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loon, mid 30s, i don't answer most asks but i do read them (they're not lost in the void)
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one time I went over to a friend's house and their housemate was making paper in the living room, and we saw this big tub full of water they were using to dissolve old scrap paper into a slurry, and everyone was immediately like "oh, you need scrap paper?" and started turning out their jacket pockets and producing expired coupons and bus tickets and crumpled receipts and old shopping lists and whatever else they'd been carrying round with them for no good reason, and passing it all to the paper-making housemate to make sure it was suitable before it got torn up and dropped into the tub, while people took turns stirring the slurry with a big wooden stick. it was strangely ritualistic, like presenting an offering to some kind of temple elder for inspection before placing it in a watery shrine to be devoured and reformed. pulp for the pulp god.

i have to clean and pack my whole room right now but my brain doesn’t work which is why it got messy in the first place. you see the problem

its WAY worse than i realized. i thought it was mostly dirty laundry and that once i collected that it would be fine. i was wrong

oh i forgot to update about this. it took around two days longer than expected (including sleep, eating, and rest time) but i did it!!

sports rpf is just “and they were chevrusas” for goyim

hear me out. in both cases it’s “two men form a very close homoerotic working relationship and friendship in a setting where being openly gay is not acceptable but being extremely close with another man is. will they? won’t they? have they?”

catgirl whos an atheist but she was raised jellicle so she still celebrates the jellicle ball every year with her family

agnostic catgirl says no one can truly know whether the heavyside lair exist or not

tradjell convert realizes that old deuteronomy's power is actually absolute

yes next question

unironically like five minutes after posting this i thought "this is princess carolyn"

hold on let me go ask him

okay you're not gonna believe this i went to check but uh. macavity isn't there

certainly a choice that when you have a bad internet connection, insta and tiktok and whatever will load a bunch of videos but only let you watch the first few seconds of each one. i’d prefer being able to watch one entire video than the beginning of five

do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles

actually pheromone sensing works differently from normal olfaction, since humans in our world don’t have a functioning vomeronasal organ (VNO), we don’t have any data on how covid-19 would affect a functioning VNO in omegaverse AUs

Actually there is evidence that covid probably would affect the VNO and it stands to reason would accordingly impair its function. Briefly:

  • SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid, can only infect cells expressing a certain protein called ACE2
  • ACE2 is expressed widely in nasal cavity epithelial cells but not in olfactory sensory neurons. 
  • Seo et al. (2021) studied potential nasal targets for SARS-CoV-2 using golden hamsters as a model organism (commonly used as a proxy for humans in virology studies)
  • They found ACE2 expression in the main olfactory bulb epithelium (MOE, your “normal” nose organ) as well as the vomeronasal organ (VNO)
  • Several cell types in the VNO were able to be infected and they also found significant inflammatory activity (macrophage activation, apoptotic cells, etc) 
  • The specifics of how covid actually causes dysosmia are not known for sure but epithelial damage by local inflammatory immune responses likely plays a role, especially because sensory neurons themselves are not affected (Bilinska, & Butowt, 2020). Therefore I would suggest a potential similar effect of VNO dysfunction as we see in the main olfactory bulb
  • From Seo et al.: “Considering the function of the VNO, infection and subsequent pathologic changes may affect the behavior of Syrian hamsters”
  • If it stands to reason that omegaverse individuals have functioning VNOs similar to members of the animal kingdom, then it is more than reasonable to conclude that covid may cause them to lose not only their main olfactory function, but also their VNO function as well
  •  References: (1) (2)

In conclusion the omegaverse economy IS in shambles.

OP this is very well-written but im still hung up on how you came onstage dressed as a clown only to tear off the costume and reveal yourself as a biologist