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so now that i’ve officially delved into the supernatural au realm here , i decided to write out what my kind of like , lore is when it comes to werewolves and vampires . it’s open to tweaking and working around other peoples’ lore since well . . . i wouldn’t have my pack and ( future because at the moment i have ONE vampire but i’m sure more will come ) coven without inspiration and love from two of my lovely mutuals and i also know everybody has their own ideas when it comes to the supernatural . so yeah , under the cut will be werewolves and then i’ll reblog and post vampires . ** please note that if there is anything you don’t agree with or don’t h/c that’s fine because everybody is different and while this is how i see my lore and i am open to picking and choosing . ** omegaverse traits such as : knotting , slick , m-preg ARE NOT a part of this . heats and ruts aren’t a THING either , just a heightened sex drive .

WARNING : this post is most likely going to be LONG . ** UPDATED - 10/20/2020 , updates will be bolded.

☾ lycanthropy is both a gene and a disease and are viewed as “ pureblood “ and “ half-blood “ .

☾ a pure-blooded werewolf is a wolf whose family has bore the gene dating back to an unspecified date . ☾ a half-blooded werewolf is a wolf who was either bitten or scratched by another half-blooded or pure-blooded wolf while they were in their wolf form . ☾ while both can turn anybody , a pureblood has a higher chance than a half-blood . a pureblood has about a 90/10 chance whereas a half-blood has more of a 60/40 chance . those who DON’T turn useless end up dying due to their bodies rejecting the change . ☾ if purebloods have children with humans , their children will almost ALWAYS carry an active lycan gene . it’s not often that they do not , and those who have an inactive gene it does not mean that they can not pass an active gene onto their children . ☾ if half-bloods have children with humans , their children usually will NOT become a lycan due to it being more of a disease than a gene for them . half-bloods and purebloods are more likely to have a child with the gene. ☾ children who have an inactive lycan gene can have it activated in cases of traumatic and/or life-altering situations , such as witnessing a traumatic event or the death of a parent who acted as lead alpha ( this usually results in the child being taught to become the next lead alpha with an interim one until they are able to take over ) . they can also have it activated by being bitten/scratched just like a human but still retain a pureblood status if born as the child of pureblood parents .

☾ every full moon werewolves will turn , but are also able to turn whenever they want to as well .

☾ shifting has A LOT to do with control . a freshly turned wolf will have a much harder time than someone who has been doing it for years ( unsurprisingly . ) ☾ it also is dependent on your mental wellbeing and health . rage or strong anger is likely to cause an unintentional shift in someone compared to someone who is calm and collected . ☾ wolves in a weakened state also are more likely to turn as it is easier to heal their bodies in their wolf form anyways .

☾ pack dynamics are a thing : alpha , beta , and omega , and packs are very common within their realm. all ranks can be male or female .

☾ alphas : there can be more than one alpha in a pack but there is only one lead alpha . they usually have at least one other alpha in the pack but within family packs there are sometimes up to half a dozen . — leaders and commanders are the two subcategories of an alpha . — an alpha’s wolf tends to be the largest of them all . their eyes are either red ( marking a packless wolf ) or silver ( marking a pack alpha ) when in their wolf form . — are physically stronger and built more muscular than betas .

☾ betas : while it’s ultimately the alpha’s job to protect the pack , betas are somewhat the soldiers of the group and make up the majority of packs . — enforcers and mediators are the two subcategories of a beta . — betas depending on their ranking are usually in between sizes of an alpha and omega . their eyes are blue whether packless or not in their wolf form . — leaner than an alpha . their bodies are built more for speed and agility .

☾ omegas : usually the mother hens of the group , omegas are often mistaken to be the weakest members of the pack and underestimated . — the peacemakers and healers are the two subcategories of an omega . — assumed to be much smaller than alphas or betas , omegas actually are about the same size of a beta . their eyes are either yellow-green ( when packless ) or gold ( when a part of a pack ) in their wolf form . — also on the leaner side . coats tend to be a little more fuller than an alpha or beta’s though which make them look bigger than they are.

