#Eiriee

[vergess]

"Sounds like Aphrodite" – now I'm pronouncing hemaphrodyke to rhyme

Correct!!!! Thank you for properly pronouncing an extremely silly joke word!

[somecunttookmyurl]

"I don't eat /ingredients/, I eat food", "i’ll chase you down and beat you with a stick. A big one, the ones republicans enjoy hitting their children with","make up a bs English name if you can’t pronounce that, I don’t care, as long as you don’t use the word “meat” to devalue an excellent vegetable because you have a small pee pee.","don’t give them impossible expectations because that’s the exact reason so many of you crybabies have never enjoyed a real vegetable." I just can't pick a favourite quote!

mine is absolutely “drain the juice (where the flavour is) from a microwave meal to use as empanada filling” i mean it’s a different post but it stands

god forbid you buy a stock cube instead of using chicken la croix, but whatever *gestures* is going on there is fine.

[atundratoadstool]

I just read "Good Lady Ducayne" for the first time and it's fascinating seeing another vampire story published ~30 years before Dracula that takes a seemingly so much more modern approach to the concept of vampirism. Also, I loved the practicality and determinism of Bella. Have you read it?

I read Good Lady Ducayne a long long time ago--back before I really knew about Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the novel she was famous for. I remembered being very fascinated the medicalized version of vampirism the story presented, and I was also intrigued as apparently Braddon had apparently written to Stoker congratulating him on Dracula and comparing it favorably to what she termed her “humdrum little story of transfusion." 

I think I should definitely give it a re-read though! Having become a complete Lady Audley fan since I first encountered the piece, I’m probably inclined to read Braddon’s vampire work now with a different eye.

[rudjedet]

Iirc you like/know about the AE medical papyri? I was listening to This Podcast Will Kill You's episode on toxoplasmosis and they said there may be evidence of it in the papyri, called aaa or something. Do you if they're right?

(cont) Or I think it was hookworm anemia, not toxoplasmosis

They’re right in that the aaa disease was at one point thought to describe schistosomiasis/hookworm anaemia, but it’s an oudated theory, for sure. When it comes to diagnosing backwards in time, we have to remember that certain pathogens we have today might not have existed in ancient Egyptian times, and certain pathogens that ancient Egyptians could have come into contact with can have gone extinct or lost their pathogenicity in the meantime. Other issues surrounding the interpretation of aaa as schistosomiasis lie in the realm of ambigious/unsure terms or terms we don’t have an unequivocal translation for. 

aaa is mentioned 22 times in the Ebers papyrus. Unfortunately, there is no gloss that might give us a better idea of what we are dealing with, but it is clear that it’s both a well-known and a serious disease - even morbid. 

There is only one instance in which aaa is connected to a possible parasite, in Ebers 62:

Another remedy, useful as something prepared for the belly: reeds (? sedge), 1; shames-plant, 1; grind fine, cook with honey, and eaten by a man in whose belly [there are] hereret-worms. It is the aaa which created them. Not killed by any [other] remedy.

The interpretation of aaa as schistosomiasis hinges on the interpretation of the hereret-worms as the adult worms of schistosomiasis. But as Ghalioungui (1987) pointed out, the schisosomiasis worms are small and disintegrate quickly after death of the host, and so it’s unlikely the Egyptians would have recognised these, let alone named them. As far as I know, we still have no clear idea which worms the hereret-worms are. 

Another problem is the absence of a clear term for haematuria, the final symptom of schistosomiasis when no treatment is given. The word for urine (mewyt) and the word for blood (senef) are well-known, but they are not known to be used together in the Egyptian medical corpus to describe the urinating of blood. Elsewhere in Ebers we may have a description of something alike haematuria (Ebers 49: “Another [remedy] for driving out the voiding (wesesh) of much blood.”), but this description is not used in concurrence with the aaa disease. In fact, the aaa disease doesn’t at all seem connected to the bladder or urinating, when we would expect this if it was schistosomiasis. Instead, aaa disease seems to be far more connected to the heart (haty - the physical heart as opposed to ib, the seat of thought).

So that aaa would be schistosomiasis is almost certainly impossible, but we unfortunately don’t have an alternative diagnosis apart from a theory posited by Von Deines and Westendorf (1961) in their Wörterbuch der medizinischen Texte, namely that aaa is a poisonous substance, or poisonous semen deposited by a malignant entity. This seems to be supported by the fact that most remedies for aaa disease have to be taken at night, when such an entity would be active. But it remains conjecture!

--- Sources:

Von Deines, H. & Westendorf, W. (1961): Wörterbuch der medizinische Texte Ghalioungui, P. (1987): The Ebers Papyrus Nunn, J. F. & Tapp, E. (1998): Tropical Diseases in Ancient Egypt  

[woman-loving]

@eiriee replied to your post “hello! I was wondering if you knew anything about the term ‘bi+’...”

