DE make that Sentient female-presenting Singer Male or Non-binary and their appearance more a Job/Fashion thing and my life is. Not yours, but I will be happier.
Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)
For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.
So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.
We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon
I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.
I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.
I've noted before that my favorite punchline on Tumblr is "hang on, gotta look something up/okay that's funny."
Let me explain why:
It is a way to say "I don't get it" without blaming the joke or the teller.
It is a tacit admission of ignorance without shame or judgement.
It assumes responsibility for acquiring the knowledge the respondent doesn't already have.
It cues other people who Don't Get It to do the look-up themselves, allowing them to get that full impact of Getting It without derailing the post with explanations.
It gives subsequent readers, whether or not THEY got the joke, a little frisson of good feelings when they realize that someone else is now In On The Joke.
It not only makes the original joke funnier, it gets funnier the more often it's used.
To add 1 more, it’s also a great subversion of usual expectations, since it’s commonly held that if you need to take time to explain the joke it’s ruined because the comedic moment has passed. Finding the joke funny post-explanation turns this around and also affirms that, with context, the joke fucking slaps, whether or not the timing is consistent. Plus it’s got the joy of learning in there!!!
Another hilarious thing I feel we should talk about more is the fact that *film* Aragorn and Arwen break up right before Aragorn leaves Rivendell……. meaning that film!Aragorn spends most of the quest in an “oh my god my relationship of 50 years just ended what do I even do with myself????” depression haze.
It explains so much…..
Like. Externally Aragorn is on an epic quest to save Middle Earth, internally he’s crying on the couch in his sweatpants eating a tub of the Middle-Earth equivalent of Ben and Jerry’s
To be clear I actually love the film’s version of Aragorn/Arwen’s relationship, there’s a lot of Dramatic Potential/ angsty meta you could write on it, but–.
BUT
It’s also like– you think Aragorn has to put up with Legolas and Gimli’s annoying romance antics? Legolas and Gimli have to deal with Aragorn spending half the quest staring wistfully into the distance and sighing dramatically about What Can Never Be™…with how often he sings the Lay of Luthien, basically the Middle Earth equivalent of Adele’s Someone Like You….
Gimli: This lovely Rhohirrim woman is clearly into you. She’s a fighter. You’re a fighter. She loves horses. You love horses (also you smell like one). Give her a chance!
Aragorn: *flashbacks to him and Arwen making out in Imladris while the elvish version of “when somebody loved me” plays in the background.
I want this in every library, everywhere. After all, some kids won’t even google this stuff because they don’t want parents/siblings checking their browser history.
This is really awesome. And if you’re not familiar with how the Dewey Decimal system works - the numbers subject-based, which means these numbers are applicable in EVERY library. So if you see something you want to research on this list - look for those same numbers in any of your local libraries.
at one point I wondered how I was possibly able to remember so much worldbuilding for such long periods of time and now I wonder why the fuck I didn’t write it down
@sevastiel genuinely interesting question considering the Infestation CAN be cured, (in the Origin System, hi Alad) but the Helminth Strain at least transcends TIME to an extent and seems to be a bit more difficult to dislodge. Do the Hiveminds cancel eachother out? Does the Helminth and its Hivemind of Void-attuned Warframes eat The Blood’s or do they compare notes?
Also: everyone who’s been infected has never managed to get UN-infected. The same goes for The Blood but that’s arguably ONE case that’s on-screen.. so we wouldn’t know now difficult it would be to cure
Then again, the people who could’ve held the cures in both settings didnt really want them to be uninfected. So.
So. What we know about both is where I'll start, because off the bat
I'm going to assume Helminth takes the win, with the Blood AND the guy getting assimilated by it.
So so... Doesn't matter who gets em first, Helminth ends up on top in the end. For reasons I'll specify below.
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NOTES BELOW CUT. THIS IS GONNA BE LONG. Spoiler warning for Iron Lung and Warframe. TLDR at the veery bottom.
BLOOD
Going over what I know about it first, since I don't have anywhere NEAR as much info.
1- It takes a long time to really 'kick in' and start showing physical effects. Simon got a strip across his face and it took about a day or more for the area to redden, iirc. It didn't REALLY start mutating him until there was a fair amount of it on him either, and it had a long while to work.
