#disease spreaders

[killbenedictcumberbatchagain]

patriarchy and biphobia really go hand in hand

[dawnleaf37]

wtf happening over there

[cryptamen]

And I'll go first with Yes. I have a respiratory issue and a possiblity to have my mothers whole fucking situation passed down at any moment.

I am also super allergic to dust an pollen to the point of becoming actually sick and contagious with something else.

I also find them comfortable. I dont have to change my expressions/ Masking (autism) is way easier with one on.

[skyllion-uwu]

ARE YOU SHITTING ME

[void-skoom]

Decided to say f*ck and to just post without the bio cuz I got tired of staring at it in my drafts. So have my void child standing with her primary Warframes: Xaku and Lavos.

Her name is Dax Ripley and her favorite color is green.

She’s the half-sentient (mimic) clone of one Archimedean ████████. No ones sure what the other “half” is but I'm sure that’s fine.

Nonbinary but prefers female pronouns.

Was “friends” with our boy Rell after the Zariman went to shit - for all of however long that was - until they were recovered, and were immediately separated. The next time she heard any sort of news about him, it was to find out that he’d been cast out, and became so rightfully upset by it that she finally gained “sentience” :)

[temeraire]

So glad I'm not the only one who's absolutely flabbergasted that more people would somehow be more comfortable with a WHOLE ASS HUMAN in their attic then they be with some little beasties.

like man even if youre afraid of cockroaches you can still get rid of them A LOT MORE EASILY than a wholeass fucking human also the idea of a stranger living inside my house in secret makes me skin crawl like man cmon. what the fuck. who would take a human stranger in your house unknown to you over some fucking. little insects. "oh they fly" but they cannot hold knives!!!! or do creepy shit that humans can do!!!! they are functionally completely harmless to you!!!! also a human would require SO MUCH FOLLOWUP WORK and raise SO MANY QUESTIONS at least cockroaches are NORMAL. anyway. im going to bed but i needed to get that out of my system

[gayoticbeing]

too many different meanings for vector scientists gotta start making more new words up

[mhrtos]

thinkin bout my friends' dnd characters and how i might torture them in the upcoming campaign

[theculturedmarxist]

In photos of 2023’s World Economic Forum- or Davos as it is commonly called, after the Swiss resort town where it annually occurs- you might not notice the HEPA filters. They’re in the background, unobtrusive and unremarked upon, quietly cleansing the air of viruses and bacteria. You wouldn’t know- not unless you asked- that every attendee was PCR tested before entering the forum, or that in the case of a positive test, access was automatically, electronically, revoked. And if you happened to get a glimpse of the strange blue lights overhead, you could reasonably assume that their glow was simply a modern aesthetic choice, not the calming buzz of cutting edge Far UVC technology- demonstrated to kill microbes in the air.

It’s hard to square this information with the public narrative about COVID, isn’t it? President Biden has called the pandemic “over”. The New York Times recently claimed that “the risk of Covid is similar to that of the flu” in an article about “hold outs” that are annoyingly refusing to accept continual reinfection as their “new normal”. Yet, this week the richest people in the world are taking common sense, easy- but strict- precautions to ensure they don’t catch Covid-19 at Davos.

These common sense, easy precautions include high-quality ventiliation, use of Far UVC-lighting technology, and PCR testing. You’ll also see some masks at Davos, but generally, the testing + air filtration protocol seems to be effective at preventing the kind of super-spreader events most of us are now accustomed to attending.

It seems unlikely to me that a New York Times reporter will follow the super-rich around like David Attenborough on safari, the way one of their employees did when they profiled middle-class maskers last month. I doubt they will write “family members and friends can get a little exasperated by the hyper-concern” about the assembled Prime Ministers, Presidents and CEOs in Switzerland. After all, these are important people. The kind of people who merit high-quality ventilation. The kind of people who deserve accurate tests.

Why is the media so hellbent on portraying simple, scientifically proven measures like high-quality ventilation as ridiculous and unnecessary as hundreds of people continue to die daily here in the US?

Why is the public accepting a “new normal” where we are expected to get infected over and over and over again, at work events with zero precautions, on airplanes with no masks, and at social dinners trying to approximate our 2019 normal?

We deserve better. We deserve to be #DavosSafe as the hashtag going around on twitter puts it. Your children deserve to be treated with the care that world leaders are treating each other. Your family deserves to be protected from the disease which is still- unlike the flu- the third leading cause of death in the US. We don’t deserve to be shoved back into poorly ventilated workplaces while our politicians and press assure us that only crazy people would demand to breathe clean air.