☾ their wolf forms are just oversized wolves . they’re taller than the average wolf , usually around three to three and a half feet tall but no more than about six feet long .

☾ things like dyed hair do not affect their fur color. ☾ their eye color changes in wolf form , and a giveaway to someone being a werewolf while in human form is the slight ring of the color of their eyes in wolf form that is around their pupil . ☾ their eyes will flash between colors if feeling threatened or challenged . ☾ males tend to be bigger than females .

☾ as wolves , they have heightened senses , supernatural speed and reflexes , and accelerated healing abilities .

☾ while all of these traits follow over into their human forms , they aren’t as heightened as when in wolf form . ☾ when it comes to healing , minor cuts , scratches , and bruises usually disappear after an hour or two . deeper cuts take two - three days depending , broken bones as long as they aren’t open fractures take one - two weeks depending on severity . ☾ things like tattoos and piercings do not grow in or fade for unknown reasons . ☾ their temperatures run higher than the average human , usually between 100 - 104 F . this makes hospital visits complicated as it’s assumed they are running a low grade fever .

☾ they do not change into half-wolf half-human beings , but their canines and claws can elongate in human form if angered or agitated enough . no fur or ears though .

☾ silver and wolfsbane are not deadly but react more like an allergic reaction .

☾ silver often will leave the skin it touches red and inflamed , if worn for extended periods of time it can cause minor burns . ☾ wolfsbane when ingested will cause a severe allergic reaction . common symptoms can include : chest tightening and difficulty breathing , rash / hives , watery eyes , swollen lips / eyes / tongue / face , vomiting , and in serious cases collapsing .

☾ while they don’t live longer than the average human , they physically age slower than humans .

☾ everybody has their own distinct scent .

☾ visible scent glands may have been in their ancestors but have since darwined themselves out . while a wolf gives of a specific scent in general , the strongest areas you will smell them will be : the neck and wrists . ☾ scenting is common in packs , as it shows a sense of camaraderie and belonging amongst them . scents of non-pack members tend to be off-putting to some. ☾ scenting is often seen as intimate and is usually reserved for mates , family members , and pack members . ☾ if a pack is inducting a new member , scenting is usually forbidden until the lead alpha has openly scented the person . ☾ a person’s scent can give away a member’s emotions , mainly : contentment , fear , anger , distress and sadness . ☾ a person can also manipulate their scent in order to calm another person down .

☾ like their animal counterparts , werewolves mate for life .

☾ wolves are able to find their mates once they turn eighteen. ☾ while you may be able to find your mate before eighteen , you aren’t able to define that feeling until after their birthday . mating with a childhood friend isn’t uncommon if you’ve stayed close until then . ☾ the rejection of a mate is not a deathwish , and while you can move on , the connection will never “ feel right “ and it isn’t uncommon for the rejected mate to never have a long-lasting relationship .

☾ some wolves may come off as what is called “ feral “ amongst groups.

☾ this essentially is summed up as a member who has a closer connection to the wolf side of them . ☾ “ feral “ members are often more territorial , less open to new pack members , and have a bit more trouble controlling their emotions . ☾ they are better in tune with their animalistic instincts , especially their sense of smell and reflexes . ☾ feral members tend to be more comfortable in their wolf forms . ☾ there can be entire packs of feral wolves , usually more traditional packs .

☾ the closer to the full moon the more instincts come out for them . usually it’s the week leading up to the full moon that this happens .

☾ the closer to the full moon , the more they feel the connection to their wolves . ☾ for feral members , this time is normally when they’re in the best mood possible because they aren’t having to tamper down these feelings . ☾ during the week up until the full moon they typically have a heighten sex drive , a pull to spend more time and be closer to their pack , and aggression towards other werewolves who are not a part of their pack . ☾ there is usually an underlying itch to revert to their wolf counterpart during this time as well .

☾ wolves can often be very possessive of whoever they are currently seeing and / or mates and are often very connected to them .

