#parasitic pregnancy humans are hybrids

[psych3-delic]

You've mentioned that Sebastian a a very powerful demon and that Charlotte is the first of her kind. This makes me wonder whar exactly is Sebastian's position in Hell and what are its denizens reaction to his husband and child? Do they cause trouble? Do they keep away out of fear? Love your AU to pieces!

Hiiii Anon! Thank you so much for liking this AU! And sorry for the late reply!

Well, since Hell isn't exactly like human's society, it's hard to equate. But if I have to compare, I'd say that he's like an Arch Duke or a Marquess in Hell.

Oh, Hell doesn't take kindly to the news of Sebastian's progeny being carried by a human pleb. It's a shame to its denizens. To fool around with human and use them for all sorts of pleasures, sure. But for someone so strong to sire a child with such weakling, a hybrid at that, it's unspeakable abomination!

They tried many times to attack and end both Ciel and the child's life. If Ciel thought he had a huge target on his back before being the young Earl Phantomhive and the Queen's watchdog, that was nothing compared to this... Hell and heaven both out for his blood. But of course, Sebastian handled them all; absorbed all his brethren into the endless shadows of his being with such ferocity never seen before in the ancient entity. Eventually, Morning Star understand that Sebastian was not relenting his protection on the boy and his hybrid child, and wanting to see how this hybrid might survive, maybe even disturb the set order of the universe, he ordered the demonic legions to stand down.

But that doesn't means all is well for Butler and Earl. There's yet another struggle they're faced with; this one isn't so easy to deal with by force.

As I have said before, the demon fetus, with its demonic appetite feasting on human life force, is nothing short of a parasite. The reason Ciel was still alive was because the fetus needs him. The moment it’s no longer reliant on its host, it will kill Ciel. As such, at the beginning of the pregnancy, Sebastian wanted to remove the thing,(he'll even do it without Ciel's consent, just to see him live a bit longer, despite knowing Ciel will hate him). But Ciel saw through him and ordered Sebastian to protect them both. Sebastian could only obey. But he hated that parasite and was struggling to come to terms with the fact that Ciel’s already short human life (and their time together) is cut even shorter still because of this thing. And Ciel won’t let Sebastian save him, just because it’s theirs. Just because it’s his. Human are so different from Demons like that.

For the first time in eons of existence, Sebastian learned to mourn. And what a weird thing that was, when Ciel is still right here. But the end is nigh and it’s inevitable.

Sebastian is unsure whether he could ever come to love a thing that would take Ciel away from him. But Ciel is confident that he could, and he would. It’s their child after all.

[majesty-madness]

No More Denial - TriStamp!Vash x reader (sfw)

Summary: In a moment of desperation, Y/N reveals a secret that transforms the now uncertain future.

Word Count: 1900+

Warnings: angst, Vash being kidnapped, reader and co. trying to rescue him, female reader, mentions of pregnancy, injuries, blood, acts of violence, attempted murder (because it’s Knives), comfort, reassurance, crying from stress and joy, good ending

a/n: Not proofread. I just watched the 98’ Trigun series, the movie and then the reboot “Trigun Stampede” and I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it. I usually don’t watch new shows, but Trigun has been something I’ve been meaning to get into ever since I first started watching anime back in 2014. And here we are…

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The moment his eyes laid on her his heart stopped. “No! No, get out of here! You shouldn’t be here!” 

Y/N almost scoffed at his words as she approached him with haste. “You think I’m really just gonna turn around and leave you?” She attempted to unlock the chains bound around his wrists, and managed to get a few off. 

“If he realizes you’re here, he’ll kill you! You know that!” 

“You would do it for me!” Y/N shouted back at him, her eyes brimming with the slightest of tears. 

Before Vash could come with any kind of response, Y/N was ripped away from his side that had her letting out a scream. She felt a white hot pain in her calf, the sharp edges of Knives’ abilities digging deep into her flesh when she looked down. 

The coil of blades tightened around her calf causing her to shriek in pain. 

“Nai, stop it! Please!” Vash begged, as he tugged helplessly against the only chain keeping him bolted to the wall. 

“This pathetic human tried to set you free, but I’ll take care of this soon enough.” Knives sneered, forcing Y/N to a standing position she couldn’t fully maintain from her injury. 

The metallic coils came out from his back, slowly inching closer and closer to her body. She gulped hard, giving one last look to Vash before spouting out the only thing that came to mind.

“I’m pregnant.”

Knives smirked, expression almost amused by her desperate ploy. “Did you really think that would matter to me?” 

She gulped as a cold sweat dripped down the back of her neck. “It would if it was Vash’s baby.”

If she had been paying attention, Y/N would’ve heard the slightest of gasps leave Vash’s mouth but she was too busy maintaining eye contact with the man that held her hostage in his grip; a grip that grew tighter once she uttered those words. 

“That’s not possible.” He growled back to her. 

This time she smirked as the urge to taunt him pushed her rationale to the back of her mind, “How are you so sure? You and Vash are the only independents in the world, and I don’t think that you’ve tested the theory yourself.”

His grip tightened around her leg, causing her smirk to die on her lips while the heat of her own blood dripped into a puddle on the floor. “It’s not possible; plants are perfect in every way, bringing life to this broken world and humans are disgustingly flawed, spreading like the pathetic parasites you all are!”

“It is possible!” Y/N shouted back to him, surprised to hear the desperation cause her voice to waver. “A plant and human hybrid; the only one of its kind. A new species, a new life. Would you really destroy one of your own?”

In a blink, Knives whipped the pointed edge of one of his blades a mere inch from her eye threatening to gouge it out; the anger within him reaching its boiling point. “You are not one of my own!” 

Y/N took the smallest of breaths, fearing that any sudden movement would cause her to lose an eye. “But Vash is.”

Knives’ eyes narrowed but otherwise made no other movements as he took in her words. 

“And if you care about your brother, you wouldn’t murder the one thing he loves.” 

Suddenly, the fluorescent lights blacked out causing an immediate red night to replace it as a loud whirring sound crashed somewhere in the building. 

“What is this?” Knives muttered out loud as he became distracted by the sound and lights. 

Before he could do anything the sound of bullets whizzing toward causing him to duck away, loosening his grip on Y/N completely. He made quick movements backward, using his bladed coils as a shield from the spray of bullets being fired at him. 

Then while bullets still rained from beyond the darkness of the hallway facing him, a cacophony of multiple metallic objects clinking against the floor echoed throughout the gigantic room. Knives could make out several cynical objects hit the floor before they doused the room in smoke, a large plume of fog blocking his view of anything. 

Vash stared in shock for a moment then snapped back to reality when he saw the familiar figure approaching him, “Meryl? What are you doing here?” 

“Hush now! We’re here to save you!” Meryl quickly retorted while still a lockpick into the only cuff keeping Vash chained up. Once she unlocked it, she grabbed his hand and b-lined for the exit. 

“Wait! What about Y/N? I have to go get her!” Vash pleaded, pulling back from Meryl a bit as they ran. 

“Don’t worry, Wolfwood and Roberto got her! Now let’s go!” She shouted over the gunfire. 

Vash, though scared, trusted her word and followed her without resistance. 

It took a while because as it turned out, Wolfwood had thrown a few more smoke bombs as they ran into the hallway to cover their tracks but eventually Vash and Meryl managed to meet up with Wolfwood and Roberto further down. 

When Vash saw Y/N, bleeding and being held up by Roberto he ran to her. “Y/N, are you okay? You’re bleeding so much.”

Y/N shook her head in a whimper, in too much pain to offer any kind of reply. 

“Of course, she’s not okay. She’s got cuts all over her leg and she’s bleeding all over the place.” Roberto quipped with Y/N’s arm still over his shoulder while he kept her standing. 

“Hate to break up the reunion, but if we don’t get out of here soon a bleeding leg is gonna be the least of our worries.” Wolfwood cut in, keeping a sharp eye on the hallway they just escaped from. 

“But Y/N can’t run, how are we gonna get outta here before Knives finds us?” Meryl asked with urgency, her own panic rising to the surface. 

“Give her to me.” Vash said, walking over in front of Y/N and crouching down. “Get on my back and I’ll carry you.” 

Without a word, Y/N slipped her arm from around Roberto’s shoulder and precariously leaned down to wrap her arms around Vash’s neck and legs around his waist. He reached back to grip the underside of her thighs and propped her up as he stood. 

She made a muffled hiss as the pressure of moving her leg at all caused pain to shoot up through her body. 

“Ready?” Vash asked her, glancing over his shoulder at her. She gave a pained nod before tucking her face into the back of his neck.

“Okay, let’s blow this joint.” Wolfwood huffed, turning to face them. 

Everyone began running as fast as they could out of the building and just when they’d turned their backs to the hall, several bladed whips propelled out from the smoke screen towards their direction. 

“Watch out!” Wolfwood shouted, stopping briefly to point his cross shaped gun towards the blades and fired. He aimed with precision, each bullet bouncing off the whips as it made each one change trajectories.

“Wolfwood!” Vash exclaimed and too, stopped briefly to wait. 

“Keep running, Needle-noggin! I got this!” 

Vash hesitantly kept running, and glanced over his shoulder again in time to see Wolfwood making a quick getaway with them after shooting a couple more times. 

Luckily, the team managed to escape the maze-like building and to the outside. They ran and ran and ran until they were outside the city; their truck waiting for them not too far from the main entrance. In a flash, they hurried inside and Meryl punched the gas without even bothering with her seatbelt; leaving puffs of sand in their wake. 

She floored it a good fifteen minutes before Vash told her to stop. Once stopped Vash administered some first aid to Y/N’s leg, giving them a moment to talk. 

Vash had finished cleaning all the cuts in her once bloodied limb when he spoke. “Is it true? That you’re pregnant?”

