#cancer cures

[selfdiscoverymedia]

23-17. Some Oldies but Goody shows for you

Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from April 25th Last week my 2nd Grandson was born with complications and is still in ICU. I have been looking after my 1st Grandson, who is two years old, while his parents are still in the hospital. This is why you are not getting any new shows from me for a couple of weeks; I will be back, but my family comes first.So I have gathered some shows from…

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I'm all for natural remedies and traditional medicine, but I think when your "natural remedy" is based on the idea that water can become medicinal by being in the presence of a teeny itty bit amount of something, then it's probably bullshit and you're getting scammed. Go buy some ibuprofen or see a doctor.

[coulsonlives]

This has been a reminder

[reality-detective]

Everyone knows that curing cancer isn't as profitable as treating it and billing you every step of the way.

However, one thing to consider is that the elite have never died of an cancer, they always die of an old age.

What does that tell you? Think about it. 🤔

[burr-ell]

The Age of Arcanum and the destruction of Aeor remind me of something I've found interesting about the story of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were allowed to eat from ANY tree in the garden except one—and of course they ate from that one, but prior to that they had their pick of anything else they would have wanted. The consensus among most Jewish and many Christian scholars is that this isn't necessarily a literal event that really happened, but it is representative of man's nature—we're given our pick of so many things to do, but we often instead choose the thing we shouldn't or were outright told not to do.

The Age of Arcanum allowed mortals to do just about anything; it was objectively an age of wonders where incredible feats of magic were commonplace. As far as we know, the gods could see into Avalir just fine and would have known about things like the Astral Leywright, and none of the prime deities walking Exandria wanted to crash it into the ground! Corellon says it himself—mortals took his gift of magic and used it to do great things. Even the Raven Queen is accepted among the prime deities once she proves herself. The problem the gods had was the creation of a weapon specifically meant to kill them made by a totalitarian state that was actively persecuting their followers, when Aeor could have been doing literally anything else.

Like, it couldn't have thrown into sharper relief a point that a number of other people have made: when Ludinus bitches and moans about how the gods wanted to stifle mortal achievement, he truly is just whining about 'how DARE they not just roll over and let themselves be killed', and is expecting the population of Exandria to take him seriously. How dare the gods take action because they were being targeted for utter destruction! I mean, are we not meant to see how absurd that is? Were we watching the same orb?

[hiveswap]

I keep seeing those domestic vashwood aus where they settle down and live in a household thats like the closest thing a desert planet can have to cottagecore and it's really cute but I think you people think incredibly highly of them. Neither of these men have standards. They would get a place together maybe. If there's already furniture they'd change none of it because neither of them are used to staying in one place for long enough to get confortable. If there's no furniture it'll be a barren male living space forever and that's that. Then they'd get bored and start doing anything (raising tomas, woodworking, bartending, innkeeping, lighting shit on fire ect.) like a sepherd dog that has sepherding etched so deeply into its dna that it just goes insane trying to entertain itself when its owners try raising it in the suburbs. They'd be dogshit at domesticity. They would entertain the idea that they're dating 20 years in

[ashironie]

gUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS PLEASE I please PLEASE I I can’t i can’t GUYTS OKAY SO I WAS WATCHING MUMBO (as usual) AND SOMEONE WAS LIKE “did mumbo have a biking injury” AND IT TOOK EVERYTHING IN ME NOT TO COMMENT UNDER THAT SAYING “omg tmagp reference?” I CANT BE LET OUT OF CONTAINMENT. I WILL INFECT ALL THOSE AROUND ME. I HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN TWO PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO TMA/TMAGP THROIGH SHEER ANNOYINGNESS ALONE PLEASE

[dilsdelights]

data and geordi are like two blokes who do a lot actually.

[curingcancercomics]

Hey there! I know it's been a while. Something's up, right? I'll be taking a break from posting these smaller format webcomics in order to focus on a larger project that will probably be taking up all my time this year. If I finish it by year's end it'll be a G-D miracle, to be honest, but I gotta try. If there's interest, I'll post about the progress on this page/blog/account. In the meantime, I'll be going through my archive and posting whatever comics I've worked on that I haven't had a chance to share yet. Also, I'll try to get my IG account in order. Follow it here. I'll try to have more regular updates there.