I googled “Bi+” & the first link was to a 2017 PinkNews article from 2017 reporting that at the UK National Union of Students LGBT conference, they voted to change the bisexual in their name to bi+ https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/03/28/students-replace-bisexual-with-bi-to-include-people-who-arent-sexually-attracted-to-men-and-women/

I had tried googling it and found it used in a September 2015 entry on the Binet blog.

[intersex-ionality]

eiriee replied to your post “this is awka on mobile and i still highly rec kakegurui”

Tbh I much prefer the live action kakegurui to the anime. In the anime, FMC really gets sexually into gambling, whereas in the live action she is just very into in a non-specific less explicit way. Plus I find it funnier bc the live actors keep the ott acting from the anime but it's real people doing it!

Live action actors who behave exactly as absurdly as their anime counterparts are the most powerful people on earth and I love them a lot.

[smart-allec]

eiriee replied to your post: “My friends are the best. One of them is trying to think of ways for me...”:

Years ago for my A-level German oral exam I gave a presentation on German werewolf/shapeshifter legends and how they differ from UK ones. So maybe pick some folklore or legends you're interested in to talk about?

Ooo that sounds neat!

I think I’ll actually do a presentation on Samhain, with it being so close to the holiday :D

[kimpossibooty]

@fuunsaiki @eiriee Good to know! I think I have two clients in the EU but all I have is a phone number or telegram account and nothing is being used or sent anywhere, it’s just for direct contact from me

I meant, are your gnome+ texts and emails GDPR compliant?

I do not know what this means so I can probably confidently say no

[vergess]

Did you post on Reddit today, or did someone else fuck a cactus? /r/tifu/comments/wqpu9w/tifu_by_having_sex_with_a_cactus/

This one wasn't me, but solidarity between me and the newest cactus fucker on the block tbqh

[pandakong]

Splotch Summer entry/entries #16 - The lion, the splotch, and the lantern

(Get it, the cadence is a little bit like lion witch and wardrobe, nevermind...)

The last splotch art pieces before summer's official end! I rotated the paint splotch and then did a couple different things with it. Which was nice!

The original splotch:

Thanks for the people who played along (mostly on other platforms)! Thanks eiriee! Thanks to everyone that shared! I sometimes do splotch art outside of the challenge, and I'm cool with people trying it out any time of the year! Until next time!

[incoherentbabblings]

eiriee replied to your post: Moving into my new flat tomorrow and I am PUMPED I...

Nice flat! Looks like a really good kitchen esp. it’s remarkably fulfilling buying your first homeware - mine was a roasting tin!

Thank you!  Shower curtain and an iron for me!  It’s a good size for one person, all you need really!  And it has a cupboard for the washing machine, so there’s actually somewhere to put the hoover without tripping over it in the corner... it’s the little things.

[scotchjolras]

eiriee replied to your post “I received a penny in the mail from Misha Collins… with no context....”

Gishwshes, or however it's spelled?

I imagine so but I still don’t get it.

Also, I’m really lucky that my dad never questions anything because the letter was addressed to Shay and all he did was yell “Steph! Mail for you!” If it had been my mum, it would not be dropped until I gave an explanation.

[atundratoadstool]

I thought that Fast and Furious post said "Faust and Furious" like a modern speeding cars action movie based on Faustus

I would watch the ever loving crap out of that. I work with all the nineteenth century Fausts that are not Goethe’s and have therefore developed a massive affinity for Fausts that are objectively terrible, fun, blockbuster spectacles.

[rudjedet]

eiriee replied to your post: may i have some GOOD documentary suggestions? i...

Is it sherds or shards? I’ve seen both around in reference to pottery and wondered if sherds was a specific proper term referring to the bits

Sherd is used for pottery (it’s short for ‘potsherd’), shard is used for glass/china. It’s unlikely anyone will be bothered or confused if you say/write pottery shard, but in official parlance and papers, “(pot)sherd” is the correct way to refer to broken pieces of pottery.

[elodieunderglass]

gdi sci-hub seems to be down all over. i was trying to access an old paper on squirrel monkey play, but nopes.

That’ll happen, if you’re the sort of person who does such things, then just go back to Google and it’ll tell you where to go next - such as https://sci-hub.tw/

[horatioandalice]

I was just wondering - is there a way you can make your photo captions visible on the mobile app? I often browse tumblr using the mobile app, and it doesn't show any of the photo captions when I click on photos. Unless I'm on desktop I can't see them. Maybe you could put them in the body of the post as well, like when people caption photos for screen readers? Thanks! Your posts always make me smile, they're just even better with the captions.

Hi!  THIS IS A REALLY GOOD IDEA.  I’ve noticed for years that the captions don’t show up on mobile, and I don’t know why I never thought of this as a solution!  I’ll try to get into the habit of including the captions in the body of the text from now on so people browsing on mobile can see them, too!  Thank you so much!