation there. Just fucking break up because it's clear you couldn't communicate well. Same with removal of all consent. Break up now.

Romance writers get on my case for asking them to actually put in some aspect of responsible conflict resolution and being able to sit down and talk out things calmly.

"But it's boring" But really... your love of conflict is how we got this whole mess of misunderstanding on what these different things are. Can't we have Iunno a plot driver based on love and consent?

So, no. Polygamy is tricky as polyamory can be tricky because of the communication issues, but inherently there is no superiority or inferiority with monogamy v. polygamy. Just like some people can do polyamory and some can't. Some are serial monoamorous. And some people can do both. And whatever you are, monoamorous or polyamorous, or a mix of both, you do you. Just don't be the person who thinks polygamy is inherently evil and anti-feminist. It gets complicated in the weeds.

[onenicebugperday]

Hi! Love and appreciate you and your blog a lot. 🖤 Question: Do you know if Dermestid Beetles can be found in Northern Virginia? I’m a total vulture and I had a small container of cat bones with a little bit of tendons still at the bottom of the container outside to sun bleach. I couldn’t take any photos at the time but I swear it seemed like there were several of them in there diggin on tiny little remains.

Hello and thank you! Yes absolutely you have dermestid beetles there. There aren’t many places in the world they don’t live.

[chinmay-blog1]

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[mxdwn]

Red Fang Release Punchy New Track “Stereo Nucleosis”

https://music.mxdwn.com/2020/08/02/news/red-fang-release-punchy-new-track-stereo-nucleosis/

[saharzahids]

Starkid Rewatch: A Very Potter Sequel 🧙‍♂️✨

Lucius malfoy: dramatic king

COREYYY

They're both so dramatic bless them

I can't watch this without immediately thinking of the rogues medley

He marries ginny, they live happily ever after, there is literally no way to move forward from this point

Platform 9 and 3/4? There ain't no such thing. You are the 700th kid to ask me that today

Nick so very rarely plays a character on stage but every time he does its glorious

He doesn't know what a moogle is

Ron's entry into the train carriage is comedy gold and totally underrated tbh

Why does crookshanks have a tiger head

Hermione's hair here is more accurate than anything the movies did

Her-My-One

I'm not dangerous and I'm not homeless...anymore

SCARFYYY

Can we please remember that ron is canonically bicurious? 💖💜💙

There he is again. That bastard.

Joey is mouthing out all of dumbledore's lines its adorable

Her-Mee-One

Joe as umbridge looks like a jacked up barbie doll

I heard one time a dementor kissed her, and it died

HE HAS THE RANGE

I am wo-man, hear me SMASH

Herman

saemus and dean are adorable

What is the best song in the trilogy you ask? Why it's hermione can't draw

Want to go look at the full moon with me? Ha ha zombie

He's just narrating the plot of IT 😂

Hermana-nana

Hermana

Hermana-nana-noy

Her-may-nee

Hermano

Hermana

Hermoingo-oingo-boingo

Hermana-mana-nana

Hermano nucleosis

Herman monster

Appreciation for firenze's tiny horse butt

And for whatever ron is doing with his back

That's bambi's mom

You're not my son FORESHADOWINGGG

SIRIUS BLAAACK! SIRIUS BLAAACK! oh, checkmate. SIRIUS BLAAACK!

They are boyfriends 👬

I'll ignore that some of you are late, if you ignore that I'm the latest

I love how they all step up to protect hermione

True love is conveying your affection through spiderman metaphors

We're the backup death eaters. Union sent us over.

Its stuck on there with magic 😂

Nick is laughing through his entire peter pettigrew parts i love him

Dracula Falmoy

Well there goes the elder wand

Appreciation for James's choreography in stutter

Yaxley is amazing

IT'S CAUSE YOU'RE A FUCKING ELF

Sirius casually sliding offstage

Ah yes the infamous hogwarts jaguar

Rita's hair is literally an upside down ice cream cone

Luna's turnip earrings

Awww sorty and scarfy just got engaged

[Looks into camera] redvines?

[mannytoodope]

Mr. Frond: Thank you all for coming in. I have terrible slash wonderful news, Hormone-iums. Angela has come down with mononucleosis!

Tina: Oh, no, will she be okay?

Mr.Frond: Who knows? But the real news is that to confront this urgent crisis, there will be a special assembly this Friday about the dangers of mono, and I have asked the principal to ask us to perform at it... and he said, wait for it, "Fine." So, this Friday, The Hormone-iums will present our new review, Mona Nucleosis, on the auditorium stage!

All:(gasp)

Mr.Frond: Exactly! I'll be holding auditions between Tina and Candy to determine who will temporarily replace Angela as our female soloist.

Candy: Tina can have it. I'm just in this group as a punishment.

Mr.Fond: Wait, what?

Tina: What?

Candy: Nothing, congrats, Tina.  