Clean water and clean food are rights we fought for; we have regulatory bodies that ensure we aren’t exposed to pathogens via our water supply nor our food. In 1854, John Snow famously conducted his Broad Street Pump study in London and demonstrated that cholera was water-bourne; however, it took decades for our public policy to catch up with our scientific knowledge.

A public health case study published by the NBCI describes the years that followed:

The first use of chlorine as a disinfectant for water facilities was in 1897 in England. The first use of this method for municipal water facilities in the United States was in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Chicago, Illinois, in 1915. Other cities followed and the use of chlorination as standard treatment for water disinfection rapidly grew. During the 20th century, death rates from waterborne diseases decreased significantly, and although other additional factors contributed to the general improvements in health (such as sanitation, improved quality of life, and nutrition), the improvement of water quality was, without doubt, a major reason.

Forty-three years passed from the initial demonstration that pathogens were being spread via water, and public action and regulation to halt disease.

Can you imagine, in the 1890s, being somebody who argued against cleaning the water?

Can you imagine, in those years of plentiful cholera, calling the people who demanded shit-free water “hold outs”?

One thing COVID realists are accused of is being “doomsayers” and “fearmongers,” so let me share a dose of optimism about the future with you. When we choose- whenever we choose- to get COVID under control, there’s an exciting new world awaiting us. One, not only without constant COVID reinfection, but where our kids can grow up free of colds, flus, RSV, and many other common bugs. And no, contrary to what you may have heard, staying healthy (shockingly enough) is not bad for children!

Once we choose to institute ventilation standards and introduce new technologies like Far UVC lighting- and embrace masking as an easy, kind, and useful tool to control outbreaks- we can bring every nasty airborne pathogen under control the way we did cholera. We didn’t have the science before; now we do. (I mean that quite literally; I can’t recommend enough the linked Wired article cataloguing the long journey to establishing that Covid is, indeed, airborne).

We face a stark choice; down one road, the one with zero infrastructure upgrades, no air quality regulations, and Covid safety only for those who can afford it, you and your family will get Covid this year. You will get Covid next year. You will continue to get Covid over and over and over again, as the health problems - like cardiac damage, viral persistance, and immune system dysfunction- continue to build up. (The billionaires, of course, will not).

Down the other road, we quite simply treat ourselves the way Davos would. We engage with what the science is telling us and we build a safer, better world for our kids. We embrace the lessons this pandemic is teaching us, and let go of things we now know are harming people. We stop clinging desperately to the idea that 2019 will come back if we just get the virus one more time, and we come together to achieve what we’ve been told is impossible: elimination.

The economic elite thrive on our divisiveness and blame casting. They don’t mind that we’re calling each other names, engaging in racial stereotyping, or leaving disabled people to die, so long as we keep their machine running. But we can choose to stop throwing blame at each other, and direct it where it belongs: at the powerful people who’ve left us to suffer, at the politicians who are whipping people into a frenzy over masks instead of over our millions of dead, at the talking heads on TV that work so hard to convince us: you want to get sick. It’s better than being a *weirdo* or a *hold out*.

We needn’t wait 43 years to redirect our energies. France and Belgium have already introduced new air quality standards, and DIY projects to build Corsi-Rosenthal boxes for schools and healthcare settings have popped up around the country. We have the science, we have the technology. All we need now is the political will and the solidarity to truly end the pandemic- the kind of solidarity the super rich always show with one another.

The billionaires at Davos don’t accept continual Covid reinfection. They demand better. It’s time we demand better too.

[simonalkenmayer]

I want to show you something interesting that was done recently. Something you can show your Trump supporting relatives.

Yale did a study with death stats that shows that prior to and during the pandemic, Republicans and Democrats were largely dying at the same rate. However once vaccines came out, Democratic deaths dropped at a staggering rate, while republicans continued to (and still are) die at a much higher rate.

The study looks at “excess death”—as in deaths occurring outside the normal death rates. It does not, however, tie into COVID related death tolls via the CDC, because there’s no real way to correlate that data without knowing individual medical history. So the study approaches the idea as best as it can.

You can see from the graph that death rates seem very even among the two groups, until you get to the moment the vaccines became available.

