MajesticalDiscomfort

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

OOH!! I just found "Crawling Chaos," that'd work perfectly for the battle early in book 1 against a hive mind leech monster summoned by a blood cult.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After listening to a few different songs, I don't think they'd fit the tone of the video essay, BUT they'd work very well for a fiction series I've been hyperfixated on that I've been wanting to animate. For example, "Hastur" would work really well for a certain really tragic scene from book 1 I have in mind (I won't specify because it's a spoiler if you ever intend to read the series yourself).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fantastic!! Can I actually get a link to your music to listen to while writing? It's unlikely to end up a central theme, but I do intend to have the fact that I used to be a genetics and genomics major back when I could afford college be a sort of "beat drop" at the relevant moment.

Before I deleted my Xitter account back in 2023, I ended up being blocked by a lot of transphobes after dropping my college transcript (doxxable info censored, of course) in response to being told that I "don't understand basic biology."

I'm hoping to get in contact with my professor from back when I was in college, Michael Turelli, to invite him to interview for the video, but he's likely busy.

 

My target audience are people "on the fence" of becoming transphobic, and people who cause harm to the trans community without knowing it by spreading misinformation (that they don't know is misinformation) and disrespecting trans people overall.

Right now, I just want a list of transphobic claims to debunk, and ideally sources to aid in debunking them.

While I won't be going through the list point-for-point in the video essay, I intend to slot them into relevant sections that I've already planned out.

Reliable experts to research for reference would also be very helpful. knight-nod

My goal is to be as non-hostile as possible--extending the courtesy of respect, in the hopes that some of them will reciprocate that respect.

I don't expect civility from the entire group, but every new ally counts. trans-heart

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Plz just pet me. I need friendship

 

Can someone please pet me (platonically)

Thank you creature

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Thank you!!! ;u;

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I have no idea. She used the topical spray.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)
 

Hi, I'm streaming the GregTech: New Horizons modpack for Minecraft with my hubby pika-pickaxe

Hoping to have some new friends around. I added a new emote for followers... creature

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Thanks. I'm awake again after a 26-hour mini-coma and have had some cookie dough and fruit juice. I'm gonna play Minecraft now. pika-pickaxe

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

sue their ass to pay your medical bills

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Yeah, while the cervix isn't 1:1 with a urethra, the idea of cramming objects into a tiny hole that was never meant to have objects inside it works well to compare them. I've had a catheter put in before prior to a surgery (they wanted to do a pregnancy test "just in case" even as my appendix was about to burst) and imo the IUD insertion was much worse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Several years ago I had to have a catheter put in prior to an appendectomy (they decided that testing to see if I was pregnant first was more important than scanning to see what was going on with my appendix, but I was in too much pain to urinate on my own) and yeah the IUD insertion was worse

 

Had to take 25 mg of hydroxyzine for my anxiety, and 1,000 mg of acetaminophen + 800 mg ibuprofen just to tolerate the pain.

It was still painful enough to make me scream, but at least it was faster than the first time. She actually knew what she was doing, it seemed like, but I don't think she anticipated how much pain I'd be in.

Also! I think I might be allergic to benzocaine! The topical anaesthetic she used burned like hell.

 

Should I be concerned?

 

The Nameless

A group of fungal entities that sustain themselves by consuming concepts and ideas, effectively removing those concepts and ideas from the thoughts and memories of people around them.

The strongest of these creatures can wipe a concept from the minds of an entire nation, or even an entire world. Usually they need to enter a position of authoritarian power to do this without their nature being revealed.

The Nameless unanimously agreed not to be found or identified by other entities, so as not to be hindered in their feeding. People who hear of them tend to forget nearly immediately, and the Nameless have protocols in place to delete/destroy any written documentation of their existence.

Many of them parasitize an individual human, prioritizing the elderly, due to their abundance of knowledge and general inability to resist. The Nameless tend to occupy senior citizen homes.

Sometimes, however, they choose to parasitize younger humans that are sickly but book-smart. While also unable to resist well, and too young to have gathered an abundance of knowledge, they tend to pick it up quickly and make sufficient hosts for the Nameless.

Spanning across multiple galaxies, The Nameless have learned that intelligent and social species make the best hosts, and make a point not to feed on knowledge that would otherwise lead to the invention of global communications.

Nearly every planet occupied by the Nameless has the following traits:

  1. Primarily inhabited by an intelligent and social species that is capable of developing civilization.
    1. The primary species is NOT a hive-mind species. The Nameless can't feed on hive-minds.
  2. Some form of long-range communication is developed within a few years of colonization.
  3. Global communication is achieved in around a century.
  4. Despite unhindered access to information, the primary species seems too unintelligent to have invented their communications in the first place. This is due to late-stage feeding.
  5. Always on the tipping point of annihilation; the Nameless need to cover their tracks so as not to be caught.
    1. Even fictional references to beings similar to The Nameless are wiped or drowned out by unrelated information.
  6. The primary species is deliberately drip-fed incorrect information about the nature of the universe. Some of this false information is benign, other false information is intentionally designed to draw the species off the scent of the Nameless.
    1. The benign false info serves as both a red herring and a point of argumentation between members of the primary species, to distract them from discovery.
    2. For example, humans were led to believe that the electrical signals between neurons were the source of their sapience and not a side effect; while the nature of butterflies, a species that dissolves down to the neuron but can remember stimuli from before pupation, disproves this belief in its entirety, research on why this is the case has been deliberately stunted.
      1. The few researchers who discover the real reason are fed on, and the explanation is lost.
      2. They've caught me.
 

My hubby forwarded this screenshot to me from a GTNH Discord server and I feel it is valuable advice for anyone struggling with American healthcare.

 

I was only able to stream for an hour before I had to stop.

Now I solidly can't enjoy anything. What do I do?

 

Aaaaaaaaaa hi everyone I wasn't expecting so many new friends so fast and I should sleep hyperflush

I don't know what I'm doing
 

I am very new and very dumb. kitty-cri

Please give me directions that are /srs

I will most likely not detect sarcasm and struggle without explicit instructions. creature

I am on mobile currently. I'm supposed to be asleep. I am not asleep. I'm hyperfixated on new internet place.

I haven't quite figured out the UI yet but it might just not be optimized for mobile. Is there an app or should I just wait until I get back on my PC?

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