☾ while more mature and older wolves can reel in their need to mark their significant others , the younger ones often mark each other with hickeys and even sometimes bite marks . ☾ pack members who are in a relationship or mated tend to smell more like each other than anybody else . ☾ there are two different types of bite : a mating bite is done with elongated canines and results in a permanent scar . a mating bite’s scar when healed is two crescent shaped marks that are the width of the space between one’s canines . a marking bite is a bite that is done without the canines and just looks like someone bit you . . . which they did . ☾ marking / mating bites are usually done on the shoulder or juncture of neck and shoulder . ☾ those in a relationship or mated tend to be more in tune with the other . they naturally gravitate towards each other in social situations and can tell when if something is wrong , and are better at knowing where their significant other is . ( ie : you can tell which room where the other is without seeing them or previously knowing they were there or can tell they’re home before anybody else hears a knock on the door or the door opening . )

☾ younger wolves are typically called pups amongst their packs and it’s a common term of endearment .

☾ while there can be small packs within a city , usually there are larger packs who look over the others ???? it’s not exactly a monarchy because you can have two - three main pack families but they all run specific areas .

☾ hunters ? is that a thing ? maybe . idk , i haven’t decided . but it sounds fun .

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Wash For Itchy Scalp rapid Common Causes Of An Itching Scalp

When we feel that looking for an itchy scalp, many people would just head into the grocery store and buy a good anti-dandruff shampoo without offering it a second thought. However , when an over the counter itchy head shampoo will probably work out typically of dandruff, there is plenty more to it than meet the eyes. There are many other common causes of a great itchy scalp that has not do with dandruff. Shampoo webshop

On this page, we look at some of the some other reasons you may be causing an itching scalp that requires specific hair shampoo for each causes.

Dandruff

To start with when it comes to shampoo for itching scalp, dandruff is the leading reason people buy and employ these types of products. Dandruff is actually a shedding of dead pores and skin cells from the scalp because of frequent exposure to extreme high temperature or cold. You should recognize that while dandruff is not dangerous nor contagious, it is additionally not curable. Dandruff shampoos that you can buy at any common grocery shop may give a brief relief to itchiness, it's not however permanent. As soon as you prevent applying the shampoo, your skin layer would once again start to flake.

Seborrhoeic Dermatitis

If you find in which regular anti dandruff shampoo or conditioner is not curing your itching scalp, then there's a fine chance that what you get is not ordinary dandruff, but instead a condition known as seborrhoeic dermatitis.

Seborrhoeic dermatitis is a very popular inflammation of the skin due to reaction with a type of thrush, Malassezia which is found on the remaining hair. This condition causes an around production of skin essential oil or sebum. In addition , the actual yeast produces toxic chemicals that cause the scratching and irritation of the top of the head. In this case, you may need a special type associated with shampoo to decrease the necessary oil overproduction in order to treat the condition.

Head Lice

One may think that the many causes of the itching regarding scalp are caused by the flaking of the scalp skin however, you are mistaken. If you've experimented with all the common shampoo intended for itchy scalp and find on your own in the same spot, you will find a high possibility that the itching can be caused by a tiny living living bacteria living on your scalp while using name of the head lice or maybe head louse.

The head louse are tiny wingless organisms that spend their overall life living on man scalp and feeds about human blood. This reasons the itching and soreness sensation on your scalp. The pinnacle lice is one of the most difficult itching scalp problems to identify for the reason that eggs of the head lice appears to be exactly like the scalp shadings or dandruff. The normal cure to head lice is to use wash for itchy scalp made up of permethrin. This type of shampoo might be easily bought at a store with virtually no prescription.

Folliculitis

Next out there is folliculitis. Folliculitis could be the inflammation of one or more follicles of hair that can occur anywhere about the skin. It is not caused by your own personal average hair itching offenders such as the shedding of epidermis, overproduction of oil or perhaps the head lice but rather by a infection at the base of the tresses.

Whenever you go to the barber for the haircut, it is common that many of the hair follicles are damaged as a result of unintentional friction or drawing. In most of the cases, the particular damaged or hurt hair roots are infected by a germs known as Staphylococcus. In fact , when you look closely a crown affected by folliculitis, you are likely to view and feel tiny acne breakouts at the base of each curly hair. Unlike other itchy head problems, an anti-itch scrub will most likely not solve the problem. However, antibiotics are required.