The vertical line is vaccine roll out. Horizontal line is zero. The spikes follow alao v with the waves of spread that the CDC tracks, when variants make rounds and spread. The stats deviate from one another prior to the introduction of the vaccine, when republican disinformation began telling people to return to normal life and participate in events. However, you can see the sharp divergence clearly, when vaccines became available. They continued to diverge as months went on. Currently, Republicans have an abnormally high excess death rate, at nearly double the Democratic death toll. Even with interaction between the two groups in uncontrolled settings, Republican death rates are higher than Democratic death rates., because of vaccine efficacy. I’m sure future studies will be done to further illuminate this phenomenon, but this is an excellent first glimpse.

This is memetic selection. They chose not to be vaccinated. They chose to have less protection. And so…they cease to exist. However, because this type of selection doesn’t act as strongly on younger people who are breeding, it doesn’t drastically shift future rates of potential Republican indoctrination. It does, however, drastically change the current electorate.

Whoops.

This is the GOP platform: no plan, take away equality, bodily autonomy, privacy, social security, medical care, benefits. No rule of law, lower wages, higher aggregation of wealth in top .1%, and a destitute dependent, undereducated populace. Disposable people who die when they’re no longer useful as misinformation spreaders to facilitate their control. 

This is the consequence of compassionless governance, in mathematical, quantifiable terms.

TL;DR COVID kills more Republicans than Democrats, at rates twice as high, because the party engaged in stupid misinformation on a communicable disease for the sake of retaining power.

[justadeadreaper]

CW: Gore, Death, Puke, Decaying flesh, Buboes, Blood, Description of the symptoms of the different plagues in The Black Death, Gruesome description of how the representation would look like, Please tell me if anything that should be put as a warning was not, thanks.

The most feared plague in history, The Black Death.

Mainly the bubonic plague mixed with its two more deadly brothers the pneumonic plague and septicemic plague. It was the deadliest plague of the time as it ran through Europe, Africa, and Asia and conquered any village, town, and city it found itself in, flooding the streets with blood, mucus, and rotted flesh as once healthy humans dropped dead from the plague that seemed to come from nowhere before it dragged everyone to the Hell it had seemed to have spawned from. It did not care who you were, it did not discriminate, rich or poor, loved or hated, known or not, it would blow out the little life that you had. It thrived off the fear and only seemed to grow stronger as another soul joined the long chain of victims that had already succumbed to the disease. Anywhere from twenty to sixty percent of the population of the time was taken by it.

The perpetrator? Yersinia pestis. The carriers? Fleas. The spreader? Rats but some say it could have actually been hamsters that were stowaways. But how were the rats able to spread? Trading ships that jumped from town to town leaving a deadly gift as it sailed away that would lead to the death of all that were unfortunate enough to live there.

Now you may ask what would happen if you were to catch it and let me tell you it was living torture. It would start with a simple flea bite but that flea was infected with Yersinia pestis causing it to build a barrier in its stomach so no blood could be digested or go into its stomach causing it to build up and be infected by the bacteria, and this blood would be thrown back up by the flea onto the wound infecting it as it would be absorbed into the bloodstream. From entering the bloodstream it could take one of three routes: the lymphatic system, continuing through the bloodstream, or directly to the lungs. If you were lucky enough for it to infect your lymphatic system then you had a sixty percent chance of dying meaning you had a forty percent chance of surviving. Even though you had more chances of surviving it did not mean that you were saved from not suffering, from one to seven, or if you were lucky eight, days of contracting the disease was when it would show symptoms. At first it would trick you into the false belief that you only had the flu. You would have a general feeling of being ill, lethargic and weak which only grew into worse fatigue as the days went on, followed by chills and a high fever which anyone would know just seems to be like a normal cold but then that soon developed into muscle cramps in your aching limbs as seizures overtook the body. Then it would present the symptom that gave it the name the bubonic plague, buboes. These were when the lymph nodes would balloon to become large, painful, smoothe swellings which would occur near the original area of infection alongside the groin, neck, and armpits which would continue to grow until they burst. You also had the issue of your skin slowly beginning to necrotise as it died alongside the lenticulae which were small black dots that would be scattered across your body and gangrene took over your lips, nose, toes, and fingers which all caused severe pain to the point you would rather die there and then instead of waiting it out to see if you had the lucky chance of surviving. Of course there were other symptoms like heavy breathing as your lungs felt like they were being held down by rocks, your own body becoming like the flea as it would start to vomit gallons of infected blood, coughing, gastrointestinal problems, and spleen inflammation, but in some cases even the sleep would be disturbed to the point of insomnia where sleep would be impossible to get as your were forced to stay awake to feel all the pain that riddled your body. But then the worst of the systems came at the final stage as delirium came and took over any rational thought as all organs began to fail from the disease overcoming them and causing them to shut down which only led to a coma, but it all ended the same way, death.

