cowboy

i don't think so, not in the way that you're probably thinking. the closest that comes to it is Prion diseases, which is probably what inspired zombies. like mad cow disease. but they don't make you hunger for flesh or anything, they just rot your brain, and the disease can also spread through saliva or eating infected tissue. there is a prion disease that's at risk mutating to spread to the human population and could kill a lot of people who eat unregulated hunted meat, because of wasting disease, and a LOT of people hunt deer for food, so you'd see a lot of people dying from symptoms that might seem zombie-like to you, which is why it's so important to monitor the spread of that one and have meat tested. unless a prion disease somehow mutated to attack the brain AND another tissue that would make it more contagious, like coughing up the virus everywhere you go like a respiratory infection combined with it eating away at your brain causing those "zombie-like" symptoms, but they're isolated to the brain and can only spread to people through direct contact of bodily fluids like consuming the meat. you can catch it from bites, but prion diseases do such devastating damage to your brain that the window that animals are capable of spreading it through aggression and biting is small, because they're incapacitated and die in a short period of time. they slowly become paralyzed, can do nothing but shamble around because they've lost all sense of balance and orientation, and eventually lay there to die. just stay away from animals that are acting strangely or appear to be sick, report it to local authorities so they can dispose of it, and don't eat any unregulated meat without having it tested first.

welcome!

welcome!

im seein a lotta futurama in the replies, high five my favorites are also futurama, south park, spongebob, and the moomins ;; there are a lot others that i enjoyed growing up but these are the ones that i stick to even today.

i dont really like traveling, like, i do go camping in the woods a lot, if that counts. but ive been to mammoth cave, ive been to nashville for a concert with my old band and to sightsee, and i guess its just not for me. its too jarring and stressful, and it costs way too much money. but, there are some things about it that are fun. i just think, theres plenty of pretty sights at home anyway, and i can learn more about culture online by talking to people who live there. so i don't think its something thats really a necessary thing to do in your lifetime these days to feel fulfilled, you know? but for people who it doesn't stress out that much, i bet its really fun.

ummm, 3? only because your profile picture is kinda yellow 1. my guitar is blue 2. my town almost blew up once 3. i speak...racoon (nope, it was 2! my guitars actually red. couple years ago a pallet storage building, like you know, the pallets you use to either build with or transport things on, theres a building that manufactures those and stores them on the edge of town. the owner or something was doing a controlled burn with the fire chief on the property but the wind blew sparks which caused the field to catch on fire, and there were two massive propane tanks on the edge of the property that the fire was rapidly spreading to. wouldve gone off like a bomb. we had almost 20 different fire departments from across the state here fighting it to prevent people from dying, my dad got to be on the news, and i walked past it while this was all going on to buy a grape faygo from the soda machine on the corner of the street like nothing was happening.)

im passionate about the hidden web and alternative web protocols! i think peer2peer networks and tor are just neat. not that im doing anything illegal, i just hate ISP's and their ruling of an iron fist on webhosting. theyve made it more and more difficult over the years to personally host your own pages, with bandwidth restrictions, requiring you to pay for business packages, and censorship. i miss the decentralized internet from the beginning days, theres a new protocol im really into that works peer2peer that i nerd a lot about. im also passionate about idk, permaculture i guess. i like learning to support myself in ways that don't harm or help the environment. i like lettin the weeds grow, i like natural home pesticides, i try to divert waste by recycling and composting, i like planting native plants, i like making use of the weeds. its something that's really helped me cope these past few years, nature is always giving.

ooh ooh, heres mine! creamy coconut shrimp theres this chinese place in the state over i love to go to, and they have this AMAZING coconut shrimp. it's got like, this sugary shell that gives it a bit of a crunch and it sits in a sweet cream, its delicious its like salty and sweet at the same time.

ive been outside a lot myself lately too, working on the garden now that it's warmed up a bit. its so nice to get some sun for the first time in a long while, the bees are even out already. we dont have many trails to walk on cuz we live near a highway and any side roads lead straight off into cornfields for miles and miles, and boy youre gonna be sorry if you try walking down one of thoes. its just corn, corn, corn. but there is one side road that leads into a wood and through some meadows outside of town that i take sometimes, but a bunch of rich people (you know, the kinds that retire out into the country in those fancy mcmansions with acres and acres of property, sometimes they keep like, the expensive show horses too.) and they always give me the DIRTIEST looks when they catch me out there, like they think im going to trespass on their property or something. its a public road! maybe i should start making goofy faces at them. i find some weird stuff out there sometimes.

i like XXXholic, it's not so great watching back now, but it holds a special place in my heart as the first anime i ever really got attached to. i read the whole manga like three times and rewatched the anime like five! i even saw the live action

skeptic

hi! welcome

i also just twist them and lick the cream off, hahaha

i dont really watch a lot of youtube channels, but i watch Good Mythical Morning and Markiplier as comfort binge watches. i was never really a fan of markiplier, but then i got sick and thats what i ended up binge watching while i was stuck in bed for a few weeks. i always thought he was kinda cringy, but now that ive gotten used to his obnoxiousness, hes actually really sweet. watching him play with his friends bob and wade really crack me up. (also i love brave wilderness too, i watch that sometimes. and someone mentioned kizuna ai, she is really funny. she has a gaming channel too)