[gunsatthaphan]

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[not-a-boot]

[ohno-the-sun]

Uh oh Sun is dying

And he’s known for awhile

[reality-detective]

This 👆 is what they do when an effective treatment that actually helps people even cure them. 🤔

[slugcatmusings]

What is the Rot? Why is the Rot?

Spoiler Warning and Holy Wall of Text Batman Warning. I got WAY too into questioning the turbo-cancer here, hopefully my rambling makes sense.

So, the Rot is… weird, from a biological standpoint. Really weird, if you stop to think about it. It’s most frequently described as some variation of cancer, and it certainly fits the criteria for it. Caused by damage to DNA? Check. Multiplies uncontrollably? Check. Comes in both benign and malignant forms, one stationary and the other mobile? Big fat check. Heck, even the Rot cysts eating other creatures kind of fits, according to some research I’ve done – there are apparently cancer cells that will eat other cells, which makes sense in hindsight since cancer cells are cells that have lost important genetic restrictions, which may include whatever lets cells identify other cells as “do not eat.”

(I ain’t a biology whiz and I’m doing research on the fly while getting my thoughts out here, so take whatever I say about biology with a grain of salt)

So, Rot is clearly cancer of some kind, right? Case closed. Except when me and a friend of mine were talking Rain World theories on Discord, she brought up some interesting points that got me thinking.

First point: Rot cells obviously mutate in a way that affects FAR more than just cell replication and termination. Some of the cysts can HEAR. As far as I know, cells in the body do not hear sounds. They communicate via chemical signals and maybe, MAYBE react to temperature. Hearing involves complicated, specialized sensory apparatus to pick up on vibrations in the air. Even if you simplify it and say that it’s only vibrations, that’s STILL a multicellular thing, not a single-cell thing. It’s something that took millions of years to evolve on Earth, if not billions.

And while Rain World’s timeline goes on for long enough that it those kinds of mutations might happen eventually, Rot cysts have the ability to hear pretty much right from the start – because even the Proto-Long-Legs react to your presence like the Daddy Long Legs do, and the Rot in Spearmaster’s campaign, where Pebbles has recently contracted it, reacts the same way as it does in later campaigns. It’s already able to hear.

As far as I know, cancer just means the same cell duplicating over and over again. Are more mutations possible with each division, as errors are made in the DNA during splitting? Probably. But not to THAT extent. There’s no way a lump of cancer somehow mutated the exact complicated genetic blueprint needed to grow organs, at least not without outside interference.

Second point: Cases of Rot are way too consistent across the board. Now, we don’t have a huge sample size to work from, but from what we see from both Pebbles’ Rot, and Hunter Long Legs, they’re… pretty similar. Hunter Long Legs is basically a mobile Rot cyst. They move the same way, seem to grow the same way (starts as a growth inside/on the body before eventually freeing itself from whatever wall/flesh it grew from in some capacity and moving elsewhere), they have the same senses, and they even eat the same way, via something like phagocytosis (how white blood cells “eat” invading organisms via engulfing them and breaking them down in a sac in their main “body.”)

Now, this doesn’t tell us much, because cancer, when it does emerge, is pretty consistent in symptoms/what the mutated cells do once they start replicating. It’s pretty much the same regardless of whatever organism the cancer is happening in. But what ISN’T consistent is what causes the DNA error in the cancer cell in the first place. IRL, cancer can be caused by all kinds of things – smoking, radiation poisoning, being out in the sun too long, drinking deadly chemicals and whatnot, anything that damages DNA. But in RW, the only time we ever hear Rot talked about, or see it present, is in the context of an iterator having f*cked up while mucking around with DNA. Pebbles was trying to create an organism that could change his own genome, and No Significant Harassment created Hunter as a messenger and probably mucked something up in the process in his haste to get them to Moon.

This doesn’t mean that there aren’t other causes of it, of course, we’re working with a sample size of two in an apocalyptic world with who knows how much potentially DNA-damaging stuff around, but… that’s still awfully consistent.

So, combining these points and everything we know to be canon, Rot is:

an organism that lives inside another organism

Until a certain condition is met, it cannot harm said host organism.

Once said condition is met, it goes out of control, wreaking havoc on the organism’s systems and mutating, giving it sensory capabilities and an appetite

Said condition is apparently someone messing up when re-arranging genomes, in yourself or others

It is widespread across multiple different species, at least iterators and slugcats but potentially other species as well.

