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darkrosenine-deactivated2020120 asked:

Hey follow up question - animals that are carrying lyme's disease and rabies but not showing obvious symptoms - how can you know when hunting what animals are safe to kill and eat and which might accidentally kill you?

Rabies: If the animal isn’t showing symptoms like aggression and excessive saliva production, you probably won’t be able to tell. With rabies, wild animals usually become more “friendly” and lose their fear of humans before they become aggressive and start showing neurological symptoms. Just be sure to avoid saliva and CSF, wear gloves when handling or butchering any raw game meat, bleach your work surfaces between animals, and cook game meat thoroughly (165F) before eating to minimize your risk.

Lyme: Most animals show no signs of Lyme disease. Fortunately, according to the CDC, you can’t get Lyme from eating infected meat. Same as with rabies though- wear gloves (there’s a small risk of transmission if you have an uncovered wound that gets exposed to blood of an infected animal), practice safe food handling, and make sure to cook game to at least 165F prior to serving.

Now, if you just want a scary reveal, might I recommend opening up a deer only to find it has bovine tuberculosis. bTB also won’t transmit to humans via consumption (haha…TB pun) of infected meat, but it will be scary AF:

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And if you really do want something that can take a human out, prion diseases are a thing and they’re terrifying. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy has been known to transmit to humans via consumption of infected beef (the disease in humans is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)). My understanding is that while there is a similar disease called chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the deer/elk populations, it has never been transmitted to humans.

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Thoughts on G/B and DS9

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Consider: how would a relationship between Bashir and Garak have changed DS9? In the documentary, Ira said they should’ve had Garak come out to Bashir after “The Wire” and then the show would’ve had five years to explore their relationship.

So let’s say they did. That would’ve required fundamental changes to Garak’s plotlines going forward. Are they really going to have a main character’s boyfriend torture Odo? Attempt to commit genocide and incidentally kill half the senior staff while he’s at it - including his lover?

Garak would’ve been a very different character. I think the relationship would’ve demanded more contrition over his past, as well. Personally, I’d be fine with that, but I don’t know if everyone will agree.

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Tasty food for thought.

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Honestly, I would’ve taken anything, but I genuinely tend to think the version of Garashir that stays closest to the characters is where they don’t get together over the course of the show. Like, you still make that attraction and desire canon, in the way you do with any “will they or won’t they” couple on TV. But they never actually hook up or date or whatever. The tension just builds and builds over seasons, coloring everything that happens but never really going full in. In the meantime, both Garak and Bashir would have relationships with other male characters (so the set up and representation would still be there) but never with each other. So, yes, Garak still “attempts to commit genocide and incidentally kill half the senior staff while he’s at it”…including Bashir, who we know he’s basically in love with, and that would add to the drama of all that and give insight into exactly the kind of sacrifices Garak is willing to make. Cause he has those feelings but he doesn’t act on them, and so he remains basically the same character, just with more overt conflict simmering under the surface. And then the end of the series comes, when Garak basically goes full freedom fighter, and finally starts to really change and redefine what it means to be a “good Cardassian,” and then we maybe finally get something resembling a love confession, which Bashir returns…kind of, but it’s still complicated, y’know? And then in the very last episode, Bashir decides to stay and help Cardassia (I mean, as what is probably, like, THE formost federation medical expert on Cardassians, given what we see on the series and how secretive Cardassians are, I honestly don’t know why we wouldn’t be assigned there, but that’s another discussion), and it’s not just because of Garak, but we know–and they know –t’s at least a little because of Garak, and we end with the implication that maybe just maybe these crazy kids will be able to finally give it go and possibly really make it work, cause they’ve now both grown into the kind of people who could. 

And then maybe we get a post-canon Cardassia fic, but, like…as a movie this time? Cause, yeah, I kinda don’t see use getting full canon Garashir over the course of the show as it currently is. 

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I tend to fall under this school of thought myself.

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It's so sad that pretty much everyone on ds9 treats julian like an annoying, clingy, overbearing pest even after they get to know him... like miles's relationship with julian considers mostly of snide comments and mean jokes, kira barely tolerates him, and even dax acts a little condescending around him a lot of the time. sisko's nice for the most part, but it feels perfunctory and empty when you remember that sisko's nice to everyone, and they don't really talk outside of work. odo feels largely the same way about julian as he does about everyone else, respecting him but keeping him at arm's length.

and then you remember how garak tries so ridiculously hard to get julian NOT to like him, because he's not a safe person for julian to like, but no matter what he does, whether he almost kills the entire ops crew, beats julian up and calls him an infuriating pest when he's just trying to help garak get off the wire, even tries to commit genocide on a planet that julian is currently standing on, julian still persists in being his friend because from his early life as an assignment to his alienation on ds9, he's used to being mocked and rejected by his peers and friends, and it gets so much sadder

and THEN you realize that the reason julian spends so much time with garak is because out of everyone on the station, garak's the one who he feels most validated around, because garak rarely calls him annoying for talking too much, or ignores him, or calls him stupid or freakish or unnatural, or laughs at him condescendingly when he tries to cheer garak up. when julian and garak have lunch together, they're equals, arguing, yes, but equals nonetheless. garak doesn't treat him like a monster, or an alien, or a danger to society, or even an idiot, he treats him like just another person. when julian's with garak, he's not julian bashir anymore, he's just julian, and that makes him feel a little better about himself. i forgot where i was going with this post but i like it

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and THEN you realize that the reason julian spends so much time with garak is because out of everyone on the station, garak’s the one who he feels most validated around

Truth!

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Garak is the only one who openly appears to like Julian as a person and actually unabashedly and unconditionally enjoys spending time with him. Like, he thinks the whole Bond Holodeck program is nonsense, but he still wants to be there cause it means getting to hang with Bashir, whereas everyone else seems to have Very Specific Requirements for how and when being around Julian is genuinely enjoyable to them.  

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@crisisoninfintefandoms​ and I are on the same page here.

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