He knew that while Y/N had said such a thing in the heat of the moment so Knives would spare her, he couldn’t deny the sincerity of her words. She sounded so scared, so afraid for not just her own life but possibly her baby’s as well. 

Y/N took a moment to prepare her words and she timidly nodded. “I think so.”

“How long have you suspected?” Vash spoke softly, keeping his voice low as if speaking at normal volume would cause her to shatter. 

“A couple of we-EKS!” She hissed when Vash began applying the bandages to the open wounds which made him utter out a quick apology, though continued to wrap her leg. 

Vash said nothing, his brain thinking a million miles a minute. He honestly didn’t know what to think; he was a plant and Y/N was a human, could plants and humans even procreate? Or was it something else, something life threatening? He did notice in the last few weeks that Y/N hadn’t been acting like herself but he thought perhaps it was the heat getting to her, or maybe they had been stuck inside the car for too long or even that time of the month but the idea of her carrying his child never crossed his mind. He assumed that because he and Y/N were two different species, there was no way. 

“Vash?” Y/N called to him, bringing him out of his thoughts and back to reality.

He looked up at her, worry and fear etched in her face. “Sorry, love.” 

“It’s okay. I understand that it’s probably a lot to take in.”

Vash shook his head, “I was just lost in thought.” 

“Are you upset?” Y/N nervously asked, making Vash raise his hand to gently cup her cheek as a tender smile graced his lips.  

“Of course I’m not upset, I’m only worried about you since I’m not completely sure if it’s possible for plants and humans to have children together.” He carefully explained watching Y/N tilt her cheek to rest fully into his palm. 

Y/N sighed, “I’m not sure either but all the symptoms are there. And even though I don’t know much about plants, I can’t imagine what else it could be.” 

Vash sat up on his knees, retracting his hand from her face but soon leaned forward to hug her from her spot from the truck. She happily reciprocated when she wrapped her arms around his midsection, face buried in his shoulder. 

“We should go see Luida.” He suggested kissing her temple and stroking her back comfortingly. 

He felt her nod against him. “She can fix up your leg and she probably knows more about plants than I do or something along those lines that might help figure this whole thing out.” 

“Okay.” Y/N simply said, going silent and enjoying the presence of Vash holding her. 

Vash didn’t say anything else either and like Y/N, opted to enjoy the warmth of her against him. 

He thought back to only minutes earlier, when Y/N had attempted to save him and Knives quickly finding her, hurting her and the screams she let out. 

Never in his life did he ever want to hear those sounds again. 

From here on out, Vash vowed to himself he would do everything in his power to keep her safe, and with the new information of Y/N’s possible condition, he‘d protect his child all the same.

[realm-sweet-realm]

How do you think it would be having an alien-human hybrid baby ?

It would depend wildly on how this situation came about. I'll list the possibilities from being caused by the least intelligent beings to the most intelligent beings.

-Assuming we're dealing with a situation like in Alien (1979), where the alien in question was an animal-intelligence creature using us as a parasitic host for breeding purposes, this would constitute a medical emergency. Assuming this happened on an interstellar mission, the host would have to depend on whatever medical services are available on board. If there are Star Trek-level medical systems available, this could be a mere inconvenience resulting in an interesting test subject. Otherwise, things could get very horrific very fast.

-If the baby was a result of humans experimenting with alien DNA, the parent would be taken care of with the best medical care available. Even so, this would be an unprecedented and likely dangerous experiment. After the baby is born, the parent would probably work in tandem with scientists (assuming they’re not a scientist herself who volunteered out of a thirst for discovery) to raise the baby, figuring out what it needs to eat, what types of stimulation it likes, etc. Raising it ethically, especially with so many people vying for information and wanting to do studies, would be challenging but rewarding.

-If the baby was conceived by aliens more advanced than us visiting Earth, it would probably be with person who wanted to learn the ways of the aliens and was allowed to raise a child among them. Both in terms of care for such a unique pregnancy and in raising such a unique baby, the aliens would be naive because of how unprecedented it is. This would mean that the person gets to see how problem-solving is conducted by this society of brilliant aliens, how they typically go about parenting, etc. They could similarly learn from the person, along with whoever is allowed to board with them, if any. It would be an incredible journey filled with cultural sharing, for both aliens and humans alike.

[doorrobloxstuff]

Out of curiosity. What happens if a human is bearing a entity's child? Would it take a massive toll on the human or would it be like a normal pregnancy. And also the reverse where a entity is bearing a human child, which would probably never happen.

Tw//pregnancy + gore ment (what is up with this blog)

I never say never tbh. Let’s have fun! The narrative can be serious and concurrent while still being crazy.

SPECULATION BECAUSE AS OF CURRENT THERE ARENT ANY HYBRIDS BORN VIA NATURAL MEANS!!

Three things come to mind:

Nothing, because an entity has to want a child in order to conceive one. No accidents here.

A strange trip to planned parenthood (if they’re informed of the danger)

(If they choose to keep it, what will likely happen) a death sentence as the months go on.

If they have sufficient knowledge of ancient history + the occult, they could keep their unholy spawn alive.

Not pretty, an entity x human pregnancy, while possible doesn’t mean it’s a very good idea. I think I mentioned it before, but Jeff’s relatives married/started families w/humans millions of years ago

He sees them as kin so he absolutely abhors and condemns the idea of killing them.

But those humans were built different (and they HAD help btw- like help from the entitie’s communities with access to like..even though it’s herbs and a village midwife + rituals every other week make sure the baby doesn’t eat ur body/your life force.

Baby entities in utero are like parasites to the one who carries them. Sapping energy over time from its parent (and they have..LITTERS). Since entities are (mostly) MADE from energy, magic, whatever you call it this can literally kill them.

little guys will prioritize their own existence over their parent. Luckily death is avoidable as long as the entity eats and maintains a healthy amount of energy.

Humans aren’t made out of energy. We’re made out of flesh, and blood. We have little of what the entities have and it mostly makes up our souls. So they’d probably fuck up the average modern joe schmoe. Hollow eyes sockets, weak fingernails, tired voice, bruising, maybe a bit of rotten flesh, a walking zombie. It’s its own little bag of body horror. Probably kill the parent (and by proxy, the still developing child) in as little as a month or two.

Idk who’d wanna put themselves through that-

And who’s to say that the fucked up offspring would survive that? Since entities will just straight up die young for absolutely no reason. The dental, physiological, corneal, bone, issues must be absolutely insane. Maybe human parts would slowly, surely slough off revealing the entity beneath.

Hybrids ARE possible though. They’d just be faces only a mother could love. Mandela catalog stretched face lookin headass. The literal antichrist to humans but same shit different day to entities. Stretched out eyes (or lack thereof) elongated mouths, fucked up lookin teeth if the human genes are dominant.

Actually it occurs to me a AMAB person getting with an entity would probably be a healthier pairing- because the entity could definitely take it. They’re absolutely tanks after all.

This isn’t the only way to make a “hybrid” though. Figure is Rueben’s bio kid- though Rue had to do some fucked up shit to himself to get Figure to exist.

Some occult knowledge kinda shit that he’s not too keen on talking about and maybe some man made horrors beyond our comprehension- OH HEY BABY ENTITY YIPEE!!

..

Figure was worth it in his eyes.

[ws-01-elena]

[ CW: Open surgery, descriptions of incisions and internals parts. ]

The professional mask slips. Well, she’s dissected before, worked closely with the physical health of hybrids. The difference is Maximus is human. That doesn’t even account for the lack of tests they could take. If she’s wrong about the parasite this incident is blood on her paws. Working in genetics and experimentation is not the same as a doctor with a degree.

All of these are background thoughts as she preps Maximus for the incisions. Logically if the symptoms were similar to a pregnancy the parasite might be in the womb or stomach causing pain there. So making incisions in those areas make sense.

She bears in mind though that her goal is to do this with as little pain as possible. That’s what doctors do from what she hears, so the surgery should be minimally invasive.

As perfectly steadily as possible Elena begins the first incision. As she increased the size of the cut she clips the opening and grabs a probe needle.

[@ws-01-elena]

Maximus arrives at the Federation office looking like a walking corpse. He's not too far off from one, if what Bad and Foolish said was true. Well. At least not yet, he isn't. That's what counts, he reminds himself.

There's a bear there, dressed in a lab coat and a little purple bow. She's not sure if she trusts it. It's probably not going to be the one operating on her, at least. They had workers that weren't machines.

They stared at the floor. Not much else to do until the nurse arrived to usher them into the examination room.

[themoonaliensandreligion]

The Moon and Human Evolution: Parasitic Pregnancy: Humans are Hybrids ~ Theory ~

There are three main types of ecological relationships. Mutualism, which describes a relationship where both organisms benefit from the relationship; commensalism, where one organism benefits, and the other is neither harmed nor benefited; and parasitism, where one organism benefits, and the other is harmed. The parasite lives on or inside the host, and derives benefits from the relationship, whereas the host is harmed, and sometimes killed by the parasite. A parasite is defined as an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species, and benefits from deriving nutrients at the host’s expense. A host is defined as an organism on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives.

Human, and most mammalian, pregnancies act extremely similar to a parasitic relationship. The fetus acts as the parasite, and the pregnant individual is the host. 

From morning sickness to being rendered bedridden, to pregnancy and labor complications including blindness, stroke, and death, human pregnancy and birth is extremely dangerous and harmful for the pregnant individual. Humans specifically have one of the largest skull to birth canal ratio, having an abnormally large head and an abnormally narrow birth canal and hip alignment. Pregnancy and childbirth can leave severe long term or permanent damage to the parent. The fetus derives all benefits from the relationship with the pregnant parent, taking nutrients from the parent and redirecting and affecting the parent’s blood flow and immune system. The pregnant parent derives no benefit from the relationship with the fetus, and instead, only experiences harmful effects from the relationship. A person’s placenta even uses the same methods as some other parasites - excreting a specific protein to act as a cloaking device and hide from the host/pregnant parent’s immune system. 

