#they will NEVER be tastes like prion disease...

[loveletterworm]

i know its already been said but that post going "haha i bet mcdonalds is really scared about the meme where people drink the purple milkshake from mcdonalds and then die" is so silly like Omg do you think mcdonalds may think that people buying a menu item from them en masse and then using that item in a meme format doing essentially free promotion and encouraging others to buy that item so they can get in on the meme is a BAD thing for them? Do you think maybe they might think that? Do you think

[froody]

Hello random person I follow, I just wanted to share in the squirrel meat trauma. I am from rural PA so it’s northern Appalachia. 1. One time my cousin ate raw squirrel meat as a kid and it was so nasty and she threw up so much she’s been a vegetarian ever since. She was five. Now she’s 34. 2. Cooked squirrel is…not great. I know you know this. I know this too. Intimately. 3. One time in high school a boy that sat by me in homeroom brought me a squirrel pelt for my birthday. He shot it that morning and just brought it to me in a big ziplock bag of salt to get the skin to dry out. He was a pretty normal guy. He’s an even more normal guy now. Sells insurance. Upper middle class. Bland as shit. What kind of hillbilly nonsense was that. 4. Now I live in a big city and am still the kind of nuts food hoarder that has a chest freezer in my apartment so I can have a shit ton of like, venison cabbage rolls and venison pierogi and frozen fresh corn and berries for pies and shit on hand because my hillbilly ass grandmothers drilled into me that you had to stock up for winter or your family might go hungry. I live alone. I’m never going hungry.

Omg. I think my grandpa made my cousin eat a squirrel heart once in line with tradition (or threatened to) but consuming raw mammal meat fills me with dread. High school home room boy was obviously trying to bring you dead animal parts to win your affection like a cat. We were a canning family, meat went in the freezer and fruit and veg got canned. And jerky. SOOO much venison jerky. I miss having a freezer full of venison but my grandpa has dementia and my uncle is in poor health so all of the hunters in my family no longer hunt. Also I’m terrified of chronic wasting disease, I know they say it isn’t transferable to humans but jfc prion diseases scare me.

People on that post are asking what squirrel tastes like and I’m like. The taste is not the major problem, the texture is. It tastes gamey and it’s stringy and dry. I’m sure it’s better in things like gumbos and other assorted stews but my grandmother only prepared it pan fried with white gravy and mash potatoes because my grandpa is a picky eater, and it was NASTYYYYYY. Walking in to find my grandma making biscuits and sausage gravy was like hitting the lottery, waking in to find my grandma making venison and gravy was okay, squirrel and gravy day was a travesty.

[thekavseklabs]

Are there aspects of eating Kei that are considered taboo? (Ie: Preparing them in a boring way, treating them too much like other food, using a fork, etc.) Or is it pretty laid back in that regard?

In terms of taboo, there's only a few things you're not meant to do.

1: Do not insult the meat. If it tastes bad, even insulting the cook is risky business because you may inadvertently still be insulting the person whom you're eating. It's considered tacky and cruel. Cooking it poorly, because of that, is also considered tacky and cruel- you may be mostly immune to people directly coming up and telling you it sucks, but you also might never receive another customer if it's too horrible. In addition, while they're not allowed to insult the meat, they might come up and tell you far more personal insults instead. You don't want to cook something so poorly that someone comes up to you and says you're just straight up a bad or disrespectful person.

If you eat some kei and you don't like it, but you can tell that the problem is in the cooking and it's not horrible enough that you want to go the insult route, you can approach the cook and tell them what you'd like them to do different in the future. When doing this you have to be polite and careful to ensure that you only state potential actions, and never directly insult the food that was already made. For instance, if the food is a little too crispy on the outside, undercooked on the inside, and the flavor is flat: "You may wish to cook your next lower and longer, with more seasoning. It would have a richer and fuller flavor." If you're worried, then you are allowed to lie and tack on: "This one was lovely, but there is always more that can be done."

To ensure that they don't do any souls any disrespect, cooks will often practice for a long time with other animals that have similar meat (though all meat is subject to these points to varying degrees and deserving of some respect) until they are willing to try some 'low stakes' kei such as executed criminals, unidentified bodies, and bodies that have been specifically donated for this purpose (typically the person being donated had been a cook in life, or cared significantly about the art). As you suggested, it's not exactly popular to serve them in a boring way, and instead preferred to find a way to make every single part 'pop' in its own way.

2: Do not throw anything away. Whether you are cooking or eating, no matter how inedible, do not throw it away. You must find a use for it. Give it to someone else, feed it to an animal, compost it, all of that is fine, but if it ends up in the garbage and isn't going to be composted, you have basically insulted nature itself. Even animals are treated to this respect, but kei even moreso. Every bone, every little piece of gristle and gut must find a purpose, and it must be treated with respect rather than common garbage, although Kei don't tend to see anything as true garbage in the way we do anyhow. Everything has a point, use, and value.

Notably, bones will often not be composted, at least not permanently, as they will not break down. They should instead be cleaned of any meat (if that means composting it and then digging it out, that's okay), and then carved or otherwise used whether in tools, jewelry, art, even crushing it up and using it as a temper in pottery or concrete. That said, allowing the bone to simply rest in the earth is not considered as cruel as throwing things away, as long as it is done so with intention and respect—it's just not preferred.

3: This part isn't taboo out of beliefs but rather a very real danger: do not eat the brain. Do not eat anything unsafe. This body did not die for you to poison yourself. Clean everything properly. Dispose of anything dangerous in the proper ways. Do not eat the brain. Kuru is a very real and very dangerous disease- I'm not making this up. Now that kei are aware of the disease, they know the shape of the prion, and thus there are ways to detect it available only to the rich, making uninfected brains an available delicacy. That said, many will still not touch them, fearful of the disease even when it is not present.

