#Academic Sources

[jellothedimetrodon]

helped mother with her internship report but i can't read. she said the emotional support was enough. she also said please get off the book i need to read that.

[frameacloud]

"Trans[gender] phantoms are bodily sensations of gendered body parts that a person was not born with. [...] Phantom perceivers uniquely experience not only the awareness of what is missing [...] but also the physical sensation of it. [...] It has been theorized that this phenomenon [...] is analogous to aplasic phantom sensation, which is experienced when a person is born without a limb [...], suggesting that cortical representations of congenitally missing body parts may exist[. ...] About 18% of congenitally limb-deficient people report phantom sensation[. ...] 33–85% of amputees report phantom presence[. ...S]tudies on trans phantoms [...] suggest that trans phantoms are more prevalent than limb-deficient aplasic phantoms."

- Excerpt from pp. 1-2 of this academic article: S. J. Langer, Taymy Josefa Caso & Louisa Gleichman (2023). "Examining the prevalence of trans phantoms among transgender, nonbinary and gender diverse individuals: An exploratory study." International Journal of Transgender Health. DOI: 10.1080/26895269.2022.2164101 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366920201

Note: The academic article in question goes on to describe how the authors' study found that almost 50% of transgender people across all sexes and genders experience trans phantoms (pp. 1, 4). This means that trans phantoms happen within the same range of prevalence as amputees' phantoms, and are indeed more common than aplasic phantoms.

Some other notes about this article: This particular study didn't ask about how often trans phantoms are painful or not. However, it did find that the majority of trans phantoms had erotic sensation (pp. 5-7). It also found that many of the respondents had trans phantoms for as long as they could remember, or since adolescence (p. 7). The researchers cautioned the reader that "trans phantoms may not, and should not, be considered a requirement for recognition of TGD [transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer, and gender diverse] identities" (p. 8).

[secretonlinecorner]

https://elearning.shisu.edu.cn/pluginfile.php/71578/mod_folder/content/0/Eternal%20Sunshine%20of%20the%20Spotless%20Mind%20%28Philosophers%20on%20Film%29%20-%20Christopher%20Grau%2C%20ed.pdf?forcedownload=1

[readingandsiamese]

And don't forget to check what databases and other sources your local library has to offer. They're very underutilized resources, especially the databases.

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

[proserpinangel]

fifty shades of coffee

[shakespearesdaughters]

[hazelnutcoffeeshop]

"𝓑𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽"

[chaoticaesthetician]

abnormally large trees please lend me some of your centuries worth of wisdom

[briechyne]

It's the simple things in life. I want to live.

@briechyne on Instagram

[fictionalaffection]

if there is no love , what then - leonardo da vinci

[erikajenseny]

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[literarydesire]

Vita carissima

[jolivers-wonder]

[antivancathedral]

I don't even know how to word this in a way that makes sense and I think in an overall world building sense this is a major case of "Man I think it depends" but I actually don't think Spite is a "demon".

Spirits and Demons are essentially the same, yes, and I think there's much to be said about this in in parallel to a healthy person vs a deeply traumatized person, but to quote Neve, "one is more likely to manipulate you, or kill you," etc etc.

A demon is a spirit whose purpose has been twisted. And I don't think Spite's purpose has been twisted much at all.

Determination's purpose is "accomplish my goal (whatever that may be)". Spite (the emotion)'s purpose is exactly the same, with the added benefit of "especially against the wishes of others".

I think the demonic version of Determination would be "Ruthlessness", not Spite.

Spite (the guy) is not wholly consumed by his purpose like other "demons" are. He doesn't pursue his goals at the expense of his companions. He has several other interests even if they seem a little silly (learning what tastes good, or even new forms of combat like fire). And he tells us his purpose several times...it's his promise with Lucanis! Escape, kill, and live! This goal is one of determination and it has not changed by his becoming Spite. The goal is not warped in any way even with his joining to Lucanis.

Bellara speculates as to why Spite doesn't just take Lucanis over or turn him into a nasty mound of flesh. I want to argue that this is because Spite is a named spirit, not a demon.

What's more spiteful than not allowing your captors to change you? What says fuck you to people who would use you as a tool than self-determination? What's more spiteful than being determined to be free, to fight who would enslave you, to live?

My working theory is that Spite is not a demon in the same sense as, say, Wisdom being corrupted into Pride, which twists a desire to guide, teach, or navigate situations with care into a desire to be right and unchallenged.

I think Spite is to Determination as Eulogy is to Compassion.

[proserpinangel]

[shakespearesdaughters]