The only reason a fetus is not considered a parasite is because the pregnant individual and the fetus are of the same species. But, what if they weren’t?

Considering the other points in my theory - that humans are the result of an alien species interbreeding with early hominids, this would make humans a hybrid species. If aliens were interbreeding with early hominids, their implanted fetus would be a different species from the pregnant hominid. Their fetus would have to hide from the pregnant hominid’s immune system so as to not be rejected from the body. To do so it would have had to deploy a protein in order to hide itself, as similarly seen by modern human’s placentas. Interbreeding between an alien species and early hominids to create the hybrid species that is humans may explain the seemingly strange evolution of human pregnancy and childbirth, and the overtly parasitic nature of human fetuses.  

Some references/links: 

Parasitic Pregnancy

https://www.reading.ac.uk/news-archive/press-releases/pr9938.html

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rmb2.12447 

Strange Evolution of Human Pregnancy & Prenatal Process 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200421112542.htm 

Strange Evolution of Human Childbirth - Skulls and Hips

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/why-have-humans-not-evolved-away-from-dangerous-childbirth/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstetrical_dilemma

[lovelyrots]

Kinktober 2022 Preview!

*UPDATE* Crimson Pride (the sequel fic to Experiment 184 from ‘21) has been taken off for Kinktober this year since I finished it and I might have forgotten the kink in it…but I will post it soon just because I had been wanting to write this since last year and I love it and feel like I tied it up in a nice little bow.

I’ve been working on a couple of these already so they’re all ready by the time October rolls around but these are just the titles, pairings and a (bad) summary at what each one will be about. More details or titles may be added to this list as I continue to work on them.

Rigged - Dabi x reader x Natsuo

Natsuo had fought so hard to find and reconnect with his brother, bribed so many people and done some unsavory things to finally get a hold of him and try to rekindle their brotherly friendship. He just has to prove to his brother that he isn’t some backstabbing bastard(like some people), and what better way than ruining his innocent little study buddy with him?

Content Warnings - corruption kink, spit roast, double penetration, cock worship, dumb/bimbofication, noncon->dubcon, cnc

Daddy’s Girl - Stepdad Kirishima x step daughter reader

You’ve never liked your step dad, it’s not because he’s mean or has any immediate red flags. He’s just too pushy. He’s always constantly trying to get you to act like the perfect version of a daughter whenever you’re home from college. Whether it’s the way you dress, your lack of cooking skills, your ‘foul’ language or the guys you’ve dated, he always has to have a say about it. What a dick.

Content Warnings - stepcest, brat taming, noncon bondage, daddy kink, degradation and humiliation, blackmail, noncon

Fabulously Trapped - Tengen + Makio, Suma & Hinatsuru x widowed reader

You’ve been trapped in this god forsaken room for who knows how long, the only people you see are your unwanted spouses. The only one that stays longer than half an hour is Tengen, the sick bastard. To take you in the throes of grief and make you his. Truly you wonder what defines a demon and a man, if said man lacks any morals.

Content Warnings - Pregnant sex, thoughts of suicide, lactation, breeding talk, noncon, spoilers for Mugen Train(Just in case some haven’t seen it yet)

Rent - Toji Fushiguro x milf!reader

You’ve had your eye on the newest tenant of your husband’s apartment complex since you bumped into him coming out of your husband’s office. When he’s two weeks late on his rent though, the task of getting him to pay gets pushed onto your shoulders by your cowardly husband. Toji is more than happy to provide payment another way though…

Content Warnings- cheating, degradation, mentions of breeding/pregnancy, oral (fem receiving)

Pretty Girl - Miruko x reader x Hawks

Your new masters were oh so affectionate with you, nothing at all like your previous owners. They reward you when you present without a fuss, they ensure you’re fed only the best food and cream, and you get taken out to the massive backyard for some outdoor exercise. What more could a good pet ask for?

reverse hybrid au (humans are the ‘animals’), cum play, outdoor sex, pet play? (in a sense)

Blindsided - villain Izuku x vigilante reader

You couldn’t work with the so called ‘heroes’ after they gave up the search for your boyfriend. So you dropped everything and disappeared off the face of the earth, now you do what you can from the shadows. Waiting and watching for any trace of your freckled sunshine.

Content Warnings- stalking, corruption?, dubcon at first but turns consensual, inappropriate quirk use(Reader misuses her quirk), afo dad au

Shattered Halos and Broken Icons - Succubus Reader x Katsuki

He was a lonely hero and you were a hungry woman with a succubus quirk. How else would this end? It’s not your fault if he sees your parasitic ‘relationship’ as something more though. Right?

Content Warnings- consensual and noncon/dubcon, cumplay, delusional mindset, body worship, overstimulation, yandere

Opium Blood - vampire Aizawa x reader

Sequel to A Certain Addiction; You’ve been kept as his blood bag and cum dump for a year now, being drank from every other hour. He always takes just a bit more, whether it be your blood or your sanity…you just don’t know anymore.

Content Warnings- referenced past noncon, dubcon, aphrodisiacs, blood (mild), Stockholm syndrome

Tricksters and Monkeys - Geto Suguru x Reader

You’ve told your mother so many times now that you’re not being haunted, yet she insists on you meeting some monk or priest she’s been infatuated with for the past couple months. Geto, you think his name was. You decide to humor her and meet him, if only to get her off your back.

Dubcon, mentions rape and murder, Geto calling non-sorcerers monkeys a lot, emotional manipulation, gaslighting

[concubuck]

Obstetrician Appointment

A succubus walks into the examination room and offers her hand. "Hi—Alastor, right? I'm Dr. Kandi Stripper, nice to meet you."

He shakes and says, "A pleasure," before the name registers and he does a double-take at her name tag.

She nods. "Yeah, I know."

"... Right." Alastor clears his throat. "Doctor, pardon me if this is presumptuous, but it's been an issue with every other doctor I've ever had down here so I think it's worth stating: to be clear, I am here for medical treatment, not for some sort of hospital fetish roleplay."

Dr. Stripper waves him off as she sits. "Oh no no I get it. I became a doctor because I couldn't get a gynecological exam in Pride without them making it weird. Inside the exam room, it's totally professional."

Alastor lets out a quiet sigh of relief.

"But outside the exam room, I'm free for lunch after this if you're interested."

Alastor shrugs. "Fine, I don't have anyone lined up today." That's succubus culture.

She flips through his medical file. "So! Just about nineteen weeks along, are we? I've got to say—that's some extremely skilled shapeshifting, for you to not just conceive but maintain a pregnancy that long."

He gives her a wan smile. "All that—and by accident, too."

They discuss his options. Keeping the baby is not on his list. His first preference is to find its true father—if he can—and offer it over. If the father is disinterested or can't be located, he'll either offer it for adoption or terminate the pregnancy, he hasn't decided which. He likes the idea of some imp couple getting to have a child—but he really, really likes the idea of not having a baby. They agree he should defer the decision until after making an effort to find the father.

They discuss the options for a paternity test. As Alastor worried, a genetic test in and of itself won't do any good without a potential father to match the genes against; but they can have the genes on file in case Alastor turns up some suspects later, and they might even help him narrow down his search pool.

There are three possibilities for the father: either he's a demon; he's a damned sinner; or he's a living human. Of the three, Alastor's slept with far more sinners than anything else, so he's going to have the hardest search there—but they're also the least fertile group.

It's commonly believed that sinners are completely infertile—and with each other and most demons, they are—but succubi are the exception. Succubi are designed to pop out fresh demons to bolster Hell's population, and to corrupt humanity, and to breed with the dead—whether that meant sucking the sperm out of a corpse or riding the damned.

What is true is that sinners can't start families—which most of them interpret to mean they can't reproduce at all. The truth is much more literal. Sinners can screw with succubi, and their coupling can create a child—a cambion—but that child isn't part of the sinner's family. A cambion might be the offspring of a demon and a human, but it's not a half-human half-demon hybrid. There's no such thing. A creature can't have half a human soul: it either has a soul, or it doesn't. A cambion doesn't. It's like mistletoe, a parasite growing on its human parent's family tree.

But, in Alastor's opinion, even parasitically growing on a human's family tree is better than not being properly attached to a tree at all—so he'd still rather give the child to a human father over an adoptive imp couple.

Genetic testing will determine whether the baby is a succubus or a cambion—and thus, whether the father is demon or human. If human, the testing might also turn up some hereditary genetic mutations that, if present, would indicate the father has been dead a while. And of course it can help identify some genetic disorders, which is typically what prenatal genetic testing is for.

"Do you know whether you have any genetic disorders in your family medical history?" Dr. Stripper asks. "These include..."

Alastor waves off the question before she can start listing conditions. "I don't have a family medical history."

This far into Alastor's pregnancy, the less invasive genetic testing options are no longer available. Dr. Stripper informs him that the one option available right now does have a small risk of miscarriage; Alastor informs her that he'd consider himself too fortunate if the choice were taken from his hands so neatly. . 

They talk about his birth control—or apparent lack thereof. "I still don't understand it," Alastor says irritably. "This shouldn't be possible. For goodness's sake, I'm on six forms of birth control—"

"According to your medical records, one of them's to block your sperm," Dr. Stripper says. "It won't stop you from getting pregnant, just from getting other people pregnant.

"Five relevant forms of birth control."

"And you're scheduled to take a shot every three months," she adds. "According to your records, your latest one was almost four months ago and before that it was five months?"

Alastor winces. "I keep meaning to schedule it, but..."

"It's not helping you after three months."

"Fine, four forms of birth control."

"And you should have a vaginal ring that's switched out every five weeks? Have you been doing that reliably?"

Alastor winces harder. "Three forms. But I'm only supposed to need one, aren't I? How did it get past all of them?"