Description of the stages and history of the disease under the cut—it's disturbing, scary, and sad. Tread carefully. In case you don't see the read more cut (as some have the thing that shortens posts and clicking to see the whole post will count as clicking the readmore, and following the link to a post may do the same):

THE CUT IS HERE. Warning for terminal disease in women and children, unsettling symptoms, death, and fear of the unknown regarding this disease.

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To those unfamiliar with it: kuru, also called the laughing death, is an incurable, fatal neurodegenerative prion disease, often compared to mad cow disease as they have the same cause. It's rare, as it can only happen to you if you eat a human brain contaminated with a certain infectious prion—the person who had said prion in their brain would have been completely normal and unaffected in life, the prion only brought to harm you when you eat it. It took kei a very long time to learn of it, and some more isolated villages are still unaware and will eat brains, though said isolated villages are sometimes safe as they also have not been exposed to the mutation that first caused it. The incubation period for kuru is on average ten to thirteen years, but there have been records of it incubating for up to fifty. Unknown. No one would think to connect their slow and painful death to something they would eat ten or thirty or fifty years ago.

Once active, kuru kills in roughly a year. It was first discovered in the Fore linguistic group of native people in New Guinea, possibly having started in the Uwami village and travelling. The Fore people would eat the deceased to honor them and bring their essence with them, much as Kei do, and while bodies were being prepared by the women, the brain would often be... Effectively snacked on by said women, or even shared with the children.

Early signs in those women and children when they finally developed would include a limb pain, followed by a feeling of being about to cough, but the cough never coming. Then came a tremor, then swaying in place, supposedly reminding those witnessing the disease take place of the swaying fronds of a specific tree, leading to those people making medicine from the bark of said tree in hopes of curing it. Of course, it did nothing. Kuru was also for a time referred to as 'negi nagi', a Fore term for a foolish or silly person, because the disease would cause the afflicted to laugh often, freely, and for no reason.

In the early days, the Fore simply thought that these people were just a little silly, a little crazy, and that it would pass. They would joke with them and treat them as they would any other mentally ill person. In late stages, there would be weakness, dementia, strange, uncontrolled movements, and difficulty swallowing, eventually leading to starvation. It was only when it became apparent that the people were dying from this that they began to fear it. There are still translated records of the testimonies of those who were alive when the disease first began and the chaos and fear that came with it. White men studying the disease thought it was acute female hysteria. The Fore people believed it was sorcery, a jealous person taking something from the victim and burying it, the rot of that taken item causing the rot of the victim's mind and body.

Once kuru became known and its signs predictable to the Fore, the afflicted were treated with kindness, even when they were terminal, immobile, unspeaking, and smelling foul from incontinence and sores, their family would cuddle with them and talk to them, and the afflicted would often try to smile back despite being unable to even open their mouths.

All this to say, kuru is horrible. Kei had similar stages of understanding of the disease to the Fore people, but eventually discovered it themselves—rather than in real life, where outsiders looking in put it together, kei had no 'control group' to show that those who did not eat people did not get the disease. Because of this, it took them a long time, and the news is still spreading, but the disease is mostly conquered.

[jotadoul]

🥰 anka and i are sharing a prion disease right now so we're rewatching the JJBA OVA. and okay. maybe it was the weed but i think it might be... i think it's my favourite thing ever made. that's ever existed. for all time. it's my favourite thing that exists. my favourite thing that Is. it really does makes me feel exactly like the ending of HEAT... LOL and i'm serious about this. it's like a stun gun or like being sandblasted where i'm shot outside of my body helpless to what's happening. horrible feeling and i love it very much.

and i feel soooooooo fucking VINDICATED because i dug deep into japanese forums + blogs and found people celebrating it ;__; there are discussions from this year (2024) even! people agree that it's gorgeous and that if you're going to watch (or even read) any version, it should be this one. that it rewards you on rewatches... which is true. every time i see it, i find something new, some extra bit of care that goes toward the structure of the mood. so many subtle movements in the acting, so much elegance to the balance of exposition in the dialogue. mainly in the japanese version, but it's not like it's lost in the english dub, just different. the voice actors did an amazing job with tone— notably there's this shaky tightness in Jotaro's voice during moments of fear/stress that enhances his expressions, actions.

i found people talking about the tension, acting, a wonderful review on the use of shifting, dynamic lighting throughout the OVA, the way the sound design— engineered by Skywalker Sound with score by a very young (~19) Marco D'Ambrosio— fills in SO MUCH for the animation with tasteful specificity in implying things like unique weight for footsteps, for Avdol's rings, or how the sound of Geb is like a strange layered scream. and fortunately found many people talking about being in awe of n'doul's humanity and how he has serious rizz lol and that he, in any version, is the only serious sobering moment of the glory gods... WAAAAH then i come on twitter or whatever and people are like "looks like shit, worst fight in the thing," and it's like jesus h. christ get a LIFE. i'm sorry you were tricked and lied to, but bad taste can be fixed if you just open your heart a little.

i do not feel moved whatsoever to watch the rest of the TV series (i made it up to the hunting episode of DIU.) something can be faithful and also a major downgrade, by intending to be as faithful as possible, misses the elements that make it what it is. besides, modern anime looks like real shit right now and i won't force myself through it solely because it exists. but i love this adaptation. i would rather see a beautiful interpretation that prioritises an effective, effecting mood, that tries to compromise with purpose and synthesise the source into what an animated version— the short film that this is— can do for it. what the form can heighten. there are little movements, upticks in speed or anxious stillness. the breathless timing and gravity of jotaro touching down and star platinum ripping right out of him like a major leaguer performing another major league hit. n'doul reacting to iggy, jumping slightly while kneeling. jotaro wiping off his fingers with a hanky and then rubbing them together. the entire scene with polnareff on the crates. oh GOD and the opening with the inverted sun... the cane... the cane scene cannot Not destroy you, be honest.