What To Do In case the Shampoo For Itchy Top of the head Is Not Working

It is a all-natural reaction that when you have a itchy scalp, buy the anti-dandruff or anti-itch hair shampoo for your dry scalp. Nonetheless as you can see from this article, there are many causes for itching on the scalp. If you find that the shampoo or conditioner for itchy scalp is simply not solving the problem after a week to a week, then you may should visit your doctor for further evaluation. There may still be any shampoo for itchy remaining hair that you have to prescribe use.

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William Gibson interviewed: Archangel, the Jackpot, and the instantly commodifiable dreamtime of industrial societies

William Gibson's 2014 novel The Peripheral was the first futuristic book he published in the 21st century, and it showed us a distant future in which some event, "The Jackpot," had killed nearly everyone on Earth, leaving behind a class of ruthless oligarchs and their bootlickers; in the 2018 sequel, Agency, we're promised a closer look at the events of The Jackpot. Between then and now is Archangel, a time-traveling, alt-history, dieselpunk story of power-mad leaders and nuclear armageddon that will be in stores on October 3.

It's been nearly 20 years since I first interviewed Gibson and in the intervening decades we've become both friends and colleagues. He was kind enough to submit to an email interview again, in advance of Archangel's publication.

Cory Doctorow: This feels like an intermediate step between today and Agency, which is, in turn, an intermediate step on the way to The Peripheral. I know that when you first wrote The Peripheral, you didn't really know what The Jackpot was... Is this you taking successive runs at either side of The Jackpot, trying to get up to the edge of it so you can get a better look at it?

William Gibson: It feels like that to me now, but the whole thing’s been completely unintentional.

Mike and I (Michael St. John Smith, the actor, who’s also a screenwriter) started bouncing things around after I’d finished The Peripheral, which I assumed would be a one-off, but I found myself still in the grip of the “stub” alternative timeline thing, so Archangel wound up with a similar mechanism (rules of time travel invented, as far as I know, by Sterling and Shiner). Meanwhile, Agency was conceived as a book set in 2016 San Francisco/Silicon Valley, but treating contemporary reality there as if it were a near future (which of course it feels like to me, because I’m old). But I’m also slow, so Trump got elected before I’d finished, and suddenly I had about half of an ms that felt like it was set in a stub, a world that never happened. Extremely weird feeling! So I had this one extra thing to be pissed off with, about Trump! But then I wondered what would happen if I considered it as exactly that, a stub, but to do so I felt I needed to hook it up with the further future of The Peripheral, the London of the klept. Meanwhile, Archangel had been coming out from IDW, and when I went down to meet them at ComicCon, in 2016, the possibility of a Trump win naturally came up. So, through to November 8th, part me was looking at that, and the other part was No Fucking Way, and, well, you know.

For the record, in the graphic novel's script, pre-election, the Pilot winds up where he winds up in the comic, but it’s a nice WTF moment.

CD: You've written screenplays and novels but not, AFAIK, comics. You're on record as thinking that the comics previously adapted from your work were visually disappointing. You are one of the most visual writers I know, a font of extremely specific and striking visual details -- tell me what it was like to be able to collaborate with drawing-type people who could make visual things happen? How did it compare to screenwriting, how close did it come to your mind's eye, did this scratch some long-felt itch to conjure those visuals up and make them tangible?

WG: Well, previous attempts were well-intentioned, I don’t doubt, but comics have gotten a lot more sophisticated in the meantime.

Maybe because I'm a very visual writer, I don’t actually have any specific urge to see someone else render the things I’ve already seen, myself, in mind’s eye.

That said, the process with IDW was extremely gratifying. The talent and experience of a lot of professionals, all bent toward making this thing right. And budget not an issue, just a question of what could be drawn and fit in available space. You want an atomic explosion, you’ve got it!

CD: You once told me that Neuromancer was optimistic because it only featured a couple of limited nuclear exchanges instead of the holocaust we'd all be expecting. The futures you've written this decade all feature much more grave catastrophes, with much higher death-tolls. Is your optimism (such as it was) waning?

