#virulence

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

For every one disorder that doctors cure with medication (it does happen occasionally, I'm told), there are ten others they provoke in healthy patients by inoculating them with a pathogenic agent a thousand times more virulent than all the germs you can name: the idea that one is ill.

from In Search of Lost Time, Book 3: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust

[tm86]

r slime girls still in rn

[possible-streetwear]

[ahhvernin]

What are the Eyes in Stray?

I have a theory to what they are. In microbiology bacteria can be free roaming, like the smaller zurks in the game, but bacteria often will form biofilm, a collective of many individual bacteria to form a mass, a film that usually clings to something, and grows. The most interesting thing about biofilms is quorum sensing, in which a biofilm, which can have a population of varying bacteria, mold, fungi, protozoa and viruses etc. together, actually sets up a self regulating system. Quorum Sensing allows the mass to control genes. Some are turned on or off, to do various different functions for the collective biofilm, such as defense, growth, virulence, bioluminescence, chemical secretion and many more other potential functions. And on top of it, biofilms are much more harder to kill than individual free swimming bacteria, they often have much higher resistance to the typical physical, chemical and radiation factors that could damage or kill them. Dental plaque is an example of biofilm, the fresh stuff is easy to brush away, the older stuff is more mineralized and becomes hard and difficult to remove. So....The eyes in the sewers could very well be a "biofilm". The makeup of the biofilm could be non roaming zurks, but also human genetics and organic material. The dead can provide growth resources but also genetics to various different resistances and growth hormones and regulators. If this biofilm was able to engulf live humans, human consciousness or intelligence, could possibly also be added to this large organism, due to the functioning neurological pathways in a live human compared to a dead one, the functioning bio pathway could have been rapidly integrated. Think how fungi can hijack an ant's living body to do weird behavior and climb to a point where it then dies and the fungi sporulates. The biofilm could perhaps even enhance whatever body systems and genetics from humans with any companion and computer operating systems as well. So we have the rapidly evolving, growing and virulent zurks, engulfing other organisms, and organic matter like many bacteria do, breaking them down and taking what materials they need to perform typical growth, but also randomly conserving parts that may become beneficial to them and it replicates, grows, and mutates forever more as time goes on. The eyes look like that of an animal, with eye lids and round pupil, it follows and have rather many expressions, and gives off a look of curiosity, and observing nature. This is a feature of animals, especially humans, but they also have a defensive response to be able to call in the free roaming zurks. So you have a higher intelligence behavior, paired with the rapid hive mind flooding to a stimuli, like microphages onto on a foreign body. The sewer eyes has to be a massive biofilm of zurk, human and whatever other micro or macro organisms that were dumped into the sewers.

[trashcore-whore]

Get Drunk on Disease

[onlyhurtforaminute]

NECROTIC PESTILENTIA-RICIN

[pleasant-india-tours]

Unique Culture of Rajasthan that make it Unique and Somthing Diffrent to others, and is pull factors of Rajasthan tourism in India.

[dictee]

i feel like it was widely acknowledged that separatist feminism is a reactionary and essentializing movement but i guess when it's practiced by the monolith of "oppressed south korean women" we must blindly trust that it's radical since we couldn't possibly think critically about a society as alien to us as. south korea...

this is the article linked to prove that the 4B movement is NOT transphobic? treating violent transphobia as an "academic disagreement" is in fact. transphobia.

[rollercoasterwords]

yeah u can put "i hate jkr" and "fuck terfs" in ur tumblr bio but. can u listen + reflect when a trans woman criticizes hp fandom without immediately getting defensive.....

[definitelynotshouting]

hunger au is so funny specifically because its so au-able like my friends and i keep making permutations upon permutations of it in our dms, which means i can say "hey remember bakery au" and my pal can immediately reply "thats the alt iteration of the immediate answers au where after being asked to leave hermitcraft grian ends up working at a bakery on a little tourist-trap type server but keeps all his coworkers and neighbors at arm's length until scar happens to run into him seven years later and spends a full desperate week trying to coax him into letting scar back into his life and also grian has a male living space situation right" and i go "right" and then we sit and talk for the next 24 business hours about the intricacies of kissing your depressed sort-of ex because you want to take care of them and give them nice things. explodes

[the-woman-upstairs]

Honestly, all my schadenfreude over the public evisceration of James Somerton by Hbomberguy and Todd in the Shadows is tempered by the anger I feel at how much damage, pain, misinformation, and marginalizing one man was capable of accomplishing through the platform he built through plagiarism, blatant lies, and outright bigotry.