why did they include the red granite obelisk, notably from aswan, one of which was at one time commissioned by hadrian for his boyfriend antinous who drowned in the nile? that didn't have to be there, but isn't it beautiful? (and they put the eye hieroglyph right where we can see it... uuugh.) never mind the actual canonical content, with jotaro and n'doul mutually captivated, delighted, by each other's skill until the end. it's so painful knowing the inevitable outcome but it still somehow sneaks up on you with the way it's paced and i love to be rocked by it every time. the only guy ever to be spared on purpose— respecting him that much! and the respect is mutual! jesus, his monologue! he's the only one to be mourned. THE only one to be buried. by hand. alone. the fight begins under high noon sun and the burial completes at dusk. he's 17. fuck me.

i love when a story is never allowed to fully wrap up into the typical "and it was all worth it!" sort of vibe, which, in a way, is what happens, but it never rises to the point where... where that positivity matches the intensity of what was shown to you previously, or that those losses are meant to be forgotten in the wake of righteousness. and as far as i can recall, this is something araki has perfected over time. i'm thinking about the brutal bit in DIU with josuke carrying? dragging? okuyasu, and the particulars of kira's fate. but i'm REALLY thinking of VA, with giorno &co. in the office, and the epilogue. and then obviously SO. and then SBR. and JJL. this approach, the bittersweet heartache or outright mourning, has become a precise weapon and i can see the through-line from SDC. now that i've watched HEAT i can see why araki said that he cries every time he watches it. it's wrenching. and a big part of that is that you don't necessarily expect it because of genre or style flourishes, and that's really special. to be caught unawares, because you were already caught, you've been caught this whole time and now you have to take it.

i now know that yeah. yes. this is The definition of a special interest. because i have to, must, rotate this object in my head compulsively and purposefully so i can see every angle and crevice. i intuitively understand that i shouldn't be so bowled over and bitchy about it after so many years, sooo many years, but i can't help it! you like what you like and this is the benchmark. it pains me that it is so finite. that i've confusingly hung my heart on something that no one on earth could give one (1) solitary fuck about, and therefor there is an abrupt end to material. so i AM left rotating shapes in my head sussing out indentations in the form. kinda crazy. but fighting against it is maybe more punishing in a way.

this fight was chosen as the opening to the OVA because it's one where everyone is present. this fight was also going to be the entirety of the OVA, but araki liked it so much he requested more episodes 🥰💕

[rutilated-quarz]

The tumblr sexyman polls and mcytblr sexyman bracket were super fun, so I thought I'd run a small one with my own OCs ^_^ Links to the polls will be added as they go up!

Ennui vs Ruti

Flux vs TBN

Synchronicity vs Roulette

Lumin vs Electra the Moth

Warden vs The Alchemist

Null Pointer vs Callum

Ren vs Neo

Quarz vs NitroLock

More info about the characters can be found under the cut!

Ennui

[profile link here]

Originally a D&D-inspired OC, now just a general OC

Lich that was so so shit at magic when he was alive but now that he's dead he's actually sort of decent at it

Worldhopper - he travels between universes, using a jury-rigged super powerful explosion spell to catapult himself into a different universe by destroying the one he's currently in.

He only cares about one person, and that's his demonic boyfriend Alu. Anyone else can get fucked, as far as he's concerned.

Ruti

[profile link here]

Technically a general OC, but mostly used for minecraft.

he was born on a minecraft skygrid world all alone

Body is comprised almost entirely of solid magic. He can shapeshift, but only really uses that to change if he has legs or not.

Never got taught how to control his magic, so he has to use an enchanted mask to hold his power in - this has the side effect of compressing his magical body mass enough that he has to forgo the wings while it's on to avoid spreading himself too thin.

Can eat a lot of things normal people can't eat. Like diamonds. And swords.

Flux

[profile link here]

General OC in the same world as some of my and my friend's kinsonas

Her species infects the brain of other species, appearing as a sort of ghost or hallucination until they mature enough to become physical, bursting out of the host's body and killing them in the process. They usally give their host immense bloodlust and taste for raw meat. [mmm flux hungy feed her tasty prion diseases]

On that note, the most lame and cringefail of her entire species. She's supposed to get her host to kill and stuff like that, but she mostly just annoys and makes fun of him.

TBN

[profile link here]

General OC, worldhopper.

Shapeshifts whenever it goes into a new world to match the appearance of the creator-inserts or gods of that universe. [e.g. would look like the annoying dog in Undertale/Deltarune, would look similar to the Dev Gnomes in everhood, etc.]

It chooses a different name for itself in every universe it goes into. [It's called Showtime in my JJK AU that has it, and Usurper when I put it into a Digimon world, for example]

Any world it enters immediately splits off into a different timeline with its arrival, and that timeline dies/disappears as soon as it loses interest and leaves.

It's fiction-aware, and totally chill with that - mostly because, considering it's my sona and thus an extension of me, it's pretty much in control of the narrative. If it were to ever lose that control, it would likely become incredibly paranoid and anxious.

Synchronicity

[profile link here]

Minecraft OC

One of the fair folk, lives in the deep forest and would quite like not to be disturbed.

Finds great fun in tormenting whatever non-fae might cross their path

Thought NitroLock_ was fun to 'play with', so when they got his name, they kept him around to do some work for them.