"Let's find out, shall we?"

One of the three is a temporary magic tattoo inside his vaginal canal that should be five months into its eight month life; the other two are a five-year surgical implant and a ten-year copper IUD that are just over three years old each. The latter two are more difficult to check, but Dr. Stripper checks for the tattoo. When she informs him, baffled, that there's only a few faint traces of ink left, as though the tattoo has expired months ago, Alastor is horrified—but he's not surprised.

"I suppose we'll find the other two have magically vanished as well, won't we," he mutters.

"Well, the IUD's still in there."

"How do you know?"

Dr. Stripper opens Alastor's file, flips through several sonogram printouts, holds out one, and points at one lumpy arm. "Do you see that?"

Alastor's stomach flips at the memory of the ultrasound, but he leans forward to look. For a moment, bizarrely, he thinks the baby is clutching a cross against its chest like a horror movie protagonist trying to ward off a vampire; but then he realizes the object clutched in its tiny fingers is T shaped. "Is that..."

"There's your IUD."

"The... the thing that's supposed to be sterilizing sperm just by existing in me?"

"Yep."

Alastor says, "How—" He stops. He says, "Wh—" He stops again. He lays down on the examination table and stares at the ceiling.

Dr. Stripper says, "Genuinely I don't know how this is biologically possible."

"The nerve of this kid. Clutching it like a scepter," Alastor mutters. "He's got some balls, doesn't he?"

Dr. Stripper shakes her head. "No, those don't develop until week 33."

Considering how steeped Alastor is in high-level supernatural powers, they both suspect that the birth control methods that weren't undone by irresponsible scheduling must have been undone by magic, whether his own or a partner's. Dr. Stripper says she'll look for precedents before Alastor's next appointment.

And, finally, they talk about recommended lifestyle changes for as long as Alastor's undecided about whether to carry the baby to term. It's the same list he got from Dr. Neid with a few additions: diet, prenatal supplements, recommended sex positions and acts, safe and unsafe shapeshifting techniques, limited caffeine... and alcohol.

"Ah. This." Alastor lets out a long sigh designed to convey that he will, at best, merely endure the topic, and certainly won't listen to it.

"Your regular doctor has a note in here that you refuse to discuss your drinking habits?"

"I'm not changing them at this time. I understand the health consequences, I know what addiction is, and I'm aware the my habits are... excessive. But I have no desire to reduce my drinking, and even less to detox."

"Can I ask why?"

He presses his lips together tightly, regarding Dr. Stripper suspiciously. This feels like a trap. But, reluctantly, he speaks: "I... don't—get along with my libido. I can't tolerate the demands it makes on me. I only need it about three times times a day, so there are absolutely no medical options to try to lower it; the only help I have available is whiskey dick." He can see her face starting to twist in confusion, looking for the sense in his explanation; he's sure that to a succubus, he must sound like he's declared he's decided to slowly starve himself because pooping every three days is just too frequent for his tastes.

He shakes his head. "It's a matter for my primary doctor and I. You don't have to understand it, just—accept it. Anyway, I'm a freelancer; I can't afford to take the time off to detox again."

"'Again'? Have you tried to get sober before?"

"I was sober. I detoxed in the eighties and spent a decade and a half sober." A corner of his mouth quirks up wryly. "My libido was lower then."

"And you don't want to go through the withdrawal again. What was it like for you?"

Alastor closes his eyes and tries to remember. So much of his human memories are gone or blurry, and his withdrawal is no different. The strongest memory he has is that it was miserable. "I was horribly sick. Shaking, vomiting, constant sweating—I think I hallucinated. I might have had a heart attack, I'm not sure now." (He opens his eyes and gets some slight pleasure out of seeing her expression while his own expression remains neutral.) "I was probably delirious for a couple of days, at least. I felt like I was dying continuously, for... I think it was almost a week. Couldn't sleep for much longer." He lets out a short huff. "Can't say I cared for the experience!"

"I wouldn't either." Dr. Stripper gestures toward Alastor's abdomen. "Baby's gonna go through that when he's born."

Alastor's blood runs cold. "... Oh."

"Unless you plan to keep bottle-feeding him booze. But I don't really recommend it unless you're trying to raise him as a brain-damaged serial killer."

Alastor swallows the urge to get offended on behalf of serial killers. "I—see your point, doctor." Callous he may be; but even for his remarkably permissive stance on evil... forcing a newborn through detox seems like a just bit much. He thinks he'd probably be ashamed of that later. He's already got enough regrets, it might be nice to head one off before it starts.

However—however—on the other hand. He wants to keep drinking. And the baby would eventually get through withdrawal, right? And Alastor  doesn't know whether he can stop. The last time he got sober, he'd permitted Rosie to lock him up until he broke through the other side of his delirium. This time, not only is he no longer on speaking terms with Rosie, but he assumes withdrawal will be that much harder to fight through when he's alive—and carrying a second life.

If he can get a baby addicted... what other effect is he having on it? He might have already done the kind of damage only divine intervention can undo. Maybe it's too late for detoxing to actually do any good. Maybe aborting is a more merciful option. (Maybe it will be a relief if he can conclude aborting is the more merciful option.)

He hates all the options.

He says, "I'll take it under consideration."

Dr. Stripper has him take a few tests—a needle to take the sample needed for genetic testing, some more esoteric strips and patches to run some magical tests. 

He stays after the appointment for a quickie.

He's sent out with a pamphlet on something called "fetal alcohol syndrome" with the addresses of several detox centers, a booklet about adopting to imp couples, and a date early next week to discuss the results of his genetic testing.

[diarrheaworldstarhiphop]

A century ago, a strain of pandemic flu killed up to 100 million people—5 percent of the world’s population. In 2013, a new mystery illness swept the western coast of North America, causing starfish to disintegrate. In 2015, a big-nosed Asian antelope known as the saiga lost two-thirds of its population—some 200,000 individuals—to what now looks to be a bacterial infection. But none of these devastating infections comes close to the destructive power of Bd—a singularly apocalyptic fungus that’s unrivaled in its ability not only to kill animals, but to delete entire species from existence.

Bd—Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in full—kills frogs and other amphibians by eating away at their skin and triggering fatal heart attacks. It’s often said that the fungus has caused the decline or extinction of 200 amphibian species, but that figure is almost two decades out-of-date. New figures, compiled by a team led by Ben Scheele from the Australian National University, are much worse.

Scheele’s team estimates that the fungus has caused the decline of 501 amphibian species—about 6.5 percent of the known total. Of these, 90 have been wiped out entirely. Another 124 have fallen by more than 90 percent, and their odds of recovery are slim. Never in recorded history has a single disease burned down so much of the tree of life. “It rewrote our understanding of what disease could do to wildlife,” Scheele says.

“It’s a terrifying summary,” says Jodi Rowley from the Australian Museum. “We knew it was bad, but this really confirms how bad. And these are just the declines we know about.”

The scale of these losses can be hard to appreciate, especially if you think that a frog is a frog is a frog. But amphibians are ancient survivors that have been diversifying for 370 million years, and in just five decades, one disease has nearly decimated their ranks. Imagine if a new disease started wiping out 6.5 percent of all mammal species—that would be roughly everything with hooves and everything with flippers. The world would freak out.

And amphibian experts “have been freaking out a long time,” says Karen Lips from the University of Maryland, who was involved in the new study. “Despite all the attention, I don’t think we fully appreciate what was lost.”

In the 1970s and ’80s, amphibian experts began sharing ominous anecdotes about once-plentiful populations that had mysteriously disappeared. Streams once full of eggs were clear. Nights once resonant with ribbits were silent. Nothing about the habitats had changed, save for their sudden, inexplicable froglessness. No one knew what the problem was, let alone the culprit. “It was more than a search for a needle in a haystack—we were still debating the existence of the haystack,” Lips wrote recently. Steele’s analysis shows that by the point the fungus was finally identified, in 1998, it had already done the brunt of its lethal work. At least 60 species were already extinct, and hundreds more were going south.

Bd is perhaps the perfect frog killer. It kills with gusto and without fuss. While some diseases affect only specific hosts, Bd covets nutrients found across amphibian skins, and so targets the entire group indiscriminately. It spreads easily through the water, and it persists outside its hosts.

The fungus hasn’t acted alone; humans have been its unwitting accomplice. A genetic study led by Matthew Fisher from Imperial College London suggested that Bd had originated somewhere in Asia. From there, one especially virulent and transmissible strain spread around the world in the early 20th century—a time when international trade was booming. Infected animals could have stowed away aboard ships, or been deliberately transported as food, pets, or pregnancy tests. Either way, the killer strain eventually spread to five other continents.

In the new study, Scheele’s team compares the modern world to Pangaea—the single, epic supercontinent that existed at the dawn of the dinosaurs. It has long split up, but humans have effectively re-created it. For wildlife diseases, all the world is once again a single connected mass, easily traversed. For that reason, new fungal diseases seem to be emerging at an ever-increasing pace, affecting bats, snakes, salamanders, and more. “These fungi would normally have fried on a sailing craft across the Atlantic, but now they’re viable,” Scheele says. “We’re just able to move things around at higher speed and volume than we used to.”

Humans have also repeatedly sown islands with introduced hunters such as cats, rats, and mongooses, to the detriment of local fauna. In many ways, it’s more fitting to think about Bd as one of these introduced predators—and perhaps the most destructive that people have ever unleashed. “Cats have been a plague on biodiversity over generations, and they eat everything,” Scheele says. “And yet Bd, whose impact we have only been able to measure for decades, already far outstrips the cats and rats in terms of the species affected.”

The comparison is especially apt because once in a new place, Bd is hard to dislodge. A typical disease might cause an epidemic and burn out, only to be later reintroduced from a reservoir. But once Bd arrives, it doesn’t fade out, and it cannot be removed. Like rats on islands, it becomes a nigh-permanent fixture of the areas it invades.