If you were unlucky enough for it to infect your lungs first or just infect your lungs before the other systems became worse then you had a ninety-five percent chance of dying meaning you had a five percent chance of surviving. To make the pneumonic plague even worse you could develop it even after being infected by either the bubonic plague or the septicemic plague; it could also be caught from not just it infecting your lungs after a bite which infected the bloodstream but by also breathing in air borne droplets of the bacteria from another thing that was riddled with the plague. As it would normally be caught after having bubonic or septicemic plague it meant that at first you would present all the symptoms from the other plagues before experiencing the specifics of the pneumonic plague. At first you would think you have a fever but a severe one as headaches, nausea, and weakness run rampant as if it was trying to warn you that this would be no normal bubonic or septicemic plague. Luckily compared to the bubonic plague the time you would suffer with this plague was a great short, even though it would take around three to seven days before the symptoms showed as soon as the symptoms worsened or even showed you could guarantee that you would be dead within thirty-six hours, most likely less. You would be constantly vomiting for three days straight as your lungs slowly began to feel as if they were being sewn shut at each bronchus, only leading to each breath becoming shorter and shorter as you seemed to constantly be coughing and rasping for the tiniest bit of unrestrained air. Then soon enough your lungs would spew out a bloody and watery mess that would stain your tongue with its mercury taste which you would continue to cough out in between the vomiting until you went into shock as your full respiratory tract went into failure and just stopped, finally leading to death.

But if you were the most unfortunate person alive on Earth at the time that every God seemed to hate since it stayed in your bloodstream and completely infected your blood it meant you had no chance of surviving as you had a hundred percent chance of dying. It made the other two diseases seem like child’s play as it normally only took around fourteen hours before it shut down the body, worse of all it could even kill you without showing any of the symptoms. Like the others you would think it was a common cold due to the fever, chills, and low blood pressure but soon enough severe abdominal pain would set in as it felt like you were dying due to the extreme amount of diarrhea which would be accompanied by nausea that only led to severe vomiting. But soon enough the vomit and diarrhea would be filled with blood until it was fully red as the body lost most of its clotting resources from the tiny blood clots that had formed throughout the body so it could no longer control the blood which started to bleed into the skin and organs creating red or black patches of rashes or bumps which could be seen on the skin. The blood clotting also caused necrosis as tissue and organs would die from the lack of blood flow as it all leaked into where it should not, the most obvious spots of the decay were the gangrene in the fingers, nose, and toes. Then the bleeding would extend from not just bleeding in the body but blood coming out from the rectum but most noticeably the mouth and nose where it would come out like a waterfall. Obviously due to the blood leaking into everything it would cause difficulty breathing as it would fill the lungs and deprive it of the blood outside the lungs that was needed to exchange the carbon dioxide for oxygen. And with no blood to deliver the oxygen needed for the organs to live they all would go into organ failure causing the body to go into shock before the final moments where everything went back as it was taken over by death.

As it can be seen all of them had the same outcome, death.

Luckily nowadays the plagues are a simple pest if the person has access to treatment to stop it from progressing further but at the time that The Black Death ran rampant no one had the luxury of those treatments leading most to die who caught it. Masses upon masses of bodies continued to build up only attracting more of the rats then the ones that had already been attracted to the large towns by the excrement and rotting butcher’s meat that made a river through the streets. With more rats that withered away from the disease it just meant more fleas would jump to more human hosts to use which only led to more living corpses to roam the streets as the disease turned people into skeletons while still living before turning them into an actual corpse.

It was understandable as to why humans of the time would be so scared of such a thing as to them it just seemed like their fellow mortals were dropping like lowly flies that would eat away at the flyblown flesh that continued to pile away in mass graves to create more nests for their larvae and eggs to incubate inside. Imagine the terror and fear that must have filled their minds as they did not understand pathogens at the time, to them it would have seemed like divine wrath but no one could think of a reason as to why their Almighty would betray them like this as everyone appeared to be on their best behaviour. They needed something to blame. They found something to blame. 