WG: I think I was relatively optimistic then, and remain so, but less so. I’ve never felt that my optimism, such as it was, was particularly logical. Often it felt deliberately quixotic to me.

But I’ve also observed a tendency, over my years as an sf reader, for sf writers of a certain age to give the After Us The Deluge speech, so I promised myself I’d try to be watchful of the onset of that, try to fend it off as best I could. I suspect that when people notice how much of the world they grew up has already ended, it’s quite natural to feel that the world is ending. Because the world one knew quite demonstrably is. But it always has been ending, that way. You can read the ancient Greeks, say, doing it at great length. When younger, though, this sounds like something one can simply choose to avoid, just as old people, to the young, appear to have made some sort of inexplicably terrible decision to become old.

There aren’t many catastrophes in my work, in our traditional cultural sense. There’s the California quake that forms the backstory of the Bridge trilogy, and the somewhat deliberately goofy Singularity that closes it. Otherwise, the catastrophic landscapes are simply human civilization, ongoing. The Peripheral introduced something new, for me, with the idea that our cultural model of catastrophe is still largely one of a uni-causal event of relatively short duration. We are ourselves of relatively short duration as individuals, and thus do we look at the world. Is our widespread use of fossil fuels a single extended catastrophe? Did it become one at some relatively late point? Is our species itself catastrophic (see Sterling’s “Swarm”)? Would it seem so to tigers, could they consider such things, and know that we’re on the brink of bringing about their extinction? I don’t see why it wouldn’t.

It seems to me in retrospect that Ballard’s work had a certain arc, in its employment of catastrophe. Early on, he’d unleash catastrophes of the sort our culture recognizes as such, though with wonderfully poetic results. As he continued, however, the catastrophe became humanity. Not a world made desert, or drowned, but a world made Cannes writ large, and terrible through being the very opposite of deserted.

CD: One place where this catastrophic business wraps around to touch your visual sense is in the cyberpunk aesthetic: for decades, you've been frontrunning the mainstreaming of bohemian subcultures. Archangel features gorgeous, eyeball-kicky sequences in an illegal nightclub in war-torn Berlin, with lots of well-dressed weirdos (there's also a Bowie-esque protagonist in the cast of characters). Today, it's hard to imagine a genuinely underground culture that isn't also something you can buy at the mall, with a few exceptions (e.g. extreme racist alt-right Pepe trolls who have to order their t-shirts off the internet or get them in a flea market). Can you imagine an uncommodifiable futuristic bohemian subculture that today's post-cyberpunks could deploy to make really edgy teens and young people? (Scott Westerfeld suggested that tomorrow's punks might opt for acne in a post-zit world)

WG: I accepted Sterling’s description of bohemias as “the Dreamtime of industrial societies” immediately, but I also took it (and still do) to imply that that might not be true for post-industrial societies. Bohemias were the product, if Sterling was right, of societies in which information was relatively unevenly distributed, specific information being what you needed in order to auto-other yourself into subculture. Roots of “hip”: to know, to be "with it”. A more universal, post-geographical availability of information seriously messes with that, because you don’t need to physically go to Montmartre or the Haight to get with it.

Mr. Baby’s club in Archangel is envisioned as a scaled-up version of what you get when Berlin’s Weimar bohemia becomes a platform for the postwar black market, so imagine it as primarily extra-legal, but staffed in part by pre-war counterculturists.

It’s interesting to consider the Pepe trolls as a subculture, because if they aren’t, why aren’t they? Yesterday a friend showed me a passage from Joshua Green’s book about Steve Bannon, Devil’s Bargain, describing René Guénon as an influence. So I checked out Guénon’s Wiki for the first time. Highly recommend it. Trippy, as we used to say! Guénon was, among other things, a convert to Islam (albeit a raging esotericist along with it, so not just any Islam) and otherwise deep into Egypt. So in the way of things internet I wound up diving his correspondence with Julius Evola, who kept him up to date on what Aleister Crowley was up to, and explained why this Jung character was even more dangerous than Freud. Both these guys, Guénon and Evola, were obviously total hipsters (in the original sense of the term). Subculturalists, unmistakably. With-it dudes. Whatever “it" was.