2- It took the sub cracking under pressure for blood to get in at all, and then it grew off of itself rather than growing INTO the things. If assimilation did occur, it was mostly due to and with living flesh. It's hard to say how much of the Blood effect on the sub towards the end was 'real' but in lieu of that answer I'm going to assume all of it.
3- Once it is in an area, it congregates to itself RAPIDLY. It needs its own mass to do this.
4- How much of a hivemind it actually is seems a bit... up in the air. The only minds we hear are from the science team, so if there is one it's not connected to the "light", any of the dead souls that make up the ocean, etc.
5- It's not a hivemind that seems capable of forcing control. If Eli could have forced Simon to do things, it would have. Moreover, the mutations that Simon ultimately suffered were geared towards him, meaning that getting connected to the blood doesn't 'add' you to the hivemind as much as it just creates a sort of empty link. So, you can still 'use' it and grow in a separate way that would hurt the 'hivemind' (Just Eli and the science team), even if it tries to enforce it's own idea of what you should be onto you. (Fishimon -> tree)
6- It's power source, or... 'origin,' definitely isn't connected to the hive. Whatever the light's goal is/whatever it wants, is definitely not what Eli wants, is definitely not what Simon wants. Eli hivemind actively changed its thoughts on what it wanted using information it learned through Simon, too, which means it's bound to local time/space.
7- It's unclear how much of the mind the Blood actually alters if it does at all. Aside from creating connection, Simon was still Simon till the end that we know of. It was exposure to the light that actually made Weird Shit Happen, and how much Simon was hallucinating/out of it can more directly be attributed to the known symptoms of dehydration+extreme stress+starvation+overheating+Did I mention stress+SEVERE radiation exposure+Sleep deprivation+multiple concussions+Multiple other injuries+Drinking Fucking Rubbing Alcohol
8- I don't know whether the vision of future Simon was blood related time fuckery, god related time fuckery, or just time fuckery time fuckery. We don't see time fuckery at other points so I assume it's not the blood.
So, this all leaves me with the conclusion that the Blood functions more like a mycelium network.
It is neutral, and manipulatable by the minds that tap into it to a certain degree.
Eli/the science squad got directly tapped in and grew/mutated, and used it as a way to contact Simon, (and later seemed to try and mutate him into something like them) but didn't seem to control the Blood as much as they were aware that the Blood Wanted To Tap In. Because the Light wanted to see, yk?
If they could actively control it I think Simon would have been dead/assimilated WAY faster, as they were in a similar sub themselves and would have been able to 1, get/corrupt the blackbox, 2, mess with the controls more directly, 3, interrupt other systems, 4, mess with the power, etc etc etc. The fact that Simon was able to dive into a giga puddle and get the blackbox and get back out alive is proof of this. If the blood could grow on itself, and they could control it, they coulda locked him in there so easy.
Now.
HELMINTH. (Lizzie! Yay!)
1- If you don't know already, Warframe's Infestation probably sweeps every other bio-plague on the block, if you grant all strain usage. (Some of the strains might solo, also. Grey and common specifically.)
It is made to assimilate EVERYTHING, to constantly adapt and grow. It can survive in space, it can consume and manipulate code and any other form of energy, and it can infest and subsume and actively utilize basically every material we've come across in some form or another given time. This shit eats planets. Literally. And did I mention the core of it's split hivemind exists outside the realm of reality, in the void, where it can reach all time and space? Also I don't know where the hell it gets it's mass from but it doesn't seem completely limited to shit it can ingest. Or it can manipulate what it does eat at an obscene level.
The only reason Warframe's universe isn't uberfucked is because every single faction in the solar system shakes hands over "fuck that and kill everything you see and abandon any ship that gets taken and please god get the tenno on site" and have been doing so for the last thousand years. The amount of shit that's been thrown at it, only for it to survive somewhere and regrow, is comedic. Earth nuked itself into oblivion trying to get rid of the first outbreaks and failed. (Hello, 1999! And then 1899! And... Duviri??? And then- Albrecht stop fucking instating that shit back further in time and farther in space whaT ARE YOU DOING-)
Our final saving Grace (and also the biggest problem) is that it's split into multiple smaller hiveminds with different specialties, intelligences, and growth types, that don't always get along.