Simple rumours turned into truths.

Somewhere in England there was said to be a village. Small, nothing of concern as it was like every other village of the time. Like every other village it had a butcher, a silent man who was rumoured to once be a knight but no one knew why he was not anymore. He tended to be quiet, avoiding others who were not his friends and family. It was said that he loved his nephew and that if he had enough swigs of barley that you could get him singing and dancing on the roof or you could convince him to give you his primest cuts of meat. He was deemed as normal, he was like everyone else, until one day.

No one knew what happened. It was supposed to be a joyous day to celebrate the coming of winter but it was far from that. Nearly the whole family was found butchered with a precision only expected to be known by a trained killer. The lower left leg and most of the fingers of the right hand of the older brother laid in a puddle of blood but they could not find the rest of his body; the mutilated body of the brother’s wife was spread around slightly from each different part as if when she was being attacked the culprit had went after another member while still holding onto the part it was hacking off; the body of their son was curled into the corner clutching onto the leg of his mother while out of the stab holes that covered his body in ten folds nearly making him unidentifiable oozed out blood into a bloody puddle that collected around his body; and finally the grandmother of the family who was found decapitated in her rocking chair with her head being found outside within the well. The only one not found dead was the butcher and when he returned, covered in blood, everyone turned their suspicions to him. When he tried to explain that he had been out hunting but had been attacked by a large grey man no one believed him, especially when they saw the crazed look within his eyes that could only be produced by when they had let Beelzebub into their soul. Everyone agreed to grab their pitchforks and chase him out so no more could be hurt.

It was only a few months before the figure started to appear across the world. People from the village murmured to other villages and beyond when they heard what the figure looked like in its earlier stage that they believed it to be the same butcher infected with the plague of Beelzebub to infect the world with their sin to bring more to Hell. Everyone believed him to be the reason for the spread of the plague. It was said that if you were to see him within the fields outside of any town, village, or city that all the inside were destined to die. 

The Ghost of The Black Death.

A figure that would strike the fear into the hearts of all.

A horde of rats followed behind him in trails as flies buzzed around his head, if he was near you would always see a Black Shuck which commanded a storm alongside it as if they were his hounds of doom brought along to give the townsfolk warning of their dire fates and to pray to the Almighty while they were still apart.

A black coat hid the majority of his body as bloodied rags of old hunting gear of a peasant hung off of skeletal remains with a jaw hanging off his neck as if it was a necklace as it was tied there with rope. Messy blonde hair spread out in all directions as blood leaked out from the tear ducts in a false mockery of the tears that millions had split in their last moments. No nose or bottom jaw could be found, decayed off long ago. The face looked skeletal as teeth, gums, and a tongue were exposed to the bitter air that reeked of death and loss as the cheeks were tattered in form as more skin continued to flake off as it continued to decays; once blue eyes so full of life were left sunken, dead as if they were another victim that had succumb to the plague that the Ghost was said to bring alongside him. A trail of buboes surrounded his neck as if it was a noose to which he could hang himself with as the tail was marked by a diversion of buboes that wrapped around and under his arms to around his groyne. His spine and ribs jutted out for all to see underneath the greyed skin which was littered with blackened patches of decay as branches of red veins leaked and bleed out to leave a path of blood in his wake for all to track him by. Still, as he rotted away, vague faints of the muscular body that had been far gone from its prime lingered where it once remained. The bottom of his calves with his feet and the bottom of his forearms with his hands had turned black and mummified from the decay and gangrene that had taken them over, leaving no remaining sensations within the hands to feel the warmth of a human ever again for the rest of eternity.

If you were to see him late at night, staring into your soul you better pray that The Ghost does not turn you into another soul like him.

[gatheringbones]

[“Is sex bad?

People are preoccupied with the sexual dimension of sex work. These anxieties manifest in ideas of bodily degradation and the threat that sex workers pose as the vectors of such degradation. The prostitute is seen as a disease-spreader, associated with putrefaction and death. We are envisioned both as removing corruption from society (a nineteenth-century French physician spoke of the ‘seminal drain’) and as a source of contamination, disease, and death in our own right. Puta, the Spanish word for prostitute, has links with the English putrid. Another preoccupation holds that to have sex (or to have sex in the wrong ways – too much, with the wrong person, or for the wrong reason) brings about some kind of loss. Often, contradictory ideas about sex and these visceral threats or losses are intertwined in cultural depictions of the sex worker – forming a figure that Melissa Gira Grant names the ‘prostitute imaginary’.