Kind of sadistic, sometimes. Usually. Most of the time.

Has stolen peoples blood to use for sympathetic magic before

Roulette

[profile link here]

General OC

Demon, under the domain of luck and gambling.

Plays the part of a carefree hedonist, but almost always knows more than she lets on.

Knows how to use people to get what she wants, and has no issues doing it.

Lumin

[profile link here]

Originally designed as a general oc, but quickly adapted into a Cosmosdex (Tegyp) OC.

Almost never wears a shirt under his open suit jacket, unless he's pretty much forced to.

Kind of an alcoholic. Tries to pretend he's a fun partyboy, but he just gets all miserable.

Very into modifying robots. He claims he improves them, but he's fucked up a perfectly good Cupid unit is what he's done. Look at it, it's got anxiety.

Electra the Moth

[profile link here]

Sonic OC, builds and codes robots for a living.

She has built a robot that she considers her son, so she could technically be a MILF, if you're into that.

Mega autism and hyperfixated on engineering. Would love to infodump about whatever her current project may be, and gets super attached to everything she builds.

Warden

[profile link here]

General OC. He's the god of space-time and oversees a large collection of worlds and thus deals with worldhoppers semi frequently, despite not being one himself as he only really exists in the space between worlds.

Has gay thoughts re: one of his coworkers/fellow gods. But he'd never admit it

Kind of stuffy and stuck-up

Dear god, I forgot he was originally based on G-Man from Half Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware

The Alchemist

[profile link here]

Minecraft OC, an AU of Ruti.

Basically what would've happened if Ruti grew up with other magic users who could've taught him how to use his magic.

It speaks primarily Standard Galactic.

Never calls people by their names, instead using a title/other noun ["shopkeeper" or "friend" or "thief", etc.] because names have immense power in a language as soaked with magic as Standard Galactic is, and that habit carries over into other languages.

Makes potions. Definitely legally.

"ruti" "the cooler ruti"

Null Pointer

[profile link here]

BNHA/MHA OC, but liable to become a general OC any day now.

he/she girlboything

Has the ability to lag herself out of reality for a bit; from an outside perspective, this looks like freezing in place and loosing all collision before abruptly teleporting.

Also has the ability to hack any sufficiently complex technology, as long as line-of-sight is maintained.

His mascot [the little demon dude shown next to him] shows up on the screen of any technology he hacks. Just to be cocky about it.

Generally very cocky and aggressive while fighting/sparring, or just in general.

She has 97 mental illnesses and is banned from most public spaces

Callum

[profile link here]

Sonic OC, lusts after their AU's counterpart of Eggman

the gay gay homosexual gay

Sort of a bratty little twink

The type to pick fights and then be like "aah im just a little guy nooo im just a little guy and its also my birthday im a little birthday boy"

Has a cool copper [possibly radioactive] robot arm, but usually keeps it hidden

Ren

[profile link here]

OC for Monkey Wrench [by Zeurel on Youtube]

Big bear of a man [in the gay sense]

Mechanic/weaponsmith/arms dealer

Former mercenary. Would take out entire ship crews by sneaking on under the guise of a mechanic and "fixing" their ship [rigging it to blow as soon as he got to safety.]

Neo

[profile link here]

Minecraft OC, specifically for Empires SMP Season 2

Has ice magic powers, and lives in an Ice Spikes biome.

Its moral compass is a fucking roulette wheel

Tries to be nice, but has a very skewed idea of what "nice" and "good" is.

Would probably keep you as a pet if you asked

Quarz

[profile link here]

General OC

Shapeshifter, and he uses this power for evil. [Shapeshifts into whoever he's talking to in order to psych them out, though he claims it's to "level the playing field".]

Sort of a sardonic personality, often deriding others and putting himself above them. He does it to distract himself from feeling shitty about himself, but you could never get him to admit that.

Loves to inflict terrible events and circumstances on others [my ocs. or sometimes my blorbo du jour]. It is his favorite activity

Nitrolock_

[profile link here]

Minecraft OC

Dumb of Ass

Accidentally gave their name to a fae (Synchronicity, specifically) and signed a contract to get it back. Because of said contract, which they didn't fully read before signing, they now owe them a bunch of other stuff, too.

Being made to use customer service voice is the one thing that could truly break their spirit. I believe this wholeheartedly.\

so. so tired. emotionally physically mentally the whole thing.

Used to be part of a formidable PVP duo with their sibling Necrolock_, but the two of them have kind of drifted apart.

[loudblonde]

"Dear Diary!"

Warnings: Child death, zombies, canibalism, child POV, study of the human body, fear. Prion disease.

AN: I wrote this instead of studying for my exam. Also Original work but if this has been written before, similarly, then I can only say we all have good taste in horror.

Summery: A young girls diary as she experience the earlly stages of the zombie apocalypse

Genre: Horror, Terror, Episolary fiction

Word Count: 954

Dear diary,

School today sucked! Miss Veridian said that since many families are sick, we are moving to be online again! I hated that! I didn’t see Maya today, which was weird. When I told Miss Veridian she looked sad and said Maya is upstate with all the other sick kids. I don’t know what that means. Is it a farm stay over? We had that once. I thought I was going to see Max up there, since Daddy said he would be up state on a farm. But he wasn’t. I still miss Max, even with buddy here now.

Our neighbour, Misses Smith, has been acting very weird lately, she has been getting stronger then every before. Just like her husband before the scary men in green came and took him. Daddy said not to worry and that someone would be there for her soon, I don’t think she is okay, I will sneak over there tomorrow and give her some cookies while mum and dad aren’t home. I don’t want the scary men in green to take her too.

