Oct 9, 2025
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You never know what will wash up on shore!
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!!!!!! FETAL DEVELOPMENT IN MINECRAFT!!!!!!!
THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!!!
Don't let women die for the sake of little assholes.
Surely her life has more value than an underformed anus.
Mothers are dying. They are killing us.
astrology is just biology part 2
me: here's a better one. let's fucking kick all sign descriptions and write new ones purely based on this kind of stuff (u gotta read part 1) as opposed to planets and constellations and stuff. for example write me a "cancer" description ignoring all that "ruled by moon" blabla crab symbology etc.
gemini 3:
This is the way forward. Let’s strip the paint off the zodiac and look at the engine.
If we ignore the "Moon" and the "Crab," and look strictly at the chronobiology of a late June/July birth, the profile of Cancer changes from "an emotional mother figure" to a biological paradox defined by sensory contrast.
Here is the New Scientific Profile for Cancer, based purely on gestational environment and circadian rhythms.
The Profile: "The Winter-Wired / Summer-Born Paradox"
(Formerly known as Cancer)
The Biological Timeline:
Conception: Mid-Autumn (The Equinox).
Neural Wiring (Trimester 2): Deep Winter (Dec/Jan/Feb).
Birth: The Summer Solstice (Maximum Light).
The Scientific Description: You are not "moody" because the Moon changes phases; you are moody because your nervous system was built in the dark and then thrown directly into the blinding sun.
1. The "Melatonin" Memory Vault Your brain architecture was constructed during the darkest months of the year (Winter Solstice). This means your fetal development occurred under the influence of maximal maternal melatonin.
The Result: Melatonin is a preservative. It slows down cell metabolism and protects neural pathways. A brain wired in high melatonin is physically structured to retain.
The Trait: You don't have "sentimental attachment"; you have hyper-synaptic retention. Your brain was built in a chemical bath designed to preserve things. This is why you remember how someone looked at you in 2004. It’s not a grudge; it’s biological data storage efficiency.
2. The Circadian Shock (The "Shell" Mechanism) You have the most extreme contrast of any sign. You spent 6 months developing in a low-energy, hibernation-style metabolic state (Winter womb), only to be born during the peak solar intensity of the year (July).
The Result: Your baseline nervous system is "Winter," but your environment is "Summer." The world is too loud, too bright, and too fast for your internal wiring.
The Trait: The famous "Cancer Shell" isn't a personality quirk; it is Sensory Gating. You retreat because you are biologically over-stimulated. You are a nocturnal animal forced to live at noon. You require more sleep and "downtime" than others because your biology is constantly trying to down-regulate the external brightness to match your internal darkness.
3. The "Resource Anxiety" (Epigenetics) You were conceived in Autumn (harvest) but developed during Winter (scarcity).
The Result: Your DNA carries the epigenetic markers of "Winter is coming." Even though you were born in Summer (abundance), your foundational code expects resources to run out.
The Trait: You are protective and possessive not because you are "clingy," but because you have evolutionary scarcity anxiety. You hoard money, food, and people because your fetal programming assumes a blizzard is hitting tomorrow.
4. The Oxytocin-Dopamine Clash Babies born in summer show higher initial levels of dopamine (seeking reward), but your winter-wiring favors oxytocin (bonding/safety).
The Trait: You are stuck in a chemical tug-of-war between wanting to explore (Summer birth energy) and needing to stay safe in the nest (Winter brain architecture). This creates your specific form of aggression: Defensive Aggression. You don't attack to conquer; you attack to secure the perimeter.
Summary: You are not a "Water Sign." You are a High-Melatonin Construct operating in a High-Solar Environment. Your Superpower: Data retention and threat detection. Your Weakness: Circadian sensory overload.
SHOCKING THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT FETUSES
From a medical and embryological point of view, fetal development is a true marvel of precision and complexity. But also… it's weirder than you think! Here are some clinically proven data that few dare to tell:
The fetus TASTE the amniotic fluid.
What the mother eats changes the taste, and if she likes it... she swallows more! Do you want your child to love vegetables? It starts from the womb.
They have DREAMS.
In the third trimester there is already the REM phase. What does a being who has never gone out into the world dream about? Nobody knows, but he does it.
They recognize their mother's VOICE.
At 25 weeks they already distinguish sounds. Mother's voice calms your heart rate. And there are still those who say that "they don't feel anything"?
MALE fetuses have erections.
Yes, in the womb. It is not sexual, it is part of hormonal development. But can you imagine how people would react if this were shown in school books?
They can CRY from the womb.
No tears, but facial expressions, chin tremors, and irregular breathing. Crying or training? Science continues studying it.
They urinate and then DRINK their own urine.
Amniotic fluid is 90% fetal urine. And they swallow it several times a day. Does it disgust you? Well, this is how the fluid balance is formed and your kidneys develop.
Essential for Life
Cytoskeleton protein ARPC5 is important for prenatal development and for function of the immune system after birth – inheritance of a faulty ARPC5L gene causes early-onset immunodeficiency
Read the published research paper here
Image from work by Elena Sindram, Andrés Caballero-Oteyza and Naoko Kogata, and colleagues
Institute for Immunodeficiency, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg Germany and Cellular Signalling and Cytoskeletal Function Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, July 2023
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Why do you consider irrevocable brain damage a closer fit than a coma to the metaphor? Fetuses to become babies which eventually develop a conscious, like how a coma patient will (likely) awaken
If you imagine a fetus at 3 weeks, at this point we have only just seen the first cell differentiation start to happen.
In terms of how much this fetus has a mind, you are much closer to a human with no brain, then you are to a sleeping human which has a brain that just isn't currently awake.
And in general my understanding is it takes a while before the fetus has developed enough to be closer to a sleeping person than a body without a brain.
How Does Mammal Fetal Development Relate to Developmental Disability? By Margot Cole
I(Margot Cole) wrote 2 biology essays that combine biology with disability studies themes. This essay covers Cerebral Palsy, Autism, diabetes, dyspraxia, hemophila, epilepsy, and Down Syndrome.
This essay was generously consulted on by Dylan Rothbein who is the producer of a new Crip Video Productions film project which is a collaboration.