Sometimes the connection between these ideas is obvious. For the Victorians, the ‘loss of virginity’ risks ruin and a grim death from syphilis. The ruined woman is reconfigured as an agent of destruction, spreading disease in her wake. Sometimes the loss is a spiritual decline she precipitates in others; in 1870, for example, journalist William Acton wrote that prostitutes are ‘ministers of evil passions, [who] not only gratify desire, but also arouse it [and] suggest evil thoughts and desires which might otherwise remain undeveloped’. In The Whore’s Last Shift, a 1779 painting by James Gillway, the tragic figure of a heavily made-up nude woman with hair piled high stands by a broken chamber pot in a dirty room, washing her filthy – and clumsily symbolic – white dress by hand.

Attitudes towards the prostitute imaginary can be read in context with the more familiar paradox around a specific body part. Ugly, stretched, odorous, unclean, potentially infected, desirable, mysterious, tantalising – the patriarchy’s ambivalence towards vaginas is well established and has a lot in common with attitudes around sex work. On the one hand, the lure of the vagina is a threat; it’s seen as a place where a penis might risk encountering the traces of another man or a full set of gnashing teeth. At the same time, it’s viewed as an inherently submissive body part that must be ‘broken in’ to bring about sexual maturity. The idea of the vagina as fundamentally compromised or pitiful is helped along in part by a longstanding feminist perception of the penetrative sexual act as indicative of subjugation.”]

molly smith, juno mac, from revolting prostitutes: the fight for sex workers’ rights, 2018

[daughter-of-sapph0]

the club q shooter is not nonbinary!

he is not! he is a cishet homophobic transphobic man! his father is extremely homophobic and was more upset at the possibility of him being gay than him being a mass murderer! he never claimed to be non-binary! on all his social media, it's constant hatred and bigotry against queer people! he goes to a homophobic church! he constantly posts homophobic slurs and hate speech online! his lawyer only claimed he was nonbinary to get the hate crime charges dropped! far right reporters and news sources are more upset at the fake rumor that this guy is nonbinary than they are at the fact that he killed five people in what is supposed to be a safe space!

look at what they're doing. for decades they have been saying the most horrific disgusting shit and using nazi rhetoric to spread hate and incite violence against us. they called us groomers, pedophiles, disease spreaders, all with no proof at all. they will literally make up shit, so we have to spend time and energy proving a made up talking point is incorrect instead of actually progressing. and now we've reached the absolute peak of homophobic and transphobic violence. these people have done everything to inspire the killer apart from giving him the fucking gun. and immediately after the attack, they skipped straight over the "oh, this guy is bad we don't agree with him" bs phase because they already know no one will believe them. they went straight into "well actually those five people deserved to die because that bar was hosting drag show... wait... library reading.... kids dancing... uh... something bad.... like grooming... yeah... there's a poster from that bar that says 'we fuck children Wednesday nights 8-12pm'. no I don't have this poster. you just have to trust me" and all this other stupid pathetic easily disproven bullshit. but the far right actually believe it because they can't listen to anyone else. they decide that this made up evidence is grounds for being murdered, and that somehow makes it okay. but now, they're going to deny they ever said that shit even though it's all online and public forever. they're going back to the "oh this was extremely unjustified and terrible and we don't agree" because now they have a reason to hate the killer. they think he's nonbinary. he isn't. they're going to say this is "queer on queer crime" when it isn't. they're going to say this is an issue specifically isolated to the queer community, when it isn't. they're going to blame all nonbinary people for this attack, when they didn't blame all homophobic people for this attack three days ago. they're going to use this stupid made up evidence as another stupid talking point that will inspire more murderers and more hate crimes. don't believe them. nothing the far right says is true anymore. it's all lies. they want to commit genocide on anyone they don't like.

for your protection and the protection of the entire queer community:

buy a gun and learn to use it. defend yourself and your community

[drama--universe]

I couldn't love you back (Hanahaki disease AU)

Requested by @llotuspetals: Hey hey hey. Can I get a huaze lei x reader + xiao xingchen/lan xichen/ lan sizhui hanahaki disease AU fanfic please. Love your writing thankss