Limiting its movements remains the best strategy, and that means curbing the wildlife trade. “Moving wildlife around the globe can and does have devastating consequences,”Rowley says. “There’s more awareness of the impact of invasive species like cane toads and rabbits, but this paper highlights that it may be the inadvertent hitchhikers—the parasites and pathogens we don’t see—that cause the most biodiversity loss.”

Encouragingly, the pace of decline has eased. Better still, 60 species have begun to show glimmers of recovery. But no one knows whether this means that frogs have managed to eke out an evolutionary truce with Bd, or whether further outbreaks are to come. That’s possible if the fungus makes it to Papua New Guinea—a thus far Bd-free stronghold that is heaving with amphibians. The virulent, globe-hopping strain has also hybridized with indigenous varieties, raising concerns that hybrids could behave unpredictably.

“There’s no obvious way to deal with this,” Lips says. Some researchers have set up captive-breeding programs to buy time for species in contaminated habitats. Others are looking at ways of manipulating the fungus, or breeding more tolerant frogs, or pairing the frogs with defensive bacteria, or relocating frogs to sites that are inhospitable to the fungus. None of these solutions is a silver bullet, and none is close to readiness. “It says a lot about the scary nature of the disease that even after intense, long-term collaborations we haven’t come up with a viable solution,” Lips adds.

>globalization killed the frogs before they could even become gay

frogs are probably my favourite animals and its actually really sad to think my grandchildren won’t see one in the wild

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Since you enjoy discussion, I was wondering if I could pose a question? It seems like it's been brought up some by the fandom, but I'd like another opinion & maybe some scientific discussion. I think for the first time, we have a species with a confirmed class. The Angara are mammals, meaning both humans & Angara are within the same class. There are several layers of organization between class & species, and even then, some organisms within the same species experience reproductive isolation 1/2

Hello! And thank you for this ask! ~Sorry this took me a while to respond, I knew the reason why but I wanted to do some research to be more specific for my answer. 

I would love to hear your thoughts!

Angara HC Discussion Topic: Reproducing with Humans

Short answer: I do not think so, no, angara are a different species.

Long answer: Under the cut. (It’s a really long answer~ whoops)

Alright, so let’s first start with what we know in game: Angara were not created naturally. They’ve been fighting Remnant and kett for basically all of their lives. This kind of war impedes on education, and the angara seem more interested in studying the Remnant. Which would need some basic understanding of history, science, and math. Not necessarily biology. There is a lady on Aya that scans Ryder, and is concerned with the biology of humans, says that we are similar to them. That she is concerned with future generations. Sahuna sends an email regarding the human birth process. Another point I’ll bring up is that Gil and Jill have a child, medically. I’ll also go through classifications, evolution, blood, chromosomes, genetic sequences, hormones, size, and internal chemistry. 

Keep in mind, we do not know that much about the angara. Asari are able to reproduce with any species but that’s through a completely different form of reproduction and the offspring is always asari. So, it could still be possible in some way shape or form that BioWare cannonically states that angara are able to reproduce with humans. The angara are aliens, and nothing is exactly impossible, but may not be what we expect.

My last angara HC stated that because of the war with the kett, angara do not go to get a proper education until they are older because families need to focus more on survival. The only real place of schooling we are informed of is that of which is studying Remnant under the Moshae. I believe there are other teachers like the Moshae around but for different topics/professions. We see Avela took over the Repository of History from a relative at a young age, so many professions seem to be based on lineage. Their proper education system seems to be much different than that of humans. So, it is natural that the angara be curious about different things. The human birth process question that Sahuna asks, could be simply referring to what Gil and Jill did, if angara and humans aren’t compatible. There is a lot of vague statements like this throughout the game. 

The angara lady that scans Ryder says that humans and angara are similar. But even then, we are scratching just the surface. She is concerned with how future generations will look, most likely referring to the alliance between the Initiative and the angara. She could be suggesting that our internals are similar I.E.; one heart, two lungs, uterus, ovaries, penis, brain is in the head, two kidneys, a liver, etc. But she only did a simple scan. The sizes of these organs could be different, or what specific hormones are released from them that are different. Or all the above. Which would prove to be a problem in a hybrid. An overabundance amount of a kind of hormone due to the organs being a bit more angaran versus the other half of the organs being a bit more human. Or maybe a mix, and the body might freak out. The body is a  wonderful and beautiful thing, but can be a complete idiot sometimes. I.E; being deathly allergic to nuts. An overreaction to something that’s pretty harmless. So, the body tries to get rid of it by killing itself. As I said, body is wonderful but also an idiot sometimes. Which is another important point.

Let’s go into humanity’s reproduction for a minute. It’s in our blood, almost literally. It’s called the Rh factor. If, for instance, you have a negative Rh factor, aka little to no Rh, and you try to reproduce with someone of a positive Rh factor, there will be complications. Especially if the mother is the one with a negative Rh and the fetus is positive. The Rh antibodies can cross the placenta and attack the blood of the Rh-positive fetus, which can result in hemolytic anemia or death with the fetus. The mother’s body literally treats the fetus as a parasite it needs to get rid of. Of course, the mother can get Rh levels up through modern medicine. Well, what does this have to do with angara and humans? Look at the blood. Remember chemistry class? When you reacted certain compounds and it made a different color? Human blood, when oxidized is red due to the organic compounds within. Angaran blood, when oxidized is blue, which means they have a different compound. Maybe even a different pH level, which would definitely cause complications if they try to reproduce with humans. Would the blood of the hybrid be angaran or human? If it’s angaran, would it be compatible with the more human organs? Would the body constantly be at war with itself? We also need to realize, angara and humans have different genetics, which means a different sequence, which could also most likely lead to a different amount of chromosomes. Which is the major reason a dog and a cat cannot reproduce.

Ah, time for classifications. What makes a species, a species? “The ability to reproduce within itself.” Homo-sapiens, or humans, are under the species of “sapien” we can reproduce with other sapiens. This is an earth classification. When we go with angara, we are talking a completely different evolutionary history, and classifications. They are not only from another planet, but a galaxy. Their galactic history is completely different from ours. Now, the angara were created, but when we go to Khi Tasira, we see thousands, maybe millions of angara in pods. Genetic templates. Which they all look like angara. So, the change the Jaardan were making were probably in the brain and internal functions of the body. Still, they are a completely different species and require different things. The Jaardan are also presumibly from Andromeda, and might’ve made the angara more internally like themselves, or like other organics from Andromeda (If you think the Jaardan are a synthetic race). In any case, it’s from Andromeda.

Here is a chart. Angara and humans are; animals and mammals. That is what we know for sure. The rest is unknown. But, with their evolutionary history and them being aliens, that could be the only things we have in common, or maybe they are in the Eukarya domain. But because Andromeda is different in many different ways, their biological classification chart could be completely different from ours.

The point being; If they are the same species, they can reproduce. Cats and dogs are mammals, but they have different DNA, genetic structures, and I believe a different amount of chromosomes (I haven’t looked that far into it). They can have sex, but the egg would fail to be fertilized, because they aren’t the same species. Now, different dog breeds can reproduce together, but a large dog cannot directly reproduce with a small dog. Like trying to breed a pureblood chihuahua and a great-Dane, would not work because of the size difference, which is located in the genes, genetic sequences. The eggs would fail to germinate.

Let’s wrap this up: let’s say, Ryder gets pregnant with Jaal, hypothetically. The eggs were successful in being fertilized. This would not be a normal pregnancy. I would depict that Ryder’s body would try to kill the hybrid, or put her life in danger. We know angara have bioelectricity, I would suspect the fetus would have uncontrolled bursts of it. Humans do not have this, it would directly affect the nervous system. Ryder’s hormones would be on the fritz, probably lots of sickness and pain. Humans are also used to single births, or twins, at a time. Angara most likely have three to four births. Angara are also huge, (Of course your Ryder might be tall and mighty so this would be a bit easier) But imagine, Ryder would most likely carry three to four children in her tiny body. The fetuses being bigger than normal due to angaran traits, and the whole issue with them being hybrids in her body. Her nervous system would be a wreck, which goes directly into the brain functions, could cause seizures or even more problems. But that’s /if/ the egg is successful. 

This is the reason why I do not believe that angara and humans are reproductively compatible. But again, we are missing a lot of data on angaran biology and genetics, and again, they are alien and created. It could be possible, but then I would think a lot of medical problems would occur, it would be the very first hybrid anyone has ever delt with, so I don’t think there’s exactly a type of medicine to help. If the pregnancy was successful, how would the child be? Would they have complications later? Would they be accepted in society (I mean most likely the parents would accept them but society sucks half the time)? I still have a lot of questions, and there is no definitive answer.

[ezatluba]

A doomsday fungus known as Bd has condemned more species to extinction than any other pathogen.

ED YONG

MAR 28, 2019

A century ago, a strain of pandemic flu killed up to 100 million people—5 percent of the world’s population. In 2013, a new mystery illness swept the western coast of North America, causing starfish to disintegrate. In 2015, a big-nosed Asian antelope known as the saiga lost two-thirds of its population—some 200,000 individuals—to what now looks to be a bacterial infection. But none of these devastating infections comes close to the destructive power of Bd—a singularly apocalyptic fungus that’s unrivaled in its ability not only to kill animals, but to delete entire species from existence.

Bd—Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in full—kills frogs and other amphibians by eating away at their skin and triggering fatal heart attacks. It’s often said that the fungus has caused the decline or extinction of 200 amphibian species, but that figure is almost two decades out-of-date. New figures, compiled by a team led by Ben Scheele from the Australian National University, are much worse.