Once you have a bad case of it, it is apparently NOT CURABLE. Pebbles tried everything he could think of but apparently exhausted all of his options by the time of the Survivor/Monk campaigns.

So, with all the context FINALLY laid out, here’s my wild theory: Rot isn’t a cancer. It’s a symbiote turned parasite. Specifically, I believe it’s a symbiotic microbe that lives inside the cells that make up every other creature in Rain World, and is held in check by a specific gene that all species share, and altering or getting rid of that gene causes it to go berserk, taking over and eventually mutating the host cells.

Yeah, I did watch Parasite Eve let’s plays as a kid, why do you ask? Anyway, hear me out here.

There is precedence for single-celled organisms living inside of other single-celled organisms. They’re referred to as intracellular endosymbiots (hopefully I got the spelling right there), and the most well-known one is probably the mitochondria. The powerhouse of the cell is thought to be descended from some bacteria way, WAY back that was engulfed by a larger cell and not only survived it, but BENEFITED from it. Since then those ancient proto-mitochondria and eukaryotic cells have mutually evolved to be dependent on each other. So it’s entirely possible for something similar to have happened in Rain World.

However, I don’t think it happened NATURALLY, here. Because something that’s able to take over a cell entirely and begin wildly mutating it is NOT something your average cell wants inside of it. There’s a VERY high chance of extinction if you do that. Which means that of course those funky bio-tech loving Ancients either took a look at a wildly dangerous cellular parasite and went “hmmm we can use this” or made one themselves.

Why did they do this? Who knows! Currently, I’m tied between “they needed a better powerhouse for the cell to power the various weird adaptations they’re building into various creatures,” “there was some sort of disease that this parasite gave immunity against and they wanted to make use of it,” and “it gave their creations massively powerful regeneration factors that made them much easier to maintain.” Possibly it was all three. Whatever the reason, the Ancients either found or created this parasite, and put it into their creations’ cells, hoping to reap the benefits.

Well, they got the benefits, but they also got a microbe that hijacked the cells and harnessed their pre-existing DNA blueprints to build organisms disguised as great big blobs of cancer. Which is not exactly ideal, but hey, they just had to figure out a way of keeping the cell hijacking from happening! And the way they ended up going about it was to alter the thing so that so long as there was a specific DNA sequence in the cell, it laid mostly dormant. All the benefits, none of the risks – so long as that specific string of genes remained intact.

And then BECAUSE it was so beneficial, they spread their artificial symbiote and it’s genetic reins throughout ALL of their creations, from the smallest pipe-cleaning slugs to the iterators. Which meant that as their purposed organisms replaced most of the original ecosystem, they spread the symbiote as well. Thus making it possible for pretty much ANY creature on the planet to come down with a bad case of the Rot. And with the iterators, I wouldn’t be surprised if this symbiote is tied to their self-destruction taboos. Try to cross yourself out? Well, it’s gonna maybe happen now, but it’ll be a slow painful death as you’re eaten alive from the inside and all your own parts turn against you, so was it really worth it?

And they never told their creations this perhaps even actively hid it, because why tell them the cause of the main deterrent to them mucking with their taboos? They might find a way around it. The iterators were left ignorant of how Rot works, and because of this they never figured out that Rot HAD a cure after all: rebuilding that genome that reins in the symbiote. Because why in the name of the Void would they repeat the same mistakes that gave them Rot in the first place, and potentially make it worse?

[arkiwii]

welcome to rhodes island, my pharmeutical company. here we want to restore equality in society and cure a terminal disease. let me present you to some of our operators

we have dorothy franks. she's a very brillant scientist and created an huge amalgam resulting from an experience using innocents lives, which almost destroyed the entire country it was in. she's really nice and kind

there we have loughshinny dublinn, they served as the leader of a terrorist revolutionary group that caused several assaults in victoria. they did not meant it

here's w. she's also a terrorist but she meant it

hey here's lappland saluzzo. her disease has rendered her completely mad and she is behind countless slaughters. i forgot why she's here

and here's ho'olheyak, she did several murder attempts on me. we can change the subject if you want

[jeyneofpoole]

best deviation from source material ever was when piss&fart the creators of thebadshow decided that theon should be sansa’s hag. what was happening in that writers room. how did we get there. he did all that and then DIED. and nobody mentioned him ever again. cinema!!!!!! alfie allen i’ll get you a nobel prize mark my words