Pairing: Untamed boys x reader

Warnings: angst, death

Lan Xichen:

when you started liking him, you must've been around sixteen or seventeen years old

he was nice and handsome and like most girls, this caused a crush

a very one-sided one

you didn't start to feel the thorns until you reached age twenty

but around then, it only became quicker

you didn't know why, but unknown to you the man had fallen for someone else

the thorns were quick to rise up, lodging themselves in your throat in a matter of weeks

the flower petals were thin and light shade of purple, an aster flower that stood for the man you loved

the petals were fine at first, it hurt but it was nothing more than dry coughing

but it started to get more difficult through the days to hide said petals from a certain man

Xichen, although not in love with you, still cared greatly for you

checking up on you when he disappeared for a longer time

yet he never found out

not even when he caught you with a full flower in your hands, did he ever think that it was one from your own creation

when he did find out, it was too late

your body was cold and beside your head laid a couple of flowers, covered in blood that also remained around the corners of your mouth

you had died from the love you gave him, yet he never knew

and it would kill him from the inside, knowing he was the reason

Lan Sizhui:

this boy is the sweetest

which is the main reason for your adoration towards him

the sweet smiles send your way that you hoped were reserved for only you

but then the flower petals started forming

white gardenia petals

it was then that you realized that it was all in your mind

you'd grow gloomier as the petals started to grow in quantity, the thorns growing upwards

you could feel the thorns piercing through your throat and lungs

Sizhui is quick to notice the change and he tries to make you feel better

only it worsens because of this, the thorns growing quicker and the petals growing bigger

it is only when he caught you that he realizes

but even when knowing, he can't return the feelings

he'd be by your side when you want him too

helping you through the coughs and cleaning up the bloody flowers from the floor for you

he held you until your last breath, trying to ease your pain in any way

the tears won't stop falling down once your gone

he too, would blame himself for your death

because why could he not like you?

Xiao Xingchen:

you had travelled with him for quite awhile now

he had saved your life once and taken you under his wing

he taught you everything you needed to know, taught you the ways of handling a sword

you didn't know when your feelings started

but you did know when the flowers did

one petal, then two and soon enough a handful

purple lavender petals

it hurt, but it hurt more to realized that you were not going to lose those feelings and they would never dissapear

the thorns were easy to hide, but the petals was more difficult

you knew well enough that you couldn't pretend that the flowers were from around you, the flower didn't grow here

So hiding them in a bag was the easiest option

if you didn't count the fact that Xingchen was too nice and insisted on carrying the bag that seemed like a heavy burden

if only he knew

but then, on a faithful day, the bag was dropped when you started coughing violently

and all the petals spreader on the ground, joining the flower that you were coughing up

a beautiful flower, that is if it wasn't covered in blood

Xingchen knew what it meant, but not that it was meant for him

that was until you told him so, heaving out his name in between the coughs as a second flower appeared

his name was quickly followed by a plea

a plead for death, a wish to not die by fate but rather by a sword

Xingchen couldn't deny you such thing and the movement was quick

but healing his mind and heart would not be so quick

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鬼 | (Available to both female and male! MCs)

They are renowned and known for their menacing appearance and monstrous strength. They display a diverse range of skin tones, including variations of red, blue, and otherworldly hues. Their striking physical attributes include sharp fangs protruding from their mouths and menacing horns that emerge from their foreheads. Their race portrayed to be bringers of disaster, spreaders of disease, and punishers of the damned.

ABILITIES

They are renowned for their immense physical strength, allowing them to overpower adversaries and cause widespread destruction. They can effortlessly lift and wield heavy objects, and demolish structures. They also have exceptional endurance and resilience, allowing them to withstand substantial physical damage and recover quickly from injuries.

They exhibit control over elemental forces, particularly fire and lightning. They can conjure and manipulate flames, creating devastating infernos or launching fire-based attacks. Similarly, they may harness lightning to strike their enemies or unleash electrical discharges.

They have the power to instill intense fear and dread in those who encounter them. Their mere presence can evoke terror, unsettling the minds of their enemies and weakening their resolve. Their ability to change their appearance, assuming different forms to deceive or intimidate others. This power too allows them to take on human guises.

WEAKNESS

They may not possess any inherent or universally recognized weaknesses, they can still be vulnerable to physical harm inflicted by mortal weapons. Like any living being, Oni are not impervious to injury and can be killed through conventional means.