And frankly it sucks that it took the efforts of two other popular YouTube creators to bring him down when Somerton was clearly never good at hiding any of his horrific behavior. There were clearly women and trans/non-binary people who knew something was up with him and his “work” but were either harassed/doxxed by the fans he set on them or knew they didn’t have the same kind of clout/support to be believed over him.

It just boggles my mind how EASY it would have been for him to cite these sources and work with other queer creators on the platform to help create a wealth of accessible, comprehensive knowledge of queer media and history available to a younger generation. Because clearly, there’s a hunger in the younger generations of queer kids/people for that knowledge, the understanding of the past, how it informs the present and creates the future. But all Somerton did was steal from other creators, ones who either didn’t know their work was stolen or were given the run-around by Somerton instead of proper accreditation.

Instead of uplifting other people and their research, he selfishly stole and hoarded it, before regurgitating it and claiming it was all his own while also infecting some excellent analysis with awful, bigoted opinions, particularly geared towards women, trans people, or any type of queer he didn’t believe was the “right kind.” You know, like all the “boring gays” that “survived” the AIDS crisis.

I want to believe that this time we’ll learn to not take people at face value, just because they give the appearance of professionalism and sound authoritative on whatever subject is covered. Because that’s how dangerous misinformation is spread and taken for fact. Todd was absolutely on the money when he pointed out how it is important to document all the lies and plagiarism with Somerton because how many young people believed what he was saying? How many people watched his videos on the adult film industry or “bad gays” or Nazis influence on body image and walked away thinking they were learning something about their history? Far too many, I’m sure.

Though at least having these two videos to refer to can help people learn when to spot someone who’s being disingenuous in “teaching people something.” And that any person who claims to be the “only person” talking about an issue is mostly likely lying and trying to sell you something. Usually, their own brand. It’s far better to diversify the people you follow and the voices you listen to, and the playlist Hbomberguy made available is a great place to start.

But I also recommend seeking out some of the original sources yourself. There’s typically queer history books/memoirs in the nonfiction section of your local library. You can find the original Celluloid Closet documentary on Tubi, along with another interesting one, Do I Sound Gay? Disclosure, the documentary on depictions of trans people in Hollywood, is available on Netflix. And that’s just a couple of the top of my head. If you’re looking for queer films in general, Wolfe Video has so many available for purchase or even just to peruse and rent the titles later.

I do hope some good comes out of all this, even if the damage done by Somerton still lingers in online queer spaces (fingers crossed this means the end of Illuminaughtii and Internet Historian as well). It helps to be wary of people seeking to take advantage of the online spaces we now inhabit, but there’s still people and places across the internet that are doing good work and want to help educate people. They may not always be easy to find and may even require some effort on the part of the audience, but the end result of really learning something, discovering interesting research/work, or being part of open minded discussions is a worthwhile reward. And always something to be proud of.

[rudjedet]

breaking the ancestral curse (fire bombing the chemical plant that has been poisoning our water for decades)

[daenystheedreamer]

elon's twitter verification system has done nothing but showcase the most extreme bigotry... it's both ridiculous and dangerous the kinds of people and ideas his platform boosts. it's been disgusting seeing how the most vile sexism, homophobia, racism and explicit anti-semitism is allowed to fester on that website. the anti-semitism and transphobia recently has been especially alarming and i truly no joke believe elon deserves to rot in prison or, god willing, execution.

[pleasant-india-tours]

Golden Triangle Tour with Varanasi is the most visited places in India, It is a mixture for 03 Major clutures of 3 states of India. Varanasi is counted in the most religious city for Hindu, During this trip you will visits:

Delhi: India Gate, Lotus Temple, Raj Ghat, Shanti Vana, the cremation sites of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and Red Fort, Jama Masjid, Spice market & Chandni Chowk, Humayun's Tomb, the Qutub Minar.

Agra: Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, MehtabBagh, Backside of Taj on Sunset point,

Jaipur: Amer Fort, Jal Mahal, Albert Hall, Hawa Mahal, Birla Mandir, Galtaji Monkey Temple, Jantar -Mantar, City Palace,

Varanasi : Where confluence of three rivers Ganga, Jamuna & Saraswati makes it the most auspicious place for worship as per Hindu religious text. Bharat Mata Temple, Durga temple, TulsiManasmandir, Banaras Hindu University which has an art gallery, KashiVishwanath Temple and an excursion to Sarnath – where Budhha delivered his first sermon,