You know, in all those “humans are the creepy/fucked up alien species” posts I can’t believe we haven’t touched on organ donation yet.
When they heard that the human general had fallen ill to a disease of the organ known as the liver the troops began to hope that it might turn the tide of the war. Research indicated that such diseases could be fatal after all. The organ did something similar to the flagulaxin in that it filtered out toxins so when it stopped functioning the human would slowly be poisoned to death by his own body. Or so they believed.
But then he came back.
A foot soldier was captured and answers demanded. Was it a medication? Had the sickeness been a ruse to fool them?
“Nah, man. This kid on a motorcycle wiped out on the I9 freeway so they gave the general his liver since they were a match.”
“They…what?”
“They gave him his liver. The kid was dead, and he was an organ donor. And he was a genetic match to the general.”
“They…cut the liver out of one of your young and placed it in an elder and it…worked?”
“I mean, he wasn’t that young. Mid twenties or something. But yeah, that’s essentially it.”
The interrogator and his assistant both regurgitated their most recent meal and ran from the room. Living in places like the “Australia” were one thing, but taking the organs of dead bodies and placing them in the living? What was WRONG with this species?
No wait make it better. A living person can donate a piece of their liver! It doesn’t have to be a dead person.
“You killed one of your own to replace the broken part of the higher ranking human?”
“No of course only a small piece of a one was needed to replace the general’s bad one”
“Who got the bad one?”
“No one! it was thrown away”
“Someone, gave a piece of their organ to someone else to use??? And they both lived???”
“Yeah”
But what if the aliens were like salamanders who can naturally regenerate damaged body parts? And when they find out humans lack that ability they think “We have an advantage over them” then to their shock they discover that we’ve come up with work-arounds for that lack. Also prosthetic limbs. “Wait … You’re telling me that you can’t regrow your leg … So you just BUILD one?!”
Trying to describe a human to a species that had never met one was getting increasingly difficult. To start with, they seemed to exist in every possible state – solid, liquid, gas and crystaline. A core calcium infrastructure with a porous organic compound layered over it, through which fluid and gas travelled under the regulation of a range of organic pipework, pumps and processing plants, all coated in a renewable organic surface layer. That was weird enough.
Then came the discovery that the human was semi-modular. Component fluids could be swapped out and substituted – humanity had built some form of external versions of a range of the organic pumps and processors, and had manual, automatic and remotely operated variants of their core pump processor (the heart). Internal parts could be exchanged, or replaced with suitable originals. Something about needing genuine human compatible parts, known as donor organs, and the voluntary post-life nature of these donations seemed ineffective to many observer species, and postively horrifying to those who held the sanctity of the post-life body. Considering a fallen comrade as an accessible source of component parts was just beyond the pale, and to have an proactive harvesting regime was just unbelievable. What was wrong with these creatures that death should be rejected to such an extent that they would become hybrids of dead and living creatures? Did they think death would bypass them, thinking the component part they carried was already ticked off some post-life database, thus granting them an immunity card in the eternal island vote?
Weirdly though, these quasi-modular humans could not be assembled from component parts. Even the human histories, insofar as the human documentation systems were trustworthy, indicated that efforts to construct a modular human from parts, pieces and high voltage was deemed unwise, and mostly only suitable to be remembered in October in ritual costumes. That said, a human containing sufficient of their original parts could be restored from dead state with a sufficient electric discharge, leading many to suspect that the creatures existed in an energy state alongside their gas, liquid, solid, and crystal forms.
Then of course, was that very human approach to limb loss – construction of alternate limbs from non-human parts. Suffice to say, most sentient machine species are horrified by the process, and many machine worlds are refusing to acknowledge humans are real, and are starting to campaign against the continued discussion of these creatures as organic propaganda.
They may have a very valid point. These things make no sense from a design specification standpoint.
call me petty if you want but honestly it bothers me when i see people with headcanons of victor and chris having had a thing in the past, or that yuuri and phichit “experimented” together in those years back in detroit bc to me it feels like you can’t have healthy gay friendships between gay characters that they must have had some fucking sexual relationship for it to happen
no omg let them be just friends damn it they’re gay and friends
1) It probably won’t work very well, because drastically cutting off food will likely cause them to just slow their metabolism to compensate.
2) Fasting an overweight animal can actually make them more likely to develop fatty liver disease. When it goes without food for a long time the body starts sending fat to the liver to be converted into energy. The liver can’t handle all the influx of fat and so stores it in liver cells, eventually leading to fatty liver disease.
What should you do instead? Feed them as often as you usually would (assuming you were feeding them on a species-appropriate schedule) to keep their metabolism up, but make the meals smaller.
While I’m reblogging this: please don’t ever fast a cat unless you are following a vet’s instructions (such as if they’ve told you to fast your cat for a short period before surgery). AFAIK, cats can straight-up die of acute fatty liver disease from not eating enough. It’s important that your cat is a healthy weight, but fasting them or feeding them extremely minimal amounts of food is not the way to go about it.
If your cat is not eating, take them to the vet ASAP.
You are absolutely correct about cats, and it develops within days, which is why:
even a day of not eating is worth consulting a vet over.
you should never switch your cat’s food completely without some sort of trial/weaning period, because trying to force them to eat a new food could literally kill them.
you should always keep highly desirable food or treats at the handy, both in case your cat gets stressed by something and doesn’t have any interest in their regular food and to help you figure out if they’re actually not eating because they’re ill or if they are, in fact, simply stressed out.
like, seriously, never try to force your cat to eat a food that they don’t like; that’s why they sell trial sizes of a lot of the higher-end dry foods.
if they really need to lose weight, you should follow the same rules listed above for an overweight reptile.
Schizophrenia: patients usually have less brain tissue
Major Depression: scans show less brain activity in depressed brain
Alzheimer’s: brain tissue significantly shrinks, hippocampus is usually the first region to go
ADHD: less brain activity in the frontal cortex (area associated with decision making)
OCD: high brain activity
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): hippocampal volume reduction (area involved in memory) and increased activation of the amygdala (area involved in emotional responses)
This is so important! I usually don’t reblog posts but people need to understand that mental illnesses are NO CHOICE! You cannot get over it, or snap with your fingers and just be okay again. It takes constant fixing and a lot of strength to get out of this. So to everyone who judges people with mental disorders: people don’t get a choice to develop a disorder or not, but being stupid and telling them to get over it is a choice. PLEASE DONT JUDGE THINGS UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND!
i wanna shove these in my mom’s face every time she says “just push through it”