Tomorrow mom and I are going out to pick up my birthday present for my birthday in 4 days! She says I can pick the puppy I want myself after she is done with work! I am so exci Happy that we get to pick up a puppy!

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Dear Diary

I went to see my neighbour Misses Smith, she said she had never felt better but she was very hungry and she thanked me for the cookies, she was very very sweet. I hope she feels better soon.

Mummy and I picked up the sweetest labrador puppy! She is very very sweet and kinda dumb but  I loooooooove her so much and I will help train her! She is my responsibility!

The green men came when me and mummy was gone, I saw them drive away, Misses Smith’s house has been closed and there is yellow tape all over her door. Daddy said not to go in there because the air was toxic, I just hope he doesn’t find out I was in there earlier.

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Dear Diary

Hiiiiiiii, sooooo, yesterday I went to see misses smith but I feel soooo much better today, I felt a little sick this morning but I feel fine now, better then fine actually! Must be the new puppy. I played catch with her and threw the ball so hard it broke through the fence, daddy and mommy hasn’t seen yet, I don’t want them to see. I overheard them listening to the president on the tv, I didn’t understand much of what he said, but he said something about there being too many sick people but also having hope, whatever it meant had mommy crying. I don’t know why she was crying.

I saw more of the green men walking around outside, there were many families there were sick and had to be removed, mommy said it was a good thing and that we had to wait to be evacuated, that we would be safe, but she cried while it happened so I don’t think she is happy to leave. Maybe she will miss her bed, I know I would miss my bed if we had to evacuate.

But I am happy! And I keep playing with my puppy! I named her Angelica because she is an angel! Daddy said she was more like a demon but I just think that’s because he has to clean up her pee and pop.

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Dear diary!

Guess what! I have been able to taste so much more today and smell it too! There aren’t many of the neighbours left anymore, I miss them and their smell, it lingers in the air, it’s rich and irony, I don’t know why but it is making me very hungry,

I ate a whole bag of bread with peanut butter earlier today, mommy cried when she saw it, I don’t know why but she went to daddy who just held me close and whispered it was going to be okay that I wasn’t going to be scared.

I am fine! I don’t know why they kept saying that. Apparently Miss Viridian has been sick now, so she isn’t teaching us school anymore. That is sad. But I am just happy to have time to play.

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Dear….

When I woke up mommy and daddy were

still asleep in their bed, they smelled very

good and I was very hungry so I had a bite of them. The green men came visiting today but I pretended

 no to be home, they didn’t try

and find us inside, but they did think we were homeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Green men scaring me

                      Hunting me

                      So sad

hungry

Sleep sleep

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The doctor looked at the last two blood covered pages of the young girl’s journal. She had been just another victim of the zombie virus as the prion disease had been dubbed, he had no doubts about the sicks ability to remember things but for such a small body to remain this active since infection…. It spoke to just how much they didn’t know. He looked over at the body laying on the cold metal table, its organs removed and placed in separate jars and despite all over this, the muscles still occasionally spasmed long since rigor mortis was supposed to have set in. Highly interesting.

“Bring in the next body.” He said through the microphone before stood up. He grabbed the child’s arm to begin moving her to the stretcher so they could burn her when instead the bone snapped in two. He looked down at his hand and hummed. “Ah, right, I forgot.”

[captain-kraken]

Happy STS!! 🖤💜

i. love. researching. maybe a bit too much, since sometimes i end up researching instead of writing BUT that’s not why we’re here. what’s the most off the wall or definitely-feels-illegal thing you’ve ever had to research? no judgment here, i literally had to research prion diseases and cannibalism for the arsonist chronicles lmao

— @outpost51

Happy STS! Thanks for the ask!

I ALSO love researching things, especially when you end up going down the rabbitholes and finding stuff you never even thought about before.

For Blue Blood, I've had to research a LOT of stuff that does not look good in my history XD including:

types of poison & which is best to kill someone

how much fall damage a human can take

how to remove someone's eyes

what happens when you stab someone in different places of the body

how long for a human body to decompose in various situations

how cattle branding works

what humans taste like

honestly, a lot of murder stuff lol

BUT the thing that eeked me out the most personally was when I was researching snake venom. That was AWFUL and honestly made me a little afraid of snakes lol

[foone]

No, it's not. Someone is just misunderstanding a joke (which they admit in the replies) . The original forum it was posted on uses "eternal September" dating: basically, it's the idea that September of 1993 never ended. (why? Legacy internet reasons).

I can't find a screenshot that shows that timestamp, but you can see the same thing happening in the similar "this tastes like prion disease" post:

You see the dates? If you read the whole date, it's September, 1993, the... 7202nd day?

See? Eternal September. Today is the 11,278th day of September, 1993.

This image was mislabeled by someone who saw the original screenshot, didn't understand the date, and cropped it to hide that fact (intentionally or otherwise)

Rool

[articskele]

OK SO BASICALLY there's a big emphasis on rivals and rivalries among the high society of the Butcher AU. It's tradition for rivals to settle their scores by dueling it out cowboy style, where the winner gets to eat the flesh of the loser.

The idea being that consumption is ascension. You've had a fair fight, and now you lend your life to help your equal climb the ladder to divinity.

Now for common folk, their meat is always cooked. Stuff like prion disease doesn't exist in this universe, but there's the idea that commoner meat is inherently dirty and thus needs extra preparation.

Little more than a lamb to the slaughter, a sacrifice for the so-called greater good.

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The meat of a rival, however, can be eaten raw since it's seen as more pure. Steak tartare and sashimi come to mind!

