#peristalsis

[shibara]

A couple of months ago I read Peristalsis by Quakergoth and it absolutely blew my mind, so I had to make some art for it because good god, what a story, 10/10, very fucked up, will reread for ages~ <3

This image is a crop! The full piece, which is explicit and contains non-con and gore, can be seen over here at my pillowfort: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/4746364

[eowynstwin]

Selkie Soap who keeps hiding his pelt in your house and saying he can’t leave until you find it (he keeps moving it around every time you get close)

[pinkbeeps]

Call me peristalsis the way I'm going down your man's esophagus

[bpod-bpod]

Tough to Swallow

Sip a refreshing drink, or take a bite of yummy food and, for most of us, no thought is given to what happens next. Swallowing, like blinking and breathing, is automatic. But what if it isn’t, and one of life’s pleasures becomes uncomfortable and a serious choking risk? Swallowing disorders have a variety of causes that often include a neurological problem such as nerve damage from a degenerative disease, stroke or neurotoxic medication. Recently, researchers have identified in mice the particular oesophagus-targeting neurons (pictured) that sense the presence of food or liquid in the throat and relay signals to the brain to prompt peristalsis – the wave-like squeezing of oesophageal muscles that pushes food to the stomach. The hope is that knowledge of how these cells work and how they might be stimulated could ultimately lead to interventions for people where the simple act of swallowing has become difficult and dangerous.

Written by Ruth Williams

Image from work by Elijah D. Lowenstein and colleagues

Developmental Biology/Signal Transduction, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Image copyright held by the original authors

Research published in Neuron, May 2023

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[candont]

The movement of dead things through the living body

[lokilysolbitch]

i will always be surprised by how if i push on a my stomach or intestines a few times when it feels like it's not moving, it actually starts moving. manual peristalsis

[ceeberoni]

no you cant have the ultimate weapon and heres why. well the reason is ive decided to shloink him silly style

[nshtn]

oughhhh tummy ache oughhh h my intestines are crawling with pain every 5 minutes

i can barely feel my legs :') they're shaking and i'm sweating profusely even when it stops for a little

the pain is so sharp, i hate how nerve pain feels and feeds itself to get worse

[novustrad]

I'd be surprised if a lot of the terminology in these books so far hasn't inspired a few future doctors

[itshomobirb]

cannot sing enough praises about tummy massages. constipated? tummy massage. bloated? tummy massage. sluggish digestion? tummy massage.

[the-stray-storyteller]

So I was writing....and I started describing this heartbeat thing for an alien race

Then I remembered that this fucking alien race doesn't have a fucking literal biological heart and now I don't know how to describe this feeling.

[eowynstwin]

Proof of life for selkie soap

[wolfeyedwitch]

This just in:

I have been officially diagnosed.

As being Full Of Shit.

[marieisnothere12]

Im not a system but like I mentally spilt myself into multiple parts like I name them but its not like hosts or headmates its like inside out like 5 different entities miserably failing st being a human theyre not a single emotions but like a smoothie maybe my depersonalization lets me objectively view my emotions ans thoughts i kinda want to organize them so who wants usless yapping

[candont]

Neither the show nor the show within the show has a name. There are no credits, no title sequences, pure binge TV in its perfected manifestation, content that never ends, interrupted only and frequently by ad breaks, enforced absences in the flow of our consciousness, like a sleep full of symbols and portents. We reorganize the onstreaming into television in our hearts; we declare borders, we define episodes and seasons. We catalogue, document, and discourse, because we like it like that

https://thedeadlands.com/issue-01/peristalsis/

[dracula-enthusiast]

got 97% and 95% on my two finals today 💪💪