apparently it can go on for a lot longer than that if placed in saline solution and given oxygen
Why do you know this?
i’m allowed to have hobbies
Snakes will do this too.
Eels can continue to move hours after death. And I don’t just mean that they’re good at not dying, I mean you can kill an eel and chop it up and the pieces of eel will try to move around.
Really, though, any organ can last awhile if placed in saline and oxygenated. That’s basically lousy blood, after all.
Gather round kids while I explain this manipulation tactic that men perpetually try to use and why it’s bullshit.
If someone is openly showing interest in you by making disparaging or disappointed comments about your age, they’re trying to put you on the defensive. This guy wants me to try to quell his discomfort, to bring up that I’m only a month shy of 20, etc. – he wants me to try to prove myself to him, that I’m mature and adult enough for a man like him.
His goal is to establish a power imbalance right off the bat. If we were to date, I would constantly be on the defensive, constantly striving to be an equal, constantly trying to prove my “adult” credentials. Anything he says or does or wants from this point on that I object to would just be seen as a strike against my age, proof that he was right and that I’m not mature enough for him. This is how SO MANY men pressure younger individuals (primarily women and girls) into situations and relationships they aren’t comfortable with. If he truly thought I was too young for him, he wouldn’t have messaged me. This is a very calculated move, and it’s fucking gross.
Adult relationships with age gaps are completely fine, but only if all parties view each other as equals. If someone is trying to set you up in a way that ensures that’s never a possibility, run far away.
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Reblogged for the commentary.
This is really important because I think that educating about power imbalances and how to spot that manipulation is a lot better than saying “young people don’t date older people”. I had people use this kind of tactic on me when I was 18/19 as well and it is really damaging.
a guy in a salvos truck yelled at me and my gf while we were kissing today so I was thinking of this
Do you know, when I was in high-school I went to the mall near my house with my girlfriend to do some Christmas shopping.
We were there, sixteen year old me and seventeen year old her, holding hands and window-shopping, minding our own business.
This Salvation Army shitheel gets aggro about it in the middle of the mall and I’m there totally flabbergasted cause like, it’s christmas
Only, 16!Tabi had even less composure than 26!Tabi, so I lost my fucking mind on her.
Thing is: when I’m really angry, I don’t rage, I go all cold and apparently that freaks people out, because I could see my gf backing up and the lady getting tense and then I realized that anger doesn’t solve problems.
So instead, I started wailing.
Picture this: 5’4, tiny, blonde haired high school girl with her little violin on her back and pearls in her ears just as PTA-approved as could be, full on sobbing in the hallway.
Just, sobbing like my dog’s been shot.
Now my gf’s like, “oh fuck” and the lady’s like “oh fuuuuck!” and I’m here, head thrown back, tears down my cheeks and in that shrill, distressed, /loud/ voice, “WHY WOULD YOU B-b-be so MEAN?! It’s CHRISTMAS!”
And the lady’s like “please stop Oh fuck” because now we have a crowd, and this Molly Weasley of a woman putters over, “what’s the matter, dear?”
And mall security’s coming and this bell ringer is looking very uncomfortable so I just look at this matronly ellen-watching suburban housewife lady, eyes wide and wet and my lip wobbling.
“I was, she s-said, s-s-she said I was going to HELL!”
And I burst right back into tears.
Maaaaaaaan, they didn’t even stick around to ask why she’d said it. Soon as I said it, Mall po-po bounced her like a fucking pogo stick.
We get outside and my girlfriend’s like “that is the most Slytherin thing I have ever seen anyone do.”
It was four years before I saw the Army back in that mall.
that is beautiful
Holiday reminder: don’t let anyone get away with trying to make you feel bad about yourself.
So yeah, they’re not just ‘homophobic’, they’re bigoted fucking murderers.
(Wikipedia article on her death conveniently (for SA) omits Salvation Army connection, linking only to expired articles from local newspapers)
SA claims that they didn’t turn her away, and accept all homeless people, except, it’s not like Jennifer Gale was only trans woman refused shelter by Salvation Army, making this denial appear to be worth less than bullshit:
Well, I guess I should clarify that “mind controlling” parasites are usually a misnomer and a little hyperbolic anyway.
It was believed Cordyceps fungi affected their host’s brains until recently, but then it was proven that they leave the brain entirely intact. Instead, they control the insect’s actual muscles. This is again only possible because an insect has only a couple simple, microscopic muscle strands though, like a few “strings” to manipulate, rather than a larger mammal’s relatively GIGANTIC mass of millions and millions of cells forming thousands of individual muscles.
Parasites that truly alter the host’s mind are only doing so by damaging a single part of it. Target the right point in a mouse’s brain and you just eliminate its fear of predators. Take out certain points in a small fish and you cause it to swim closer to the water’s surface instead of avoiding sea birds.
So what manipulative parasites really do is give the host a single new behavioral “quirk.” It’s pretty much an organism giving another organism a simple mental illness symptom.
The realest equivalent we could ever have to something like Cordyceps or Leucochloridium in humans would probably be indistinguishable from someone gaining a sudden stim behavior or obsessive compulsion and probably no big deal to live with if so many people already do and it still doesn’t turn into an apocalypse or nothin
Toxoplasma, a parasite that makes rats unafraid of predators and is often found in used cat litter, makes infected humans more reckless and may be linked to mental illness. There are estimates that something like 30% of the human population is infected. We certainly haven’t had any sort of apocalypse.
You know those fancy vampire fangs that mold to your teeth? Yea, I just realized I can’t ever wear them again because they’re not supposed to be worn over dental work. Which, I’m sure someone with your average filling might be able to get away with, but given the majority of my teeth are held together with dental cement and hope, I don’t think I’d like to risk it.
Tragic.
I’ll just have to be like the gammy old vampire with the awful dentures that they take in and out between meals.
You really only need the fangs to pierce the skin, anyway, so just get a handheld set and annoy babyvamps by clacking them in your fingers like sharpened castanets.
I like it when you tap into the exact aesthetic chaos of my brain I really do, because that was the exact thought I was consoling myself with haha.
If you wanna be more accurate to how vampire bats (i.e. the only known vertebrate that’s exclusively vampiric) get a meal, you need, like, a nasty sharpened spoon thing to scoop a chunk of meat out.
Uhhhh i’m really bad at explaining things lmao. What I mean is you don’t open the abdominal cavity or whatever.
Its not just skin and then organs directly underneath. There is a thick layer of muscle directly under the skin that just looks like raw meat. When skinning something you don’t go through that muscle layer. Or at least you try not to, it can sometimes happen if you are inexperienced.
Here I tried to illustrate what I mean.
If you also wanted to butcher the animal for meat you would have to cut through the muscle layer and remove the organs. That’s a normal part of the butchering process. But if you just want the skin for taxidermy you don’t have to. I don’t hunt and most of my animals come from natural death or whatever so I don’t eat the meat, wouldn’t be safe. I just put things I don’t use back out in the woods for the scavengers and get the bones later.
When you skin an animal, you end up with an intact animal skin on one side and the naked animal body on the other. It looks just like the animal before, except that it’s all muscle, like an anatomy class model. The organs are contained inside a bag in the guts, which has muscle around it. It’s stinky and messy if you cut into the gut bag, so you try not to do that.
Also, skin isn’t very strongly attached, it’s held on by membranes and can be pretty easily peeled away from most small animals. There’s minimal cutting on, say, a m.ouse, you just have to cut through the skin down the belly and then peel the skin off. For bigger animals like a d.eer, you have to keep cutting membranes as you peel the skin off.
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