Scheele’s team estimates that the fungus has caused the decline of 501 amphibian species—about 6.5 percent of the known total. Of these, 90 have been wiped out entirely. Another 124 have fallen by more than 90 percent, and their odds of recovery are slim. Never in recorded history has a single disease burned down so much of the tree of life. “It rewrote our understanding of what disease could do to wildlife,” Scheele says.

“It’s a terrifying summary,” says Jodi Rowley from the Australian Museum. “We knew it was bad, but this really confirms how bad. And these are just the declines we know about.”

The scale of these losses can be hard to appreciate, especially if you think that a frog is a frog is a frog. But amphibians are ancient survivors that have been diversifying for 370 million years, and in just five decades, one disease has nearly decimated their ranks. Imagine if a new disease started wiping out 6.5 percent of all mammal species—that would be roughly everything with hooves and everything with flippers. The world would freak out.

And amphibian experts “have been freaking out a long time,” says Karen Lipsfrom the University of Maryland, who was involved in the new study. “Despite all the attention, I don’t think we fully appreciate what was lost.”

In the 1970s and ’80s, amphibian experts began sharing ominous anecdotes about once-plentiful populations that had mysteriously disappeared. Streams once full of eggs were clear. Nights once resonant with ribbits were silent. Nothing about the habitats had changed, save for their sudden, inexplicable froglessness. No one knew what the problem was, let alone the culprit. “It was more than a search for a needle in a haystack—we were still debating the existence of the haystack,” Lips wrote recently. Steele’s analysis shows that by the point the fungus was finally identified, in 1998, it had already done the brunt of its lethal work. At least 60 species were already extinct, and hundreds more were going south.

Bd is perhaps the perfect frog killer. It kills with gusto and without fuss. While some diseases affect only specific hosts, Bd covets nutrients found across amphibian skins, and so targets the entire group indiscriminately. It spreads easily through the water, and it persists outside its hosts.

The fungus hasn’t acted alone; humans have been its unwitting accomplice. A genetic study led by Matthew Fisher from Imperial College London suggested that Bd had originated somewhere in Asia. From there, one especially virulent and transmissible strain spread around the world in the early 20th century—a time when international trade was booming. Infected animals could have stowed away aboard ships, or been deliberately transported as food, pets, or pregnancy tests. Either way, the killer strain eventually spread to five other continents.

In the new study, Scheele’s team compares the modern world to Pangaea—the single, epic supercontinent that existed at the dawn of the dinosaurs. It has long split up, but humans have effectively re-created it. For wildlife diseases, all the world is once again a single connected mass, easily traversed. For that reason, new fungal diseases seem to be emerging at an ever-increasing pace, affecting bats, snakes, salamanders, and more. “These fungi would normally have fried on a sailing craft across the Atlantic, but now they’re viable,” Scheele says. “We’re just able to move things around at higher speed and volume than we used to.”

Humans have also repeatedly sown islands with introduced hunters such as cats, rats, and mongooses, to the detriment of local fauna. In many ways, it’s more fitting to think about Bd as one of these introduced predators—and perhaps the most destructive that people have ever unleashed. “Cats have been a plague on biodiversity over generations, and they eat everything,” Scheele says. “And yet Bd, whose impact we have only been able to measure for decades, already far outstrips the cats and rats in terms of the species affected.”

The comparison is especially apt because once in a new place, Bd is hard to dislodge. A typical disease might cause an epidemic and burn out, only to be later reintroduced from a reservoir. But once Bd arrives, it doesn’t fade out, and it cannot be removed. Like rats on islands, it becomes a nigh-permanent fixture of the areas it invades.

Limiting its movements remains the best strategy, and that means curbing the wildlife trade. “Moving wildlife around the globe can and does have devastating consequences,”Rowley says. “There’s more awareness of the impact of invasive species like cane toads and rabbits, but this paper highlights that it may be the inadvertent hitchhikers—the parasites and pathogens we don’t see—that cause the most biodiversity loss.”

Encouragingly, the pace of decline has eased. Better still, 60 species have begun to show glimmers of recovery. But no one knows whether this means that frogs have managed to eke out an evolutionary truce with Bd, or whether further outbreaks are to come. That’s possible if the fungus makes it to Papua New Guinea—a thus far Bd-free stronghold that is heaving with amphibians. The virulent, globe-hopping strain has also hybridized with indigenous varieties, raising concerns that hybrids could behave unpredictably.

“There’s no obvious way to deal with this,” Lips says. Some researchers have set up captive-breeding programs to buy time for species in contaminated habitats. Others are looking at ways of manipulating the fungus, or breeding more tolerant frogs, or pairing the frogs with defensive bacteria, or relocating frogs to sites that are inhospitable to the fungus. None of these solutions is a silver bullet, and none is close to readiness. “It says a lot about the scary nature of the disease that even after intense, long-term collaborations we haven’t come up with a viable solution,” Lips adds.

[roominthecastle]

You seem like someone who isn't new to fandom and I have to ask: have you ever had the experience of seeing a large chunk of a show's fanbase actively campaign against a spinoff? i.e. is what's going down with The Blacklist a unique case?

*rickety grandma voice* I’ve seen some crazy-ass shit, son.

Jokes aside, yes, to me it is rather unique, anon, because TBL/R is a unique creative catastrophe. More rambling and complaining behind the cut, as usual:

I’ve encountered several spin-offs, but their “birth” and transition were never like this. e.g.

Cheers →FrasierCSI → CSI: MiamiThe Practice →Boston LegalJAG →NCISBreaking Bad →Better Call Saul(Daredevil →The Punisher)

These represent different types. Frasier, Boston Legal, and Better Call Saul are the type created specifically to “live on” after the mother show’s passing and are “character anchored”. CSI: Miami, NCIS, and The Punisher (has yet to launch hence the brackets) are the type created to co-exist with the mother show and are chiefly “concept anchored” (The Punisher is a hybrid, imo).

Not one of these did to its beloved “parent” what TBL/R has so carelessly inflicted on TBL, though. No decent spin-off would, imo. I believe this is the main root of the ugly backlash we see in our fandom, most of which is justified (bitterness and quitting) and the rest is most definitely not (e.g. online harassment and bashing of those involved with the show - seriously, get a grip people).

TBL/R was, to push our metaphor, not a result of natural labor but one that was induced repeatedly over a torturously extended period of time. We were standing around, watching on helplessly as the mother show was being turned inside out to give life to something underdeveloped and unworthy. At least Liz had a cute baby at the end of her induced labor. All we got out of this “meta pregnancy” was a lousy spin-off and our favorite show put on life support. In other words, a lot was sacrificed here for very little.

Spin-offs attempt to milk either a successful blueprint/concept or a successful character. TBL/R claims to have both yet has neither. In what universe does Tom count as a charismatic, heroic, layered eyeball magnet creation? I haven’t the faintest, but I’ve always suspected Eisendrath commutes to work from a fucked up parallel reality and now I think I have the ultimate proof).They took an already failing and abused “magic box” format (a conflated, vague “mysterious past” and a tedious, mostly meaningless “search for answers”), planted the shallowest and most repelling character into it, crammed it with clichés and retcons, then sprinkled it with some incest. Who thought this was a foolproof recipe for success and why? TBL has been dragging its feet to reveal its simplest of answers for almost 4 years now, and you’re offering me the watered down version of the same thing sans Spader? Please. Please have some respect for your audience. Spin-offs are potentially lucrative investments precisely bc they aim to draw on the parent show’s established loyal fanbase. TBL/R actively alienates and insults this base, which is so uniquely ass-backwards, they should create a special category for it at the Emmys called “the don'ts”.

Audience sympathy is a crucial element overlooked here as well. TBL has badly undermined sympathy for its own protagonist to make spin-off boy more palatable. She was made to forgive and “endorse” him in the most repelling way (I dabble in some questionable fictional stuffbut heavily pregnant Liz kneeling down in front this Petri dish of human failures will forever live on in my memory as the grossest image I’ve ever seen) while Tom remained just as unworthy and irrelevant as ever (they wrote in the pregnancy just to keep him as “the father” which is the ultimate act of creative desperation as far as I’m concerned).

Other characters were similarly co-opted to similarly alienating results (see Cooper, for example). The poorly executed “strategic demonizing” Red has been subjected to has backfired as well. Despite his various transgressions, Red is the #1 “sympathy earner” of the show bc James’ portrayal oozes pathos. Red is a beautiful sufferer and meticulous self-torturer, so anybody repeatedly kicking him will come across as unsympathetic at best. Stomping on him to prop up a character who has failed to express even a fraction of contrition tanked even before it began in earnest. Now I think it is way over the line, borderline abusive and so nonsensical, fans are understandably angry and scream enough!

On top of that, Tom’s spin-off buddies are also characters Red’s original “code of conduct” would never have allowed to live. Scottie almost killed Liz and Agnes, then shrugged it off and tried to blame Red. Solomon tortured Dembe, poisoned her infant granddaughter, and was about to cut up pregnant Liz in front of Red when Dembe arrived to save the day. He didn’t express much remorse for it, either, yet it was beloved Mr. Kaplan who ended up with bullet in her face while these so-called characters waltzed off into a new show titled Redemption. Fucking amazing. I don’t care about their “redemption” one bit. I was never actually invited to care (see the lack of remorse issue), I was only expected to because… again why? idk. I was, however, invited to expect their swift demise but everything established in S1 is either forgotten or rewritten now, it seems, and TBL/R’s existence is a symbol of this very fact. It didn’t grow naturally out of TBL. It is a parasite that chewed its way through it and now is struggling to stand on its own. Its struggle makes me happy but also sad, to be honest.

Fans - not all but a lot - are upset (do not mistake this for passion anymore, this is just plain anger now) because this is not how spin-offs are supposed to work at all. They are supposed to add to a beloved piece of work, not encroach on it and on characters and relationships we actually love and care about.