And it's always prepared as this big fancy dinner as a way of honoring them and the time you've spent together. Cutting corners on a rival meal is a HUGE faux pas

If you just up and murdered someone and fried em up like fish and chips, that's basically fair game. A shame, but nothing anyone would make a huge fuss about.

But if you were in a committed rivalry with them? If that was your adversary, your equal? You're spitting in the face of the dead, acting as if all that effort meant nothing to you.

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Though some or all of the meat can be cooked without getting you in hot water (pun intended hehe), such as outside factors making it unsafe to eat raw, personal preference, what kind of dishes you're making, etc.

Though the particularly spiteful have cooked it as a way of likening their rival to a commoner, then trying to cover up the reason for something else- Playing dirty til the very end.

I imagine if Cedric and Maverick had a proper duel, and Mav won, he would've done just that lmao

And honestly? People would've let it happen, what with everyone seeing Cedric as lesser for not being old money.

Actually come to think of it, Maverick dying via his brain turning into soup would be seen as a tragedy since both he and Cedric never got closure.

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But there's another, hypothetical tier in this hierarchy of purity.

If someone were to get their hands on the divine, go for the throat and devour them alive. Do not let them escape. They say nothing compares to the taste of fresh angel blood.

Revel in the way your hands shake as you hold a burst of light, a star, a heart still beating. Ambrosia dripping from your lips. You are alive. You're more than alive. The zenith of your existence is now.

To consume is to ascend.

[underthehedge]

I have never had oxtail soup but does the recipe call for brains? I've been down an internet rabbit hole because I've always meant to try oxtail but never heard about what else it's served with

Oh right, so no it doesn't contain brains but it's made from the bones of the tail, so it contains spinal cord, which from the perspective of prion diseases, same diff: it's one big ol connected tube.

I've never eaten it myself, I just know that 1: it's apparently fucking delicious and 2: I was six yeas old when the first person died of vCJD in the UK, contacted from tainted beef. So like, the images on the news of cows and then people dying from it are kinda indelibly marked upon me.

Sorry I don't have any recipes handy, tbh there's nothing wrong with eating it. Hell it's quite possible most people could scarf down an entire BSE tainted cow brain without issue...but I can't, some of my earliest memories are of cows being culled and burnt in great pits. And then of hearing that some people were developing similar symptoms to the cows. Of finding out that, yes, this was being transmitted via tainted beef, that many more people might already be infected. So, y'know, that wasn't at all concerning to a child already weirdly aware of his own mortality.

While I'm never going to eat it I think, I might see if my mum has an old recipe though, like I said they used to love oxtail soup, but they've not eaten it in nearly thirty years. You can buy it in cans in the supermarkets here but on a very visceral level I'd rather gnaw my own arms off than taste it I think.

[strangestcase]

What is your take on herbert west? 👁️👁️

So,...

CW: violence, gore, cannibalism, body horror.

(spoilers for the original six-parter by Lovecraft but Herbert West dies, torn apart by his most notorious experiments, his ripped up body carried away.)

In my shared literature universe -Candyverse-, his experiments take their revenge further, piecing him together but deliberately wrongly so, crude stitching covered in regenerative tissue, his battered patchwork corpse pumped full of reagent. He would live again- forever deformed, forever in pain. Thing is, they didn't take into account that, while West's reagent works best when the brain is fresh and not much intelectual capability has been lost to rot, it has... interesting effects on the physique and psyche of the animated body. Herbert suddenly awakens, the pain, horror, and morbid curiosity he felt in his last seconds the only thing in his mind, and the reagent overdose does the rest.

Not much is known of what happened afterwards, but weeks later the unnamed narrator (here named Dan Cain, like his movie counterpart) opens his front door to a man he believed dead and everyone else disappeared. West is paler than usual, his blond hair a mess, his clothes torn, and his body is a mess of stitching. But he's the same old Herbert West, as sadistic and calculating as he ever was. Only thing is, you don't want to prod at him. Dr. Cain is still to discover the cause of this phenomenon, but occasionally, West's nervous system seems to be taken hostage by the reagent itself. Entering a state similar to his first feral creations, West has to be restrained time and time again lest he goes on a cannibalistic rampage; it doesn't help that we're talking about a ten foot tall zombie here.

The few times this warped West has escaped, Cain has had to dealt not only with it wantonly and effortlessly ripping people apart like paper dolls, but with the resulting zombies, as West's monster form exudes reagent. He can kill his victims more than once. Cain has seen them eat each other before being eaten, in turn, by a monstrous Herbert West, which has made him into a living prion disease bank. Upon returning to his regular human form, West never expresses regret over these actions, albeit he does find them "too crude for his tastes". Why eat fellow men alive when you can stitch their dead bodies together in your dingy basement laboratory?

[catfishofoldin99colours]

(Off anon now, no longer shy) I enjoyed the rant!! Very informative... ive always wondered what kind of "toxins" those diet people were talking about because they never ever clarify, makes sense its mostly fearmongering or equating us to herbivores again.. and another topic you brought up, ive heard before that herbivores meat tastes better than omni/carnivores and im really interested why... (I've heard humans taste similar to pork! makes sense considering... both omnivores)

waheyyy im glad my rambling has made you less shy!!

and YEEE i love yelling about niche shit like this, I was allowed to pursue a biology degree and I'm gonna make it everyone else's problem >:)

yeeeee exactly, charcoal diets are;'t actually gonna 'clean' you of 'impurities', that's what your liver and kidneys are for lol, and also eating meat isn't bad because humans evolved to eat it hgfjkdls;a its one of our primary sources of nutrition

OH YES THAT ok hold tight

herbivore meat supposedly tastes better than carnivore meat, maybe, ive never actually eaten a carnivore before so I can't speak on that