2- The Helminth is one of those hiveminds. It is, specifically, extremely old, extremely intelligent, and tailor made to infest specifically people. It's more than capable of subsuming/running right on over other forms of infestation, and is capable of consuming basically everything and using it. It also has connections to many other forms of infestation already, iirc, and the void itself in general.
(Source: We can and do feed it most materials in the game, including infested ones, it's the thing that makes/operates/is/upkeeps warframes, which are biomechanical super soldiers who can wield the power of the void itself to truly ridiculous usage. With frames like Nidus and Caliban it shows that it can take normally living other forms of infestation or biomechanical life (I do think the sentients are a form of infestation) and take sole control over manipulation. And through visions I believe we see it having connections to the grey strain and further, as well as Eleanor (a protoframe granted telepathic connection via Helminth) being able to reach so far out into the void she can find alternate versions of herself. In different. Universes. Eleanor can reach farther than the Man in the Wall can, do NOT tell her (wally) she will be so jelly and like 203987x as mad we took 1999 man-
3- It is not limited to humans whatsoever. It infests our spaceship, grows huge manipulatable flesh masses, and makes pretty flowers. <3 Nor does it 'need' humans to create any sentient, organic life. Just material.
4- Infestation does seem easier when it's directly transmitted by fluid, (see: serums, Flare's guitar getting infested with a chunk of their own brain through shredding until their fingers bled, etc) but whether or not this is an actual limitation is currently unknown to me. It also seems to require quite a bit of itself to allow full scale biological changes (complete mutation) and propagates quite slowly, and is generally non infectious. (Possibly by choice, possibly by design, entirely unclear.) I'm not ENTIRELY sure why multiple doses of the serum are needed to warframe a person, but I'd assume it's actually pretty bad at 'growing' itself without specific things. Warframes take 3 days to build from scratch, after all.
(I believe it took at minimum 1 serum dose to completely alter the protoframe's externals, and another to alter the internals/allow for void usage.)
5- It's also good to note that the Helminth IS capable of communication with us, and has full control over everything that is "Helminth". Down to the spores. We are very, VERY lucky it likes us. This control allows it to custom alter how its infestation affects people physically, allowing it to, say. Infest someone, change their bodies to it's whim, and then alter it's biological programming to preserve consciousness and memory despite warframes being made to lose big chunks of specifically that. (See: Flare) It can force control, it doesn't want to.
So...
Helminth subsumes/alters with conscious intent, and has few limits if any aside from that which it imposes on itself.
FINAL TLDR!!!
Helminth goes "nom" and eats both.
What the fuck is the blood gonna do, man? It can eat the guy but like. Unless another conscious mind in the network reaches out its just Getting Bloodified.
There's literally nothing that we genuinely know of stopping the Helminth from waltzing in, taking a good gander, and going "Cool shit! New new for My Me! :D"
And if there was another mind in the network, if it cant control the blood physically and can only loosely impose a possible growth path- which can be overridden by the subsumed guy and/or any other living thing- then how the Fuck is it gonna override however many minds are in the Helminth?
See this take is very interesting but now I’m picturing Lizzie with stick figure limbs taking Eli for a walk on-leash like a freaking dog. Eli can use her overabundance of ribs as legs
Announced the end of all physical PS game releases
While simultaneously announcing the end of two of their console game stores — ensuring multiple games will die forever
Declared that they are wholly dedicated to (A) leveraging A.I. when making games and (B) creating live-service games above all other game types
Announced that if you bought any movies through their PlayStation Store, over 550 of them will soon be deleted from all users' libraries — with no restitution offered of any kind
Gamers, it is time — to paraphrase Robert Vann — to turn Sony's picture to the wall. Any one of these insults would be bad, and taken alone? Maybe it could be swallowed. But this is an ongoing campaign of disdain towards customers, with each declaration worse than the last.
PlayStation does not deserve your patronage any longer. The PS6 must fail. Leave them behind.
Do you guys remember the original Xbox One announcement? Where all games would only have one installation before the disc became useless, the console had to be always online to function, and would be constantly listening to the room around it?
Remember how it got clowned on so badly that the person in charge resigned on disgrace and they did a full 180 on everything they had committed to?
Those were good times.
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