[chronotrek]

741. [VOY] Lineage

SCORE:

(5/5 stars)

B'Elanna is going to work in a very good mood, so cheery it's borderline creepy. She has a sudden shift to crankiness when she sees Seven and Icheb working on the mezzanine without her authorization, but before she can read them the riot act, she feels lightheaded and begins to collapse. Icheb scans her and detects a foreign lifesign in her and worries she has a parasite, but Seven is a little wiser than that and calls the Doctor to expect a pregnant patient.

The Doctor gives her a clean bill of health, citing her fainting spell as just a clash of human and Klingon metabolisms, but he doesn't expect any major issues. B'Elanna doesn't want to know the sex of the baby yet, and she wants to keep the news between just her and Tom for now, but unfortunately, Icheb and Seven did not get that memo, and before they know it, they're each being congratulated by virtually every member of the crew.

He shows them a holographic projection of their child's spine ten months after birth, and there is pronounced curvature. B'Elanna notes that she had the same thing as a baby and had corrective surgery, as did her mother, so she's not too concerned with it. The Doctor accidentally lets the cat out of the bag on sex when he says that it runs in Klingon families, especially females. He attempts to backpedal but they say it's okay. Treatment has advanced since B'Elanna was born and surgery won't be necessary anymore as he can treat the imperfection genetically. Since he's analyzed the baby's genome, they ask him to show them a holographic recreation of the whole baby. Tom thinks the baby is beautiful and looks "just like her mother," but B'Elanna sees the ridges with consternation and begins having flashbacks.

When she was about twelve, her human father took her on a camping trip with her cousins and uncle. One of the cousins, a little shit, dropped a live worm on B'Elanna's sandwich since he heard Klingons prefer live food. This caused B'Elanna to get upset and run off until dark. When she returned, her dad took her aside and told her to not be so sensitive about her shitty racist cousins or the shitty racist kids at school and tried to relate it to when he was a kid and kids called him Snorres because he'd sleep in class. That's totally the same thing. Later that night, she overheard her dad and uncle talking where he confessed that he's having problems dealing with a household with two Klingons, and how he ignored his mother's advice not to marry a Klingon and appeared to now regret it.

After the genetic treatment is performed, B'Elanna goes to the holodeck and runs simulations on what her daughter will look like if she starts removing Klingon genes, and continues until the projected 12-year-old image of her daughter no longer has ridges. She proposes making these changes to the Doctor, but he isn't willing to just hack up her child's DNA willy-nilly. He tells her to discuss it with Tom while he agrees to at least look over B'Elanna's findings. Tom is totally opposed to this course of treatment, and the conversation leads to one where B'Elanna essentially tells Tom to check his human privilege because he doesn't know what it's like growing up when everyone is one way and you're another. She has struggled with her mixed heritage her whole life and doesn't want her daughter to go through the same thing she did.

They can't come to an agreement, and after B'Elanna unsuccessfully tries to get Janeway involved to override the Doctor's objections and has a further argument with Tom in the hallway, she locks him out of their quarters, so he spends the night at Harry's. The next morning, she's walking to the mess hall with Chakotay when Tom comes along, and Chakotay conveniently remembers that he's forgotten something, leaving the two alone to reconcile. They're soon called to sickbay, where the Doctor has revealed that after reviewing B'Elanna's findings, he thinks the alterations are now necessary as they point to metabolic incapatabilities between the human and Klingon genes. He says the sooner they treat, the better, and has scheduled the procedure for the morning.

Something doesn't sit right about the Doctor's sudden change of heart, and Tom takes his findings to Seven and Icheb to review. Icheb finds immediate problems with the Doctor's analysis, and he's not one to usually make mistakes. Seven realizes B'Elanna has tampered with his program, and Tom tries to hail her but gets no response. She's in Sickbay, where she's opted not to wait until morning to undergo the procedure. She's locked out the room and it takes Tuvok's security team to force the door open. After they tell the Doctor that his program has been altered, he agrees to deactivate himself until they can sort it out.

Tom has everyone else clear out of sickbay so he can talk things out with his wife. She relates the story of her camping trip with her father, and how after overhearing his complaints about how hard it is to live with Klingons, she stormed out of her tent and told him he should just leave. Two weeks later, he left. Tom realizes she fears he'll walk out on her too, and promises he'd never do that and he hopes to have many Klingon babies in their future. The Doctor's program is restored, and B'Elanna apologizes for altering it and asks the Doctor to be the child's godfather. The baby starts to kick, and she asks to see the projection one more time. "She is cute, isn't she?"

NITPICKS

At 8 years old, Alexander Rozhekno was already matured to the equivalent of a human teenager despite being a human/Klingon hybrid. Here is B'Elanna at 12, and she's only just as matured as a fully human 12-year-old. It could be that Klingon males and females develop at different rates, or an unusual interaction between the two genomes that express differently per sex.

When did Harry switch from clarinet to saxophone? I know they are played similarly, but this is the first time we've seen him play the sax.

FAVORITE QUOTES

Icheb: I'm detecting another lifesign. Seven: Where? Icheb: Inside Lieutenant Torres. It could be a parasite. [Seven checks his tricorder readings.] Seven: Seven of Nine to the Doctor. Doctor: Go ahead. Seven: I'll be accompanying Lieutenant Torres to Sickbay. Doctor: What's wrong? Seven: I believe she's pregnant.

Chakotay: Have you checked the warp core for radiation leaks today? Torres: No. Why? Chakotay: You have a certain glow about you.

Kim: It's all over now. No more late nights on the holodeck. No more racing the Delta Flyer. Paris: Don't you think you're exaggerating just a little? Kim: I've seen it happen. The new dad gets tied down with family. Old friends drop away. Paris: It's fatherhood , Harry, not exile. Kim: If you say so.

Tuvok: Offspring can be disturbingly illogical, yet profoundly fulfilling. You should anticipate paradox.

Paris: Maybe a change of scenery would help. How about the holodeck? Torres: That's your solution to everything.

Kim: Maybe you should tell her you understand. Paris: What good would that do? Kim: It might make her less defensive, and then maybe it would be easier for her to see your point of view. Paris: What if she can't? Kim: Like I said, my couch is your couch.

[themoonaliensandreligion]

Humans: Unnatural To Earth (Masterpost)

Includes

Humans: Post-Apocalyptic Monsters, Alien Invaders, Invasive Species

Aliens, The Moon, and Evolution: Part 1: The Moon and Human Evolution: Humans are Unnatural to Earth ~ Theory ~

Aliens, The Moon, and Evolution: Part 1: The Moon and Human Evolution: The Moon and Human Evolution: Parasitic Pregnancy: Humans are Hybrids ~ Theory ~

Aliens, The Moon, and Evolution: Part 2: Scientific Research and Contact with Aliens:  Humans are the Aliens to Earth  ~ Theory ~

Humans: Post-Apocalyptic Monsters, Alien Invaders, Invasive Species

Dinosaurs reigned as the dominant creatures on Earth for around 170 million years. In the time that they lived there was a balance between different species, between predator and prey. There was a natural progression of adaptation and evolution. Every species had its niche and its own special qualities, characteristics, and adaptations that made it capable of surviving. No one species was astronomically advanced or had a huge advantage over every single other species it lived with. During the time that dinosaurs lived, they didn't destroy the planet. They lived on Earth, predators killed when they needed to eat, and natural resources were not heavily depleted. The only destruction was from natural causes - droughts, volcanic activity, changes in climate, shifting of continents, and natural extinction events. After each extinction event within the Mesozoic era, dinosaurs remained the dominant creatures and kept coming back, more advanced and better evolved than before. Individual species were averaging a few million years on Earth before going extinct or evolving into a different species. 

Humans have only lived on Earth for about 200,00 years. Our earliest ancestors only lived a few million years ago. Civilization and industrialization have existed for about 6,000 years and 200 years respectively. In the 200,000 years that humans have existed, we have nearly destroyed everything else on planet Earth. We have caused the complete extinction of nearly 700 species, destroyed entire ecosystems, and have brought Earth dangerously close to irreversible environmental damage. No other singular species in existence has created this kind of destruction and devastation. No other species has been able to. No other species has ever had this much of an advantage over every other living thing on the planet. Humans are so much more intelligent, and so much more advanced than every other living thing on planet Earth, that everything else on this planet is at the mercy of our species. Humans can cause the total extinction of probably any species we want to and completely destroy any habitat or environment if we wanted to. This is not how nature is supposed to work, and it's never worked like this before on Earth. Not only is the amount of damage done by humans astonishing, but the speed at which we have caused this damage is as well. Civilization has only existed for 6,000 years and industrialization has only existed for around 200 years. The fact that the majority of environmental damage done by humans has occurred in the past 200 years is alarming, and the fact that the most destruction of planet Earth has occurred during the past 200 years out of the 3.7 billion years that life has existed on Earth is almost unfathomable. No other single species in natural history has ever caused this level of destruction. No other single species has ever even come close to the level of destruction humans bring to this planet. 

The way humans are impacting the planet resembles the way an invasive species can impact an environment. Invasive species with more advanced adaptational advantages wreak havoc on habitats that are not equipped to deal with such species. These invasive species have real advantages and cause real damage. If humans are acting like an invasive species, then we had to have come from somewhere else. 

Without humans, this kind of total environmental and climate destruction wouldn't be happening. No other species is destroying and uprooting entire forests to create farms and homes, no other species is hunting other animals for sport, nearly to extinction in some cases, no other species is depleting natural resources, scarring the land, or polluting the air, land, and water with toxic fumes and chemicals. Without humans, all the other species on Earth would be living with a natural balance, adapting and evolving at a natural pace, going extinct only when natural disasters and natural extinction events occur.

We always think about alien invaders coming to Earth and destroying our planet, causing our species to fight for survival or go extinct. We always imagine a mass extinction event or apocalypse that will either end our species or bring us to the brink of extinction. We imagine what kind of post-apocalyptic monsters or futuristic beings will inhabit or overtake our planet. We always think it will be in the future, because we never consider that it's already happened. We always imagine something different, something else out there, because we never considered that it's us. 

