Do you think it would be possible to do this in reverse for minor surgery if for example someone was allergic to anaesthetic?
Like set the whole thing up, then draw with a pen where the incisions "would be" to "prepare" while the real hand actually has the operation.
I suspect the brain might reinterpret the sensation as drawing with a pen rather than being cut with a scalpel.
However, running this experiment would be probably too risky because of the damage possible if it didn't work and the patient flinched.
Given what I've heard about being stabbed in the back with a knife (it just feels like you've been punched apparently) if you don't know it's a knife, I suspect it probably would work.
Not willing to try though.
this is insaaaane, our brains are so fucking weird
Same! Feels really weird to hear it, even when they're not talking about me.
I've finally done it! My first comic!
I present Life of Lamb Episode 1: Deadnames
Because even now sometimes I encounter my deadname out in the wild and it always feels extremely *WRONG*.
I love my rainbow unicorn! Honourable mention are my wolf and otter though.
i just think it says a lot about the person. my favorite is a bear named theodore
What an incredible conversion!
Saying this right fucking now.
I don’t want to see ANY of you touching that fuckass new Harry Potter series.
That woman has set us back YEARS. YEARS. And whose money is she using to do it? People who continually support her and her sorry excuse for a book series.
If you simply must watch it? Pirate. It’s not hard.
Do not give her money. Do not give her a platform. Do not contribute. Please.
To prove something to a friend, please
REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES
LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES
Humans can be heard yelling from one of the bedrooms. An alien crewmate, nicknamed Bob, goes to check it out, fearing the worst.
"plus 4, Uno."
"you bitch!"
the humans are gathered in a circle on the ground with colorful cards. one of them notices him.
"oh hey Bob, wanna join us? we're playing Uno."
Bob shakes his head and backs out of the room carefully.
I picked odds, because as a group the odds contain more interesting numbers overall. For example all but one prime numbers are odd.
However, depending on the purpose I have a few favourite numbers. One that I'm enjoying more and more recently is 60, because of its unusually large number of distinct integer factors.
Plus all the standard non integer numbers like e and the golden ratio, but they can't be classified as odd or even. Perhaps that should be a secret 5th option, "my favourites are not integers". But of the three options provided I stand by my decision to pick odds.
reading/listening to Pratchett's Thief of Time, and this was probably one of my favorite pages, with digs and nods at so many things at once
trans women, i love you.
you were a woman yesterday. you're a woman today. you're a woman tomorrow. you're a woman forever.
trans women have existed long before those stuffy bigots sitting in a court room have. trans women will continue to exist long after they're dead and rotting in the earth.
Hi Neil, sorry if this question was already asked, but i was talking with a friend about good omens and we both want to know one thing.
If I'm not mistaken, I think you said that you and Terry Pratchett had a story or a concept for a second part of good omens and now season 2 will be based on that. So, why didn't you write the book? Even after Terry died, didn't you want to write it "in his style"?
Sorry, I don't want to be rude or disrespectful, and you don't have to answer obviously
Actually, Season 3 is based on that. Season 2 is the sandwich filler between them.
In an alternate universe I suppose I might have done. In this one, when Terry died, I was committed to trying to get the TV series he had wanted to see before he died made.