Mr.Frond: Okay... congratulations to our new soloist, Tina Belcher. 

Tina:(singing) ♪ Oh, my God. ♪(talking) I mean, I guess that'd be okay.

[binary-choice]

Does anyone have the Africa room theme from Scratches by any chance?

[specgram]

Student Pearls

Some sounds can be an onset or a nucleosis. e.g., in some contexts [s] is bisyllabic, whereas [t] is biambic.

[rootcure]

How Homeopathy Medicine is Best to Cure Tonsillitis?

Definition: It refers to inflammation of tonsils- two oval-shaped pads of tissue at the back of the throat- one tonsillitis on each side.

Tonsils form a part of the lymphatic system.

Tonsils work by trapping the germs coming in through the mouth and nose.

Common Age Group

In children (5 to 15 years of age).

Causes of Tonsillitis

Bacterial and viral infections. Mostly caused by Streptococcus Pyogenes.

Abuse of antibiotics.

Coughing or sneezing. (From one person to another).

Adults who have Immune deficiency conditions like HIV.

Hyperglycemic or Diabetic patients.

By consuming excessive cold drinks, cold food like ice-creams etc.

In some patients due to deficiency of Vitamin-D leading to recurrent tonsillitis.

Tonsil Conditions

ACUTE TONSILLITIS:

Tonsils become swollen, inflamed with pain during deglutition and develop a gray or white coating of exudates.

CHRONIC TONSILLITIS OR QUINSY:

Persistent infection of tonsils at the slightest exposure develops the condition of chronic tonsillitis.

PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS:

An infection creates a pocket of pus next to tonsil, pushing it towards the opposite side.

ACUTE MONO-NUCLEOSIS:

Usually caused by Epstein Barr Virus.

Causes: Severe swelling in the tonsils, fever, sore- throat , rash and fatigue.

STREP-THROAT:

Streptococcus, a bacteria that infects the tonsils and throat, is called Strep Throat.

TONSILLOLITHS:

Tonsil stones.

SYMPTOMS

1. Throat pain: Most common symptom. Pain may last more than 48 hours. Even empty swallowing may cause pain.

2. The pain may be referred to the ears.

3. High to moderate fever.

4. Hoarseness of voice.

5. Severe lethargy, feverishness or low- grade of fever may accompany acute tonsillitis.

6. Headache or heaviness of head.

7. Sometimes, foul odor from the mouth is affected with Strep Throat.

8. Children may also complain of abdominal pain.

9. There may be dry cough associated with tonsillitis.

10. Difficulty in swallowing any type of food.

11. Children may also have a decreased appetite with irritability.

HOMEOPATHY AND ITS SCOPE IN TONSILLITIS:

Homeopathy is highly effective in cases of Tonsillitis by removing the root cause of the disease. As tonsillitis is common among the children, Homeopathy is safe and natural in treating most of the cases.

Homeopathic medicines help in treating tonsillitis by avoiding unnecessary surgical removal of tonsils.

Homeopathic treatment also boosts up the immunity in such patients.

Here are top 5 Homeopathic medicines for Tonsillitis:

1. BELLADONNA:

Useful in red, congested and inflamed tonsils.

Key indications: Pain in throat at the time of swallowing.

The tonsils are often affected by taking any cold things : cold drinks, ice- creams or by exposure to cold air.

The throat pain is relieved by warm drinks.

The main symptom guiding towards Belladonna: First stage of inflammation with extreme redness.

2. PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA:

Tonsils are dark red or bluish red in color.

There is much pain at the root of the tongue and soft palate.

Swelling especially at the right side.

Sharp shooting pain into ears on swallowing.

Aggravation: Hot drinks or hot food.

3. MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS:

The key symptoms to prescribe are :Pain in throat, congestion of tonsils and unable to drink or eat anything.

There is more salivation from the mouth.

Pain is worse at night.

The patient feels thirsty though, there is more salivation.

4. HEPAR SULPH:

Marked tendency to suppuration. When swallowing, there is a sensation of a splinter or plug -like in the throat.

There is quinsy with tonsil suppuration of tonsils.

The patient is very chilly and cannot tolerate any cold air or cold water.

Tonsils are aggravated by eating or drinking anything cold.

Read More : https://www.rootcure.in/how-homeopathy-medicine-is-best-to-cure-tonsillitis/

[balalji]

How Homeopathy Medicine is Best to Cure Tonsillitis?

Definition: It refers to inflammation of tonsils- two oval-shaped pads of tissue at the back of the throat- one tonsillitis on each side.

Tonsils form a part of the lymphatic system.

Tonsils work by trapping the germs coming in through the mouth and nose.

Common Age Group

In children (5 to 15 years of age).

Causes of Tonsillitis

Bacterial and viral infections. Mostly caused by Streptococcus Pyogenes.

Abuse of antibiotics.

Coughing or sneezing. (From one person to another).