But then I never felt I truly understood many aspects of what I’d experienced in the countercultural ‘60s until I got a prof at UBC whose central interest was the mass psychology of fascism. Guénon and Evola and, hell, Bannon, come with big deja-vu, that way. Guénon also influenced Andre Breton (doesn’t surprise me). So the Pepe trolls, however distantly, have this weird lineage, which feels countercultural to me. (Is Bannon hip to the Dark Enlightenment?)

Subcultural “cool”, it seems to me, is inherently commodifiable. Subcultures may have pre-dated cool, but I wouldn’t bet on it. There was a countercultural boutique in Greenwich Village in the 1890s, called The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the first I know of. Sold the outfit a girl needed to self-other into Village-ness (but she still needed cigarettes, too).

CD: Last question: When I first interviewed you, 20 years ago (!!), we talked about why Japan was a wellspring of cool futurity and China was (in the cyberpunk pantheon, at least), an also-ran. Now, Chinese authors are winning Hugo awards and China is projecting more heavy zaibatsu-style force into more territories (including orbit) than Japan ever dreamed of. In The Peripheral, China is a mysterious, closed technocracy that may or may not be the source of interdimensional semi-time-semi-travel. Now that you've written two more books that circle The Peripheral's future, are you homing in any more on what role China plays in this future you're playing in?

WG: In The Peripheral, I thought of China as a much more sophisticated and advanced species of klept. So that “the” klept, as Netherton thinks of it, comes out of the jackpot controlling everything still habitable that isn’t China. Which has become some sort of super-advanced sphere of its own, with little need of dealing with outsiders. Which gave me this other, unknowable realm, a sci-fi Faerie, where impossible magic can conveniently happen without my having to invent an explanation for it. But that’s not any literal prediction for China. That’s me using China as a plot device.

What I wanted from Japan, when I started writing sf, was that it was Japan. It was wonderful for me that it was Japan during the Bubble, because that slotted perfectly into my being sick of sf futures basically being America. But that was really just another excuse for me to write about Japan. The thing that makes me nuts about Japan, as near as I’ve ever been able to express it, is the way in which all of all their culture, their stuff, seems to be fractal. You can break it down into smaller and smaller bits, and each one is still Japanese. For whatever reason, I’ve never gotten that from China. For me, Japan’s gotten steadily more interesting as that Next Big World Player thing has receded. I don’t want to hang with whoever has the most money and spaceships. I want to hang with whoever has the best shadows, the most exquisitely weird and poetic history of being whacked with alien technology, becoming the first industrialized Asian nation, trying to take over their side of the world, getting nuked for their trouble, and inventing the Walkman. I think it’s probably something like you and Disneyland: I’m just so there.

https://boingboing.net/2017/09/22/the-jackpot.html

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Shampoo webshop

On this page, we look at some of the some other reasons you may be causing an itching scalp that requires specific hair shampoo for each causes.

Dandruff

To start with when it comes to shampoo for itching scalp, dandruff is the leading reason people buy and employ these types of products. Dandruff is actually a shedding of dead pores and skin cells from the scalp because of frequent exposure to extreme high temperature or cold. You should recognize that while dandruff is not dangerous nor contagious, it is additionally not curable. Dandruff shampoos that you can buy at any common grocery shop may give a brief relief to itchiness, it’s not however permanent. As soon as you prevent applying the shampoo, your skin layer would once again start to flake.

Seborrhoeic Dermatitis

If you find in which regular anti dandruff shampoo or conditioner is not curing your itching scalp, then there’s a fine chance that what you get is not ordinary dandruff, but instead a condition known as seborrhoeic dermatitis.

Head Lice

One may think that the many causes of the itching regarding scalp are caused by the flaking of the scalp skin however, you are mistaken. If you’ve experimented with all the common shampoo intended for itchy scalp and find on your own in the same spot, you will find a high possibility that the itching can be caused by a tiny living living bacteria living on your scalp while using name of the head lice or maybe head louse.

Folliculitis

What To Do In case the Shampoo For Itchy Top of the head Is Not Working

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