#vice-c1ty

[aubrgn]

since i've barely touched my tablet much this past month+, i decided to start small and finish up this cell-styled pic i drew for vice-c1ty yonks ago.

[derpsterony]

vice-c1ty reblogged your post:NO KOREA SWEEP TODAY

until they win worlds for the 2nd year in a row and you cry yourself to sleep because no other region will ever dethrone...

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

pls no crush my dreamerinos

[biologyweeps]

there have been people who have experienced supernumerary limbs without the loss of them so when others claim to experience phantom sensations it's not appropriating medical terminology because it's not a term conclusive to only a particular group of individuals. :P

so, let’s review all the instances of phantom limbs in medical/scientific lit, shall  we?

- ‘classic’ phantom limbs, experiences after loss of a body part (can interestingly also go for body parts that aren’t limbs, like breast or eyes). It’s most likely rooted the fact that the brain still has the neural structures related to said body part present while the body part itself is missing (here).

- sorta related here, on the bits of ‘brain has structure that body is lacking’ is that there are incidents of ftm transsexuals reporting phantom penis sensations pre-op (here) 

Then of course we got the supernumerary phantom limbs, which are much rarer in medical history. They basically come in two flavours:

- induced, in which the brain is tricked into the phantom sensations of a additional limb (here). The problem here is this sort of induction requires some deliberate tricking of the brain so I don’t think that’s really the explanation that otherkin wanna go for. Note how this study says that the object used to induce the phantom sensations must be humanoid, and also that 

the illusion depends on visuotactile-proprioceptive integration that obeys key spatial and temporal multisensory rules confined to near-personal space

Which means that not just do you have to see your own limb and the dummy limb that’ll induce the phantom limb , it also requires that the tactile input on the real hand and the dummy hand are parallel, to allow the brain to sort of ‘extend’ to it. That’s pretty damn deliberate.

- And then of course there’s the other form of supernumerary phantom limbs, and that’s the one after damage of the central nervous system, such as a stroke (here) or spinal cord injury (here). As such, these naturally occurring supernumerary phantom limbs are a sign of damaged feedback in the nervous system of the patient. I don’t think that’s a thing otherkin should allude to, either, because you know, brain damage. It’s also much rarer than post-traumatic limb loss phantom limbs (here).

So yeah, the vast majority of phantom limbs is medically significant either for traumatic loss of a body part, or damage to the CNS. I don’t think that otherkin should use that kind of language if other terms are readily available. 

[biologyweeps]

you only respect the otherkin whose beliefs aren't in direct conflict with your own. picking and choosing individuals out of a group whose origins of identity you think are okay compared to those apart of the group who believe otherwise is what constitutes the gross behavior. of course you'll say you have no agenda either, there is no reason for you to admit to it because then you'd lose all credibility. i suppose it's only a matter of time you slip up like mod Andrew did on OKQSSS. :P

This is not a matter of belief, this is a matter of ‘you and physical reality are in crass disagreement and I’m going to side with physical reality here because it’s got a very good track record of winning these cases’

Also yes I can decide that someone’s beliefs are not worthy of respect. Some people have harmful believes and I will absolutely not respect those. Not all beliefs and not all opinions were created equal.

No seriously what do you think is my agenda, I’m curious now. What big conspiracy do you consider me part of? 

[biologyweeps]

the only people who seem to think i'm in need of any sort of help are the one's who do not respect otherkin. i find that terribly ironic. ya'll have a hidden agenda although yours is less evident considering you're hiding under the guise of "biology" and other nonsense to mask your true intentions. it's pretty gross behavior to be completely honest and a horrible mentality.

also my use of “sect” is correct in the context of my original sentence. i didn’t mean it in the religious sense but rather a shortened version of “section” so i can understand the potential confusion. i didn’t want to say plane as i believe the sections of this planetary alignment are vastly different from the planes of reality that the universes in itself exhibit.

.. I have bad news for in regards to the whole ‘don’t respect otherkin’ thing. You know, there’s a lot of otherkin on my blog, sending me questions and generally having friendly conversation with me and they don’t bother me at all. The difference is that these people consider otherkin a spiritual thing (which you know it’s hard to the correctness of metaphysical things) and you… don’t. 

Secondarily, love how you put ‘biology’ into citation marks, lovely. 

I have no agenda aside from trying to clear up common misconceptions about science, help people who have questions in regards to science, and warn people about IRL dangers of things they might do while engaging metaphysical things, like people who use poisonous plants in spells. I’m sorry for you if that counts as ‘horrible mentality’ and ‘gross behaviour’ to you but I’m trying to genuinely help people get information and avoid injuries. 

[biologyweeps]

you should go back to calling out actual harmful things present within this website instead of reblogging my posts to play pretend doctor because you don't have the slightest idea about what you're talking about. webmd doesn't magically make you know everything there is to know about this particular sect of world.

wow that took you a particular long time to react to.

In case you didn’t read my reblog properly:

I’m well aware that you’re stuck in your ways and that there’s no helping you aside from maybe bludgeoning you over the head and dragging you to a hospital while you’re unconscious, which is, frankly speaking, unethical.

But while you might be stuck this way there are people out there who are not and who I can help by highlighting the issue for them, you know, as evident when one of my followers spoke up to stay that they had experienced the very same thing and never realized what further ramifications it could have. You’re a lost cause, other people aren’t. 

(also I assume ‘sect’ is a typo of some sort)

[truscumduke-blog]

except that i am trans as well

horizontal oppression never stopped being a thing buddy

there is literally no such thing as species dysphoria and by arguing there is, you're doing damage to trans people who actually want to be taken seriously

[itcrowe]

vice for ruskoobs