Humans are the post-apocalyptic creatures on Earth. Humans are the alien invaders on this planet. Humans are the destructive invasive species on Earth. 

No other species on Earth thinks about apocalypses or alien invasions. No other species thinks about mass extinction events and post-apocalyptic monsters, or alien invaders. Perhaps this way of thinking is some form of evolutionary memory, some reminder. Maybe we think, well, it's been done before, it could happen again. Maybe we think, we did this to this planet, somebody else could do the same thing to us. Maybe our fascination with aliens and worries of apocalypses comes as an instinctual alertness, an evolutionary memory, a warning for us to stay vigil, stay aware because we already know that it's possible. 

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Aliens, The Moon, and Evolution: Part 1 

The Moon and Human Evolution: 

Humans are Unnatural to Earth ~ Theory ~

Simply put, the human race is not believable. 

Humans are so much more advanced than any other species on Earth. We have buildings and technology and law and religion. We have medicine and school and different languages and different cultures. We have cars and planes and the internet. We’ve been to space; we’ve been on the moon. We question our own existence and wonder why we are alive. Our mental complexity and technological advancements prove just how advanced and complex the human species is… and it makes no sense at all. 

The best the next most advanced species can do is use a rock and a stick to open a nut and use a few sign language words. And we think that is extraordinary. We think it’s amazing that an animal could do such things. We think that level of intelligence in a living thing is incredible. So, basically, any level of heightened intelligence in a living thing is impressive and relatively rare. So where did our complexity come from? The advanced complexity and heightened intelligence of the human race is extremely impressive, unchallenged by any animal on Earth, incredibly rare, and, honestly, not really believable at all. And yet, we know this level of intelligence is real because we know humans are real.

Many people can agree that there most likely is life elsewhere in this universe, but anything close to the complexity of humans is unlikely and frankly quite unbelievable. But that kind of thinking, in turn, makes the human species itself unbelievable and unrealistic and completely absurd. However, we know that the human race indeed does exist. 

The existence of the human race raises two questions:

1- why can’t there be complex, advanced, and intelligent life in other places in the universe?

2- where did the human race come from / how did the human race become so complex, whereas in contrast, every other species on Earth is so simple and unadvanced? 

If you take the human race out of the picture - if Earth had no humans - Earth would make a lot more sense. There would be a breathtaking variety of life forms and amazing diversity of life on Earth, but everything would be relatively on the same playing field. Everything would have its niche and ecosystems and food chains would all be balanced and cohesive. There would be no outliers, no oddities, no extraordinarily advanced species outshining all others on the planet. 

What I believe this indicates is that the evolution of the human species was interfered with by an outside force. That outside force being extraterrestrials. 

Humans are Unnatural to Earth: Sea Turtles ~ Theory ~

It’s just like sea turtles. Sea turtles (and other species) return to the same exact place they were born to lay their eggs. Humans are so compelled, so driven to explore space, to explore the rest of the universe, to go to other planets, to find extraterrestrial life, to travel through space. And it’s just like sea turtles. 

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Aliens, The Moon, and Evolution: Part 1 

The Moon and Human Evolution: 

Parasitic Pregnancy: Humans are Hybrids ~ Theory ~

There are three main types of ecological relationships. Mutualism, which describes a relationship where both organisms benefit from the relationship; commensalism, where one organism benefits, and the other is neither harmed nor benefited; and parasitism, where one organism benefits, and the other is harmed. The parasite lives on or inside the host, and derives benefits from the relationship, whereas the host is harmed, and sometimes killed by the parasite. A parasite is defined as an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species, and benefits from deriving nutrients at the host’s expense. A host is defined as an organism on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives.

Human, and most mammalian, pregnancies act extremely similar to a parasitic relationship. The fetus acts as the parasite, and the pregnant individual is the host. 

From morning sickness to being rendered bedridden, to pregnancy and labor complications including blindness, stroke, and death, human pregnancy and birth is extremely dangerous and harmful for the pregnant individual. Humans specifically have one of the largest skull to birth canal ratio, having an abnormally large head and an abnormally narrow birth canal and hip alignment. Pregnancy and childbirth can leave severe long term or permanent damage to the parent. The fetus derives all benefits from the relationship with the pregnant parent, taking nutrients from the parent and redirecting and affecting the parent’s blood flow and immune system. The pregnant parent derives no benefit from the relationship with the fetus, and instead, only experiences harmful effects from the relationship. A person’s placenta even uses the same methods as some other parasites - excreting a specific protein to act as a cloaking device and hide from the host/pregnant parent’s immune system. 

The only reason a fetus is not considered a parasite is because the pregnant individual and the fetus are of the same species. But, what if they weren’t?

Considering the other points in my theory - that humans are the result of an alien species interbreeding with early hominids, this would make humans a hybrid species. If aliens were interbreeding with early hominids, their implanted fetus would be a different species from the pregnant hominid. Their fetus would have to hide from the pregnant hominid’s immune system so as to not be rejected from the body. To do so it would have had to deploy a protein in order to hide itself, as similarly seen by modern human’s placentas. Interbreeding between an alien species and early hominids to create the hybrid species that is humans may explain the seemingly strange evolution of human pregnancy and childbirth, and the overtly parasitic nature of human fetuses.  

Some references/links: 

Parasitic Pregnancy

https://www.reading.ac.uk/news-archive/press-releases/pr9938.html

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rmb2.12447 

Strange Evolution of Human Pregnancy & Prenatal Process 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200421112542.htm 

Strange Evolution of Human Childbirth - Skulls and Hips

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/why-have-humans-not-evolved-away-from-dangerous-childbirth/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstetrical_dilemma

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Aliens, The Moon, and Evolution: Part 2

Scientific Research and Contact with Aliens: 

Humans are the Aliens to Earth  ~ Theory ~

Humans are likely genetically descended from aliens. Humans are so much more advanced than any other species on Earth. 

Any time we imagine what our contact with an alien species might be, we come up with ideas like

1- we’d be eaten, enslaved, our planet would be destroyed, and our natural resources would be taken

2- we would be scientifically studied and experimented on

3- it may be peaceful

Given these predictions, you could make an argument that humans are the aliens to Earth.

1- We eat the animals of Earth. We enslave the animals of Earth, making them produce milk, herd sheep, help in hunts, work in the military and police force, carry us long distances, work on our farms, and make them entertain us. We keep them in cages and strap them to leashes and whip them and do with them as we please. We take all the natural resources on this planet that we want without any regard to the species that live within those resources. We destroy our own planet for our own gain.

2- We study the animals and environments of Earth. We film and observe animals in the wild, and we even capture, study, and release animals, once we have gained enough knowledge about them. We even keep colonies of lab animals to experiment on and use them to learn whatever information we chose to. 

3- We keep animals as companions. They are our friends and we care about them. They care about us back. It is friendly, peaceful and diplomatic. We even have animal rights organizations and we are trying to do better to have peaceful relationships with the other species on Earth.

Human interactions with the other species on Earth does seem quite similar to the way we imagine our interactions with aliens would be, if you really think about it. 

[concubuck]

((So this section from Alastor's obstetrician appointment:

It’s commonly believed that sinners are completely infertile—and with each other and most demons, they are—but succubi are the exception. Succubi are designed to pop out fresh demons to bolster Hell’s population, and to corrupt humanity, and to breed with the dead—whether that meant sucking the sperm out of a corpse or riding the damned.

What is true is that sinners can’t start families—which most of them interpret to mean they can’t reproduce at all. The truth is much more literal. Sinners can screw with succubi, and their coupling can create a child—a cambion—but that child isn’t part of the sinner’s family. A cambion might be the offspring of a demon and a human, but it’s not a half-human half-demon hybrid. There’s no such thing. A creature can’t have half a human soul: it either has a soul, or it doesn’t. A cambion doesn’t. It’s like mistletoe, a parasite growing on its human parent’s family tree.

Since the start of the blog, when I as yet had no plans in place for any pregnancy, I've been using this to justify how a succubus & sinner could hypothetically have a kid... while still remaining technically canon compatible with the show's established "sinners can't have kids" info. Just say that, based on a very strict definition, it's not THEIR kids. (I thrive on being technically canon compatible while blatantly flaunting the spirit of the lore.)

And I've been using ~actual historical demonology~ to justify this headcanon—specifically, the idea that incubi/succubi can breed using the seed of dead humans. One of the most prominent sources, from Demonologie by King James I (spelling/grammar/phrasing updated to make it easier to read):

The Devil goes only as a spirit, and stealing out the sperm of a dead body, abuses people that way, they not seeing any shape or feeling any thing, but that which he so conveys in that part: As we read of a Monastery of Nuns which were burnt for their being that way abused. The other mean is when he borrows a dead body and so visibly—and, as it seems unto them, naturally—as a man converses with them. [...]

So I've been using that as my support for reproducing with sinners. If lust demons can reproduce with dead humans (aka a corpse's sperm), then I'm gonna say they can reproduced with dead humans (aka a damned sinner). Would medieval philosophers have objected to this because of the way it applies a flesh body's capabilities to a soul. Yes. Am i going to do it anyway because I want to and because it conforms with later centuries' folklore about human/demon reproduction? Also yes.

Wikipedia states that cambion lore says they can be created by "corrupting" the seed of humans in order to make the resultant baby a demon instead—and i swear at some point i knew where to find an exact historical quote to back up that claim; like, some of the second paragraph I wrote above is a paraphrase of something I remember reading. But that was several months ago and I've been searching off and on for an hour and can't find it now, so I'm just gonna have to say "trust me on this" and try to dig it up later.

anyway tl;dr i didn't make this concept up all on my lonesome. I made this concept up with historical help.))