BUT

if you are an animal that eats meat you should ideally be eating herbivores and not omnivores or carnivores. there are exceptions to this, like sharks, but generally most terrestrial predators eat herbivores.

the reason for this is that because our diets are different, herbivores, carnivores and omnivores have less chance of ingesting harmful pathogens by eating each other - one of these is Prion disease. prions are proteins that can't be cooked out and make your brain proteins fold abnormally and uh severely fuck you up. they can occur in all animals (like mad cow disease), but you're much less likely to get them in herbivore flesh than omnivore or carnivore flesh, so its safer to eat that than anything else.

this is why white meat, so pork, chicken and fish (fish is a meat I'm not having this debate) is so important to cook right, because all of those animals are omnivores or carnivores and you can't always account for what they have and haven't eaten. fish especially, you never know what the fish you're eating has eaten, such as fish, so there could be weird pathogens in it that won't live unless you cook them out. if you eat it raw, you run the risk of getting poisoned by horrible pathogens.

chickens and pigs as well are omnivores - if you give them meat they will eat it, and pigs especially will sometimes eat humans if given the chance (the reason everyone freaks out about dorothy falling in the pigpen in the wizard of oz is because there was a very real chance the pig would have eaten her). this is why if you have commercial pigs or chickens that you intend to eat, you should keep them on a strictly vegetarian diet so that they have less chance of hurting you when you eat them.

this isn't a hard and fast rule with every animal, and there are plenty of animals that can stomach eating omnivores or carnivores - sharks eat seals that eat fish, bears eat humans and also fish, many birds of prey each other predatory animals like foxes and fish, etc. its just mostly for humans, you should really be careful with white meat and COOK IT THOROUGHLY and don't eat anything that is carnivorous cos prion disease is a real nightmare and will fuck you up.

also yeah pigs have a very similar diet to humans so if you ate human, it would taste like pork :) fun fact!

[neirawrites]

Vibing writeblr ask: pineapple and cuffed jeans please!

Pineapple: What are a few foods that appear in your project?

Jordish food is very diverse and it really varies from svaidi to svaidi, but there are some common features. 

After the spread of prion diseases, beef is all but non existent. So is cow dairy. It really messed with what and how they eat. Many traditional recipes are now gone. You can find beef in some parts of the planet, but it’s a rare delicacy. 

Artificial dairy: Shigeo Didacto, the same person who made artificial blood, also made “Didacto’s not milk extravaganza” which tastes almost like the real deal. Fun fact: they also had an underground punk band when they were younger. 

Insects. Loads of insects. Nova really liked the deep friend locust with cinnamon. Also popcorn ants. Insects are a very important source of protein and you can find them almost everything.

Artificial meat: On Jord, you can find ground “beef”, but the scientists in the CENTRE back on Earth have made stakes too, but people on Jord are still too skeptical to really give them a try. 

Best svaidi to eat in: Nazca for everything (north of South America), Moanaiwa for pretty, light food(Pacific ocean), Hookoham for comfort food (central part of North America) and Nok for the deserts (Central west coast of Africa). 

On Elasi front: Burgers, spaghetti bolognese and jollof rice. 

Jordish word of the day: Khana-food. 

Cuffed jeans: What is the clothing style of your main character?

Nova: Princess in the streets, goblin in the sheets.  She can do the winged eyeliner, but she would rather play Yaloon: Rebuilds. 

Onisha: she is from Elas, but she dresses like she’s from Jord. Don’t ask her to color code. Comfort over everything, but Steve and her mom did teach her some basics. 

Etah: the only person on Jord who wears monochromatic clothes. Booooring.

Martina: her dresses and her sweatpants cost the same: your monthly rent. 

Steve and Mila both dress like they raided the closet of a nearby bearded hipster, but it looks better on her. Also, given Mila is from Jord, she is basically always cosplaying as an Earthling. 

Dafne is described wearing shorts with little frogs on them in public on a covert mission, so you can extrapolate from that (she also really likes flower patterns and headscarves)

Sasha: all of her living costs are covered, so she spends her paycheck on Louboutin shoes. 

Elazar has never left the house without being a 10. He designed the space suits Jords wore to meet Earthlings. Very conscious of his image. 

Thank you for the ask and sorry for rambling. 

[rutilated-quarz]

Round 2 of my OC sexyman poll! There were a couple of 50/50s in the first round, so the next round of those will be 1v1v1s. Links to the rounds will be added as they go up!

Ennui vs Flux

Synchronicity vs Lumin vs Electra

The Alchemist vs Null Pointer

Neo vs Ren vs Quarz

More info about the characters under the cut.

Ennui

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Originally a D&D-inspired OC, now just a general OC

Lich that was so so shit at magic when he was alive but now that he's dead he's actually sort of decent at it

Worldhopper - he travels between universes, using a jury-rigged super powerful explosion spell to catapult himself into a different universe by destroying the one he's currently in.

He only cares about one person, and that's his demonic boyfriend Alu. Anyone else can get fucked, as far as he's concerned.

Flux

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General OC in the same world as some of my and my friend's kinsonas

Her species infects the brain of other species, appearing as a sort of ghost or hallucination until they mature enough to become physical, bursting out of the host's body and killing them in the process. They usally give their host immense bloodlust and taste for raw meat. [mmm flux hungy feed her tasty prion diseases]

On that note, the most lame and cringefail of her entire species. She's supposed to get her host to kill and stuff like that, but she mostly just annoys and makes fun of him.

Synchronicity

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Minecraft OC

One of the fair folk, lives in the deep forest and would quite like not to be disturbed.

