all I can say is, I wasnt just having sex. I was making love, to a beautiful woman. and her boyfriend. and a third person whose name I never learned. further more it was wrong of me to say I was building homes for the undirpriveled, when I was actually having four way sex in a cave, in Brazil. In my defense it was my birthday, and I wanted to do it.
tumblr university is OUT tumblr monastery is IN brother tumblrinus is painstakingly copying out the most interesting prev tags on a manuscript of vergil until the abbot calls him out for not making his proto-gothic script accessible enough and also for his heresies
dni if you support relationships between vampires and the vampire they sired. i am so serious, i dont care what your justification is, that is an unforgivable power imbalance. its almost as bad as vampire human relationships (and if you support that i hope you get a splinter in the heart)
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op what the fuck is your problem? more maggots in your brain than usual? go out into the real underworld and touch some graveyard dirt. i know at least 7 vampires who are in happy healthy relationships with the vampire who sired them. me included! this may shock you but we started dating when i was human and she was a vamp!
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i hate to tell you this but you’re in a toxic relationship and i sincerely hope youre able to get out.
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HELLO???????
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i keep seeing people saying this shit and honestly i think it stems from the infantalization of humans. humans are capable of making decisions for themselves. do some vampires abuse their powers over humans? of course! but you cant assume that every single human vampire relationship (or sire and sired relationship for that matter) is some unhealthy power imbalance, especially when you dont even know them!!!
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i think op is forgetting that humans can be just as harmful to vampires as they can be to humans. dont tell me you completely just forgot about the existence of vampire slayers
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next thing you know op is gonna be saying that a hundred year age gap between fully fledged vampires is problematic
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it literally is. i dont care if you are a 1000 years old vampire, if your significant other is 100 years older than you they have more life experience than you. god you guys are stupid why dont you all step into a sunbeam
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hey guys i just went to ops account and their pinned post was about how they dont consider werewolves part of the monster community cuz theyre not undead. just block and move on it is NOT worth it
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isnt it funny how whenever theres some rancid discourse like this its always made by coffinscrews
hihihihiiiii though (very slightly) related to my degree, this is very much along a special interest of mine and i totally didnt just spend more than an hour falling down this rabbit hole. i am gonna try to simplify this as much as possible
@kami-no-ikku theoretically, it might be able to, but from what is being shown in the study, it’s more vaginal epithelial cells where there’s a few sprinkled in that decided they wanted to be prostate epithelial cells instead. the vaginal epithelium (outermost layer; eg skin is an epithelium) is what is changing (mostly), but it looks like it’s mostly cells that are closest to the vaginal tissue beneath the epithelium (smooth muscle, etc), so a likely course based on timeline and present factors would be that the wall lining the vagina would still be mostly vaginal cells, but the ones just underneath (still part of the “wall”) would be mostly prostrate cells.
to answer @tealhairandamateurnouns ’s questions, i’ll start with saying that cells like endothelial cells can be very… malleable (“high plasticity”), and messengers (hormones) can come along and tell them “heyyyy so the prostate cells didn’t make it to work today, anyone mind covering their shift?” and there’s probably more factors relating to location+function+cell lineage (especially since this change is seen in vaginal but not cervical epithelial cells too) but some cells, will go “sure yeah why not”, get a prostate epithelial cell ID pass instead, and have certain genes activated to start performing prostate cell duties instead. (hypothetically)
it’s also stated in the paper that there’s no visible/extremely noticeable changes here: there’s no lesions eg tumors, which is why it is highly likely that these are probably just cells changing jobs.
i also say this because this ex-vaginal tissue is not all too different in that it still provides its general function as a barrier, but these new cells are noted to be glandular, aka they secrete… things that make up the fluid that becomes a part of semen (note: not pre-ejaculate): various enzymes, zinc, citrate, other nutrients. the hrt-induced prostate cells present are somewhat sparse and aggregate in “variably well-formed glands”, so rather than having the vagina make prostate fluids, it’s probably more like the prostrate secretions will mix with the vaginal discharge and be slightly more compositionally similar to that of semen. (which… considering the change in discharge over the course of HRT i’ve already noticed myself… i am refining a Hypothesis)
one last concern i’ve seen both in the replies and mentioned in the paper: could this potentially lead to risk of prostate cancer in individuals undergoing HRT testosterone? the answer is quite possibly: it has been observed in a similarily-presenting intersex condition, and technically, any cell that can create progeny has the potential to develop cancer. because there’s no noticeable “mass” or lesion of prostate tissue, as mentioned before, you can’t really check via a typical prostate exam, but for those concerned, that is not the only way to check for prostate cancer, and a diagnosis could be determined through a prostate-specific antigen test.