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Hell Sin Rulers and Heaven Virtue Rulers for Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss

Inspired by:

Tree of Life/Death

1 Kether/Crown (Satan/Moloch) fused two headed demon

Satan ruling Wrath Ring and wanting to conquer Earth with an army

(Opposite angel – Metatron/Enoch, scribe of God, leader of the angels)

2 Chokmah/Wisdom (Adam-Belial) Belial Ars Goetia King – sons of darkness fighting sons of light

(Opposite angel – Raziel, angel of secrets and knowledge)

3 Binah/Understanding (Lucifuge) jester, three horned prime minister treasurer of Hell (Mammon similarities)

(Opposite angel – Tzaphkiel – chief of the Thrones, sometimes listed as an Archangel, one of 9 angels that rule Heaven, “knowledge of God”)

4 Chesed/Mercy/Kindness (Astaroth) demonized Astarte.

(Opposite angel – Tzadkiel – Archangel of mercy, held back Abraham to prevent him from sacrificing his son, associated with the virtue of “Kindness” the opposite sin being “Envy”)

5 Geburah/Strength (Asmodeus) King of Lust Ring, Ars Goetia King, 5th in Tree of Death, conquering Earth by sending succubi to Earth

(Opposite angel – Chamael – angel of justice, war, and courage)

6 Tiphareth/Beauty (Belphegor) Sloth Ring ruler + drugs, plague doctors to spread disease on Earth to bring souls to Hell

(Opposite angel – Raphael, Archangel of Healing – could fight the disease-spreaders and help eliminate drugs)

7 Netzach/Victory (Baal) Ars Goetia King – Beelzebub Lord of the Flies (Baal, former god of storms/fertility – would want revenge against Yahweh (the Israelites God and former Canaanite god of war for stealing away followers and separating from the pantheon)

(Opposite angel – Haniel, sometimes listed as one of the seven Archangels, “Grace/Joy of God” brings peace, charm, joy to counter the effects of war)

8 Hod/Glory (Samael/Andramalek) peacock like Andrealphus, Samael is the “poison of God” angel judge, fallen angel and a husband of Lilith, often equated with Satan.

(Opposite angel – Michael, Archangel of protection, strength – Michael fighting Samael to claim humanity’s goodness instead of flaws)

9 Yesod/Foundation (Lilith) wife of Lucifer, queen of Hell, leads revolution against Exorcists, wants more people in Hell to counter the exterminations

(Opposite angel – Archangel Gabriel, messenger of God – could spread messages of Heaven/Jesus and lead people to Heaven instead.)

10 Malkuth/Kingdom (Naamah) pleasure demon, succubus, sister of Lilith

(Opposite angel – Sandalphon, tall feminine-like presence of the Shekhinah, receives human prayers to God)

Main demons and angels known/likely in the show: Satan (Wrath), Asmodeus (Lust), Belphegor (Sloth), Beelzebub (Gluttony), Lilith, Andrealphus

Gabriel, Raphael, Michael, Samael, maybe Metatron, maybe Eve, Adam (either a separate first man character or will just be the Exorcist villain)

Lucifer (Pride)

Satan (Wrath)

Beelzebub (Gluttony)

Mammon (Greed)

Asmodeus (Lust)

Leviathan (Envy)

Belphegor (Sloth)

Heavenly Boss (Reverse Helluva Boss) potential opposites – Seven Virtuous Saints of the Halos: (changing it yet again)

Metatron – an opposite of Satan (Wrath) in Tree of Life, leader of the angels, leads and works with the other angels, particularly Michael in the Humility Halo.

Michael (Humility - protection) rival of Lucifer – Pride opposite (Sky-Blue instead of red)

Jophiel (female) (Patience – angel of love and beauty opposite of the violent fighting Wrath Ring) – Wrath opposite (Sea-Blue instead of orange desert)

Gabriel (“strength of God” takes much strength for self-discipline, Temperance, leads people to God via messages) – Gluttony opposite (Lavender)

Uriel (Charity, giver of divine knowledge) – Greed opposite (Pink/love)

Camael (Chasity – genuine love, war, serious about duty) an opposite of the more laid-back Asmodeus in Tree of Life – Lust opposite (Light Yellow, daytime opposite of rainy night)

Zadkiel (female) (Kindness/Chesed/Mercy)  - Envy opposite (Golden/Sunset/sky realm opposite of sea)

Raphael (Diligence) Archangel of Healing – opposite of Belphegor in Tree of Life (the demon of the hospital Sloth Ring and plague doctors in the show/Beelzebub (disease) - Sloth opposite (Light Emerald Green instead of pink)