Adults who have Immune deficiency conditions like HIV.

Hyperglycemic or Diabetic patients.

By consuming excessive cold drinks, cold food like ice-creams etc.

In some patients due to deficiency of Vitamin-D leading to recurrent tonsillitis.

Tonsil Conditions

ACUTE TONSILLITIS:

Tonsils become swollen, inflamed with pain during deglutition and develop a gray or white coating of exudates.

CHRONIC TONSILLITIS OR QUINSY:

Persistent infection of tonsils at the slightest exposure develops the condition of chronic tonsillitis.

PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS:

An infection creates a pocket of pus next to tonsil, pushing it towards the opposite side.

ACUTE MONO-NUCLEOSIS:

Usually caused by Epstein Barr Virus.

Causes: Severe swelling in the tonsils, fever, sore- throat , rash and fatigue.

STREP-THROAT:

Streptococcus, a bacteria that infects the tonsils and throat, is called Strep Throat.

TONSILLOLITHS:

Tonsil stones.

SYMPTOMS

1. Throat pain: Most common symptom. Pain may last more than 48 hours. Even empty swallowing may cause pain.

2. The pain may be referred to the ears.

3. High to moderate fever.

4. Hoarseness of voice.

5. Severe lethargy, feverishness or low- grade of fever may accompany acute tonsillitis.

6. Headache or heaviness of head.

7. Sometimes, foul odor from the mouth is affected with Strep Throat.

8. Children may also complain of abdominal pain.

9. There may be dry cough associated with tonsillitis.

10. Difficulty in swallowing any type of food.

11. Children may also have a decreased appetite with irritability.

HOMEOPATHY AND ITS SCOPE IN TONSILLITIS:

Homeopathy is highly effective in cases of Tonsillitis by removing the root cause of the disease. As tonsillitis is common among the children, Homeopathy is safe and natural in treating most of the cases.

Homeopathic medicines help in treating tonsillitis by avoiding unnecessary surgical removal of tonsils.

Homeopathic treatment also boosts up the immunity in such patients.

Here are top 5 Homeopathic medicines for Tonsillitis:

1. BELLADONNA:

Useful in red, congested and inflamed tonsils.

Key indications: Pain in throat at the time of swallowing.

The tonsils are often affected by taking any cold things : cold drinks, ice- creams or by exposure to cold air.

The throat pain is relieved by warm drinks.

The main symptom guiding towards Belladonna: First stage of inflammation with extreme redness.

2. PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA:

Tonsils are dark red or bluish red in color.

There is much pain at the root of the tongue and soft palate.

Swelling especially at the right side.

Sharp shooting pain into ears on swallowing.

Aggravation: Hot drinks or hot food.

3. MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS:

The key symptoms to prescribe are :Pain in throat, congestion of tonsils and unable to drink or eat anything.

There is more salivation from the mouth.

Pain is worse at night.

The patient feels thirsty though, there is more salivation.

4. HEPAR SULPH:

Marked tendency to suppuration. When swallowing, there is a sensation of a splinter or plug -like in the throat.

There is quinsy with tonsil suppuration of tonsils.

The patient is very chilly and cannot tolerate any cold air or cold water.

Tonsils are aggravated by eating or drinking anything cold.

Read More : https://www.rootcure.in/how-homeopathy-medicine-is-best-to-cure-tonsillitis/

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List of illnesses and disabilities

A

Alcohol abuse and alcoholism

Allergies

Alopecia areata

Amputation

Anxiety disorders

Arthritis

Asperger syndrome

Asthma

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Autism and autism spectrum disorders

B

Bipolar disorder

Bleeding disorders

Blindness and low vision

Brain injury

Burn injury

C

Cancer

Celiac disease

Cerebral palsy

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Chronic fatigue syndrome

Chronic illness

Cleft lip and palate

Crohn's disease

Cystic fibrosis

D

Deafness and being hard of hearing

Depression

Diabetes

Down syndrome

Drug abuse and addiction

Dwarfism

E

Eating disorders

Endometriosis

Epilepsy

Eczema

F

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Fibromyalgia

G

GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease)

Growth hormone deficiency

H

Heart diseases

HIV/AIDS

Huntington's disease

I

Inflammatory bowel disease

Intellectual disabilities (Formerly mental retardation)

J

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

K

Kidney disease

L

Lactose intolerance

Learning disabilities

Lupus

M

Migraine

Mental health

Mono(nucleosis)

Multiple sclerosis

Muscular dystrophy

N

Narcolepsy

O

Obesity

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

P

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Psoriasis

S

Scleroderma

Scoliosis

Sickle cell anemia

Speech and language disorders

Spina bifida

Spinal cord injury

Stroke

T

Thyroid disease

Tourette syndrome

Turner syndrome

U

Ulcerative colitis

Ulcers

W

Williams syndrome

source: https://www.girlshealth.gov/disability/types/list.html