Finds great fun in tormenting whatever non-fae might cross their path

Thought NitroLock_ was fun to 'play with', so when they got his name, they kept him around to do some work for them.

Kind of sadistic, sometimes. Usually. Most of the time.

Has stolen peoples blood to use for sympathetic magic before

Lumin

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Originally designed as a general oc, but quickly adapted into a Cosmosdex (Tegyp) OC.

Almost never wears a shirt under his open suit jacket, unless he's pretty much forced to.

Kind of an alcoholic. Tries to pretend he's a fun partyboy, but he just gets all miserable.

Very into modifying robots. He claims he improves them, but he's fucked up a perfectly good Cupid unit is what he's done. Look at it, it's got anxiety.

Electra

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Sonic OC, builds and codes robots for a living.

She has built a robot that she considers her son, so she could technically be a MILF, if you're into that.

Mega autism and hyperfixated on engineering. Would love to infodump about whatever her current project may be, and gets super attached to everything she builds.

The Alchemist

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Minecraft OC, an AU of Ruti.

Basically what would've happened if Ruti grew up with other magic users who could've taught him how to use his magic.

It speaks primarily Standard Galactic.

Never calls people by their names, instead using a title/other noun ["shopkeeper" or "friend" or "thief", etc.] because names have immense power in a language as soaked with magic as Standard Galactic is, and that habit carries over into other languages.

Makes potions. Definitely legally.

"ruti" "the cooler ruti"

Null Pointer

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BNHA/MHA OC, but liable to become a general OC any day now.

he/she girlboything

Has the ability to lag herself out of reality for a bit; from an outside perspective, this looks like freezing in place and loosing all collision before abruptly teleporting.

Also has the ability to hack any sufficiently complex technology, as long as line-of-sight is maintained.

His mascot [the little demon dude shown next to him] shows up on the screen of any technology he hacks. Just to be cocky about it.

Generally very cocky and aggressive while fighting/sparring, or just in general.

She has 97 mental illnesses and is banned from most public spaces

Ren

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OC for Monkey Wrench [by Zeurel on Youtube]

Big bear of a man [in the gay sense]

Mechanic/weaponsmith/arms dealer

Former mercenary. Would take out entire ship crews by sneaking on under the guise of a mechanic and "fixing" their ship [rigging it to blow as soon as he got to safety.]

Neo

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Minecraft OC, specifically for Empires SMP Season 2

Has ice magic powers, and lives in an Ice Spikes biome.

Its moral compass is a fucking roulette wheel

Tries to be nice, but has a very skewed idea of what "nice" and "good" is.

Would probably keep you as a pet if you asked

Quarz

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General OC

Shapeshifter, and he uses this power for evil. [Shapeshifts into whoever he's talking to in order to psych them out, though he claims it's to "level the playing field".]

Sort of a sardonic personality, often deriding others and putting himself above them. He does it to distract himself from feeling shitty about himself, but you could never get him to admit that.

Loves to inflict terrible events and circumstances on others [my ocs. or sometimes my blorbo du jour]. It is his favorite activity

[demonsfate]

ANONYMOUS ASKED ...

You don't have to answer this if you don't want to! I'm just genuinely curious, is all. You answered a question about Devil Jin preferring the breasts and thighs of someone as opposed to the brain when it comes to consumption, so I was wondering if he has an immunity to any kind of diseases he might get from that, like Kuru for instance. And, if in turn, this would also mean that Jin is immune from getting ill, too.

Whaaat!! I want to, I LOVE questions like these. They help develop my writing, and the characters. And I especially like to think of how Jin and DJ work - given they’re not precisely human, and with DJ’s powers... clearly, their body may function in ways that an ordinary human body wouldn’t. Especially since the games have implied a few times that Jin’s heart stops when DJ takes over lol.

BUT ANYWAYS. I’ve based a few of Jin/DJ’s functionality on birds - particularly vultures, or other birds of prey. But mostly the former due to DJ’s interest in eating meat / corpses, as well as his large black wings. Vultures’ stomach acid is much, MUCH greater than a human’s. Because they often eat decaying (rotten) cadavers. So, I HC that DJ also has stomach acid that’s far more powerful than any ordinary human, and many creatures. So like, neither DJ nor Jin can really get food poisoning because of this. They could eat literal rotten meat, or drink rotten milk - and they’d be fine. Although, Jin would never - and DJ prefers fresh kills just because he thinks they taste better.

Birds also can’t get prion disease, which I believe kuru can be considered a kind of that. So, no - DJ and Jin are essentially immune to it, and don’t really have to worry. But as said above - DJ doesn’t really care for the brain, so he doesn’t eat it anyway. And Jin would never participate in cannibalism. 

[adhdwandawilson]

Cancelling someone for having excessively cannibalism-friendly opinions (which is apparently happening in some youtube drama on twitter) is just so weird to me.  (This was apparently about cannibalism-in-the-abstract, not someone trying to defend specific real or fictional cannibals.)

Cannibalism is one of those things that’s only wrong if you actually do it.  There is no “cannibalism culture” that you can perpetuate by having insufficiently anti-cannibalism attitudes.  There are no “gray areas” where lots of people who would never admit to eating human flesh in public justify snacking on tonsils in private because it’s not like they’re vital organs.  There aren’t a lot of cannibalism survivors running around to be upset by your cavalier speculation about what human meat tastes like.  

It’s not “problematic,” in the sense of supporting and being supported by a web of oppressive ideologies and social structures, it’s simply “wrong”.  But the thing that matters is that you don’t eat people.  Whether you abstain because it’s a strong cultural taboo, because you consider it disrespectful to the people being eaten, or simply because of prion diseases is your business.